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[edit] Alex is alive!

I recoded your AlexNewArtBot. I'd love to figure out what your plans are with it, as it was MIA. tedder (talk) 03:31, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

    • Thanks a lot, Tedder. I cannot emphasize enough how I am grateful for picking up this work! Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:35, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] Article importance on Russia task force pages

Hello Alex! Since you are experienced in botovodstvo, could you help us with the issue discussed here? GreyHood Talk 15:21, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RUS

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[edit] Non-free rationale for File:Kim Scott.jpg

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[edit] Zinaida Reich DYK

Hi, Alex. I reviewed your article and made copy editing changes for the English. Also suggested a slight modification to your second suggested DYK hook - add that she was an actress and delete the "72 years" - if it were a rounder number, like 75 or 100, it might be more powerful. Best wishes Parkwells (talk) 21:15, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

  • Thanks a lot for your work on this article. It is much better now! Alex Bakharev (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

[edit] File:Kim Scott.jpg

Sorry, I'm not convinced- the cover would be fine on an article about the book, but covers are rarely needed in articles about the authors. Nor could this serve as an identifying image, as it would be replaceable with a free alternative. Is there some reason that this particular cover is important and needs to be shown? J Milburn (talk) 23:25, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

  • On the second thought I agree with you. I have deleted the image Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Pending changes

Hi.

It appears you applied 'Pending Changes' protection to the article Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) on 7 July [1]

Per the concluded RFC, there is currently no consensus to use that form of protection on any articles (c/f WP:PCPP).

Following a lot of discussion, no agreement could be formed for use of Pending Changes protection at this present time.

Currently, that is the only article on enwiki using 'PC protection'.

Therefore, could you please remove the PC-protection, and - if appropriate - feel free to apply semi-protection as may be necessary.

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Thanks.  Chzz  ►  03:08, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] DYK for Zinaida Reich

Updated DYK query On 20 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Zinaida Reich, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Zinaida Reich was expelled from school at the end of the eighth grade in the Soviet Union for her political activities? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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[edit] Tsarina Golden Palace

Hello Alex. The article on Tsarina Golden Palace is tagged for copyediting and I am about to do this. The Kremlin web site calls it the "Golden Tsarina's Chamber". The article itself uses the phrase "Tsarina's Golden Chamber", which I think might be better because it's the chamber rather than the tsarina that is golden :)

In the history, I see that the article started its life with the title "The Tsarina's Golden Chamber", and that you moved it to its present tile because of MOS. I agree with this, at least because MOS says that article titles should not begin with "the". But I wonder if it might be good to move it to "Tsarina's Golden Chamber" (without "the" at the start). I would like to do this, but what is your view, please? --Stfg (talk) 08:45, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

  • I actually don't sure about the correct name for the article. Russian word palata (палата, the same root as in English word palace) might mean both a building (palace) or a room (chamber). The article is about the building that is mostly notable because of the chamber. Indeed that is the chamber that is golden not the building but we are talking not only about the chamber but also about the outside building. It is confusing. If we could translate the word palata the way to keep the ambiguity it will be great. I will copy the section on the talk page of the article, might be somebody could give better arguments either way. I am personally lean for the name with the word palace but I an not to revert you if you move to the name with the word chamber Alex Bakharev (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks. I've replied on the article talk page. By the way, by editing while the {{GOCEinuse}} box was on the page, you created an edit conflict. However, no problem, as I have restored the sentence you inserted. --Stfg (talk) 09:56, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Renaming the article

  • Hi,

Please help me. I have made en error in naming my article about a personality. How to correct it?--Gary4bendov (talk) 22:21, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

  • I have moved Josephinne Yaroshevich article to the correct location. In future use the Move button to move articles with incorrect titles. In the standard skin the button is in the menu below the black triabngle right to the star (in the top right area of the screen). Read Help:move for more info. Alex Bakharev (talk) 22:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Renaming an image

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I write to you as you are both an admin and a member of Eastern Orthodoxy project. Could you please give me a piece of advice. I'm new to Wikipedia but am striving to improve some articles and images on Orthodoxy (I'm Orthodox, my name is Elijah). Correcting both text and graphics for different articles, I've found some images have ugly names. The question is (pardon me for my stupidity I haven't manage to understand it from wiki documentation) how to rename an image. In fact I have some suspicion the point is I'm not "trusted user" yet. So the second question is - how can anyone become trusted (I believe you surely know this being yourself not only trusted but an admin). Regards, B7elijah (talk) 21:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Andreas von Stierland (in russian Вельвен, Андреас фон)

Hello Alex Bakharev. Please help translate this article could to English. I translated, but know nothing Russian language. Please help me. The article is short. a greetings--Puedoeditar (talk) 18:54, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Kirill Formanchuk

Алекс! Мы давно не общались, но сейчас надо. В вашем языковом разделе есть статья ru:Форманчук, Кирилл Викторович, которая в нашем разделе стоит на удалении. В ру-ВП многиеподобные статьи о мелких региональных политиках быстро сносятся. Почему так в ен-ВП, хотя статья о Кате Гордон в своё время была быстро удалена. Прошу вас внимательно присмотреться к этой статье и обсудить проблему с другими участниками. В нашем разделе сейчас наблюдается наплыв всякого рода виртуалов. Скорее всего связано с грядущими выборами президента и госдумы. --Torin (talk) 07:16, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

  • The article refers to a New York Times article entirely devoted to this guy. Not that many Russian activists have similar articles, thus I think the guy is notable (or have a really good PR support). Maybe I am an inclusionist but I would rather have a biased article than no article, thus, I think the article should stay. I doubt that many voters in Yekaterinburg will be influenced by en-wiki articles one way or another. Alex Bakharev (talk) 08:09, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
    Понятно! Ну, я ни на чём настаиваю, но в целом его деятельность производит впечатление каких-то эскапад.Face-smile.svg --Torin (talk) 08:52, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
    Я стараюсь определять notability по формальным признакм. Да, герой - какой-то шут гороховый, еще и с ЕР - связан. Но, если о нем пишет NYT, то формально условия notabilty - соблюдены. Вреда от этой статьи не вижу. Пускай себе висит. Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:11, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Скажите, а качество статьи в NYT как-то учитывается? Там несколько фактических ошибок, видно, что автор просто не владеет русским языком и не очень разобрался. Так, походя написал проходную колонку из серии "Их нравы". Вот, характерный пример:

And so it was that Mr. Formanchuk became a leader of a budding movement to uphold motorists’ rights
...
Not everyone here approves of Mr. Formanchuk. The chairman of his activist group, Georgy Badyin,

Второе предложение чистая правда, Бадьин - председатель КЗПА, а первое - вранье. Форманчук тогда был весьма начинающим и в судах за него боролись другие, тот же Бадьин. Никакой он не лидер был, да и не стал им потом. Локально известен своей клоунадой и не более того. Могу еще ошибок автора накидать, с пруфлинками. Mir76 (talk) 14:45, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't think the notion that NYT article has errors would significantly affect the notability of the subject. In a way it even increases the public benefits of the wikipedia article: it is probably the only method to make English-speaking public aware of those inaccuracies. The article should represent the NYT info as well as corrections referenced to local Russian-language materials (including if necessary primary sources but not the vague "local knowledge"). Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Rokhlin

Hi,

with some delay (of just 5 years), I have responded to your remark at Talk:Vladimir_Rokhlin_(Soviet_mathematician). Probably the page is no longer in your watchlist, so I am leaving you a note here.

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[edit] A little present for ya

Hey Sasha, howzit? Remember a while ago...well shit...probably 2 years ago now, we had a difference of opinion on whether a photo of the An-225 in flight with Buran on top would satisfy fair use, given that there are other photos out there which we could try and get a free licence? Well that was my opinion, anyway lol. Well I finally got 'em.

File:Antonov An-225 with Buran at Le Bourget 1989 Manteufel.jpg and File:Antonov An-225 with Buran at Le Bourget 1989 Manteufel-2.jpg. Yay!

I've managed to get a heap of other beauties under a free licence as well...perhaps some will look familiar to you?

File:Tupolev Tu-144 in Hannover in 1972 Manteufel.jpg - File:Aeroflot Mil V-12 (Mi-12) Groningen Airport.jpg - File:Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-144 Paris Air Show 1975 Gilliand.jpg

Just spewing that I missed the Tu-144 era. It would have been a trip to have gotten on one. Anyway, hope all is good with you as well? Russavia Let's dialogue 23:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Ivan Poddubny

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  • In this particular dif I have removed unneeded parentheses and moved a reference a few words ahead. I am not sure what you have found wrong with it. The previous edit is related to the national identification of Poddubny. This is a recurrent problem in Wiki concerning many figures who are usually identified as Russian outside Russia/Soviet Union but were born in the modern Ukraine or/and of Ukrainian ethnicity. The article does not provide sources whether he identified himself as Russian or Ukrainian, but there are references that he is from Ukrainian Cossacks aka Zaporozhizhian Cossacks. He is unlikely to ever represented Ukrainian teams but he was a member of teams of Russian Empire and Soviet Union. I have changed the article lead accordingly. I have chosen the tem Ukrainian Cossacks rather than Zaporozhizhian Cossacks because I wanted to keep the word Ukrainian that is important for some readers. Alex Bakharev (talk) 07:14, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image File:Obruchev za tainami plutona.jpg

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image File:Amalrik.jpg

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[edit] File:Amalrik.jpg

I have just rescued File:Amalrik.jpg, which you uploaded, from probable deletion on Christmas Day. Somehow it was removed from the article Andrei Amalrik and tagged with an "orphaned image" template. I had just uploaded a file with Amalrik's signature to the Commons for use in the article, so I caught the potential deletion before it took place. Both the image and the signature file are now displayed in an infobox, and I have deleted the "orphan" template from the image file page. Since you're an administrator, you can judge whether I've acted correctly. By the way, I actually met Amalrik in 1977 in Bloomington, Indiana. -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 00:21, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

  • Thanks a lot! The problem is that the file is claimed under "fair use" and the fair use rationale that I wrote is not very convincing. It was OK a few years ago but Wikipedia seems to significantly raise the requirements for fair use since then. I do believe that the fair use claim is valid but it will be difficult to argue if somebody would put it to deletion. Do you by any chance have an Amalrik photo with your copyright that you can release as GFDL or Creative Commons? Or may be you know an Amalrik photo with a story behind it so the fair use claim will be of better merit? Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
    • Glad to have been of help, but no, I don't have a free-use photo of Amalrik, but I've been looking for one. More things are being digitalized all the time, so maybe something will turn up. Cheers! -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 23:35, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
      • Thanks! Cheers indeed!
    • I found this using a Bing search: http://www.belousenko.com/wr_Amalrik.htm Since I don't read Russian, maybe you can look at it and see if the photo of Amalrik can qualify as fair use. Also, would you please check my Google-translation Russian in the description of the Amalrik signature file and correct it? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrei_Amalrik_signature.JPG More cheers! -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 00:04, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] Whitewashing of Boris Berezovsky article

Privet! I'd appreciate if you could comment at this section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Whitewashing_of_Boris_Berezovsky_article Thank you! 170.148.198.157 (talk) 09:20, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Thank you for your contributions! At least one unbiased opinion. Now you've finally noticed about the timing of the article. Didn't you know that before?( 170.148.198.157 (talk) 11:14, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
    • Berezovsky article has been edited again and a part of your text removed. please will you revert the change 80.5.0.28 (talk) 15:18, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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