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Update to tl:Administrative divisions of Ukraine[edit]I did not erase old template, but rather moved it to tl:Regions of Ukraine. The template truly represents regions rather than an administrative divisions as it presents regions such as oblasts, autonomous republic, and important cities. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 18:23, 24 December 2011 (UTC) {{Template:Regions of Ukraine}}
I just posted onto the talkpage of Template talk:Ukrainian oblast and then I saw your reply here. I like the idea to call the cities major, while the other ones could be called minor. After all there are only two types of cites other than Kiev and Sevastopol, they are either of regional importance (major cities) or district importance (minor cities). Concerning the template I think it would be wise to include only raions (districts), major cities, and district seats. Then for each individual raion (district) or city there should be a separate template. For example, cities of Kiev, Donetsk, Sevastopol, Kharkiv, and others should also have their templates. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 03:26, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
"really no motivation in WP:UKRAINE either"[edit]I second your observation here. But it also might be because the "To do list" on Wikipedia:UKRAINE is not really appealing now. Maybe we can have a good discussion on what we should focus on on Wikipedia:UKRAINE (preferable something "all people who want to improve Ukrainian related articles" have an interest in; maybe first ask for interests and then for ideas) and then all do a bit on that. I did lost track who is a mayor contributor to Ukrainian related articles... Right now it seems only me and Aleksandr Grigoryev... — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 20:40, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Good luck with those! Take your time; Wikipedia is not the most important thing in our lives. I'll start a discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine after the week-end. I want some time to best formulate that discussion. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 18:34, 6 January 2012 (UTC) A kitten for you![edit]Thanks for the welcome message :) Saintmagdalene (talk) 12:42, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Your assistance is needed for Rinat Akhmetov article. Again.[edit]Dear DDima, I'm afraid I will need to ask you to protect the page as we're having a bad case of history repeating. You may have remember disputes around this article, mostly involving me and user Lvivske who was trying to bring one-dimensional negative coverage of Rinat Akhmetov biography. We even managed to come to some consensus after your interference and the article took the shape of more or less balanced biography, mentioning both positive and negative moments. Yet, a couple of days ago user Lvivske attacked the page again, reverting to all before-the-consensus edits. I will try to resolve the issue on my own, as recommended by Wiki, but still may I count on your kind support if it's needed? Many thanks in advance, --Orekhova (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you![edit]
Indeed, Coordinates are off on Klevan BTW.♦ Dr. Blofeld 01:50, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
MSU Interview[edit]Dear DDima,
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you. Sincerely, Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 05:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC) Hi,
Collage pictures[edit]Hello DDima, I noticed you uploaded quite a number of collage pictures of various cities. Can you please provide an account of the provenance of the individual component pictures in each of them? If you are yourself the photographer of every individual component image, then please say so explicitly. If you used freely licensed photographs already existing on Wikipedia or Commons, you still need to credit the sources and authors. You cannot release such images as your "own work". Please make a list of this type:
If you took the images from somewhere else and there is no evidence of free licensing, then we'd have to delete the collages. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
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Italians of Crimea[edit]Thank you for the time you spent to make the article conforming to wiki standards. By the way, how and where did you learn to wikify so well the text? I am impressed. --Silvio1973 (talk) 04:26, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hey. Check out {{Regions of Ukraine}}, I've updated it to something more streamlined and a lot simpler to read. As such, I really don't think there is a need for {{Administrative divisions of the Ukrainian SSR}} since they are essentially the same thing (I've added a bottom row with the former subdivisions) and currently there are two templates taking up space when we can have just one. What do you say? I would recommend we keep {{History of Ukraine}} and {{Ukrainian statehood}} together as well, since in all reality they are one and the same thing. Ideally, I see the difference between these two templates, where {{History of Ukraine}} would have articles along the lines of History of Ukraine (1922-1991) and History of Ukraine (1991-Present) as well as events (Ukraine during World War I), with {{Ukrainian statehood}} having articles on the nation-states themselves (as it is now). But we are quite a long way away from having those articles and I figure it is best to keep them merged together for now (until a larger influx of Ukrainian Wikipedia editors!!).
Great! But there is no need to create a fourth level. Rural settlements (selyshche) do not have any forms of representation or governments, they are like oscillated neighborhoods and usually are part of some settlement council, may it be urban (including city) or rural. I designed a table in the main article about the administrative divisions of Ukraine#Structure based on the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Frankly it is a certain degree of original research as there are no such tables and was created out of a personal perspective. For simplicity the administrative division in Ukraine is based on a structure: region-district-council. Council or "rada" (local name) is a representative body of any settlement and it was inherited from the Soviet administration. Districts are divided into several rural councils (silrada) and/or include other entities such as city councils (miskrada) of district-level cities (district significance) and settlement councils (selyshchna rada). Settlement councils always correspond to urban settlements, therefore other settlements that exist as part of rural councils are not taken into consideration and not mentioned in the Constitution of Ukraine. However that conclusion is based on my own perception and should be reviewed by a real expert, yet I came to it after reading various legislative materials of Verkhovna Rada and conducted a separate web research on the matter. But one should be aware of a fine difference between administrative division and a simple locality. Anyway I hope you will understand where I am coming from. At any rate the look of the template as I said before is terrific and provides an additional appeal aside of technicalities. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 18:46, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Once I ran across some article about the cities of district significance and wanted to interpret it into the Anglophone Wikipedia, but just did not find a time. It is a great article that explained history and reason on creating of such an entity. Maybe later... There also some discussion and I believe a bill on the administrative reform in Ukraine. So, maybe there will be more changes in a future. Considering all your contribution, I feel like you should be aware of all that if did not. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 18:52, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
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The reason for the template was to demonstrate the development of the Ukrainian statehood. I do not see how both templates History of Ukraine and Ukrainian statehood are the same. The template on history of Ukraine is all mess as it is just a collection of topics in chronological order connected only with the national idea. The collection consists of selected events and collection of some random countries such as Hunnic Empire and Khazars that have little or no real relevance to Ukraine. Can you really explain how and why Yamana culture or Cimmerians relate to Ukraine, but then Pechenegs, Circasians, and Karakalpaks do not? I just wonder why the template does not mention dinosaurs that existed on the territory of Ukraine. There were mammoths, I heard. Now jokes aside, I must point that there more archaeological topics related to ancient history. Also there are some random geographical concepts such as Right and Left banks of Ukraine. The template definitely needs a major redevelopment. Now the template on statehood introduces the reader not only with the national idea, but also how the idea of statehood to which Ukraine traveled so many years. It also shows how and why Ukraine was divided and the reason for its reunification in 1919. The template on statehood is not only and exclusively a historical template, but rather is geopolitical. It also does not confuse a reader with some stuff that took place thousands years before and events that would be part of a separate template. I really do not like such purging of the template and hope for your reconsideration or at least your opinion. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 23:56, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 17:55, 8 March 2013 (UTC) Districts of Kiev[edit]I do not really care about raions or districts, but Kiev has way to many neighborhoods and they are not part of the official administrative division. More over, it is consistent with the same content in other languages. I think it is a good idea to keep separate historical localities and actually designated admin. divisions. Many raions of Kiev city coincide in a way with their historical toponyms, but in actuality are two different things. In my opinion neighborhoods should be separate and be part of the category Districts of Kiev or Raions of Kiev. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 19:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC) May 2013[edit]Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Bilohirsk may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.
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Vorontsov Palace is a very nice, informative page, and it seems to be all your hard work. Would you mind if I played around with it for a while? It just needs some minor alterations to the prose and a little more understanding of the architectural concepts. Giano 19:54, 19 November 2013 (UTC) File:50-Hryvnia-Hrushevsky-back.gif listed for deletion[edit]A file that you uploaded or altered, File:50-Hryvnia-Hrushevsky-back.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 22:12, 19 November 2013 (UTC) Thieving[edit]Can you work out how to legally steal this image from the Russian wikipedia [4] Giano 21:43, 22 November 2013 (UTC) and this one from Ukrainian Wikipedia [5]. Giano 21:48, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I would like to prove a connection with Blore to this English house Sezincote House as I suspect it may have been the inspiration, I wold love to know if Blore was approaching the Islamic architecture from a purists point of view or from the Anglo-Indian architecture perspective; I'm think it's the latter. However, until we know for sure, we have to call it Islamic rather than the Anglo-Indian which it really is. It would be nice to get almost to FA standard if the not the whole way Giano 11:07, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
uk.wikipedia.org[edit]Can we do something about it? From several weeks, when I want to go to the Ukrainian Wikipedia I type in "uk..." and the browser leads me to the English site. I think, we should intervene. At least "ua.wikipedia.org" should lead somwhere. Rembecki (talk) 12:16, 25 November 2013 (UTC).
Now I can see that it happens only from one specific computer, from Firefox browser. I will have to check the settings. Cheers, Rembecki (talk) 17:24, 25 November 2013 (UTC). Photo of Czernowitz[edit]Hello Ddima, ich saw your photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernivtsi_Theatre_2007.JPG and I am looking for a photo of http://muzejew.org.ua/Koncept-De.html the house where today (since 2008) a jewish museum is. I just have written https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_f%C3%BCr_j%C3%BCdische_Geschichte_und_Kultur_der_Bukowina and would like to have a photo of the museum there. Thanks + best regards from the rhineland --Neun-x (talk) 06:07, 15 January 2014 (UTC) File source problem with File:St.Sophia and Kiev tram.jpg[edit]Thank you for uploading File:St.Sophia and Kiev tram.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page. If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 20:58, 23 January 2014 (UTC) Feodosia[edit]You've moved the article back to Feodosiya claiming its "undiscussed on talk page". Please take a look at here. I've requested a move and there was a clear consensus to move the article to "Feodosia". --Երևանցի talk 23:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
1954 transfer of Crimea[edit]Hi, thank you for adding 1954 transfer of Crimea to the Ukranian project. As you read Ukrainian, are there any articles on this event in the Ukrainian or Russian Wikipedia that this could profitably have an interwiki link for? JASpencer (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Elections in Ukraine[edit]Hi DDima, you are invited to Talk:Elections in Ukraine#List of elections. — Petr Matas 11:23, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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Subdivisions of cities in Ukraine[edit]DDima, my intentions are to provide an easy navigation for all subdivisions for each respective city. Note, not populated places, but rather subdivisions. Populated places in Donetsk are subordinated to the city's raions, for which I am creating separate navigation boxes that contain the populated places related to that or another raion. Let's not pile up all in one big mess. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 02:17, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Accusations of Russia 'invading' Crimea[edit]I had adjusted the text to reflect the fact that Russia did not invade Crimea. The identity of the pro-russian militia is disputed, however Russia has officially repeated that they did not send troops into Crimea (except the recognised Russian military bases) and Putin also said that Russia did not train them... however I guess it is possible that some of the individuals involved could have served in the Russian millitary (purely my though - no evidence just a bit of logic). Plenty of references for this if you avoid the BBC, CNN...Hechos (talk) 06:30, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro)[edit]Hello! Your submission of Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Maile (talk) 00:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC) Crimean Tatar Language[edit]Maybe this is what you're looking for; but the refs will stay, it's important to verify the official language status in those regions Yes, so will much better. --Jugydmort (talk) 09:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC) Subsection blanking at "Russia" page dealing with annexation.[edit]Hi DDima: During the last two or three days I had noticed a subsection blanking at the Russia page dealing with the annexation. After the section blanking, there was a full rewrite added by another user and a substantial change of NPOV compared to the text before the section blanking. No new information was added, yet the NPOV was substantially altered. The diff for the before and after of the section blanking is below. I tried to return the wording into neutral form. User:Irin seems to disagree about preserving neutrality. Could you look at this? (cur | prev) 20:09, 10 April 2014 Philp... (talk | contribs) . . (199,367 bytes) (-4,356) . . (Boldly editing to give more appropriate weight to recent events) FelixRosch (talk) 15:16, 12 April 2014 (UTC) Location map[edit]DDima, with this new renovations in wikipedia, it became impossible to created location maps for regions in Ukraine. Is there anything that you can do or suggest about it. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 12:57, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
User talk page edit request[edit]Howdy, This message is being sent to multiple recipients. I've semiprotected the article Arseniy Yatsenyuk due to an ongoing edit war. In the future, please contact the IP on the talk page to prevent further edit wars. Please let me know if you have any questions! Nakon 06:23, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Edit wars occur when people adopt a one-sided position that their edits are somehow justified, regardless of the substantiation or lack thereof. You need to spend time and carefully review the sources offered. Popular sentiment is essential when contributing to the material on a political figure. If a proportion of population expresses discontent about a public figure, this should be clearly indicated. Sanitizing the description of a public official smacks of significant bias. --71.39.6.142 (talk) 21:03, 1 May 2014 (UTC) Need a mediation[edit]User Mondolkiri1, posting in infobox biased and speculative information in regards to current events such as involvement of the Right Sector in the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. There is reference by ITAR-TASS that claims that a business card of the organization was found in completely burned down vehicle (I mean the whole car burnt down except for the card). Now based only on the reference the user claims involvement of the above mentioned organization. The user apparently was posing threats against me instead of finding a common ground when I addressed the issue at his talk page. Could, please, take a look at it and provide me with an advice on the issue? Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 22:21, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Subsection on Crimea encapsulation is vanishing[edit]Hi DDima; Thank for your correction edits at the Russia page. Recently, I noticed that the subsections on "Annexation of Crimea and 2014 Geneva Pact" has become almost comically short. After further deletions by other editors, the subsection now does not even give the date of the 2014 Geneva Pact which is a part of the subsection title. My thought was to possibly revert to some safe point a few days ago so that the subsection would at least present a neutral version of the facts, and not to pretend that there is some sort of historical encapsulation of events magically between 21Feb2014 and 21March2014. Possibly you have had some thoughts about this neutral version issue. This is the diff of what looks like a safe point on the "Russia" page to find the last neutral reversion of the subsection: 18:40, 29 April 2014 Sery... (talk | contribs) . . (204,369 bytes) (+77) . . (→Political divisions: As of April 2014 Constitution DOES list them, just not translated everywhere (to other langs) yet) Could you glance at this? FelixRosch (talk) 20:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC) Hello! The article, which has been recently put for deletion was kept, conclusion – "no consensus". However, my arguments for a few days were not commented by anyone, neither participants of the discussion (although, it was edited), nor administration. I have considered each source used in the article. Some were affiliate, some non-authoritative, and some did not comply with the WP: GNG rule "Significant coverage". I am not in any kind of relations with other participants of the discussion, this may be easily checked. Do hope for your comments and help. May be it is worth to put an article for deletion again, using my arguments and taking in account other people's opinion? Because the conclusion "no consensus" is not quite right: its absence or presence were not demonstrated. Arguments were simply ignored. Can you give any comments about arguments?VolgaCamper (talk) 07:08, 8 May 2014 (UTC) Ethnic cleansing of Circassians[edit]Hello! Could you please check Ethnic cleansing of Circassians page for vandalism. LouisAragon`s actions are definitely politically motivated. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.108.83.124 (talk) 18:28, 22 May 2014 (UTC) Femen/Euromaidan/Odessa[edit]There is no "rumor" in my update to the Femen page, and everything is sourced: 1) There was a massacre committed by Maidan supporters on May 2nd 2) Femen in Ukraine (where Femen was founded) currently supports Maidan 3) Femen leader poses for photo in front of May 2nd Maidan attack on anti-government demonstrators There is even the extra clarification that there are no direct ties to Femen participating in the massacre. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FEMEN&oldid=609727749#Ukrainian_issues 184.23.29.60 (talk) 22:50, 22 May 2014 (UTC) Femen/Euromaidan/Odessa[edit]Additionally, it is directly related. If a leader of, say, the activist group Code Pink (who do attention-grabbing protests in the U.S.) posed for a photo in front of a fire started by violent radicals who burned and killed dozens of political opponents (opponents of the radicals and Code Pink), a mention of that would most certainly be relevant and "directly related" for the Code Pink wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FEMEN&oldid=609727749#Ukrainian_issues Look at the Code Pink page. There are clearly references to controversies having to do with leaders of the group. And the Tucker Carlson one doesn't even have to do with Code Pink at all, but she is a leader of the group, so it ended up on the Code Pink page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Pink#Tucker_Carlson_interview 184.23.29.60 (talk) 22:52, 22 May 2014 (UTC) Please, see my reply to your note to me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:184.23.29.60#FEMEN. 184.23.29.60 (talk) 23:20, 22 May 2014 (UTC) Discussion of Rumors[edit]RE: “Wikipedia is not the place to discuss rumors” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:184.23.29.60#FEMEN) The text added to Femen page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FEMEN&oldid=609727749#Ukrainian_issues) is not a rumor since only 3 facts were stated, 4 if you count the “no direct evidence” statement, but as for Wikipedia not being the place for rumors, I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4S_Secure_Solutions#Rumors_about_Wackenhut_and_the_CIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_%28spacecraft%29#Discussions_of_similar_aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojjatieh#Rumored_members_and_sympathizers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Carnage:_Genesis#Enemies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Society#Membership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29 (entire page based on a rumor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Wintour#Politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9312_Southeastern_Conference_realignment#2011-2012 All include clear discussions of rumors. One entire page listed is only a discussion of a rumor. I'm sure there are more whole pages just like that. I found those references in just a couple of minutes. I could go on and on. Although, again, the Femen update included absolutely no rumors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:184.23.29.60#FEMEN for a breakdown of the facts. Please, do not merely delete my contribution and then wash your hands of it and walk away. 184.23.29.60 (talk) 23:56, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
I am not going to carry on in two different threads with you. You, and others, can follow and contribute at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:184.23.29.60#FEMEN. I will conclude here, though, that I find it highly offensive for you to refer to dozens of people being burned alive as a "so called massacre". I believe that reveals your bias in this matter, and that your revolving Wikipedian justifications for hiding my contribution are simply a whitewash to cover your bias, because the text I added in no way states that the Femen leader "participated" in the killings (other than posing for a photo in front of a fire as the attack was occurring). 184.23.29.60 (talk) 01:44, 23 May 2014 (UTC) Request for comment[edit]Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC) List of villages in Crimea listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of villages in Crimea. Since you had some involvement with the List of villages in Crimea redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 23:25, 14 June 2014 (UTC) Donetsk People's Republic Flag[edit]Hi, when I created the Donetsk People's Republic Flag article, I did not know that there was another article with the same name. Can you link me the first article as I could not locate the first article when I made the second article. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 04:09, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I'm kind of confused, was the deletion of the page I made a mistake? If so, should I re add the page? Elevatorrailfan (talk) 03:56, 29 June 2014 (UTC) Images from Ivan Bohun article[edit]I've raised the question on the talk page of the article. But it seems, you meant your talk page. There are three images in this article. All based on hypothetical "imagenery likeness", which with changing title could easily resemble any Cossack. All very poorly drawn. The first two show that artists are not even familiar with Registered Cossack clothes. For example the one "during battle of Berestechko", clearly was supposed to be wearing kontush. Apart from cuts in the sleeves, it looks nothing like kontush. The third one is clearly drawn based on Bohun's image in movie "With Fire and Sword", which is better and in a way more accurate than the other two. But still the article would look better/more accurate without all of them. Yes, there are a lot of articles with hypothetical portraits of people drawn way after their death. Yet they usually tend to be a work of art, with proper historical knowledge on the subject (for eg. Jan Matejko, Józef Brandt, Illia Repin etc). While images in this article look nothing like that. And I'd say they rather resemble something known as "sharovashchyna" style, which actually misleads people rather give them proper knowledge on the subject. 178.151.232.36 (talk) 19:05, 14 July 2014 (UTC)Alex Precious[edit]Ukraine A year ago, you were the 922nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:38, 22 July 2015 (UTC) Five years ago, you were recipient no. 922 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:47, 21 July 2019 (UTC) Hi, you might be interested in expanding some of my new stubs.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:29, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Savur-Mohyla[edit]Is it possible to semi-protect the article Savur-Mohyla as (most probably) the same user with different IP-number is fighting a kind of edit war on it? --Bruzaholm (talk) 15:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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Novorossiya[edit]Оkay, you win. I officially have stopped caring. This has already taken more of my life than I wanted it to. Next year The Federal State of Novorossiya will be a footnote anyway. Спасибо. Iamvered (talk) 05:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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Also, compare to the Latvian Riga city districts Northern District, Riga (Ziemeļu rajons), for example. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 14:38, 26 October 2014 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro)[edit]The article Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bob1960evens -- Bob1960evens (talk) 19:03, 30 October 2014 (UTC) Please check the article[edit]DDima, please, check the List of cities in Ukraine. I changed fonts to the name of cities on images to add some style and originality. What do you think? I found out that some Cyrillic-styled fonts are available in Wikipedia. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC) A friendly warning...[edit]— Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 22:50, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Vinnytsia II (single-mandate constituency)[edit]
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As to this, the Union of Lublin occurred in 1596. Ergo, there were no Poles in the Ukraine. AddMore (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Mediation request[edit]DDima, I am being accused of WP:Disruptive editing and given on official warning from User:DGG to be blocked. Is there anything that I can do to stop the attack? Or reason with this user? He does not seem to be willing to communicate with me. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 20:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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Cirex[edit]Regards DDima' I was looking for active administrators who can help me with this draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cirex Has been several weeks backlogged, I took my chances if it get not approved. Same article is on other 5 wikipedias... Please, hope you can help! :) Thanks in advacne Bnotepr (talk) 04:11, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Interesting hook for DYK[edit]I was wondering about that. It amazes me that the Soviet administrative division system remains intact in Ukraine. It is labyrinthine and unwieldy. One of the first things Poroshenko should've set out to do was to scrap the existing system and rebuild it from scratch, like Poland did. RGloucester — ☎ 02:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
DYK for City of district significance (Ukraine)[edit]
Just a disagreement[edit]He fled as he was scared for his life. If angry protesters started taking government buildings and many threatened to kill his life and then a new government seizes control, I'm quite sure that is a coup. I also have a source, sorry if you disagree. I know it's hard not to be biased towards the country you are from. My Mother is Ukrainian and comes from Zolochiv. My father is from Magadan. By that I feel like the bias cancels out. Well I hope we have a dialogue here my Slavic brother. DVT 05:16, 25 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Endukiejunta (talk • contribs)
Is there a general consensus ( that RT is a "highly-biased pseudo-news site which is exclusively* Putinist in nature) on that? If there is can you please link me to that consensus. Thanks!DVT 16:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC) DVT 18:20, 25 February 2015 (UTC) Administrative Divisions of Ukraine[edit]Hey, I just noticed that you updated the administrative divisions of Ukraine article. I was wondering if you could go to the talk page, and see if you could answer my question at the bottom? I think you'd be as good as anyone to ask. Let me know. --Criticalthinker (talk) 13:42, 27 February 2015 (UTC) DDima, could you please take a look at my discussion with user Leftcry at his (or her) talk page when you have time? The user continues to replace the Ukrainian flag which seems to bother him a lot. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 22:59, 27 February 2015 (UTC) Added[edit]... to my watchlist, but no activity since 28 Feb (after block expired). Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:35, 23 March 2015 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro)[edit]The article Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 06:41, 14 July 2015 (UTC) Hi, DDima, is there a way we can merge the article? As I mentioned on the article's talk page, it lack simply notability and provides no more information then in the Donbass general elections, 2014. I see no point of the article on such a political entity. Moreover people who edit the article later, add some information that is totally unverifiable. No one really knows what and where the party is except for the fact that supposedly it won some weird of elections. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 11:52, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Fourth Level Administrative Division Ukraine[edit]DDima, could you got take a look at the talk page of Administrative divisions of Ukraine and let me know what you think? The page is rather deceptive as it seems to imply that villages and rural settlements are administrative divisions when the fact is that they are a type of settlement/locality with the administrative division being that of silrada. Rural councils cover both individual villages and and rural settlements. Can you make this correction? I would do it, but you know better than I whether this is in fact the case or not. --Criticalthinker (talk) 01:05, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
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