Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine

Reviewing the romanization policy

I have proposed that we begin to use Ukrainian National/United Nations transliteration, instead of BGN/PCGN, for general transliteration. The rest of the world is beginning to do so already. Please discuss at Wikipedia talk:Romanization of Ukrainian#Update to the National 2010 system.

I have also proposed that we use Library of Congress (ALA–LC) transliteration for references. Practically every English-language library and bibliographic reference in the world does so. See Wikipedia talk:Romanization of Ukrainian#Library of Congress romanization for references —Michael Z. 2013-06-21 16:14 z

Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University

This article has not been edited for a long time, and will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is it worth saving? Does anyone who can read the references want to work on it? —Anne Delong (talk) 03:54, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Saved. Thank you very much, Ukrained2012 (talk) 21:51, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Great! —Anne Delong (talk) 13:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Alexandr Guristyuk images

• image:Sviato kartopli.jpg
• Image:AvtoportretG.jpg
• file:Dvanadciat'.jpg

have been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 11:37, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission

Care to look at this submission? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

In particular: Do its references back up what it says (no "original research") and is it written from scratch rather than a direct translation of copyrighted text? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:22, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Anyone, please. The submission is held up only because we don't have a reviewer who can check the sources. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:08, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

It actually looks notable, but the submission seems to have been declined. Does it still make sense to check the sources? I have zero AfD experience (and not too keen to get any at this point).--Ymblanter (talk) 21:17, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Vasyl Shkliar

Dear Ukraine experts: This article has been waiting for a long time at Afc for a review. Can any one help? —Anne Delong (talk) 16:55, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Please. Someone declined it but gave no indication that they actually checked the sources, so the decline might be incorrect. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:58, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

1-4 are RS with the interviews; 10 is a RS which confirms the prize. Overall notable, though some copyediting will not harm the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:36, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

I have added your information about the reliable sources to the article . —Anne Delong (talk) 23:13, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

The article is now in mainspace at Vasyl Shkliar, please feel free to improve it. To start with the name should be given in cyrilic text in the lead and also in the persondata template. I have seen some sources romanize the surname as "Shklyar" so that might need to change. Thanks for your assistance. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:23, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I copyedit it a bit. It seems to be a Google translation of the Ukrainian Wikipedia article.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:49, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

What a great example of cooperation! Only 2027 more submissions to go.... —Anne Delong (talk) 15:14, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

"Infobox picture" at (Wiki-article) Ukrainians

Some changes have been made recently to the "pictures in the infobox" at (Wiki-article) Ukrainians that could be viewed as controversial and going against (past?) consensus. Feel free to express our views on Talk:Ukrainians#Infobox_picture.

PS I realise that my edits today on the page can be seen as controversial too File:Smile-flag Ukraine.gif — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 22:31, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

FA review Rus' Khaganate

Hi all

I have started stage one of an FA review on the article as it is in a poor state.

Any comments and help would be great. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:01, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names

English_exonyms#Ukraine. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

FAR Rus' Khaganate

I have initiated an FA review for the article, the review page is open for discussions on how to improve the article to bring it back to it's FA status, or for it to be reclassified. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:34, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Warning! IP-editors making strange changes to Euromaidan-related articles like Orange Revolution

I have noticed that IP-editors starting to make strange changes (in what appears to be a POV-pushing to me) to Euromaidan-related articles like Orange Revolution. See here were I corrected a piece in the Gaurdian that was wrongly interperted by an IP who then wrote something on the page talkpage that indicated that he is not neutral when it came to the subject of his edit. Something similar happened to the Orange Revolution wiki page a few days ago; again followed by the IP writing something on the page talkpage that indicated that he is not neutral when it came to the subject of his edit. I suspect that because so many people edit the Wiki-page Euromaidan the people who want to vandalise/write POV-pushing things there suspect that at Euromaidan there edits will soon be removed... but that on other pages of events that look like Euromaidan they will still have a change. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 16:22, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

How do I nominate an article?

I would like to nominate the article triune Russian people for assessment, either as GA or A or B or however the system works, and get some comments for improvement. How do I go about this? thanks --Львівське (говорити) 22:44, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Pykulovychi

Dear Ukraine experts: This old abandoned Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Someone has put a lot of work into it, though. Would someone who speaks the language like to see if they can find some sources to verify the information? —Anne Delong (talk) 04:19, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I will take care of it.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:17, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Great! If you can't find anything, you can always just let it go. Now, only 17,000 more submissions left to check... —Anne Delong (talk) 15:08, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I already found everything I wanted.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:15, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm glad you were successful. —Anne Delong (talk) 17:49, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

SpongeBob in Ukraine

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants#Was about to be banned for being gay?. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 16:17, 26 January 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48

Help with question at the Reference Desk?

Would someone from this WikiProject please help with this question at the Reference Desk? Thank you, Dismas|^(talk) 19:49, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Help with a name?

How do Ukrainians spell Nikita Krylov? If someone could add it next to his name, that'd be cool, but so would just letting me know. Thanks. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:56, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, nevermind. I forgot Google Translate existed. Микита Крилов, yes? InedibleHulk (talk) 00:58, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

February 2014 Euromaidan riots

Is this article really still "class=Start" and "importance=Low"? Martinevans123 (talk) 23:01, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Mini Constitution of Ukraine

This article appears to be almost entirely unsourced: there is a long list of links, but many of them do not work. This one: http://www.golos.com.ua/Article.aspx?id=229406 does appear to be a page in Ukrainian about the subject, and it might well be a real newspaper, but I cannot tell. In short, it is not clear that notability has been shown, the sources are doubtful, and the whole page looks rather like advertising. Should I propose it for deletion, or is it clearly significant and worthwhile? Imaginatorium (talk) 14:56, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Images to redesign - all current maps of Ukraine

File:Outline of Ukraine.svg, File:Europe-Ukraine.svg, all images from commons:Category:Bilateral maps of Ukraine and many from commons:Category:Maps of Ukraine. I'll let one of regular members here develop a full list. Sigh. Would be nice if we could charge Russian government with hiring a mapmaker or two... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

No one needs to redesign anything. Ukraine's borders have not changed according to international law. However, I'm sure there will be some mapmaker vandals that will move ahead with the Crimean annexation.. DDima 06:49, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

This is how Georgia is shown in the article

I do not remember what was done for Georgia in 2008 (I believe most maps show Abkhazia and South Osetia differently than the rest of the country), but the same should be done for Ukraine. This would mean that Ukraine does not control Crimea, but everybody still recognizes the international borders. It is not a political statement, it is the statement of a fact.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

@"Ukraine's borders have not changed according to international law." - US based Wikipedia and the USA don't care about international law. See Kosovo. Tibet2014 (talk) 21:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Допоможіть з перекладом новин про Україну

Доброго дня. В цей час проти моєї батьківщини ведеться інформаційна війна і відбувається багато фальсифікацій з метою дистабілізувати ситуацію і очорнити Україну в очах світової громадськості. Зокрема телеканал RT (TV network) випустив сюжет про антисемітизм в Україні Киев Евреи бегут 15 03 14 який є цілковитою брехнею. Спростування тут: http://www.stopfake.org/fake-evrei-ubegayut-iz-kieva-iz-za-antisemitizma-novoj-vlasti/ та тут http://tsn.ua/video/video-novini/rosiya-posilila-brehnyu-u-dezinformaciyi-naselennya.html, http://evreiskiy.kiev.ua/ravvin-simferopolja-mikhail-kapustin-12870.html, http://focus.ua/society/300220/. На превеликий жаль моєї англійської бракне, аби внести правки в статтю RT (TV network) про фальсифікації. Буду вам дуже вдячний за допомогу. --Habibul (talk) 01:44, 24 March 2014 (UTC)