Talk:Boris Skossyreff

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It is probably pointless to reason with a Wik sockpuppet, since your standard operating procedure is to create an army of sockpuppets and editwar until the cows come home, but you simply reverted everything I added, and that's not a basis for discussion. Among other things, the spelling of his name in Cyrillic is easily verifiable, in fact the number of Google hits about him with the Cyrillic spelling is about an order of magnitude greater than the Google hits in Latin spellings. The fact that there are mythical legends about him in Russian is also easily verifiable and noteworthy in itself.

Both the "mythical" version and the non-mythical versions mention that he died in a prison camp in France during World War II, so this is worth mentioning, perhaps with a caveat.

Regarding rg.ru, that's Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper, like any other newspaper it publishes not only daily news, but also picks up opinion articles or essays from different sources by many different authors and journalists. You could find such "contradictions" in any newspaper, including the New York Times.

By the way, what is your preoccupation with Andorra anyway? -- Curps 12:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To what is the above a reply to?

An earlier appearance?

The Times on 18 January 1919 p 5 has an article about a Boris Skossyreff, in the UK in court on a charge of fraudulently passing cheques. Jackiespeel 17:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that it is the same person - and that Boris Skossyreff is a pseudonym - or, from other context possibly that he on occasion used other names. Jackiespeel (talk) 18:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Russian legends

Can someone provide a summary of what they are? Jackiespeel 17:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Improving the article

Just to list the points:

The various articles in the several languages have different information - acquired from a variety of sources, and this needs to be translated and copied and pasted.

There is some information on various websites (eg the one I added) and newspapers which could be used.

Jackiespeel 23:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be no indication of why Boris attempted to become king of Andorra - nor why there was a previous attempt at the monarchy by someone else. Jackiespeel (talk) 22:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Times 1919 articles are listed on the Wikinfo page - and "persons unstated" paid the debts. There is also some information on the relevant page of the "Your Archives" wiki at The National Archives. Jackiespeel (talk) 18:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]