User talk:Kirill Lokshin/Archive 2

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I'd forgotten about that!

Some bricks to build with

Thanks! and many happy returns... what a long way we've come in a year, eh? ++Lar: t/c 01:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy wikibirthday Kirill.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hiya!

Would you be able to do some formatting for me? Pretty please? I've created a template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Dinosaur collaboration, & I'm not quite sure how to fix a problem. On the collaboration page, the 2 templates are overlapping & I want the template a different colour too. The template is {{WikiProject Dinosaurs Collaboration}}. I'd like the template the same colour as the other templates found on the Wikiproject Dinosaurs project page, under the heading templates. You're the best & I know you'll figure it out... Thanks, Spawn Man 01:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Tahkns Klirl! I kenw you culod fix the tmpletae plorbem. Tkanhs for yuor hlep! Mahuahhaha.... Spawn Man 01:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy wiki-Birthday

Hello friend, Kirill Lokshin. I wish you a very happy wiki-birthday, this day one year before you did your first edit. BTW, I learnt of the same from Wikipedia:Esperanza. All the best for the coming year! --Bhadani 13:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I join. Good to start working with you. :) NCurse _work 13:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

I saw on your userpage that you're admin coach. Would you be mine? :) You can read about me on admin coach requests at number 50. Thanks. NCurse _work 14:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Then about how many edits should I have before a RfA? Maybe one day, I'd like to become admin here too. Until then, if you find any fault in my work, please let me know. :) NCurse _work 15:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. :) I'm patient... And want to get medicine portal featured. When will they say that the number of support votes is enough? NCurse _work 15:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Avatar: The Last Airbender

Hey,

I just wanted to thank you for your work so far on the WikiProject. I've been out for a couple of days, and was planning on tagging all the pages upon my return, but you've done away with the need for that! I'm really glad that interest in this project is starting to take off. I'll see you on the talk pages! Prototime 16:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Military history worklist

If that page is around only for archival purposes, then where is the active list? I found this worklist by following a link on Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WikiProject full article list; I think that group would appreciate knowing where the discussion is actually happening, even more than me. -- llywrch 02:29, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Aha! It's the old "We'll hide this in plain site & he'll never find it" trick! Well, if it worked for Edgar Allen Poe in his story about the Purloined Letter, it ought to work for anyone. Seriously, when I see infoboxes, unless what I'm looking for is in the first few lines I tend to glance over them.

But I am very impressed with what your WikiProject has done in reviewing articles: it is the kind of review that needs to be done for a lot of Wikipedia. (I'll admit that I don't agree with how the group values a "Good Article" label, but I understand the reasoning behind it.) You need to make sure that the Version 1.0 Editorial Team & related groups are aware of what you have done! -- llywrch 02:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

WarWiki

(Sorry if this seems like spamming.) Hey, if you like Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history then you might like war.wikia.com where we need people (we have only 16 users) to write anything about war--fictional (i.e. Star Wars, LOTR) or real (i.e. WWII, American Civil War). Thank you! the_ed17 12:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Portugal

Hello! I've noticed that you participate in almost every Featured portal candidates discussions. Since I haven't found any way to review a Portal (Although I recall seeing portals in WP:PR, I don't know if it is appropriate), I would like to have some kind of feedback before listing Portal:Portugal in WP:FPCAN. Would you help? If you have no time, don't bother. Thanks anyway. Afonso Silva 18:35, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks you so much for you attention. You were fast. I'll start correcting the problems you found right now. I agree with all your opinions, the majority of the issues were unknown to me.

• I'll include a credit in the image and expand the archive.
• The did you know section has been the least updated section in the Portal (mainly, because right now, I'm the only maintainer), I'll create an archive and update it.
• The red link in the categories was removed.
• About the things to do, I will keep a major box with a needed article and remove the collaboration, since it was never used.

Thanks again. After correcting the problems, I'll probably candidate the portal in WP:FPCAN. Cheers! Afonso Silva 19:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I HATE SECRETS

ARGH! :-) I really wish I could tell you. Trust me on this one. It's quite simple really, If I just say that... <headbutts hands>. argh.

The reason I can't talk is because I promised not to say. <frustrated>

And no, he doesn't deserve people actually knowing what happened. Like I said, it's technically not his fault. Further punishment would suck.

Kim Bruning 21:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, the arbcom, in their infinite niceness, decided not to make an example. So I'm respecting that. :-) Kim Bruning 18:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Second Chechen War

I am copy editing the Second Chechen War. (I spoke to you previously about the Portuguese Colonial Revolution which turned out well.) The Second Chechen War seems overinclusive, as if ever detail has to be deliniated. It is very long and I have spent time trying to organize it.

Is there someone I can speak to about the proper way of dealing with this situation? The First Chechen War, in contrast, seems very well organized.

The article has no rating. KarenAnn 23:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

P.S. The talk page is not helpful.

Question on WPMILHIST departments

Kirill, Just making sure that I'm understanding the project organization/roles. (I was asked this question.) Can anyone (presumably a WPMILHIST member) help in the Assessment department? For task forces, it is clear that one simply joins. Similar directions are missing on departments. —ERcheck (talk) @ 02:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil

WikiProject Soil is a new wikiproject covering about 250 articles, almost all of which seem to be in a stub or start stage. Project formation was prompted by {{WPCD}} tagging. See here for the project's article assessment format. It includes an importance-to-the-project column. Any feedback on this approach would be appreciated. -- Paleorthid 16:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hi, I see you are listed as coaching SFGiants, however it is listed as 'pending'. Could you please either move that to active if it is, or let me know if you are ok to take on a new trainee. Cheers, Petros471 20:25, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I've assigned you to coach Jusjih, along with User:Voice of All. Thanks for helping out, let me know if you have any problems, or when you're ready for someone else. Cheers, Petros471 19:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I am an admin at seven Wiki sites using the same user name, so I have basic knowledge of administering Wiki sites. I do wish to become an admin here, but as this English Wikipedia is so big with even more complex matters and voters at RfA have various opinions, I am just not very sure if I am ready to administer this big site. As you and Voice of All are now my coaches, I would like to know what I should improve here before running for adminship here. I would like to help enforce the copyright policy as I do at other Wiki sites.--Jusjih 02:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your analysis of my contributions at English Wikipedia. I will try to improve vandal-fighting and community involvement, but these will take some time while I administer seven Wiki sites. When enforce the fair-use criteria, there are likely grey zones, for example, whether using Image:NJ Transit logo.png at Template:New Jersey Transit is fair could be open for questions.--Jusjih 07:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Inbox template help request

I'm a real novice when it comes to infoboxes and the like. I am hoping that you can help me, or direct me to someone who can.

The particular situation that I keep encountering is with the {{Infobox Military Person}}. In some articles, I would like to put an image to the left of the infobox; or insert within the text that is to the left of the infobox. It seems that any "right" inserts are all going below the infobox; those inserted to the left seem to line up with the bottom of the box.

Are there any tricks/simple commands that will help with layout? —ERcheck (talk) @ 02:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the answer. Well, I guess I'll have to adjust my formatting ideas/expectations, rather than trying to adjust the formatting. —ERcheck (talk) @ 02:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

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My RfA

Hello, Kirill Lokshin/Archive 2, and thank you for the supportive vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 84/1/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months, but welcome any and all feedback and suggestions on how I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! - Kukini 13:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

British Swords

Kiril,thanks for the tags on the 1908/1912 cavalry sword article. I will confess I don't really understand how task forces work, but could you also do the same for the articles I,ve done on 1796 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword and [[Gothic Hilted British Infantry Swords (1822, 1827, 1845, 1854 and 1892 Patterns) ]]. I'd also appreciate advice on how to promiote from "b" quality grade. I know there are a coupel on clumsy sentances in the 1908/1912 article, partly due to partial edits, but what else does it need? Epeeist smudge 07:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Kirill Lokshin, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it, especially coming from an experienced admin as yourself. Take care -- Samir धर्म 06:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced?

Look at the bottom of the article, please. Those are the sources.--HQCentral 03:29, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to go look at the sources at the library again to make that distinction. So, the tags serve no purpose.--HQCentral 03:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Collier's Encyclopedia: thank you for supporting me on this. It seems to me that the fact that HQCentral does not plan to fill in the citations is neither here nor there: it does not entitle him to say that they are not needed. - 23:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Question regarding template

I was just wondering, on some military related pages I find the template WikiProjectBattles, which is very similar to the WPMILHIST, if not identical. Is it an older version? If so, should I replace it with the WPMILHIST? Thanks. --James Bond 10:48, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Your opinion

Would like your opinion regarding this point i've raised, here.--James Bond 11:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Request

Kirill, I'd love to. But one thing: Mexico-Angola comes on in about 13 minutes. Is it all-right if I do it after that?UberCryxic 18:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I went through once and made some changes. Tell me what you think.UberCryxic 22:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Ideas on best way to fix an article

I was surfing around and again stumbled on the United States Army page. For such a high profile article it needs some major work (actually it's a mess). Since it falls under the realm of WPMILHIST I figured I would ask your opinion as to the best way to begin cleaning this up. Make it a collaboration? Clean Up Task Force? Interested to hear your thoughts?--Looper5920 03:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Australian Task Force

Hi Krill, I have been discussing with ERcheck the possibility of an Australian task force within the Military history wikiproject. There is at least 2 users; Nick Dowling and myself interested in helping. I have come to ask for help in setting up the force, im not sure where to start. Regards Hossens27 13:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for setting up the task force, im just about to start tagging article. Hossens27 06:03, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Need your help

If you could, there is a user who has begun removing all Operational names from military pages without any discussion. It is turning into a revert war and as I can feel my blood pressure rising. I am asking for sane outside help before it gets any worse. Your advice is welcomed.--Looper5920 23:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I am a bit concerned about your comment "we've had some problems with that user before." In my eyes, this shows how well the perfidious tactics of Zer0faults work. He reverts with excuses like "fixed redundancy" instead of just fixing the redundancy, bugs admins at the noticeboard instead of trying to resolve the conflict and misrepresents facts: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Zer0faults. I got blocked for a 3RR violation that was none by an admin who was in a conflict of interest, then for "block evasion" because IPs posted stupid messages with my signature, and the consensus shows my original move at United States invasion of Panama is supported by the community. Añoranza 00:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

This is in violation of posting RfC's, please obey the rules, this action will be noted in the RfC. Also you just came off a 1 week ban for insulting admins, my 3RR block is minor compared to that, especially since your certifying user who accused me of 3RR was also blocked. --zero faults ^{|sockpuppets|} 00:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Congrats for driving another user into desperation, Zer0faults. Please stop using other users' talk pages for discussions with third parties. Incivil and fallacious comment stroken out. Añoranza 01:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Its on your talk page ... Right above where we are talking. Sasquatch upheld your 1 week ban because of incivil behaviour, did they not? I do not get what I am lying about, how about this user just read your own talk page and make a decision for themselves. I also do not know why you are calling them desperate. People just want to know how you go about your selection proccess, you seem to not want to answer this. --zero faults ^{|sockpuppets|} 01:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps my talk page isn't the best place for this conversation? ;-) Kirill Lokshin 01:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Get some Context

I'm not adding increasingly severe templates to anyone's page, so don't comment as if I am. I added a justifiable CIV template and that's all. Why don't you focus on the bogus NPA temps dumped and re-dumped on my talk page? Haizum 04:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I may remove your comment on my talk page at some point. You're free to remove mine. Haizum 04:38, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Near East taskforce?

Idea popped into my head to form a taskforce to cover wars between the kingdoms of the Near East (including Ancient Egypt, Asia Minor, Israel/Palestine, Mesopotamia) (NOT including Graeco-Persian wars, which stay in Classical warfare taskforce) to cover the grey area before the Classical warfare taskforce. Plenty to work from (Category:Battles of Egypt, Category:Battles of Babylonia, Category:Battles of the Canaanites, Battle of Megiddo....), and can draw members from Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East, which both need revivifying. Any thoughts? Reply at User talk:Neddyseagoon or at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Ancient Near East taskforce? - I'm watching both Neddyseagoon 15:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Miborovsky is willing to second me. Permission to go ahead, mon capitan? :-) Neddyseagoon 18:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Napoleonic War : Battle of Nivelle

I have very nearly finished writing the article on Nivelle. When it is complete, what should I do with it?

Ethers ^[talk]

Hannibal

Hey, I didn't know about that, the Military History WikiProject seems to be one of the best organized on Wikipedia, that's really commendable. Nobleeagle (Talk) 00:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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Portal:Politics FPC

Hi, I thought'd I'd just point out to you that the 'comprehensive overview of politics coverage' has been changed (per you suggestion) to a small font size, which does look a lot better. I'm just telling you as you still sem to have it as a point of objeciton on the portal's nomination. --Wisden17 00:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorry to have mentioned it, but I jsut wanted to make sure you were now happy with that section after the cahnges you had suggested had been carried out. Incidentally, as you seem to be the resident FP expert, how long do nomination usually stay up for, it does seem to be considerable longer that FA and FL (as was noted on the FPC talk page)? --Wisden17 01:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for speedy assessment

I agree exactly with your assessment on the First Battle of Bud Dajo. crazyeddie and I (and I'm sure others) are committed to working this part of the story. eddie has been making quite good changes, and he and I disagree just enough we can find some truth here. Again, hail Kirill, and thanks for your ubiquity. BusterD 02:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Anoranza

In the discussion you link to Anoranza is talking, but he is not changing his position at all. This is the same as all the other examples; he does talk, but he never compromises. (please respond here, I'll watchlist you) Ideogram 02:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

It's only been a few hours; you can hardly expect him to suddenly do a 180 in so short a time ;-)

I still think that continuing the discussion is both necessary and likely to be productive (with or without his acquiescence). I don't really care what the ArbCom does with him, frankly; but I would prefer that its intervention not interfere too much with our own deliberations. Thus, my request to hold off on the (no doubt to be quite rancorous) proceedings until we've had some more time to figure things out on our own. Kirill Lokshin 02:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Just look at his edit history. It speaks for itself. Ideogram 02:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, at least they won't blame me for not trying :-) Kirill Lokshin 03:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I respect you for always trying to mediate. Someone has to do it. I'm a little too impatient for it. Ideogram 03:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Well thanks, and there is one thing

Thanks for the welcome. I've done a lot here and there to add perspecitive 'glue' as I term it being something of an oldster here at 51 years... I find the damdest things missing sometimes. The only real need I have is someway to come to grips with the huge size of the prospective watchlist. See the note I left on User Talk:LordAmeth#Request a small favor if you care to take a crack. He and I bumped last year when I was heavy into Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese warfare articles. Looks like the template you dropped is a good start, but I'm on wikibreak! (sure <g>) ttfn // FrankB 22:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Is this still in use?

• Is the template {{MilitaryOperation}} this in use? Should we just use the {{Infobox Military Conflict}}? --James Bond 23:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I have now replaced all the {{MilitaryOperation}} templates with the {{Infobox Military Conflict}} ones. Deletion is underway. --James Bond 01:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Barn star

No, not 1 for you. You can create a barnstar right? Not having photoshop, & having little skills in the area, may I recruit your help in creating a "WikiProject Dinosaur Barnstar" or a "Dinosaur Barnstar". I don't know how to go about it & what the process is. I'd like it to have like a t rex skull in the middle of a barnstar, or a bone barn star or a bone barnstar with the t rex skull in the middle etc etc. I'd appreciate anything or if you could point me where to go in a step by step easy to read way... Thanks mate, or if we're not friends anymore cause you never speak to me *sigh*. Anyway bye, & thanks, Spawn Man 05:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Quietly throwing my toys out of the pram...

Hi Kirill! One of my posts to WT:Esperanza [1] offended another member [2]. Unfortunately, I didn't see that the member was offended for quite some time, but when I did, I apologised [3] immediately.

However, the apology was not accepted and others on Esperanza are not replying to my emails, so I thought "I get the hint" and have slung my hook. I believe that if there's a source of discord in an organisation, then its better to remove the source than the organisation (a surprising number of Wikipedians have it the other way around for some reason) - but unfortunately I seem to be a source here so going is best for Esperanza.

Thanks for your concern! I'll still be around on-Wiki - I'm much too addicted to completely take my ball home! I'll just have more time on my hands... :o) ➨ ЯEDVERS 10:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

how can I join the Military History project

please advice

AbuAmir 10:42, 21 June 2006 (UTC)