I noticed that your AlexNewArtBot archive pages for the Ireland WikiProject are truncated. Only the most recent archive is not truncated, no doubt because it is not as large (about 47 screens full) a file as the others. On opening the edit of a page, prior to #8, the following warning is displayed: Warning: Template include size is too large. Some templates will not be included. Is it possible to shorten the pages so all archived results can be displayed on each page? TIA ww2censor (talk) 17:43, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, for the long delay. It looks like the archive pages exceed the allowed number of templates as we have two templates per entry: {{user}} and {{article}}. I have to subst all the templates in the archive. I will do it then I will have time Alex Bakharev (talk) 07:23, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alex, we need to be careful about linking to compromat.ru. As it is not a reliable source for information, it is also most likely that it is holding materials on the site in violation of copyright. As you see from the Russia-Ukraine relations article, one is able to use http://web.archive.org to go back and provide the original link on the original website (in this case Gazeta.ru), which does not violate the copyright of Gazeta.ru (you reverted me as I was in the process of looking for that particular one). It is the same as most other articles linked to on compromat.ru; if they can't be found on the original website, we can use archive.org in most instances to provide said information. What you think? --RussaviaDialogue07:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No prob, but as you said on WP:RUSSIA talk, there is nothing wrong with people using such sites as a research tool to find the materials, there are usually other ways of getting information such as archive.org. Another thing I often do with articles that I know will become "restricted" article is to use WebCite and have it archived there, and provide that link within the refs. --RussaviaDialogue07:32, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Graphs?
Hey Alex, I see you have created some graphs somewhere, can't remember where now, but could you possibly do one up for me if possible?
1992 - 99
1993 - 260
1994 - 393
1995 - 387
1996 - 389
1997 - 362
1998 - 338
1999 - 328
2000 - 296
2001 - 267
2002 - 235
2003 - 216
2004 - 199
2005 - 182
2006 - 184
2007 - 179
2008 - 175
2009 - 167
In a format such as http://www.favt.ru/imf/airl_1.gif would be enough. Of course the y axis is the year, and the x axis is the number of airlines registered in Russia in that given year.
In fact, if you are able to do this, it might be a good thing to add "1990 - 1" in order to show the rapid split up of Aeroflot, which of course was the only airline in 1990. If you can't do this, perhaps you can recommend someone to me? Cheers, --RussaviaDialogue00:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done
Shit, that was fast. Ask and you will receive eh. Thanks man, now with this visual, it will be easier for me to visualise the prose that I have in mind for the article. Beers and cheers, --RussaviaDialogue03:50, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You speedily deleted this redirect. I don't think it's that implausible a misnomer. There are a lot of references to it online (count the google hits), so people might want to look it up. Please could you restore it? Many thanks, — Alan✉15:46, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I still don't think the redirect is usable. In general I disagree with creation redirects in Latin letters mimicking some Cyrillic names, I think it pollutes Wikipedia space and does not serve any valid purpose. If you disagree, lets have some discussion in Wikipedia space Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Alex! Sorry to disturb you... I've got a question about stresses on Russian Cyrillic words: I've seen that many Russian Cyrillic script (e.g. Lev Yashin/Лев Яшин, Roman Abramovich/Роман Абрамович, ...) contain stresses, also in Russian wiki. I was wondering if they're part of the name (so, for example, Abramovich was born Абрамо́вич and not Абрамович) or if they are only a kind of help for the pronounciation. Thank you and sorry again! --necronudist (talk) 14:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the answer, Alex. Another little help: can you guess why here Cyrillic script of Soviet footballer Konstantin Krizhevsky's surname is written as Крижевский (Крыжевский)? --necronudist (talk) 11:15, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He probably used both Cyrillic spellings of his last name Крижевский (Krizhevsky) and Крыжевский (Kryzhevsky). The article then uses only Krizhevsky spelling, so it should be the main one. I have no idea why he has changed spelling of his last name. As a wild guess I could say that Krizhevsky sounds like a Polish last name while Kryzhevsky sounds more Russian. Maybe at a time it was safer not to emphasize his Polish background? It is just a hypothesis. Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alex (again) - this is the second time you stepped in to help resolve something with regards to an issue I have. (The first time was a few years ago) :) I may have lost my sanity if no one did what you did, or did something else. Despite how much of a problem I consider Deacon to be in his conduct and adminning, this isn't so substantive, and more than that, I'm not involved in this incident. I'll leave DR to someone who ends up involved in more substantive conflict with him (though I feel sorry for whoever that ends up being). Anyway...thanks again. :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:16, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately Alex, I cannot leave this as resolved after all, given that someone has expressed an intention of pursuing dispute resolution here. While my thanks went to this [1], I'm upset by your comment on the talk page which referred to my tag as a personal attack [2]. I disagree. Could you please explain this? Since when has the community, or even ArbCom for that matter, ruled it a personal attack to call a spade a spade (or to call someone's ill-considered action as their ill-considered action)? The evidence appears in the thread itself; other than myself, Giano, SirFozzie, Georgewilliamherbert and Orderinchaos could not find the preventative effect of Deacon's block, or that the block was enforced in compliance with site norms. No one but Deacon felt the block was justified and preventative. As such, I fail to see how my tag qualifies as a personal attack and I therefore request you retract that unambiguous claim. Ncmvocalist (talk) 14:12, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Alex! A couple weeks ago the articles about the lines of Spb Metro were moved from their named titles to their numbered analogs (example), citing the fact that neither the city residents, nor the maps ever use the names; only the numbers are used. Is that a valid argument? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 03:28, February 14, 2009 (UTC)
When I lived in SPb, we use the names rather than the numbers. IMHO then the numbering was not introduced then. Then I visited SPb a few months ago the official announcements used the numbers rather than the names. Станция Технологический Институт; переход на линию один, rather than Станция Технологический Институт; переход на Кировско-Выборгскую линию. For me the literal names are much better than the numbers, but I would rather see an opinion from a present SPb resident on the matter. Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:27, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I live in Saint Petersburg since childhood, and as long as I remember myself we always used numbers (and sometimes colors), I doubt many people even know what literal names are. stassats (talk) 10:46, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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This page was protected yesterday. Could you restore it to the last version before the IP 85.5's edits began? 2 reasons: it's on the main page today, and none of the IP's edits were consensual. A few useful changes would be lost in that restoration, but nothing essential. Regards, Novickas (talk) 10:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if you have had any position on Primakov's given name or not. But your judgment is probably something I can live with. I placed some sources on the articles talk page that seem to indicate corroborate the story that Primakov's given name was Finkelshtein. I really don't have any dog in the fight as to whether his name is Finkelshtein or Obama or anything else. I just thought it was weird that there was no mention at all in the article of the question. Perhaps its completely irrelevant anyway. But I would appreciate it if you review the sources I placed on the talk page and offer your thoughts. They are indded old and possibly have been debunked in the intervening period. Thanks. TastyPoutinetalk (if you dare)01:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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This has been added multiple times by a single anonymous IP: [4]. The IP has been up top similar mischief on other articles. Should it get blocked?Faustian (talk) 04:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Alex. How are you? I hope everythings' alright. I'm currently dealing with my project which is on Terahertz spectroscopy. I realized that since my wiki-break, the articles Samad Behrangi and Timur are still protected. Is it possible for you to check these?, since both articles were protected by User:Nishkid64 after User:Khoikhoi's reverts (which were done without any notice in the talk/discussion pages) immediately indefinitely. Regards, E104421 (talk) 01:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Can you identify under which blocking policy did you blocked me ? As far the images are concerned one is lying here.[5]and other's lab. is still have no mention here [6].So what was the reason for the block.User:Yousaf465
Would it be okay to set up a new article feed so I can establish if there are enough editors to support a WikiProject and make it easier to approach them about it? It would temporarily need to report to a user subpage until the project had enough support to be founded. (Please respond to my talk page or leave a talkback notice; I seem to be unable to spell your name right, so it makes finding this back harder) - Mgm|(talk)11:37, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I want to use the feed primarily to keep an eye on articles that belong to a project that does not yet exists, but I also want to use it to contact the people who create the articles in that category and make them aware of my project plans so I can see whether they'd be interested in joining. They may not be, but if they don't know about my plans in the first place it would be impossible to determine. Since I consider people creating good articles in a field the most likely to join a project, I figured I'd hit two birds with one stone. - Mgm|(talk)12:16, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Do you have a preferred location for the reports page and how do you fill out {{Subst:User:AlexNewArtBot/NewFeed|FeedName|Portal Name}} for a feed that doesn't yet have a related project or portal? - Mgm|(talk)12:19, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Atleast you replied.That is fair enough on your part.Other editor were not even interested in discussing it.Anyway,but Pakistan is not involved in Sri lankan 's war with LTTE.User:Yousaf465 (talk)
Anonymous Editor is back
Thanks for your previous block. It seems that the blocked editor has returned, albeit with a slightly different IP but the exact same edit that he kept adding earlier: [11]. Faustian (talk) 14:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please take a look at this? A couple of editors has been trying to push the idea that the party is liberal relying on its website and disregarding core WP policies. Colchicum (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC) And apparently the trolls have framed a good editor into 3RR. Colchicum (talk) 22:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Frankly, if I were you I would block Gnomsovet (talk·contribs) (a.k.a. 95.52.114.233 (talk·contribs)) indefinitely outright. POV-pushing, edit-warring, violation of content policies, block evasion, trolling, and he is not particularly useful anyway as his English is hardly intelligible. Colchicum (talk) 00:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Mmmda, not good at all, but I am not sure how I can help. I absolutely agree that LDPR is not liberal in any meaning of this, quite ambiguous term. Miacek has violated 3RR and was blocked for 24h while the Gnomsovet was blocked indefinitely, that is quite a severe punishment for the first 3RR and obviously balances Miacek's block. If the edit warring continue I would protect the article Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am afraid both of them were unintentionally blocked forever instead of 24h (such things sometimes happen to William M. Connoley). Colchicum (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have blocked the IP-sock and semiprotected the article. Gnomsovet looks like a sockpuppet of an experienced user but I do not who is that user Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He is probably active on Russian Wikipedia, and this is his automatically created global account. With his level of English I don't think he could be a regular contributor here. Colchicum (talk) 00:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thanks for the hint. He is quite active in ru-wikipedia although started editing only since end of January 2009. He is certainly not an SPA there Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well if in a few hours William would not talk back I would shorten block of Miacek to original 24h. I am not sure what to do with Gnomsovet Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My name is Bao Ngoc Trinh. I like to edit the page "Yen Bai Munity" to truely reflect the history of Vietnam. However, I am prevented from doing so. Please let me know the reason.--Trinhbaongoc (talk) 01:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am not supporting any particular version, just the edit warring should stop somehow. Try to negotiate a compromise solution using the article talk page or if you have some uncotroversial edits to make I could do it on your behalf use {{editprotect}} on the talk page to draw attention to the proposed edit. You might also want to follow the dispute resolution processAlex Bakharev (talk) 01:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actually the information that you have a conflict of interests regarding this page is not a good thing. It can make you feel against the neutral point of view that is a core policy on wiki. You can still make edits to the page but please make sure they are neutral and factual, also please avoid controversies Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alex, when looking at the article of President Bush on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush, I found White House press releases along with other so-called "conflict materials" cited. I do not understand nor agree that someone use just one or two books to define neutral point of view and to alter the history of a nation. I don't think the Wikipedia's policy allows that kind of practice and justification.--Trinhbaongoc (talk) 04:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
YellowMonkey, not just VNQDD, I also use the history of Vietnam. Can you read Vietnamese so can share with you the materials and documents regarding that matter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trinhbaongoc (talk • contribs) 04:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We certainly can use VNQDD press-releases but not to state something like a fact but as an attributed opinion: According to VNQD .... We also can use VNQD documents for the non-contraversial info about VNQD itself: VNQD chairman is ..., he is elected for ... years by ... etc. WP:RS and WP:ATT forbid other usage of political press-releases Alex Bakharev (talk) 10:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarification. I agree with your suggestions. I believe we should apply the policy wisely to preserve the quality of Wikipedia. Something to share with you here. VNQDD was secretly formed (1927) and operated underground; it didn't have that kind of luxury that political parties enjoying in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Press release is beyond imagination in its time. Only three years after the formation, VNQDD was crushed; and it is the reason why there exists a limited source about the party. Luckily, two of its co-founders wrote 02 documents based on their knowledge, memoir of their surviving comrades and families, French government documents, etc. The documents were adopted and taught under the Republic of Vietnam regime.--Trinhbaongoc (talk) 01:27, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alex, I think YellowMonkey is unreasonable. I'd like to challenge his unprofessional manner and dictatorship attitude in front of the authority of Wikipedia community. --Trinhbaongoc (talk) 01:57, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
For example: Wikipedia is the product of thousands of editors' contributions. Everyone has brought something different to the table: researching skills, technical expertise, writing prowess, tidbits of information, or even just a willingness to help. Even the best of our articles should never be considered complete; each new editor may offer new insights about how to further enhance our content.--Trinhbaongoc (talk) 02:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure you haven't read WP:RS, WP:V and WP:NPOV for now. Party founders' documents/party publication are definitely not a WP:RS, you should find any third party source before make any edit (I suggest you try Google Books). Furthermore, YellowMonkey is reasonable in this situation, he revert your edits because thay are violate WP:NPOV.--Amore Mio (talk) 10:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Amore Mio, Not just reading, we need understand it clearly. Do you know why the policy said should instead of must? And that is the reason why Alex has made the above suggestions--Trinhbaongoc (talk) 23:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Alex. Re the St Petersbury University issue in this article, her bio on the party website states that she "holds a degree in electrical engineering and communications from the University of St. Petersburg".[12] When this was linked as written, it redirected to the State University - should this refer to a different one? Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ5709:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for fixing the above rule set. I see what my mistake was. Kind Regards 05:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure it was the problem leading to no results at all, the bot should just ignore invalid definition and go ahead. Lets see what would happen tomorrow Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:19, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is not aimed at smearing him. It is an important part of his Biography, and it is directly supported by the cited, reliable sources. You should better discuss this on the article talk page. Offliner (talk) 22:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, discussions with POV-pushers are fruitless, I have a job much better than that. There are no sources which would cite this as a relevant fact of his biography (and for a good rason -- it is not), there are only passing mentions and editorializing comments, which are not exactly reliable sources. The reliability of a source depends on whether it is on the subject. A newspaper article about the Litvinenko poisoning is a questionable source as to Felshtinsky's biography. In any case, descriptions like "anti-Kremlin oligarch Berezovsky" have no place in articles about persons other than Berezovsky himself. Colchicum (talk) 22:44, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well Felshtynsky's books are used as references to many article and all those references are linked to Felshtynsky article. Thus, one of the purposes for the article is to comment on the validity of the references. The fact that Felshtynsky has a conflict of interests in the matters that involved Berezovsky is important and I think should not be obscured. The New York Times and International Herald Times in the articles related to Litvinienko felt that they should warn the readers about those conflicts of interests and so do we. The third reference (to the Herald) is devoted to bio of Felshtynsky and they apparently thought that inclusion of the info of Berezovsky sponsored Felshtynsky's book to be warranted. I think the info should be in the article Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have just reinserted the info into the article after being removed with a claim of WP:BLP to go along with the removal. It is sourced, it is neutrally worded, so there is no BLP concerns. It appears that BLP is being used incorrectly to prevent the insertion of material into articles that people don't want to see here on WP. I've also removed it from the lead in the process as well. --RussaviaDialogue05:03, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be possible to have a navigation bar at the top of the pages for the search results, log and rules for ease of navigation? =- Mgm|(talk)11:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In fact the results are updated daily but the heading ===March 1=== stood on the top for quite a while. The reason for such behavior is the algorithm of insertion new content. The bot inserts the new results on top of the first line that starts with a star, ignoring everything above it. This gives users freedom to do almost whatever they want with the top and the bottom of the search results. The drawback is that if you put a heading on top of that line it would stay there forever (or unless somebody manually moves it) Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Alex, could you possibly help me to find the Ukaz number and text of the ukaz for the following Heros? [13]. Apparently they were awarded on 5 September 2008, but it's not on Kremlin.ru website or their ukaz database. And they aren't yet present on warheroes.ru. Any help appreciated, cheers --RussaviaDialogue10:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Russavia, I have completely failed to find this Ukas. Maybe it is still confidential? Assuming an FSB man or similar they could make it secret. But since Анашкин Герой России? etc. yield many ghits I guess we could safely assume the people were indeed awarded with the title Alex Bakharev (talk) 11:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not confidential. I've got a public media source for it.
Yeah, not only did they receive it, we even have a photo of him being awarded -- File:Dmitry Medvedev 1 October 2008-4.jpg -- all i can find thus far is plenty of information that he received it, along with others (including 1 posthumously) in relation to the South Ossetian campaign, but can't find the Ukaz number or text -- it's my understanding that Ukaz are made public knowledge by default. I wish they would put all of this information on the site, otherwise one has to rely on those paid-for databases, which is a shame. Thanks for looking anyways. --RussaviaDialogue11:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've found the text of the ukaz from Interfax - За мужество и героизм, проявленные при выполнении воинского долга в Северо-Кавказском регионе - that's standard Ukaz text, now to find the actual Ukaz number, which looks like it will be a little harder to find. However, aren't all such things supposed to be placed in Rossiyskaya Gazeta? What do you know about that? If anything. --RussaviaDialogue19:35, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Brett Stewart feed
Hi Alex. I've created a feed to check for new articles mentioning Brett Stewart (see here if you want the background). Apart from initially creating a name that had a space in it (now fixed), does it look ok? Also, I've asked on the talk page about asterisks in search rules. Thanks, Andjam (talk) 11:35, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
A land without a people for a people without a land
The user Historicist has left messagaes on 6 different user pages asking for help and no one has lectured him. Sense when does canvassing cover notice boards. I asked for help because I felt ganged up on by Historicist and Jayjg. If you were neutral you lecture him about canvassing as well. annoynmous03:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, most of his bad edits are of today. Maybe he had a bad day or got drunk or whatever. If he continues after two week ban it does not take much time to block him permanently. As a subject of his threat I could not fairly evaluate the outlined edit but usually we give users freedom to steam a little bit after the block. This blue religious calligraphy on his page might be a sign he is coming to his senses Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well that's up to you I guess. If the user is just a vandal, I'd be saying that you're dealing with one whose not very bright. Did you notice with this edit, he is using the flag of the Chechen Republic government? --RussaviaDialogue13:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just now I realised that somebody could think that I have shorten the block because I became afraid of vanadal's silly "war" and death threats. In my career of an admin I have got a number of threats. None of them were credible enough to contact police or other authorities. Obviously they do not modify my behaviour. I just do not like to indef users with history of good contributions at the first time. His edits go back to 2006 so I doubt he is a sock puppet Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
New Article Bot
I can't figure out how to get this bot working for WP:BARD, but it would be very useful. Could you set it up for our project? If you have any questions, just ask. Wrad (talk) 20:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure how this is done, but I suspect an admin does this. There seems to be agreement on the talk page, including by the article's author, to delete it: [15]. Could you help with this?Faustian (talk) 03:52, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
В пятницу некий участник с ником из японских иероглифов провел массовую замену интервиков в разных языковых проектах на статью Oscillation, в русском Колебания. И тут обнаружилось, что интервики в японской совершенно не соответсвуют этим статьямю Все они ведут на статью Vibration,а русских интервиков два, ведущих как на статьи Вибрация и Виброизоляция. Просьба посмотреть у себя и если есть участники, знающие японский и участвующие в японской вике, чтобы они рассмотрели эту ситуацию. Сегодня я посмотрел на японскую вику, изменений в той статье пока нет.--Torin (talk) 07:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
вот тут заметка о всероссийской олимпиаде студентов по английскому языку, в ходе которой они должны выкладывать свои отчёта в Википедии. Олимпиада пройдёт 26-27 марта в Тольятти. У нас на форуме было высказано предположение, что они могут воспользоваться английским разделом. Так что предупреди других админов о такой возможности. --Torin (talk) 14:50, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Единственное, что один из админов отправил письмо в адрес пресс-центра Тольяттинского госунивера, с предупреждением о недопустимости подобной акции. Но вот когда я вчера уходил с работы сообразил простую вещь: новички могут закачивать фотографии через 3-4 дня после регистрации. Если это так, то организаторы жёстко обломаются.--Torin (talk) 04:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Я нашел список оргкомитета олимпиады [16] и отправил первым пяти людям просьбу связаться со мной. На самом деле, если прибавится русских редакторов в enwiki - это здорово, если прибавится статей про российские вузы - это замечательно. Однако если прибавятся статьи про команды и про студентов, то будет много CSD A8 и небольшой скандал. Надеюсь, кто-то со мной свяжется Alex Bakharev (talk) 04:19, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Тут немного не так. На сайте указано, что это олимпиада школьников, а в Тольятти пройдёт олимпиада студентов. Уровень немного другой. Единственное, что члены оргкомитетов могут пересекаться.--Torin (talk) 06:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On Isabella Grinevskaya is there some universal policy all instances of Constantinopal must be Istanbul? This article is centered a century ago when it was quasi-universally called Constantinopal, so I'd rather it stuck Constantinopal possibly with a small clarification. Smkolins (talk) 12:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Vladimir Putin refs
Hey Alex, thanks for helping with the ref formatting on the Putin article. Can you take a look at ref 265, 267, 269 of the article as it stands as I write this [17]. I have tried to fix them so that they appear as they should within the bibliography, but I can't understand if I have screwed up, and how to fix it. Would you mind taking a look at it please. Cheers --RussaviaDialogue20:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yanda Airlines
Would you mind re-opening this AfD? I was in the process of making a comment on why it shouldn't be closed yet since there was an unresolved question of possible existence. It's not a hoax and therefore not really a speedy or snow -- other than nom asking for it. I'll let Russavia know I'm asking for it, I don't think there's any problem with letting this run. StarM03:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
commented here. I really don't think there's any problem in letting the discussion run when the only person sure about any outcome was the nominator. Others were unsure and curious for sources. If you both want, I'll take it to DRV, but I really think the simplest would be to undelete and relist the AfD to let it run and let sources be found. It's bedtime here, I'll be back in the morning, EST or tomorrow evening. Hope we can solve this simply. I'll watchlist here so we don't have to have this in three places. StarM05:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Muscovite evading block?
Alex, can you please look at Special:Contributions/217.26.6.12. Please note this in which the IP editor removed dispute tags, which Offliner has almost instantly reverted, only to be almost instantly reverted by Muscovite. The aggressive removal of dispute tags is the first link. Then note this history in which Muscovite and the IP editor are the only contributors - the IP editor adding interwiki link to the ru article which Muscovite worked on during this time. Then note this removal of information, which Muscovite also aggressively removed from the article (I am certain Offliner or Ellol could provide specific diffs there). Note at ru:Википедия:Заявки на арбитраж/Muscovite99 he was found to be socking with the IP 217.26.10.144, which is in the same range and also belongs to Tascom. This is obviously Muscovite99, I will leave this in your capable hands to deal with if that's ok? Sockpuppet report, or whatever. --RussaviaDialogue11:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Muscovite99 has removed the exactly same economic info from the article as the IP editor did: [18] vs. [19]. Just before getting blocked, Muscovite99 was "fixing grammar": [20]. The IP editor even used a similar edit summary "Basic grammar": [21]. Muscovite99 also put this message [22] on his talk page just two days before the IP startet editing. All in all, this seems like a clear case to me. Offliner (talk) 14:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Link is removed many times!!!
Dear, Alex!
May be I do not understand the policy of WIKIPEDIA. But I tried some times to put on the page about Putin an external link to the Site Putin.ru which is exactly about Putin, and surely might be interesting for Wiki visitors (It has thousands of registered users and lots of unique articles in Forums and Blogs). And this link was removed by the editor Russavia.
Does it mean that this page about Putin has some political preferences or interests? And is it a real way to collect the quality content for Wiki visitors? Who made a decision that I am spamming? As I feel this internet-project is really independent and interested for different opinions. Please let me know if I am wrong!
I did carefully investigated the rules for the external links: "Wikipedia articles may include links to web pages outside Wikipedia, but must conform to certain formatting restrictions. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail; or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy.
И как тогда относиться к основопологающим принципам Энциклопедии?
Вот выдержка из правил размещения ссылок на внешние ресурсы:
"КОИ часто принимает форму саморекламы, в частности, добавления рекламных ссылок, ссылок на личные веб-сайты, личных фотографий и иных материалов, которые направлены на продвижение личных или коммерческих интересов автора и ассоциированных с ним лиц.
Примеры таких материалов:
1. Ссылки, рекламирующие определённый продукт, которые направляют пользователя на коммерческие сайты, имеющие слабое (или вообще никакого) отношение к предмету статьи (коммерческая реклама).
2. Ссылки, добавление которых напоминает раскрутку персоналий, не имеющих никакого отношения к предмету статьи, путем указания на их личные веб-сайты.
3. Биографические материалы, не содержащие значимой для данной статьи информации.
Где, позвольте узнать несответствие этим принципам? Если на странице http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin , которая дает полную и независимую информацию о Путине, удаляется ссылка на сайт, который дает независимую информацию о Путине? Или здесь все-таки личный интерес того или иного Администратора.
P.S. Кстати слегка удивляет наличие картинки "ПРИВЕТ МЕДВЕД" (Что однозначно является выражением политической предвзятости) на странице редактора Russavia! Или это нормально???
Putinru (talk) 17:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, firstly, there is no information showing that the information on the site Putin.ru is somehow reliable (went through a fact checking process) or even comes from notable sources. The authors of the site even did not described themselves. We do not provide external links to anonymous sources of dubious reliability. I think it is enough to remove the link.
Secondly, the site looks like a result of internet search with Google adds added. There is no indication that the authors have copyright for their content. Thus, it is a copyvio site.
Thirdly, most of the information on the site has very little relevance to Putin
Fourth, the editor adding this link has an obvious conflict of interests regarding the link (the same name as the site) and do nothing except promotong the site
Thus, if the editors add the link one more time and do nothing useful, then he or she will be banned indefinetly as a spam-only account.
Regarding the Preved I am unaware of any political connections of this phrase and anyway we give users a lot of leeway regarding the design of their own userspace Alex Bakharev (talk) 07:12, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dear, Alex!
Well, firstly, that site Putin.ru is an Independent Community with lots of different Authors. Everyone has his own profile. So do I on that Site.
Secondly, all the articles are signed by Authors. I posted lots of articles to the site Putin.ru by myself and all of them about Putin. And in the Main Sections - Forums And Blogs there are lots of different opinions about Putin from other people. Some of them positive, some negative. And I love it.
Thirdly, most of the articles are about Putin and Russian Government. And as I can see NOT censored by someone, like it here!!!
Fourth, when I made a link on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin first time, I described this site. Link with only site-name was made next time, after removal. And, please, do not see any Commercial or Political interest in it.
Regarding the Preved - It is exactly the POLITICAL ADVERTISING!!! I do not have anything against Russian Party "Edinaya Rossiya", but this Preved one of its main symbols, you must know! And that is exactly means - Political Preferences of the page owner. And his way to edit the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin. And, surely, this editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Russavia must be banned, according to the Wikipedia Main Idea!
So, conclusion: Now I understand, that Wikipedia now is not FREE, not INDEPENDENT and (MAIN!) really CLOSED for PUBLIC by Some Bureaucrats! (As you call each other). It is NOT a Public Encyclopedia anymore! IT IS JUST A BLOG OF SOME PEOPLE. May be I am wrong and this situation is only about the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin and only some Admins, who have some OWN (political or other) interests about it.
Wikipedia is not a free advertisement media for websites selling stolen content. I have come to the only English-language section of the site: News and click on a random article putin.ru/news/81-engnews1/7518-putins-report-card.html , short search and we see that the content is stolen from an article By Sergei Balashov printed by Moscow Newshttp://www.mnweekly.ru/comment/20090327/55372069.html . Can you point me out to any English-languahe material on the site that is not stolen? Alex Bakharev (talk) 12:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dear, Alex!
You are talking about NEWS on Putin.ru. To be earnest, I have never visited that part. I am talking, just about Blog and Forum. All the news, as I understand they take from some other sources. And that Blog and Forum must be interesting for Wikipedia visitors.
And I am talking about Russian Page of Wikipedia about Putin. And anyway I am not talking about advertising. For me it was really interesting to find the keen attention of some people here about some links and exactly the links to Putin.ru. It looks interesting. And for me it looks like some political or commercial interest. Nothing more. I do not have any relations with the owners of Putin.ru site. And really do not know who made it.
There are many forums and blogs devoted to Russian politics. I do not think we need to link it there. According to WP:NOT Wikipedia is not an internet guide. Putin.inside does not look like a proper site for linking to any of our articles either. To start with it requires registration. I am not very familiar with Ru-wiki rules, but I think the link should be removed from there and is not needed here Alex Bakharev (talk) 09:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So that Alex also has some background, the following has systematically been removed by a couple of editors who he can see in the article history, and then has been gamed against on the talk page, using the usual "Russian media" rubbish:
Even worse, according to Digwuren, the famine is "too old" to even be mentioned, even though the media back then, as it does now, shapes public opinion.
But it's totally ok to have this, sourced to The Economist:
What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when former Economist editor Geoffrey Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.
That is self-serving, advertorial prose if ever I saw it. But also telling is the removal by Vecrumba of the "Russia" opinion from a subsidiary article [23]. What these editors clearly don't like is that 2 lines of "Russian opinion" are present in an article on a subject which has been quite vocal in its opinion of Russia; of course, Russian opinion in English language only can come from the Moscow Times, and Russian opinion in Russian language can only come from Novaya Gazeta; and everything else must be challenged and removed at every opportunity.
The eXile just isn't notable for its idiosyncratic opinions to be mentioned in an encyclopædia article.
As for the famine issue -- it's not too old to be mentioned, it's too old to be used as an exhibit of The Economist's editorial style, which is fluid. And so is probably almost anything from 1950s. Do you want to add a section on Historic controversies? ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!22:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, apparently many of "your" articles extensively rely on Kremlin.ru, which is also self-serving and not peer-reviewed or something. However, some non-controversial information can be verified in this way, and this is the case with The Economist as well. Aside from its somewhat uneven style, I don't see the second piece you cited as particularly problematic, it doesn't promote the subject and is mostly uncontroversial. What do you dispute there? As to Ames, whoever he is, The Economist's coverage is much wider than just Russia, and a single opinion on such a marginal topic as their reporting of Russia is undue there (otherwise there should be plenty of reliable sources on the topic). By the way, I wholeheartedly agree with The Economist's analysis of the Irish famine as described by Ames, and it gives me a very favorable impression of the newspaper. If their reporting of Russia is to be compared with this, well... But it would still be undue there. And the article Russia is much more similar to an advertisement, would you let me do anything about it? Colchicum (talk) 02:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC) P.S. Don't mix up Russian propaganda with Kremlin propaganda, please accept this now!!!, as Koov used to say. No, I don't care about Chernomyrdin and the like, they have deserved this, but when you add something like this wherever possible, it doesn't really look right.[reply]
Well, apparently, you haven't seen many of my articles Colchicum because very few of the things I am working on rely extensively on Kremlin.ru, but may indeed have come about because we have that resource available. For example, yes, I know that you all hate dearly List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (good), but there are editors such as myself who find such articles important for the project, not only because they are actually notable people, but because they also aid in downline article development. Of course, you could see this as an opportunity to create another 750 war criminal articles. I know you hate Koni (dog) and the sight of it makes some people sick (good), and recalls memories of Soviet days gone by, but 15,000 people viewed this article when it was on DYK. (funnily enough, if one was to read the article closely, I've actually taken the piss in a most subtle way -- that obviously was lost on some). Can you show me something you have done for the good of the project lately? I really don't take much notice of the peanut gallery's opinion on the articles I edit, particularly when they don't do much on WP except heckle and opine. As to Mark Ames his opinion is valid; in exactly the same way that I could argue that Russian topics are so much more than what The Economist thinks of them, so therefore, by everyone elses reasoning, we should systematically remove ALL Economist opinion from ALL Russian articles, because their opinion is WP:UNDUE also. And I will continue to utilise resources we have available, which I know just irks people that we have available (and I like that), but so long as the peanut gallery is the only one who has a problem with the utilisation of that resource for articles, I will treat that how I treat the peanut gallery in general, and that is by ignoring them and keep on doing what I am doing. Seeing as this is Alex's talk page, that's all from me in this somewhat inappropriate venue; sorry Alex. --RussaviaDialogue04:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, penisometrics started. I am not payed here and I have no obligations whatsoever to produce articles at a certain pace. Hate? I don't care about Koni, I haven't seen it yet. Though yes, I find slobbery, barking, crapping creatures disgusting in general. Now I see, the mere fact that we have an article about Pootie-Poot's pet speaks for itself and doesn't show Pootie-Poot in a favorable light, of course. Well, it is up to you to decide how you spend your spare time. The same with the heroes, with the ambassadors, with everything. Notable? Notability is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Significant coverage means that sources address the subject directly in detail. Let's face it, most of the heroes are not notable. They are significant for their role in a single event, most often the awarding itself rather than their deeds nobody have ever described. But unlike you and your pals I am not a deletionist. You prefer to upload tons of pictures of Putin, now you might even try to create a 3D model of Putin, very well, but I consider typical landscapes or Hermitage antiquities or even mere porn more encyclopedic. Colchicum (talk) 12:22, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am not a big fan of Clinton, but the difference is that Clinton apparently didn't use his cat to intimidate his guests. Also it would be hard to do, as cats are not slobbery, barking, crapping creatures and don't like to be used. Colchicum (talk) 14:19, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I read through both articles, and as surprising as it is, Koni (dog) is written as though Koni was a political player -- one whom Putin reportedly consults. Socks (cat) is rather open that Socks was a pet, and while cartoonists sometimes drew him, he didn't have any real political significance. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!14:46, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I actually think it's quite funny Colchicum that you seem to have a bug up your butt because of articles which I create and am working on. As I said, I don't really care much for what the peanut gallery has to say about the articles I create. In fact, now, I will try even harder to create even more content, who knows, I may actually cause someone to pop a blood vessel or two; and if I succeed, then my job here is done, and I will eventually pass from this earth happy with that knowledge. As to the heroes, you are more than welcome to go ahead and nominate each and every one of them for deletion as they are created; and be created they will, and who knows perhaps people will read them and know that there are people who haven't deserted their country, and know that there is another view of Russia contrary to that view that "certain" editors want to portray. BTW, Mark Yevtyukhin is one of my faves, 11,500 people read that in January whilst it was up for DYK; you may want to take some blood vessel medication before reading it though. OK, but seriously, I am a little concerned that you seem to have a fixation on me. Do I have cause to be concerned that I will start finding you following me around in the street and hiding behind trees; perhaps sneaking into my bedroom at night and cutting off a slither of my hair for "the album"; perhaps you already have a shrine installed in your house devoted to me? --RussaviaDialogue19:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Also, Colchicum, I see that you are an anti-dog and pro-cat editor. I am surprised you don't write more on this bias of yours. Perhaps I will write an article in your honour, how's Dorofei (cat) sound to you? PMSL. --RussaviaDialogue19:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(For benefit of those readers unfamiliar with obscure Russian pet trivia, Dorofei or Dorofey (Дорофей is derived from Dorothy) is Dmitry Medvedev's cat.) ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!06:28, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Look, where did you take this? I couldn't care less about the articles you create, I don't remember I have ever edited one of them. It was you who started advertise Koni and your heroes here (some of them are notable, some are not, I have created at least one of them, but I don't really care). However, my watchlist now contains 8,231 pages (and used to contain even more), you pop up there quite often, and in my opinion you are a very problematic contributor. Forum-shopping for blocks of your opponents, support of the worst trolls all over Wikipedia, pervasive deletionism when it suits you POV (and the opposite when it doesn't), tag-warring and twisted wording on articles from my watchlist, and so on - the overall pattern does concern me and is certainly not to be encouraged. But I won't talk to you anymore. Undoubtedly you will eventually run into other opponents, who will be better suited for this. As to the inference that I will be interested in Dorofey just because I prefer cats to dogs, it is an obvious logical fallacy. As to the SS matter, you surely understand that if it weren't for eSStonia, this would never happen. Bye. Colchicum (talk) 21:53, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, usually the opinion of a more authoritative source about a less authoritative one is more relevant than the other way around. Thus, opinion of the eXile about the Economist is of less interest than the opinion of the eXile about the Economist (the same way the opinion of Mr. Feldengauer about Putin is of lesser interest than the opinion of Putin about Feldengauer). Still I do not see any harm in putting opinions of lesser sources if they clearly stated as opinions. In short I cannot see why we must not have an opinion of Exile about the Economist nor why we must not have such an opinion. I do not want to interfere there.
Regarding the informations from the article's subject WP:RS allows such info unless it is challenged by reliable sources (or if it clearly marked as subject's opinion). Thus, the opinion of the Economist that they belong to the "extreme center" is certainly notable although if it is challenged it should be stated as the Economist's opinion. If Putin via Kremlin.ru states that he is the best protector of Democracy compared only to Ghandi then this opinion is notable but could not be stated as fact Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's a sneaky attempt at WP:SYN: superimposition of contextomised facts in such a manner as to implicitly mislead the reader to think a conspiracy is present. Against existing policy, but these days, very hard to properly enforce. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!19:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking about all the articles that might say things like "Kremlin-funded ambassador then delivered the diplomatic note to the Diet-funded Prime Minister Asô Tarô" or "Kremlin-funded soldiers were relocated to Sakhalin (which was not funded at that time) a day later" makes me feel all warm and funny inside. It's so absurd it resembles watching an apocalyptic movie of Mel Gibson's variety. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!20:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the qualifier US-funded is unneeded here. For once everybody can click on the link to Radio Liberty and see it for themselves, secondly the government backing of the Young Guards is an indisputable fact, thus there is no need to blame this particular source. I have reverted the edit Alex Bakharev (talk) 22:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think User_talk:Digwuren#Are_you_able_to_help_with_this.3F says a lot about Colchicum, particularly as I have kindly asked him on numerous occasions to stop with his trolling SS crap. Which, of course, is what this thread of his on your talk page is Alex. I find it absolutely childish and pathetic that an editor is advising another editor not to collaborate on what is a collaborative project; that says so much about such an editor in my opinion. I'd be seeing Colchicum's trolling for what it is...trolling. --RussaviaDialogue20:58, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Would you be able to merge these two articles? Vyacheslav Nogovitsyn and Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn? They seem to be the same person, with one difference in the name spelling, and one has a 1930 birth year category you added (which is why I came here to check), when the birth year appears to be 1939. For now, I added the "living people" category to both. Carcharoth (talk) 13:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bäckman lacks individual notability; it only makes sense to discuss him in the context of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee. Redirecting names of such persons to their organisations, or articles describing the events that led to their fame, is a common practice. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!18:57, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nah. When time comes to write my article, I'll have somebody else do it. Only insanity lies at the end of the road that starts by writing one's own article. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!20:23, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest it is the first such a case in my wikihistory: somebody first votes on an AfD to delete an article and then recreates it as a redirect to a controversial organization. Somebody is either notable or not. If he is not notable then no redirect is needed (and redirecting living people to controversial organizations they are the members of is a bad idea per WP:BLP anyway. If he is notable (or became notable per the new sources) then the article should be undeleted and the info that the person is a member of the organization should be added. Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He is not individually notable. I'd still vote delete if the AFD came up today -- I don't think anything significant has happened that would have increased his notability in the intervening time. However, his committee has caught a lot of press recently, and in that press, the people's names are sometimes mentioned. Sometimes, even wrongly: take [25], for example -- the person reading the manifesto is Petri Krohn, but the video credits him as Bäckman.
In such cases, it is Wikipedia's standard practice to redirect the non-notable terms -- even people's names -- to the notable article they relate to, in order to aid our reader in locating the notable article.
As for controversy, you might be a little bit overcautious. All signs show that none of the Committee's members is particularly shy about his or her involvement. Besides, the membership is fully sourced, which means that BLP should be quite satisfied.
You might prefer to think of like this: the prime notable subject in the Bronze Nights was mob. The mob is notable. But does it mean the thousands of participants should have their own articles? Certainly not -- but if a few of them are likely search terms, it makes sense to redirect their names to the article. Properly sourced, of course. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!05:31, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have nominated Johan Bäckman, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johan Bäckman (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Hi Alex, you might want to read this note left to you by Alex. It's funny. Really funny. Did you notice how said Alex voted in the above-mentioned AFD? ΔιγουρενΕμπρος!07:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You undid my edit on the Suvorov article. What don't you like about "Suvorov was born into a noble family hailing from Novgorod"? That's more clear then the way its phrased now. Sotnik (talk) 17:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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