User talk:DDima

I am currently on vacation from June 10—August 10, and may not respond swiftly to queries. If you have any photo requests
in or around Kiev or Crimea, don't hesitate to ask on my talk page. Thanks, —dima/talk/ 21:45, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to my talk page on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit If you leave a message, I will respond at my talk, rather than at yours. I may remove messages which appear to me as trollish, personal attacks, and copyright paranoia. Archive 1: December 2005—September Archive 2: August 2006—February 2007 Archive 3: February 2007—June 2007 Home • Talk • Email • Contributions • Sandbox Friday 12 July Metro Map Well, I'm done with the map. Please leave your comments and suggestions on how I can improve it on my talk page. I'll gradually be updating it to include a key and information about lines under construction. — Alex(U|C|E) 14:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC) Hey, nice job! I think that it would be good to have the system's name, well legend (like you said), perhaps the metro logo too.. Also, what about adding the system's depots (like on Darnytsia..? —dima/talk/ 07:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC) Sure... There's one problem though, it will probably cause a lot of chaos on Wikipedia. With the adoption of new passports, CabMin adopted a new transliteration system. I copied this text out of their document: у пункті 5: транслітерацію викласти в такій редакції: “А — A І — I Т — T Б — B Ї — І У — U В — V Й — І Ф — F Г — G К — K Х — KH Ґ — G Л — L Ц — TS Д — D М — M Ч — CH Е — E Н — N Ш — SH Є — IE О — O Щ — SHCH Ж — ZH П — P Ь — еквівалент відсутній З — Z Р — R Ю — IU И — Y С — S Я — IA ’ (апостроф) — еквівалент відсутній”; What do you think we should do? I'll read more about the "postanova". Will we have to move all the articles (e.g. Viktor Yushchenko → Viktor Iushchenko, Viktor Yanukovych → Viktor Ianukovych, etc...)? Hmm... — Alex(U|C|E) 16:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC) I'll gradually work on improving the diagram, though. I need to make lines curve a bit more. — Alex(U|C|E) 16:55, 3 July 2007 (UTC) This is what the law used to have: 5. Написання відомостей у зоні візуальної перевірки виконується українською мовою і через скісну лінію латинськими літерами за відповідністю українському алфавіту: А - A І - I Т - T Б - B Ї - Yi, i У - U В - V, W Й - Y, i Ф - F Г - H, G К - K, C Х - KH Ґ - G, H Л - L Ц - TS Д - D М - M Ч - CH Е - E Н - N Ш - SH Є - Ye, ie О - O Щ - SHCH Ж - ZH, J П - P Ь - ' З - Z Р - R Ю - Yu, iu И - Y С - S Я - Ya, ia ______________ Примітка. На початку слова В інших позиціях Ye ie Yi i Y i Yu iu Ya ia Here's the link to the law, looks like it will be updated soon with the new transliteration: http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=231-95-%EF Here are the links to the new postanova: http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/cardnpd?docid=83936638, http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/cardnpd?docid=83943933, new transliteration mentioned here: http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/cardnpd?docid=83944443. Will this change affect station names? We need to have a policy on Wikipedia for transliterating everything the same way. — Alex(U|C|E) 17:29, 3 July 2007 (UTC) Transliteration policy As a member of WikiProject Ukraine, you are invited to participate in the discussion about transliteration of Ukrainian words. I would appreciate your participation. Discussion is located here. Thank you. — Alex(U|C|E) 17:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC) Timeline on FAs Hi, apparently Raul will make a sweep through on Sunday night US time so time is precious. I am putting up stuff to do as I see it on the House of Chimaeras talk page. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:28, 14 July 2007 (UTC) OK, thanks. I'll try to address the concerns asap. —dima/talk/ 11:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC) I've worked on FAs but kept to biology articles so far. I have an interest in Eastern Europe as my father's family came from Poland and Romania. I have not looked at architecture articles but just then started to look at Belton House to see how else this article can be embellished as it still seems a little bare, but then again maybe that's the state of the information (or maybe I am anglocentric). Incidentally I saw the metro stuff - I have begun researching my genealogy and my great great grandfather was apparently the stationmaster in Kiev... (I am in Australia and have never been to Ukraine but have visited Poland twice) cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC) I too looked at Belton House...:)) I usually stick to architectural articles and rarely go into biology and others.. But thanks for the great suggestions, IMO they helped the article out a lot.. —dima/talk/ 09:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC) Featured Article Medal The Featured Article Medal As an editor who made "great contributions to three or more articles that have a Featured Article status," you are hereby awarded the Featured Article Medal for contributions to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Portal:Ukraine, and House with Chimaeras.--Riurik(discuss) 02:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC) Enjoy the vacation and we'll see you around.--Riurik(discuss) 02:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC) Hey, thanks a lot!! —dima/talk/ 07:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC) Request to move Kyiv Hello, I have set up a request to move the page Kiev to Kyiv. I have outlined four key reasons for doing so in the discussion section of the page. Looking through the archives, I saw that you had contributed to this page earlier. I would like to hear what you have to say on this topic. Thank you Horlo 02:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Horlo Award I have proposed an award at the Ukraine Wikiproject - You appear to be a member of the project and I would like some feedback from you - thanks // Finns first recipient ....in fact you can be the first to get one :) cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC) The Ukranian Barnstar To DDima for his work in this neck of the woods..cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Thanks a lot, Casliber! —dima/talk/ 14:44, 11 August 2007 (UTC) Support Hope i could get your support here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:WW2InfoBox#The_new_image and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:World_War_II#The_new_image Because i belive that you will agree with me that having the Normandi battle picture in the size of two, and not having a picture of the Stalingrad battle in a world war two image is absurd. M.V.E.i. 11:15, 17 August 2007 (UTC) DYK On 25 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Act Zluky, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --Peta 10:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC) On 28 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Seven Wonders of Ukraine, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --Peta 12:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC) народна rather than народня? but why? there, there and even there is written „народня”. Should we escape „народнЯ” everywhere? --Riwnodennyk 13:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC) Народна is much more common in modern usage, than Народня, see google test: 492,000 for Українська Народна Республіка and 512 for Українська Народня Республіка. Even the Ukrainian Wikipedia article uses Народа. Also please cheack [1].. —dima/talk/ 01:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC) i'm agree with you, that народній is more common in modern usage than народний (however both народній and народний exist in the dictionaries). But УНР was in the past, they used народній, not народний. I've never said that it should be written народній everywhere . i just think, that it would be better with a native name of this country, just in the one place together with other versions like "Українська Народна Республіка", "Ukrainian People's Republic" etc, isn't it? --Riwnodennyk 17:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC) New Russia image File:NewrVers.PNG NewrVers Hello. I made a little refreshed image of New Russia, added two words. I dont know how to use WikiCommons so i ask you, could you upload this version to the images place? It just has 2 more clear names that make it easier to understand: Donbass and Crimea. M.V.E.i. 21:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC) Thanks for adding that.. I will upload it to the commons (basicly just the same as uploading here just a lot stricter rules). —dima/talk/ 01:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC) I didn't find there an "upload new file" or somthing like that we have here. M.V.E.i. 15:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC) Sorry, I didn't upload it right away, but I did it already.. —dima/talk/ 17:05, 15 September 2007 (UTC) Invitation to a discussion on the Russians talk page Hello. I started a discussion on the Russians article talk page. Due to the fact that people as i see havent visited it for a long time, every opinion is important and will get attention. The discussion is important for the article. You can find the discussion here:-) Thank you. M.V.E.i. 17:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC) Landmarks in Chicago I don't think Statue of the Republic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places or is designated a National Historic Landmark. I also checked and it appears that Mayslake Peabody Estate is on the National Register, but isn't a National Historic Landmark. I've removed those two categories from those articles. If something is a National Historic Landmark, it should be listed at the list of National Historic Landmarks at the National Park Service. Being listed as a National Historic Landmark automatically means the property goes onto the National Register of Historic Places, but not all properties on the National Register are National Historic Landmarks. If you have questions about what's listed on the National Register or what's a National Historic Landmark, feel free to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places or just ask me directly. I'll be glad to help out. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC) OK, thanks for clearing that up.. Cheers, —dima/talk/ 20:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC) DYK On 21 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mayslake Peabody Estate, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --Carabinieri 13:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC) Please allow me to add my thanks to you for this article. I lived near Oakbrook for many years and never knew such a historic property existed so close. Thanks for the great work!--Eva bd 18:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC) You're welcome:) I too have never heard of the estate until I visited it.. —dima/talk/ 02:21, 22 September 2007 (UTC) House with Chimaeras I never saw this page whe it was on FAC, if I had it would have been a pleasure to support it. It is a beautiful page - well done. Giano 11:57, 1 October 2007 (UTC) Thanks a lot! Hopefully there will be more to come. —dima/talk/ 20:27, 1 October 2007 (UTC) no comments necessary see for yourself. --Kuban Cossack 12:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC) Great job on it so far! This would defenetly be FA material once we finish it up.. I will try to expand it some and reference it as well.. —dima/talk/ 20:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC) 2nd Place Map (IX/2007 V.R. elections) Hi, I didn't mean to imply that the visual quality of the display was low; nor did I mean to disparage the effort that went into creating the map. But a map is a special, information intense image that, in this case, is designed to be read and understood. It is not possible for the average reader to look at and understand (or 'interpret') the geographical information relating to second place results, without having the first place results in the same image. As an example, on the second place map, are we looking at the strength of the Party of Regions? or at their periphery? (If we had first place information in front of us, we would know. But we do not). A few options that might enable this: A system of main color and crosshatches (difficult, busy, ugly) A system of pie charts in each district (difficult) The first place map, with a small symbol in each district (perhaps a small, colored circle) indicating the second place party An image that encompasses both maps, side by side. This might have the greatest appeal to geeky or wonky users, but would be harder to interpret for general readers. Forget the image, and include a chart. Jd2718 00:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Ok, I understand now.. You're right, the second place image wouldn't be useful to someone unless they had the first place image in front of them.. I kind of like your third option, but it might get confusing because we already use cirlces for cities [with more than one electoral district].. but I could try it... Cheers, —dima/talk/ 02:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Did you know On 6 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Palmer Mansion, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --Allen3 talk 17:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Image:Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007 (second place results).PNG Виявив помилку: на зображенні, де перші місця, в Києві всі кружечки коричневі. А там, де другі місця, теж 5 коричневих кружечків. Виходить БЮТ зайняв і перші, і другі місця в тих округах?:) І ще помилка: подивився у словнику: оборона англійською пишеться через c: defence.--Ahonc (Talk) 18:58, 8 October 2007 (UTC) Thanks for pointing that out to me.. that was just my mistake.. As for the defense/defence spelling, the word can go either way, just in American English, we write defense, while in British English, they use defence. Cheers, —dima/talk/ 23:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC) A question Привіт Dima! I noticed that you uploaded some nice pictures from official Ukrainian Presidents' site, however there are some problems. Could you clarify that copyright tags are used for photos taken from this site, {{Attribution}}? M.K. 18:32, 11 October 2007 (UTC) As i understood you are Russian so... Could you please help with the Russian martial arts thing? I will tell you the problems: 1. Russian martial arts article needs referencing, and i couldn't find thise. 2. There are articles about martial arts in Russian that need to be translated to English. After translated to English, they also need to be referenced and expanded (the demends on the English Wikipedia are higher). Those articles are: [2], [3], [4]. If you can't do that, then please leave that messege to someone who can help here. Thank you. PocketMoon 17:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)