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The wiki transcription on the areas of Bellorussia, Ukraine and East Prussia.

These rivers are in Belarus now, hence the main spelling. Old Polish and Ukrainian spellings make sense to be added, since they can draw references from older docs. Since these rivers are very small, hardly there is a really established English spelling IMO. Mikkalai

But Bellorussian spelling is cyrillic. The english transcription is not established. Why don't we try traditional Polish translation, that is the only latin transcription that is well established for such a names? As far as I am concerned, Germans also copy Polish translation. Cautious 13:08, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Moved discussion on Dance music, Dance (music) etc. to Talk:Dance music. --Lexor 03:31, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Digraph

Hello, Mikkalai. Since you recently turned digraph into a disambiguation page, you should now fix all the links (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Digraph) that point to the wrong page. And, you should list it at Links to disambiguating pages, so that people know it should be checked for incorrect links in the future. Thanks, Minesweeper 04:15, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re: Dance in mythology and religion

Thanks for moving that "information" from Dance page. As I mentioned on the Talk:Dance page the objection was not only lack of facts and PoV, but also it was ethically and legally questionable to present this plagiarized material on this page, let alone in Wikipedia.

Sfdan 12:19, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I noticed your edits in Subdivisions of Russia -- can you please have a look at the issue I described on its talk page? --Shallot 20:09, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for that, BTW. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for reverting Fredrikj's edit to List of esoteric programming languages. :) -- Schnee 17:28, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I wasn't really after the underscores in those redirects, rather the broken double redirect, but it was trivial to fix them so I did that while I was at it. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Please see Talk:List_of_esoteric_programming_languages, the matter needs to be cleared up. Fredrik 19:30, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey

I moved your message on my talk to Talk:Communism, hope you don't mind, but I felt it was useful for everyone to hear what you and I had to say. My response is there. Jack 07:00, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your message. As you noticed I am interested in Ruthenia. As you know it is quite dangerous topic, especially becouse of nationalistic sentiments of interested nations. I suppose, you are from Belarus. What do you think about using in English the term of Russia both in the meaning of Rus and Rossiya, and mixing the meanings (for example in the article about Kiyevian Rus. For example for many Ukrainians this is terrible. If you have been in London you could have an opportunity to see a monument of Wladimir the Wise. The script on the monument is: Wladimir the Wise, ruler of Ukraine. It could look ridicoulous, but according to me it is as true as the name of Russia in the same place. I think that the article about Kiyevian Rus is very misleading. In slavic languages the difference between names of Rus and Rossiya is very clear. But for the persons without knowledge of Slavic languages do not. And the point about famous Russian people...

Obviously, in the Middle Ages there were used the terms of Russia, Rossia etc. But it was a transliteration of the name of Rus. The term of Russia in the modern sense has different meaning: Russia as a state and a country, not the historical Rus.

The term of Ruthenia was commonly used for Rus through centuries. I think that using it is much more precise than Russia in the same meaning. I supose that non Slavic readers of the Wikipedia have got the right to get the full and honest picture of the situation without nationalistic mithology.

What do you think about that,

Regards,

Yeti

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Polish-Lithuania If you take into account that today Estonia was created from the Estonia province and norhern part of Livland Dorpat Tartu, Estonia also inherited some land from the commonwealth. Province of Estonia was claimed by Poland, but I don't know if ever achieved. Cautious 11:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your question on Daniel's page. It looks like you would not be able to upload this text to Wikisource. The website has the following notice:

This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.

Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution in print form for educational purposes and personal use. If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source. No permission is granted for commercial use of the Sourcebook.

We can only include text that can be released under the GFDL, so something which disallows commercial use can not be copied here. If you could find the original, that you could use that as it is public domain, but the version from that website can't be used unfortunately. Angela . 22:11, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I answered your question on the Village pump but I should also add that although officially I have quit Wikisource, you can still ask me if you have any questions about it. Angela . 23:43, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've nominated you at Requests for adminship. This doesn't guarantee anything, but if other people agree, and you also agree, you could be a sysop. (Being a sysop wouldn't require you to do anything, and could possibly be useful occasionally. In any case, it can't hurt.)

I don't know if you would want to or if your name is actually Russian, but it's possible in Preferences to set your signature to Мыккалаи (or however it is spelt). Κσυπ Cyp 23:08, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Please, have a look on Carpathian Ruthenia page if you can. User Yeti

Indeed. It seems very characteristic of East Slavic culture that the history of the lost Jews of Carpathian Ruthenia had to be removed to a separate ghetto. Don't you realize that they are a part of the history of that place, where genocide was so successful? Instead of suppressing embarassing history, why not set it into a broader context, using your own deep Slavic understanding? Wetman 04:39, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Like what you did to Cube. Solves the issue neatly. Syntax 23:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template for my reply to your question on "sibling group" vs. "subgroup". Yes, they are distinct. -- Jmabel 20:26, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello! I see that you have moved White Guard to White Guard (Finland), which might be a good call for disambiguation. However, a number of links to the Finnish White Guard are now pointing to a disambiguation page instead of its proper article. I trust you plan to follow this up and do the necessary updates. Best regards. -- Mic 09:23, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Anti-Semitism

I have to confess I don't entirely understand your responses to my recent statement on this page. I would prefer it if you wrote your comments outside of mine, or if necessary, copied and pasted my comments within your own. Otherwise it is confusing (if to nobody else than to myself :). I'm honestly interested in what you have to say, and I do understand the content of what you said (for the most part, the "if no:shut up" thing didn't make any sense to me at all) but I don't understand how it applies to what I said. I would enjoy further dialogue on this if it's not upsetting to you, but please try hard to speak simply, and not make any presumptions about my POV or understanding of certain "obvious" factors. Sam Spade 03:37, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

no problem, thanks for the changes. If you want to discuss personal POV, or other subjects not best for the Talk:Anti-Semitism page, contact information for me is here User:Sam Spade/Info. Also, you can use my user page all you like as well. I am always happy for intellegent, polite conversation (which incidentilly, I have consistantly found you more than capable of). :D Sam Spade 06:41, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

KGB

Done. In my opinion Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB all ought to be redirected to an article called Soviet political police which deals with the whole history from 1917 to 1991. I might have a go at it some time. Adam 11:31, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Plrease explain usage of "́" in KGB. Kenny sh

This is the accent mark. Since Russian words are unusually long compared with English, it is usually difficult to figure out which syllable is stressed, therefore Russian lexicons and textbooks for verys small children use accent marks to show proper pronunciation. Mikkalai 15:35, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sysop

You are now a sysop. I recommend adding your name to Wikipedia:Administrators. Congrats. Tuf-Kat 19:26, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm, it's normal for people to accept sysop nominations before being turned into a sysop. Κσυπ Cyp 11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, unless you specifically don't want to be a sysop, and reject the offer at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, I guess you are one anyway... Κσυπ Cyp 11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying what that puzzling comment meant in War Communism... I had no idea what the comment was trying to say, now that you clarified it I see why it isn't necessarily wise to delete it.--Nelson 01:34, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)

Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик

I've replied to your post at Wikipedia:Village pump#Transliterations from Russian. I've posted a proposal there and created a place for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. as a place to discuss all this. -- BCorr ? Брайен 03:17, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

mdash; or #8212;

I've been told that the mdash is inferior to the #8212 dash. I've noticed you'ver replaced the latter with the former. I have been using the 8212 dashs for almost a year having been encouraged to do so by many other sysops. What is your opinion on this issue? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 03:58, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about the typo, but in the future the #8212 is definitely the way to go as it is a more universally translated character than the mdash. — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk]

— and — are exactly the same thing. They denote the same Unicode character, EM DASH (U+2012). It is better to write —, because it is human-readable. — Monedula 16:25, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

afrikaans

Don't blame me. I can't read Africaans so don't expect me to find where the actual link is. Keeping a misleading link is more destructive than I am. The new link looks like Great Britain. --Jia ng 22:18, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

At least you managed to find the proper word, didn't you? So would any other person who would want to find a link into afrikaans. You destroyed even this feeble connection. Mikkalai 22:51, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

But it's a link to the wrong article. that link goes at England, not United Kingdom. It's just plain misleading. The new link you inserted leads to an empty page. That is also unnacceptable. --Jia ng 22:54, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The new link leads to place where you can find further links using the "What links here" link. It is more acceptable than no link at all. Mikkalai 22:58, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I cannot agree: wikipedia is full of empty links. Articles will be eventually written after all. Mikkalai 23:00, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

And BTW, I myself have found plenty of information by tracing through empty links and then "what links here". Mikkalai 23:02, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The difference is that interlanguage links are not red. You might want to bring this up at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. The bot operators remove any empty links from the list. --Jia ng 23:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Why is color so important in the context of this discussion? The link still provides some connection, possibly indirect, to information otherwise unreachable. Mikkalai 23:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The color alerts people what they're in for. Please propose that the status quo be changed at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. I am simply following what has been done. In any event, if interlanguage links to the wrong subject should always be removed. --Jia ng 00:05, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Appologies on the spiders, thanks for catching that! Mark Richards 21:30, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, could you please help me with World War II traitors hunt? I mean it would be usefull to add some info about the treatment of German collaboraters, real or alleged, in Soviet Union just after the war. Cautious 10:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Koopsta Knicca

Your vote to delete Koopsta Knicca was removed after one day. Is your vote no longer "delete" in light of the changes made to the article? Thanks - Texture 19:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

More spiders

Since you seem to be a spider expert, I thought I would draw your attention to my question on Wikipedia:Reference desk, would appreciate your advice, Thank you! Mark Richards 04:30, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, thanks anyway! Mark Richards 17:14, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Apostrophe

I am sorry to always be bugging you about punctuation and special characters but I noticed you replaced the ' with a "& #8217;" (’) I thought that we were being asked not to add these characters for compatability reasons. Has something changed that I have not heard about? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 04:38, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

If I did so, it was unintentional, and I don't know how. My keyboard has only ' and `. Could have been cut'n'paste from somewhere. What was the article? (BTW you may spare apologies when talking to me, I'm an easy man.) Mikkalai 08:31, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The Unicode standard says that "2019 right single quotation mark, this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe". So it is perfectly legal to put ’ (’) instead of '. — Monedula 16:34, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Heated debate

Mikkalai, I feel we both have let our tempers get the better of us. I appreciate you removal of your complaint against me, and appreciate the gesture of good faith. I still don't understand the reasons for the Polish pages, but I recognise I was probably hasty in my assumptions about what you are doing. I look forward to working together more congenially. Yours, Mark Richards 05:38, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Chernobyl history

Mikkalai, can you please fix the following sentence in Chernobyl history:

Nestor Makhno In the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, it was taken first by the Polish Army and then by the Red Cavalry of the Red Army.

The name 'Nestor Makhno' seems inserted into the beginning of the phrase without any connection to the rest.

--Cantus 21:54, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Good catch on Tupolev. Now I recall his initials were ANT, but still proliferated this silly typo. Pleasure to work with you! --Humus sapiens Talk 01:05, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Typos etc.

No problem. Do you think the new info in Great Purge should be integrated into the rest of the article a little more? Maybe placed after the first paragraph of the main part of the article? Everyking 03:52, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vladimir Vysotsky

The phrase about CDs is plain stupid, but there were several vinyl plates, French and Russian, during his life as well. Dear Mikkalai, while I'm appreciating your help in this matter (I'm definitively no expert on V.S.V.) I do not like the wording... If there were vinyls, French and Russian, why not say so in the article, and maybe list some of them in the discography section. (I'm well aware that CDs were available only later.) --Palapala 10:28, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Apology accepted :) Could you have a look, I found some more titles, no chance to have them confirmed, put them into the text as a comment, needs somebody with knowledge of Russian... --Palapala 20:03, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Talk:Expulsion of Germans after World War II

I would like to invite you to discussion around the article. There is hot dispute over some issues. Thanks in advance! Cautious 12:44, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Molotov

I put some constructive proposal in the talk page. Plaese read and then we can make edits. Cautious 10:13, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Graham scan

Hi. Some time ago, on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, you mentioned factual errors in the article Graham scan. Are you still going to make those corrections? — Thanks! — Timwi 04:08, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Old Finland

Would it maybe be warranted with a Russian (cyrillic) translation?

The term is said to be originally Russian.
--Ruhrjung 03:55, 2004 Mar 26 (UTC)

Sorry, I know nothing in this respect. Mikkalai 22:54, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tsar vs Emperor

Are you intending to change all English references from "Tsar" to "Emperor"?
--Ruhrjung 22:16, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No. As I understand, it is a valid English usage. Mikkalai 22:53, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

So why change it in Peter Carl Fabergé [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Peter_Carl_Faberg%E9&diff=2967838&oldid=2957073)?

--Ruhrjung 23:39, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I merely rolled back your rollback. You called it controversial; I see no controversy. Moreover, formally it is more correct (especially Empress Consort is more exact than Tsarina). If a guy wanted his favorite monarch to call Emperor, fine. As to your question, still no. But starting from Peter the Great, the first declared Russian Emperor, I will object converting Emperor into Tsar. Mikkalai 01:39, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Various subjects

From 65.73.0.137

I see you've deleted my additional information on things like Spongebob Squarepants, Scooby-Doo, and Peter I of Russia. Let's discuss each of these three one by one. Forgive me that this message be long.

As with Spongebob, his popularity has been widespread, and many kids throughout the United States, and probably throughout the world, love him. Also, his funny reputation has received wide appreciation. Who can disagree that Spongebob is #1 on Nickielodeon and with kids as well? Who's bigger in popularity than him? The Simpsons and Family Guy are more popular with adults and South Park may be less popular with teenagers than Spongebob.

Scooby is extremely successful also. Notably, his first movie won over $100,000,000, and his second one released recently became #1 by far on the Billboard charts when it first came out. Who else besides Spongebob is bigger than Scooby when it comes to kids? Dora the Explorer is generally for tots and Yu-Gi-Oh! is for mostly boys and older girls. I think Scooby is even bigger with these age groups.

Now about Peter the Great, as I've seen you imply that since 1721 Russian rulers should be more accurately be called emperors than czars. You went against your own words by deleting my info of Peter being czar from 1682 to 1721. And the list should either be "List of Russian Emperors" from Peter the Great on and "List of Russian Tsars" from the first ruler to Peter the Great, or simply all as "List of Russian Rulers".

Deleting images is one thing. This is an act of vandalism and I regret what Hadal and RickK complained on my page about. But on account of text, it's frankly none of your business, as well as anybody else who claims "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", to tear off reasonable public opinion. And your power of blocking people from editing must be limited also. You might want to add additional information or correct grammar mistakes, but let the public edit public opinion. To tell you the truth, I condemn the editorial atrocities performed by you and others of your type. God forbid you to carry on with being editorial tyrants, socialists, or communists. Citizens like me have unalienable rights and should decide for themselves what's bull@#$% and what's accurate. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to tell the truth of things going on.

First of all, please register and get some name to be taken seriously. On the cartoons: as I commented in one of reverts, statements like "he is #1" are very strong and I am not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00. Please don't forget that wikipedia is read not only in the USA. As for tsars, please stick to things that you really *know*, not just read in next best encyclopedia. FUI: Russian rulers were called both tsars and emperors. It is not like, he was colonel and then became general. Good luck to uncover more of wikipedia conspiracies. Mikkalai 16:13, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Return message from 65.73.0.137

Hi! I get your point for the most part, but there are just two more things I want to clarify with you. First of all, I corrected a grammar error in your last message from "regicter" to "register". Second is my concern about your comment of being "not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00." You shouldn't judge a person by his/her user name, because I've heard of talk from those that use proper nouns (i.e. "Hadal"), on pages for other cartoon shows, that is nonsense. That's all I'm discussing for this message.

After 2-3 months of editing you'll notice yourself that 80% of anonyms are vandals or random posters. Besides, in many cases IP addresses are not constant. In addition, many people contribute from several computers. Finally, it is not easy distinguish you from, say, 65.73.0.157 While it is true that some names are suspects, still, some names gain themselves a solid reputation. You may well build a reputation for 65.73.0.137, but I bet it will take longer :-) Mikkalai 00:46, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sukhoi

I was considering moving Sukhoi Corporation to Sukhoi as I had just moved PSC Tupolev to Tupolev, but then I noticed that you had just moved it from Sukhoi, which is now a disambiguation page.

I would prefer to have the entry called "Sukhoi" in keeping with standard practice. There could be a redirect from Sukhoi Corporation if needed (which I don't think there is). There is certainly no need for disambiguation for Sukhoi, though. The organization was named after the person, and in that sense both terms are one and the same. -- Paul Richter 06:02, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't know what standard practice you refer to. On one hand, there is Ford Motor Company as the primary title. On the other hand there are Boeing and Messerschmitt. I will not strongly object if you revert to your, aviation way of naming, as long as the names of persons will be clearly referred immediately at the beginning of the articles, as it was done for Boeing and Messerschmitt, but not for Tupolev and Sukhoi Corporation. Mikkalai 15:30, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:Kenneth Alan is a known problem user. Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Kenneth Alan and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan Mintguy (T)

Someone else's copyright disclaimer

Mikkalai, thanks for the question and link. The page in question also has a link to a copyright policy that includes the following:

With as many files as people have sent to us, it's entirely likely that there are copyrighted files in our archives which are not freely distributable. (http://www.totse.com/en/_copyright/copyright_policy.html)

I would say that if one were being safe they wouldn't copy the information, but use it and restructure it, incorporate it with other text; rewrite it to make sure it wasn't blatant copying (a timeline of someone's life is really mostly public information, unless the timeline author has some special research that they have done, and even then facts are fact and never copyrightable. If you just dump this stuff into Wikipedia and it turns out that the owner finds out and objects, well then this could lead to problems as copying infringing material is usually held to be infringing (if it is not fair use). Is there any other way around this? Probably not. I suggest that without knowing who the author of a work is, it should not be copied onto Wikipedia (of course Wikipedia does not check copyright from contributors, one of the reasons that use of Wikipedia content is problematic for many people. — © Alex756 05:04, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message

There is no "state disibility insurance" page please create one before using all those redirects. thanks. GrazingshipIV 17:53, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher

Hello Mikkalai, on the above named page you deleted:

"In his conversations about art he appears to expressed his true opinions, for example lending Social History of Art by Arnold Hauser, an English Marxist art historian to one of his friends."

giving as a reason "nonsense phrase removed". The phrase may be wrong (and the punctuation isn't quite right), but it clearly isn't nonsense; Arnold Hauser really was an English art historian who really was a Marxist, he really wrote a book called Social History of Art, and it was published (and controversial) just a few months after Fisher/Fischer entered the US - posing as an artist, but pretending not to be a communist. So, far from being nonsense, the claim is eminently plausible and interesting if true. If you have reason to doubt that the statement is true, it would be helpful if you said why, rather than just calling it nonsense. Securiger 04:31, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hello,

I have nothing against Hauser. It is the statement about Fisher that is nonsense. How "true opinions" are related to "lending a book", pray tell me. And by the way what's so important about these "true opinions" to be entered into the context of the article? And how can we be sure they were true? And why an opinion of the person who claims this is important for this article or even credible? Mikkalai 05:01, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If I understand correctly, your objection is not with the claim that Fisher had such conversations or lent such a book, but with a) whether it is important enough to include in the article and b) whether that reflected his "true opinions". Is that correct?

Is the inclusion important? Probably not. But I find it very interesting. Fisher was an experienced, well trained, senior spy operating under a carefully constructed deep cover. Yet he performs (allegedly) these activities which might cause some to question his loyalty, perhaps even bring him to the attention of the FBI. Why? Overconfidence? Needing relief from the strain of maintaining a false persona? Recruitment activities? (And if the latter, what else did he get up to that was never detected?) As I say, interesting.

As for his "true beliefs", the quoted text only referred to his apparent true beliefs - that is, we're not talking about some kind of unknowable insight into the innermost depths of his soul, just the fact that he was actually a Soviet agent, not the semi-retired lumberjack he pretended to be. The implication is that revealing himself to have a book on Marxist interpretation of art history would be very odd for a semi-retired non-communist lumberjack, and might suggest that he may have been a communist. Was he in fact a communist? I would suggest that everything we know about him strongly suggests that he was (at least close enough to fool an NKVD investigation), but this is irrelevant to the question of the book (and accompanying conversations). Even if he wasn't "really" a communist, showing such a book, and having such conversations, risked drawing needless suspicion to him.

Of course, a perfectly valid objection to the inclusion of (a gramatically corrected version of) this text would be that it isn't true; I haven't seen any prior references to this incident! Securiger 06:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for causing you to spend so much time. I finally got your point. The problem is that both the article authour and you failed to assume the point of view of an "innocent" reader (like me).

I would strongly suggest to forget about Fisher at all and read the sentence "as is". The paragraph speaks about arts!!!. What the hell his "true opnions" supposedly about arts (since we are reading about arts at the moment) have to do with giving someone a book. If I were from McCarthy times, I'd guess that there is something wrong that the book is by a communist.

Like I said, now I understand the intentions of the phrase. The easiest remedy would be to (1) pull the sentence out of the "arts" paragraph, and (2) rephrase it more explicitely, e.g., "In his conversations about art he appeared to express his true political opinions...." . I suspect you can do it better than me. Pleasure talking with you, Mikkalai 16:32, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)~

Could you take a look at my rewrites of Korean Workers Party, Communist Party of Cuba and Communist Party of Vietnam?AndyL 04:44, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for all your work on Russian Revolution of 1905 -- fixing my errors, typos etc. TwoOneTwo 15:36, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Come on! In cyrillic, Kazak is spelled with the same letter at each end of the word! Maybe you should write Khazakh!

Dawit

I am afraid that you are confusing Kazakhs (Kazah in Ru:) with cossacks (Kazak in Ru:) Mikkalai 20:10, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No... No...!,See this site by my Kazak friend: Kazakstan or Kazakhstan (http://members.tripod.com/~kz2000/kazakstan/passp.html). Kazakh in cyrillic is written:Қазақ. The same letter is written in the front and the back! The reason for Kazakh with and h is because in Russian it is written: Қазах

--Dawit

Now I see. You were speaking about self-name in the native language, not of Russian or English name. There is a point in this, but in English there is a long tradition of transliterating from Russian and kazakh. Turkic-arabic transliterations are Qazaq. I would recommend to refer to the official website of the state (http://www.president.kz/) for arbitration. An additional argument is avoiding the confusion mentioned above. Mikkalai 20:40, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ok! Yes, the official website of the state does have it different than the official passport! But--to avoid confusion like what you mentioned above, Kazakh is fine!

Muratuli Dawit

Croydon

Many thanks, Mikkalai, for doing the Redirect for Croydon. Appreciated --Dieter Simon 00:24, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cyrillic

I saw that you have removed the "See also" table from Ya and Yat. Would you like to start a WikiProject on Cyrillic letters (or do everything ourselves)? Then we could use MediaWiki messages for these tables. My initial idea was that each table shows all letters, with letters which belong to the same language bolded. For example, Ya would have MediaWiki:RussianCyrillic, Tje would have MediaWiki:SerbianCyrillic, and so on. We also need to agree on naming (whether Ka (letter), Ka (cyrillic), Ka (cyrillic letter)) and a few more things. I would make articles on Serbian and Macedonian letters, and I could make a program which would create code positions tables. I was talking with Shetsen and he told me he would do Yus. What do you think? Nikola 01:26, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

See User:Nikola Smolenski/Cyrillic tables. It seems that my experiment with table headers has gone wrong, but everything else is, I think, fine. If you don't have any objection, let's start to use it! Nikola 19:45, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) Why in three fonts? (2) Since 1/3 of characters are not seen in all 3 fonts, how about adding images? (3) "It's HTML entities" -> "Its HTML entities"

Mikkalai 01:19, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) I used only two fonts, Same as Ya, same is used on Latin letters and for Yat. (2) Of course, images would be preferred even in articles on common letters, but until someone makes an image, this is, I think, better then nothing. (3) Shit :( Nikola 10:53, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

I fixed the problems. About transliteration: yes, it should be mentioned. I don't think that a special table or paragraph is needed as most letters would have only one transliteration anyway and even for those that have more they are all easy to mention in a single sentence. Nikola 12:56, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) I see. I said 3, because each letter is section tile, so I see a big letter 3 times: it title and in two examples, all different. Visully, it is a bit too much for me. BTW, do you have cursive fonts? That would be a useful addiion, indeed. Mikkalai 16:02, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

I see, well, section titles would not make it to the articles :) I made a few cursive examples for A; which one do you like the most? I favour the last one... Nikola 07:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

I am afraid all of them look the same on my computer, and all have the same drawback: the capital letter doesn't look "calligraphic", just italic. Bu the way, when writing "cursive" I had in mind "calligraphic" fonts, the ones that show pieces of connecting lines. Unfortunately I don't have them on my computers.Mikkalai 18:40, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

I understand now, I'm afraid that it will not be possible until someone draws images. I could include more fonts, but people who don't have them, will see just ordinary letters. Do you think that italic is needed? Nikola 07:36, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

I consider two options: (1) include one font only. If one really wants to see in different fonts, one may cut into a text editor and look at the letter in all fonts available at his computer. (2) Include only fonst where letters look really different. Fro this POV, you will need only 2 fonts: regular and the italic one that is close to "calligraphic". Mikkalai 16:54, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

(2) is impossible without images. (1) is possible, possibly better, but all Latin letters (see A, B, C, D...) use both fonts and I was aiming for consistency. Nikola 13:25, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Fascism

Could you please weigh in at Talk:Fascism? WHEELER seems to think I'm the only one against his suggestions. AndyL 07:28, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Browser problems

Please note that your browser is inserting Windows "smartquotes" into articles you edit. See a diff of your most recent edit to Talk:Fascism [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Fascism&diff=0&oldid=3491004) for an example. Whilst they look fine on your browser, they can be a big problem for other users who do not use the proprietary-standard Windows character set. -- The Anome 22:24, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

My apologies. You are right, you are not to blame for this. The smartquotes were already there: your browser was only converting them to (perfectly valid) HTML numeric entities. At least now we can see the wretched things more easily in the source. -- The Anome 22:45, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Ruzzi

Could you please see my question to you at Talk:Rus' (people)? Thanks. -- Jmabel 04:35, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I have prepared a new article in place of the old one, which is a obvious non-sense. Please, feel free to express your opinion. Talk:Carpathian Ruthenia, Yeti 20:59, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

renaming Karelia articles

You may want to say your meaning at Talk:Karelia?
Ruhrjung 09:05, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Trans-Siberian railway/railroad/Railroad

I've replied extensively at the village pump, but basically, you're right that I was over-zealous with my 'fixing' of double redirects. I still maintain that they should have been done, but by piping rather than by changing the base text. Sorry - when I have time, I'll fix what I've broken. --ALargeElk 09:10, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Timmay!

But why not leave it in for the time in the future when it's implemented? RickK 00:11, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

RatFiv

Hey thanks for adding the comment about the language name being a pun - I didn't think to write about that in the original article. WPWoodJr

Salsa

Hi there, I saw you contributed to the salsa article, so I wondered if you would be interested in a wikibook about rueda commands (http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Dancing:Salsa:Rueda_de_Casino) (german) (http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Tanzen:_Salsa:_Rueda_de_Casino)? Furthermore since you have three versions of your user page - by the way, is there anything in polish about salsa? - maybe this learning project (http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h0444e1w/vokeng.htm), primarily for vocabulary, might be of interest to you as well. If so, please let me know on my talk page. Get-back-world-respect 13:14, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Are we guilty of systematic Polish nationalist bias? Could you help me understand what's going on here? 172 01:59, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Who??

Who are you talking about in Talk:Diagonal?? 66.245.12.170 22:10, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

To make sure you know this, I can do 2 for the triangle and 5 for the square, of course! Let's try the pentagon. I see an inner pentagon, 5 acute triangles, 5 obtuse triangles, and the outside, which totals 12 for the pentagon. The hexagon is complicated. Does anyone know a formula?? Don't ask me why my IP number changes; it just does every time I log off and then log on later. 66.245.12.170 22:29, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Stalin

Is it true, that 1948-53 Soviet media started already anti-Semitic campaign? I was convinced that this was to come after Doctor's plot? Cautious 22:50, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Relative/Parallel

Hi. I moved the pages to __ key: Parallel key, and Relative key. I'm not sure why this didn't occur to me sooner. Hyacinth 20:32, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Ёр юзырь пейж:

(1)Ытык-Кёль

(2)Bely OK, but Siniy is better than Siny. Mikkalai 16:28, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) Ыттык-Кюель was found using a Yandex search. It is in the table only to give an example of a name starting with an Ы, anyway. Change it, if you want to, I don't mind.

(2)How would one make a decision when to use "-iy", and when "-y"?--Ezhiki 17:41, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

How about you putting your table into the new Transliteration of Russian into English article. (I am tempted to do do this myself, but I wouldn't rob you of priority, glory and the rest :-) Here we can all discuss several confusing things, bout for russians to write for English and for English reading these translits. Mikkalai 18:34, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry about priority, glory, and the rest since everything is under the GDFL license anyway. It's not like I was working on a book to be published :)

I'll copy the table verbatim for now, so it will be at least placed somewhere where it can actually be found and commented on, not to mention tons of related material that can be added to it. Pleasure working with you.--Ezhiki 18:41, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

dance technology

dance technology is a dance form, your edit on the list of dances was incorrect.

i have now started a stub for this topic, the link was made in preperation for future addtions.

much of the dance content on Wikipedia relating to contemporary dance, choreography, dance notation, contact improvisation, improvisation, notable dance artists, ballet, technical terms etc contatins errors or is incorrect.

As a dance scholar i find this situation unaceptable and i am organising a re assesment and updating of the dance content on Wikipedia buy other dance scholars, practitioners and artists of note.

thank you for you time

ohka

your assersion is still incorrect,

according to your point of view that 'techniques' do not count as forms;

Contact improvisation
Interpretive dance
Ballet

sould also be removed,

dance technology IS a dance form - look at the links and or inform yourself of the subject area.

Dance technology is the application of existing and emerging technologies to dance practice

Contact improvisation is a technique to create improvised movement

Interpretive dance is a technique to create improvised movement

Ballet is a technique that has different forms etc etc

dance technology, Contact improvisation, Interpretive dance all have many differnt faces, if there was only one resulting type of dance it would be a technique. the many divergent works created make these dance forms.

dance theory is my professional practice (BA, MA) so yes, i desire to make serious and systmatic contributions but there are aspects of the dance context that are pure miss-information. i can see that you have made similar changes in the areas that you have extensive knowledge in.

thankyou for the welcome Ohka- 20:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Dance technology is a dance form in which existing and emerging technologies are used to extend traditional dance practice and develop new dance practices

better? Ohka- 00:48, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

fact or fiction - dance

my wiki convention may be wrong but my information is correct, not from Google but 8 years of dance study with a MA and current phd research to back it up.

your dance information should be drawn from reliabble sources, perhaps i should start providing more book references to demonstrate that the information i am adding is valid and correct.

yes dance names are off eg dance technology but so are athers such as modern dance (which is really expressiionist) classical ballet (dance to romantic music) postmodern dance (modernist) etc etc.

your unqualified reversions will only serve to ditance the scholarly dance community from adding to this resource, and they have a valuable conribution to add

wrong info eg: Choreographer Robert Fosse William Forsythe Meryl Tankard are NOT classical ballet choreographers. the entry for what a choreographer does is also off the mark. Choreography ? the advice is aoutdated and does not allow for the fuller picture of what choreography is ... there are pages and pages of this miss information in the dance context.

i hope you will think more before reverting my edits - or perhaps look at the other work i have added such as Dance notation to see the informed efforts i am making to update the content here.

Ohka- 17:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

List of Gulag camps

I've been running some statistical analyses of the wikipedia database looking for anomalies (see User:Topbanana/Reports if you're interested). One of the things thrown up is item 446 on the List of Gulag camps - it looks to me like there's a | missing from the link somewhere, but have to confess it's all Russian to me. I noticed you're a frequent editor of the article - can you assist? - TB 15:36, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

terms for administrative assembly

Does it make sense to make a list or a category various terms that denote gatherings for council, management, etc., both nation-specific and international ones: kurultai, ting, Loya jirga, veche, parliament, Congress of Soviets, etc.? Or are these belong to a list of forms of government (absent from it now)? Mikkalai 05:57, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'd suggest that they would be a great addition to forms of government but that they are more of a 'related group' than something you would work through as a list. imho, anyway. --VampWillow 11:41, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi Mikkalai. I moved this from the pump as you may not have seen it since you're away. Angela . 11:12, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

just to say hello

Hi! I've noticed you edited a lot of pages related to Belarus. That's nice! I was just wondering what kind of interest you have in Belarus. And I also would like to contribute to the project... So I thought you may help me to get started here.

(That was me. I forgot to put my sig. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC))

Joseph Stalin article

I posted an article to Joseph Stalin's discussion after you rolled back changes made to the page. I don't believe Suvorov's theories should be included on the Stalin page, when they appear to be pure propoganda and (as far as I can tell from a Google search) his theories are entirely dismissed by the academic community, and he responded to academic refutation with nationalistic claims. Please join the article discussion to clarify your opinion.

Art categories

Hi,

I noticed that you have recently been active in editing articles in the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 22:23, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Muscovite princes

Hello, Mikkalai!

Was it you who compiled the list of the Muscovite princes? I noticed a few strange things. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought that "Muscovite" meant "of Moscow" (I'm not a native speaker). If I am right, then there are names on that list which don't belong there, e.g. Andrei III, who never was a Prince of Moscow (he was a Prince of Vladimir and Gorodets). Could you please explain? Maybe you were trying to compile a list of all the Russian (not "of Moscow") princes as opposed to Kievan princes? Thank you.

KNewman 13:33, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

KNewman, you can read Ruthenia (together with discussion page!) to get better understanding why and when the word Muscovite was used. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

dance sport

hello,

if you have time could you add a DanceSport section to dance and also include a little bit of dance as sport at the end. you know more about this than me and would do a better job.

thanks, Ohka- 11:27, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wikiproject

I've noticed you've been very involved in the various dance articles- if you'd like, Ohka and I have started up Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dance in an effort to organize, catalouge, and improve these articles, as this section of the wiki is terrible.

Feel free to jump right in! Lyellin 15:13, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Poland

You and the Polish editors should have a look at the horrible pro-Communist edits that User:172 has been making to People's Republic of Poland. Adam 03:03, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Bossa Nova

see its talk

User page

Hi, Mikkalai!

Sorry you are having trouble with my user page talk. I am, however, perfectly OK with using the languages preffered by my correspondents. If they want Russian, that's fine with me. If tomorrow they'll want Farci, I don't care (not that I will be able to read it, of course). The point is, it's my user page, and it's up to me if I want to allow languages other than English there. It's not like they are using Russian in the articles name space.

Sorry if this sounded a bit harsh—if it did, I didn't mean it.--Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 16:00, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

Ballroom and cha-cha and other confusing things

It's not a problem, Mikkalai. I really didn't mean to cause a stir at all. I've been teaching social dance for [mumbles a number inaudibly] years, so I've learned about many, many disagreements!

I'd be glad to chat if I ever come to San Jose; (I've got a brother in SF so I might do, but I'm in rural Australia at the moment!) Or, feel free to use the e-mail function here.

Quill 00:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Meetup

So if you're from San Jose--are you coming to the Silicon Valley Wikipedia:Meetup tonight in Mt. View? Elf | Talk 01:23, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Oops! Missed it. Mikkalai 07:02, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Chernihiv -> Chernigov.

Dear Mikkalai,

could you please read Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Use common names of persons and things, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), Wikipedia:Naming policy poll (I'm surprised that you are not aware about this yet), then check http://www.google.ru/search?q=chernihiv vs http://www.google.ru/search?q=chernigov , and revert your recent move of Chernigov into Chernihiv?

And please don't move Kiev to Kyiv either.

Thanks! Dr Bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Drbug&action=edit&section=new) (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 08:04, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! Dr Bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Drbug&action=edit&section=new) (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 18:15, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

1984, DrBug. Nothing is what it seems. Under veneer of allegedly good intentions I can discern the ugly face of Russian imperialism. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, if you add a link to an article on my watchlist, I may follow it if it is of interest. I also sometimes frequent New Pages. I enjoy doing a little clean-up work; it's useful, yet not as tiring as adding new content. Everyking 21:48, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Please cease

Please cease your unwanted edits to Wikipedia:Administrators/Administrator Accountability Policy. It is my decision as to how long the discussion will last, as I am the proposer. It states clearly in the text "Please do not edit this proposal..." Anyhow, if you insist on continuing to make this edit, I will be forced to block you from editing for "disruptive actions" as per Wikipedia:Blocking policy. Thanks. blankfaze | (беседа!) 20:56, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Please change your tone in the discussion of Wikipedia:Administrators/Administrator Accountability Policy. You are being excessively hostile, and making personal attacks against other users. Snowspinner 00:00, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

1) Your serious comments would probably be taken seriously if they weren't drowned in a sea of personal attacks. 2) Were it not for the fact that you were not a new user, I'd have banned you myself under the disruptive users policy. Blankfaze's threat was misinformed - not out of line. Snowspinner 00:44, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

IRC Banning

Mikkalai, I've been banned from the #wikipedia IRC channel by Snowspinner, for what he considers "personal attacks" against him.

I don't feel I did make any personal attack, nor am I aware that banning from IRC for "personal attacks" is supported by policy (but with so many policies, perhaps it is and I've missed it). And in any case, I think it contravenes policy for Snowspinner to take action in a dispute to which he is a party to.

In what way do I contest the banning, and Snowspinner's banning for a dispute he is party to?

A log of the conversation leading up to the ban is given at User:Orthogonal/IRC ban by Snowspinner.

Thanks. -- orthogonal 04:56, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Passion flower pollination

Hi, I left a note for you at Passion flower. Thanks. Pollinator 02:50, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Mikkalai,

I am new here. Haven't plenty of time to scroll painfully across these help texts of the wonderful but peculiar wikipedia features, since the internet is full of similar systems to waste time endlessly. Someones just great and someones nonsense.

So, Gene S hasn't time to pay attention to the Chechen databases I've given, nor I have to the Wikipedia in-depth features or other irrelevancies however academic and scientific and interesting they were (I spent my younghood at such an academy, so I think I know your way of thinking plus basic methods, but since then I've been a get-a-result or get-out man of businesses).

As a long-term hobby, my aim was to focus on the Chechen issue itself and not to produce wonderful texts to be filed in such dusty and quite academic bookselves where they have no affect on anything but some professors' merits.

Well...in order to continue the dispute, most shortly and effectively and usefully, I need just a short introduction of your techical salient points. Nothing more or nothing less.

On the other hand, I am one of those who's been up-to-date since the beginning of the Russia-executed campaign against the independence of the ChRI, so I may contridute some refreshingly true aspects.

It's up to you to buy or to leave me.

BIR

Mary Monnett Bain

Dear Mikkalai-

I take great umbrage at your comment that the article that I was working on for Mary Monnett Bain "looked like OCR".

By making that comment you make it seem as if I were copying the article, which I was not. If I am at error, it is for not completing the article.

When making such snap (and incorrect) judgments in the future, as a courtesy, please contact the author instead of implying that a work is being copied from another source.

Very truely yours,

Stude62

Mikkalai, sorry about my vituperation on that vote. Stude62 improved the article greatly, and now I have no problem whatever removing the VfD tag (done already) and the nomination from the page. I stick by my assertion that listing it wasn't a mistake, at the time, though I was proven wrong. I'm always happy (sincerely) to be proven wrong on those matters, but I was getting (and am getting more) touchy about edits to the VfD page. Given the number of folks now trying to subvert the entire process, I couldn't tell where you stood on the matter. It is policy that nominators should be the ones who make early removals in all but egregious cases, and I consider it courtesy to ask the nominators rather than simply doing it, even in those cases, but I really want to apologize for losing my cool on the debate. That's not me, and it's not the person I strive to be. (P.S. I've written a note on Stude62's page, too.) Geogre 01:06, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You have two fewer cows :-(

Hi. Can you respond over at Talk:List of "You have two cows" jokes? I would very much like for the two jokes you removed to be put back, but I've been hesitating for days waiting for you to present a compelling counter-argument. (I'm taking this waaay too seriously.) --Ardonik.talk() 01:23, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

El Coronado

User:El Coronado - posted an elaborate hoax: a set of articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=El_Coronado) about Anarcho Coronado de Murillo and a number of nonexistent "revolutionary" parties. After that he maked references to these wikipedia articles in some forums. This is not only hoax, this is a misuse of wikipedia. I suggest to remove all what he created. If he will persist, ban him. Mikkalai 01:26, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I talked to him (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:El_Coronado&oldid=5731386), but he removed my comments. Mikkalai 01:26, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please add your evidence and comments here - Wikipedia:Requests for comment/El Coronado. -- Netoholic @ 01:52, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I left a message for him on his Talk page (trying to be VERY gentle about it. We'll see how he responds. Rick K 06:22, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

He's got a link on his fake page to Google, showing all of the Wikipedia articles and mirrors as proof of the existence of his fake person. Rick K 06:32, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

I have also now (9 hr later) left a note on his talk page. We'll see how he responds. If he responds poorly, that will be grounds for either RickK or me to certify the RfC, I believe. Geogre 15:12, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ok, sorry if i have caused alot of trouble because of the anarcho coronado articles, my father was a legend in mexico but during the 70s was never heard of again, so i tried to put a article about him, but you guys call it false. Atleast i know hes real. you can take down all my articles now and ban me, im just another liar, aren't i? -El Coronado

Silence is Defeat

You deleted this page with the comment "crook scheme"; could you explain, please? If it's a fraud then it might be worthwhile to explain that in the article. —No-One Jones ^m 00:26, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

cc from user talk:Mirv: May be I am wrong with deletion. A very simple webpage (http://www.silenceisdefeat.org/) does noything but solicits donations. I will not be surprised if it also steals your paypal account on the way. He also inserted plenty of references to his site around wikipedia suggesting that he offers something "free". Mikkalai 00:36, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'll VfD it as non-notable spam then. —No-One Jones ^m 00:41, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Irish cities

Oh don't worry about it, it's just that it's all a bit crazy, and it was amusing to see the status go to 4 different formats used over the last 24 hours! Hopefully we can get things down to 2 formats at least and remove or expand the redirects. Thanks for the stats. zoney ▓ ▒ talk 00:30, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vernichtung and eradication

My English may be insufficient, but I would guess that "eradication" is one of the more appropriate translations of Vernichtung, others being "extermination", "annihilation" and "destruction".
--Ruhrjung 19:52, 2004 Sep 15 (UTC)

Evolutionary Philosophy of Aurobindo

Hey... I'm glad to see the sign (copy vio) up... I actually saw major edits done to the Aurobindo page which an anon. user had made and moved them to a separate article (Evolutionary Philosophy of Aurobindo) with unvoiced fears that the content might be plagiarized. --LordSuryaofShropshire 23:11, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Polish Geography

Perhaps you might be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Polish Voivodships. [[User:Halibutt|Halibu tt]] 19:03, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Dvoryanstvo

Please don't delete VfD headers until the 5 day open discussion period has ended. Rick K 05:13, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

I don't think this qualifies. Besides, I don't want to see a precedent set of the creator of an article coming in and deleting the VfD header because of their perception. I agree that it looks as if the discussion will fail, but there's no harm in leaving it there until the end of the period. Rick K 05:20, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I apologize, I thought you were the originator. I'm not going to edit war over this, but I am extremely worried about setting a precedent. Would you have done this if the vote were close? Rick K 05:31, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

I'm writing in response to your comment: I delisted the article primarily because the vfd page is very big, and IMO it is a good idea to clean it in the clear cases, to relieve some sore eyeballs. You've got the right idea; VfD is huge. However, early de-listings are controvesial, as RickK noted. I agree with him that it's important to not set a bad precedent, opening the doors for controversial de-listings.

There was a discussion a while back on the village pump about this very issue, and the end result of it was Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Maintenance, which everyone seems happy with. It's not official policy, but it's been used over a dozen times without complaint. This is a way of cleaning up the VfD page without actually de-listing the article in question. Why not give it a try instead? • Benc • 06:14, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Who gives a shit for still another snake oil peddler? Mikkalai 05:21, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

;-) I concur, but I'd like to see a neutral-POV article on the guy, (and I hate lawyers who represent peddlers). func(talk) 05:42, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've moved the above from an article's talk page since I feel it is highly inappropriate to start making attacks on people when you know they are going to be reading that talk page. If you have anything constructive to suggest for the article, please do, but don't let the talk page descend to the level of making meaningless attacks. Thanks. Angela . 06:38, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Rurik

Thanks Mikkalai for explaining to Gene. I was about to answer him but found your answer and you said it all. Thanks again! :)--Wiglaf 15:43, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cetegory:Partner dance

I was wondering if you're aware that you spelled category wrong? I have to delete it as I understand categories cannot be moved. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 19:25, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Khrushchev Secret Speech

I see your point on this - article should be expanded.

One question - shouldn't it be clarified that the secret speech was known outside the Soviet Union in fairly short order? Also it must have been circulated via samidzat(sp?) within the Soviet sphere as I see references to it in the translation I've read of Gulag Archipelago. Thus, was the 1988 event the first "official" acknowledgement of the speech by the Communist government? Ellsworth 22:21, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. :-) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 07:16, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Requests for comment Shorne

A few of us are talking about doing a RfC regarding Shorne. Before we can do that we must pass this threshold:

"Before listing any user conduct dispute here, at least two people must try to resolve the same issue by talking with the person on his or her talk page or the talk pages involved in the dispute. The two users must document and certify their efforts when listing the dispute. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be deleted."

I you feel that any issues exist with respect to his edits, please enter into a dialogue on User talk:Shorne and see how much progress we can make through negotiation. Fred Bauder 18:44, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Cabet and Communism

Hello, my name is Fredrik Bendz, and I'm the one who wrote the original article about Etienne Cabet, and put some remarks about him on the Communism page. (I did not understand that it was considered unethical to add information without asking). I don't know how to contact you apart from writing here. If you want to reply, you can write to fredrik2 at bendz net. I have now found several articles that mention Cabet as the man who coined the word "Communism" and I have read a letter by Friedrich Engels, which I interprete as crediting Cabet as the originator of the term. However, Engels' language is very emotional and not so "rational" so I'm not definitely sure whether he strongly agrees or strongly disagrees that Cabet was responsible for creating communism. See these links:

"The term ‘communism’ was first used in modern times to designate a specific economic doctrine (or regime), and a political creed intending to introduce such a regime, by the French lawyer Etiénne Cabet in the late 1830s; his works, especially the utopia L'Icarie, were influential among the Paris working class before the revolution of 1848. In 1840 the first ‘communist banquet’ was held in Paris - banquets and banquet speeches were a common form of political protest under the July monarchy. The term spread rapidly, so that Karl Marx could entitle one of his first political articles of 16 October 1842 ‘Der Kommunismus und die Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung’." http://www.marxsite.com/MandelCommunism.htm

"In fact, in all the report of our correspondent, there is nothing produced, which he could have procured from this source and from that of personal inquiry, if it be not the two novel facts, that the German Communists got their doctrine chiefly from Cabet and Fourier, whom they attack; as our correspondent could" http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/01/13.htm

"In particular, communism is a dogmatic abstraction and by communism I do not refer to some imagined, possible communism, but to communism as it actually exists in the teachings of Cabet, Dezamy, and Weitling, etc." (Letter by Karl Marx, 1843) http://eserver.org/marx/1843-letters.to.arnold.ruge/1843.09-ruthless.critique.txt

"Anarchist-communism must be distinguished from collectivism, which was both a diffuse movement (see, for example, the different components of the International Working Men’s Association, the Guesdists, and so on) and a specific anarchist current. As far as the latter was concerned, it was Proudhon who supplied its theoretical features: an open opponent of communism (which, for him, was Etienne Cabet’s “communism”)" http://www.zabalaza.net/texts/txt_anok_comm_ap.htm

Cabet used the word before Marx and Engels. I think it is historival revisionism to deny this fact and pretend that communism was coined by them, when it was not.

Category:Russian ethnic groups

Would you mind if that category was re-babtized to Category:Ethnic groups in Russia? /Tuomas 04:06, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Absolutely not. But there already is a fat Category:Chinese ethnic groups I mimicked, as well as Category:US ethnic groups. Please make sure they allow you to re-baptize these as well, and act in sync: we better have the same style. Mikkalai 04:17, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I guess you've guessed that my problem was with you categorizing the Finnic Karelians as Russians. I'm not unaware of such habits, but I guess you are similarly aware of how this may be controversial. China is beyond my horizon, but the US-issue constitutes no problem as that category doesn't re-define ethnicity. /Tuomas 05:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You are right. A less ambiguous title is better. Mikkalai 16:24, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It looks good! I'm pretty busy in RL at the moment, but was prepared to do something similar tonight! /Tuomas 20:08, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Grr

Do you really think "[it] is often used by cheap prostitutes in leopard print cat suits" is suitable text for an article? — Kate Turner | Talk 15:59, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

I normally tell off people that say this, but... we do need to maintain some semblence of professionalism in articles, or the whole thing will turn into a complete mess. If you can find an NPOV way to say it (I can't believe I'm writing this) then feel free to put it back, I suppose... — Kate Turner | Talk 16:46, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

Could you consider voting for Partisans (Yugoslvia) as a collaboration project?AndyL 21:35, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Reversions

Did you notice that CPSU is now a disambiguation page? -- Chuq 05:12, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

FPGA

Why did you remove the slashdot discussion link ? maybe it's not encyclopedic as you say, but I find it very informative and contains a lot of pros and cons opinion. Is there a particuliar Wikipedia policy which prevents linking to fora ? User:khalid hassani

Polish-Bolshevik War

You added a link to (so far non-existent) Curzon's Note to the Soviet Government article. Which note does it refer to? Also, is the info present in my User:Halibutt/Curzon line project or the Curzon Line article? [[User:Halibutt|Halibu tt]] 08:42, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Zionist Revisionism

Mikkalai hi. I agree with you its somewhat strange to redirect a page into a page with completely different contents. Let me try to explain why this is what needs to be done in this case (i.e. redirect to Revisionist Zionism. The page Zionist Revisionism, despite its suggestive name and use of capitals does not refer to any movement or school of thought in existence. The author could have choosen different names to it, as he openly admits, and was simply not aware of the existence of Revisionist Zionism [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk%3AAlberuni&diff=7003326&oldid=6959915). Now, personally I think it is much more likely someone writing "Zionist Revisionism" in the search box is mispelling an existing movement than replicating Alberuni's thought processes.

Finally, and much more to the point ;-) the redirect was suggested on the talk page more than a week ago and nobody suggested differently (in particular, nobody thought the article should redirect to Israeli-Palestinian history denial). In effect, the only objection was Alberuni's, who didn't want the article redirected at all. As for why it should be redirected, it seems you missed the VfD. Check it out.

Thanks. Gady 12:44, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Evacuation of East Prussia

I noticed you did a good job of NPOV-ing the page before, and now I need your help in doing so again. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 18:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for sorting out that article. I suspected you could do a better job at it than myself. :) -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 18:05, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Band geek

I've modified my reason for listing slightly, but am telling you so you have a chance to change your vote if you feel you need to. Thanks! - Ta bu shi da yu 23:45, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Exploding whale

Hi Mikkalai, what bragging were you referring to in the edit history? There was no bragging, and he did say that quote (you can hear it on the video). I'm restoring it as it's a major part of the video, and a major quote from the video. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:51, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, that's not bragging. He was merely reporting that he became a "land blubber" which was a humorous statement and signficant to his news story. Have you actually watched the video yet? - Ta bu shi da yu 05:39, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, I'm asking again for you to take this to the talk page. You are the only one removing this statement, and I disagree that its bragging. Please, don't use the edit summary to discuss this issue. That's totally inappropriate. Please use the talk page if you don't agree with me, or your think I'm inaccurate in the way I'm presenting something! Please use the talk page to tell me where I'm inaccurate incidently (if this is the case). Thanks. I'd really like to prevent a revert war here. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:32, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have clarified further and commented on the Talk:Exploding whale#Reversion of edit. Thought you should know. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:34, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have placed the Exploding whale page on WP:RFC. I won't revert your revert, because then I will be engaging in an edit war with you. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:03, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I can't beleive I have to explain the joke to you, but here goes: land-lubber is seafaring slang for those people who stay on land and never go to see. The joke is that Paul Linnman is a "land-lubber" before the explosion, and becomes a "land-blubber" after the explosion. The play on words here is that blubber rhymes with lubber, and blubber is the fat of a whale. Hence the joke. If you don't get the joke, I suggest you stop making edits with summaries like it is amazing how after this long dicpute someone stll fails to see the difference between "land-blubber" and "land-blubber newsman" [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Exploding_whale&diff=7475974&oldid=7475898). Sheesh. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:35, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, stop making ad hominem attacks. Please also take the time to review no personal attacks. Thanks. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:44, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Unexplained reversals

# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zerg (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by WIKIMANIA)  (top)
# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zoomusicology (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Hyacinth) (top)
# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zurich Premiership (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Bornintheguz) (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Öland (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by 130.238.5.5) (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) Zootomy (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zootomy (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by 200.4.57.101)
# 18:18, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Romuva (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Ancheta Wis) (top)

Would you explain? -- User:Docu

U.S. embargo against Cuba

You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

RE: Karl Marx External links

Moved to Talk:Karl Marx

re: Categories of forced migration

Hi. Sorry if I appeared a bit pushy when I changed the categories for the pages relating to forced migration. To me, the word "punishment" implies that the forced migrant did something wrong which someone is punishing them for. I'm much more comfortable with "persecution", one of the legal reasons to be recognized as a refugee. Cheers, BanyanTree 02:47, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

too late for you

You wrote: Surprisingly, I am #66 as of October 2004 Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Me better slow down and not turn wikiholic.

Sorry, too late for that. Anyone above #300 is automatically sent medication for their condition.

WpZurp 18:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Category:Traitors

I have added Category:Traitors to Categories for deletion, your input would be appreciated. - SimonP 20:04, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Hey person

Don't edit my posts. Especially when they're telling the truth about a dumbass Stalin apologist who uses the most pathetic analogies to the U.S. to try to prove his "point." Unrepentant Stalinoid 10:15, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 21:43, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Join RWNB!!

Hello!

I see from your contributions that you are interested in Russian topics. Perhaps you would like to join the new Russian wikipedians' notice board? It is a discussion forum for wikipedians interested in all things Russian. Also, each week we pick an unfinished stub article to improve through collaboration.

Template:RCOTW

Notice boards and Collaborations-Of-The-Week have become increasingly popular on wikipedia reciently, with Irish, British, US and many more. There is also a score board for competing collaborations! See FAC.

Isn't it about time we got articles on Russia up to standard?

Hope to see you on RWNB!

Seabhcán 12:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

English

Hey, don't worry about it, you communicate well enough, and I want to see more inter-linguistic wiki's, not less. Actually I'm considering editing on the german wiki once my deutsch gets a bit better. Nice chatting w ya, [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 18:57, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

egal

:-( - Lord Kenneth 03:04, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Redirects you created to "Vasili IV of Russia"

Hi, you created a redirect from Vasiliy Shuyskiy (and also Vasili Shuiski, Vasili Shusky, Vasili Shuysky, Vasily Shuiski) to Vasili IV of Russia, but there's no article at Vasili IV of Russia. Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Vasiliy Shuyskiy, Vasili Shuiski, Vasili Shusky, Vasili Shuysky, and Vasily Shuiski, on WP:RfD You need to create something at Vasili IV of Russia (even a stub will do), or the redirect will go away. Thanks! Noel (talk) 14:30, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Vasili copyvio

Oops, sorry about that! My bad. --Improv 19:00, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Asle Toje

What's with the blanking of Asle Toje? If there's a problem with the article you should put it on VfD instead... Evercat 01:03, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand - I see now it's on VfD, but (unless policy has changed and I haven't noticed, which is certainly possible :-) that means you should either leave it up "as is" if no concensus has yet been reached, or delete it completely if one has been... Also, you say check the page history, but there's only a very short history... Evercat 01:12, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ah. It's like that. :-) Evercat 01:16, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps a note on the page itself, ie This deleted page temporarily blanked and protected to prevent recreation. Evercat 01:21, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gallagher

I note you moved the comedian from Gallagher to Leo Gallagher. I'm pretty sure there was something of a consensus to have it the previous way. While you're right, Leo is probably not the most famous person with the last name Gallagher, his stage name is simply "Gallagher". He is (for some reason) very famous in the US (he even briefly appeared on the Simpsons) and I seriously doubt many people even know Leo is his first name. It's wikipedia policy to have people listed under the name they are most known by. Anyone searching for him would type "Gallagher", while those searching for Liam or Noel or whomever would use the first names as well. I think it should be reverted, but if you want to put this to some sort of vote I'd go along with it. -R. fiend 23:09, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Topic cut

Probably just my error, I was thinking I had edited in the source article, thanks,

By the way, I fixed the Gallagher problem Leonard G. 07:08, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thumper

Why was the thumper article deleted(I dont know who did that?) and the disambiguation removed?

Eric Urban 23:06, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your edit to the geek group

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=The_Geek_Group&curid=1001863&diff=0&oldid=0 surely articles on wikipedia should be from the perspective of wikipedia not the organisation described so changing they to we seems wrong

I accidentally reverted to the older version when I added the info about the "thumper", sorry. Anyway, it turns out that the content is verbatim copied from the geek's website, which is inadmissible and should be completely rewritten. Simply changing "we" to "they" will not do, for a number of reasons. Mikkalai 04:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Misplaced Universism vote

You should know better than to discard even a misplaced unsigned vote, since unsigned votes are valid VfD comments.

You aggravated the offense by failing to make an edit summary, thereby disrupting proper review of your action.

This is especially egregious, as you knew where the voter was aiming for and even edited the article yourself minutes later, and it would have demanded a trivial additional effort for you to do it right.

--Jerzy (t) 07:44, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)

NSK

Please see my question at Talk:Neue_Slowenische_Kunst#Category. Thanks in advance. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:22, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Mikhail Gromov

If you look at what links to the Mikhail Gromov, you'll see that all the links mean the mathematician and not the aviator. Furthermore, the aviator article is a stub. Therefore, may I humbly ask that you either do a disambiguation follow-through on the pages referring to it, or remove the disambig page altogether, moving Mikhail Gromov (mathematician) back in its place, and adding a short disambig. notice about the aviator to the beginning of the page? Thanks in advance, BACbKA 09:14, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for moving it back! BACbKA 22:09, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure how this relates to the above comment, but I've noticed that you've removed Gromov (the mathematician) from List of French Jews. Is this because you believe that he is not Jewish or that he is not French? Juko 19:42, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry - I've only just noticed your comment on the discussion page. In reply to your questions: Gromov was born in Russia but became a French citizen in 1995 (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20020622-9999_2m22prize.html). He is most likely ethnically Jewish (one reliable source is [5] (http://www.jinfo.org/Wolf_Mathematics.html), but I can get more details if you like). I don't know how he identifies religiously. However the general consensus on List of Jews and similar pages is that ethnic identity is sufficient (though an individual with only one Jewish parent who does not identify as Jewish should be mentioned as such). Juko 20:14, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Universism

Please don't revert my summary of universism again. I have spent the last several days reading many of their documents and the first few sentences are, in my opinion, a reasonable summary of their views. The words you dismissed as buzzwords have specific meanings in philosophy and you can read articles in the Wikipedia about most of these philosophical positions. In fact, Ford Vox has gone around creating links in many of these articles to the Universism article. I'm not a Universist trying to puff it up. In fact, you might recall that I'm the person who proposed that the article be deleted on the basis that it was too self-promotional and that the movement is still not significant nor the ideology particularly distinctive or original. The article is getting less self-promotional, but I still think it should be deleted. In case it isn't, I'm trying to make it a reasonable summary of "universism". --BM 00:24, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

re: Quarantine

Can you just quarantine based on categories? If so, we might want to quarantine most of the articles while they are in some tagged maintenance mode (VfD, CSD, Clean-up, Disputed, etc). Rossami (talk) 03:51, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/oboguev/images/rkpbxii.htm

Marxist Article

I approve of your edits on Karl Marx, El_C and I have been fighting for over a month, about it. :)--198 01:40, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thumper (capacitor bank)

I do not disagree with making this page a redirect, but I strongly disagree with how you went about it. Admins are not supposed to delete articles that they themselves nominated for deletion. Moreover when I found the vote it was a borderline 4-2 in favour of deletion. Only your vote, cast after the debate had been closed, moved it into clear deletion territory. - SimonP 01:01, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

HYP

May I ask you to please read the evidence that I have posted on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/HYP, follow and read some of the links that Google brings up, and consider whether afterwords you still want to delete the article? Thank you. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 09:03, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Police

Can I ask why you appear to be changing every article categorised as Law enforcement to Police? It does seem rather pointless, since the Law enforcement category is well-established and has numerous subcategories. Do you intend to recategorise the terms in every subcategory as well? -- Necrothesp 00:01, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re your reply on my user page. In many countries in the world, law enforcement and police are indeed synonymous. The definitions of 'police' vary from place to place. In the United States, for instance, many Federal and other investigative agencies are not considered to be police. In Britain and many European countries, almost all law enforcement officers are police (with the exception of a couple of government agencies). But 'law enforcement' covers them all. It therefore makes sense, in my opinion, to use a single category of Law enforcement to avoid confusion and arguments about where individual articles should go. Also remember that many constables, for instance, are or were not technically police officers. You've changed the category to Police, but constables existed long before the term 'police' started to be commonly applied in the 19th century. -- Necrothesp 09:48, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I shall attempt to do a bit of a restructuring in the categorisation when I have the opportunity. Cheers. -- Necrothesp 13:34, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Deletion

I see you're doing deletions on the deletion log. Wikipedia:Goat shit/addendum2 is obvious vandalism (a blank page) that could use speedy deletion. Thanks. VFD 05:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Phthalocyanine

Why did you delete the bibliography of the phthalocyanine page ? mkengel

Edits to NKVD

Dear Mikkalai, let's "talk" as you suggested. 1. IMHO, it's more ethical to talk first when you deleting smthng, not when somebody asking you why. I'do this every time I remove other people's thesises. Or may be you haven't formulated you opinion yet, just wanted to delete? 2. What the hell is wrong with mass deportations of Tatars and others? I think it's much more proven and known than mass executions. Please substantiate your edit to this as soon as you can. Please don't make me suspect you of POV-motivated vandalism. Hoping to resolve the contradiction, AlexPU

Attention WP Tatars, Lithuanians! Please be involved with your references and links!AlexPU

Old Ruthenian

I really didn't get your logic in proposing to move Old Ruthenian to Old Russian. Care to explain? --rydel 15:30, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

America

You reverted my edits in America and killed all formatting. Also, you restored "America's Cup". It doesn't belong there. It is a disambiguation page, for things that have the same name, "America", not the list of all terms that contain the word "America".I am sure you will agree there are hundreds of these. Please read the Wikipedia:Disambiguation rules. Therefore the only reason of inclusion of "A's Cup" could be that it is sometimes called simply "America". Even in such case it must be explained in the article. Mikkalai 17:05, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You're right. I boobed. Please accept my apologies. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 17:08, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"Renationalization"

Thanks for your observation about "renationalization." Somehow this didn't occur to me, as I cast about for an existing term or a neologism to subsume "Germanization," "Russification," "Polonization," "Americanization," etc. Maybe a better word will turn up; or, again, maybe this one will have to do double duty. Logologist 05:49, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hegumen

Hello, Mikkalai! Thanks for finding the time to write the Hegumen article. I wish someone could write an article, which would fully cover the hierarchy in both Catholic and Orthodox churches (all those archimandrites and the like). Oh, I finished the article on the Union of the Russian People, if you are still interested. KNewman 20:15, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Soviet Union

Will you be able to protect this article? We could also use help trying to calm down a Russian-American user attempt to insert POV into the article. Thanks. 172 23:43, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! 172 00:36, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) BTW, the anon posting the comments below wasn't me-- the 172... IP address was a coincidence. 172 00:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Could you place a protected notice in the article itself, rather than just saying it on the talk page? http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/redopart.htm#70

Stalin/Soviet politician

Hello, Mikkalai. I just noticed you removed Joseph Stalin from Category:Soviet politicians and I was wondering why? He's now rather conspicuous by his absence as he's the only Politburo member not included in the category. MK2 11:05, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"penkyamp" could be a general noun

Keep: Fellow Wikipedians, please pause and think for a second: do you know the exact origin and meaning of "penkyamp" in the Cantonese language? Proper nouns(let's have no doubt that "Penkyamp" is indeed a proper name for the orthography), have varying degrees of SPECIFICITY. The fact that the name "penkyamp" does not automatically lead us to the origin of such system doesn't mean that such system wasn't in use under different names. Let's see: "penkyamp" as a GENERAL NOUN is inspired by Mandarin "pinyin", which is itself both a proper name for a system and a general noun designating "phonetic script". As a result, "penkyamp" as a general noun has been in use among the Cantonese referring to any phonetic script since at least the birth of the Mandarin Pinyin. And "Penkyamp" as a proper noun for a specific system might not be in place well after this system was in use for many years, only until it was introduced to us as such. What if on-line records before 2003 has been mostly erased?

Besides, the article started under the entry Cantonese Romanization instead of Penkyamp. Maybe back then "Penkyamp" wasn't finalized as its only proper name. It could be "Lomazi" or "Zeuyamp". At least it's nothing as specific as "Jyutpin" (a name that is hightly stylized and specified as a "PINyin"--note: not a Cantonese pronunciation--- of the "Jyut"(Guangdong)-- nothing can get as specific as this, which will garantee to trace back to its origin as an officially sponsored scheme). But "penkyamp" is not as specific as this. It means "phonetic script", is spelled as is pronounced in Cantonese, and is in circulation among the Cantonese thanks to the already existing Mandarin "Pinyin". I urge you to think twice about our obsession with the specificity of the proper name of the entry: what you call "Penkyamp" is actually of secondary relevance. The question is, what kind of usage, or systems were in existence before this name was finalized, on Wikipedia?

Thanks for your help in editing Battle of Orsha. I would like to draw your attention to another highly partisan article - Baptism of Kiev. Perhaps something should be done to make it conform to the neutral point of view. Cheers. Ghirlandajo 00:00, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on Soviet Union. We've been responding to Libertas effectively, but I'm beginning to doubt that he wants to work reasonably with us. 172 05:52, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello Mikkalai. I don't know if you've noticed, but André Nilsen is listed on WP:VFU again. For what it's worth, Wile E. Heresiarch 22:21, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, your recent edit of the Bugaloos referencing the Boogaloo style of music is highly inaccurate. I suspect you've never ever seen the show. As a childhood fan, I can vouch that the show's musical styling was nothing remotely similar to Latin dance music. Please revert your contribution, or I will.

Hi. Will you be able to take another look at Talk:Soviet Union again? Thanks. 172 05:41, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Żymierski

Michał Rola-Żymierski aka Michał Łyżwiński - done. May I ask what did you need the article for? Halibu tt 09:34, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Well... yes, these were two different offices. As you probably know, no communist country feels safe enough - ever. Each unit has to be supervised by other units of administration, and the supervisors also need to be supervised. UB (and then SB) were at the bottom of the ladder, while KBP (the Commission) was an umbrella over all similar organisations. Later on (1949) they created yet another unit of control on a yet higher degree - it had a lenghty name with the most important names in it being "PUWP" and "state security". If you read Polish you can check here (http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/szukaj.php?co=Komisja+Bezpiecze%F1stwa) for more details. The Commission of Rola-Żymierski is the second one from the top, the other Commission is on the top. Halibu tt 10:01, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Libertas

Libertas has to be blocked for 24 hrs for breaking the three revert rule on History of post-Soviet Russia. Would you be able to look into this? Thanks, 172 04:27, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Belorussian or Byelorussian

Please see Talk:3rd Byelorussian Front#Belorussian or Byelorussian --Philip Baird Shearer 15:01, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It is my intiention to fix all the links but a guest arrived a day early, and the wikipedia is very slow, so I have to delay the action. Regards Philip Baird Shearer

List of dances

Hi! - I fear the List of dances has doubled sections. --Roland2 21:10, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Totalitarism

Я не считаю, что у добавленного мною раздела о США меньше права быть в статье, чем у разделе об СССР. И тот и другой содержали одинаковый объём релевантной информации.

Во-первых, как я отмечал в Soviet Union, серьёзные публикации обычно не называют СССР тоталитарным государством. Этого не делали даже авторы Library of Congress Country Studies (1989 год) - слово "тоталитаризм" встречается там лишь однажды, когда автор пишет, что на момент смерти Ленина СССР не был тоталитарным государством.

Поэтому приводить СССР в качестве примера в статье Totalitarism принципиально ошибочно. Это как приводить его в качестве примере в статье о капиталистических государствах или странах Африки!

Никакая правка исходного материала не изменит этого факта.

Поэтому я считаю, что весь фрагмент про СССР следует удалить, а в качестве примера либо добавить Nazi Germany, либо исключительно сталинский период, либо, что лучше всего, обойтись без странового примера вообще.

Вместо этого я предлагаю, взяв за основу структуру заголовков, предложенную Fred'ом, описать в каждом разделе какими качествами должно (в соответствии с теорией) обладать тоталитарное государство, используя только rock solid примеры, взятые из истории СССР (в основном, сталинский период), Германии, США (в т.ч. сегодня), исламских государств, оруэлловской Океании и других стран.Paranoid 02:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Поскольку, как я уже сказал выше, я считаю, что раздел о United States ровно настолько относится к статье, сколько разедел о СССР, я не уверен, что я соглашусь с его удалением. Несмотря на то, что это disruptive, я думаю, что у меня есть такое же право быть disruptive, как у Libertas или Fred'а. Paranoid 02:19, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Modulo operation

Thanks for your change. The person who deleted the article modulo (computing) was not right to do so, and ever since never replied to my repeated inquires to explain himself. Good job! I will do some more clean up in the new article Modulo operation. Oleg Alexandrov 04:05, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ron Paul

I have posted a note on Talk:Ron Paul inquiring about your reversions there. RadicalSubversiv E 20:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Soviet War

This is close to FA, I thought you might be interested in this topic and I'd appreciate your input. Plz take a look at the Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland/Articles#Help needed for most current discussion. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Norway Model United Nations Society

FYI, redirects to section headings don't work. You can only redirect to the page. User:Brockert/sig 21:33, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Never heard that before, and it's technically iffy (section titles aren't static), but it doesn't matter too much. User:Brockert/sig 21:58, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Religion in the Soviet Union

I just stumbled on this article section: Persecution_of_Christians#Discrimination_and_persecution_in_the_Soviet_Union

Since you're our resident expert in Soviet matters ( :) ), I thought it could use your help. It's heavily POV right now, and lacks clear information (particularly regarding the Soviet legal framework - the original author seems to have been ignorant of the religious rights stipulated in the Soviet Constitutions). I've started a bit of editing, but you could probably do a lot more.

Regards, Mihnea Tudoreanu 13:14, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Country

You called the template "obviously buggy", can you please explain what you mean? It was designed to look and just like the country template pages being created recently, and can be made to work on any country article. Can you at least agree to try it for some time on the two articles it currently is in use on? I think that seems fair, and non-controversial, if it means we can come to some compromise on this situation. I ask that you not continue this edit war when people are trying to get involved and provide new options. -- Netoholic @ 05:44, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Please be patient. Someone else edited the template in the meantime. I will correct all problems, but please leave these two articles. -- Netoholic @ 06:08, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

I've updated Belarus. Please report any problems to me until the exact format is finalized. I welcome your input. In the meantime, I will try and keep the article up-to-date with changes, but feedback from live articles in now what I need to make this workable for all. -- Netoholic @ 06:14, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Re: Russia, that same situation is being repeated on most country articles. It is why I am hoping this option will become accepted. I'll do what I can. -- Netoholic @ 06:29, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Template:Kings and Dukes of Poland

Please help us to get things under control in False Dmitriy I, Vasili IV of Russia, and Michael I of Russia. Polish nationalists repeatedly include Wladislaus IV of Poland in the list of Russian tsars and delete Nicholas I (who was crowned as king of Poland in Warsaw) from the list of Polish rulers. Thanks. Ghirlandajo 09:23, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Army Group Centre

Please see Talk:Army Group Centre. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:20, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

3 Revert Rule

I believe you have violated the 3 Revert Rule on both Arthur Koestler and Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Rather than trying to force policy changes on Wikipedia, and engaging in fruitless revert wars, why don't you try to gain consensus for your changes instead? Jayjg | (Talk)</sup> 21:14, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I've counted mine. I count 3 for me, 4 for you. Do you get a different count? Jayjg | (Talk)</sup> 21:20, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You've made the same change 4 times in under 24 hours. I see that as 4 reverts, as do many others. Jayjg | (Talk)</sup> 21:51, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Soviet War

I'm having a hard time cleaning the Polish nationalist POV out of this article. Would you be interested in taking a look. Thanks. 172 22:05, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

BTW, could you protect the article. There's a revert war going on. 172 22:28, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What a coincidence, I wanted to ask you to take a look and protect it from 172 POVism :> Anyway, about your comments in Miedzymorze edit (No reason to fight a harmless guess (or a dream) with a guess. Besides some see strength in gererogeneity. Also, how about EU?) - whad did you mean? As it is 3am I am having trouble understanding your comment. Perhaps you should post it in talk? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tnx for joining the discussion. I am all for reaching a consensus. Unfortunately 172 doesn't seem to quote any sources, just state his 'obvious points'. My sources are in references + new ones added by Halibutt and Balcer in Talk (for obvious reasons we can't add them to the main article). Btw, I like alternate history too :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 11:22, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

country infoboxes

Hi, there's a new Solution E that's been proposed for the country infoboxes; I've changed my vote from the Solution D that I proposed earlier. The new option, proposed by User:Zocky, transcludes a subpage instead of using the template mechanism for this.

I share some your concerns about the new Template:Infobox Country. While a template such as this can help bring greater order to the pages, I don't think that it's quite ready to deploy. I've tried to get a dialogue going with Netoholic, but he seems unwilling to engage.

Please see: Nepal's infobox is implemented at Nepal/infobox using Template:Infobox_Country; Tuvalu's is implemented at Tuvalu/infobox as a wiki table.

Discussion is @ Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countries and voting's @ Wikipedia:Country_infobox_vote.

Thanks. — Davenbelle 00:28, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

crisis vandalised again

Hi there, I noticed you have reverted this article before - u are sysop? I have put a notice on vandalism log ... Can you revert it again please? Thanks max rspct 18:02, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Johor Bahru landmarks

I see you moved the landmarks to a separate article. Most of those were merged in from separate articles that were redirected to Johor Bahru. If you are going to split them out again, then you should fix those redirections also. It was me that merged them in because I didn't think separate articles were warranted. In due course, I would have deleted them from the main article, too, and put the redirects up for deletion. There isn't anything very encyclopedic about lists of shopping centers, and the other categories are only marginally better. So, I wouldn't say a separate article listing landmarks is really progress. But you've gone and done it now. --BM 21:38, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Southwestern Krai

Hi Mikkalai - I see you've taken the plain geo-stub off the Southwestern Krai article since I put the Russian-geo-stub on it. Understandable, but I did have a reason for leaving it there: It was a reminder that it should also have a Ukraine-geo-stub marker... if there are ever enough Ukraine articles to make such a stub! Still, It's likely that won't happen for a long time, if ever, so I'll leave the article without the plain geo-stub (i.e., as you amended it). Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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10:21, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Fronts

The idea is that the "true name" is "Western Front", not Soviet Western Front, since the last term may well disambig to front to the west of Soviet Union

In this case we are not taking about a frontline but a military grouping. The reason I chose that format is because army groups and armies are done that way. eg US 12th Army Group and British Fourteenth Army. Neither country uses the country prefix internally when talking about thier own armed forces, it is just a common disambiguation. (BTW Wikipedia uses number characters for army groups and spelt out numbers for armies, I don't know why, someone started to do that before I was involved with the project.)

If after reading this explanation, you want to move "soviet g... front" to another name that you think is more appropriate, I shall not stand in your way. Philip Baird Shearer 11:33, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Prague Offensive

As I am sending you a message: I would like to move Operation Prague to Prague Offensive and keep the word operation for "operation codeword" like operation Mars. Is that OK with you? Philip Baird Shearer 11:33, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Svislach River

You have reinserted the expression "a right tributary" into this article. What do you intend this to mean? The true (or proper) tributary, on the right-hand side while going upstream, on the right-hand side while going downstream, the tributary that flows west, something else? Rmhermen 14:56, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Neither tributary nor orographic sequence explain what left and right might mean. Google shows few hits on the term and none that I looked at explained it. The majority of them seemed to describe Russian or Eastern European rivers (but a few Asian, European and North American ones too.) I'm puzzled. Rmhermen 21:58, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Chernobyl

Please resolve your differences on Talk:Chernobyl. As an administrator, you no doubtly know the three revert rule, and you came very close of violating that rule. Chernobyl has been protected until you have resolved your differences with the anonymous user. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:53, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It was requested at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and it looks very much like an edit war in progress. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:50, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Muddling through the talk page on Chernobyl, I think whoever that anon user is, isn't getting the point what you're trying to say. I still feel it should be left protected, otherwise you'll be just reverting it like mad. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:29, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ussuri Krai

Did you get a chance to review my comments at Talk:Ussuri Krai? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 15:34, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Oops. There was nothing wrong with the fact you restored in Amur Krai; I was just using the Ussuri krai corrected article as an example and axed the fact accidentally. Thanks for restoring it.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 20:33, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Elena Filatova

I don't understand why did you revert my removal of incorrect information from the article, despite the fact that the reason for removal was given. Could you explain it? Do notice, that I don't disagree with the conclusion of the paragraph I edited, but rather with one of its premises. -- Naive cynic 02:48, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article

SMERSH

I responded. --DIG 22:17, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mikhail Glinsky

Please see how our Polish friends mutilate the page on Talk:Mikhail Glinsky. What do you think about it? --Ghirlandajo 15:01, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your additions and comments with respect to WP:PMEX. If you plan on helping out more you might want to take a look at that page, the talk page, and list yourself as a participant, especially if you plan on working in on one specific area/category. Just for reference, when you change the status, please put ::~~~~ on the next line to keep track of who did it and put a timestamp on it (the timestamp may play a critical role in the future as we compare newer versions of PlanetMath articles). For an example of an article that's got lots of comments/signatures/timestamps, see 00-XX General. Thanks! CryptoDerk 01:04, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

"Movie"

"Movie" is American SLANG, why can't we use "film" which is proper formal international English instead?

Yes, we can. the problem is not in the name. Actually, there are two of them.

The first one is that you are an anonymous editor, and I have problems with explaining what you have done wrong. Of course, I could have left a message at User talk:82.118.120.77, but experience shows that in 98% of cases this is useless. As I see you are making quite a few contributions. Why don't you get yourself a name? It will take only a coulpe of minutes, but will give you a number of conveniences.

Now, back to the case. Every article has a history of edits, see "Page history" link. By copying a content of the article into another page you are makig this history lost. There is a special function called "Move this page" to rename articles without losing the track of edits.

As for SLANG, I am afraid that the word is the mainstream now. American English has the same rights for existence as the British one, and is the issue would be put to vote, I am not at all sure who will win. There are quite a few editors who change "organization" into "organisation" and "color" into "colour" at every wikipage they can lay their hands on. And the comparable number (may be even larger) does exactly the opposite. Therefore there are the following rules of thumb. Articles on British issues have rights to command British English. American-related ones call naturally for American English. Any other article is better left in the (A vs. B) language of the last decent edit (of course, the language must be consistent thoughout its text). Mikkalai 18:24, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Film is the proper formal term for a motion picture. "Movie" is slang, and colloquial (note the dimunitive ending "-ie"). I have no particular penchant for "British English", but American English is NOT always international - despite the fact some Americans think it always is. I intend on getting a user name soon (this is not a home pc, but a cafe one), but I am logging off just now (too much time on today). I take your points on board, and am listening to what you have to say. I notice you have done a lot of good work elsewhere on wikipedia in areas I'm interested in... all the best.

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

William Walker Atkinson

Thanks for your correction. I saw the WWA bio and it clearly needed some fixing up so decided to give it a go.

You fixed one of my hyperlink fixes by putting double brackets around New Thought Movement instead of just New Thought. Glad you caught that.

I don't know if the original text is copyrighted but whoever put in the original article took the bio pretty much word-for-word from the William Walker Atkinson Homepage which I added as an external link.

Finally, I have no idea what word the original author meant by "comproof" in the last sentence of the next to last paragraph. 21:10, Feb 15, 2005

Black (Re)partition

The redirect wasn't there before, I just added it. Yes I'm sure Black Repartition is more correct, but I was reading a book that used the other, and was trying to look it up. Also, I've found that giving the multiple variants of names is really valuable to people doing online research, because it lets them know what other search terms they might try. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:46, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Military in foreign conflicts

It looks like you're the one that added this section to Military history of the Soviet Union. I think that's great, we need something like that in the article, but it would be nice if we had more information and a better layout. Now, I could offer the latter (I'm thinking something along the lines of what I did for the general Timeline) but I don't have the source you mentioned. Could you provide some quantification of the aid the Soviets offered to these countries? Whether it be as specific as the ",000 aircraft, 900 tanks, 1,500 artillery pieces, 300 armored cars, hundreds of thousands of small arms and 30,000 tons of ammunition" I found on the Spanish Civil War page or something as general as "Moscow commisionned the sale of several T-72s to the Libyans" (which I just made up). Anything that could be useful in making a table of some sort. Thanks. Ryan Anderson 00:23, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neologism guy

FYI I put a new listing for the neologism guy in the long term alert section of VIP: [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Long_term_alerts#Mr._Suffix_.28Neologisms.29). I've decided to block him if I see him creating any more words. Rhobite 04:54, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Stars of Scorpius

Hiya.. just noticed you created this category, and wondered why? Isn't Category:Scorpius constellation a good place for them? —Stormie 08:16, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Never mind, I see you deleted it. :-) btw, thanks for pitching in to help clean up some of these star stubs from the .de Wikipedia! —Stormie 08:17, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Name/people spelling

I'd appreciate if you could look over Polish-Soviet War and Stanislaw Koniecpolski and correct some names I likely wrote in Polish instead of more appopriate English/Russian spelling. I am putting finishing touches on both articles and will nominate them for FAC soon, so if you have any advice I'd appreciate it as well. Tnx. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 14:11, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Votes for Deletion

Hi, I just wanted to point out you seem to have been forgetting to sign your recent VfD entries. --InShaneee 04:54, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Chad Bryant page

This has been recreated after speedy deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Chad+Bryant The contributor appears to have vandalised the VfD page. Kappa 22:03, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Lists of English words of international origin

I saw the history comment. Thank you for your indication that you think that this is the right direction to go. Nohat has also done a blanket reversion of every single one of the dictionary articles that I've modified so far, back to the versions with the dictionaries in. I've tried to persuade xem that there's a policy here, and that I'm implementing a course of action that seems to have a clear consensus, on the above talk page. Uncle G 20:28, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

Russia

Hi there! Could you please tell me what was wrong with this edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russia&diff=prev&oldid=10772199)? I can't see why you reverted it. Just wanted to check it's not in error. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 19:12, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. I figured it should have been something of that sort. Thanks for restoring it.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 19:56, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Dragostea Din Tei

As you seem to be conducting the conversation over Numanuma and DDT, i'm going to consult you before I do anything.

Basically, Dragostea Din Tei has several factual flaws and the VfD for Numanuma suggested clean-up may be needed. I am willing to fix the errors and re-write the article, but as you've only recently done a lot of edits, I thought i'd check first..

Inparticularly, the article needs to be about the song itself, and it's actual performance on release, and not dominated by a sub-section on Numanuma. The article is more about memes/parodies than the song itself and thats a problem.. Possibly a 'See also' might be suitable for the Numanuma's inclusion, because having practically the same information on it's own page and merged into DDT (originally because the person who done it assumed Numanuma was to be deleted) is a bit pointless. - Hedley, 06 Mar 2005, 00:45

3 Revert Rule

I think I should advise you about what's been happening in the Numa numa article. It seems like there's a little revert war going on there. The problem is, you've reverted that article 3 times in less than 24 hours. One more revert will fall under the Three-revert rule guidelines. I think you're already familiar with them, since you're a sysop yourself. What we have there, however, can't be classified as vandalism since those edits are not corrupting the page's content in any way. This is a simple case of disagreement. If it's not just vandalism, the subjects will be targets of the 3RR rule, normally. In cases of multiple reverts such as this, the article should be left for someone else to deal with, and if that really doesn't do the trick, the page should perhaps be protected for a while.

That said, you should take care with that. Another revert under 24 hours will probably get you blocked, whether by me or by someone else that figures out what is going on. It's nothing personal, just the guidelines. By the way, there is more than a single anon user reverting that article back, and none of them reverted the article 3 times already. At least, not that I've seen. The rules apply to them just the same way, though.

Carry on.--Kaonashi 17:33, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Subdivisions_of_Belarus#naming

Hi Mikkalai! I found you are contributer to Subdivisions of Belarus. Would like to hear your comment about Talk:Subdivisions_of_Belarus#naming Privjet Tobias Conradi 19:04, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

River naming

Wow, what an awful awful awful initiative. I'd understand it if the folks at WikiProject Rivers agreed upon it (although I can't imagine why), but making such massive changes without even asking—terrible! This user has my full lack of support in this.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 17:52, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I have just added my message to yours on his talk page.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 18:00, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mikkalai, could you state what you want at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming_methods thx+regards Tobias Conradi 23:07, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

maybe you join Stan and me, because we are in favor to allow River-less. You can add comment "it is up to the main contributers to decide whether the title is X or X River". I just did not put you to Stan and me, because you were against mass-renaming, but I would support renaming in cases of the not allowed verison [X (river), X river, River X where not english]. Tobias Conradi 00:02, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Revisionist Zionism

Could you please take a look at the dispute at Revisionist Zionism? User:Guy Montag is trying to censor material critical of Revisionist Zionism, particularly documented evidence of fascist sympathies among various Revisionists in the early 1930s. AndyL 23:03, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately my knowledge of the subject is close to none. Mikkalai 04:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Images on DDT

I don't suppose you could fix the images on Dragostea Din Tei for me? The captions aren't displaying at I can't figure out why, probably something obvious but i'm sure I coded it right.

Cheers, was wondering why the help file wasn't giving me much support on the case. Hedley 00:47, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Flag of the Soviet Union

Question, do you think there should be better images for the Soviet flag page? I personally think the hammer and sickles are too small for the flag. I also think we could stick the RSFSR and the 14 SSR flags on one page. I would like to see what you think. Zscout370 01:43, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Russian joke edits

Hi Mikkalai,

Just wanted to let you know that I tinkered with (and reverted some of) your recent changes for Russian joke, and put explanations of the reverts on its talk page. Stop by there and let me know if you still have questions. By the way, if you would prefer to switch the discussion the matter in Russian, by all means feel free to do so on my talk page / Кстати, если Вы предпочитаете перенести обсуждение статьи на русский, приходите пожалуйста на мой talk page. Zyqqh 11:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Order needed on Talk:Dragostea Din Tei

I'm at a dispute with User:KeithTyler over whose version of Dragostea Din Tei is best for the article. Personally I think his version was poorer and, after some chat room agreement, I reverted it. Now we are in debate over it and need some sort of third party to sort the situation out. I'm happy with whatever version is generally thought to be the better, and as you've shown interest in the article, I thought i'd ask you. Talk:Dragostea Din Tei has the debate under header 'Reword Reversion'. Hedley 11:43, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

500,000 article!

Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

Congradulations on the half millionth article. The press release is going out now. Duk 16:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations indeed! You were simply contributing a small article to increase knowledge. You had no idea you would be the article that put the English Wiki to the half-million mark. What an honor for you. Congratulations, my good sir! Bo-Lingua 16:33, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just thought I'd say congratulations too! Well done for making the 500,000th article. Two enthusiastic thumbs up! Craigy 20:51, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

To all of you with congrats. Folks, are you aware that in fact you congratulate me for my laziness: did you happen to see the numerous "To be continued..." in my stub? Had I chosen to write a decent article instead I would have misssed the magic number. Mikkalai 21:03, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- the "To be continued..." notes are exactly why you needed to know that the press release linked there. Duk 21:24, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Congratulations on your laziness, then! Your article still made it to the half-million mark, therefore I must envy you.
- True, laziness it is, but if you ever needed an incentive to complete an article, here's a good one of the sort that doesn't come up often. It may even make you complete the article... involuntarily? :))—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 21:36, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, please, expand this. I want to but I'm afraid I don't know much about the topic. --Tothebarricades.tk 02:50, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just want to say awesome going with the 500,000 article on the Soviet Union. Way to go. wow. NewGuy4

Congratulations, half-millionaire! lol --Waninoco 01:44, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- Congrats =D sars 10:42, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

I know that you're sick of this, but Wow! How exciting is it for you to have written the 500,000th article! That is so cool! 500,000! Wow.

Admiral Makarov

I know you have your hands full, but I wanted to bring to your attention an Admiral Makarov article I just created. It is rather rudiment even for a stub. If you feel like improving it or refer to someone else, please do so. Regards, Irpen 20:02, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hi Mikkalai.

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 23:24, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Rumors Stalin's ancestry

Hi Mikkalai. Usually I enjoy being on the same side with you, but this time I'm going to ask you to revert your change back because a serious encyclopedia is not a place to list unsustantiated rumors. I don't see what makes this particular rumor worthy of being mentioned in WP. If you still insist on having that rumor listed, please provide the sources and we'll have to add something to the effect that there are those who prefer to blame Stalinist atrocities on others. I'm sure you are well aware of the dangers of using Jews as a scapegoat. I just remembered, there was an anon opinion in Talk:JS that since Jugashvili starts with "Ju", that must be it. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 02:39, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Knyaz Konstantin (several of them) and Nikolay Kostomarov

I tried to bring some consistency into Knyaz'ya Konstantins articles and references prompted by the name of Stepan Makarov's battleship. Dropping you a note in case you feel like improving the Konstantin disambig page as well as Konstantin Romanov, Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin (disambiguation), and Knyaz Konstantin (disambiguation) pages and the references thereof. Also, you may want to look at Nikolay Kostomarov stub I just created. On my side, I plan to work on several locations in southern UA and history events associated with them, like Ochakov, Mykolayiv/Nikolaev, etc, trying my best not to prompt UA vs RU nationalistic flames from many concerned editors. I know you have your hands full enough. So, please let me know know if there is a better place to post such notes than your talk page. Thanks for all your work for the common good! Irpen 03:59, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Branch and bound

Hi! Could you take a quick look at the latest modification to Branch and bound, specifically the change of construced to constructed? This looks like a valid typo fix, but this particular user has a history of introducing such typos, which I'm trying to track down. Given science's propensity at creating near-words (and my ignorance of the subject at hand), I thought I'd ask. Fbriere 18:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. The edit is OK. Please remember that many IPs are dynamic, i.e., may be assigned to different computers. Mikkalai 18:37, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, but there's a certain recurring pattern of small annoying edits in the middle of technical texts that I found suspicious.

Anyway, I've resurrected his deletions in Snake, and all that's left is this deleted paragraph (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theory_of_everything&diff=prev&oldid=3066212) in Theory of everything. There doesn't seem to be any reason for this deletion, but the article has changed too much to bring it back as is. Do you think I should ask about this on the talk page? Fbriere 20:59, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sure, any issues about a particular aricle must be discused on its talk page in the first place. Mikkalai 21:55, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks! Fbriere 22:03, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

-icle

I didn't recommend it for transwiki, I just did the transwiki and then recommended it for speedy deletion. An administrator deleted it. Then, I accidently re-created it. I've since asked RickK (since he's an active admin) to re-delete it.

As far as the other -suffixes I'd transwiki and redirect them too. Kevin Rector 20:23, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Now it redirects to List of English suffixes. I've un-asked RickK to delete it. Kevin Rector 20:25, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe Ok.

Maybe OK to add "1. For albums, movies, books: one or two links to professional reviews which express some sort of general sentiment. For films, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic offer collections of reviews. 2. Web directories: When deemed appropriate by those contributing to an article on Wikipedia, a link to one web directory listing can be added, with preference to open directories (if two are comparable and only one is open). If deemed unnecessary, or if no good directory listing exists, one should not be included. 3. Fan sites: On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite is appropriate, marking the link as such. In extreme cases, a link to a web directory of fansites can replace this link."

The Karl Marx entry is about Marx and his philosophy; therefore, readers should be directed to forums where they can discuss Marx's philosophy. Discussing philosophy is intergral to philosophy, and since the dominance of the paper encyclopedia is finished, we no longer need to limit entries to anti-dynamic entries. Forums where Marx's philosophy can be discussed are crucial to the continued importance of Marx in intellectual life. Please refrain from deleting these links in the future, though I do invite you do judge each forum's quality.

Southwestern Krai

Mik: This article you created seems to conflict with Northwestern Krai. Which is correct, or is it just that you didn't change the "North" to "South"? Noisy | Talk 13:21, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

recent block

I unblocked your recent block. I am not making any judgement on who is right or wrong on the Bernard Lewis article. But the editor you blocked is not a vandal, and should not be blocked, especially by the other party of a dispute. Talk it out on the talk page, and if the two of you cannot reach a compromise, ask for mediation or RfC. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:50, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Order of Victory

I thank you for looking at the page and making the needed changes. Zscout370 03:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fenestrocryptophobia

"And" what? Rick K 08:13, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

"Avoid self reference"

From Wikipedia:Avoid self-references "If, however, you read about online communities, the article may well discuss Wikipedia as an example, in a neutral tone, without specifically implying that the article in question is being read on — or is a part of — Wikipedia." Kappa 21:28, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy doesn't say anything about taste. The article is specifically discussing online communities. And reputation in wikipedia is the #10 google hit for "reputation" [7] (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22reputation%22). Kappa 21:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
LOL you're confusing me with someone who thinks highly of wikipedia. But never mind. Kappa 21:48, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kukuruznik

If I'm not mistaken Antonov An-2 has same nickname. Probably Kukuruznik should be reorganized as disambiguation page. --EugeneZelenko 01:58, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I start suspecting that Po-2 was not called kukuruznik. Mikkalai 03:36, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don’t sure but may be Po-2 was called that way at beginning of "Небесный тихоход". --EugeneZelenko 15:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Zemlya i volya

I'm not sure what you intended by turning "printing shop" to "typography" in Zemlya i volya, but that can't be the right word. "Typography" is much too abstract a noun to make any sense in this context. I'm guessing that it's a false friend from some other language, but I can't work out what English word you might mean. I'm reverting, but please, if you can work out the right word, go ahead. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:13, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't going to revert your whole edit (which I see you just did), just this one choice of word. Oh, well. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:23, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Happens. BTW I nominated it for WP:COTW: how come this article is still missing? Or there is a synonym I don't know? Then please edit the redirect. Mikkalai 01:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm confused. Nominated what for WP:COTW? And a synonym for what? (Just answer here, I'll watch.)-- Jmabel | Talk 01:29, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

printing shop. Mikkalai 01:31, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I see. Because printing shop is currently just a redirect to printing? Be that as it may, I'm guessing that "printing shop" is precisely the right term here: a place where things (books, pamphlets, newspapers, posters) are printed, whether by means of typesetting, block printing, or (nowadays) photo-offset or laser printers. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:44, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Yep. It was me who created this redirect 10 minutes ago. Mikkalai 01:48, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

FWIW, a redirect does not necessarily imply a synonym, just a place where the relevant material is covered. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:45, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

When I spoke about a synonym I meant exactly that: another word for the same thing, which I possibly didn't know, and hence redirected to printing. Mikkalai 01:48, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Print shop" is more common in the U.S.; I think "printing shop" is more common in the UK; that isn't even a redirect. Anyway, as you can easily see, "typography" is something else and more abstract; "typographer" is a word, but it's more narrow than "print shop": it's a person (or, less commonly a business) who sets moveable type. It can sometimes be used, loosely, to mean a moveable-type print shop, but it's a loose usage. Even back in the sixties, when this was still the common say thing were printed, I never remember hearing anyone say "I'll take this down to the typographer." It was "I'll take this down to the print shop."

Probably does deserve an article, but a redirect to printing is not bad at all. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:07, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Takeover logo

Hey.. Leave the goatseish takeover logo in, it's amusing, and a realistic reaction. The area does look silly with tree logos and so little text.. I'd add more text but the rapid editing makes it hard to get non-trivial edits in without much work. :) Gmaxwell 22:48, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK. Mikkalai 23:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Deletion

Why did you delete my article, American national women's hockey team? -- Earl Andrew - talk 06:01, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not sure how it got blanked. I don't think it was me. --

Earl Andrew - talk 07:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Subdivisions

I need to get used to "Brest Province" now, after seeing and talking so much about voblasts ;-) I was about to create "Category:Subdivisions_of_Imperial_Russia" to place the historical Krais, Oblasts, Guberniyas there. But I wonder, why is it Imperial Russia and not "Russian Empire"? Like most of the other Empires ? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 09:43, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

since google has 112K for ("Imperial Russia" -wikipedia), 214K for ("Russian Empire" -wikipedia) and I suspect some wikimirrors still to be in the results, I created Category:Subdivisions of the Russian Empire --Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Imperial Russia" is a term for a historical period, "Russian Empire" is the name of the state. Mikkalai 15:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you can support the move "Province of X" -> "X Province" at Talk:Provinces of Italy --Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wasn't there a general discussion about "Smth of State" vs. "X Smth"?, like, about rivers, citries, etc.? Mikkalai 15:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Never seen one. I only had individual discussions. Some people did not like the moves to english, other did not like uppercasing, and with Italy I entered discussion about "Province of X" vs. "X Province", thought this would be a much easier case, because this form is really rare, actually it is only used for Italy and for the Swiss cantons. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Russian joke

Здравствуйте! Не могли бы вы добавить в данную статью секцию о китайцах с кратким описанием наших стереотипов о них :)

Доклад первого тайкунавта: при боры в порядке, кочегары чувствуют себя отлично.

Во время операции у острова Даманский, китайские генералы разработали 3 типа тактики: наступление, отступление и просачивание через границу мелкими группками по миллиону.

В китайской семье традиция: когда рождается мальчик, на пол роняют ложку. Какой звук издаст предмет, так ребёнка и назовут.

Китайская армия окружила отряд советских пограничников. "Здавайся, лиенсо!" – кричит главный из хубейбинов – " вас всего-ничего, а нас китайцев – один миллиард человек". "Боже ты мой, как же мы вас хоронить-то будем!!!" (хотя это, по моему, анекдот про русских  )

Самый короткий анекдот про эстонцев:

Вот уже третий день парят над городом эстонские парашютисты.

А также другие разделы:

Анекдоты с местной спецификой.

Татарстан

Шаймиев участвует в в качестве гостя call-in program. Туд а звонит татарская бабка ис спрашивает: Минтимер Шэрипавищ, эйтегезче (скажите пожалуйста), сабирайытись ли вы пайти ещё на один срык?

Ответ: Ита ущень палитищески выдержанный, правильный, необходимый и ущень-ущень важный и дауны (давно) нэзривший уапрыс. Следующий вопрос пожалуйста. (анекдот был особенно популярен до четвёртого срока)

Как известно в русском языке есть пословица – "незваный гость – хуже татарина". Как-то татарская интеллигенция написала коллективное письмо в институт Русского языка в Москву с просьбой упразднить пословицу. Через месяц приходит официальный ответ: "пословица исправлена. Теперь во всех словарях будет писаться "Незваный гость – лучше татарина"". (хотя это тоже кажется. анекдот про русских)

Мари Эл

Марийца спрашивают "Это правда, что ты купил джип "Чероки" ?" "Да, да, чирокий-чирокий джип купил"

Чувашия (старинный дореволюционный анекдот)

В кафе приходит черевенский чуваш, видит, как людям подают чай с лимоном и говорит официанту:

"Каки людям - таки нам. Чай пить будем с огурчам"

Самый длинный (наверное в мире) анекдот про архангела Гавриила (рассказывается 40 минут).

и т.д. --Untifler 15:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

GNMA

Hi. I saw you moved a lot of stuff about the GSEs from the GNMA article to the article on the Federal Housing Administration. Treally, the Federal Housing Administration has little to do with the GSEs. (It is not a Government Sponsored Enterprise). The FHA is indeed a part of the Federal Government, but it offers mortgage insurance. It doesn't buy or sell anything, or have anything to do with the securities market (Except that some of the mortgages that Ginnie Mae pools have previously been guranteed by the FHA). You could argue that the material you moved really has to do with all three housing GSE (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Ginnie Mae) and really belongs in a generic article about all three, but I really would be hard pressed to think that someone might look at an article about the FHA to find information about the controversies involving Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae. Best regards, Morris 17:36, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

I think that the new article you created is okay. I might make some additions. The controversy really long predates the accounting scandals. You can look at some stuff that congress person Leach had been talking about in the late 1990's. The very last sentence I don't like (talking about what we conjecture will happen in the future isn't really encyclopedic). We should probably have cross references in the articles for all three mortgage GSEs. Maybe there should be a small article Government Sponsored Enterprise for GSEs in general that would point to all of them, and your new article. Morris 18:59, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

I've already crosslinked some, see "what links here"...er, "there" :-), and there already is government sponsored enterprise. Mikkalai 19:05, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RCOTW

Hello. I know there is not a Russian Colaboration of the Week anymore, so why not just create a special thing called "Russian Colaboration Project" where we just focus on one page, and we can replace it after the article is believed to be fixed. This process can take as long as it needs. I am just wondering what your thoughts about that are. Zscout370 23:41, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week

We always count from the exact hour and minute when deciding when a COTW candidate expires rather than waiting until the end of the day. Ie, a nomination made at 03:25 on 4 April 2005 expires at 03:25 on 11 April 2005 if it doesn't receive at least five votes, not at 23:59. I believe all three items I removed had expired by the time I removed them though, come to think of it, since we've just gone into Daylight Savings Time in Canada I might have been off by an hour. I'll check. AndyL 19:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I was 17 minutes early in the case of Greco-Persian Wars (sorry, I miscalculated due to the commencement of daylight savings time). The two other items had both expired, however. AndyL 19:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In the case of the Russian COTW, there will be people who want to contribute something, but there is no project. I do not think that every single week there is going to be a new project for every week. So that is why I want to propose just a colaboration project that can end once the group sees fit. But if your dicussing about that issue, then I sincerely apologize. Zscout370 19:57, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hardworking families

Please reconsider your vote for the article hardworking families; I have expanded it a bit more. Cheers. – Kaihsu 14:15, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism

Hi Mikkalai, I saw tonight that you seem to have created Jewish ethnocentrism again, even though it just went through a VfD. Both the page and the title were regarded as problematic as I understood the vote. Was there an agreement with someone that this be created again and redirected to MacDonald? I deleted the redirect and have asked the admins for guidance about the title, and I also deleted your edit to Culture of Critique, though with hindsight I'm not sure I should have done that as there was nothing objectionable or false about your edit. It was just the issue of the title being back again that concerned me. I apologize if I've acted in haste. Best, SlimVirgin 06:17, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

This page has now been deleted at least twice, after a successful motion to delete both its content and its title, and a defeated motion to undelete it. If you insist on recreating it, someone is likely to raise an Rfc on you. You'd be much better advised to spend your time on more useful matters.

I've deleted your redirect and added a message. Please leave it alone now. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

As a long-time Wikipedian, you should know better than to ignore the results of a VfD. You're lucky you're not being blocked for repeatedly re-creating this page against community consensus. Noel (talk) 19:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have never edited the article content (blanking doesn't count), unlike you. It's you who are using your admin powers on an article you've been involved in editing. Noel (talk) 19:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Very interesting splitting a hair. Blanking does count. Sometimes it even counts as vandalism, you know. Mikkalai 21:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism re-creation

I, like many others, have deleted this article again as per VfD and VfU.

If you restore it, as I suspect you will, you should only restore the versions in the history after February 6, not the entire history. Nevertheless, obviously I think you should not restore it at all so soon after VfD and VfU. -- Curps 20:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

If you just click on the "Restore" button it restores the entire history by default.

However, further below there is the Page history, with a box beside each revision in the history. Click the box to create a checkmark in each revision you want to restore, and then click on the "Restore" button. Only those checkmarked revisions will be restored.

Nevertheless, even restoring only your recent versions since Feb 6 will be controversial. -- Curps 20:12, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Trying to recreate an article so soon after a VfD and even a VfU will inevitably be very controversial. I don't think it was good judgement on your part.

It is Wikipedia policy that an article that was VfD'd can be speedily deleted if re-created. Of course, sometimes a hoax or prank or vandalism article gets deleted and then someone later creates a real article, and in this case the new valid article would not be speedily deleted. That's not policy as far as I know, just common sense... but nevertheless, this flexibility shouldn't be abused to create a minor variation on the original article to try to overturn the VfD. Some people perceive this is what you are doing.

-- Curps 20:43, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for not replying sooner. Whatever your intentions, I believe it was very rash and inadvisable to re-create this article the way you did, especially so rapidly. It's quite unlikely that it would pass VfD at this point, and people can invoke policy and speedy-delete it. Some people believe the title itself is POV. It would be best to wait a few weeks or months before raising the issue again. And note that Chinese ethnocentrism was also deleted by VfD, with less controversy but on the same grounds, so it's not a purely Jewish issue. -- Curps 22:33, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, Sinocentrism only redirects to Chinese nationalism. For me it's not a very useful redirect. But again, I think it was much too soon to try to re-create an article, because people perceive it as an unfair attempt to subvert the very recent VfD and even more recent VfU. So they will oppose you not just with logical arguments but also with inflamed emotion, and you will have a very hard time persuading people not to speedy-delete any re-created article. This very short delay (only a few days) was poor judgement, and I'd urge you to wait for quite some time before trying to re-open the issue. -- Curps 23:04, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucratic Blundering

Hi, Mikkalai. I'm Uncle Ed, the first elected bureaucrat at Wikipedia. I noticed some people talking about you behind your back (here) and thought I'd ask you for your side of the story.

If there's any misunderstanding, I'm sure you and I can clear it up together. So, what's this all about? -- Uncle Ed (talk) 16:16, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Ed, I very strongly object to your characterization of this as "talking behind someone's back". Scroll just a bit upward from the link you provided, and you see Mikkalai himself exchanging messages on that very same talk page. I myself have exchanged messages with both Mikkalai and SlimVirgin on my talk page and theirs. All these pages are public, anyone who cares to can read them. It is perfectly normal for discussions on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents to lead to side-discussions on user talk pages. -- Curps 19:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I owe you an apology for that, Curps. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 20:34, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

They were talking behind my back at admin pages until I have occasionally found this out. Mikkalai 20:39, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, Ed guessed it correctly. I found all these pages by a luck of accident. No one bothered to notify me that I am being discussed at some administrative pages, and I expressed my discontent with this at several occasions. But evidently no one reads my messages; no wonder no one hears my arguments. Mikkalai 19:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well yes — Mikkalai has a comment about half an inch (on my monitor) from the section to which Uncle Ed links. It's not behind his back; it's more as though he suddenly left the room in the middle of a debate. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

About leaving the room, can I go out to take a leak, please? Or is it against some of your readings of wikipedia policies? Mikkalai 19:50, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

And again, Mel, pal, you blatantly shifted my reply down, obviously without reading in a haste to put more shit unto me on my own page. Read my ~~lips~~: no one notified me!. Mikkalai 19:53, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well yes, it's customary in a discussion to insert one's comment directly after the comment to which one is responding. I wasn't responding to yours, but to Curps'; I did read yours, but it made no difference to what I said. You seem to be taking offence at everything, no matter how innocent. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No, it is not. We both are replying to the same text. Take your place in a line, please. I.e., I am pointing at yet another twisting of wikipedia rules to your satisfaction. Also you are saying that you read my comment here, and you are still inserting yours. Sorry, Mel, but I have take an offense again: this implies that you consider me a liar. Not talking to you anymore. Mikkalai 20:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Guys (and maybe gals?), let's all chill out. Take a day off. Or read that time-honored classic, "Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot". (Gosh, if there's anything I'm proud of, it's starting that article! :-)

Look, I just wanted to mention that the essential first step in resolving a dispute is to talk with the other party. Not about him. It's only when you feel you've exhausted dialogue possibilities that you start gearing up for a "Request for Comment" (i.e., a formal complaint).

Especially on anything as touchy as the Jewish-Nazi conflict (or whatever the correct name for it is). You know, this is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, and there are huge demonstrations going on organized by some "neo-Nazi" party (the NPD?) which is itself at risk of being banned by the chancellor. Talk about yer basic "violation of free speech".

There are so many points of contention and emotional scars that it's going to be more easy to bruise someone's feelings than to give them a warm, fuzzy. You know what I mean? Let's try to be kind to each other. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 20:44, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

I do not see persons in wikipedia. At every given moment I see a particular text. Right now, I've just noticed, at two different places I am both with (at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cleo) and against (at Talk:Jewish ethnocentrism) User:BM. I am fine with this. But I am not going to tolerate a whole campaign of being called vandal, troublemaker, provocative, liar, producer of BS, etc. Mikkalai 20:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I see persons behind the text. I've even met some in the flesh, like last year in Boston. I even drove an official of the Holocaust Museum from NYC to that meeting (talk about non-anti-Semitic credentials ;-)!

I woke up early, thinking about all the wrangling over the various votes and wondering what to do about it. Then I figured I'd just do a lot of editing on all the j.e.-related articles I could find. This I have done, and now I take my rest.

Please read the new versions of Ethnocentrism and Kevin B. MacDonald. I think you'll like them. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 21:21, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

German minority in Russia and Soviet Union

A magnificent expansion (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_minority_in_Russia_and_Soviet_Union&diff=0&oldid=12219337) of this article has been performed by User:Diderot and I believe the article should be dropped from the COTW nominees. Circeus 15:21, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Saudi Arabia

There were 2 consecutive separate vandals at Saudi Arabia, which was itself was giving me problems, then I got called away from the computer. So thanks for joining in. Have a nice day, --SqueakBox 18:52, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Putin Nonsense

I have no idea who put the nonsense it in, but I was wondering if the addition of the judo activities and his KGB photos are ok with you. Zscout370 00:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

One more thing, thanks for reverting the vandalism from my page. I owe you one, comrade. Zscout370 03:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Solzhenitsyn's Reference to the Russell Tribunal

I just finished reading Population transfer in the Soviet Union and was fascinated. Perhaps you may be interested in reviewing this footnote from the Gulag Archipelago I am trying to get inserted on the Russell Tribunal page. Any help you can give wiould be appreciated. -- nobs

And yet again, we may require your help. Please contact me at my talk page. KC9CQJ 05:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mikkalai: thx for your help the other night; perhaps you do something with ASA for the disambiguation page where I added Anti-Soviet Agitation. --nobs

Here's some sources to begin:

[8] (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.gov+anti-soviet+agitation) [9] (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.edu+anti-soviet+agitation)--nobs

Code word (figure of speech)

Thanks for your contribution, and sorry for the confusion.--ghost 20:54, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries for VfD

Hi Mikkalai,

Could I ask a small favour? It would be greatly appreciated if you would leave edit summaries when you add the VfD template to a page. Just "VfD" would more than suffice. Otherwise individuals who have watchlisted pages like Gallery of Book of Kells pages, Gallery of illuminated manuscript images, or Link's Quest for Ass might not realize that the page is being considered for deletion. (Though why anyone would have that last one watchlisted is beyond me.)

Thanks, --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 23:38, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Ph34r

Sorry, I was trying to come up with a quick reason so I could block him and clean up after him. He was using a script, apparently, and he was posting this message in dozens of articles:

"You can not suppress the voice of minorities. Wikipedia is no longer a true wiki. Sure, the pages are editable, but the true power still rests in the hands of the cabal. This is unfortunate. I am creating this page, Ph34r and the racists, to protest cabalists. If you are a member of the cabal, please reconsider your position -- the RFAr is essentially groupthink ? a bunch of ordinary Wikipedians who have been poisened by power. Power is not always well. Could it be?"

I wouldn't worry about it. He was blocked and all of his junk was deleted within minutes, it was a pretty good effort on our part, I think :) Adam Bishop 00:23, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ack...thanks. That's all cleaned up now too. I don't think there is a way to stop bot attacks at the moment, unfortunately, but we're doing our best. Adam Bishop 00:39, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was the one who blocked Raef and started deleting his junk. Thanks for helping, it was a lot of stuff to clear out. I think that i is really important to check New Pages for this, as some of these bots only create new articles, and I was the only one to notice at first because I was checking. Academic Challenger 00:48, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Paco Thomas talk page

Thanks for catching that. I always delete the talk page when I speedy something, except when I don't notice. I suppose a reminder to check would be helpful, though I'm sure some will always slip throught the cracks. Tuf-Kat 05:21, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

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I MacGyverMagic, hereby award you with a cookie for your updating of "Did you know" the last couple of days.

I was too busy with other stuff to update DYK the past few days. Thanks for taking over. Here's a nice oriental cookie for your efforts. Mgm|^(talk) 09:25, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Decolonization, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Evacuation of East Prussia

Sam Spade and Chammy Koala keep on reverting my efforts not to start the article as talking about "The Prussian Holocaust". I notice that you were the main one arguing the other case before, so any help would be appreciated. john k 15:44, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

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For your various and noble contributions involving pages that focus on the Russian Federation, I hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit. Display this on your page with pride, comrade! Zscout370 (talk) 20:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Well, not only I did the work I didn't plan to do, I've got myself a barnstar for the work I didn't do! So, let me better have myself a worn-off and corroded Gold Star of the Hero of the collapsed Soviet Union instead. Mikkalai 20:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thats fine with me. Zscout370 (talk) 22:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Lists_of_words

I've closed this discussion as it seems to have reached a consensual conclusion. Could you please visit it briefly and tell on the talk page if you agree? Thanks, R adiant _* 10:35, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Discordian Pope

Wrong. Even shorter: we delete "articles", not "things". Mikkalai 18:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Would you mind elaborating a bit? I have no idea what you're disagreeing with (other than, of course, using the overly general word things when I should have used articles)—but that doesn't seem to be all you're getting at. JRM · Talk 19:04, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

I see your point. I should rephrase: "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion is not Wikipedia:Duplicate articles". JRM · Talk 19:28, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

For the record: I'm not very pleased that you closed the vote right along with making your own comments. The rephrasing above will never see the light of day now, for example. It's one thing to respect the deadline, but another to give yourself the last word in a debate you participated (and voted) in. I'm sure a few extra hours wouldn't have hurt anyone. It's not exactly disastrous, but I'd appreciate it if you were willing to consider this in the future. JRM · Talk 20:55, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

Minsk photos

Great pictures! Could you please upload then on commons: and add in commons:Category:Minsk? Thank you. --EugeneZelenko 02:43, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Massimo Pigliucci

An older revision of the page was an exact word-for-word copyvio. After posting a notice, the author took a hint and revised it. Also, I consider there to be a difference between a newbie user and an anonymous editor (I afford the latter less patience). -Casito⇝Talk 07:46, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. You helped me understand that I was biting the newcomers. I realized that I am probably not the best person to fight vandalism and spam, and my time could be better spend doing less stressfull things. Thanks again, Casito⇝Talk 02:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

non-Jewish vs. Gentile

You have reverted my change from non-Jewish Poles to Gentile Poles in Norman Davies article commenting that Gentile is a non-neutral term. Can you explain your position? To me non-Jewish Poles (or Americans or Russians, etc.) sound very Judeocentric. --Ttyre 12:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Firework

Please check talk pages before moving articles – Talk:Firework clearly shows an ongoing discussion about the name and the current voting shows that it should stay at the singular (as per naming conventions). I've therefore undone your move. violet/riga (t) 17:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Nice work on the split - it's worked really well. violet/riga (t) 12:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

My compliments

I know we havn't been on the same side of things, but your commitment to NPOV is breathtaking. Please keep up the good work. Sam Spade 21:23, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

disambig

nobody is confused as to what a disambig page is, and your comments are completely unnecessary. Originally the song was on the disambig page, and for some reason when the proper link was put there the song name was gone; there is no reason for it not to have been on the disambig page. If "morning glory" is another term for morning wood, there is absolutely no reason it shouldn't be on the disambig page; for instance, acid (disambiguation) includes a link to LSD despite the two different names of the articles. what would normally be a redirect is a perfectly valid thing to have on a disambig page. Rather than starting a minor revert war you could have spent five seconds trying to make the page more accurately reflect what it should reflect, and DISCUSS this with people as obviously not everyone agrees with your edits to that page and your conception of a disambig page. Thank you. --Heah (talk) 23:39, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Really what i was reacting to was your "please learn what a disambig page is for" comment and not discussing the issue as obviously there was disagreement over what should be on that page. It seemed to be an unnecessary comment, and if several people disagree with your edits it seems like some discussion is called for other than you saying "please learn what a disambig page is for". The policy on disambigs does not seem to strongly support either your position or the position of me and Cburnett, being vague and a "general" policy like most policies here. This encyclopedia is a cooperative effort, and in this kind of situation it seems that discussion instead of simple reverts is vitally important for this place to be working as it should.

I understand your objections to the album being there, which is why i edited it to make it clear that the song was called "morning glory". i have no strong feelings about the erection thing; i've never heard the term used in that way, but if it is in wide use it should be there. the lsd/acid example was an analogy to that, not the song and album. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but putting terms used for something on a disambig page- the term being a possible name of the article, one that might otherwise share the same name with other items on the disambig page- doesn't seem to make this too much of a dictionary. Again, i don't know if it should be there or not so i'm leaving the page as is, but if it IS a widely used term i feel it should be there and i'm not sure where you think the policy says otherwise. thanks. --Heah (talk) 01:21, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Re Personal attack

Hello. Please have a look at my comments on my talk page. Thanks. hydnjo talk 23:03, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I agree with you that this guy is not nasty but is really trying to contribute useful information. I aso agree that more of a "hand-holding" approach would have been more productive. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Regards, hydnjo talk 01:14, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Okrana

I am thinking of doing an article on Okrana. It relates to the conspiracy to assassin ate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Causes of World War I. Any input may provide at your convenience if you are interested would be appreciated. Thanks. Nobs 18:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

You probably meant "Okhrana". Mikkalai 19:03, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Order

Dzieki :) I've added some more information.--Witkacy 01:40, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Trey Stone and Davenbelle

Hi! Trey Stone has Requested Arbitration with me:

There is also an open RfC on Trey Stone

I see from my review of some of his activities that you have encountered Trey Stone in the past, so I'm bringing this to your attention. Comments and evidence of your own are welcome.

Sincerely, Davenbelle 02:39, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Vfd vote

I invite your vote and comments on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Occupied territories of Baltic States. Balcer 18:22, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

References

Mikkalai, normally when we do a full translation of an article (in answer to requests at Wikipedia:Translation into English) we add a notice like the one you've removed from Colonel General. The main point is to make it clear that the actual authors of the material are probably not active in the English-language Wikipedia, and that one should not presume that anyone active in the English-language Wikipedia can really vouch for the sourcing beyond the translation. Lately, we've also been indicating the date at which the foreign-language article was accessed, because it's important to know that changes after that date are not reflected. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:34, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hero of Belarus

Hello. Thanks for fixing the above page. I was wondering if you wish to make any comments at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Hero_of_Belarus. Thanks. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 19:32, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Communist Party of Soviet Union (Bolshevik)

Please see Talk:Congress of the CPSU -- Vít Zvánovec 16:01, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Re : Vicefield

Hi Mikkalai,

Thanks for reminding, I'll keep that in mind. Anyway, I'm more a mop and bucket cleaner actually, in fact I spend much less time vandal-fighting in relative to other sysops. ;)

- Regards, Mailer Diablo 20:08, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Russia Portal

I welcome you to look at Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Russia. It is not complete, but it will pretty much be a new Notice Board. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:22, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Dear contributor, first I would like to say a big thank you for your time, care, and enthusiasm in editing Wikipedia articles. I hope you find it just as much fun as I do.

I am writing with a small suggestion. I wonder if you could write an edit summary every time you make changes to an article (or when you start a new one). Even a short summary helps. To see how often you have done so in the past, you may go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=YOUR USERNAME.

Edit summaries are important for a number of reasons. Every time you change an article, a record of that change propagates to every single person who has that article on their watchlist. Most people have an article on their watchlist because they care a lot about it, so they would like to be informed about what is going on with it. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. This is why your edit summary, which will take you maybe 15 seconds, is a time-saver and a great act of candor to the other people interested in the same article as you. Accurate edit summaries are important because they create trust regarding your contributions and help resolve disputes.

There are other, very convincing reasons for putting an edit summary. More information is available at Wikipedia:Edit summary. If at any point you have any questions about this rule (or anything else for that matter), please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you and happy editting! - FrancisTyers 20:03, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

(I copied this from my talk page, as it happened to me once) - FrancisTyers 20:03, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Minsk motorcycle

Thanks for your input. The name difference is always a tricky thing to explain to insurance companies. :) - FrancisTyers 20:45, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

About the Speedy Deletion of British Legalise Marijuana Campaigns

I think it was rather unreasonable for that to be deleted so fast. I looked at their website [10] (http://www.ukcia.org) and I voted keep because it looked like a notable organization. You should have let other people comment on it. Oh well. Revolución 05:12, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

The Speedy delete seems to have been technically in violation of the CSD policy. For details, please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Misapplication of CSD policy. Thanks, Sincerity 12:44, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Baltic Russians

Hi Mikkalai, I just want to assure you that I did not have in mind to censor the talk page by that deletion [11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABaltic_Russians&diff=14227951&oldid=14226259) in any way. Also, I was careful to make sure that deletion did not alter any arguments of any party, neither did it affect the strength of these arguments in any way. I simply, as I responded there to your comment, wanted to make the discussion easier to follow by giving the talk page some structure. What I removed, had no relevance to the editing disagreements, which seem to be being resolved now rather amiably. At least this was how it seemed to me in good faith. Of course I immediately restored the deleted text once you requested. Irpen 21:36, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Landmarks

You are right :)--Witkacy 21:38, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Domeyko

Yes, its not a matter of life and death, however Czalex is ignoring facts. See talk: [12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Czalex). He also claimed that Lucjan Zeligowski was Belorusian.. See [13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Lucjan_Zeligowski&diff=prev&oldid=14105087) --Witkacy 22:13, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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