User talk:Kges1901

A certain disruptive user with no USSR/CIS knowledge

I'm really close to leaving Wikipedia because of this disruptive editor -thewolfchild. Can you please back me up in support of having the plainlist? I linked to ~100 photographs of Meklin, and she wears ribbon racks in exactly zero of them, including photos taken long after the war. (Plus I did not include russian-language videos where she was speaking, not wearing ribbons) It is incredibly obnoxiuos that someone with clearly little or no knowledge of the topic is getting in the way of article development - wolf ended up removing important information like her native name, mission numbers, and punctuation in his/her rush to revert my edits. Even another user expressed support for having the plainlist since it is a comprimise between fighting between different icon formatting. I want to including infomation about Meklin's media apperances in the article, like that she was featured on the cover of Smena in 1943, in KP when she was declared a hero, and in Ogoniok, and in a documentary interview, but I had to request it to be locked to prevent wolf from messing it up. Now wolf is outraged that I switched ribbonracks in the infobox to plainlists and got really angry...can you please give me some backup here? I want to [these articles], but I do not want to deal with such a person on a regular basis. I even recruited a new person to Wikipedia to translate articles from Russian to English and Uzbek, but I'm very worried wolf is going to bite this newbie. (I'll tell you more about this newbie in an email...I really don't want wolf to "bite" them just to spite me. This person has lots of knowledge about world history in all kinds of CIS topics, from biography to architecture. They will be very valuable to the project.) Thank you for you support, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

You have done much productive work, as many editors have pointed out before, and I would caution you against giving up because of the actions of one user on one article. This dispute on the Meklin article is being inflated out of proportion. Don't worry about biting because wolf is not, to my knowledge, interested in Uzbek topics, which your new editor is interested in (and there are no ribbons there anyway). There's no problem with you switching ribbons to plainlists, though, and wolf seems to have reacted hastily there. Kges1901 (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

No other article on a night witch, member of a sister regiment (125th dive bomber or 568th Fighter), or from list of female heroes of the Soviet Union has the formatting wolf insists on having. I may be a little OCD, but changing such precedent is absolutely intolerable. I now realize what DR means, but do you really think it is best to bring in more editors who have little or no knowledge of the subject that are just seeking another quid-pro-quo vote for the next time they get into a dispute? Wolf didn't hesitate to ping many people at once, but I generally prefer to try not to bother people unless necessary. The new editor I emailed you about is not just interested in Uzbekistan topics but also most of Central Asia, Russia, the Caucuses, Eastern Europe too. But wolf doesn't seem to be hesitant to disrupt topics he is unfamiliar about.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 02:18, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Because wolf is incredibly insistent (to say the least) for having ribbons in the mainspace, can you please just make a clear-cut comment on the talkpage for Natalya Meklin directly that supports the use of a plainlist without icons in the article? (Because talking to wolf is like talking to a wall).--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Turns out he is very hostile to many other users - can you join in at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Hostility_toward_other_editors_from_User:Thewolfchild --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 22:38, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Francis Charles Peecock

Hello Kges1901. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Francis Charles Peecock, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Playing for a notable team indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI#ATHLETE). Thank you. SoWhy 08:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: It would seem that Peecock fails GNG because the only non-routine coverage used as a source in the article is his obituary. Does the SNG still serve as enough when GNG is so blatantly failed? Kges1901 (talk) 09:42, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Notability is not a relevant criterion for WP:A7 as the policy quite clearly states ("a lower standard than notability"). If you want to argue based on lack of notability, WP:AFD is that way. Regards SoWhy 09:55, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for enlightening me on that. I intend to take it to AFD then. Kges1901 (talk) 09:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Photo request to TASS and RIA Novosti

Hi again. I've written a petition on RU-wiki to TASS and RIAN requesting many Soviet WWII and cosmonaut photos. Please sign it here (ru:Участница:PlanespotterA320/Черновик). Thanks!--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:45, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

• Done. Thanks for writing the petition. Kges1901 (talk) 20:58, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Battle of Elands River ACR

G'day, Kges, just letting you know I have to travel interstate tomorrow and will be without reliable internet until around 08 Dec. If I get a chance to check in on the review while I'm gone, I will, but in the meantime can I ask that you keep an eye on it? Sorry, about this -- I have to help sort some things for a sick relative before coming back to begin moving house. Thanks. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:49, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

• No problem Rupert. Thanks, Kges1901 (talk) 01:52, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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You sent me an email about HMS Cattistock? I don't have access to the email account anymore so could you ask me the question here or on my talk page?Nigel Ish (talk) 18:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nigel Ish: I noticed that you have English's book on Hunt-class destroyers, and I would like to expand that article, which I created years ago as a stub. Since English isn't easy to get access to on this side of the Atlantic, would it be possible for you to send scans of the entry for Cattistock in English's book? Thanks, Kges1901 (talk) 18:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry but no - as I've stated on the WP:MilHistory talk page, I'm done with Military History topics here. I'm not prepared to waste time in a field where certain editors are prepared to drive anyone who disagrees with them off the project.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:37, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

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No. 3 Training Command RCAF

We have these two embarassingly named 'XX SFTS BCATP' articles (Category:Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons (BCATP)), both for training schools that were a part of 3 Training Command. Can you collect enough reliable sources to help me write an article on No. 3 Training Command, listing all the schools and formation/disbandment dates for all, so we can upmerge them? Buckshot06 (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

• Will do. Kges1901 (talk) 18:09, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

• Many thanks Kges. Can you recheck your sources please for No. 2 Air Navigation School RCAF? It's in New Brunswick, which is in the Maritimes, but your sources do not list it in 3 TC. The original article from the internet sources however does list it in 3 TC. Which TC was it in? Did it move? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 09:39, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

• Hatch lists it, but Kostenuk does not because it was closed before January 1944. Kges1901 (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

• Which TC does Hatch list it in? Would you mind amending the article for 2 ANS? Buckshot06 (talk) 13:43, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

• Hatch doesn't list schools by TC, but it is a fair assumption that it was in No. 3 TC. I have already edited the article to reflect the info in Hatch. Kges1901 (talk) 13:50, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Been good working with you this year!! Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

• Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you for all your contributions and the advice you gave to me back when I started into Russian/Soviet topics three years ago. Kges1901 (talk) 14:21, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the 367th RD / 111 MRD article. Holm's data seems incomplete at the end; Andrew Duncan, drawing on CFE data circa 1998, reports it became 20 MRB before disbandment. Data and sources are all at the Leningrad Military District article. Buckshot06 (talk) 19:58, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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Western MD spetsnaz companies

https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2018/12/22/return-of-independent-spetsnaz-companies/ Worth a note in Western Military District, with identification of training at Tambov, which reinforces the likelihood that it's 20th rather than 6th Army.. Buckshot06 (talk) 18:43, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

• Have added the sentence to the district article. Kges1901 (talk) 18:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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warheroes.ru website in citations

I found the discussion that went against the use of warheroes.ru as a source I can't help but notice that 1. There was very little discussion in the first place 2. The rejection of it in large part due to the language it is published in and the language of the sources 3. The rejection of it based in large part by users on the grounds of not being able to verify it;s contents due to the language barrier (with the lack of trying to find a Russian-language Wikipedian to access the accuracy of the contents), among many other issues.

I intend to present my argument something like this: I have found warheroes.ru to be much more reliable than many other sources that are allowed in Wikipedia articles. Some people may have been confused and thought it was a self-published source or a Wikipedia transclusion after Nikolai Ufarkin and Andrey Simonov, two of the websites writers, donated their articles under a CC-BY-SA licesnse via OTRS so the material could be used directly on Russian Wikipedia, like this. I happen to have copies of the Russian encyclopedias of Heroes of the Soviet Union from the 1980's, and have seen many times that warheroes does not repeat errors from them but corrects them and mentions that the official Soviet biography had such error. (For example, the Soviet encyclopedia incorrectly said that Irbaykhan Baybulatov was a Kumyk, but he was actually a Chechen, and that was all noted in the website. (A classic case of de-valuing the merits of Chechens in WWII after the Aardakh). Information on warheroes.ru can be easily checked against scans of official documents on pamyat-naroda.ru, and I have yet to find any inaccuracy in the prose of award lists on the website. And death dates on the website are correct as based on official death certificates as opposed to OCR-scans of old encyclopedias that often result in seeing many typos. So, while a few English speaker with less than an L-1 understanding of Russian and no access to any Russian print sources of any kind might not have been able to access the website as verifiable in a brief discussion, it is safe to say that the content on the website is verifiable and accurate - based on a long-term assessment of the website's content and comparison of it to various primary sources, wartime newspaper clippings, Soviet encyclopedias, official documents, memoirs, and other information. (Also, the coordinator/owner of the site does not write any articles, so again, not "self-published" - and the writers often perfect edit others articles.)

Think it will be enough to convince Parsecboy? He clearly has very minimal knowledge of Soviet+Russian history, it's been hard to explain some things in the past. I don't want to let a language barrier and the fact that one user don't have certain books be used as an excuse to blacklist an entire site, especially since the website is far more accurate than many other sources like essays and the official books that kept on changing the story from the Soviet era or even simply described executed people as "dead day.month.year." It appears that the blacklist was informal anyway, and not officially listed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. (Either way, I think it should be listed there as "Generally reliable" there - can you help it achieve such status?)--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 02:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

• Warheroes was never considered unreliable in general, it was just considered to be not high quality enough for A-class. Sources such as warheroes are still ok for B-class, for example, but tend to raise questions on reviews for higher assessment levels. I would advise you against making comments about Parsecboy as he was just raising a point that had come up earlier, as you can see from the discussion. To fulfill WP:RS at a high quality level I've generally found that websites need to have editors that are published experts in the relevant field, so at least Andrey Simonov (being a published author)'s entries can be considered to be high quality RS.Kges1901 (talk) 00:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of No. 2 Squadron RCAF

The article No. 2 Squadron RCAF you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:No. 2 Squadron RCAF for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 17:01, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of No. 3 Squadron RCAF

The article No. 3 Squadron RCAF you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:No. 3 Squadron RCAF for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 17:01, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)

On 14 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Soviet destroyer Sposobny (pictured) was designed to survive a nuclear explosion? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

– Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 16:01, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy

The article Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of No. 2 Squadron RCAF

The article No. 2 Squadron RCAF you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:No. 2 Squadron RCAF for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 20:41, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Nice article! Please consider submitting it to the 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada (submission link). You can embolden the title on the list since it's a GA! – Reidgreg (talk) 21:53, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Silny

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Soviet destroyer Silny you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of L293D -- L293D (talk) 14:41, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Silny

The article Soviet destroyer Silny you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Soviet destroyer Silny for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of L293D -- L293D (talk) 01:41, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikiprojects

I'm not exactly welcome on Peacemaker's Talk page, so I'm responding here. In re: this, I don't believe that you've ever posted to WikiProject Germany. I've gotten responses there directly as well as comments on various discussions that I linked there. Not all noticeboards are as active as MILHIST.

On the topic of votestacking, MILHIST does come across as a non-neutral canvassing board at times. For example, during the ARBGWE Request for Arbitration, the page was linked at MILHIST. This resulted in a strong showing by MILHIST coordinators, including one who referenced "Inquisition", "Salem witch trials", the "Great Purge", "Night of the Long Knives", and "Nazi book burnings", and complained about "the insertion of war crime allegations (regardless of accuracy) disrupt[ing] the chronicle" (source). So not exactly a non-partial editor pool when it comes to how war crimes should be portrayed in the articles on military figures. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I notified another project and two template talk pages. You seem to be saying that editors can't post neutral notices on MILHIST or involve MILHIST in pertinent discussions because you don't like the outcome when people with different views to yours get involved. For someone who is always banging on about local consensus, you sure don't like community discussions. Or perhaps you do, but only when you get to select who is involved. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:06, 9 February 2019 (UTC)