A fact from Names of Soviet origin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Anthroponymy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the study of people's names on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AnthroponymyWikipedia:WikiProject AnthroponymyTemplate:WikiProject AnthroponymyAnthroponymy articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Russia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of Russia on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.RussiaWikipedia:WikiProject RussiaTemplate:WikiProject RussiaRussia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Soviet Union, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Soviet UnionWikipedia:WikiProject Soviet UnionTemplate:WikiProject Soviet UnionSoviet Union articles
This weird tradition has its share of internet popularity, not devoid of hoaxes. Therefore if anybody wants to add a particularly weird name to this article, I would ask you to be particularly careful with the reliability of the source. I would suggest that a good source would provide an example of usage or a reference to its source. Quick google search shows some books unscrupulously list alleged names clearly created as a joke: I challenge you to find a Russian person who would give his baby the name "Persrak" (allegedly for "Pervaya Sovetskaya Raketa", First Soviet Rocket) or "Perkosrak" (Pervaya Kosmicheskaya raketa, First Space Rocket). First, this revolutionary name craze faded away in 1920s already, way before the FSR was actually launched. Second, "sraka" is a particularly offensive synonym for "arse" (but the latter en: word is way less emotionally laden that the ru: one). So if you see this name listed in a book, this would be the first sign that the book was cobbled together from internets for a quick buck. - user:Altenmann >t05:29, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Octobering article is merely a stub and doesn't seem to contain any information that needs to be kept separate from this article. I suggest the contents of this article be moved to the other. —howcheng {chat}20:41, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
.svg){kind=small}
