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There was considerable debate, but it was finally decided that country articles will only have a series box for their continent. See various conversations at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. - SimonP 15:34, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Then you should have used the comment box for your edits. Silent edits like that are not a good idea. --Gene s 15:37, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ivan IV of Russia--clarification please

Hi!

I added a clarification to the translation of the word "grozny" in Ivan IV of Russia's nickname. As a native Russian speaker I believe "fearsome" is a more fitting word to explain it. Please clarify.

Thanks,

Kettle

You added two words: fearsome and fearful. Fearful is flat wrong. Fearsome has a second meaning - the same as fearful, timid. If you look up in a dictionary, for example here [1] you will see it. Thus, fearsome is also ill-fitting because of the second association. Dangerous is better fitting because in English the word as active (something which should frighten), just like grozny in Russian, as opposed to the most commonly used Russian translation opasny, which is passive (something one should be afraid of). Particularly taking into account that both grozny and dangerous are used in the meaning they had some 500 years ago. --Gene s 10:04, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

von X

When is one classed under v, and when under X? Is there a rule or must we rely on tradition? (There are cases other than von Struve that depend on this)

Urhixidur 12:30, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

The name "von Struve" is German for "from Struve" or "of Struve". 'Von' itself is uninformative. The last name is informative. The sorting should be done by the informative part of the last name. Compare to the similar case of French 'de', for example Guy de Maupassant is placed under 'M', not 'd'. --Gene s 12:39, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Chuvash people, Chuvash language

Hi! You wikifyed some text which has font support in Arial Unicode MS only. All Chuvash extra letters are supported by this font only, so wikifying, you do this letters invisible. This is not an experiment! It needs. Please replace my edition back.

Regards, --Untifler 22:00, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If you look at the edit hostory of Chuvash article, you will see that I have not edited it. Regarding the Chuvash language article - I wikified the alphabet sections. I have not changed any of the characters. The section looks fine in my Mozilla FF 1.0. In MSIE 6.0 both your original formatting and the wikified formatting produce blocks in place of some letters. The same blocks appear thoughout the article text as well. So, I don't think there is any advantage to your formatting compare to standard wiki.

By the way, don't forget to log in. Otherwise it's unclear who this 217.30.250.133 is.

--Gene s 05:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Article Licensing

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Sorry

Sorry if I've appeared short with you over the succession template discussion; it really has taken me until your most recent comment to work out what on Earth you were talking about; I'm sure that at least part of the fault over this must lie with me, and, for that, I offer my apologies. I've been a little tense of late, as the election doesn't seem to be going very well.

OK, I accept the other part of the fault :-). I apologize too.

BTW, congratulations on reaching your 2000th edit on Monday.

Thanks. Checking the background, huh? :-)

Yours,
James F. (talk) 12:01, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

--Gene s 13:33, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I noticed you're using my {{bottompostusertalk}} template. I just made a new one that you might like better, {{usercomment}}. --Theodore Kloba 20:01, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Crimean and Kazan Khans

Hi! I'm glad to see you contribute to articles about Tatar history.

difference between Safagäräy and Safa Giray is such: the second name was used in Crimean Tatar language and similar to Turkish name. The first is used Kazan Tatar language, what is known also like Tatar language. So, names I use are Kazan names, becose I don't know any other. But it is quite normal, that person, born in Crimea was writen as in Crimean Tatar/ But Otemish<->Ötemiş is absolutely wrong. this is Turkish/Crimean Tatar name of Kazan person. Tatar and Russian (if it is interesting for you) is Utamesh<->Ütämeş. So let"s continue disscussion at [[Talk:List of Kazan --Untifler 00:45, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)khans]].

See Giray Dynasty--217.30.254.98 18:25, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It has the same problem as the majority of such articles - it's written in a language other than English. The title is wrong too. It's not the Giray Dynasty. It's the list of Crimean Khans. The dynasty was much bigger than that. --Gene s 05:30, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Brokgaus-Efron Encyclopedia

Hi,
On Kasimov you mention the Brokgaus-Efron Encyclopedia as source in the public domain. Would you mind writing the page Brokgaus-Efron Encyclopedia, with the years and stuff, so we can all see why there's no copyright?
Aliter 00:23, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I will, when I have time. But if the question of B-E copyright bothers you, you can look it up in Google to make sure it was published between 1890 and 1917, and then write the article yourself. --Gene s 07:50, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wladislaus

Royal titles in Latin: Vladislaus Quartus Dei gratia rex Poloniae, magnus dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniaeque, necnon Suecorum, Gothorum Vandalorumque haereditarius rex, electus magnus dux Moschoviae

English translation: Vladislaus IV by God's grace king of Poland, grand duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, and also hereditary king of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals, elected tsar of Russia. is it enough?--Emax 07:51, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

You are giving evidence that he assumed such title, i.e. made a claim to the thone. That's good for him, but not enough for an encyclopedia article. Did he actually rule Muscovy for 3 years? Is there any evidence that he issued decees and they were followed? And, by the way, use talk page of the article, not my talk page. By writing here you are writing to me alone. By using article talk page you are talking to everybody involved. --Gene s 07:57, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Russians elected him, so whats the problem?--Emax 08:08, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Why do you insist on using my talk page instead of the talk page of the article? I moved this discussion to Talk:Michael I of Russia

Silent reverts

Please explain why you are engaging in silent revert war over a number of articles on Russian/Polish history. Do you have any difficulty using Edit summary and Talk pages? --Gene s 08:33, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I engage in reverts of incorrect information, because and only when I truly believe it is incorrect. Sometimes I have a difficulty using Talk pages (when I run out of coins in an internet cafe) and sometimes I forget the edit summaries. Mea Culpa. Space Cadet 08:42, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You refusal to discuss the changes is abuse of wiki process. Lack of coins is not a good excuse. If you continue to revert pages silently, I will bring this issue up for arbitration. You can be banned from editing Wiki for such abuse. --Gene s 08:47, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Space Cadet

I just noticed that you'd been having trouble with Space Cadet long before I'd encountered him first today. Could you take a look at his unexplained POV revert at Polish-Soviet War? Thanks. 172 22:09, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Answered on your talk page --Gene s 06:11, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

LI Mandelstam

in Russian Raman scattering is called "combination light scattering" (from combination of frequencies). It is difficult to translate correctly , because combinatorial has the flavor and meaning from combinatorics. Again, in Russian combinatorial=kombinatornoe and what is needed is "kombinazionnoe". I will be gald if somebody offers better translation, but combinatorial is almost certainly wrong. Google shows several "combination". I would probably use "combinational", but I thought that "combination" might be an established term.

Answered at Talk:Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam. --Gene s 08:20, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

re Russia

It's my understanding that the main article should summarize a section's topic, and link to a more detailed article if such exists. The previous little section was no "summary" ... it started with WWI. The stuff I added to make it a "summary" still leaves the entire "History" section significantly shorter than the "Borders" section, and I think about the correct length for this article.Sfahey 14:49, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Russia-geo-stub

Hello Gene - Thought you might like to know there is now a separate geography stub template especially for Russian-related geography articles: {{Russia-geo-stub}} . I've been busily sifting through the (4000!) geo stubs, trying to cut them down to a more easily dealt with number by putting about half of them into subcategories, and having one for Russia seemed logical. I noticed your name cropping up a lot in the edit histories of Russian geo stubs, so I though I'd let you know about this. I've also put it on the Russian Wikipedians' Notice Board, but if you can think of anywhere else to put it to let people know it's there to be used, please do so. Thanks! Grutness|^hello? 04:59, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. Thanks. --Gene s 05:38, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tatarstan/Temp

Subj. Your comments would be much appreciated.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 22:29, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article

Mikhail Glinsky

Please see how our Polish friends mutilate the page on Mikhail Glinsky. What do you think about it? Ghirlandajo 12:40, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

User:Emax

It looks like User:Emax has made only 3 reverts while 4 are needed to break the 3RR. Can you point out which edits you consider reverts? Mgm|^(talk) 19:36, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

Here are the four reverts: [2][3][4][5] They are not 100% identical, but essentially they are reverts since he keeps reverting the disputed changes. The other changes are purely cosmetic. --Gene s 05:26, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Second Chechen War

Hi Gene S,

I've rewritten substantial portions of Second Chechen War to remove the copyvio and (hopefully) to tidy up NPOV issues. It still needs some work; if you think there's anything important missing or misrepresented then dive in. (If it looks like there's going to be an edit war over any contentious points, hopefully we can hash things out on the Talk page.)

Cheers, TenOfAllTrades | Talk 23:29, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

the article second chechen war really needs a rewrite. the article has about 4 lines of the actual war and the rest is just the causes and effects. as a user i expected to find pictures and details of the actual battles and stuff --GregLoutsenko 14:34, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

template:succession box

Why the separation to template:start box and end box? Seems excessively granular, to the point of being more cumbersome in practice. What cohesion is that separation supposed to bring? -SV|t 08:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What's happened with you?

Dear colleague, we've been missing you since you left wikiediting back in February. You should know that your contributions are always welcomed. Check the ongoing discussions at Portal:Russia/New article announcements. Cheers, Ghirlandajo 08:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dear colleague - come on, don't be so damn pollite :-) I just got distracted by other things, in particular by the primary job. I don't have as much time to spend on wiki now. Maybe in the future I'll be able to contribute more. --Gene s 05:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt

I think you would be interested in voting here, especially as there are voices that Halibutt is an anti-Russian (Ukrainian, etc.) POV-pusher. --Ghirlandajo 23:30, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to Glycosylation

Hi you added a link to Alagebrium on the above page, in the definition at the start of the article it points out that glycosylation is a different process to glycation. I'll happily move the link to the correct page if that is OK with you. I just thought I would ask first rather than just doing it though. --Ianmc 20:44, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you are correct. I am not sure why glycosylation reference was made in the source that I used when in fact it's glycation. It's probably a mistake. Thanks for pointing it out. --Gene s 06:19, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Suvorov's theories

Dear Gene s, I was just looking you're discussion on Suvorov's Icebreaker. I suggest that you join in an argument on Suvorov's theory as a whole. I tried to establish on Suvorov's page [6] a new section called Arguments for, but an anti-Suvorov hardliner removed my arguments soon after with the axcuse of my arguments not holding water and that arguments for/against may not be established until it's 'comprehensive'. See discussion page [7] and comparisons between my and Mikoyan21's redactions of the Suvorov page [8]. I suggest establishing a really comprehensive list of arguments for. Constanz 18:33, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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