User talk:KNewman/Archive 2

WikiProject Soviet Union

Hi, thanks for joining WPSU, please feel free to add anything to the page and make suggestions if you have any ideas or think any specific articles need special attention :) - FrancisTyers 23:41, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Your move to Moscow

Hi, did you get my e-mail from November, 16? Drop me a line. --Ghirlandajo 18:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Did you get my email from november, 29? You did not answer by emails. I just knew that you moved to Moscow? You said that you did not know when exatly you moving to Moscow and it was the last thing that i heard from you on november, 29. at this time you had had internet. Good luck in Moscow and in life as married man.

--Debora 20:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

RfAr

An arbitration request against User:AndriyK has been filed. If you intend to participate/co-sign, please add your name to the "Involved parties" section. This will entitle you for a statement in the case too if you are interested in making one. --Irpen 20:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I created a section for your statement should you be willing to make one at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Statement_by_party_12_.28User:KNewman.29. Regards, --Irpen 02:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

ArbCom accepted

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--Irpen 04:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted

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Sources for Synopsis (Russian literature)

Hello, good work on Synopsis (Russian literature), and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Synopsis (Russian literature)? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 05:58, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Copyright Examination Rejected

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Privet iz Londona

Zdravstvuite KNewman. Spasibo za Vash vklad v enciklopediyu. Bilo interesno prochitat' Vashu proshal'nuiu stat'u o tom, kak Vi staraetes' rasskazivat' pravdu o Rossii liudiam zdes', na Zapade. Deistvitel'no, mnogoe dlia zapadnikh liudey ostaetsa nepoznannim. Otchasti vse mi, rabotayushie zdes' Russkie, pitaemsa vospolnit' etot probel. Zhelayu Vam uspekhov na rodine i nadeius', chto Vi eshe vernetes' v Wikipediyu. S uvazheniem. Vladislav Adelkhanov

С Новым Годом!

. --Irpen

Holiday in Russia

Hi, regarding your comment on the closed vote, check this edit before accusing me of closing it too soon. Regarding holiday in Russia, I don't see how is Russia relevant to the topic ? Everywhere can be holiday sometime. --Lysy ^(talk) 20:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

my RfA

Thanks. WikiThanks.

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back

I hope you'll return to active editing soon. We miss you. --Ghirla | talk 10:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Kirill, let us hope that your connubial duties won't interfere with your participation in this project and that your job will be a wiki-friendly sinecure. We have so many articles to start - concerning the history of Russia in general (e.g., Ilarion of Kiev, Fyodor Shaklovity, Count Lestocq) and the history of Moscow in particular (e.g., Moscow Uprising of 1682, Coat of arms of Moscow). Good luck with your offline life and happy edits, Ghirla | talk 00:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

AndriyK RfAr closed

The AndriyK RfAr has been closed. Until by consensus he has agreed to a suitable and mutually agreed naming convention using the guideline Wikipedia:Naming conflict, AndriyK is prohibited from moving pages, or changing the content of articles which relate to Ukrainian names, especially those of historical interest. AndriyK is banned for one month from Wikipedia for creating irreversible page moves. Andrew Alexander, AndriyK, and MaryMaidan are warned to avoid copyright violations and to cooperate with the efforts of others to remove copyright violations. Ghirlandajo is warned to avoid incivility or personal attacks.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Kelly Martin (talk) 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Advice on AfD

When you nominate an article for deletion, don't forget to go to WP:AFD and add your nomination to the log by clicking on "Add a new entry". Cheers, Ghirla | talk 09:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

By the way, we still lack the article on Lake Pskovskoye. --Ghirla | talk 13:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Vladimir Sukhomlinov, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 09:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

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DYK

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--Obli (Talk)^? 17:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Nikolai Bryukhanov

Glad to be of assistance! Bryukhanov achieved a dubious kind of immortality circa 1930 when Stalin doodled a little drawing of him naked and hung by his testicles, which turned out to be more prophetic than most people realized at the time :) I am not sure it's something that we want to include in the article, though. If nothing else, the attribution is still somewhat uncertain. Ahasuerus 15:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, it is great what you've written a lot of articles about Russia. It is very interesting. Thanks. --LenaT 15:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry for erasing your discussion page. I didn't mean it. I am new here and don't know the rules and how to use the "edit" page. THank you for telling me. I really appriciate it. Where do you live? Are you from Russia?

--LenaT 19:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, again,

My real name is Nicol. My husband is Russian and he taught me a little bit Russian. I can speak and read Russian. He involved me in Russian culture, Russian traditions. His favorite parot's name is Lena. She is living with us, so I love her very much, she is very smart, she can talk, she is so sweat so I decided to chose nickname Lena:)))

Why did you move to Moscow? Don't you like it here in America, New York? Are you going to return to the USA???

--LenaT 21:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, again! Yes, sure I can give you my email: olgalawer@yahoo.com. What is your email? --LenaT 15:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Culture of Ancient Rus

When you have time, don't forget to add some reference and remove foolish "cleanup" tag. We don't want good articles balked with tags. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 12:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Easter greetings

Khristos voskrese! --Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Uninhabited inhabited places

No, these are not ghost towns, not officially, anyway. This particular term (with this exact weird wording) comes from the 2002 Census results. As you probably know, all Russian federal subjects maintain some form of a registry that lists all administrative divisions and settlements. These registries are used for many purposes, Census being one of them. One of the Census questions is about the individual's primary residence. Those residences are mapped to the inhabited localities from the federal subjects' registries. Sometimes, it turns out that no one claimed residence in some of the settlements which are listed in those registries. This may be for various reasons—perhaps people in such settlements evaded Census on purpose or missed it accidentally (think of a khutor of five people, all of whom went hunting to taiga during the Census week :)), perhaps the Census methods had been flawed, or it might have been as simple as a data entry error, or perhaps the settlement was indeed abandonded or died out. In any case, there were some settlements that were listed as active in the registries (so, officially they were not ghost towns), but no one claimed primary residence there. Theoretically, these cases are investigated, and, if there indeed is no population, the settlements are abolished and removed from the registry, at which time one can categorize them as ghost towns. In practice, well, you know... it's Russia. Hope this answers your question.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 14:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's a cool article on a somewhat related topic: Российское село в демографическом измерении (Rural Russia measured demographically). They report the following statistics:

Census year	1959	1970	1979	1989	2002
Total number of rural settlements in Russia	294059	216845	177047	152922	155289
Of them, with population fewer than 10 persons	41493	25895	23855	30170	47089

By the next census, quite a few of those "fewer-than-10-residents" places will probably record 0 population as well...

In practice, some of those may only have seasonal population: that is, the original farmers have long died, their children live in cities now, but a few houses are still owned as second homes by city people from Moscow or Nizhny Novogorod.

Do you plan to write an article on Matvei Kazakov?

Of course I do. Both this and New Jerusalem have long been on my to-do list. I will not have time for these in the nearest future, as I am half-way through Russo-Swedish Wars now and have also some liabilities in regard to Neo-Renaissance. If you want to check my to-do list, it is available here. The problem with tightened requirements for DYK is that when I'll find time to expand the article started today, it will not be eligible for DYK as started weeks if not months ago. As for надвратная церковь, I used to translate the term as "barbican church" but now I think that "gate church" is better. Happy edits, Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Kremlin stars, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Suprised

I am suprised that an experienced editor like you would do something like that and support Ghirla's petty behaviour.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I am not reffering to the bottom part of your edit (although if you could elaborate on why this site is not trustworthy I'd appreciate it), but to the top part, where you removed the Congress Poland from the list of articles needing attention (see history of the noticeboard, and perhaps you could comment on Ghirlando's removal of sourced info in the CP article).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

All right - this is why I wrote I am suprised. And sorry for jumping to the conclusion it was intentional; Ghirla is making all of us jumpy with his torrent of personal attacks and reverts. I am actually looking for somebody willing to mediate between Ghirla and Polish wikipedians community - if you have any advice whom should I turn to I'd appreciate it.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Both Wprost and PWN Encyklopedia have their own articles were Ghirla could raise any issues with their credibility, or he could've cited the sources declaring them russophobic on the CP talk page. He didn't, and considering that PWN encyklopedia was mostly written during the PRP times it is unlikely it would be russophobic (although the article may have been revised since then). In other words, he is just reverting referenced info without a single shred of evidence to support his claims. Just for contrast, you may look at Warsaw Uprising (1794) page, were when Irpen offered us an obvious (see quotes on talk page...) piece of 100 years old Imperial Russian POV, we did not remove it until we had sufficient, academic sources to prove that it was erroneus on most points. Irpen doesn't seem to be willing to do the mediation, and Halibutt is one of the parties seeking mediation, as he is constantly harassed by Ghirla.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Allow me

For contributing so many Russian related articles to wikipedia, I hereby award you the Hero of the Russian Federation barnstar! Enjoy, abakharev

Tank Corps Article

Hi, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I think your addition to the article is great, and could become the foundation for an article about the development of armour and mechanization in the Red Army. I'll add it into the (to be written) article on Mech Corps as it is. Did some minor copy-editing, have a look and let me know what you think. All the best Andreas 08:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

BTW - started the Mechanized Corps (Soviet) article. Feel free to add! Andreas 12:20, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Treaty of Yazhelbitsy, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your efforts. Intersting article. It could use maps or pics though! ++Lar: t/c 15:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Spasa-na-Boru

Well, that's a tricky question. The hill was named after the forest, don't you think? The Kremlin Museums website says "Cathedral of the Saviour on the Bor (Forest)" [1], while googling in Book Search for "saviour, church, kremlin" did little to elucidate the issue. Hence, I changed template to "Church of the Saviour". I hope this phrasing is less equivocal. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Can you help me?

Hello, KNewman. The copyright nazis are after an image I uploaded for Aloisio the New. I recollect how we fixed a similar problem with Kazan Cathedral. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, couldn't you take a photo of the structure? I visited it in November but had to camera with me. Thanks for your time, Ghirla ^-трёп- 06:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Good luck with your vacations. In the meantime, I'll think which monuments of Moscow are still sadly underillustrated. The monastery is situated at the intersection of Petrovka and Boulevard Ring, by the way. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 06:37, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Vanity

Dear KNewman, while I completely agree that Polina-Z is a vanity, I disagree with the way you handle the issue. The rule (I think) is to put the article up for deletion, argue (on that article talk page) and remove according to the vote. The disambiguation pages have a supporting role helping the reader navigate through Wikipedia. It is not the place where the vanity issues have to be decided. Surely you don't want to have two tier system where some articles are deemed appropriate for Wikipedia but not for the disambiguation pages. If you agree with my logic, please rv your Zaytsev correction and/or start the deletion process of Polina-Z. Thank you. Mhym 02:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Джымбо

Напиши Ctac'у на мыло (в его профайле на ру:). MaxSem 10:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Проверь почту. Требуется кафе в районе Президент-отеля - ничего подходящего не можешь предложить? MaxSem 13:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• Уппаньки, по ходу, я сегодня вечером смогу:) MaxSem 05:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Zbruch Idol

Hi, you are the author of this article so I would like to inform you that Zbruch Idol is not on display in National Museum in Kraków. Actually it is located in Archaeological Museum in Kraków. I've corrected this mistake. 83.29.16.13 11:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC) (pl:user:Cancre)

Makarov

Hi there! May I ask you why you removed the dates of birth and death in this edit? Were the dates incorrect? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 12:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Aren't you one lazy butt! :) See, this is what happens to people when they move to Moscow—you are becoming one of them!  :)

Anyway, all kidding aside, WP:MOSDAB#People asks to provide the dates of birth/death only when you know them; it does not require all entries to be formatted identically in that regard. The bottom line is that it's OK not to add the dates for new entries, but there is really no reason to remove the ones that are already there. I'll add this dab page to my to-do list (although I can't guarantee that I'll find all the dates), but if there is an easy way for you to add dates when you expand the pages in future, that'd be swell. Cheers, and keep up a good work—I'm really glad others took interest in these dab pages.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 13:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Grigoriev disambiguation page

I'm impressed by all the entries you've added to the Grigoriev page! I'm a fairly new user so when I created this page I just included names that have Wikipedia articles to link to. I didn't think to add in lots of "redlinks". I was going by what I read on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28disambiguation_pages%29 which said:

Redlinks

Links to non-existent articles ("redlinks") may be included only when an editor is confident that an encyclopedia article could be written on the subject.

Adding links to articles not yet written should be done with care. There is no need to brainstorm all occurrences of the page title and create redlinks to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics.

I guess you know this anyway since you're a much more experienced Wikipedian than me, but I was just surprised to see this disambiguation page with such a large proportion of redlinks as it's the first one I've seen with so many. I'd value your comments which I will bear in mind when creating other disambiguation pages. Thanks. Hebrides 10:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

lossky

Hello I was hoping for some more help on N O Lossky's page. Pretty please.. LoveMonkey 04:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sylvester

Hello, could you write something about this gentleman? There's a lot of info about him in Brockhaus: http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/007/093/93627.htm. I would myself, but I have little time for WP these days. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I moved the old article to Sylvester of Kiev. Now we have Sylvester of Moscow to put a new article to. I wish you good luck in your Sunday mission :) It would be nice to have a picture of that quaint cathedral. We also don't have a picture of Pashkov House and Дом советов to the east from the State Duma. Oh, and the Sretensky Monastery too... :)) --Ghirla ^-трёп- 10:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Great news, thank you. Check your e-mail within five minutes. I'm going to watch football tonight and then I'll go to bed, so I won't be able to take care of the pictures until tomorrow. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

email activation

Could you please activate your email? I have a matter I would like to discuss with you in private. Ideogram 20:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Amurensis

Oh, I kind of got tired of it. Why, does the new sig of mine suck that bad? :)—Ëzhiki (Igel Hérrisonovich Ïzhakoff) • (yo?); 17:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

It's me :) See Igel, Hérisson, Ïzhak.—Ëzhiki (Igel Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen

Your have endorsed the summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen which misinforms the community. Alex Bakharev wrote about Russian architecture: "There is no discussion on the talk page, no suggestions on improving the article". In fact there was (and still is) a discussion on the talk page and solution has been proposed. (Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen#Comment_to_the_summary_by_Alex_Bakharev_and_others). I suggest you to withdraw your signature under the summary.--AndriyK 08:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Kholuy

According to a lot of websites, the Kholuy school was really founded in 1882 (probably old style) or 1883, by N.N. Kharlamov. See the external link I provided (in which 1882 is mentioned). Errabee 20:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps they mean the second one? Errabee 20:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

PS. You were correct that it was an icon painting school that was founded in 1883. So that now leaves the question: 1932 or 1934? Errabee 20:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah. But see also this. ;) Errabee 21:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I think I solved the case. I changed it into In the 1930s. Close enough :) Errabee 21:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On July 5, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Solomonia Saburova, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--BRIAN0918 04:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

metropolitan Hilarion

Please stop trying to russify a metropolitan of Kiev. I would like to assume that this isn't a delibarate action but that You only copied from some russian sources with out giving much thought to it and comments about about me attempting to "ukranize" him was a silly joke. However if it is in fact part of a political agenda it's very poorly planned as anyone familiar with the topic immidiatley notices the absurdity of a claim about a Russian in the XI century!

This is also addressed to your compatriot, the one that was offended even by the mention of the name in the Ukrainian language, however as seen from his other edits he seem to be suffering from some personality disorder and unlikely to take part in a mature disscussion.

Also I don't think Category:Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kiev and all Rus' should include a seperate list, but it should rather be place in an article similiar to out uk:Митрополити Київські. Either one written from NPOV or several. --217.128.17.17 14:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Messing with the Wrong Article?

You said I'm messing with the wrong article. What does that mean? And that {{fact}} tag should definitely be there; it's a wonder I didn't just remove the whole statement. Wikipedia has a policy against original research, but that statement is a textbook example of such. Perhaps someone can attest to those taxi fares by visiting the airport and attempting to take a taxi, but unless you (or anyone else) can find a reliable source that concurs with it, the statement should not be there. joturner 13:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

disambiguation

дорогой KNewman!

I am impressed with the number of articles on Russia you have written, and I have a small request - I've been disambiguating some topics that have to do with Russia (I don't actually have the patience to write whole articles, but editing is right up my alley...) and I've come accross a bunch of pages that list someone's nationality as Russian and wikify the link. Trouble is, there is no ACTUAL page for "Russian" nor is there likely to be soon (there seems to be a bit of discussion on that...) Anyway, since the link just dumps you into a disambig. page, do you mind using Russian as a code instead, when nationality is concerned? You can leave your answer on my talk page. Thanks, Ani td 20:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Your opinion about a FAC

Hi KNewman,

Can you please take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Aleksandr Vasilevsky and if needed, voice your support :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 19:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Lang-ru

Hi, KNewman! I noticed that you tend to thoroughly avoid the {{lang-ru}} template. May I ask you why? It's not that it's a big deal, but I am simply curious why you don't like it so much. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

"granted town status in 1777"

Hello, Kirill. In your article about Novosil you wrote that it was "granted town status in 1777". As I see this phrase alarmingly often, I ponder: was not Novosil considered a town before that date? Or, perhaps, Catherine II's municipal reform was the first opportunity to officially sort out which settlements were urban and which settlements were rural? I believe we need an article about that reform to decide. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 07:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

But what about Shchyokino

Now we have Schyokino and Shchyokino, both by you! - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Funny, and I was wondering yesterday how all of the interwikis had already been magically set...  :) Anyway, I merged the two.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Creation of Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov

Hello, I noticed that you created a page at Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov to redirect to Gleb Kotelnikov. Thank you for creating this useful redirect. However, in order for a redirect to work properly, the following formatting must be used:

#REDIRECT [[Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov]]

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, and I hope this will be of use to you in the future! --Spring Rubber 19:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

proud to have friends in Boston!

Dear KNewman:

I am very glad that you write many articles about Russia in WIKIpedia. I appreciate your motivation to explain open RUssian History to American People. That's a great job.

I've done some contributions in WIKIpedia. They are mostly photos. I live in Brooklyn, New York. The thing is following: Liveing in x_USSR, me and my parents have friends and axquuinted not only in Odessa where we lived. We had a bunch of relatives in Leningrad, Moscow, Kazvkaz, Vinnitsa, and Belarus. We traveled a lot. We stayed in friends'relatives home. (that's a part of Russian Culture) ... Here, most of our friends are in Brooklyn, just a few in San Francisco, and my e-firend in Toronto. In Boston I can only dream to have friends, the city is wonderful... I am looking for someone who can realy devote a time for me, and act as a tour guide. ... And tell me where to stop....

I'd love to have friends in Boston! GK tramrunner 02:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I hope sometime you will visit Boston, MA

As a piece of Old Memories. ANd please if you wannta takl to me, use my email tramrunner229SOBAKAyahooTOCHKAcom ... understood?

Russian towns

Hi! Yes, I am a big geography fan. I started many geo-stubs from various countries, from Papua New Guinea to Greenland. Also, I have started stubs about every single volcano in the Kuril Islands and most volcanoes in Kamchatka. Russian towns? I would not say they are "minor settlements" :) I am from the Czech Republic, for me, every settlement with more than 5,000 people is a town or city :). Russian towns are very interesting for me, I have always imagined, how it looks in some 30,000 city in the middle of Siberia founded in 1960's. So from time to time I create that stubs. I would add more info to that articles but I can't read azbuka so Ezhiki are always helping me. - Darwinek 10:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

As someone who lived most of my life in a town of 30K residents in the Russian Far East, I can assure you that there are far more exciting experiences in life than that :) Keep those stubs coming, though; both of you. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Upcoming NYC Meetup

You might want to know when the next meetup was being organized in New York City. Plan for Saturday, 9 December 2006. While you're at it... Come help us decide on a restaurant. See: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. Spread the word. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 23:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy theories on Vladimir Putin

If you have time, I'll appreciate your input on the article and other editors knowledgeable about Russia. Earlier today, I converted a new section of the Vladimir Putin aritlce, consisting of a long narrative of conspiracy theories, into a section on Putin's crime policies-- content I think actually helps make the article more encyclopedic. [2] But then I was reverted by editor accusing me of "suppressing documented information." [3] 172 | Talk 02:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Yermak

No I don't know the source of the image, but I would not make a fuzz about it. In the 18th century, painters liked to represent medieval Russians in all sorts of exotic garb. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Later reply

On June 7 (sic), you asked me if I were from Stockholm. Yes - that's correct. And you did some studying at Stockholm yourself? Best regards, Odengatan 20:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 19:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

2007

C наступающим (наступившим)! Детям - Дед Мороз, остальным - Снегурочка :) Троллям и вандалам "кина не будет... Электричество кончилось". Шампанским салют, --Brand спойт 15:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Blanking of Stanovoi

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Happy New Year!

С Новым годом! Здоровья, счастья, творческих успехов! -- Vald 17:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

File:1953 S Novym Godom.jpg

Happy New Year! (Ukrainian: З Новим Роком!, Russian: С Новым Годом!). I wish you in 2007 to be spared of the real life troubles so that you will continue to care about Wikipedia. We will all make it a better encyclopedia! I also wish things here run smoothly enough to have our involvement in Wikipedia space at minimum, so that we can spend more time at Main. --Irpen

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Union of Salvation, was selected for DYK!

On January 6, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Union of Salvation, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 01:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Pyatigorsk images

Hi, Kirill! Uploading the images is actually very easy. Just go to the Commons, log in, and select the "Upload file" option in the menu in the left part of the screen. Press "Browse...", and select the file from the location on your hard drive. In the "Summary" field, provide a brief description of the image, and in the "Licensing" drop-down box select the license you wish to share the image under (I assume it will be "own work, copyleft"). Press "Upload file", and voilà—you are done. Do this for every image you want to upload.

If you still don't want to do it yourself, I'll gladly upload the images for you. Just email them to me and let me know what descriptions and licenses to use. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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thanks! --Soman 19:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

GSE template

Done :) See {{GSE}}.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Ministers of Railway Transport of Russia

Hi! There is a problem with this list. The problem is that Transport Minister (министр транспорта) and Railway Minister (министр путей сообщения) are different positions, and the latter has been recently abolished, as Russian Railways became a JSC under Vladimir Yakunin. The current Transport Minister is Igor Levitin, but I guess you meant Railway Ministers in your article, so the link you have added to the articles about the Russian Cabinets is not correct. As this can be a matter of confusion, it is worth clarifying this issue in your article. I don't know whether the Railway Minister and Transport Minister have ever been the same position in Russia, but it is also worth checking. Colchicum 18:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Also may I ask you why you tend to delete the notes that a person has been born in Soviet Union in biographies? I guess many of those who read English Wikipedia have no idea as to where Krasnodar Krai or something like this is or was at that time. Colchicum 18:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, it doesn't look like a good idea to force a reader to follow the link for Krasnodar Krai, so the mention of Soviet Union seems necessary. Some people named here Russian politicians/businesspeople/scientists etc. was born abroad, e.g. Sergei Stepashin was born in China, so this information doesn't really follow from anything else within the article. Colchicum 18:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it seems to me that they have not been merged. Russian Railways have been recently excorporated from the government to became a joint stock company, so this ministry doesn't seem to exist anymore. Colchicum 18:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, we should probably contact User:Kmorozov, because he has established some confusing links and redirects. Colchicum 18:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet, Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet Colchicum 18:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

According to this ukaz [4] during the Administrative Reform (2004) (should be created, i guess) namely the Ministry of Transport was abolished Kmorozov 06:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

9 марта 2004 года Президент РФ В.Путин подписал Указ «О системе и структуре федеральных органов исполнительной власти», согласно которому МПС России было упразднено. Функции по принятию нормативных правовых актов в установленной сфере деятельности переданы Министерству транспорта и связи. Правоприменительные функции, функции по оказанию государственных услуг и по управлению имуществом в сфере железнодорожного транспорта упраздняемого Министерства путей сообщения Российской Федерации переданы Федеральному агентству железнодорожного транспорта. [5] So technically speaking they have been merged, but I don't think it is reasonable to refer to the Railway Ministry as Transport Ministry, because they have been distinct for most of their history, including very recent history (Kasyanov's cabinet, Putin's cabinet, Stepashin's cabinet, Primakov's cabinet, Kiriyenko's cabinet, Chernomyrdin's cabinets), the Railway Ministry looked more important (in 1999 everybody heard of the late Nikolay Aksyonenko), and now most of its functions are transferred to Russian Railways. Colchicum 23:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Help this

I wonder if you could look at the submarine known as K-320? It is such a mess in the sources, that it took me a few hours to sort one little thing out: the fact that many sources on the Internet say that the K-329/K-429 was in some sort of nuclear reactor incident in 1970, but they conflict and seem to be wrong. I concluded, at long length, that the sources are not correct, but that the K-320 was the one with the 1970 incident.

You would have to see the sources, and look at a lot of confused websites to see what I found out. And so the Wikipedia article about the K-329 that I created and edited is somewhat confusing.... but I meant it to be edited, of course.

See Soviet submarine K-329 if you haven't.

My basis for selecting the choice of sources is this: there is a famous court case involved in which a Russian was acquitted of leaking Soviet-era data about nuclear incidents to Bellona. The court records list the K-320, not either of the other two submarines.

Yes, my style needs work, and I was in a hurried mode to create and edit a few things. Not a good excuse, but... knowing it is a work in progress... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Uruiamme (talk • contribs) 09:22, 27 February 2007 (UTC).

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Names do correct

I translated another article from pl wiki with a list of Russian names - commanders of the Northern Group of Forces. Could you translate them into English?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I am sure that Battle of Kostiuchnówka should be renamed, but I cannot find out what's the right name to use on en wiki.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Gagarin

I don't really keep track of this kind of changes outside Russia. As a matter of fact, I barely keep up with changes in Russia itself! However, a quick search shows that the locality in question still existed in 1995, although its status was no longer that of an urban-type settlement. You might have better luck asking this at the Armenian portal. Sorry I can't be of more help!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

re:GSE

Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 24. The result of the discussion was to move the categories to talk pages. These articles were already tagged with {{GSE}} so they were already in Category:Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which means that the text (or part of the text) came from that source. Does that help clear things up?-Andrew c 05:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Leaning Tower of Nevyansk

Hi, Kirill! I have a question about this article. In the "purpose of the tower" section you wrote that Nevyansk used to be a closed town during the Soviet times. Well, someone at Talk:Nevyansk asked about that, and when I tried finding anything on this, I could not. Nearby Novouralsk was (and still is) a closed town; might it have been possible that Nevyansk was affected by that? Or, if you have a source confirming that Nevyansk was also closed (I found no such thing), that'd be helpful, too. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Glad to hear you are still around and good luck with your fatherly duties! :) Thanks for clarifying the source, too. I can't say it helped much, but at least it's a good starting point. Best wishes,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Protopopov's date of birth

Please see my comments on Talk:Alexander Protopopov regarding his date of birth. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 16:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Nordenskiöld Archipelago

I am sorry, I didn't realize that there was your article. While searching for names of the islands in the Kara Sea, I typed the name as it is found in most documents where the "o with umlaut" is not used, and it told me that No page with that title exists.

The articles should be merged. Whichever way of spelling you suggest for the title is OK with me.Mohonu 03:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I have chosen your spelling, which is the same as the explorer's name. I have copied all the relevant information and pasted it on your article, including information that I didn't include in mine. I have also added a map I made.

I don't know though how to take the last step of the merger by directing my page to Nordenskiöld Archipelago. It would be useful that other possible spellings, like Nordenskjöld Archipelago and Nordenskiold Archipelago be directed to your page. Please excuse my ignorance but I didn't understand how to do this. Mohonu 08:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Solitude

I am generally interested in islands. I lived in a small island for many years in my life, my wife is from an island. Please forgive me for wishing to protect my privacy, but I feel more comfortable keeping a certain degree of anonimity. I prefer not to tell anyone where I come from, suffice to say, however, that I am from a small country that is not important worldwide.

I began getting fascinated by the islands in the Kara Sea when by chance I saw a good map of the Kara Sea, with high detail. Those are rare; it was a German map and as I looked at it, I noticed that there was an island called "Einsamkeit", meaning 'Solitude' (Uedineniya). My spiritual depths were stirred. I thought: What a lonely place that must be, in the middle of a little-known sea, far away from the densely-inhabited places of earth. The fascination eventually developed, encompassing all those islands (Izvesti Tsik, Voronina, Kirova, etc.) as well as those few polar explorers, Soviet Navymen and scientists that visited them. As you already know, there is precious little information about the islands in the Kara Sea, even in the internet. Also I think that many Russian and Soviet polar explorers and scientists(like Albanov, Voronin, Professor Vize, Ushakov) have not been done justice and have been relegated to a position of obscurity they don't deserve. Thank you so much for your interest in my contributions to Wikipedia.Mohonu 06:48, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Rivers

Hello. I have reverted your good faith edits, when you added cat. "Rivers of Russia" to several articles about rivers in Murmansk and Moscow Oblasts. These articles are already categorised in respective categories which are themselves subcategories of Rivers of Russia category, so this double categorisation is unnecessary. - Darwinek 10:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Island name origin

Hi there again. Despite my unfortunately limited knowledge of Russian, I am usually able to discern where the name of an Island group came from. But I was not successful at all with the Mona Islands. I cannot figure out where that name came from. I assume it is a woman's name. I would be thankful for your help.Mohonu 07:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I also thought about renaming the article "Mohn Islands", but the problem is that this name became obsolete long ago (before WW2) and is not used anymore on maps or lists of radio hits or even Russian maps in English [6], which are most often used as a source. So, as long as I don't find proof that the other name is in use, it is better to leave it as Mona Islands. A similar, but not identical, situation arises for Geiberg Islands, almost all maps refer to the Russian group as "Geiberg", while they keep the name Heiberg (or Axel Heiberg) Islands for the Canadian Islands.Mohonu 14:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I have also opened the discussion page of Mona Islands and pasted the relevant informations on the Mona vs. Mohn subject there, so it will be more easily available for those consulting Mona Islands in Wikipedia.Mohonu 15:22, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Velikaya River (Anadyr area)

In a detailed map I have (unfortunately not available online), the lower course of the Velikaya River is named as "Echinku". Supporting this there is this document [7] naming the river as "Velikaya Echinku". In these others [8], [9] and [10] the "Echinku" is mentioned.

Some native peoples give different names to different stretches of a river. My opinion is that this is not practical for geographical purposes, for sometimes the limits between one name and the other are vague. So perhaps "Echinku" is a Chukchi or Yukagir name for a section of the Velikaya. I am a bit confused regarding this and I need your help. Thank you. Mohonu 06:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Real quandary on names

Newman, this is a really difficult issue. I don't think we can come up with a solution that pleases everyone. I understand well what you say about the names not being technically correct, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is a long tradition of using them in the incorrect manner. In the case of Vilkitsky (former Vilkitskogo) Island and Komsomolskoy Pravdy Islands, I made the changes immediately. I also changed Zhokhova Island on my own (the article still has to be merged). But regarding Voronina Island or Kamennyye Islands, Plavnikovyye Islands, Mona Islands or the Arkticheskiy Institut Islands for example, they are made, as you can see, of a combination or fusion between the Russian and the English.

This is a much ingrained practice which I think goes back to maps made by the cartographers of Fridtjof Nansen or Sverdrup, or other later expeditions. As decades went by, these names have been used in prestigious atlases (Hammond, Encarta, Nat Geo, etc.) in English and German for many years. The results are there and cannot be ignored. (Regarding genitives ending with “a” like Mona, Minina and Voronina I think it is phonetically easier for speakers of English and German to pronounce with the “a” at the end).

To illustrate this with and example: If I Google “Voronin Island” (words together) in Google search, I only get 7 hits, but if I do the same with “Voronina Island”, I get no less than 115. Apparently the name “Voronin Island” is only used by a company doing tourist arctic trips, while even the Russian site of the Great Russian Arctic Reserve, as well as all Radio Clubs and Geographical search sites, use Voronina Island. Therefore my decision to leave the title of the article as Voronina Island was not taken lightly. One cannot ignore the fact that some names have become popular, widespread and have earned a tradition through time. Even so, we definitely should mention in the article that it is a Russian genitive and that the combination is technically incorrect, although the name has become popular in this manner.

Regarding your request. Yes, In the future I will ask you about the names for Kara Sea Islands before writing the article. Thank you for offering help, it is much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohonu (talk • contribs) 05:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

New Kara Sea island articles and maps

Newman, I am planing to make two new maps and a few more articles about smaller island groups in the Kara Sea. There will be two maps. The first map will be: Islands close to the Middendorf Bay (Zaliv Middendorfa) the islands there will be: Belukha, Prodolgovatyy, Krusenstern islands (Kruzenshterna), Garvrilova, Shren Islands (Vil'da Island), Yarzhinskogo Islands (Rykacheva), Baklunda Is (Storozhevyye), and Myachina islands. The second will be: Islands in the Bay of the Pyasina (Pyasinskiy Zaliv) Zveroboy (Zapadnyy, Malyy, Severnyy), Trio Is, Ptich'i Is., Labyrintovyye Is., Begichevskaya Kosa and Farvaternyy.. Can you please translate in Russian for me the titles of the maps: Islands close to the Middendorf Bay and Islands in the Bay of the Pyasina ? As you see in all the maps I leave the individual names of islands as in Russian, for in my opinion it would make little sense to translate "Yuzhnyy" for example.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohonu (talk • contribs) 04:41, 2 November 2007 (UTC) Mohonu 05:09, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Taymyr Island (Taymyra)

Pity that you were away, I had to arrange with a shorter Russian title (just the names of the bays to be on the safe side of my uncertain Russian. But here there is one for which a shorter Russian title will not do: Taymyr Island, including adjacent coastal islands. Thank you!Mohonu 11:50, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Herald Island surface

Again that figure seems too less. The island is roughly 10 Km long, but it is not only one Km wide. I think a closer figure would be around 20 or 30 Km sq. Mohonu 10:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Ready to be merged

Newman, here there are some articles that are now ready to disappear. I have prepared them already for merger but don't know how to take the next step: Sibiryakova Island , Baron Eduard Von Toll, Zhokhova Island, Oleny Island, Izvestiy TSIK Islands. I hope this is not too much trouble for you. I don't understand the final steps of the process well and I am not very good at this at all. Thanks.Mohonu 06:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you, I have moved Oleni Island to Oleniy Island and I have moved the text of Izvesti Tsik Islands to Izvestiy TSIK Islands. The page for Toll should be Eduard Toll, but just in case somebody types Baron Eduard von Toll, it should be redirected there, the reason is that some Polar writers, like William Barr, use Baron Eduard von Toll or Baron von Toll in their writings on the Russian Arctic. Thank you for doing that.Mohonu 19:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

There is already Izvestiy TSIK, Arkticheskiy Institut and Dolgiy Islands, ending in -iy, so better leave it as Oleniy. I'll make sure the other spellings are also mentioned in the text tomorrow.Mohonu 19:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Perfect, and very efficient! Mohonu 05:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Byrranga Mountains

The Soviet Encyclopedia is right in the sense that following the loop the mountains make, you end up with that 1100 Km dimension; it's kind of like a curved distance then. The 600 Km are referring to the straight diagonal line that runs roughly from the NE to the SW corners of the mountain range across the Taymyr Peninsula. Regarding the 1146m high peak, is its name Volnorez? The bitter winters is from a Cambridge paper which also says, among other things that: "The climate is an extremely severe continental type. Microclimatic areas provide some relief and support a rich and diverse flora." Maybe it was meant for the British public and it can be toned down a bit.

I was impressed by the landscapes. I found many beautiful pictures of those mountains, most taken by amateur explorers.Mohonu 02:03, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

What would be the correct English name for "Karskaya Guba"? I have seen it as "Kara" or "Karskaya" Inlet. What is better?Mohonu (talk) 15:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Being red

I was just curious to see if there would be any change in how people treat you when they think you are a newbie and don't know you are an admin :) So far it's been quite interesting...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hans Falk (bellmaker)

Could you please add the sources you used to write this article? Thank you. Lupo 16:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Radimichs

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RBD

Actually, Kmorozov already created this template almost two years ago→{{RBD}}! Let me know if there is anything in it you would like to see changed; I'll gladly improve it if necessary. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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Dab pages

Useful, thanks! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Kuszliki

Any idea what's the proper non-polonized name of this place? See also other battles in the campaignbox; I am using names from pl wiki which obviously may not be correct.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Moved. Pl wiki specifically stresses that it was Iwan Nikitycz Chowański, ros. Иван Никитич Хованский (see pl:Iwan Chowański) who fought and was defeated at Kushliki. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to rename and move any articles in Template:Campaignbox Russo-Polish War (1654–1667).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Transliteration name

Could you transliterate the name of the commander given here? Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Ivan Khovansky

I have created a disambig for that name, since there seemed to have been at least five notable bearers of that name, too.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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Kirill, if you can add at least one source to that article, I'll gladly restore it for you. Just whistle :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC) P.S. Actually, seeing that he is included in GSE, I'll restore it anyway, but I was hoping you might have something besides GSE. Please let me know. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. If you could add a paragraph on why this guy is notable and cite a couple of sources, that'd be great. Otherwise I'll add the GSE information a bit later. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Grand Prince of Kiev

I see you have a history of working on the article Grand Prince of Kiev. I am looking at it from the project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give. BirgitteSB 19:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

The krai

It is per WP:RUS place names exception clause. "Baikal" is the established English name of the lake, "Baykal" is the BGN/PCGN romanization of the lake's name. As for the krai, here, obviously, no established English name exists, so romanization is used. There are just no good reasons to deviate from the practice, although I do hope that we'll be able to move the article to a variation of "Transbaikal" once the name gets established by the English dictionaries and encyclopedias. Just give it a few years to get there.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Moscow Encyclopedia

I have no problem creating this template for you, but is there any reason why you wouldn't want to simply add this encyclopedia as a reference (i.e., using the <ref></ref> tags)?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Basically, in order to source something, you need to enclose the source citation within <ref name="Refname">…</ref> tags (where "…" is your reference), and then add {{Reflist}} to the "References" section of the article (if there is one there already, then you don't need another one). "Refname" is the name of the reference, you only need to specify if you are planning to use the same reference more than once on the same page, and it can be anything you want. Here is an example:

Moscow is a very big city, and polar bears roam its streets in winter<ref name="MosEncycl">''Moscow Encyclopedia'', 850th Anniversary edition, p. 123. Moscow, 1997.</ref>

followed by:

==References== {{Reflist}}

which produces:

Moscow is a very big city, and polar bears roam its streets in winter.

References

Basically, you write up your standard reference (as you would in an academic paper) within the ref tags.

You might also want to read WP:CITE for a more detailed explanation. Hope this helps!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If you translated the whole article word-for-word, you committed a copyright infringement :) If you narrated it in your own words, however, then you can simply add your source to the "References" section—you don't need to use any special templates or mark-up; just add the source you used. Templates like {{GSE}} are useful when they are used often; if you only need to cite your source a few times it's easier just to spell it out in words. Let me know if you still want the template, though—I'm not trying to weasel out of helping you :) Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Not bored of Wikipedia

Hi KNewman. No I am not bored with Wikipedia. I have been led by life through other paths. I was kept busy by complicated family matters and financial matters. Had no time to relax in front of the PC and concentrate on editing. I am anticipating to have a rough ride for the next three months or so. Thank you so much for your lines. They are very welcome in the midst of the troubled times I am living. Mohonu (talk) 07:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation

In future, could you not create disambiguation pages unless at least one of the targeted pages already exists? Vasily Saltykov leads to two redlinks, and technically I'd be justified in deleting it. Thanks in advance.DS (talk) 15:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

• These subjects are debated at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation (and its 26 pages of archives). DS (talk) 18:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in, but to answer Kirill's question about "weird policy": yes, we, unfortunately, do (see here). Feel free to comment on it here, where this exact clause is currently under scrutiny, already with four people voicing their displeasure (which nicely counter-balances three (!) people it took to pass this clause in the first place). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Walrus Islands

Hi Newman, I got this text here:

Captain Tebenkov applied the name "Ostrova Morzhovyya" ("Walrus Islands") to the whole group of islands... And I am wondering whether Morzhovyya is the correct spelling. Thanks.Mohonu (talk) 09:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeitsev

Thank you for checking on the articles. Now could you find Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeitsev's birth and death data? I have not been able to find them and, believe me, I have tried. Mohonu (talk) 18:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I was lucky, I found it. You may add the Russian name. I am not sure about the spelling. Mohonu (talk) 04:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen

Newman, I was not able to find Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen's birth and death data and practically anything else about his life not related to Toll's Zarya expedition. I wonder whether you could add some data to complete the article on him.Mohonu (talk) 14:37, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

It looks much better, thank you.Mohonu (talk) 03:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Question

Newman, how do you write "Including adjacent islands and the northern end of the Lena Delta" in Russian? Thank youMohonu (talk) 06:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I am doing the Dunay Islands map. Now quick to another article; I was not able to find anything about the area and length of the Sundrun River.Mohonu (talk) 05:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Nikolai Yadrintsev

Newman, thank you for checking and contributing on the article Nikolai Yadrintsev. With a gratitude for your wikification work, and with full understanding of my shortcomings, I would like to ask you to restore the comments re-phrased from the memorial article that defines Yadrintsev not only as a professional scientist, but first of all as an outstanding and altruistic human, who in a traditionally police state was a "free thinker, and a courageous fighter against class and national oppression"..., who in a colonial state, "...was an anti-colonialism advocate, a democratic proponent, a man of action and a man of spirit. The periodical published by N.Yadrintsev remain a manifestation of a courageous fighter against class and ethnic oppression." I feel that dropping these descriptions would really devalue the purpose of portraying outstanding people in the WP, they are way more meaningful than the trivial hour and place of his birth or equally minute details of his death. Barefact (talk) 01:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Nikifor Fomin

Newman, thanks for adding the information about Matisen. I have not been able to find much about Nikifor Fomin, except what you can see in Fomin Island. Also, how would you write "Islands in the Yana Bay" in Russian? Mohonu (talk) 05:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

L. Spafaryev

Newman, if you can read this [11] you could complete Spafaryev's page, if it is not too much trouble for you.Mohonu (talk) 06:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Stalin's father

You asked me why I deleted the final paragraph of the article on Vissarion Jughashvili. This paragraph was all speculation about the final fate of Stalin's father, but his true fate has recently been verified, so I deleted the paragraph and replaced it with the correct info.Kurzon (talk) 21:20, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Zabaykalye

Dear KNewman, I notice you set Zabaykalye to redirect to Transbaikal. However, I read here

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1001:161481058990774::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,72897

that it is "a new administrative region of Russia established in March 2008 as a result of merging the towns of Chita and Aginsk." Any ideas? I know little about Russian geography, but I need good data for this project: http://www.healthmap.org. Thanks for your help.ClarkFreifeld (talk) 20:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

New maps

Hi Newman, I have made new maps and also upgraded some of the old maps. I plan to upload them soon. Does Wikipedia commons give a chance to upload a new version of the same file? Mohonu (talk) 12:17, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Nikolai Fedorenko

There is a notability tag on Nikolai Fedorenko. Can you please add more information to the article to help justify its existence? Cheers. Kingturtle (talk) 05:21, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Litke

Yes, it is a mistake. Because of the darn American misspelling of the name it seemed a different person. I will redirect. Thank you for pointing out the error.Mohonu (talk) 02:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Newman, I have corrected and added the information on Litke's work in Alaska to the Fyodor Petrovich Litke page, you can check it if you wish. Also I have made a new page on Cape Lutke. By the way, is there no portrait of the man anywhere?Mohonu (talk) 08:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Great Northern Expedition

I think both articles are complementing each other. The Great Northern Expedition is a short article explaining the concept of Peter the great's venture. It has a link to the Second Kamchatka expedition article. But I have no objection to the merger if many others think so.Mohonu (talk) 11:51, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Newman, could you find the birth and death dates of Mikhail Vasiliev? Mohonu (talk) 10:25, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Explorers of the North Pacific

Newman, I am not terribly happy including early explorers of Alaska and Chukotka in the "Category:Russian and Soviet polar explorers". Most of that area could be defined as "Arctic", but hardly as "Polar". What do you suggest?Mohonu (talk) 00:32, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

You wrote: Hi there, Mohonu! You see, the word polar has its special meaning in this category. The thing is that this category includes several explorers of the Antarctica as well (e.g. Aleksei Treshnikov). You will have to create two separate categories then - Russian and Soviet explorers of the Arctic and Russian and Soviet explorers of the Antarctica. I guess, people will have to vote on this issue. KNewman (talk) 04:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

IMO the several explorers of the Antarctica category fit well into the "Category:Russian and Soviet polar explorers", for Antarctica is within the polar circle and the category does not specify whether it is the northern or southern polar zone of our globe.

The problem is: Where to categorize those Russian explorers of areas like the Bering Sea, which is cold enough and needs wintering, but which is not within the polar circle. Unless they entered the Chukchi Sea and went past Cape Espenberg, like Mikhail Vasilyev and Gleb Shishmaryov, it is geographically incorrect to put them in the category "Category:Russian and Soviet polar explorers". Mohonu (talk) 08:45, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Yes the book is expensive but it would be good to have. Sometimes I have used excerpts from it that are in the internet, but those are few and far between. I'll try to buy it next month when I have more cash.Mohonu (talk) 03:46, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Dzhekman

Newman. I was not able to find anything about Dzhekman. I assume he was an Arctic explorer. If it isn't too much trouble for you, could you please try to find out something about him? Thank you, Mohonu (talk) 08:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Grigory Ugryumov

I have nominated Grigory Ugryumov, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grigory Ugryumov. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Wizardman 01:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)