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UPA article

Welcome back! It seems that Jo0doe has resumed his disruptive ways on the Ukrainian Insurgent Army article. Might a warning or brief block be in order? regardsFaustian (talk) 13:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Cats

Hi, Alex. Could you please look at the recent changes of categories by User:Kuban kazak? I think such changes are hardly appropriate and corrected a few of them. What do you think? Thank you.Biophys (talk) 16:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• I am trying not to interfere into the categories the purpose of which I do not understand and that Category:Jewish jurists, etc. I would think the category xx_victims_of_Soviet_repressions is for the classification by the 5th graph of all the Soviet documents, as it was the logic the Soviet authorities used. Then Kuban seems to be correct. If it is for the classification by the place of birth on the modern political map, then the category is even more useless than I think. At any rate the actions of the kazak on the first glance seems to be correct. Issac Babel is no more Ukrainian victim than Immanuel Kant is Russian philosopher or Adam Mickiewicz Belarusian poet Alex Bakharev (talk) 01:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• • I agree that "ethnic" categories are useless and even harmful. Therefore I have corrected them like that or that. Do you agree with such changes? Thank you.Biophys (talk) 18:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
    • I like those changes Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:12, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

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request

Hello Alex Bakharev. As you are an administrator on wikipedia, I was wondering if you could do me a favor. A user (Ludvikus) was just blocked for two years (quite a long time). I do not think the block was justified. If you have time, could you look over the situation on his talk page (starting here) and please comment on it (especially consider the length of the block)? Thanks, Ostap 02:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• I am aware of the block but simply do not know what to do yet. I personally have enjoyed work with him on a few articles related to Russian ultra-nationalists but there seems that he was a major pain of few other articles like philosophy. Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, it just does not look as if you are active enough to watch over a user who often produces thousands of words in article talk pages, daily. El_C 06:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

• It is a valid point, it looks like we need a team of mentors. I am usually quite active onwiki, but incidentally I want to limit my activities as it hurts my commitments IRL Alex Bakharev (talk) 08:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support at my recent Request for adminship. I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 13:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I believe this falls in your authority

Заебал, блядь... --Kuban Cossack 00:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam

Alex Bakharev, just a note of appreciation for your recent support of my request for adminship, which ended successfully with 112 supports, 2 opposes, and 1 neutral. If there's something I've realized during my RFA process this last week, it's that adminship is primarily about trust. I will strive to the best of my ability to honour that trust in my future interactions with the community. Many thanks! Gatoclass (talk) 06:07, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

A note about your board candidacy

There is a limit of 1200 characters for your candidate statement. Yours is 2954, giving you an unfair advantage over the other candidates. Please consider adjusting your statement. A character counter is available here.⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 22:16, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• I will fix my statement today Alex Bakharev (talk) 22:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Done Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

My Recent Rfa

Although you opposed me in my recent RFA I will still say thanks as from your comments and the other users comments that opposed me I have made a todo list for before my next RFA. I hope I will have resolved all of the issues before then and I hope that you would be able to support me in the future. If you would like to reply to this message or have any more suggestions for me then please message me on my talk page as I will not be checking back here. Thanks again. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 16:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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G'day Candidate!

First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly - which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.

If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.

The best of luck, and kind regards,

Privatemusings (talk) 03:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Greetings, comrade! Best luck with your elections as well.

To be honest I have never participated in skypecasts, but I have a microphone and webcamera and skype installed. So I could try. I live in a weird timezone though... Alex Bakharev (talk) 06:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm in Sydney - and I gather you live in another australian town! - shouldn't be too hard to find a suitable moment for a quick chat..... If you're amenable, go ahead and add my Skype ID - privatemusings - as a contact - and feel free to nominate a suitable time - perhaps Monday morning sometime? 11.00am Sydney time? - cheers, and I look forward to speaking with you before too long! best, Privatemusings (talk) 06:32, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Can it be a weekend or an evening? I would rather do wikipedia business outside my working hours Alex Bakharev (talk) 07:23, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Перевод.

Здравствуйте, Александр!

Думаю, что поскольку русский язык для Вас родной, то никто лучше Вас не переведёт посвящённую Вам страничку: m:Board elections/2008/Candidates/ru#Alex Bakharev. Если Вы так не считаете, то я или другой переводчик переведём. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 19:46, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

• Я уже перевёл. Посмотрите, пожалуйста, всё ли я адекватно передал. --BeautifulFlying (talk) 23:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

• • Огромное спасибо за перевод! Поправил немного Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

5/25 DYK

On 25 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article State Prize of the Russian Federation, 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.

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Request for Mediation: John Howard

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reverting

Why are you restoring the comment without consensus? If it is an appropriate compromise then surely consensus on the talk page would be reached? Timeshift (talk) 06:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• WP:BRD. I think it is better to have article in an in-between compromised state, that have chances to pass rather than in somebody's preferred version Alex Bakharev (talk) 06:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Ivan Maisky

Hi, Alex! I am sure you had valid reasons to move Ivan Maysky to Ivan Maisky, but WP:RUS currently requires substantiation for spellings not compliant with WP:RUS. If you could provide something to that effect on that article's talk page, it'd be greatly appreciated. Please see WP:RUS#People for examples of acceptable rationales. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• Talk:Ivan_Maisky#Maysky_vs_Maisky Done Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Well that answered my query

I didn't want to block him myself as I was afraid that the phone number was his own and just fucked up when he started editing. –– Lid^(Talk) 09:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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Hi Alex, I just wanted to let you know that I've been using User:AlexNewArtBot/PhysicsSearchResult and found it quite useful. A large fraction of the articles it tags really are new physics articles, which means I'm qualified to take intelligent action on them. Thanks! -- SCZenz (talk) 10:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Alex Bakharev (talk) 13:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

A question for you.

You're running for the board of trustees and I might vote for you, but I have a question: Are you a Communist? ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 20:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• No I am not, mild anti-communist rather of miniarchist streak. Still the wikithing I hate more than communism is soapboxing of all persuasions. Alex Bakharev (talk) 21:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

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Another bot?

Hi Alex, good luck in the election! I know you must be busy, but could you entertain an idea for a new bot? Your new article bot is awesome, and has proved itself. And because a reword for a job well done is another job, would you be interested in creating something similar to User:SatyrBot/WikiProject_to_do_lists? That would be really really great. Thanks! Renata (talk) 09:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

• What is wrong with the SatyrBot itself? Alex Bakharev (talk) 09:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
  • The owner is on extended wiki-break... Renata (talk)
    • I see. Do you know if the bot looks through all the articles labeled on the talk page as belonging to the project, or look for articles that belongs to a category (probably via subcategories) or do we need to analyze the content the way AlexNewArtBot. The third one seems to be tricky, the first an second looks trivial in implementation. Alex Bakharev (talk) 10:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
      • I believe WikiProject supply specific categories to check. For example, I would request to go thru Category:WikiProject Lithuania articles. Some other might want several categories. I would not recommend going thru category:Lithuania & its subcategories, as one of them is World War II with 70k Lithuania-unrelated articles... I figured that one out when I tried to compile a list of all articles inside the category:Lithuania. Renata (talk) 13:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
        • It does not look like a difficult task, I think I could do this in a couple of weekends. I will try to contact Satyr first Alex Bakharev (talk) 14:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
          • Great! Thank you. Let me know how it goes. Renata (talk) 19:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Kurdo

I understand what you mean, Alex. It wasn't my intent to post "permanent shame notices", but to warn the guy to stop edit-waring, or that there would be consequences. After he wrote me requesting that I stop, I replied back that I would not do so, unless there was an official need to do so. As I am thinking that this fellow is probably going to continue his behavior, I wanted to ensure that I had properly notified him, so no one coudl say - hey, you never told him he was edit-warring or being disruptive.
Lastly, I would point out that I am completely in agreement with you in regards to keeping article-related matters in the article and article discussion. If only Kurdo felt the same way, it might be possible to even have a discussion. He posts his personal view and pointedly refuses to discuss his edits. If he isn't responding or posting in article discussion, how would you suggest I respond to issues raised by, for example, the synthesis removal of cited information? I don't want to run to AN/I every time I run into a difficult user, but I am increasingly of the opinion that the stick is going to be a more effective learning tool than the carrot. Your thoughts would be welcome, Alex. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 16:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

hamshenis

please protect hamshenis page, omer keeps adding original research, no citations and refuses to explain his mass edits, where there is not consensus.67.49.46.213 (talk) 07:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)