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[edit] A Question

Hi Alex, i have a question in regards to the article on Huns, previously i added to another user's comment from Joseph De Guignes and of Xiong-nu. I added that they were of Turkic origin due to using research from this website " http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hiung-Nu " and the fact that they actually referenced from Joseph De Guignes text . And i cited the the texts from this website as reference thorugh this website. But the user Crculver keeps reverting it saying the references are secondary sources and cannot be used etc. Would you be able to tell me whether i can include that in the text or not with citing like that?. Here is a previous edit of mine with my referencing " http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Huns&oldid=85654489 "

Thanks

[edit] Please contribute to improve Wikipedia

Hi, user Tajik is systematically searching and changing Turkish related articles with wrong and unsourced informations. WikiArticles are not improving because of his/her wrongly editings. He/She is searching 'turk' or "turkic" words in an article and deleting or deforming sentence or changing with 'persian' word in a baseless way. And he generally makes this secretly. He/She is making these changes with 'minor edits'.
A check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, et cetera. A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. By contrast, a major edit is a version that should be reviewed to confirm that it is consensual to all concerned editors. Therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is not minor, even if the edit is a single word.
However, Tajik's systematically minor editings hardly affects of articles. And he/she always uses this illegal method. Please have a look at his/her contributions;
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ferdowsi&diff=78165928&oldid=78165559
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Ghaznavid_Empire&action=history
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephthalite&action=history (Almost all of the minor editings by Tajik)

Actually, these are the ones that i could see. Please look at Contr. ;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Tajik
Secondly, if he/she is frustrated in editing he/she is inviting to article other wikipedians. What can be the evidence for teamworking else. He/she is not seeing wikipedia as an culture and information organization. He always deforms sourced turkic related articles and infos. He/she could has problems with other nations and races but is here true platform to solve his/her nation-based problems? Please help to improve Wikipedia...--Karcha 01:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terrorism and Intro

Dear Alex.

Vital changes to the Transnistria main page were agreed by negotiation just prior to it being locked, These include very significant changes to the opening paragraph and also changing the heading Domestic Terrorism to Violent Incidents. I know the page is locked but can we have these agree compromises inserted.

thanks

Mark

[edit] User:Timor Stultorum

Hi. User:Timor Stultorum has admitted that User:Timur Stultorum (it wasn't that mysterious...) is his sockpuppet (on User talk:PelleSmith). The person behind them has engaged in trolling and disruptive behaviour on Talk:Mircea Eliade. That aside, I suspect that they are the same as User:216.127.74.88 (who has left an insulting message in Romanian on my talk page [1], one surprisingly similar to what he posts on the Eliade talk page. I want to know if this can be checked. Thank you. Dahn 17:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Personal attack towards Dahn

Hi Alex. Thanks for contacting me. I think the comment made is rather insulting; here are some excerpts translated:

You should know that you're not in your full mind [i.e. you are out of your mind]: you stay 12 hours or more at the computer, write everything that goes through your head, are irrational, arrogant and arbitrary.

You prove yourself to be just a boy who stays too much at home, at the limits of being a psychopath - or maybe you're already a psychopath?!

Go out to the fresh air, find yourself a girlfriend, to something concrete in real life, write something real. Don't waste your neurons with sterile efforts and lowly games.

He then finished off by saying:

So, remember: these are the opinions of someone from outside, uninvolved in your debile [childish] little games. I chose you, because you still have potential, ...

I hope this helps. UPDATE: The author does not mention anything about any article. I presume he may be referring to Mircea Eliade, even though Dahn has also been involved in other disputes. He also says multiple times that he is an "outsider" and, indeed, User:216.127.74.88 does not have any prior edits to Romania-related topics. A CheckUser should also be conducted to see whether it is the same user as User:Timur Stultorum. Ronline ✉ 23:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)


Sir, you asked me if this personal attack comes from me. No Sir, I am definitely not the author of this edit. Though I am currently engaged in a debate with Dahn on the Talk:Mircea Eliade, this doesn't automatically qualify me for being the author of this attack ad hominem. To clear this accusation, I would strongly welcome a request for a checkuser procedure. Since Dahn already accused me on the Talk:Mircea Eliade to be Azotlichid, I would like to request a checkuser for this accusation as well.
My contributions so far might have been sometimes straight or ironic, never uncivil. I might be but a sporadic WP-user, yet I would like to enjoy the right of freely expressing my opinions. Repeatedly accusing me of trolling and vandalism and denouncing me as a sockpuppeteer and author of personal attacks is a strategy which exerts a real pressure on me. I don't think that intimidating dialog partners is the best strategy to make this project progress. I hope that a checkuser procedure would bring clarity into this issue. Thank you,--Timor Stultorum 15:11, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hello Alex. I wanted to thank you with flowers (well, flower) for taking the time to participate in my RfA, which was successful. I'm very grateful for your support and kind words. I assure you I'll continue to serve the project to the very best of my ability and strive to use the admin tools in a wise and fair manner. Please do let me know if I can be of assistance and especially if you spot me making an error in future. Many thanks once again. Yours, Rockpocket 08:51, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ahwaz is back

Ahwaz is back using another sockpuppet, this time an IP address. He is vandalizing the Persian Gulf page. This is the IP: [2]Khosrow II 19:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Another one of his IP addresses: [3] He is using this one now. You can see how he changed IP's here: [4] Same person. I guess there is no way to ban him for good if he keeps coming on different IP's is there? I'll just report him to you whenever I catch him for sockpuppetry.Khosrow II 22:08, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, unfortunately, the only way is to block all the IPs. They are appear to be dynamic. Obviously, 3RR is not applicable when reverting contributions by a blocked user Alex Bakharev 22:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Alex

Could you please semi-protect Mashallah and Persian Gulf, User:Ahwaz is using his dynamic IPs to evade his block and edit war on those two pages. --ManiF 15:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't care what you say but I am not this User:Ahwaz and will continue to edit as I wish.
[[5]] says that the IPs in the 88.109.*-88.111.* range are probably Ahwaz's, your area of interests is Ahwaz's. I am sorry but at this stage I could not assume the good faith from your side. If you are not him, please stop the editing until Ahwaz's block will expire and do not edit in the way that in the case you are the same persom would be the violation of WP:SOCK. I am sorry but these are the rules of the game. Alex Bakharev 01:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I am a user (Littlebig) - take a look at my past contributions - who had his account unjustly blocked because I made two or three edits that were in agreement with User:Ahwaz and so was assumed to be the same user. But there has never been any proof that we are the same user. The IP checks were on dynamic IPs. As I made clear to one admin, I am on one of Europe's leading internet providers and this probably explains why we might have had IPs in the same range. The assumption of bad faith has been made against me on the basis of no proof. As for editing in a way that makes out we are the same person. As an Arab, I have now taken further interest in the Iranian articles as I have found tremondous racial bias that is enforced by the same group of people. I think others have also experienced this. There are more than just one or two people with the same opinion on sources and content, but it looks like they are always over-ruled by the same people. If you want to end these problems, please investigate the matter for yourself. You do not have to take my word if you think I am a liar, just judge for yourself.

[edit] Viipuri blast as a part of Russo-Swedish War 1496-99 ?

You have requested a merger of Viipuri blast to the Russo-Swedish War (1496-99). Now User:Ghirlandajo has so merged. I still do not understand how an incident, containing an attack, that took place in 1495, can be a part of a war 1496-99. There is a grave discrepancy in chronology. Better reasons and more solid evidence than now given are needed. Shilkanni 17:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PD-Ukraine

Добрый день, Алекс. Не мог бы ты сделать ru:Шаблон:PD-Ukraine и для русской версии, т.к. я боюсь допустить какую-либо неточность в переводе юридической терминологии с английского. Спасибо. --Yakudza 09:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Якудза, советую взять за основу не перевод через третьи руки, а оригинал,
"З А К О Н У К Р А Ї Н И - Про авторське право і суміжні права" на rada.gov.ua,[6] и на его основании сделать чистый от нападок шаблон для всех вики. Он совершенно не обязательно свопадает с российским законом 2004 года. Это слишком серьезное дело, чтобы делать на догадках и переводах через третий язык. Напутаешь, явятся лупоподобные. --Irpen 10:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Да я сделал вроде. Закон Украины от 23 Августа 2001 года я смотрел (на английском, правда). От 1993 года - не смотрел, но там вроде все ясно. О приеме в Бернское согдашение - смотрел. Америкаский закон от 1996 года - смотрел, когда за PD-Soviet боролся. Отличия Украины от России - 2 года и несколько мелочей. Alex Bakharev 10:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok then, I just was overly cautious. --Irpen 18:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 15 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ivan Argunov, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 00:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Support

I support your nomination for the arbitration committee. --Ineffable3000 05:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Arab scientists and scholars

Hi Alex! How are you? Sorry to bother. Remember the List of Arab scientists and scholars? And remember the guy(User:ManiF) who tried his best to delete it [7]? And remember the disclaimer at the beginning that we copied from [8] and the consenus we agreed on (that was about last spring)? Well...He is trying it again [9]. I can't edit the article now without breaking 3RR...unless its vandalism. Please tell me its vandalism, becuase i am really fed up with that guy who continuosly tries to erase per mouse click what I have done in hours...Thank You Jidan 09:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, can you please unprotect List of Arab scientists and scholars? It was protected 12 days ago and there are no discussions since then in the discussion page. Please also advice me what to do against User:ManiF if he war-edited again. Thank you...Jidan 13:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Can you please take a look at the activities of 80.193.98.48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). The IP is used to vandalize a broad range of articles. --ManiF 14:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

  • I have blocked the IP for a month. In the cases like this the WP:AIV is probably the better place especially when I am off-wiki Alex Bakharev 21:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civility

Please take a look at the recent behaviour on Talk:LGBT_rights_in_Iran. This is what I mean by the bullying behaviour of some editors in Iran-related articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.1.212 (talk • contribs) Alex Bakharev 21:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User refuses to discuss

User Encyclopaedia Editing Dude contiuously removes links to the Soviet archives, declassified in early 1990s from Josef Stalin, insterting links to an eyewitness interview made by BBC and other biased and/or non-reliable sources. He refuses to talk and removes my comments from his talk page [10]. He also said that he will break any rules to restore his version. I requested RFC on this topic and in two weeks received only one comment (in favor of my version). Please do something to make the user to discuss his changes.--Nixer 17:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for editing the Anatoly Larkin article. Anatoly larkin 18:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk/Discussion Pages

Hi, Alex. Sometimes i want to refer directly to the sources or references in the discussion pages. If i copy and paste some sections of published documents to the talk page directly, does it make a problem (copyright...etc)? There are difficult cases and it seems impossible for me to make some users to understand what i state unless i make a direct quotation. Thanx. E104421 22:09, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

This User:E104421 is vandalizing articles. Please check his contribs and you will find [11] [12] and adding wrong summaries! Khorshid 23:03, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

It looks like the cited E104421 edits are of good faith that are not vandalism. I want to remind everybody that labelling good faith edits vandalism is a violation of WP:Civil. Please do not do it again Alex Bakharev 23:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

If you review his contribs there is no way that this can be seen as good faith as he is clearly removing information to prefer for his own POV. If it was good faith he would not be deleting but adding. I will take heed of your advice however. Khorshid 23:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent

Check your e-mail.--Kuban Cossack 23:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Turkish History Brief

Please unprotect this article. I am going to nominate for deletion as it is a racial template that Turkish users are putting on every single article they feel is connected to Turkic or Turkish history. Turkic is not the same as Turkey and there were/are many different Turkic peoples, but this Turkish (Turkey) nationalisms is getting out of hand. This is like someone creating a template called "White History" or "Aryan History" or "Nordic History"! It is actually a perfect candidate for speedy deletion and if you would please do the honours. Khorshid 23:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I have unprotected the template. Please be careful to include the afd notice in <noinclude> </noinclude> pair so it would not spoil many articles. Alex Bakharev 23:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. Khorshid 23:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Socks and such

I've been acting on information provided at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Sockpuppetry_by_E104421. It's probably best to continue any discussion there. -- Steel 03:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] return of the stubborn

Hi, Alex. The sockpuppetry accusations are disproven! I'd like to thank you for all your help. I took your time too much, sorry. From now on, i shall contribute to less controversial issues. Maybe better for a physics to involve in physics/math related projects. I'm planning to do so. Best wishes. E104421 19:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please delete an account

Can you please delete this account: N.ixer, a reincarnation or Roitr, created to impersonate my account?--Nixer 10:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

  • I have indefblocked it as an impersonator Alex Bakharev 10:26, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Hi. I'm sorry that you took it the wrong way, but if you look carefully, I put scores of content-only posts on that TfD, and that was only a poor attempted humor :))) So it was only some sense of humor after hours of content-related debate. I don't know if you have been following the discussion carefully, but please be aware of people coming to admins and complaining about the behaviour of some users. Don't fall into this trap. I am sorry to say this, but there are some out there who are trying to impose their views by trying to get other users banned by reporting them at every single opportunity. Most of these users themselves have been repeatedly blocked for 3RR, disruption and edit-warring. If you will notice, I have never been blocked, and since I am a very vocal critic of their POVs, there is this huge campaign to get me blocked even for the slightest excuses. Seriously. The same people have also made many bad-faith noms for AfDs articles about many prominent Kurdish scholars and templates. In any case, please, please by my guest and look at my posts in that particular TfD, other AfDs, my contribution log.. You will see that I am contributing in a manner that is not disruptive. I am very vocal, that's true, but please also make a note of the fact that I am continously being subjected to insults of being racist, ignorant and nationalist by a wide variety of users, including some who have compared "Ottoman Muslims" to "Nazi Germans" in the AfD for Ottoman Muslim casualties, and in that very article I was blatantly blackmailed by another user into not contributing to the AfD and taking back my content-related posts in exchange for him not reporting for PA, the PA in question being me calling the person who compared the "Ottoman Muslims" to "Nazi Germans" racist. Obviously, he took back his threat and PA report.. I didn't want to take so long, but all I am trying to say is that there is some really heavy-duty campaigns going on here, both against articles and ad hominims, and my comment about Gollum was just a poor attempt at some humor.. Also note that, those users have been confirmed for vote-stacking campaigns in that particular TfD. But I hear your concern, so I will try to keep my sense of humor a bit less sharp :))) Cheers! Baristarim 09:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I hear your concerns.. It is true that in such cases the disputing parties get carried away in their own worlds, sadly :)) Well, I also hope to go back to actually writing articles, I find it more rewarding and relaxed.. I wonder why?? :))) Cheers! Baristarim 10:34, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Block

Dear Alex Bakharev , I saw that you blocked User:Zaparojdik for the violation of 3RR rule on Turan article. Please correct my comment if false; I saw only three Rv by this user(there are 4 but two of them are squential rv by this user, so should be counted as 1). Please clarify the position for me, and unblock this user if there is a mistake. Regards. MustTC 11:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Alex, but the first one belong to the previous day. For my info;What is the rule?; in the last 24 hours or in the same calender day ?

Thanks in advance. Regards. MustTC 12:45, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peter I of Russia

Alex, could you check these edits? The guy seems to mean well but his last quotation that "such men are hated" seems to me like a POV ending to the article. I don't understand such additions as "Peter Alexeevich Romanovna", too. Could you please take a look? --Ghirla -трёп- 18:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Ghirla I will try to NPOV and clean it up in a few hours Alex Bakharev 22:56, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:E104421

As a checkuser, I don't usually get involved in the enforcement of cases I look into. This is both for reasons of speed, and because just having the technical ability to check IPs doesn't give me any more of a say in simple administrative decision like interpreting and blocking based upon the result. In this case, I only reblocked because the claim that anything was "disproven" was unfounded and undiscussed. However, all the evidence has already been given by me, and administrators are free to decide how they wish. I don't mind, I just ask that there be support for the move before it's done, as with all admin reversals. Cheers, Dmcdevit·t 04:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

The situation is this: the IP evidence shows they've been using shared IPs in the same IP range, a university one at that. They could still plausibly be different people, but the coincidence is highly unusual, especially the fac that they were reverting to each other n the same article. However, all I'm trying to say is that I'm not the only one with all the information. That's all the information right there. It's a judgment call we just have to make based on limited evidence. That's why I'm not comfortable making the decision myself; I really have no reason to weigh in than others.. For me, the coincidence is to much to be merely coincidence, but that doesn't mean I'll mind if people want to decide otherwise. Dmcdevit·t 22:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Harassment

From what I understand from reading Wikipedia guidelines all day, "stalking" is a form of harassment and strictly prohibited by Wikipedia policy. I've been stalked all day by User:Baristarim, please see [13] [14], and [15], User:Baristarim has been following me on each one of those pages, reverting my edits without having any history, or prior involvement on those pages. I came here because I saw that you had already left a message on User:Baristarim's talk page regarding his behavior. To be honest, because of this harassment, I am considering leaving Wikipedia for good. --Mardavich 04:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

This is groundless.. I don't know if as an admin you can see which pages I have on my watchlist, but if you can, you will see that I had all those articles on my watchlist. Please look at my contribution log, I edit and engage in up-keep tasks in many articles.. The fact that I ran into Mardavich doesn't mean that I am wikistalking. I am sorry to say this, but I have better things to do with my time then stalk him.. I have told you before about being aware of this trap: please do not fall for this. I had "Military of Armenia" on my watchlist for months, it had nothing to do with Mardavich. I made a very legitimate edit to that page, please have a look. I guarantee you, I was not stalking him. There are instances where I am contacted by e-mail about certain articles, but none of them are ever person-specific. And I was not contacted by anyone for any of the pages mentioned above. Three coincidental edits doesn't prove the gravity of the charges laid: harassment. I am also having enough of this, blatant blackmail, insults, vote-stacking campaigns.. In any case, just be assured that I was not stalking Mardavich.. I will try to be more carefull about "perceptions" then.. I just would have wished that he had contacted me before to ask me if I was actually doing so. Pff.. Have a good day in any case. Cheers! Baristarim 06:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mail

Dear Alex, Please check your mailbox for my mail. Regards. MustTC 07:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coffee

Hi. I know that the dispute seems ridiculous, but i cannot understand why changes are made and citations are asked, without even providing a source (or whatever validity) for this... Legends been deleted on the ground of "not properly cited" and sources removed because of incapability to be contradicted.[16]. i cannot revert again, and i do not want to continue this lame revert war... Any help would be much appreciated. Regards Hectorian 12:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tanenberg 1914

Alex, thank you for helping to bring Peter I of Russia to normalcy. Now I spotted another problem. Tanenberg 1914 is listed as a fork of Battle of Tannenberg (1914) and a merge has been proposed. It seems that the article is actually about the book, not the battle. Could you please take a look into the matter? --Ghirla -трёп- 13:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] user:zaparojdik

Hey isnt it allowed to add this? last time User:Khosrow II sent me them and there it's write Wikipedia:Templates for deletion

"Give due notice.

Please consider adding


on relevant talk pages to inform editors of the deletion discussion. This is especially important if the TFD notice was put on the template's talk page." Zaparojdik (talk · contribs) 01:35 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Than you Alex for welcoming me :).

What is the matter with Ghirla? She seems to be hysterically anti-normanist.--Arzamas2 07:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

  • He is very knowledgeable in many subjects, especially in Russian history. In my experience in 80% of cases him reverting me he was later found to be right and in the other 20% it was reasonably possible to find a compromise). I am not an expert in the early Russian history but I have heard that Normanism is not the only acceptable theory. Since I learnt to trust Ghirlandajo's judgement then in an argument I would believe his words unless your version is supported by good references. BTW. I would recommend to read the Ghirlandajo or ru:Гирландайо, Доменико article: for some reason this great painter was often overlooked by the Soviet system of education Alex Bakharev 09:42, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
She may be right sometimes, but this time she reverts me at[17], although the article Rus' (people) explains that in 900 the name Rus was used for Norse. It seems very important for her to make Ibn Fahdlan's Rus into a possibly Slavic people. She is the only one I have ever heard of who believes that.--Arzamas2 11:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the origin of the name we have Etymology of Rus and derivatives. There used to be quite a number of Anti-normanists in Russia, AFAIK the question is not solved. Please do not name Ghirlandajo she, his gender is reasonably well known. Alex Bakharev 11:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration Committee

Where do I go to vote/nominate you for Arbitration Committee? --Ineffable3000 08:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

The voting is not opened yet and I already nominated myself (see Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2006/Candidate_statements#Alex_Bakharev). Thanks for your trust in me. Alex Bakharev 09:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

Dear Alex, I moved List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index to List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index,2006, Since this article includes data for year 2006, (also List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index, 2005 available.)

  • Please check the position, many pages refers to original page(I saw later), there is a mistake or not.
  • It is necessary to have an article with original name(ie.List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index) as (like an ambuq. page) main page which include links to articles named with years.

like as;

Main article;:List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index include the follovings; ---

For 2004 index see List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index, 2004
For 2005 index see List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index, 2005
For 2006 index see List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index,2006

etc. --- I need your urgent help. Regards MustTC 14:17, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Mustafa just now we have only two such lists: the most recent and 2005. The List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index is redirected to the most recent and the historical data are referenced from there. I think it is reasonable, but other layouts are discussable. I will copy your message on the talk page of the article. Alex Bakharev 23:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblocking of Karcha and E104421

This was a good deal. I think you get earned two editor to wiki. I hope we will file the agresiveness of User:Karcha also. Thanks for your efforts. Regards. MustTC 15:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC) --

  • Please take a look here again.

Regards. MustTC 10:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] impersonator of Sirex98?

it's written on User:Fredsavage It is suspected that this user might be a sock puppet or impersonator of Sirex98. rather then User:MangonelMan, please correct it I don't want people thinking I'm a sock or any other piece of clothing ;) ▪◦▪≡Ѕirex98≡ 13:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

thank you! for the correction I forgot to sign eariler :) ▪◦▪≡Ѕirex98≡ 13:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WPTR Templates

Dear Alex, Thanks for your kind message. Let me state some points;

  1. I put this template to articles only directly,closely related with Turkey/Turkish.
    1. I never put this template to any place which is under the another country's sovereignity even if the condition at 1 exist.
      1. For examples,It would be disputable if I add,
        1. to Constantine Karamanlis since his roots comes from Karaman,Turkey
        2. to Thessaloniki since its' Turkish history, place of birth of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
        3. to Humus which is Turkish dish also etc.
  2. For Azerbaijani language ,two reason;please see how it is related with Turkish.It is a dialect of Turkish.App.80% Understandable by a average Turkish person.100% understandable by educated people.(Azeri Tv is one of my favour).And this language has native speakers in Turkey.
    1. I put my comments in Talk page. I put WPTR template in alphabetic order.No delete previous any one.
  3. For Baburnama, this is a historical writing,belong to worlds heritage.Written in exactly Chagatai Turkish as stated in article itself. Article related with India since Place,related with Turkey since Turkish. What is the problem to keep two template there? It is not a good faith.
  4. For users&some admin users which delete templates; the one of these users tagged Turkish cityTalk:Erzurum with Armenia template, one admin keep it there.Please see history for usernames. Also, it is not a good faith.
  5. I am trying to keepaway from rv-edit wars. I am ready to discuss my templates in related talk pages, but unfortunately there is a steady distruptive attack and rv without any discussion.
  6. Please take a look to Turkey related articles who are contribute in distruptive manner, also take a look Greece&Armenia related articles for distruptive edits.You will see the distruptive users and some admins.

Thanks a lot for your understanding& interest. Regards. MustTC 15:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] THE TOWN OF SERGIEV, 1917

Се́ргиев Поса́д (The Protocols and World Revolution) (Small, Maynard & Company 1920 ed. of the 1917 Russian) v. Сергвй Нилүсъ (cannot make accent over the “B”)

I require assistance regarding Russian history and Language about "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV."
What was this place in 1917 called, etc.
And is "Town" a correct translation from the Russian of the time?

But the issue of concern tome is in the article, Small, Maynard & Company.

Ludvikus 17:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

One more thing, it concers the following: Sergiyev Posad. This article seems not to cover the name and political status of the place in 1917, especially under the Bolsheviks. I have, in a 1920 book — the Small, Maynard & Company imprint of the Protocols of Zion — a translation and/or transliteration of a place (the Russian above) into "THE TOWN OF SERGIEV." Is "Нилүсъ" corectly in English the word "town"?

Please help? Ludvikus 17:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom

Thank you very much for your prompt response.

I think you misunderstood me.
I know very well that Serge Nilus is Swiss, not Russian.
I bought, from a RARE BOOK dealer, a copy of the FIRST AMERICAN English language edition of the Protocols of Zion. It's main title is The Protocols and World Revolution. It is a compilation, with an "Part One (consisting of an "Introductory Statement"), followed by a middle section which onsists of the actual "Protocols," and ending with "Part Two" (an analytic epilogue or postscript). So the MIDDLE is really THE HEART of our notorious plagiarism--and it is this which has the title: "Protocols of the Meeting of the Zionist Men of Wisdom,"
Final description of this book:
  • (1) It has a title page, in English - no question about it.
    • (2) It, allegedly, reproduces a facsimile of Serge Nilus's 1911 edition of his now famous 1905 book. BUT THIS PAGE IS ALL IN RUSSIAN, CYRILIC ALPHABET, WHICH I DO NOT READ.
      • (3) Next, on the other side, a recto to the verso, it has a TRANSLATION of the RUSSIAN.
        • This 1917 book--if it exists at all--is extremely rare--even more so than the 1905 edition. SO I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT IF THE TRANSLATION IS ACCURATE. The person responsible for this American edition, which is said to be based on the 1917 edition, scholars say was the White Russian, and Leutenant in the military of the former {{Tsar]], by the name of Boris Brasol.
Now here is what I want to know (because I do not trust this book):
    I WANT TO GET AN EVALUATION OF THE TRANSLATION OF (2) INTO (3).
  • May I send you a PDF attachment of these THREE PAGES by Email???
Ludvikus 23:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure you can send an E-mail with attachment to abakharev at gmail dot com Alex Bakharev 06:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yashar Kemal

Ok, I give up on the ethnicity of Yashar Kemal, until I find a better source, I will not continue editing this page. You can unprotect the page. Thanks Caglar Koca

[edit] Chowbok RfC

I have begun RfC procedures for User:Chowbok. Maybe you'd like to add your commentary? [18] TheQuandry 03:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scythians

Regarding the Scythian article, the ip author who is doing the edits is barefact. Please check the grammer, style of composition and method of writing. He has already violated the 3rr rule [19]. --alidoostzadeh 16:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

  • I have blocked the IP for 24h for the 3RR violation and semiprotected the article. Alex Bakharev 20:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Efanov meeting.jpg)

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[edit] ArbCom questions

Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're doing a series on ArbCom candidates, and your response is requested.

  1. What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.)?
  1. Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
  1. Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 01:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mail

Check your e-mail :) I am trying to find more ways to cooperate with the Iranians. In any case I have been busy creating this lately, and for the moment I will try not to get too involved with Iranian-related articles. Cheers! Baristarim 04:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] translation

Hi, Alex. The translation you asked is as follows: TR:Baris, benim katkilar listesine bir goz atsana. Benim editleri revert edene bir bak, kime yardim ediyor. Ben konusma sayfasina o herife not dustum, sen de bir goz ativersene. Bu adamlar ortak calisiyor. Bir de Turk Ordusu sayfasini karistirmaya calisan biri var. ENG:Baris, take a look at my contribution list. See who's reverting my edits, and who's the guy he's helping. I wrote a note to the guy on his talk page, take a look at this. These guys are working together. The is also another guy trying to dispute the army article.

  • I was wondering whether Euthymios is Tekleni or not. Baris also knows him. Since Euthymios was stalking my movements, i wrote in Turkish. However, if he's Tekleni, he probably understood what i have written, cause Tekleni understands Turkish. That's the trick, i've done to recognize him. This note is not related with iranians but just for Tekleni. I was wondering whether he would jump into the army article or not. On the other hand, i'm not an army expert, but Baris knows these issues better. Regards.E104421 12:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
    Hi, Alex. The list is not that much important. The issue arised from the Huns article edit. One of the editors, Stacey Doljack Borsody removed the links Battle of Ikh Bayan which is related with Xiongnu and List of Turks which includes Attila. I'm not against the deletion of the list of turks entry but the other two are relevant to the article. While i was dicussing the issue with Stacey Doljack Borsody, User:Tajik jumped into the discussion and started accusing me. He's stalking my movements. I wrote a message to him [[20]] to compromise but he refused in an impolite manner. Now he's surfing through the pages i commented and trying to mislead people against me as he always do. Nothing to do. Regards E104421 23:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Stop pretending and stop accusing others. Your actions and your motivations are well-known in Wikipedia. You tried to claim all kinds of historical personalities as citizens of Turkey [21], although most of them were neither Turks, nor Turkic in origin or language. This is not stalking, this is correcting YOUR mistakes and YOUR POV. And - btw - as one can see in the history of the article [22], it was YOU who jumped in ... Tājik 23:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I happened to see the whole discussion, and i had a look on that list. Of course, i am not asking for its deletion, however, there are is a need of many corrections... People like Sinan (either Greek or Armenian, but definately not a Turk), Ali Pasha (Albanian), Mehmed-paša Sokolović (Serb), Osman Pazvantoğlu (Bosniak), Moyses Chahon (Jewish, who was not even born in Turkey) should not be in the list. Hectorian 23:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Of course, the list needs corrections, but the deletions should be made clear in the talk/discussion page first. Otherwise, it would be doubtful. Regards E104421 23:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
It's not easy to keep Wikipedia on the right path, as long as users like E104421 are professionally messing up articles. He has already tried to destroy the article hephthalites - even objecting an Oxford academic who is specialized on that field - and now he is even doing original research in the article White Huns (which should usually redirect to Hephthalites).
And in here he is pretending to be a protector of Wikipedia rules.
More than 50% of the names in this list need to be removed.
Tājik 23:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I agreed with Sikandarji for his compromise version, but Tajik disputed his version. E104421 23:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
What the HELL are you talking talking about?! You were the one who from the BEGINNING on disputed the compromise version of Sikanderji. Stop telling lies! Tājik 00:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Guys, whatever hot topics you discuss try to be civil and assume good faith. Tajik, your tone prevents other people to digest the constructive info in your message and inflames the edit war. Just now we are heading into a large Arbcom case over these Turkish-Iranian edit wars. The Arbcom would probably apply long bans to couple of editors from the both sides and put on probation the others - and who would benefit from this? Better find some middle grounds yourself. Alex Bakharev 23:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I strongly agree. I can safely say that i tried to compromise with all my good faith. I wrote Tajik a message to compromise as follows:
Hi, Tajik. I'm offering compromise before editing/reverting the articles. That's better. We know the process of wikipedia, but for the general user, it's quite confusing to confront with articles changing every second. I've only one condition, civility. If you keep yourself calm, i can discuss the issues with you in detail. Cheers! E104421 22:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
However, he refused and started attacking me. What to do? I'll try to keep myself out of these issues for while. After spending some time in the library, i'll first put the sources in the talk/discussion page, then wait for other wikipedians to join the discussion. Regards E104421 23:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
  • For the edit conflict, i thought, it was due to the connection failure, that's why i clicked the "save page" button several times. Sorry. E104421 23:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
E104421, I do not expect any good faith from you. You have proven many times that you are neither able to contribute in a positive way nor to have any knowledge of the theme you are trying to talking about. Besides that, you are also a liar, because in here you wrongly claim that you "agreed with Sikanderji's compromise version" in the Hephthalites article, while in reality you disputed his opinion from the beginning on, and recently you have also started to vandalize the White Huns page (which usually redirects to Hephthalites).
In your latest edits in List of Turks, you purposely reverted to a very obviously nationalistic-motivated POV. You try to hide your POV-ideology behind pretended civility, although every intelligent person in here knows that NONE of your edits are based on good faith. I have provided sources in the Talk:List of Turks page, and now it's your turn to appologize for supporting nationalistic-motivated POV. It's totally hillarious that you asked me to prove that the 16th century Emperor of India was not a citizen of modern Turkey!
There can't be any compromise because your edits are 100% false! If someone claims that 1 + 1 = 44, then there can't be ANY compromise, because that's simply WRONG!
Tājik 00:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civility cooling off suggestion

Good idea. KP Botany 00:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks and more

I wasn't going to send thank-you cards, but the emotional impact of hitting WP:100 (and doing so unanimously!) changed my mind. So I appreciate your confidence in me (and your confusion at my not having the bit yet was a pleasant surprise), and hope you'll let me know if I can do anything for you in the future, though I kinda doubt it, looking at your userpage...phew! Cheers! -- nae'blis 22:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Azerbaijanis

Could you please remove Mohammad Nosrati from the list? He is actually a Kurd as I discussed on the talk page there. An interview with a well known domestic Iranian magazine confirms this.Nokhodi 02:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Cherepanov Engine.JPG

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[edit] Speedy keep?

Just curious why you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Foundation for Civil Liberties with speedy keep after 4½ hours and only two keep comments? It seems like it should have been left to run a little longer, although I agree it was likely to be kept. I don't have any stake in the article, but I'm just asking since you didn't cite a criteria for the speedy. —Doug Bell talk 09:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Well the criterion is #1 from WP:SK. None other than nominator voted Delete and the nominator withdrew its nomination. I was the nominator and I am satisfied that the article should be kept. Alex Bakharev 09:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

 Oh, the humanity!

I had my doubts about a second RfA, but even I couldn't have predicted the way it caught fire and inexorably drifted to the ground in flames, causing quite a stir on its way down. Still, it was encouraging to see the level of support and confidence. Thank you for yours, and I hope I'll still have it the next time around. Kafziel Talk 13:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Tajik vandalizing Afghanistan's Article

Please check article on Afghanistan and see how much of my hard work was vandalized by User:Tajik on December 1, 2006. He purposly removed tons of sourced information, from Encyclopaedia Britannica and Columbia Encyclopedia. He is attempting to destroy Afghanistan's article. He also vandalized Mahmud Ghaznavi's article, removed Encyclopaedia information and stated that it's not important to write where Mahmud Ghaznavi was born. I need help with this User:Tajik so that he stops doing this. Pashtun Dec. 1, 2006

I've reverted Afghanistan's article to User:Pashtun's, which was the original way before User:Tajik began reverting Pashtun's edits. I've been busy reading everything User:Pashtun edited and all is verified work, no need to be removed or delted from the Afghanistan's article. I've also noticed that both user's caused the 3RR's but only User:Pashtun was blocked. I wonder why not both be blocked, sounds fair that way. Italisa 04:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
OK. Pashtun made many more reverts than Tajik. I will give him a stern warning Alex Bakharev 00:24, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Just want to remind you that User:Tajik is now removing well sourced information from the front page article of Mahmud of Ghazni. It's important information about the birth and death place, which is in the introduction of the article attached are 3 well known sources with it. It appears to me that User:Tajik is purposly wanting to conceal this imporant information from the article, may be due to his own personal desires. Can you please make him stop, I'll appreciate that, thanks. By the way, birth and death information of someone should be right in the begining. --Italisa 13:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
User:Pashtun is evidently a sockpuppet of User:NisarKand and has been blocked. The same goes to User:King Nisar. And I am pretty sure that Italisa and King of Spirits are also sockpuppets of the same person, since both accounts are relatively new and suddenly jumped into edit-wars of NisarKand, storngly supporting his position.
As for Afghanistan: it's not me who is "vandalizing" the article, but others, who put wrong information into it, use wrong sources (for example, they claim that Britannica supports their view, while Britannica does not have any particluar info on the subject). They also removed and insult reliable sources (such as the work of Sir M. Elphinstone, calling him an "English liar" (a man who spent many years in India and worked most of the time on Afghan and Indian history) - just check the history of the article Afghanistan.
As for the changes in Mahmud of Ghazni, see the Talk:Mahmud of Ghazni page. You people have once again tried to use wrong sources qand to fool the readers.
Tājik 14:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Since you are an admin, I want you to have a look at this: [23] It's a warning on my talk-page, written by User:BlueForce, a new user whose first message in Wikipedia is this warning [24]. Again, I am pretty sure that it's User:NisarKand. Could you please check this. Thanks. Tājik 11:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: seems like User:AbdulSherzai is also a sockpuppet of the same person. See Talk:Mahmud of Ghazni. Tājik 12:48, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking BlueForce. Tājik 12:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for bothering you again, but there are more insults on my page. This time by User:Tajik Is A Rat [25][26]. I have already reported him for an IP check. Please protect my page and talk-page against IPs and new users. Thanks. Tājik 13:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Warfare to Infinity

Any real glaring reason for the userblock, things seemed to be clean to me. I did the unblock for username change, just a little curious, we seem to get most userblocks within 5 minutes -- Tawker 04:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki-friends

I have added you to my list of Wiki-friends. --Ineffable3000 01:15, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitrary coding

Henry, Arbitrary coding Is hard to even remember. Fred Bauder 02:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceability guidelines

Per your "Agree" vote at Wikipedia talk:Images of living people I think you'll find my proposed replaceability guidelines worth a look. Daniel Case 06:29, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portfolio for ArbCom

On Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Summary table, I added a column "Examples" with links that exhibit a candidate's arbitration skills. My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well.

So far I have entered examples for the candidates who registered first (from their questions page), and I'm not sure if and when I will get to yours, so you may want to enter an example or two yourself. — Sebastian (talk) 00:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page as of 00:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC). If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and let me know.)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks man. I mostly edit articles about places I been to and people that originated from there. I have various books and police records if you are interested.

Where are you from?

I live in St.Petersburg, Russia right now near the metro station Academicheskaya. Where in Russia do you live? I am 34 years old. How old are you?

Nice to meet you

--Wiki Eto Klevo 06:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I do not know why he is listed as a student. He is a postdoctoral fellow. --Wiki Eto Klevo 07:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Anyways sorry about that. My bad, he is a student. I was just adding various Russian people to Wikipedia. Are you retired? You seem to have a lot of free time to edit articles. --Wiki Eto Klevo 07:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use stuff, Chowbok

Hi Alex, I read your comment on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Chowbok and felt that I agreed immensely with what you said. What do we need to do to stop them from deleting the promo images? It just seems as if they're going forward with it and not stopping, despite the lack of concensus. I've never dealt with a problem on Wikipedia as broad as this. Is there a more official debate going on somewhere that I haven't seen linked yet? Wondering and eager to do something to keep fair use alive on Wikipedia. --Jeff 09:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Let me add a voice to this...I have been attacked wholesale by the GFDL "jihadi" after disagreeing with them on the use of promo photos and press photos at Chowbok. Dozens of images were marked, every image I had was scrutinized by an organized group of people who have stalked every image I added, and I have so far lost 32 promo/press images, many of which were provided by the artists themselves, none of which has been replaced. I hope you'll review what's been going on with those of us that have disagreed at Chowbok, our experiences are largely the same. Tvccs 17:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

From my user talk page, as requested:

  • Image:HubertLaws1.jpg
  • Image:AliRyerson2.jpg
  • Image:JoeBeck-1.gif
  • Image:LynneArriale-1.jpg
  • Image:JayLeonhart-1.jpg
  • Image:LoudonWainwrightIII-1.jpg
  • Image:Warren bernhardt1.jpg
  • Image:MilkeMainieri1.gif
  • Image:TerriLyneCarrington-1.jpg
  • Image:Marsalis9oval2.jpg
  • Image:MIkeRatledgeBBCPromo-1.jpg
  • Image:JackDeJohnette-1.jpg
  • Image:Morse exterior.jpg
  • Image:JerryGoodman1.jpg
  • Image:ElianeElias1.png
  • Image:JeffTainWatts-2.jpg
  • Image:ScottHendersonSuhrGuitarPromo-1.jpg
  • Image:HughHopperSelfPortrait1995.jpg
  • Image:Sherinian2005-1.jpg
  • Image:AriHoeningPromo-1.jpg
  • Image:JosephByrd-1.jpg
  • Image:DerekAndBengt.jpg
  • Image:JMPlic-300-1.jpg
  • Image:SherinianIdolBandLo-Crop-1.jpg
  • Image:Sherinian-Idol-Slash-Promo1.jpg
  • Image:DerekIdolkeyboards.jpg
  • Image:Kinsey eyes closed.jpg

I have also lost:

  • Image_talk:JIVAN-1a.jpg
  • Image talk:John Petrucci-DerekSherinian-640-1.jpg

So far, of the images challenged...I have lost 32 of 35, and am preparing an appeal on one or more. I also had to provide extremely detailed FUR for dozens of others immedidately after posting at Chowbok. Etc. etc. And of course I got to try and defend more than 60 images at once in a seven day period, which was utter lunacy and and of itself. Thanks again for any and all assistance. Tvccs 03:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I was just reviewing your user page, by the way, and I have to commend you for being the only admin I have ever seen that provided a ready link for a recall. That text should be standard on all admin pages - well done. If I ever became an admin, god forbid, that would be the first thing I'd add. And for the record, I didn't click it...lol. Tvccs 06:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for doing the {{Rk}} etc. Yours is much nicer looking than mine would have been, hehe :D It will make me feel like I'm closing AFD's though, something I stay away from :) - cohesion 18:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More replaceable fair use images

  • Image:Buben.jpg

—Chowbok ☠ 05:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

    • I have speedy deleted it Alex Bakharev 05:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Equation Editor

Hi, Alex. I'm having difficulty in writing scientific formulae with wiki editor. Is there any guide or other equation editors which can be used in wikipedia? Thanks. E104421 12:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Thank you very much. E104421 17:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammer in your Arbitration statement

Hi Alex, I corrected a grammatical mistake in your arbitration statment [27]. I hope you don't mind. Jidan 15:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Campaign in Vote

Dear Alex,

Here is the list of users which he sent messages;(taken from) Special:Contributions/KaragouniS; 16:04, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Osgoodelawyer 16:01, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise 15:59, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Hectorian 15:58, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:AndreasJS 15:57, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Euthymios 15:57, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Pireotis 15:56, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Gx25 15:56, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Kékrōps 15:55, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Dragases 15:54, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:KRBN 15:53, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Poromenos 15:52, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Yannismarou 15:52, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Mitsos 15:51, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Magioladitis 15:50, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:NikoSilver 15:49, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Tony esopi patra 15:49, December 7, 2006 (hist) (diff) User talk:Galis

Thanks MustTC 18:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

It looks like was the third who gave him a warning Alex Bakharev 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re-creation of deleted article

The Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison article was deleted as "nn-bio". The same user has now re-created the same article. --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I have put the article to AfD. Please participate. Alex Bakharev 21:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Caspian expeditions of the Rus

You may be interested in this FAC. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 22:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CR

Can people just change language of a policy without disscussion first?Hackajar 05:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Well, like with any other wiki page we should be bold but not reckless. If somebody would revert me I will not revert back but start to discuss. I am not sure somebody will do it, the language was obviously wrong. Alex Bakharev 05:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
There is a huge disscussion regarding fair use images, promotional images and users role in said events. These events have taken place AFTER July 31, 2006 when that language was placed in policy. Thoughts?Hackajar 06:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I, probably, stated my opinion clearly for the use of promotional images if the free substitutes are unlikely or could put us in danger, but I am not sure I have a consnesnsus here. A smaller discussion is about the correct procedure for the {{Replaceable_fair_use}}. Your opinion is welcome Alex Bakharev 07:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Afghan chief

Sorry, I think I can't help you. I have no idea who that person was, except maybe that he was not really an Afghan (Pashtun) but maybe a clan-chief of the Wakhi people. Tājik 21:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holodomor

Unfortunately there is no use in disscussing the issue with people who have a portrait of stalin on their page, and sadly it seems as though even some liberal Russians have no problem marching shoulder in shoulder with such people when it comes to the nations which Russians consider the "canonical territory". As for the edit it has been explained in an edit summary earlier.

Now this man Yevgenij Guzyeyev claims to be a diplomatic representative of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, is this in any way incorrect?, he is quoted to have said: "Представить, что это было сделано специально, - невозможно. Тогдашние руководители были умными людьми, поэтому невозможно представить, что это была запланирована акция" this was covered by virtually all printed media here and caused a huge outrage, in there something that would indicate he did not utter those words?, has the Russian Federation distanced itself in any way from this?. Could You explain why you consider a link to some article and the paragraph written by some guy who has a portrait of stalin on his page (but claims not to be a stalinist) to better represent the position of the RF? Can You explain why do you belive claiming Ukrainians are "politicizing the issue" by demanding the recognition of a crime commited against our nation. And last but not least, please do tell me why does a certain group of people here so desperatley seek to prevent others from finding the Holodomor in Category:Genocide (while for example on Your wikipedia it's there ru:Категория:Геноцид). --Vernyhora 23:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

First I appologize for taking so long to reply, due to some underhanded activity of which You may or may not be aware I was unable to post this here yester day.
Second I find the fact that you equate commerating victims of a genocide with glorifing a mass murderer really distastefull. As you should know stalin murdered much more of your own people people then he did of any other nation (more then anyone has before him and hopefully then any one ever will). Yet amazingly in Russia there seem there seem to be public permission of his cult which would be unthinkable most anywhere else.
Now for the article itself, sadly, unlike for example the crimes commited by national socialist which are well known in the Western World or the crimes commited by the young turks which are exposed by the vast and well educated Armenian diaspora, the crimes commited by communist remain largely unknown to the general population of English speaking countries, and there are very few Ukrainians present there. Thus a group of Russian nationalists can easily manipulate Ukrainian topics filling them with soviet propaganda. You'd notice that on the Russian Wikipedia, while some rudimentary systematic bias is present, many topics are actually covered much more neutrally because a fringe group couldn't just write patent nonsense.
I also noticed that that You tried to pull a red herring at Talk:Holodomor#Heading, cleverly avoiding how the section title Holodomor#Politicization of the famine is meant to imply that the Ukrainian demands for official recognition of the crime are an issue of politics and how You were unable to in any way comment on the scandalous quote in which the Russian diplomat in Ukraine expressed the official position of his country. --Vernyhora 12:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, I have not blocked you and saw your block then it was already half-way trough. WP:3RR is intended to be an electrified fence and you reverted five times in 24h period despite the numerous warnings.
You are welcome to propose better titles for the article while I would still suggest to collect referenced data rather that stylistic spin doctoring.
Regarding the Stalin on the user page of Kuban Kazak, you are welcome to ask him to remove it. As far as I know he put the portrait as a form of some point proving exercise. At any rate he contributed a big deal to this project including Ukrainian topics (in particular to the Kiev and Kharkiv Metro project). You so far contributed much less.
Collectivization and caused by it the Famine of 1932-1933 was a terrible tragedy and indeed a crime. Obviously it was not a genocide - a specially engineered event to kill most of Ukrainians. As it was in the Lower Volga region, Northern Caucasus, Crimea. In Kazakhstan the famine was much more terrible than on Ukraine. There was never found a single act demanding to treat Ukrainian peasants, differently from Russians, Poles, Germans, Tatars. There were absolutely no famine in Ukrainian cities. Never in the history of the Soviet Unions Ukrainians were a persecuted, discriminated or untrusted ethnicity (unlike Poles, Germans, Jews, Chechens, Kalmyks, Balts, Koreans, Armenians, Azeris - you name it).
In short, Holodomor was a typical classocide. Personally I find revolting the speculations on the dead people, but your tastes may differ. Alex Bakharev 09:05, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
As for your colleague his user page isn't the problem only a manifestation of it, in fact keeping the portrait there is very usefull as it serves as huge warning sign for everyone who would interact with him. By the way I did point out to him how this is inapproriate the moment he appeared on my talk page and in reply he laughed in my face.
For the 3RR, you can yourself check that I did no such thing, simply the above mentioned person posted a spoof report (with out even openly claiming I violated the rule, just lining to 5 edits and writing nonsense below it) in order to trick some administrator.
Now back to the article, are you able to provide anything that would in any way indicate the article in a respected newspaper (and the same was covered in many other) is wrong and your diplomat did not say what is attributed to him?
The fact there was no famine in the cities works against your cause not for it, as the cities were at the time already heavily russified, while in the countryside the situation remained much better, as stalin put it «Национальная проблема, в самой своей сути, это крестьянская проблема». And finaly the argument "there was no genocide against Ukrainians, because we also killed Kazakhs, Tatars, Balts and many others and even our own" is bluntly absurd. And I find it deeply revolting how some elements in Russia try to portray honoring vicitms of soviet crimes as politics. --Vernyhora 13:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Velikoe v malom i antikhrist

Can you visit the above article and check out the transliteration of the title page for possible typos???

Also, can you help me translate the Table of Content???
Thanks, Yours truly,--Ludvikus 03:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[Yours truly,]: Ludvikus 03:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

For your convenience, here are the 3 images I've provided:

Velikoe v malom i antikhrist (1905 edition)
Velikoe v malom i antikhrist (1905 edition)
Image:1905 Velikoe v malom - Transcription.JPG
Velikoe v malom - 1905 Title Page Transcription
Table of Contents Velikoe v malom i antikhrist
Table of Contents Velikoe v malom i antikhrist
[Yours truly,]--Ludvikus 03:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TOC (my tranlation)

Page
Preface V-VIII
Preface to the second edition IX-X
I. How the Orthodox person [AB - Nilus??] was converted to the Orthodox Christian Faith 1-31
II. One of the modern miracles of the Father Sergius [AB-Sergius of Radonezh??] 33-41
III. Journey to the Sarov Hermitage (Pustyn') and Serafimo-Dnievsky Convent 43-99
IV. Acolyte to the Mother of God and Seraphim [AB - most probably Seraphim of Sarov ] (Simbirsk Judge of Peace Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov) 101-166
V. The Saint Spirit obviously settled on Saint Seraphim of Sarov in His talks with Simbirsk land Owner and Judge Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov 167-207
VI. Father Seraphim and the Process of a murderer (Memoirs of a Lutheran) 209-221
VII. Commandment from the life of a starets from Optina Pustyn father Amvrosy 223-231
VIII. Father Egor Cherkessky 233-269
IX. One of the mysteries of Godly Home-building 271-289
X. Heavenly convents 281-293
XI. What is awaiting Russia (from prophesies of Saint Seraphim) 295-304
XII. Antichrist as a close political possibility 305-417

[edit] Wonderful Job on your part Translating the TABLE OF CONTENTS

Your the TRANSLATOR - I'm the TRANSCRIBER. I have RE-TYPED the RUSSIAN TITLE PAGE. I found errors in my previous transcription. Please let me know if there are any errors! Yours truly, --Ludvikus 05:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

1905 Velikoe v malom - Title Page - Transcription
1905 Velikoe v malom - Title Page - Transcription

[edit] Chapter 12 or Part 12?

In Russian, do you have these (above) two words? So which is the correct translation of 12/XII???

In Russian there is a word Глава = Chapter and Часть=Part. I would guess that 20..100 page sections should be Chapters, but nothing in the TOC shed any light on it: there are only numbers. I guess unless in the body of the text they named somewhat differently it is safe to name them Chapters.

Now can you translate for me the following?

(1) ҝакъ близкая политичесҝая возможность.

as a close(short range, near future) political possibility

(2) зАписки пРАВолАВнАґо.

notes of an Orthodox Christian (as Eastern Orthodox Church). [AB Note the typo in the text should be Православного: letter с is missing].

(3) (издАнІЕ ВтоРоЕ. иСПРАВЛЕнноЕ и дополнЕнноЕ).

Edition second. Fixed and Expanded.

(4) ЦАРСКОЕ СЕЛО. - this I know!!!

Yes, Tsarskoye Selo

(5) Tипографія Царскосельскаго КоМитета Краснаго Креста.

Typography of the Tsarskye Selo Committee of the Red Cross

Yours truly, --Ludvikus 06:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Alex Bakharev 08:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Part 12: протоколы засѣданій сіонскихъ мудрецовъ

Can you give me the WORD-FOR-WORD translation of the above?

Yours truly,--Ludvikus 06:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I know 3 0f the 4 words:

  • протоколы = Protocols
    • Yes or even minutes as meeting minutes
  • засѣданій = ?????
    • Meetings, conferenses
  • сіонскихъ = Zionist
    • or at least Zion
  • мудрецовъ = Elders/Sages/Wise Men
    • Yes
Ludvik: --Ludvikus 06:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Alex Bakharev 08:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! So now I know for sure that it was Nilus who gaves us these meanings! --Ludvikus 13:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Barnstar for Alex Bakharev
I award you this BarnStar© for your edits to Velikoe v malom. Wish you continue with the same spirit. --Ludvikus 17:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for adding the name of Gerasim Lebedev in Russian script in the article. I was trying to contact someone for the same and requested Ghirla. Thanks, again. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

The article was already nominated for DYK! I have added this comment to your nom in the DYK nom page. Please see the upper entries for December 9 in the nomination page for the earlier nomination. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 10 December 2006, a fact from the article Semyon Novgorodov, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- Good catch! GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 17:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 11, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alexandre Jacovleff, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Gerat work Alex...Thanks for your many contributions. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Srkris

With respect to; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Srkris&diff=93473853&oldid=93216593, this user has posted a bogus warning on my talk page.

Please see [music talk diff]. Here, clearly, this user has indirectly suggested that user:Venu62 will create a revert war with user:tejas81 after user:Venu62 agreed with user:tejas81's suggestion - Srkris has attempted to mislead user:tejas81 about another Wikipedian. After I deleted this remark (due to its nature as a personal attack from a so-called anonymous user), this user not only placed a bogus warning on my talk page, but also reported it here: User_talk:Utcursch. I have posted a reply to his bogus, misleading complaint. In my reply, as well as the above, I also mentioned: "It also appears that this User:59.92.83.63 shouldn't have even been able to make edits or remarks as he has been blocked (under User:59.92.87.43 and User:Srkris) for violating several Wikipedia policies."

Could you, as an admin, please delete this warning on my talk page? Ncmvocalist 01:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Ncmvocalist 05:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Jacob Peters

You blocked Jacob Peters on 3rd december for one week[30]. Now it has been confirmed that used sockpuppet to avoid block[31].--Staberinde 07:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I have restarted the block for Jacob and Permablocked the sockpuppet Alex Bakharev 07:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rus' Khaganate

Thought you might be interested in this FAC. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 18:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for blocking the vandal and fixing my user page! TheQuandry 00:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Increase of my block time

Hello,

I, User:Srkris, dont need to change any IPs since my ISP allots dynamic IPs. By not logging in, I can still use or edit wikipedia. I had informed another admin about my warning which I left on User:Ncmvocalist's page. The next thing I see is that you extended my block, for warning him not to remove my comments from talk pages of articles. Please see reason. I am not a vandal, if that's what you're thinking! The original block itself was because this User:Ncmvocalist left bogus warnings on my talk page and one admin seemed to think they were real warnings. I dont know whether to laugh or cry seeing your actions. 59.92.57.105 15:42, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

This user (Srkris) needs to understand the meaning of a block. His initial block was not because of bogus warnings. It was because of violations of WP:CIVIL, WP:AGF, WP:COPY, etc. He continued to edit even after the block by simply not logging in. He is still continuing to do so. Parthi talk/contribs 18:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding User:Irpen

Regarding User:Irpen, you have stated that "Irpen is my friend" (diff). Several admins have left messages on his talk page regarding image tags (diff 1 diff 2), yet he continues to argue his viewpoint that the tags need to be justified or else they can be removed.

I am bringing this matter to your attention as a friend of User:Irpen, his comments on Image talk:Volkovaingq.JPG (diff) and Image talk:Tatygirlelena.jpg (diff) seem to indicate a lack of willingness to follow Wikipedia's policies. His edits in other matters seem valuable and uncontroversial, however if he continues on the path he is on he will find himself more and more at odds with an increasing number of editors, and that is not in anyone's best interest.

Sincerely, --Oden 16:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Since I posted the message above the following has happened:
  • User:Irpen has removed a {{imagevio}} notice from Image:Vc4000.jpg (diff). Removing the tag hides the fact that the image was a copyright violation, if the image was not reported on Wikipedia:Copyright problems the good-faith act would have been to fix that problem. Apparent bad faith removal of the tag can be considered a form of vandalism (avoidant vandalism).
  • User:Irpen also removed the comment I left on User talk:Irpen: diff 1 diff 2. According to WP:TALK "Actively erasing non-harassing personal messages without replying (if a reply would be appropriate or polite) will probably be interpreted as hostile. In the past, this kind of behavior has been viewed as uncivil, and this can become an issue in arbitration or other formal proceedings.".
  • User:Irpen's edits in User:Chowbok/Robth's RFU Explanation resulted in the page being protected (diff 1 diff 2).
I would urge you to explain to User:Irpen that apparent bad-faith edits are in no one's interests, and that there are consequences for repeated bad-faith edits.--Oden 08:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "scrutiny of contributions"

Regarding "scrutiny of contributions", if a editor posted a comment stating that he disagrees with WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:NPOV or any of Wikipedia's other core policies, that editor's contributions would certainly be subject to review. Why should WP:IUP and WP:FUC, also policy, be regarded in a different manner? This is not only in relation to your comments, I am genuinely curious on why many editors feel that the image policy should be interpreted differently (more leniently) than any other of Wikipedia's policies? --Oden 16:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stalking

I have noticed that you have been making several comments regarding my recent contributions. I am stating this in relation to any "scrutiny of contributions", and I am genuinely curious how you can be so aware of my contributions. --Oden 16:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I got a number of complaints against you and User:Abu Badalai. Actually you probably held the record by the number of different people complaining about your behavior on my talk page Alex Bakharev 00:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't find my username mentioned outside of my own comments, though I understand that apparently I can be referred to by names other than my username (I've had my userpage vandalized five times by vandal accounts like User:Odenass and User:Odinass so I've decided to only have a talk page instead. --Oden 01:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest

You wrote on my talk page: "Please do not do such threats again or I would have to block you for disruption".

I would urge you to consider that such a move could be interpreted as a conflict of interest; regarding my dialgoue with User:Irpen you have stated "Irpen is my friend. I feel I am not completly unbiased in the disputes there he is involved" (diff). The present sitation is also related to that matter since User:Grafikm_fr's comments were in regard to that discussion.

However, I would not see any conflict of interest if you were to hand the matter over to a neutral and disinterested third party for review, if you feel that any action is necessary.

Sincerely, --Oden 16:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How I review an editor's contributions

Hello!

Since there seems to be some misconception regarding my review of how I typically review an editor's contributions, I would like to provide an example of a review:

  1. In this situation I am monitoring (on my watchlist) an article on a biography of a living person: John Williams.
  2. A editor (User:Suicune tudor) makes an edit to the article (diff) introducing a new image (Image:JWSW.jpg).
  3. The image in question is tagged as {{PD-self}}, however the image appears to be a screenshot of a television broadcast, since the image capture would be a derivative work it is unlikely that the uploader is also the original copyright holder.
  4. I could tag the image as a copyright violation ({{imagevio}}), however I do not have a source to prove this. Instead I tag the image as disputed ({{PUIdisputed}}) (diff).
  5. I list the image at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images (diff) and notify the uploader (diff).
  6. I then examine the user's upload log to see if there are any other images which need to be remedied. (Regarding this user I have already had cause for concern after seeing Image:092002 HZimmer piano.jpg, which is a copyright violation. This user has uploaded three blatant copyright violations and two suspected unfree images so far.)

That is how it is done for the most part. I could of course try to work with the editor in question and relicense the images as fair use images, but an editor who uploads a obviously copyrighted image and writes in the edit summary "Made this myself" (diff) does not inspire much confidence. --Oden 17:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

  • This is a correct way of actions for the bad faith edits. On the other hand, stating I disagree with your opinion so I have to "scrutinize" your contributions like here is wrong. Alex Bakharev 00:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Honestly, when User:Grafikm_fr says "grand yet hollow principles like 'free content' " I really find cause for concern, and I believe every editor who really believes in this encyclopedia should also find cause for concern with such a statement.
On the other hand, I do take your suggestions for improvement regarding my contributions seriously. In the future, if I feel it warranted, I will take action through the proper channels regarding a user's contributions or comments. --Oden 01:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

What a baloney, Oden. A number of times you have taken this course of action against anyone who disagreed with you for whatever reason. When Ghirla did it, you immediately attacked dozens of his images from years ago. When I did, not only you attacked images I uploaded, but you even attacked the articles I wrote, especially disgustingly, putting the "unreferenced" tag on the top of the short article with 5 refs listed. (Guidelines suggest to put it to the bottom or to the talk page and not when you find a single fact unreferenced, there is a "fact" tag for that)

You similarly attacked other people who disagreed with you on no matter which matter. This makes it obvious that you were motivated not by the policy enforcement but by the desire to cause distress to the editors in revenge for their valid criticism. For policing purpose, you go after the newbies and vandals, not the established editors who just happen to disagree with you. ArbCom confirmed that stalking motivated by the desire of distressing your opponents is harassment and has been strict with such users.

Fortunately, your actions were noted by the number of admins and I now I feel relieved that I don't need to spend time writing up an ArbCom case. Your activity has become notorious enough and your continuing of it will result in blocks, at it has been clearly explained to you now. As for turning your activity into contributing content, this is a very sound advise by Alex but I doubt you will take it. From what I've seen at Wikipedia, people here do not change. --Irpen 02:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Block: 83.100.212.100

If it is within the Wikipedia guidelines, might I suggest that you issue a more lengthy ban to the IP address 83.100.212.100 than simply one month? The IP address covers an entire LEA (school district) in Bolton, UK and therefore represents the collective destructive forces of maybe 30,000 schoolkids. Although I sincerely wish the vandals would change their ways, it isn't going to happen in the next month and if it happens even in the next year I will gladly translate the entirety of Wikipedia into Swahili. CSS-Prince 19:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your comments needed.

Is it possible to have a look here, please? Thanks.Regards.MustTC 19:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jacob Peters in action again

His edits are hard not to notice. This time as anonymous IP User:204.102.210.1 [32]. No checkuser is needed, just one older edit he has signed as Jacob Peters is perfect proof[33].--Staberinde 20:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yılmazs(Güney,Erdoğan)

Thanks for your contributions.
Please note that, I agree with you completely. I sent message to Khoikhoi for consensus, here;

Dear Khoi, Of course I saw that film (also all other films). In Turkey there is a consensus about these people and their art works. They help to the general political athmosphere/humanity by their works in Turkey. Without regarding Turkish-Kurdish ethnicity all people(except fascits and fanatic nationalists) loves and supports them. Güney is( at that moment also) called as Kral-King(of the cinema). Güney and Erdoğan never bring to front the ethnic roots of themselves. If we put this root to the front we would disturbed their memories/works. This is the main point. Please consider in this manner. Regards. MustTC 07:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I am ready to find a compromise way in all conditions except personal attack like as Ozgurgerilla(free guerilla, he declare himself as a member of PKK) did. Allah belanı(zı) versin is used as a worst speach and at the ultimum point of a quarrel, after this word no way back. Also note that; there is a plural target (bela-nı; singular, bela-nı-zı; plural). Word by word translation no make sense in english, and my English is not perfect to find an equal idiom in english. Maybe another native turkish speaking user can do. Sorry for all headache, Thanks again. MustTC 21:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I gave him a warning. If you think he deserves more I need to properly understand the context Alex Bakharev 00:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

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-- Great catch! GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 01:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civility

Hi Alex, first of all I would like to say that I am aware of the diversity in Wikipedia and I am part of it and happy about it. Moving on to, Yilmaz Guney, he is not only a blasphemy for devoted muslims but for other people too; he got a couple of important awards in Eupore too. It is true that both Turkish and Kurdish people read the article but keeping the truth on issues is the real matter here. For example his ethnicity; Yilmaz Guney is a Kurdish director I could even prove this by uploading a video of him talking about his ethnicity. When we have such evidence about his ethnicity isn't it right to mention this on the article? I think it is. Just like we mention Isaac Newton's ethnicity or Einstein's. Such fact should be in the article because his film "suru" is in Kurdish and I don't know if you know about the Turkish & Kurdish cinema but doing a Kurdish film in 70's 80's in Turkey instantly tells your ethnicity. I have no problem mentioning that the majority of his works were in Turkish but there is reasons for that. I want to keep facts on articles but some have problem when we talk about the ethnicity of some artists in Turkey. and please tell me how did I offend anyone? is stating facts on articles offending others?

Secondly, Mustafa did exactly what I did, he reverted the article more then 3 times that day that's violating the WP:3RR more then 3 times now for him. When I didn't and he tries to put a warning in my talk page about been aware of WP:3RR. Now that is preposterous, I am aware of it and need no warning from a user that has violated the rule more then 3 times himself. But I would like to ask you what to do in such situations when users like Mustafa try to change facts. The fatc is there he's Kurdish and he keeps changing - it I mean that is going into vandalism now. Please help me sort this issue on articles of Kurdish artists. Ozgur Gerilla 14:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

  • All alleges here is baseless.
    • There was a blasphemy and personal attack in edit-summary, till to now there is no any apology or excuse.He only is trying to hushing up his crime.
    • Considering reverts; fully reflects the my above comment. Here history of that article. To lie is another crime in all cultures/ethics. I offer to delete "User:communist" babel from the users page since real communist ethics never accept to lie for any reason.
    • User is making show here with the sentence Please help me sort this ...... As you can see he already reverted this page. again.
  • I am really tired to deal such a stupid matters. From now on, I assume this user is nonexistent, till to sending apologize to me.

Regards. MustTC 18:27, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, what did he say that offended you so much? As for the article, can't you call him "a film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey who self-identifies as a Kurd"? //Dirak 18:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I have been busy and couldn't look into this earlier. Apparently, the sentence in question was "Allah belanızı versin", which translates (more or less) as "May Allah curse you". Unfortunately I wasn't able to follow much what happened in those articles, but I will try to have a look at it later today. Baristarim 18:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry to continue writing about his issue on your talk page Alex but I have to. Dirak, Yilmaz Guney is an important figure for the Kurds — he has produced nearly all his work in Turkish because of the language restriction in Turkey but his content contains the Kurdish culture; thus it is important for such persons Wiki article to clearly state his ethnicity and the identity he accepts. This is done in all the English, German, Greek people's articles. I am still not happy with the current statement in the article it follows "Yilmaz Guney was a Turkish language film director..." I mean yes we need to mention the language of his works and how important it is but I'm asking you all if it right to start an article stating his works language?
For the "Allah Belanizi Versin", it was written in the edit summary — I believe I have the right to write this since I never mentioned any names. And yes, "Allah Belanizi versin" those who try to Turkify Kurdish art. Ozgur Gerilla 02:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox for you

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- crz crztalk 17:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet?

I have never dealt with sockpuppets (in terms of reporting them), but I am pretty sure Mikhail Frunze (talk · contribs) is another one of Jacob's. If this belongs at WP:RCU, do let me now under what code (behaviour simmilar to user whose other socks has been blocked...)?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

  • No checkuser needed I have blocked the puppet indefinetly Alex Bakharev 19:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Possibly also user:68.123.224.165, although I am not familiar with this user. —Michael Z. 2006-12-13 21:52 Z
Yes, It is him, he posted from the same provider before. Blocked for 1 week. Alex Bakharev 22:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
And here's another one, possibly: user:68.127.240.184. Same provider, same location, and the POV/style of edits seem similar. --03:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by C33 (talk • contribs)
Done Alex Bakharev 03:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Here he is again today: user:68.127.37.13. Same articles as yesterday, same ISP, same location, same POV. --C33 01:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Done Alex Bakharev 06:01, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Vernadsky

Can you please delete the old 3 edits of the George Vernadsky picture? Two of them do not follow fair use and one of them was accidently uploaded. Thanks. --Ineffable3000 17:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC) thumb|right|100px|George Vernadsky

[edit] Christine Maggiore semiprotection

Why have you semi-protected this article? There has been very little vandalism/pov pushing in recent days - especially by anons/new users - and this was by a single IP address which has not added any POV material now for 4 hours. Please un-protect this page as semi-protection is supposed to be a last-effort in the fight against vandalism and this protection seems to be against the policy on the matter. Thanks, Localzuk(talk) 01:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melbourne meetup

Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. --bainer (talk) 14:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Was Chekhov Ukrainian?

As you are someone who is interested in Russian and Ukrainian matters, I'd be interested in your response to my query at Talk: List of Ukrainians#Was Chekhov Ukrainian?. Many thanks. qp10qp 17:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I can now tick this off the list of things to look into and forget about it.qp10qp 22:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Turks

Hello you have protected this article since November 27 2006 un-protecting it might be good. Nareklm 18:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Also Kebab too if you will. Nareklm 18:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you sir. Nareklm 21:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Ruben RfA

Alex Bakharev/Archive11, thank you for your support in my RfA which passed on 13th December 2006 with a tally of 49/10/5. I am delighted by the result and a little daunted by the scope of the additional tools; I shall be cautious in my use of them. I am well aware that becoming an Admin is not just about a successful nomination, but a continuing process of gaining further experience; for this I shall welcome your feedback. Again, many thanks for supporting my RfA. :-) David Ruben 01:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User: Venu62

This user made an edit in the article Carnatic music which has sparked debate in the past, as can be seen on his talk page [[34]]. I made a comment on this user's talk page regarding this[[35]] I also recommended him to discuss controversial changes before making them, which he has not.

He has replied with a warning of a personal attack, warning me of blocks and suggesting I do not keep a cool head when editing, [[36]]. I believe the warning is bogus with respect to what I said on his talk page. Could you please look into it and delete his bogus warning off my talk page? Ncmvocalist 01:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. It was very helpful. :) Ncmvocalist 03:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I left this complaint: Please see this diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR&diff=prev&oldid=95429779, and although there are only 3 reverts put there, it appears that the admin who removed this didn't pay attention to any of my comments. Could you please look at it? Ncmvocalist 13:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message and looking into it. I've served my block time of 24hrs, but the admin who gave me the block should have given both me and Venu62 blocks. I just don't see the fairness if I alone got a block for it, when he's been gaming the system (and deserves an equal, if not longer block). Ncmvocalist 07:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Technically, if I was blocked, then why isn't the user in question being blocked for the same? I have to carry a block in my block log while he has a completely clean record, even though he should have at least one, as a record for gaming the system (on more than one occasion)... Ncmvocalist 14:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Dear Alex, There are many dispruptive edits of Tajik in many articles. I am not expert on that spesific article but as you can see User:NisarKand has many contribution there in a positive manner which were reverted/deleted by Tajik. I only revert this deletion back. Regards. MustTC 05:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1992 Imprint of The Protocols of Zion

Dear Alex, User:Humus sapiens raised the question as to the correct translation of this Russian language imprint TITLE. Can you give us the correct translation - on the Talk page of The Protocols?

Image:Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1992 Russia.jpg
1992 Russian edition of the Protocols, adapting Eliphas Levi's portrayal of Baphomet.
Thanks!--Ludvikus 16:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1927 Cover & Title of The Protocols of Zion

Dear Alex, While your're at it, can you please both Transliterate and Tranlate the Cover Title of this item:

1927 ed. by Russian emigrants in Paris portrays the Bolshevik Revolution as a "Jewish plot"
1927 ed. by Russian emigrants in Paris portrays the Bolshevik Revolution as a "Jewish plot"
Thanks again!--Ludvikus 18:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for the support! MONGO 09:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I am here

Thanks to your reference for me. Regards. MustTC 12:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article moves

Muscovy has spawned Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia, with its original article history now sitting at Muscovy (Grand Duchy) (where I moved the article temporarily, when Ghirlandajo made a normal move impossible by editing the Muscovy redirect, as shown in the history). I admit I may have acted rashly in my move, but Ghirlandajo's unilateral actions and purposeful blocking of the redirect so that the move could not be moved back so that a proper WP:RM could be conducted annoyed me (his oops comment was just to much). Anyway, I would much appreciate it if you would fix the resulting mess. I am sorry for my part in this fiasco, I may have gotten carried away. The accusations of stalking from Ghirlandajo certainly did not help. Balcer 16:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Aye, fork alert! I slapped some merge tags to at least contain the problem... I think all moves should be reverted, forks merged and proper RM started; the move was highly controversial to start with. PS. What 'oops' comment?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  16:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
This. Anyway, the more I think about what I have done here, and in my edits over the last few days, the worse I feel about my continued involvement in Wikipedia. It seems I have sank to a new low and this disturbs me. Maybe Ghirlndajo's stalking accusations have some merit? So hereby I am taking a long Wikibreak (though I will answer essential inquiries) Balcer 16:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Another controversial move...-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  20:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Piotrus, you said yourslef earlier that you won't object to such move. Now you are making a big deal of this just to add more mess and bad blood, aren't you? --Irpen 20:38, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Irpen, I replied on two other forums why the above diffs is no longer applicable, please stop dragging it all around. Thank you, and thanks alex for trying to fix the mess we are in. PS. Alex, I noted this incident at ANI (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Controversial_moves).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  23:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD

Dear Alex, I opened a TfD. Creator of Template deleted/divided and transferred my and some other comments. I sent many messages to that user about Tfd User_talk:Clevelander. But he insists to destroy my comments. He changed the name of Template when TfD in process. here the last version of TfD( if not changed in some minutes again) Is it alloved this action before TfD close. Regards MustTC 16:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

  • He logged-in as IP and Username, (I think there is no bad faith here), but he emptied IP talk page and User talk page, I found them from my contributions here talk messages;IP talk,

talk Regards.MustTC 16:38, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Alex, there seems to have been something lost in translation here between Mustafa Akalp and I. What happened was that I removed some anon's comments as vandalism from a TfD page on a template of former Armenian capitals (which Mustafa had nominated for deletion) without logging on (I wasn't sure if I could log on to Wikipedia at work or not). I then asked moderator Francis Tyers to close the TfD on no consensus because it was going nowhere (most of those voting to remove the template were Turks and most of those voting to keep the template were Armenians). Francis responded and said to wait it out. But then Mustafa wrote a long-winded and hard-to-understand message on the TfD in response to my removal of the anon comments and a response to my private discussion with Francis. I acted in response by restoring the anon's comments, replying to them, removing most of Mustafa's comments on the anon (which was mostly a copy-and-paste quote of the anon comments), and then moving the remainder of his comments on my discussion with Francis to Francis's talk page.
Mustafa was apparently outraged by this move and so he and I engaged in a back-and-forth dialogue via talk pages. I became frustrated by his apparent lack of knowledge of English which caused miscommunication and I'm afraid only made the situation worse. He then resolved to place his comments back on the page. He did so and I replied, but not before removing his re-quote of the anon (which if kept intact would only confuse the reader) and the quote of the message I left with Francis (which was already linked to the article). I also then moved to rename the template once and for all from "Armenian capitals" to "former Armenian capitals," thus resolving the most pronounced issue of the dispute - its name. Mustafa became enraged and wrote another long-winded message roundly denouncing my actions to administrators and users and then re-quoting his original message again. I replied again and then he wrote this message to you. So, naturally, I am now defending myself. I take full responsibility for my actions and I apologize. -- Clevelander 17:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, you are certainly allowed to improve the page during XfD. If renaming of the template is a suitable compromise for both Armenians and Turks then it is the best possible outcome of XfD. Removing somebody else's messages then working as an IP looks very suspicious. If it is an isolated fact I would WP:AGF but if it is a routine way of actions it is a gross violation. Clevelander, please do not do it again. Alex Bakharev 07:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pavel Florensky & Michael Hagemeister

I did a bit of English language editing above (Florensky) - especially the 1st,& 2nd paragraphs?

Thought you might want to revist it.
Also, I thought you might want to look at the contemporay authority on him:

Yours truly, Ludvikus 17:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Yurkevich Normandia Model.jpg

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[edit] Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!
Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi Alex! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 20:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Could you give me a piece of advice?

Hello Alex! You are probably familiar with Stomakhin article. I left my message on the notice board about living persons. There is nothing else I can do. Other users are editing at this moment article about Human Rights in Russia. I would not mind if they added more staff, found some factual errors in the writings, or provided alternative points of view on the subject. But they simly deleted all texts with references on certain people they do not like, such as Politkovskaya, Kovalev, etc. Unfortunately, I do not have time to argue with them about every simplest question, such as what is freedom of speech. One of my possible options would be to stop writing about any topics related to Russia. Would that be the best way to proceed? Of course I can struggle a little with Human Rights, but these people seem do not uderstand any arguments. Thank you. Biophys 20:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I wish you Happy New Year and all the best! I will try to be as objective and polite as possible in any future discussions.Biophys 15:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Alexei. Sorry about complain at the verge of the New Year, but I would like to bring your attention to the fact that Biophys uses third-party blogs as sources in Boris Stomakhin article, he edits citations of Stomakhin from the official court sentence and adds his personal explanations and comments to the citations. Today Biophys began revert war by reverting the whole article at once. He also repeatedly tries to reedit the redaction of Maksim Sokolov which was made by you. He deletes citations by Boris Stomakhin from article 'Death to Russia' claiming it is not reliable source. He also deleted my source-supported addition that statement of NGO, added by him, contains false facts. The problem with Biophys, in my opinion, is that he is a stereotyped person. He views that free speech cannot be limited by anything, which is weird to normal person, or wtf? If he sees someone prosecuted - it's only state and nothing else, and therefore criminal is a political prisoner. I am a lawyer having graduated three law faculties including Warsaw University and Oxford University. And my specialization is international law and international commercial arbitration in particular. I knew Stomakhin personally (not a friend, of course).Vlad fedorov 06:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Please see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anna_Politkovskaya#Death_.26_Putin.27s_birthday and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anna_Politkovskaya#Unsourced_speculation to see that I am not alone who are fed up with Biophys political propaganda. Even non-Russians complain that Biophys publishes propaganda in Wikipedia.Vlad fedorov 09:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your article, Pevchesky Bridge, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On December 21, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pevchesky Bridge, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 22:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

Thank you very much for that nice barnstar and Merry Christmas! :) - Darwinek 12:51, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Image:wiki-thanks.png for the barnstar and best wishes on occasion of the holidays! Beit Or 13:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] XMAS gift

Lots of good intentions flying around, but not much in the way of useful stuff. Here is a nice template I found to organize your ever-growing collections of awards :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  13:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


Salad'o'meter™
put barnstars here (no thumb or direction)
n00b involved been around veteran seen it all older than the Cabal itself

[edit] Many thanks

Many thanks for the thingie; I've never had one before! I'm going to position it inconspicuously on my user page, which I think is the Chekhovian thing to do, but that doesn't mean I'm not thrilled.(I've still got endless small details to check for that article, plus a summary-style group of articles to build up around it, and so I might actually get somewhere by about April. Happy New Year! qp10qp 17:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1911 Nilus Book (Antichrist & Protocols) Title Page

Hello Alex, how are you?

I've transcribed (my a bit illegible copy of) the above as follows:
               C. Hилycъ,
  
           Близъ rpядyщiй
             Aнтиҳpicтъ
  
  Tипографiя Свято-Tроицкой Cepriевoй Лавры.
   [Tip. Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry]
  
            M О С К В А    1911.

Can you, who reads Russian, correct it, and translate it? Thanks. --Ludvikus 17:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

My translation is below. Please note that I do not know how to spell words in the old orthografy, so there might be incorrected mistakes Alex Bakharev 20:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

S[ergey] Nilus

Close to[near, around] future Antichrist

Typography of Saint Troitse Sergiyeva Lavra.
[Tip. Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry]

Moscow  1911.

[edit] Thank you for award

Thank you very much for the barnstar on my user page. This is my first one :) Happy holidays ! Wikiolap 22:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas

[[Image:Cookie_Christmas.JPG|300px|thumb|
Happy Christmas-Happy hollydays to you
MustTC 13:34, 23 December 2006 (UTC)]]

Alex Bakharev is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia January 1, 2007

[edit] Photo

Dear Alex, I sent an excuse message to ryulong.I didnt aware about fair use of that photo. What can I do. Should I revert my message back or what.? Regards. MustTC 21:41, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reply,

Thanks for yor message, I know a little bit aboux orthodox celebrations. I stayed 18 months in Konstanta-Romania. Good traditions. "En kötü günün böyle olsun". ehm... how can I say in English; it can be said to anyone during his/hers' a happy day:"I wish that your worst day will be equal/or better than this day" See you. MustTC 22:16, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar. --Ineffable3000 01:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] XMAS gift

Lots of good intentions flying around, but not much in the way of useful stuff. Here is a nice template I found to organize your ever-growing collections of awards :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  14:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


Salad'o'meter™
put barnstars here (no thumb or direction)
n00b involved been around veteran seen it all older than the Cabal itself

[edit] EcoMedia

Recreated again! - CobaltBlueTony 21:23, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

Updated DYK query On December 27, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Konstantin Makovsky, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thank you for your contributions!! Nishkid64 23:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2007

Алекс, с наступающим (наступившим)! Детям - Дед Мороз, остальным - Снегурочка :) Троллям и вандалам "кина не будет... Электричество кончилось". --Brand спойт 14:56, 28 December 2006 (UTC)