User talk:Ghirlandajo/2008

DYK - Henry Hunt (politician)

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~ Riana ⁂ 10:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

An ideal team!

Andrey, I am always amazed and delighted by the periodic DYKs that appear on my talk page, largely thanks to the work you do on the raw material I provide on the Humanities Desk. We make an ideal partnership, a little like Marx and Engels, or Laurel and Hardie! All the very best from Anastasia. Clio the Muse 22:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Another DYK

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--Peta 23:58, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

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Thanks, for the nth time, for your nominations. Daniel 06:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Skhimar

Made some additions based on Brook and an article by Ehud Ya'ari. They both call the site "Khumar". Should we rename the article "Khumarinskoye gorodishche" or "Khumar", as Skhimar seems a rather obscure Georgian designation? --Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Courtier and Favourite

- are both just dic defs. I've left pleas in a couple of places, & can chip in myself, but I'm sure you could make a great job of them. Any chance? Johnbod 19:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

My feeling (lurking as usual) is that any material that could go here would be more encyclopedic if incorporated under Noble court (bad title), even as separate sub-sections. These should be redirects, IMO. --Wetman 22:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I hadn't seen that. It certainly is a terrible title, but the article is a start. "Courtier" should probably redirect there, but "favourite" certainly deserves its own article. Johnbod 01:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Iranian counties

Sorry for the late reply. I have been very busy lately. I will address the issue when I have time (hopefully tonight).Hajji Piruz 23:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Storm page

Howdy partner, liked your storm page Meteoguy 18:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Central Asian Railway

Thanks for your additions to the Trans-Caspian Railway article! However, I am asking that it be moved from Central Asian Railway back to its original article name. While 'Central Asian Railway' is a correct translation from the Russian name, it is rarely (if ever) used in English. I have checked all my English-language Central Asia books, and all mentions of the railway (from both historical-based and modern works) call it the Trans-Caspian. A Google search also verifies that this is the more common English name.

Ditto for the 'Tashkent Railway' article, which already exists as Trans-Aral Railway. I added all your info from the Tashkent Railway article to the Trans-Aral article, and then added a re-direct. I just wanted to let you know. Cheers! Otebig 18:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

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--Carabinieri 22:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rye

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Rozh.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 09:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Ghirla,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Rozh.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 23, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-12-23. howcheng {chat} 18:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...

On 5 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Catherine of Cleves, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Allen3 ^talk 23:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

GA Empires

Would anyone like to comment on this? --Joopercoopers 11:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Why there is an Uspensky/Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki

Hi Girlandajo! You wrote on the talk page of the article on Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki that: "There is no explanantion why a church in Helsinki should occupy this generic title". There definitely is an explanation: Finland and Russia happen to have a common history 1809-1917. Kindly read my comment on this on the talk page of the article. By the way, your analysis about Wikipedia on your user page is thoughtprovoking! Cheers! --Tellervo 11:45, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Mongol question

Ghirla, hi, I'm needing the help of a Wikipedia editor who actually knows something about the Mongols (in particular about their activities in the late 1200s). Preferably someone who actually has access to reliable sources, as opposed to someone who's just doing Google searches through pseudohistory websites.  :/ Would you be a good person to help with this, or could you point me at someone else that might be able to help? Thanks, Elonka 19:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I wished to refer you to User:PHG but, since you seem to be in dispute with him, you will be well-served to get a third opinion from User:Adam Bishop (on medieval Palestine) and User:Latebird (on the Mongols). I suppose User:Briangotts and User:Srnec may be interested in commenting as well. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:06, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I see that PHG has done a lot of fine work on other articles in the past, so I was a bit surprised to see the use of some unreliable sources as regards the Knights Templar. Hopefully it's just because PHG was putting too much trust into some websites that turned out to be pseudo-history fluff (there's a lot of that where the Templars are concerned). I'm hopeful that once we find some reliable sources, things can be straightened out fairly quickly. Thanks for the help, Elonka 20:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Dardanelles Operation

Hi, do we need two articles on the same topic Battle of the Dardanelles (1807)? I notice you haved edited at them both. Chessy999 00:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Hi, just to let you know that I protested against the by-passing of the nomination process here regarding the Kazanowski Palace. --Camptown 20:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

The article was not "bypassed" due to Kazanowski Palace, but due to the fact that the nomination for Anne de Joyeuse was accompanied by a good quality image and including the article in the update indicated by Camptown would have resulted in the image not being used. In the past, you have expressed extreme displeasure when this was not done. Have you changed your attitude about image use since then? --Allen3 ^talk 14:09, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, my principal objection was that Andrey's comments were ignored when Kazanowski Palace was posted on the main page... --Camptown 12:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

On 8 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anne de Joyeuse, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

---- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 02:50, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Paintings depicting battle, death and war (new articles)

Hi there. I saw your suggestions at the Reference Desk thread. Do you know of anyone (maybe you?) who would be able to draw up a more complete list of the most famous "battle" and "war" paintings that we should have articles on? commons:Category:Battle paintings might help. The list so far is:

• Hannibal Crossing the Alps
• Apotheosis of War
• Sevastopol Panorama
• Borodino Panorama

Any more ideas? Carcharoth 08:04, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...

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--Allen3 ^talk 10:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ivan the Terrible

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Alexander Litovchenko - Ivan the Terrible Showing Treasures to the English Ambassador Jerome Horsey.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Chris B • talk • contribs 14:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Ghirla,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Alexander Litovchenko - Ivan the Terrible Showing Treasures to the English Ambassador Jerome Horsey.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 4, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-01-04. howcheng {chat} 00:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Franco-Mongol alliance

Hi Ghirlandajo! Thank you very much for the star! I do appreciate very much! Best regards PHG 15:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...

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--Allen3 ^talk 15:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Weather infobox

I think the general idea is good (temperature information is encyclopedic and useful), but I, too, don't care much about this particular implementation. Peacock colors aside, the template is so wide (regardless of whether it is hidden by default) that it would more often than not clash with infoboxes and images. In Irkutsk in particular, there is no way to fix this situation unless the "Geography and climate" section is expanded (more than twice) or moved down (which isn't desirable either), or if the infobox is removed. I don't really know if there is a good solution.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

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--Carabinieri 11:25, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Ghirla insults on IRC

You never answered my question - why did you retask an article you've never edited before? --Golbez 14:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Golbez, the rumor has it that you commented on this drama earlier today on IRC in a nice chat with Alexa in a civil and proper for form of course, for an admin and for a chat between a gentlemen and a lady. Could you just repeat that onwiki and we will proceed from there in this Q&A session? --Irpen 15:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I fail to see both why you are communicating with me on someone else's talk page about something that happened off-wiki, what this has to do with my question, and why you're even communicating with me after I made it clear I have no intention to respond. And just to make it clear, this is my last response to you about anything pertaining to Ghirlandajo. If you have a question for me, drop it on my talk page, so I may ignore it more appropriately. --Golbez 15:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Golbez, I believe I have made it clear on IRC that I've had my share of your insults for today. Please leave me alone. I don't follow IRC discussions, you are free to continue insulting me behind my back for as long as you like. A gang of nationalists will probably be grateful for the show. Best, Ghirla^-трёп- 16:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Berehynia

Since medieval history is your cup of tea, could you please look at the edit war at Berehynia. I wrote this short article long ago and now Hillock seems eager to make a change supported by sources that seem dubious to me. Could you comment on how serious these sources appear to you or maybe you know of any other literature on the subject. TIA, --Irpen 04:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

RE:Baseless allegations of misconduct

Dear Ghirlandajo, I was simply trying to show you that your admin abuse allegations are baseless. You may not agree with admins, you may not agree with deletions an admin made, but that's no reason to be desysoped. In the same vein, if someone disagrees with your edit, that's no reason take your priveleges away. As for the RfC, are you aware that there need to be two other users who certify the dispute? I highly doubt that will happen because of one of my deletions. Maxim_(talk) 12:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Ghirlandajo, I don't want you banned of the project. You're a brilliant article writer, and we don't have enough. I was simply making the comparison to your allegations of admin abuse. Я хочу чтобы ты остались здесь, я просто сравнил то что ты говорил про администраторов, и если администратор посмотрит на тебя с твоим мышлением. Maxim_(talk) 13:33, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Breeching

Glad you liked it! I'll have to think on the caption - I'm never good at those. Cheers Johnbod 13:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Sig

I don't have a problem with your sig, it just seemed a bit hypocritical of you to complain of someone else using Cyrillic in their sig. I'm not sure what you mean about IRC. —Random832 23:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It does not require any knowledge of cyrillics to read my name in the signature. Not so with Suva, while Digwuren's signature is completely disconnected from his user name. This does make a difference, doesn't it? I'm surprised that I need to explain this to you. --Ghirla^-трёп- 23:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

(I can continue this discussion on here or on my userpage, whichever you prefer) - It takes only a mouseover to read the usernames in either. I think it is a slippery slope. Is Redvers's signature (REDVEЯS) acceptable? What about JzG, whose signature reads simply "Guy"? How about User:Radiant!'s, which I mention only because it lacks a punctuation mark present in his actual username. (I see what you mean about IRC now, though, it's worth mentioning that I've been in and out of #wikipedia in the past week and seen not a breath of this "campaign of harassment" - this was, indeed, my first encounter with any of you that I was aware of) --—Random832 00:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

To a compatriot

I now think he misunderstood the link to "Moscou": [1]. That is a hamlet where I lived for some time. The place was NOT called that way in honour of "the French victory at Borodino" as many French tourists think. It was named after a detachment of Cossacks, who stayed there in 1815 waiting for a Cossack general to return from England. During the Hundred Days, Louis XVIII came to Ghent, and was put under their protection. Ghent tourist guides still mention the story of the French King sweating in his carriage, waiting for his Cossack guard to take him from his Hotel in the Veldstraat to the French consulate at St Anne's (both the Hotel Steenhuize and St. Anne's French consulate still exist). Louis XVIII, "Lowie die zwiet" (Louis who transpires) is still a nickname in Ghent for a, er, rather fat man. After Waterloo, the cossacks seem to have left for Paris, which they may have entered together with Tsar Alexander, but I cannot source that. I am sure, however, that there were no Russian soldiers at Waterloo, though the French may have thought otherwise: a small part of the Russo-German legion (by then incorporated into the Prussian army) reached Waterloo and was still wearing their green (Russian) uniforms. This photograph was once put on the internet to show how "Russian" the architecture of Moscou is. But that dom is actually in Ledeberg, the cottage houses on the left are in Moscou.

There is a "famous" tram service from the main Ghent station to where I used to live. I can assure you that there are some American tourists who think that the "Moscou" tram really drives all the way to Russia. The Dutch spelling of the capital of Russia is actually MosKou. In any case, since he uses the same "travels and life" set up, Martin should have seen in my travels that Russia was marked with weeks only. Before turning me into a Russian, he should have noticed that there was something funny there. --Pan Gerwazy 10:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 20 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nikolai Yevreinov, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: Good faith

Regardless of my zero knowledge of the history behind all these matters, I said that because why should administrators stoop down to that level to communicate their point? It really isn't necessary and in the future if someone with or without a history uses the board inappropriately, I would really be disappointed to see another response like that.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 16:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It's a pity that nobody bothered to reproach Digwuren for referring to me as a "troll without a specific gender"[2] and to Bishonen as "an associate member of Cartel USSR Forever!".[3] I am subjected to such abuse on a daily basis, but this does not entitle me to run to ANI and spawn frivolous threads requesting "a block, indefinite but to be lifted immediately upon display of remorse, to prevent further violations of WP:CIV", as Digwuren has been doing.[4] I made a mental note that, when Bishonen attempted to put an end to disruption of the noticeboard and the stream of insults in her usual resolute and effective manner, you found it reasonable to scold her for that and to demand more "good faith" to the editor who has been insulting me as "a troll without a specific gender" for several months now. You may be assured that I'm not impressed by your failure to identify trolling and to deal with it in any meaningful way. I don't know about your background, but I am here for writing the encyclopaedia rather than promoting "wikilove" to the most odious disruptors. --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:No chat.jpg

This is not PD-Russia, this image is copyrighted. Alex Spade 07:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

So what's the problem? Either update the license or nominate for deletion. I don't care. --Ghirla^-трёп- 07:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I can retag this image as {{Non-free poster}}, but I cann't write {{Non-free use rationale}}. Alex Spade 09:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey. It is indeed PD-Russia. It cannot be considered Fine art (paintings, sculptures etc.) it is propaganda poster made by Soviet gov. establishment. These kind of posters are qualified as public domain in Russia. Владимир И. Сува Чего? 12:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I made a fair use rationale for now. I hope this works. Владимир И. Сува Чего? 16:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Berehynia

Ah, so it was слово as in Слово о плъку Игоревѣ. That makes sense. I knew there was little chance that Saint Gregory would have mentioned Slavic water sprites back in the 4th century. Cheers. --Folantin 18:53, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Franco-Mongol alliance

Thanks Ghirlandajo! I do appreciate! PHG 18:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

A few points

1. I'm in a dispute here (by the way, your own input there would be appreciated) where Dojarca claims that Rodina-Mat' referred to the USSR and not Russia. However, was there not a revived Great Russian nationalism during the Great Patriotic War, with even the Church brought back to life? I suppose an article on the concept would be illuminating, but until then, I'll see what you may have to say.

I don't believe it would be reasonable for me to discuss this subject with a person who describes the country that eradicated the fascist plague as a "fascist state".[5][6] Please reflect which country was Hitler's jackal and which proved its ruin before posting further inflammatory comments of this sort. Eight German soldiers out of ten died on the Eastern front, fighting at Kursk and Stalingrad side by side with Romanians. It adds nothing to your argument to misapply terms on this scale. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll send you an e-mail explaining this, if I may. Biruitorul 22:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

2. I know ий can be transliterated either -iy or -y, but when, if ever, is one preferred over the other? See point 2 here for why I ask, and why I think -y should be used in that case.

Your are correct on this point. User:Ezhiki is the ultimate authority on WP:RUS, though. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I will ask him as well. Biruitorul 22:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

3. I note we lack an article on the Domostroi - is that something which you would be interested in writing at some point?

Please check Domostroy. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. Biruitorul 22:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Biruitorul 23:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Ahem!

Ghirla, I suspect that Professor Vize has been made up by a determined hoaxer whom I've caught at Talk:Huvadhu_Atoll, while following up leads on a hoaxer I uncovered at Bourges. What do you think of "Professor Vize" with all his legitimnate links?--Wetman 02:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, no: he's at German Wiki as Wladimir Wiese. --Wetman 03:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Your cup of tea

Ghirla, I know you have your hands full all the time but if you have a minute, please consider taking a look at the Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/House of Gediminas and improving it if needed. I know of no better expert in the princely genealogy than yourself. --Irpen 03:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Franco-Mongol alliance

Hi Ghirla, please do not hesitate to drop by on the Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance page, as there is some dispute as the extent and nature of the alliance. Your expertise would be welcome. Best regards. PHG 07:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

WPRDAC at André Antoine Bernard

Hi, Ghirla. I hadn't spotted the use of Template:WPRDAC before, it's a great idea. Xn4 18:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Rus'

can we discuss this amicably? I realize there is a history to this, and I don't want to trample over things, but the pages have issues. Most conspicuously, the sheer scope overlap of Etymology of Rus and Rus' (people). I don't want to push this unduly, there is no deadline, but some cleanup is definitely in order. regards, dab (𒁳) 21:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

ok, Ghirla, you are much more familiar with this topic than I. To the casual reader, it appears that there is a Rus people, and then there are two polities known as "Rus", viz. the Rus Khaganate and the Kievan Rus. It turns out that this isn't the case at all. The "Rus people" are in fact (a) the people of the Rus Khaganate, and (b) the people of the Kievan Rus. Then it appears that Rhos is the Byzantine Greek term for Varangians. And that these are all somehow related, but it cannot be precisely established how. Based on this, I suggest we simply {{merge}} Rus' (people) into Etymology of Rus, because all it does is discuss various hypothesis of how the term originated. The actual polities are already well covered at Rus Khaganate and Kievan Rus, and there is no third entity to be covered beyond these, just various etymological hypotheses. This is merely about re-organizing the existing material more clearly, I do not intend to take away or add any content. --dab (𒁳) 09:41, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

could you also look at the terminology as laid out at wikt:Русь? dab (𒁳) 10:18, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Ghirla,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Maslenitsa kustodiev.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 6, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-10-06. howcheng {chat} 23:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I did wonder whether the picture would appear on Main Page at all; it was promoted more than three months ago. --Ghirla^-трёп- 21:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Vladimir Wiese

Regarding Vladimir Wiese, is there a reason why you chose the German spelling "Wiese" instead of "Vize"? I have noticed that, except for the works that he wrote in German, he is most of the times (like for example in the bibliographies that appear in W. Barr's books), referred to as Professor "V. Yu. Vize". Mohonu 03:41, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I was just curious to know and I assume that since you are Russian you will know better.Mohonu 21:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Creative work house?

Do we have an article on dom tvorchestva? I'm curious of its translation if exists. --Brand спойт 10:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Why, I'm not even aware about our article about dom kultury, which is definitely more notable. Google implies that the "house of creative work" is a more popular translation than a sowewhat more literal "house of creativity". --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Franco-Mongol alliance

Thank you Ghirlandajo for your authoritative support. I do appreciate very much. Best regards. PHG 19:38, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I really dislike how the dispute has been degenerating. I urge you both to stop accusing each other of incivility and concentrate on resolving the content dispute at hand. Reducing discussion to the level of mutual accusations in incivility is never helpful. Elonka has the reputation for never being able to let go, for needing implacably to triumph. I don't imply that this is necessarily a bad thing for a wikipedian, especially one who regularly deals with trolls and kooks, but in this particular case such an approach is not really called for. Guys, please be more considerate and respectful towards each other. Perhaps some sort of mediation is in order. --Ghirla^-трёп- 19:44, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Personal note

Ghirla, hi, I have to admit that I'm very confused about something you said about me. Would it be alright if we talked about it for a moment? My impression of you is that you're a prolific editor, who cares deeply about Wikipedia. I've read your userpage, and I agree with much of what you say! To my knowledge, we've never actually worked together on an article, though if I'm misremembering something, please let me know.

A couple times now, I've seen you refer to me as someone who "has to be proven right." Each time you've said this, I have been perplexed as to how you got this impression. Indeed, I feel that I am often criticized for the opposite, for being too quick to compromise! So, if you don't mind, could we clear the air a bit? Could you be more specific as to what you think that I have done, which has given you this negative impression of me? I definitely see you as someone that I would like to have as an ally, and not as an enemy. If you could please let me know what I might be able to do, to help us put any disagreements behind us, I would be very appreciative. Thanks, Elonka 17:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Elonka. I appreciate your efforts to make Wikipedia a better place and would be delighted to work with you some day when I shall have more time for Wikipedia. You should excuse my statement about your need to always be in the right, if it is disconnected from reality, since it was not intended as a negative assessment of your general activity and was based primarily on my acquaintance with the recent RfA dramas which certaintly don't highlight this penchant for easy compromises.

As for the matter at hand, I urge you and PHG to reconcile your differences without alleging some terrible misdeeds on the part of one's opponent. For as long as I know him, PHG has been given to speculative theories and building elaborate castles on rather flimsy foundations, but overall he is an inestimable contributor of material on rather obscure topics. I suppose you both have the best interests of Wikipedia at heart and will find a way to honourably emerge from this imbroglio. --Ghirla^-трёп- 12:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Khatyn image

I have sent an email to a flickr user to see if we can use his photo. If that doesn't work, [7] are some other choices we have. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 06:46, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, some of our self-important copyright "specialists" claim that there is no "freedom of panorama" in Belarus. There is a whole bunch of possibilities that stem from that. One is that this claim is nonsense as much of what is said by Wikipedia/commons wannabe copyright lawyers. Another possibility is that the image is legal if uploaded not from within Belarus as BE-law does not forbid taking pictures and US law does not forbid publishing one's own pictures. Yet another possibility is that the image is free onwiki but not allowed in commons which does (or may one day) allow only free worldwide images. Yet another possibility, is that the "freedom of panorama" important stuff is non-circumventable but this instantly opens the possibility of Fairuse rationale as the 1969 image has zero commercial value on one hand but replaceable with another non-free image only. There are endless possibilities and endless number of commons "specialists" who would give their valuable opinions on this crucial issue. --Irpen 06:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Since I do not want to fill Ghirla's talk page with mumbo jumbo, I put what I know about Belgian law concerning this on Irpen's talk page --Pan Gerwazy 10:22, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Russian Orthodox Church

Sometime this summer (back in June), you made an edit suggesting that you would support reverting the article on the Russian Orthodox Church back to a 2006 version. I left a message on the Talk Page asking why but you never responded. Perhaps you never saw my message. In any event, would you mind reviewing the article and sharing with me your thoughts as to whether the quality of the article is degraded from 2006 and whether you still support reverting or if you think it can be fixed? Thanks. --Richard 09:02, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

House of Munsö

Hi Ghirlandajo, I am still in the old dispute over the House of Munsö with user:Pieter Kuiper. He wants to remove stuff, while I want to keep in things that I find interesting. Please, join the discussion and give your opinion.--Berig 16:07, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and Nikolai Yevreinov

Hello. Many thanks for my newcomer award, much appreciated. Glad to see you've developed Nikolai Yevreinov too; I'd like to get around to more of the theatre people in Russia in that period. One thing, though: why the move to that spelling? I know the Russian names into English isn't straightforward, so I was wondering what your thinking was? DionysosProteus 22:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Aha - hadn't seen that style page. I think, though, that it might be best to move back, as most of the published material I've encountered uses the E- spelling - have a search on Amazon, for example. I can't do this move myself as the page already exists. Is this something you can? Regards, DionysosProteus 20:08, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh! That was simple! I thought because there was a redirect page already existing the Move wouldn't work. Thanks anyhow. I'm in the process of working through the Stanislavski-related pages at the moment, so might call on your expertise at some point, if that's alright. Thanks, DionysosProteus 20:13, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Demidov

I enjoyed your article on the Demidovs. I was reading about Karl von Hügel selling off his famous garden in 1848: most of the plants were sold to Anatole Demidov. I had no idea who this man was, and didn't expect there to be an article on him. Lo and behold, he is so famous as to have a chicken dish named after him! Hesperian 12:24, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Russian claims to age 110+

Greetings,

Unproven claims to age 110+ should be categorized as category: longevity claims. A category, category: Russian supercentenarians should only be used IF a case is based on proven/documented records that have been accepted by an established world authority, such as Guinness World Records or the Gerontology Research Group. Also, religious ideas about longevity, even if cited in newspapers, should not be presented as 'fact'. Claims that those in the Caucasian live longer have been debunked for 30+ years. No case has ever proven true.

If you would like to be pro-active, however, we would like to find out whatever happened to Maria Strelnikova. Note that since she came from extreme northwest Russia, where records kept were generally better, I do wonder if there are any documents to prove her age (or if/when she died).

Please discuss.

Sincerely Robert Young Ryoung122 00:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I note that the initial Russian myth-debunking was by...a Russian!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908667-1,00.html

The debunking of the Izumi case from Japan, likewise, came from the Japanese themselves (Suzuki et al). Thus what we have is not nationalism but 'science vs. mythology'. Myths are not just something that existed in the past; many people still believe them. The issue is whether we should continue the cycle of mis-information or finally live up to a standard of proof.

Note that the USA also had its own myths at the time, see Charlie Smith (centenarian) for more.

Finally, I left another note under 'Summer 2007' by accident instead of here.

Sincerely, Robert Young

Ryoung122 04:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Russian name in Finnish Orthodox Church

Hi Ghirla, could you kindly check the Russian names in the Finnish_Orthodox_Church#Russian_Orthodox_Church_in_Finland, thanks. --Drieakko 06:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your shocking accusations

Your objections are duly noted. The decision is, admittedly, a work in progress; if you believe that I've missed noting any of the habitualy incivil parties, please feel free to name them (and present the requisite evidence, obviously).

But I'm not sure if you realize that the ruling in the Piotrus case was intended as a final warning, not as mere idle chatter. The community of editors working on EE topics was told that their normal style of interaction was unacceptable. They have failed to improve it. And thus it has become necessary to use less gentle methods in order to bring this continual infighting to an end. Kirill 11:14, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Ghirla, I do hope that you and Irpen are not considering abandoning the project because of these ludicrously unjust and inflammatory proposals. Remember they are just that - proposals. Your amazing work here is proof of your value to the project, and hard as it may be I hope you will regard these proposals with a pinch of salt and not allow them to upset you. I'm sure no-one will seriously consider such disastrous and foolhardy sanctions against either you or Irpen. Giano 14:54, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Second Giano, of course. The problem is that Petri Krohn now looks like the main, and perhaps only victim. In fact, we all know that (and how!) Digwuren will not be hindered by this ban at all. On the other hand, Ghirla, I would advise you to strike out the item about Irpen. I am glad you pointed that thing, so I could respond to it. Do you think there is a better place for me to put my comment? I understand why you want to keep that thing about yourself, though frankly, it doubt whether it could help - but the one about Irpen looks a bit silly. --Pan Gerwazy 15:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Yefrem of Perekomy

You wrote on the discussion page of Sergius of Valaam, that there is text about this possible founder of Valaam monastery in the internet. Yes, but in Kyrillic text! Would you kindly translate some portions of it to us who don't know Russian? --Tellervo 17:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Ogygia

Thanks for your edit in Ogygia, regarding original research. I have removed the tagged text and replaced it. You might like to check and comment on it. Odysses (☜) 10:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Malakhov2.jpg

During the FAC of Victoria Cross for Australia the validity of the copyright tag on Image:Malakhov2.jpg has been questioned. The author of the work died in 1928 and as such does not meet the requirements for +100 years. Could it be changed or updated? Although i have removed from the VC for OZ page, it would still be good to clear it up. Thanks. Woodym555 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK MEDAL!

		The 25 DYK Medal
		I noticed you didn't have the 25 DYK medal, so for a laugh I thought I'd give it you. Seriously though, you're a great wikipedian; it should be mandatory to look up to you. :) Cheers, Spawn Man 04:34, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

I know my place... but while I am poor, I am honest, industrious and trustworthy. Had I the inclination, I could look down on them. But I don't. -- !! ?? 09:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Ghirla

Dear Ghirla. Thanks for your help and advice. I took your advice and have been sticking to content to see how it goes; it's worked, and I've decided finally not to leave wiki ... at least not for a while. Let me know if I can ever help you with anything. Best regards, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 16:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

RE:Maria of the Mongols

Ciao, and sorry for the late answer, but I was (and, actually, I am still ;-)) on holidays. Of course I know this church! I visited it last spring, and I started to write an article about it in september. It should be ready by the end of October. I hope that it will appear on DYK, since the story of this small church is quite interesting. Cheers, Alex2006 13:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Ciao Ghirla, finally I did it ! Cheers, Alex2006 09:15, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thank You Note from Jehochman

		Ready to swab the decks!
		Another motley scallawag has joined the crew. Thanks for your comments at my RFA. Arrrgh! - - Jehochman Talk 05:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

66666 edits

Sorry that I'm a bit late (due to the Toolserver replication lag), but I'm happy to congratulate you on this milestone. Good luck in further contributions! :) — Kalan ? 15:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Milyutin.gif

Hi Ghirlandajo. If you could give a source for this image on commons; someone transfered it to commons, but it still doesn't have a source. It would be appreciated. Thanks. 64.178.96.168 17:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Loire Valley

I saw your comment on Talk:Loire Valley about Vandalism. I have just reverted some Vandalism there and I will be putting a link to this article on my User Page to monitor it. Kathleen.wright5 13:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ferapontovo.jpg

Посмотри фотографию, пожалуйста. Я так понимаю, ты её в ен-вики грузил. Может что скажешь? Представленного разрешения явно недостаточно. ~ kintup 21:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Among the principles passed was At wit's end which states that necessary measures must be adopted by the Arbitration Committee in cases where repeated attempts to stop disruptive disputes have failed. As a result of the case, both Digwuren and Petri Krohn are banned for one year. There has also been a general restriction to all editors working on topis related to Eastern Europe and a warning to all those who may, in the future, attempt to use Wikipedia as a battleground that they may be banned when the matter is reported to the Committee. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Cbrown1023 talk 22:22, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Florentine calendar

Andrej, you split this offMedici, but I wonder whether such a "Florentine" calendar existed. Were you too trusting? I noted my doubts at Talk:Florentine calendar. What do you think, looking at the article again? --Wetman 08:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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Peter Alexandrovich Saburov

Andrey, would you look at my start on this interesting gent and correct any gaffes I've committed? There's surely a Russian wiki, yes?. --Wetman 17:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Revisionist problem

Hey, Ghirla! A Swedish revisionist tries portray the Battle of Lesnaya (which the majority of sources calls a crushing defeat of the Swedes) as a draw. Some other moron has frozen the article. Could you please help in the discussion? Thank you. Voyevoda 22:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

You have mail

Здравствуйте. Проверьте, пожалуйста, почту. ru.Media 16:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Russia FAC

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Museum Roumjantsev

Hello Mr Ghirlandajo, can you take a look at this article which i translated yesterday from the German Wikipedia? I tried to change its name to Rumyantsev Museum and than i found out the name is already in use. Can you integrage this two, improve mine or change the redirect to your article? What would be the best? Taksen 09:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Maly theatre, Moscow confusion

Hello. I'm gathering material together to create a little article on the Maly Theatre, Moscow, and I'm a little confused, so I wondered whether you might have a little time to help me clear something up? I don't speak/read Russian, which is probably where I'm going wrong. My draft scribblings are here.

I'm confused about when the theatre was created. I realise there was a company first, then the building came later. But when was the company set up?

The babel-fish translation of the Maly's own history page on their website seems to imply it was the Imperial decree in 1756 that founded the company, along with Moscow Uni (although the Wikipedia article for the uni says 1755, so that's odd), as does a Russian news-page saying they're celebrating 250yr anniversary. However, all the sources in books in English that I can find - Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Oxford Companion to Theatre say it was founded in 1805 or 1806. The new page about celebrating anniversary says it's the oldest professional theatre in Russia, but the actors were students at the Uni, which suggests amateur. Brockett's History of Theatre says 1805 when the crown purchased 74 serf actors; so I don't get how the students and serfs could be one company. I realise that all the theatres came under control of the government then, but it's a bit unclear how this worked. Then they got a building in 1824 (on this, the sources agree). From then on, it becomes first the House of Shchepkin then the House of Ostrovsky, and the sources settle down and start to agree with one another.

I'm leaving this note on Miyokan's page too. If you have time to look at it for me, I'd be grateful. The web sources in Russian are here:

• Russian Wikipedia article (in Russian)
• the Maly Theatre's website (in Russian)
• Maly celebrates anniversary
• Russian theatre history chronology

Many thanks, DionysosProteus 14:05, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Question about image source

Hi, I noticed that you uploaded the 19th century picture of the Kazan Cathedral. I'm wondering if you perhaps know the source of it; I would like to be able to cite the original source. Can you please reply to my discussion page?

Thanks much, Sir Pimpernel 02:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Mico Asen = Mihail Rostislavic?

Hi, can you please shed some light on the relation between the two and if indeed it was the same person? Thanks

StevanMD 13:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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Indo-Greek kingdom

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Category:European court festivities

Can you think of anything to add here - we don't have very good coverage! Johnbod (talk) 23:56, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Apollo&daphne.jpg

Where's the source for this? As I understand, photos of sculptures are not necessarily in the public-domain by default. -- VegitaU (talk) 01:09, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Theodora (6th century)

Гирландайо, несравненный %) вы не включите её в свой список наблюдения? А то там часто по-мелкому правят анонимы, а я, во-первых, не очень часто сюда заглядываю, а во-вторых, не настолько владею языком, чтобы оценить стилистические тонкости в акцентах, которые смещаются пристрастными товарищами. --Shakko kitsune 12:14, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Sveneld

Halo I write article Sveneld in Polish wiki. I have question: from where (title article or book) originate, Gumilev theory about Sveneld?--Polelum 15:27, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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We are still hoping to see you back

Wikipedia with...

...and without Ghirla.

Dear Ghirla, we miss you here! Your vast diamond-quality contributions, your principled stand against various cranks and cooks, you felicitous remarks at various boards helped in forming the Wikipedia what it has become. I understand that you left due to stress and you would have been back if you were over it. So, I am not trying to rush you. Please take all the time you need to forget the stressful part but do come back when you are ready. Hope this will happen sooner... --Irpen 03:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thoroughly seconded. Haste ye back! I've got a good idea about why en.wikipedia isn't all that enjoyable a place for you and you should take all the time away you need, but you are sorely missed. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 23:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I hope, there is still a chance at some point, that you would come back. But in the meanwhile, I hope all is well and you enjoy other things in life. --Irpen 00:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

A small detail

Hello Ghirla,

I just came across your 28-Feb-2006 comment on the Knyaz talk page, where you state that "There are no Slavic loans from Celtic, as best I know."

There are commonalities, but I don't know that I would refer to it as borrowing from one people to another. Consider, for example, the Gaelic name "MacGowan". The first syllable in the Gaelic "Mac" changes (called a mutatation), depending on its location in a sentence, and so is often spelled Mhic (the vowel becomes short, and the M mutates to a V), and it is pronounced Vic. Slavs put this at the end of a name, and Gaels put it before the name, but it is the same word, which you certainly recognize. Now, if you recognize Gowan as Kowal, then the name makes sense.

Regards, 24.178.228.14 (talk) 18:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Your kind note

Thank you for your very kind note on my Talk: page, it is much appreciated. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Dovmont

Hello! Could You move Daumantas of Pskov to Dovmont. I saw You were arguing for this move. I agree with You. 81.7.98.250 (talk) 06:47, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Uzbeks

Dear Ghirla,

I saw that you worked on the Uzbek people article. User:E104421 who is known for his Pan-Turkist bias and who is on a 1RR parole because of his edits in various Turkey- and Turks-related article has recently vandalized the Uzbek people article, deleting at least 5 academic sources: [8]

I have reverted his recent vandalism, but someone else with more experience should watch the article. The mentioned user is also deleting academic sources from other articles whenever he feels that those sources are against his nationalist views: [9].

Thank you for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.159.59 (talk) 23:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

• Hi, Ghirlandajo. The message posted above is from the banned User:Tajik. Please note that [[10]] and [[11]]. Btw, you're always welcome. I appreciate your work on Eurasian nomads related topics. Regards. E104421 (talk) 11:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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Mons

I made changes, now refering from Mons family:

• Anna Mons (1672 - 1714)
• Willem Mons (1688 - 1724)
• Natalia Lopukhina (1699 – 1781)

I started articles in German Wikipedia.

Yours sincerely, Simplicius (talk) 21:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Russian-language/cyrillic expertise needed

I'm currently copyediting vampire, which includes quite a few sources in Russian and other slavic languages. Would you be so kind as to review my reference formatting to make sure I didn't do any major mess? Circeus (talk) 21:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

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Christmas

A merry Christmas to you, Ghirlandajo! I hope to see you here again in future! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Buon Natale e buon anno! Giano (talk) 20:44, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

And s nastupayushchim from me! --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 21:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

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Happy NY

All the best and an ardent New Year celebration, --Brand спойт 22:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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Icon Covers

Ghirla, Happy Christmas & New Year! If you are still doing new stuff here, we could really use a short article on the precious metal icon-cover - I can't even remember the proper name for them. All the best. Johnbod (talk) 20:23, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Ghirlandajo, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success and happiness! ...and of course, to see you here again! ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Franco-Mongol alliance

Hi Ghirla! Your opinion would be highly appreciated at some of the current discussions at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance. Best regards. PHG (talk) 08:44, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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HI

Hi Ghirlandajo. I am again being attacked by Elonka and some of her supporters at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Franco-Mongol alliance/Workshop. Could you kindly give your opinion? Thank you. PHG (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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Images

Hi Ghirla, I noticed you were the uploader of Image:Vasnetsov samolet.jpg. The textile arts project is running a featured portal drive and I've been doing a lot of image restorations. You've uploaded tons of images; if something else of yours relates to textiles and might become feature-worthy with a restoration, please drop me a link. Must be at least 1000px on a side and have good focus without .jpg artifacting. I can take care of dust and scratches. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 20:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Serious problems with the Soviet/Afghanistan article

Ghirla:

Lately there have been a lot of problems in the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan article. Two users, Raoulduke47 and Scythian1, are making all sorts of misbalanced, confused statements in the article. They are turning it into a farce.

I think my most recent edits (check the history) are the most objective way of handling the article, but these other two posters are blanking my edits and turing the article into a flame war.

They are claiming that the Soviet Union collapsed because of a "military defeat" in Afghanistan, and that the war had a "profound" and traumatic impact on the USSR.

They are citing an article published in 1999 to support their views. The views of the article's authors are isolated, and are regarded as farfetched by almost all other authorities on the subject.

From the way Raoulduke47 and Scythian1 write the article, you'd think they were talking about the impact of WW1/Brest-Litovsk or the 1241 Mongol invasion. They don't understand that the Afghan intervention was desultory skirmishing...just a sideshow to what was really happening in the USSR and the world at the time.

Isn't there any way the misblanced views of these contributors can be controlled?

Kenmore (talk) 20:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I would like to interject. If there is any unbalance, it is your unexplainable insistance on removing sourced and referenced articles that goes against the traditional and well-established rules of Wikipedia. Your edits, viewable to all, have outright POV toward the Soviet/Russian position, demonstrating your motive in removing "defeat" in the Soviet-Afghan War article. Wikipedia is encylcopedic in nature and not ambiguious for a reader to make improper inferences based on murky words like "withdrawl." To take Kenmore's position would subject editors to use vague terms of no concise accuracy, leading users to make improper inferences on murky words. This is in gross contravention to the nature of Wikipedia which welcomes sourced references over speculation. Scythian1 (talk) 22:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I have already explained why: 1) your sources are inadequate, and 2) why the sources should not form the cornerstone of the article’s perspective. Harvard historian Richard Pipes is regarded as the world’s leading Soviet/Russian scholar, and his views are far different than those of Reuveny and Prakash (whom you cite). So why brush aside Pipes in favor of Reuveny and Prakash? Ditto for Mark Urban. Urban’s book “War and Afghanistan” is widely regarded as one of the best and most reliable accounts of the Soviet-Afghan situation, and Urban’s conclusions are far different than those of your “sources”. So why ignore Urban? I could list dozens of other leading scholars to support my claim as well.

Reuveny and Prakash’s article is not very good. I knew a student at Johns Hopkins and when I asked him about the article, he laughed and called its argument “far fetched.” Reuveny and Prakash’s article is simply not a respected scholarly work on this subject and it should not be used as the basis of a Wikipedia account of the Soviet-Afghan epoch.

The other “sources” you cite – Viorst, Hilali, and Daugherty – consist of just isolated remarks in books that do not directly concern what happened on the ground in Afghanistan or in Soviet society following the war. Those books concern subjects that are tangential to the Soviet-Afghan conflict. To use these “sources” to set the tone and flow of the article is irresponsible.

My perspective is not pro Russian/Soviet either. I am merely trying to establish the truth about the Soviet-Afghan epoch. Richard Pipes, after all, is known for being vehemently anti-Soviet and he’s not especially sympathetic to post-USSR Russia, either. Yet even Pipes does not make the ridiculous, far fetched claims that Reuveny and Prakash do.

There was no Soviet military defeat in Afghanistan (read Urban). There war had no “profound” effect on Soviet society (read Pipes). Your sources – and the irresponsible claims you make based on those sources – need to go. Kenmore (talk) 01:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

File:David,larry.JPG		My RFA
		Thank you muchly for your support in my recent request for adminship, which was successfully closed on 76%, finishing at 73 supports, 23 opposes and 1 neutral. The supports were wonderful, and I will keep in mind the points made in the useful opposes and try to suppress the Larry David in me! Now I'm off to issue some cool down blocks, just to get my money's worth! Kidding btw. Hope you decide to come back here properly in the not too distant future. Really! All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Krasnoi peer review

Ghirla:

Could you take down or delete the "Battle of Krasnoi Peer Review" page you created in 2006? Very few people contributed to it, and right now it's just litter visible to anyone who does a "Krasnoi" google search. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Battle_of_Krasnoi

I still intend to improve the Battle of Krasnoi and Battle of Vyazma articles in the future, by the way. They will definitely reach "A" status before long.

Thanks. Kenmore (talk) 12:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Russian routes

Hi, Ghirla! Would you be interesting in providing a comment on this? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

This is outrageous, isn't it? --Ghirla^-трёп- 09:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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Possible WP:FPC

beautiful file, short on information

Ghirla, here's hoping this is up your alley. Found a beautiful image file on Commons in a clear high resolution version that might be featured picture material, but the voters will want more background than the uploader provided. Would you or one of the other Russian editors be able to help out? And perhaps conominate? Best regards, Durova^Charge! 19:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy Easter, the Lord is risen! Христос воскрес!

I suppose you may not want to answer this until your own Easter, but still felt like wishing you the best on this day. Feel free to delete this or transfer it to a later header on your own Easter, by the way.--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 18:01, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, Христос Воскресе! From your "confrontational" friend Biruitorul (talk) 02:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Mykola Pymonenko, "Easter morning prayer in Little Russia", 1891, Oil on canvas, 133x193 cm, Rybinsk Museum-Preserve of History, Architecture and Art, Rybinsk, Russia.

Happy Easter, Ghirla! Hope to see you back here when the time is right for you. --Irpen 08:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Winter Palace

Can you keep an eye on this, my Russian history can be a little vague and awry at times. Thanks Giano (talk) 11:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

"Ho ho" to you too. Giano (talk)

Anyone know what happened here Image:Télipalota.jpg the date says 1879, the fore was in 1837, and the off course the strorming much later - any of your Russian friends have any good interior shots? Giano (talk) 14:19, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

The image shows Winter Palace after the attempte assasination of Alexander II by Stephan Khalturin. I was given an extremely nice book "Interiors of Winter Palace in the 19th century paintings". I intend to upload many of the illustrations to wiki but I need to buy a new scanner for this. The book has A4 format (many illustrations are on double pages) and my scanner could only take something smaller and it is a pain to combine a single image out of a few scans Alex Bakharev (talk) 21:55, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Alex - can you scan them onto a disc at the local library - or something like that (I have not a clue if that is possible but it sounds like the sort of thing computer literatate people do) - However, I would appreciate any help or advice from Ghirlandajo, you or your compatriot's here [12]. Giano (talk) 08:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you ask User: Иван Ожерельев, on the Russian Wikipedia, if he has any more images of the Winter palace that he could upload, he has uploaded two very good ones which I have stolen - so he may have some more. I wish you would materialise back here! Giano (talk) 15:46, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

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The Winter Palace

It would be immensely helpful to the project, and me, if you made a brief return to proper editing and wrote Elizabethan Baroque. You are the best one to do it, and I trust your edits as much as any reference book, probably more than one or two I can think of - what do you say? Giano (talk) 17:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Russia Pictures

I was in Russia in the fall of 2006 and took thousands of pictures. Some are in your area and I saw your picture of Sergiyev Posad. I was there also and would appreciate it if you can help identify some of the images I took. --Ted-m (talk) 02:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Zhivoy (film)

Would you mind improving the arcticle I did on Zhivoy (film)? The article Ru:Живой (фильм) is a bit larger.--Ted-m (talk) 02:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Mstislav and Kuthen

I have been told you are an authority on Russian history.Hopefully, you will be able to help me out.I edited an article on Philippa of Hainault,whose maternal ancestry can be traced back to Elizabeth of Bosnia,who was the daughter of Kuthen,Khan of the Cumens and his Russian wife,a de Halicz/Galicie who is said to have been the daughter of Mstislav,Prince de Halicz (1175-1228)but the article on Mstislav in Wikipedia seems to indicate that she may have been his granddaughter.We need to link her to someone because many people are wondering who exactly she was and her precise relationship to Mstislav.Thank you very much.jeanne (talk) 14:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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{{Template:Television_in_Russia}}

Hi. I noticed you made a few edits to this a while ago. The template has changed recently, in a way I think is detrimental. If you have any opinions on what it's content or form should be, some input from you may be useful. Thanks Ha! (talk) 17:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Channel One (Russia)

Could I ask you to make a pass through Channel One (Russia)? I did my best to clean up the citations, but my Russian is really minimal (it might be maybe my 10th-best language; I don't usually even count it); I made some use of Google Translate to try to understand some of the footnotes (though I didn't always follow it literally) and I did my best to cut some that really obviously did not meet our "reliable sources" criteria; I have my doubts about some of the ones that remain. Anyway, I think it could use some attention from a native Russian speaker who is also a good Wikipedian, hence my request to you. - Jmabel | Talk 23:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

To my dear friend

In case you'll be concerned that I've gone from the Russian wiki, please, don't worry. I'll continue editing here. Maybe after a break, but I shall. Cmapm (talk) 22:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome

Good morning Ghirla! You are very welcome, but thanks for what? Ciao, Alex2006 (talk) 09:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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Ondine

May I alert you to a discussion on merging Ondine (Sir Frederick Ashton ballet) into Ondine (Henze)! — Robert Greer (talk) 18:38, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Poklonnaya Hill

Hi, noticed you are the primary contributor in the article. Can you please use some inline citation in this article? Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 07:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Lydi(y)a Masterkova

She is known in the West as Lydia Masterkova. See [13]. WWGB (talk) 10:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Lidi(ya) is not the same as Lidya, is it? It's like Maria and Mara: sounds alike, but different names nevertheless. --Ghirla^-трёп- 11:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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Giano Debacle

For those of us unfamiliar with this, could you enlighten?Balloonman (talk) 06:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

You will find a good summary by googling for "Giano II". --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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Trebizond Gospel

Hallo, it is nice to meet you again. Now I have another question. Every biblical manuscript has a symbol number according classification Gregory-Aland. I do not know what is symbol number for the Tribezond Gospel. There is List of New Testament minuscules, and I want to include the Trebizond Gospel to this list. You wrote an article ru:Фингалова пещера, I wrote pl:Grota Fingala, and also the monasteries of Athos, and the biblical manuscripts. Nice work. We have the same interests. By the way, can you correct ru:Список унциальных рукописей Нового Завета. We need articles: ru:Послания Павла, ru:Соборные послания. I can do that, but not quickly. Досвидания. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 11:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I found it, it is the Lectionary 243, l²⁴³ (Gregory-Aland), and it is not a minuscule codex. Now it is listed here: List of New Testament lectionaries. It was difficult to find it.

Mordvins & Volga Finns

Hey Andrey. Long time no talk. I've been working recently on the Mordvins and Volga Finns articles. The Mordvins article was moved last November to Volgaic Finns. However, I reverted the move yesterday after discussing it with Untifler at User talk:Untifler#Question. The problem is that some of the surrounding articles are still quite a mess. For example, Moksha people is totally unsourced and doesn't even mention the Mordvins at all. Same with Erzya people. I think these articles need to be fixed up, but I also think that the underlying problem is that these articles are not clear at all on whether the Moksha and Erzya are supgroups of the Mordvins, or distinct ethnic groups in their own right. Do you know the history behind the term "Mordvin"? Perhaps you could help me clarify it in these articles. Also, the article about Tyushtya is totally unsourced and largely confusing. Maybe you could assist me in this page as well. Finally, Volga Finns needs to be expanded. If the info from ru:Волжские финны is reliable, neutral, and sourced, I guess someone could translate at least part of it into English. Please let me know if you're too busy, but thanks in advance. Khoikhoi 21:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Nice to hear from you. I'm quite busy at the moment but will certainly look into the problem in a day or two. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Khoikhoi 06:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Any updates? Just curious. Khoikhoi 22:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to draw your attention to a contradiction. When speaking of two dialects of a language it seems strange the language is missing. Believe me there is no Mordvin language. Moksha and the Erzya do have little in common. Moksha and Erzya are separate languages and it has been already proved. Scottish English and US English may not exist without English itself. What kind of arguments you need to be cool about the problem? --Khazar II (talk) 21:15, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

You placed incorrect info in article Volga Finns. Next time pls check Britannica first. --Numulunj pilgae 14:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Just ignoring messages, eh? Please explain why? --Khazar II (talk) 21:52, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Marina Semyonova

Hey,

Do you have a source (perhaps in Russian?) that she made it to 100 years old so that we can re-add her with a proper reference to the List of centenarians? I checked, but I couldn't find one (and I don't read Russian), so I was wondering if you had or knew of one. Cheers, CP 20:32, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a special show at the Bolshoi tonight at which she is slated to be present.[14] --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll re-add her. Cheers, CP 23:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Nabokov on Ozhegov

Hello Ghirla, I was wondering where Nabokov wrote about Sergei Ozhegov[15] because I would like to read it. Could you please cite it in the article. Thanks in advance. Regards, dvdrw 01:46, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Nabokov's negative attitude toward the Ozhegov volume has registered with me. You can't expect me to remember the source of this particular quote, though, more than three years after the edit. Not sure if it's of any help but Ozhegov's dictionary is called "moronic" in "Ada", and Nabokov ironically contrasts it with Dahl's in this little piece from 1972. --Ghirla^-трёп- 20:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for revisiting this. I asked because I just bought a pocket edition Ozhegov's dictionary, my first Russian-Russian dictionary, and looked up Ozhegov online afterwards, because it was the only portable one at the store that wasn't a spelling dictionary. I may not have bought it, and bought another had I read this beforehand. It seems ok to me, but this just reminds me to read more Nabokov too. Anyways, I hope everything is going well for you. Regards, dvdrw 21:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Orkhon Valley/Orkhon Province

Hi, some years ago you added "Parts of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape are situated in this province." to the Orkhon Province article. Was this just a guess, or do you happen to have some source for the claim? Most of the significant parts of this world heritage site seem to be situated much further south. Regards, Yaan (talk) 22:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Petrozavodsk

Hi, Ghirla! Could you, please, explain, what in the world crossed your way in the Petrozavodsk article? Looking at the edits which allegedly "have no merit whatsoever", I actually see a mix of edits, some of which indeed have no such merit, some are fairly useful, some are mostly technical, and some are not very important but do no harm nevertheless. If you want to clean up the article, why not just clean up the truly problematic parts, whatever they are, instead of reverting to some random edit from the past? And what's up with the infobox? I don't know if I should be surprised that one day you hate the whole infobox concept, the other day you love them, and the following day you are back to hating them again, but this particular one happens to be quite complete and well-developed. You should know very well that if you take this infobox out, some poor well-intentioned soul will add it back weeks or months later, except that it will be one part empty and the other part filled with stuff that's laughably inaccurate. You and me might not be around at the time to fix it. What good will that do?

Anyway, I restored the article in its most recent condition. If there are some urgent problems I am just not seeing but which you don't have time to fix yourself, please post a list of them on the article's talk page. I'll try to have them fixed without such drastic measures as whole-sale reversals.

Nice to see you back, by the way. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 01:46, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Russian text on a memorial monument

Thanks, Ghirla, for confirming my Language Ref Desk query today. I'm gaining more confidence with reading and typing Cyrillic but remain at the level of individual letters, relatively few words, and zero grammar. As my in-house Russophone colleagues haven't much English, I prefer checking these subtle texts here. Your contribution is appreciated! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 17:53, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Another church in the City

Good morning Ghirla! I wrote another article about a church in Constantinople. Ciao, Alex2006 (talk) 05:46, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, I will probably provide a summary account in Russian Wikipedia, as I did with the others. --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Orangemarlin RFAR

Per ruling of the arbcom here: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Orangemarlin#Arbitrator_views_and_discussion an RFAR on Orangemarlin has been opend here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#User:Orangemarlin. You are invited to submit your evidence and statements.. — Rlevse • Talk • 16:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Economy of Russia

Ghirla, Hello! I have been looking at the article Economy of Russia for some time now, and feel like it could use some major improvements. This actually motivated me to register: however, I’m new around here and don’t want to do anything too major without the guidance and support of a wikipedia veteran. You seem to be the only person on Economy of Russia’s talk page Talk:Economy of Russia who is currently active, so I decided to send you a message. Apart from putting in citations/citations needed tags, checking for accuracy of numbers, etc. some major things I’d like to do (or see happen) are 1.moving a large amount of the information into an Economic history of Russia page, and adding a lot of missing information about what has happened in the past 2-3 years. So, I have two questions for you. First, do you have any advice for me before I start doing anything drastic? Also, if I created a list of possible changes to Economy of Russia (since there are so many changes that need to be done) would I post that on the talk page, or would it belong somewhere else? Thanks, Dettoaltrimenti (talk) 09:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC) P.S. I hope I posted this right on your talk page... sorry if I didn't.

Yeah, it's all right. See the answer on your talk page. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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Kaliningrad

Hello. Could you please move Königsberg Schlossteich to current name? I see there is a Russian interwiki, but can't read azbuka properly. Thanks. - Darwinek (talk) 09:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

fr:Suyab

Hi Ghirla !

I've tried to translate your interesting article about Suyab. What do you think about the translation? If there is anything false, feel free to correct the mistakes. Thanks. Necrid Master (talk) 20:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Taking down a peer review page

Hello Ghirla:

I believe you created the Battle of Krasnoi peer review page in 2006. Can you explain to me what I have to do to delete it completely? I do not want people to find it when they do a "krasnoi" google search. Please advise. Thank you. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Battle_of_Krasnoi

Kenmore (talk) 03:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure. We usually do not delete peer reviews without a pressing need for this. If a privacy involved, I could probably speedy delete the review (but you have to explain the reasons by E-mail to me. Otherwise you could file WP:MfD for the review but I am not sure about the results. If you care only of Google search result you could probably blank the page without deletion. If nobody object to blanking then it would stay this way. Alex Bakharev (talk) 21:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Fish farming

Hey Ghirla, what is this aggression and rudeness actually about? I certainly don't "own" Fish farming. You say the article is in a "sorry state". Please explain what you mean. As far as the template you refer to, there are another sixty of those templates relating to fishing and fisheries. Each one has a lead menu item which goes to the lead article for that template. The lead article and the template share the same image. This works across 900 articles in the fishing and fisheries project, and no-one has ever complained before. --Geronimo20 (talk) 06:10, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Blachernitissa

Good Morning Ghirla! I wrote a small article about the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae, and I have a question for you about the Icon of the Blachernitissa. In the related article it is written that the Icon escaped the distruction of the church and was brought first to the Athos and then to Russia. Now, none of my sources mentions this fact, but they say that all the relics burned in the fire which destroyed the church. According to your knowledge, is this translation of the Icon documented, or is only a legend? Many thanks, Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 07:19, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks! But then should not we mention it in the article? Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 08:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Alex2006 (talk) 09:44, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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I can, but have no time for doing that. It's uploader's job. Thank you for fixing. By the way your talk page is very very long!--OsamaK 17:31, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I think we actually agree on something: you may wish to weigh in here. Biruitorul ^Talk 22:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Молодец! Отлично!

Молодец! Отлично! The words in the subject/headline and in the first lines of this paragraph are what my instructors have been writing on my homework, and so I write them to you for your excellent work here, and on ru:. I hope you don't mind that I nominated Ivan Pyryev for DYK after expanding it a little myself. Feel free to improve or rewrite the hook.[16] Regards, dvdrw 02:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Очень интересный.[17] Good question, why are they there [maintaining the site]; and it extends to us, why are we here [maintaining this site]? I wonder that myself. Even though that is a pop culture site, it is somewhat a shrine which makes the question seem metaphysical to me. I know this may sound bad but however much I love Russian films I haven't seen any of Pyryev's. I can't find any in my town. Personally, I enjoy reading about films as much as watching them. My work on the article was more an exercise in translating, and finding footnotes. Regards, dvdrw 01:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Pushkin House - thank you

Thank you for your recent work on the above article. It looks alot better now and I'm definitely not as confused as I was before. Jasynnash2 (talk) 08:37, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

DYK

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DYK - Ivan Pyryev & Nikolay Likhachov

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Copyright query

Hi Ghirla, someone came to me with a question about a really famous photograph and whether it remains in the public domain under the new Russian copyright law: Image:The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg. We can't find the photographer's name Googling English language sources. It looks like we'll need the photographer's name and date of death to determine whether this is still public domain. Otherwise, unfortunately, it needs to be deleted from Commons and reloaded locally to en:wiki with restricted placement per fair use guidelines. Could you assist with this research? I'd really like to keep this on Commons if we can. Best wishes, Durova^Charge! 05:57, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Golenishchev

I just noticed that your excellent photo of this Russian scholar/professor needs some updating: Image:Golenishchev.jpg Perhaps, you or Rudget knows the correct tag for it? Regards, Leoboudv (talk) 04:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

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Alexei [sic] Fyodorov

Dear Ghirla, please accept my belated but sincere thanks for your input on this perennial question. I once went as far as consulting the Slavic languages staff at the U.S. Library of Congress for advice on romanization of Cyrillic titles, but I think proper names are in a class by themselves and the jury's still out. I'll keep you in mind for future consultations, if you'd be so kind. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 13:02, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kirill Lokshin‎

You may be interested in this. Martintg (talk) 06:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Mikhail Pugovkin

Where did you get that his real name is Пугонькин? --Yuriy Lapitskiy ~ 16:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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Deny bots

Hi, Ghirla, how nice to again see your dauntless posts here and there around the site. About those imagebot posts that you don't care about... User:Tex explained to me that the {{nobots}} template doesn't work very well. But putting {{bots|deny=all}} on the page would probably keep the bots away. It seems to be working for me. Best, Bishonen | talk 21:08, 31 August 2008 (UTC).

• I am not sure it is a good idea. Your talkpage is on my watchlist and if I see an image of yours is about to be deleted and I can fix the problem I fix it. I think other people do the same. Otherwise many images would be deleted for no apparent reasons Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Ghirla, hi, we're currently working on the essay Wikipedia:Tag team. Since you have a fair bit of experience in dealing with these groups, I would like to invite you to come and participate in the writing of the essay. If you're not interested, no problem, but I did want to make sure you were invited. :) --Elonka 16:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

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Why would a Georgian minister say this?

Greetings, Ghirla, and thanks for your input on the discussion. I'm inviting you to look at what I added (in case you're not following the page). And colleagues express concern and wonder, "Why do you spend so much time on Wikipedia?"... much as I wonder, why do I spend relatively more time patrolling the Ref Desks rather than working on mainspace articles? Answer: because I do believe people read it, besides the Original Posters of queries (including the trollish sort), and there may be a way to get through to them. But it can get quite exhausting, y'know! As is living in a conflicted world. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 20:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

What do we have to do to get you back here?

Hey Ghirla, we haven't really bumped into each other in the past, and I have read various discussions which you have had with others, and can understand your reasons for all but giving up on en:wiki, but the question is what do we have to do to get back here, and I mean back here with a "vengeance" (so to speak). I have started a proposal at WP:RUSSIA to merge several projects into one main WP:RUSSIA project, and hopefully start laying the groundwork for getting WP:RUSSIA where it should be as a project. But, it is going to require people with sense, people with experience, etc, and I am hoping that you may be able to take a look at the proposal, and comment on it as necessary -- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia/Proposal -- one of the main things that we at en:wiki need to do is to obtain more able editors from ru:wiki -- I can understand Russian editors wanting to improve ru:wiki first and foremost, but if we are able to lay the right framework here on en:wiki, perhaps we can convince more editors from ru:wiki to come across here as well. To see major Russian articles, such as Russia, Russian language, Moscow etc not being WP:FA, it's a shame, and it will require a joint, group effort to improve these ever-important articles, so perhaps we can get some comments from you on the proposal, and maybe, just maybe, get you in on the project also, and lending your expertise on occasion also? Cheers --Russavia ^{Dialogue Stalk me} 15:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Please Check Out New Russian History Infobox

Hi. I know you pretty active when it comes to Russia related wiki so I wanted to bring your attention to new Russian history infobox that I made. I need your opinion and suggestions. Thanks. Zealander (talk) 00:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps: Mummy

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A Month in the Country (play)

Hello. If you have a moment, could you add the Russian alphabet version of the title of A Month in the Country (play) to its article? Many thanks, DionysosProteus (talk) 13:40, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

GA sweeps: Gnezdovo

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Fair use rationale for Image:Apollo&daphne.jpg

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Isn't Nabokov's translation of Lermontov's "Dream" a copyvio?

Hi. I noticed that among your many contributions to Mikhail Lermontov some years ago, you included Vladimir Nabokov's translation of a famous poem. Do you have some reason to believe this isn't a copyvio? Nabokov's works are still certainly under copyright, and his son is quite careful about defending those rights. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 23:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

• I would think that putting an attributed copyrighted translation of a short poem to the article about the author, for the pupose of critical commentary constitutes fair use as defined by the copyright law of the USA. Do not see any problem here. Obviously, If Nabokov's son would send as a take down notice, I would suggest to remove the translation rather than go to the court, but I find such events to be extremely unlikely Alex Bakharev (talk) 01:46, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. I hadn't considered fair use, and would have thought this definitely didn't qualify. You may understand these legal matters better than I do. However, if fair use is the justification, then the translation should meet all the critera at WP:NFCC, and it fails the first one: "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose." A new translation can certainly be created. So as soon as I have time, I'll replace the copyrighted translation with an unrhymed one that I'll make with the help of a dictionary and Nabokov's translation—unless someone else does it first. I hope that one or more Russian speakers will improve it, and in good wiki style, we'll end up with a decent translation. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 19:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Please correct it! —JerryFriedman (Talk) 18:15, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Dudinska.jpg

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Ferapontov Monastery

Андрей, почему Вы посчитали неинформативными добавления, сделанные 31 January and 17 February 2007? Заметьте: второе добавление стандартизитровало описание сайта ЮНЕСКО. На мой взгляд, ссылка на ту страницу сайта ЮНЕСКО, где содержится информация о монастыре, весьма информативна. Кроме того, я не пойму, почему неинформативна ссылка на фотографии монастыря. Заметьте, что та Ваша ссылка, которую я недавно поправила, указывала совсем не на Views of the monastery, а на его описание, да и кроме того - на русскую версию. -- Galina ovt 23 November 2008

Naming of Battle of Gangut and Battle of Grengam

Would you please help this poor guy from Norway who has lost his way in the Åland arhipelago. See Talk:Battle of Gangut. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 23:01, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ballet user box

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Old issue

Hello, found this as I'm having some concern regarding the contributions of Geronimo20. See my discussion page at User_talk:Wikigi#Fishing_templates and December 2008. It seems that the issue has been raised before by contributors like yourself and that all discussions have been later deleted by Geronimo20, he does edit his own talk page on a regular basis to remove all trace of conflicts or adverse opinions. Any support would be appreciated, thanks - Wikigi | talk to me | 22:38, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, would you a take moment to give your opinion here on the matter (removing of left-aligned images in some article lead, images often already within a navigation box), your previous position is being taken in consideration, thanks. - Wikigi | talk to me | 12:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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C новым годом!

We're watching, keep on good work! NVO (talk) 19:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Glad to hear. С Новым годом тебя тоже! --Ghirla^-трёп- 21:53, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Ghirlandajo, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2009 brings further success and happiness! ~ YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Although you aren't officially here anymore, your work lives on. Keep firing in the new year! YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Cathedral kronstadt.jpg

Hi Ghirlandajo. Could you give a better source for that file, and the year so we can establish public domain? Thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) 07:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

http://www.nlr.ru/exib/Kronstadt/show_img.php?n=11 --Ghirla^-трёп- 08:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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Leo Tolstoy

Hi Andrey, there's a discussion here about some of your edits, which I believe involved copying a public-domain text. Although that means there's no copyright issue, there's still the plagiarism aspect — given that the article's about a very important writer, it would be good if we could write it in our own words.

It would be very helpful if you could go through the text and attribute the parts of it that are taken from elsewhere. Then we can decide which bits to rewrite, and which to leave as quotations. Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:22, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I just noticed there's no plagiarism issue, so no worries on that front.[18] It would, however, still be nice if we could specify which parts are from that source. It would be helpful to do inline citing in case someone wants to clean up the article at some point. --JayHenry (talk) 00:33, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Andrey, I must apologize for calling this plagiarism, as I can see there's a credit to Mirsky at the end of the article. The issue is simply about having copied text, not of having tried to claim authorship of it. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kylfings

FAC that may interest you. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 16:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Dbachmann might also want to have a look. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Photo Bronzewar.jpg

This photo Bronzewar.jpg is captioned "The en:Bronze Horseman camouflaged from the German aircraft during the en:Siege of Leningrad, en:August 8, en:1941" and is used and similarly captioned in Bronze Horseman. I think 'camouflaged' is wrong and should be 'protected' or similar word. The statue is not meant to be hidden but protected. Camouflage is meant to blend with the surrounding and background which is not the case. GS3 (talk) 00:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Saransk

Sure. Done.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:36, February 17, 2009 (UTC)

Cornelius Cruys

Oh for the love of chicken! I don't know what part of the MOS requires that these images be unstacked, but you've created an unsightly gap in the article for no discernible purpose. The second image is not discussed in the article, so why do you persist? Is there something in the MOS that prevents what I did? Must you be so possessive and anti-social? -- Y not? 22:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I dislike stacks of images, but I don't believe that makes me "anti-social". There are other problems with your edits, such as bolding the subject;s name in the captions. P.S. How can one be "possessive" of an article on which he has made but two edits, both of them minor? --Ghirla^-трёп- 22:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Anti-social because you revert a lot instead of talking about it. How does your dislike of image stacks measure up against my dislike of gaps? -- Y not? 01:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

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