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[edit] Runet

• Приветствую! Можешь ли что нибудь про Австралию добавить в статью ru:Рунет? Спасибо. Мне писать лучше на мое русское обсуждение [1]. И с 8-м марта! :)) -- Vald 18:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] DYK

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[edit] DYK

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Thank you for your additions to the Nadezhda Durova article. Durova 17:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Allow me :)

I, Ghirlandajo, hereby award you this barnstar for your fine biographies of Russian artists and for your hard work on spotting new articles pertaining to Eastern Europe. Keep it up!

[edit] Thanks for the star

That made my day! :). --Irpen 06:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad you appreciate my work! I haven't had a chance to do much work on the metro lately, but hopefully I can get back to it. Camerafiend 16:22, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from me as well! Woohoo, my first star! It inspired me to write a host of new articles, and more will surely follow. Punkmorten 00:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Image:Merridien Web.JPG

I see that you have replaced Image:Merridien Web.JPG with Image:Merridien Web.png. This is good, since images with large blocks of solid colors (such as screenshots, maps, charts, flags, and so on) should almost always be saved as PNGs. But converting the JPEG directly to a PNG does not help much. When you save an image as a JPEG, compression artifacts are introduced into the image (you can see them in Image:Merridien Web.JPG as "blur" or "fuzz" in the blue bar at the top, for example). Converting the JPEG to a PNG does not eliminate these compression artifacts. So, if possible, you should take the screenshot all over again, and save it as a PNG this time instead of a JPEG. That will yield a smaller file size and a sharper image. Thank you for your help. —Bkell 05:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allow me

On behalf of all thankful Wikipedians I award you this Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas Thaumaturgus (Ukrainian: Орден Святого Миколи Чудотворця) 2nd class (the 1st class being awarded yet only to Микола himself). This is in recognition of your contribution in the "augment of the common good" ("За примноження добра на Землі") as per the order statute . Thank you! --Irpen 05:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

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Поздравляю с праздником Рождества! --Irpen 05:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks, Irpen. I am not sure I desreve all this. Thanks abakharev 06:53, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Alex, may I also thank you for your efforts, and wish you all the best! Please wear your award with pride - Introvert  ^? @ 09:39, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Alex, as for your worrying about whether you "deserved", you can see that I was fully objective. You deserved the 2nd class order in full. Did you see who got the first class BTW? I have yet to write the order article to rid your award from the disgusting red link. Will do, --Irpen 09:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--Gurubrahma 18:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup tag left without explanation

Regarding your edit here. Please explain why you added the cleanup tag in the article's talk page. Thank you. Aucaman^Talk 08:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AndriyK RfAr closed

The AndriyK RfAr has been closed. Until by consensus he has agreed to a suitable and mutually agreed naming convention using the guideline Wikipedia:Naming conflict, AndriyK is prohibited from moving pages, or changing the content of articles which relate to Ukrainian names, especially those of historical interest. AndriyK is banned for one month from Wikipedia for creating irreversible page moves. Andrew Alexander, AndriyK, and MaryMaidan are warned to avoid copyright violations and to cooperate with the efforts of others to remove copyright violations. Ghirlandajo is warned to avoid incivility or personal attacks.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Kelly Martin (talk) 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A challenge for you

Hi. I've recently accused your friend User:Kuban kazak of anti-Ukrainians trollism. In response, he raised a very interesting issue regarding all RU editors. So I suggest you to post your answer to my request there. I believe you have only two alternatives. Oh, and this would be a great post-voting test of your abilities as an admin. Thanks, Ukrained 20:25, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Sasha, that is if you need getting yourself involved in the issue "challenged" to you clearly in a bad faith. The appology has been issued. Those who reject it want an escalation. I would stay out if I were you. If Ukrained wants others' involvement, the right way to go is WP:RfC rather than targeting the singled out users in an embarassion way. But that's just my opinion, of course. Please also see this. --Irpen 21:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I have not got what two alternatives I have got, if you want any actions of me can you elaborate.

Yes, the adminship requires a clear understanding of one's alternatives when dealing with breaches of WP rules. Sorry, but could the lack of understanding those be the reason of your RfA defeat? Or rather your future defeats? Ukrained 18:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I have looked into the diffs you have provided. Both edits themselves seems to be made in good faith (and IMHO are beneficial to the articles). The edit summary to the first edit has an unfortunate personal attack that Kuban Kazak later apologized for. During my involvement with Wikipedia I have seen hundreds of personal attacks worse than that (quite a few of them against me). If I would reacted on all of them I would not have time to do anything productive. Thickness of your skin may be different from mine, so if you feel like this, you can follow the advise of Irpen and start an RfC. abakharev 21:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Please don't simplify things. That thikness of skin effectivelly defines the willingness of people to stay contributing on WP (with their time and money) under the pressure of trolls. Who knows how many readers and would-be newcomers left after witnessing the "deeds" of Ghirlandajo and Kuban Kazak? Protection of such "thin-skinned" users is a direct duty of admins (and candidates for it). But don't worry about my particular skin;) Ukrained 18:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

If you have any ideas how I can help with your grievances against Kuban Kazak, please share them with me. I frankly do not know how I can help you with these troubles. Otherwise take my advise to assume good faith (see WP:AGF) of other fellow editors and contribute. Once your contributions to Wikipedia would be comparable with Ghirlandajo's your complaints would be taken more seriously. abakharev 11:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It's OK, Alex. No more ideas about your help to anybody non-Russian :). And I've never complained to you. I just offered you (as well as all RU editors) an opportunity to clear your name after Kazak supposed that all of you are in a cabal.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Alex have just told me that newcomer contributors of WP should silently suffer the trollistic attacks by "old" users with large number of edits (no matter how uncivil they are). In Soviet/Russian society, it's called dedovschina. Few weeks ago a young RU recruit lost his feet and balls over a very same practice. Should we allow such ethics on Wikipedia? Ukrained 14:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Alex, I'm not going to bother you considering anything but editing (if needed). But if you're going to erase this section from your talk page, I'll restore it at my talk anyway. Старослужащий ты наш... Ukrained 14:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Ukrained, this is the most disgusting trolling I've seen from you, and frankly, I expected much better. Alex, I urge you not to respond. I see no reason why you should keep the trollish assaults at your talk page after this RfA is over. If someone trolls at my page I have no problem to remove the attacks (unlike constructive criticism). Let him, "restore this on his page". It speaks of no one but himself. I am sure such "votes" will help your RfA exposing some of those who would try to derail it to the unsuspecting voters who could otherwise be alarmed by what looks like a "controversy". Cheer up! --Irpen 00:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I am usually trying not to rewrite history. Everybody with eyes and brains can make conclusion for themself. The section will go to the archive at a due time. abakharev 00:36, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Vincent Kaminski refs

With present formatting, it's hard to know whether it's a reference or further reading. And external links are not references. Sorry to be so strict about this, but better that way then the other.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 05:32, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Too bad nobody's notified me of your RfA. I would have supported it. Halibutt 14:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Vasiliev

I really appreciate the information you added. I was deeply frustrated by how little I could find in English. However, I must admit I feel a little cheated by the redirect. First of all, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell's, and the bookstores that list his books on ABEbooks all use at least his middle initial. He is sometimes listed as "A.A." - see [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7003426102&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 an eBay auction] (dunno why it showed all the garbage; sorry) that just closed and sometimes as Alexander Alexandrovich, but I can recall exactly one listing that used his first name alone. I suggest that English speakers will be looking for the middle initial or name; that's why I put the full name at the beginning of the content.

It may be a bit petulant on my part, but your redirect just took the information I spent 5 or 6 hours painfully winnowing from the web, added stuff I didn't have access to - which I had hoped would happen - and made a new page (which I hadn't even imagined anyone would do!). Wouldn't it have been easier to edit my page? You had to edit my stuff anyway to add in yours. I intended to do pages on some more Russian authors whose works are highly regarded in the west, while I'm still focused on the Middle Ages. This is not going to encourage me to do all the work required, trust me. Maybe I should just make stubs. Then you can do an article, and make a redirect from the stubs?

By the way, every time I do a preview, the software complains at me about the length of your page. Am I mistaken that it is usual to delete old information? You've got stuff that's 6 months old in here. I've left the welcome message in mine because I don't think I need 19 different welcomes. As soon as there's other stuff in there, it'll go. I guess my experience working with scholarly manuscripts has something to do with my drive for tidyness. :-P --Tygerbryght 06:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your speedy response. I guess my nightowl hours make it more convenient for people on the other side of the globe. I worked - or at least I thought I did - from the stub. I had gone looking for information once I made the decision that Vasiliev was where I should start reading Byzantine history (to date I've been reading almost entirely about medieval western Europe). As I said, the conventional representation (in the U.S., at least) is, if a middle name or initial is known for for a prominent individual, it is used. That is, unless they show a strong preference for it not to be used, as the first President Bush did. There are several other authors named Vasiliev whose works have been published in English, including another whose first name begins with A. As I said, it's the convention here. I'd want to ask some of my British friends before stating categorically that they do it the same way. However, most of my male Brit acquaintances use their middle initials. Maybe we should ask someone to referee? :) I'm perfectly willing to have someone else make the decision. I'm a newbie here. I do, however, have a rather long history with both computers and the web (since Arpanet days). I hope I'll be able to master the conventions/customs here soon. I can see a number of areas where I can usefully contribute.

I would suggest that Russian naming conventions should be followed (and I assume they are) on the Russian language Wiki, and that perhaps our naming conventions should take precedence in the English language Wiki. I don't know how the pages for any of my favorite authors appear in the Russian Wiki, although I'd be very interested to know how Lois McMaster Bujold's and Mary Doria Russell's pages look (if they exist), since each of them identifies herself using her maiden name for a middle name!

How would you feel about my creating stubs for the Russian authors not in the English Wiki, for you (or another Russian-speaker) to fill in? I could let you know that I'd done it, and place a watch on them. After they'd been written, I could then go back to see if there was any commentary that could usefully be added for western readers of those authors' works (and double-check the English, not that you seem to need help in that regard!). As I said in my intro (I think dated Sunday; it's hard to keep the Greenwich time in my head to be sure when I did it), I've been reading medieval history for more than a year now, and there are several Russian authors whom I feel should have pages here. I plan to go back and check to make sure that the other medievalists whose works I've read are also represented here. That is likely to take some time, even without the other areas where I hope to contribute.

Oh yes, sorry if I sounded snarky in my earlier comments. Since I asked for others to look at it, I expected to hear from them before they made changes. Maybe that was foolish of me. --Tygerbryght 08:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kronstadt

Can you take a look at the recent additions? They may need wikification and NPOVing. --Ghirla | talk 11:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Shereshevskii

I'm the author of the article S.V. Shereshevskii. Thanks for the tags :D. I just wanted to know how to make the article to appear in the Wikipedia search engines with just typing "Shereshevskii", which is a fairly simple and common way to call this guy. If you type "shereshevskii" you only get the article "Eidetic memory", ugh... --GTubio 22:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks but I actually wanted it to appear when you search for it (by clicking the Search button, instead of Go). It still doesn't appear in the search results. I was wondering if you knew how to fix that :P --GTubio 23:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I've read Luria, and it seems all the information in this article can be found in his (original) work. Do we really need this second book? It seems to be just one of dozens of cheesy books on memory who have referenced S., always from Luria's work. 70.49.242.106 02:18, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lydia Chukovskaya

I've been thinking about nominating the article to WP:DYK all day but can't think of any worthwhile nomination. Perhaps you will find some interesting fact about her. --Ghirla | talk 18:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CARTOONS OF MOHAMMED

Showing the figures of Mohammed is disturbing muslims. And it is a insult to Islam. In Islam making and also looking the figures of Mohammed is forbidden.That is raping the holy things of Islam.And it is not about "freedom".PLEASE get back your sıgnature.Thanks.--Erdemsenol 01:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Thanks!

Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final vote count consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plastics

Hi there! Would you be able to help out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers? --HappyCamper 02:07, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship Vote

I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my successful adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 07:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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[edit] Dmitri Smirnov

Hi ... I saw you put a notability marker on the Dmitri Smirnov article I started ... maybe valid, I'm not sure. I had never heard of him, but came across him as the composer and librettist of an opera called Tiriel that I was making a note of in the article on Blake's character, and as is my habit ... if I need to look something up, I first look on Wikipedia, and if it's not there, I add it. I see Smirnov's Solo for Harp won First Prize in a competition in Maastricht in 1976, but I don't know if this is enough for Wikipedia notability. His publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, is very reputable — I'd guess that might be enough? What are your thoughts? In general I'd rather err on the side of generosity, "all the world's knowledge" as it says. — Stumps 17:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 12 February - 18 February

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

FC Dynamo Kyiv has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

[edit] My RfA

Thank you Hello abakharev, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 63/4/3. I am honoured by the community support and pledge to serve the project as best as I can. CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 17:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi Alex. Thank you for the work on Jacobi method and Gauss-Seidel method. They were in really sorry shape before you got there, and now they look good. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for supporting my RfA. It was successful and I hope to be a good administrator. Essexmutant 11:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Спасибо!

Thanks for taking the time to vote in my RfA, which passed with a final vote of 54/2/1 despite my obvious inadequacy for the job. I'll do my level best to use the mop and bucket — or, as I said in my RfA, plunger — responsibly. Of course, in the best tradition of politicans everywhere, I've already broken a campaign promise (I blocked a vandal last night despite having said "I don't anticipate using the blocking tool very often"). Nevertheless, I'll try not to let the unbridled power corrupt me.

(Я занимался русским языком в средне школе, но забыл болшенство того что Я однажно знал.)—Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Email

Hi, Alex. I sent you an email yesterday through wikimail, but since servers were acting up all day, I just want to make sure you received it alright. No need to reply to it right away, but if you could just let me know you've got it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 16:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Russian politicians

Hi, Alex, your comments are noted. In English, we do not normally use patronymics in referring to Russians (in fact middle names are rarely used except to distinguish between people of the same names) which is done on Wikipedia with parenthetical references (actor) or the like. US Presidents (FDR, JFK, DDE, WMN) are also an exception, as are most criminals especially executed or deathrow inmates. Any way, I took some time (and will do some more) to enhance the Russian politicians entries and get them categorized and alphabetized. It's a real learning experience. Carlossuarez46 17:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for your comment on the talk page. Two questions I have, maybe there is consensus among Russian editors: 1. transliteration of names: should we use the "usual" English style (e.g., "Alexei" over "Alexey"; "Alexander" over "Aleksandr") or use the opposite. Usually, I will not change these from whatever exists, even if most of the source material in English language differs from the article title. However, if I find a Russian government site that has a transliteration, I will assume that it is somehow "official" and change the article's title. 2. an interesting coincidence on Alexander Tkachyov politician versus Alexandr Tkachyov gymnast -- in Russian, the first names are identical, so I am somewhat unhappy leaving them different in English. However, either patronymics or job descriptions would need to be added to one or both, so I have left them with a disambig header for someone better (you?) to solve this. I have also had a difficult time finding source material in English for some of the governors of less well visited regions, but I am trying to put in a one-liner to get the subject some humanity, rather than just a resumé. Carlossuarez46 22:14, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

It was a surprise to find the 2 Tkachyov entries. I will let the consensus determine whether patronymics should be used or job descriptions should be used (as is typical for English-named people, but sometimes only for the lesser known one Ann Lee vs. Ann Lee (singer)). Of course that leads to the "who is better known" argument and for whom is that person better known, but given that the gymnast has a real article and the politician has just a stub, I can guess who wins :-) Carlossuarez46 22:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Quick question: can I move article LDPR group in the Duma to better name List of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia deputies in the State Duma which is a mouthful but is more in line with getting rid of acronyms in article titles and clarifies which Duma, and that these are deputies by party name. Let me know, or feel free to suggest a different title or object, or whatever. Carlossuarez46 17:49, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ru:

I have a small favour to ask. Would you be able to add a translation to commons:User:Pfctdayelise/Translations? It's only two short lines. I would appreciate it. :) Thanks, pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou! :D This is just my little project (although it might get incorporated into a bot, yay), but if you ever get the urge to translate dozens of documents, there's a small pile waiting at commons:Commons:Translation coordination core. *grins* cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA #2

—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA Thanks!

Thank you! Hello Alex Bakharev/Archive2, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 08:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou!!

as a way of saying thanks, I give you this plasma lamp to gaze upon.

Thanks for nominating Thorpdale, Victoria for DYK! It's so exciting to see something I wrote (and photographed) on the main page. It's almost like a featured article, but without all the effort. ;)

I lived there when I was little (like, five years old) and my grandparents and my mother's siblings' families still live there. So, yeah, I consider this my moment in the sunshine. *grins*

Incidentally I see you're running for admin again. At the moment it doesn't look good, but the tide can change. I have to say that out of all the processes on WP (AfD, copyright, arbitration...), adminship is probably one of the nastiest and most poisonous. It must be one of the that can actually create ill-will where there was none before, and the politics of it just astound me. So, whatever the result, I hope you will remember how little it really contributes to the encyclopedia at the end of the day. Onward and upward. All the best, pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW nomination of your article has nothing with this and you could do it yourself just as easy.

Yes, I know; I have done it before. :) I think I self-nominated Capitol Theatre, Melbourne. And I have nominated others. But I don't patrol newpages on a regular basis. And it's a bit thrilling to have spontaneous recognition from others, don't you think? (Even if it is only "you wrote this and it isn't complete crap.") And my vote is not related to this, but this reinforced my impression of you. :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 13:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yodo

I will vote for you, don't worry since you are a cool guy. You are not like Ghirlo. --Yodo 14:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Whatever your honesty and honor suggests you, my Emperor abakharev 09:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] admin nomin

May I humbly suggest you to withdraw the nomination turned into humiliation (unless you are a masochist)? Don't you see these sicko Russophobes are turning it into circus again and thus influencing other random voters?

I, for one, hope that the current trollfest won't drive you away from Wikipedia. Such hunts did happen before and will happen in the future - it is inherent problem due to RfA structure. Pavel Vozenilek 21:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Why, I want to see how the things would develop. If anything else, it would provide me with a real life info for the discussion about the RfA reform and some insight to the motivations of some editors abakharev 09:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Precedents: User:Rl, User:Weyes. Pavel Vozenilek 14:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

The main thing is not change your mind about remaining here, if you get this RfA trolled. Russophobia is less common than it is prominent. I judge by knowing from my country. Even the Ukraine-Russia Gas Dispute, the recent milk-meat skirmish and other such events won't change the common sense among the great majority of people of my nation. That those exceptions are so prominent is simply because like any fanatics, they are very active. I am sure that there will be more than 3:1 support for you among Ukrainians. Generally, there have been cases that users left after RfA. I am glad it didn't happen after the last trollfest. --Irpen 10:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holodomor

Hi,

How about answering my question on Holodomor? I just want to responsibly cast a vote regarding your nomination.

With due respect, Sashazlv 20:11, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry for the delay, only now could get to the computer. Answered on the RfA and by E-mail abakharev 09:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Hi Alex, just a quick note -- I hope that you're not discouraged about the RfA process (trolling and puppets are just a lot of badness). You've made a lot of positive contributions that are appreciated by a whole heap of people, myself included. Many thanks for your hard work. -- Samir ∙ ^T_C 10:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Alex Bakharev/Archive2. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support. SoothingR 20:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How standards change

You are being grilled over nicely. It was so easy a year ago. A related question, which I didn't want to post on your RfA in order not to stirr some bad memories, but on which I am courious what your answer would be: what have you learned here and here? You may email me a response if you prefer.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 05:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AIV vs VIP

Hi Alex Bakharev/Archive2. I noticed you added an entry to Vandalism in Progress. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Vandalism in Progress are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) --lightdarkness ^(talk) 06:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey man, no worries :-) --lightdarkness ^(talk) 06:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your vote My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future. Martyman - 09:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sokol

Are the more than one city or village named Sokol in Russia/Ukraine/etc? I would then move the article and create disambiguation. Pavel Vozenilek 14:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

In Ukraine there is 4 villages named "Sokil" [2] [3] [4] [5]. See also serch for others city or village (Excuse me if has disturbed) --Yakudza 19:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll take care of it, Alex. There are also two active urban settlements in Russia called "Sokol", and one defunct one. Ukrainian villages should be mentioned there, but they need a dedicated Sokil dab. Funny as it may seem, I was on the verge of starting Sokol (disambiguation) when I saw Yakudza's message :) Speak about coincidences.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Pavel, Ezhiki and Yakudza. I was just populated the newborn Category:Vologda Oblast, then found that the link Sokol on the Sukhona River does not go to the town, but to the movement. Please add all the other Sokols and Sokils and create a disambig. abakharev 20:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for your support of my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA ultimately succeeded with a final consensus of 52/1/0, so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any comments regarding my editing, or I can help you at any point in the future, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!

[edit] Nazareth College

Sorry about that, I didn't notice the one-digit difference in the 2 IP addresses initially. I was actually just going through my recent contributions while double-checking reverts when I got your message. - dharmabum 01:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hyperboloid structures

I just spotted a new article obviously inspired by your entry on Vladimir Shukhov. It needs copyvio check, proofreading, and (possibly) may warrant DYK nomination. Cheers, Ghirla | talk 14:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

For your exemplary handling of both your first and second RfAs on top of the rest you have done for Wikipedia, I, Irpen, hereby award you the Order of Friendship of Peoples, as per statute, "for accomplishments in strengthening of inter-ethnic and international friendship and cooperation" in Wikipedia. The wide international support you received is the best proof of these accomplishments.

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 21:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Yay!!!! That was one rough ride, but you made it!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 21:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Great!!! I admire your staying cool during the process :-) --_Lysy^talk 21:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. mikka (t) 00:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! You have finally become an admin after a second try. I am very happy for you because you deserve this! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 13:54, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

On the occasion of you receiving a new mop and bucket from Wikipedia's inventory, I, Ezhiki, also present you with this VD486i Vedroid to assist you in your new administrative clean-up duties. Take care of it well for it's an expensive piece of equipment. As a "controversial administrator" you now also have the right to borrow the communal wheelbarrow for the occasions when you need to push POV :)

Thank you all guys! I would try to do my best to live up to my promises! I will write the formal thank you to everybody invlolved today. Thanks for the cleaning equipment, Ezhiki! abakharev 22:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Саша, от всей души поздравляю! (с тем, по крайней мере, что выборы позади :) Успехов и удачи! Don't forget to have fun too! :) - Introvert ~? 08:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Передаю казачье поздравление тезка! --Kuban Cossack 12:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations and all the best. --Bhadani 14:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

От всей души поздравляю и желаю всего наилучшего! (hopefully that is the right Russian phrase, but its been a few years since I last studied Russian. Anyways, congratulations!).--Alhutch 14:47, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, Mr. Alex "Admin" Bakharev! Congratulations on your successful nomination! Now you'll have to quit your full-time job and become one with Wikipedia :)! KNewman 15:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

How true it is, it is so happen that both my boss at my job and my wife at home, feel that spending less time on Wikipedia would help abakharev 07:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Alex, just wanted to wish you congrats for your successful RfA. Happy editing! Olessi 06:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not the photo you think it is...

Alex, that photo is not a GFDL image and also image:alex756-01-06.jpg is not on my user page, that is the vandalized photo (see the history to see what the vandal did) and I think it qualifies for speedy deletion and it should be deleted (since you are now an admin could you do it? I would hate to do it myself as it is an image of me and I originally posted it for use on my user page only, not for any other purpose). The image on my user page is image:alex756-01-05.jpg. I do not have free copyright on it and my artist friend will not release it, she beleives that artists should control their work and I respect her decision. I think I am allowed to use my own picture on my user page even if someone else took it, without getting a copyleft license, no? That does qualify as fair use as far as I can tell. Alex756 04:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

You can delete the whole image:alex756-01-06.jpg page, thanks. Alex756 04:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, tovarish. Alex756 05:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I like the image of George Costakis you put on the article. paula clare11:45, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ukraine Portal

Am I not allowed to give any background to an article I am annoucing? If no one knows what the article is about they are unlikely to want to help, and I want all the help I can get. Kevlar67 22:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your help! I am still trying to figure out everything around here... it seems like there's an infinite amount of information I should know, but it's good to know I'm not alone here. Mrrria 01:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spam ??

why do you call this link a spam !!

the encyclopedia of energy

put it back when u check it ... ! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.92.130.151 (talk • contribs).

• The article Energy is about the basic physics concept. The link you provided is one of a zillions possible links on the Alternative Energy Sources. It might be helpful for the Renewable energy, but in the main article energy it serves one single purpose - increasing visibility and the page rank of a web sight. This is the exact definition of the spamlinking abakharev 23:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for answering back , i'm new to wikipedia . can someone tell me when can i add an external links if its related to same topic without having it considered as a spam ? because this is the second time this happen to me , or i just have to go to the site and copy past the info to wikipedia . Again thank's a lot. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.92.130.151 (talk • contribs).

• Thanks for the question. I think it is a wrong approach - first find a link, then go to wikipedia and look where to insert it. Wikipedia is not a collection of links (see WP:NOT). I would rather look for the articles you are interested of and see how you can improve them. Sometimes it is by editing the text, sometimes it is by inserting links (or images) or you name it. Anyway the link should be either a reference showing the material you used in writing the article or it points out the material that should be in the article but could not be included by the copyright restrictions. In both cases that should be credible (preferably academical sources), if the article is about a controversial topic it is a good idea to include links to the both sides, even if they are biased.

• Another word of advise. Register an account. People tend to believe that many anonymous users are vandals or spammers. The registration require only a few seconds, but provide more possibilities like creating new articles, moving articles, editing semi-protected articles, using watch-lists, voting etc. abakharev

[edit] UPA

prosze nie wywolywać agresji na forum, prosze zaprzestać wypisywania klamstwa, prosze nie robić z drobnego wydarzenia opisanego we Wprost wielkiego wydarzenia bo to jest zaklamywanie historii !, od wyglaszania mowy pojednawczej jest Zarząd Gowny AK !, to co robicie to jest zwylka nazistowska robota, NIECH Ukraincy się sami najpierw pojednają, prosze nie wciągać do wlasnych rozgrywek politycznych POLAKÓW !, to jest NIEDOPUSZCZALNE 08:02, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry, my Polish is almost non-existent. If you want an answer please translate your question into English. Anyway I believe that you can communicate any hard facts or concepts without violations of WP:RULES. Alternatively you can use any of the zillions of internet forums there the rules are different or create your own forum. abakharev 06:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

[edit] RfA

It's too bad I was unavailable during your nomination. I logged in last night and found a mention of it on my user page. Regards, Durova 18:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Removing tags

Hello, thanks for your attention, I am just trying to stop attacks against Iranian articles by two or three contributers here, these are follow ups to these incidents mentioned here: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-02 Persian people Looks like we have to start one for Iranian people soon.. it is very sad that we dont have an admin willing to take an action against these attacks, unless you are willing to do so, thank you --Kash 02:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Aucaman

Dear admin, User:Aucaman chronically participates in repeatedly violating the 3rr policy, placing numerous dispute tags on articles, [unstoppable] possible sneaky vandalism, repeated violation of the personal attack policy by referring to multiple users as `racist` and other, going against the over-whelming consensus, refusing to compromise, and single-handedly hijacking this and two more articles. He has been engaged in a systematic campaign of misinformation, maliciously editing/disputing Persian people, pushing his POV, ignoring the majority consensus and authoritative sources, trying to establish new 'facts" based on his own personal assumptions, political beliefs, and racist comments. [6] He also repeatedly engages in racially-motivated personal attacks and possibly vandalizes the Persian people article which has resulted in the protection of page. Seemingly, he has single-handedly disrupted the integrity of the page in question, and perhaps other articles too. Furthermore, he is a chronic 3RR violator, but also violates other wikipedia rules by vandalizing and then removing warnings from his talk-page. [7] Would you please take a look at this issue and help us clean up the Persian people page? Please take a look at ( Talk:Persian people & Mediation/Persian_people ). ThanksZmmz 05:41, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Policy Violation

Hi, there should be no tolerance for vulgar language such as this in Wikipedia. Please go to the Al Khwarizmi discussion page, not only that page is a mess, but personal attacks such as the example below should not be tolerated. The user MB has done this many times, despite warnings and the attempts of others to compromise. Under the section ``Khwarizmi being Persian: Original research which has nothing to do with Wikipedia``, the user states,

"Let's look into the Persians' claims, shall we?

Zmmz lists Merriam-Webster with this quote: "Function: biographical name circa 780-circa 850 Muhammad ibn MusA al-KhwArizmI Islamic (Persian-born) mathematician & astronomer; one of the greatest scientific minds of Islam; source of much of mathematical knowledge of medieval Europe".

Notice, it says "Persian-born" in parantheses, and gives Islamic as the nationality. Basically, they defined him by religion and stated his place of birth. He was born in Khwarizm, in the Khorasan province. At the time of his birth, it was part of the Arab Islamic Caliphate, now it's part of the Uzbegistan nation-state. Alas, Persians burnt us saying that it's in fact Persian, so let's take it as Persian. Now, according to sources cited by Heja Helwada, Khorasan in general had a huge Arab population. In accordance to that, defining him as Persian simply because he was born in Khorasan, is not only disputed at best, it also constitutes OR (original research) which is against Wiki's policy, see: WP:NOR

'A troll' showed up lately and claimed that Arabs are fighting a losing battle, I'm not sure we're in a battle-field here, but I got the gist: he thinks we have no sources...poor little guy!

Sources that state he's explicitly an Arab:

http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/AlKhowar.html

http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761560322___0/Khwarizmi_al-.html

http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311992

Who's losing the "battle" now, I wonder? MB 18:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)". Zmmz 19:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your support of my RfA

Thank you for your support of my successful request for adminship. I am honoured that the nomination was supported unanimously and that the community expressed confidence that I would use the tools wisely. If you have any concerns please let me know on my talk page. Regards A Y Arktos 02:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Ban

Hi. I have a question, would you ban someone if a paricularly malicious, and blatant personal attack they had made eas made on 12/20/05? The user is Diyako, one the users who still personally attacks, and refuses to compromise with other users in the Iranian people page.Zmmz 02:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, He definely he is not right. I do not use personal attack. just I have resisted their wrong edits on naming Kurds Iranian while Kurds just their language is close to Iranians but ethnically they are not Iranian. they want block me not for i vandalise pages but becausewant to silent me. http://0-www.search.eb.com.library.uor.edu/ebi/article-9275335?query=Kurdistan&ct=

Diyako Talk + 07:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Guys, I have the authority to block editors immediately after their personal attacks and other disruptive edits, I do not have neither authority nor the intentions to punish people for the edits in the past if they do not repeat them presently. If you want the community to discuss behavior of a user please start an WP:RFC process. Regarding the Iranian people article, I do not think that any user is trying to push the idea that all the Iranian people belong to the same ethnicity, or in particular that Farsi and Kurds are the same people. Even now it states quite clearly that despite similar laguages the Kurds have a distinktive separate cultural heritage, the genetic makeup, etc. If you have an idea how to emphasize it even strongly (preferably not by removing parts of the article but by addition of the new material), I believe nobody would object. Maybe we can have a section Kurds in the Iranian people article that should show both connections and differences between Kurds and other "Iranian people"? abakharev 09:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

The user has clearly kept the personal attacks going against Iranian editors, and Iranian articles..I thought that was the obvious thing. --Kash 13:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bonaparte

Yes, please do so. I don't understand why they want his userbox and award removed. I can't understand what purpose that would serve. Thanks, and congrats on your adminship. --Candide, or Optimism 18:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lock requests

[edit] History of Christianity in Ukraine

Can I ask you to lock the article for the time being, I want these trolls to start talking. --Kuban Cossack 02:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Khreschatyk

It looks like trools stop at nothing even though I modified this page so that everybody looks at them in shame. Anyway can you lock that article as well. (Make sure you freeze the right version)--Kuban Cossack 13:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• "Be Bold..but timid" is a very good written piece and it is really needed. About Khreschatyk, I do not think, it is worth protecting so far, as the differences are really not that important. I am affaraid I cannot lock an article in the right state without abusing the admin priveleges, unless one of the states is a clear vandalism, clear POV edit, etc. And I am affraid it is not the case here abakharev 20:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for help

Hi Alex. I was wondering if you could help me. I was having a discussion on Talk:Intelligent design when one of the people I was discussing it with (who is an administrator) all of the sudden moved it to a subpage. I had just requested an RFC on the issue. He made a little statement redirecting people there that included ad hominem attacks against my argument. Can you please help get the discussion back on the talk page? It should be at the bottom. --Ben 03:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply Alex! --Ben 03:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Alex. I wanted to thank you for taking the time to consider my RfA, which passed this morning. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask; you know where to find me. ×Meegs 07:41, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

I think I'm the bird on its head.

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It passed, with a final tally of 62/0/1. I'm touched by all the kind comments it attracted, and hope I'll be of some use with the new tools. You know where I am if you need to shout at me. Flowerparty? 15:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for supporting my RFA. I really appreciated the show of support and all the kind words from so many great Wikipedians. I hope I live up to them! -- Vary | Talk 17:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)