User talk:MarshallPoe
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[edit] Kolyma
I am posting a line on your page as you seem to be involved in the Russian History project. I think it will be sufficient for you to read the comments below and then look at the history of the Kolyma page. This is an important matter requiring urgent action:
I came to the Kolyma page with no preconceived ideas. I saw the NPOV notice at the top and also the requirement for footnotes. I therefore decided to investigate the claims made and also look for counter arguments and evidence of a possible alternative interpretation. On this basis, I have undertaken a comprehensive edit of this article, in the light of other related articles, e.g. Gulag, other language pages, and links. In this connection, I have posted messages on the pages of Guinness man and of others involved in the hope that there would be some kind of reaction. I have also sent emails to some outside experts on the matter. Unfortunately, the only other contribution to the Kolyma page I am aware of has been a minor spelling change by Chris the speller. I have also followed up on the claim that there are no authentic references. I believe I have now provided all that can reasonably be expected - and certainly more than you can find on other pages relating to prison camps. Perhaps someone can tell me how I can have this page officially reviewed or how the warnings about neutrality and refernces at the top of the article can be removed. Ther may be a procedure that is not listed in the guidance. If I have no response on this within 24 hours, I will follow the guidance I have found and create new pages as follows:
A page on the Kolyma river (similar to those in most of the other language versions. (This will probably be the Kolyma (River) page.) A page on the Kolyma region (today's economy, industries, climate, relations with Alaska, future potential. A page on the Kolyma Gulag (with more or less the same philosophy as the Polish page on this but with much more detail and references. This may not be the optimal solution as there is also a notice on the Kolyma page that it is part of the Russian history project! I would like to point out that in Europe the Kolyma issue has reached a high level of attention and importance. The former Danish foreign minister, Mogens Lykketoft, - who has had years of experience with Russian policy - is about to launch a cross-party initiative to support the creation of a documentation centre/archive on Kolyma and the Soviet forced labour prison camps. When people go to our English-language Kolyma site and see the notice on lack of neutrality, it makes a very weak case for the reliabilty of Wikipedia. I hope there will be some reactions to this today or tomorrow. --Ipigott 00:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] So not a troll
I don't bait others for sport. Sanger thought I did, but that's because he started taking my criticisms of the work he was doing personally.
Though I have to admit it's pretty hard to defend this.
Also a lot of the Wikipedia Militia dispute was about nomenclature. If you check my userpage or the mailing lists you can see my plaint about the latest iteration of the same concept, the Wikipedia CVU. Other than that, thanks for my 15 paragraphs of pseudofame. --The Cunctator 06:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Oh, on "Cunc": I don't particularly appreciate the abbreviation. I always abbreviated my handle as TC; I always considered LMS's use of it an inappropriate and disrespectful familiarity. Then again, others insist upon it, but I blame LMS for propagating the usage. Perhaps it was inevitable. Oh, well. --The Cunctator 04:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] belated response
Hi MarshallPoe, Looking through your contribs history it looked like nobody answered the question you posted to the Pump. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Portal and Wikipedia:WikiProject for how the two are organized. Quickly, Portals are meant to be mini-Main Pages on particular subjects and are thus organized to be reader friendly. Projects are a coordination mechanism/forum for editors interested in a particular subject and are thus entirely "meta" to the content. From your description, it sounds like you want to improve pages and a project would be a better bet. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide for the guidelines.
The mortality rate of WikiProjects is quite high and I'll offer some unasked-for thoughts on your proposal. A large group of editors who aren't familiar with the markup or the basic principles may have a rough time of it when established users demand to know why newcomers are dropping loads of unformatted and unwikified text into the wiki. Get some established users in the project who can offer guidance to newcomers. Once you have a page up (I assume you're thinking of creating it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian history or something similar), notify those users who you have noticed make related edits. Post notices to the announcements section or talk pages of established pages such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union, Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian federal subjects, Portal:Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board, Portal:Ukraine and Portal:Belarus. You may want to branch out and notify look over the participants at specialist pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force and Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Napoleonic Era task force to see if there are editors who are specifically focused on Russian issues. Having old hands would help you and any newcomers tremendously. Also, a note on talking to Wikipedia editors: assume that we all have ADD. Your post had an introduction, point and some mulling. Many editors will move on if the point isn't in the first two sentences. Once you are in a discussion, or when posting to a group of editors who are already familiar with your work, you can start elaborating but anything on the Pump or other highly trafficked page needs to be telegraphed.
Good luck with the Project, BT 02:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] About the Programmer
I am a nice programmer, although I don't like being put under stress, don't have very much free time, and don't have very, very much expierence. I am now focused on Visual Basic, although I also know qBASIC and a bit of C++. I am not a web programmer, although if you can help me with it, we can figure out a way to put VB into standard HTML documents. You can contact me on my User Talk page if you need help. It is: User Talk:Chirp Cricket
Signed,
--Cricket Boy 01:35, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Youtube videos
Sorry, I don't really know enough about php to help you install the extension. As for someone who might be able to help you, the MediaWiki support desk is one place I found but that hasn't recieved many replies in the last couple of days. I hope this has helped. Tra (Talk) 14:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Russian History Project
Hi there, Mr. Poe! Your idea is noble, but I'm afraid you're going to meet fierce resistance on behalf of some anti-Russian/Soviet (sorry for lack of a better word) Wikipedians, who constantly revise Russian/Soviet history to fit their own beliefs and scheme of things. You and your colleagues could certainly try and I, for one, would love to assist you in this. So what's the plan? KNewman 19:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi KNewman. Thanks for your note. You can see the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian History. As you'll read, at this stage we're really focused on getting members (please sign up!) and doing housekeeping (putting banners on pages and categorizing). That's it, for now. If you have suggestions, we'd love to hear them. The talk page of the Project is probably the place for that. MarshallPoe 19:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WP:CAT
Please note that such edits are not acceptable per WP:CAT. Category:Khanate of Kazan is already part of Category:History of Russia. There is no need to spawn higher categories where the more specific categorization is applied. Your edits are all the more frustrating, as I spent several days purging Category:History of Russia of cruft. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Russian History
I noticed your request on the bot request page. Do you have plans to add a assessment department to help with WP:1? I can set you up for that. The russia category is huge with many sub-categories. I have my hands-full at the moment. I can guide you so that you can do it yourself. You don't have write any bot or anything. You can use a couple of tools to do this, AWB and Plugin. They are easy to learn. Let me know your thoughts. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 09:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome
Hello Marshall. It seems you never got an official welcome message, so I'm offering you one now. Admittedly, given your article, you probably don't need a lot of the links here, but I would still prefer to give you a proper greeting.
[edit] Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia! It's always a pleasure to have another editor join—we can never have too many good editors.
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Cheers and good luck, Karl Dickman talk 22:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Happy New Year!
[edit] Glad to see you on Wikipedia
I knew you'd eventually be more active here :) I am thinking of following your suit and inviting some academics to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland. How are your experiences with Russian history wikiproject so far?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 01:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Moscow
You are a member of WikiProject Russia. I wanted to let you know the article Moscow is in Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Moscow list now. --Hirakawacho 10:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] suslov
hello. i see you are interesting in russian history, like me(-: Can i ask you number of questions related to soviet history? (Suslov, Chernenko etc..) Superzohar 
Talk 17:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Betterment Act
A tag has been placed on Betterment Act requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Hammer1980·talk 17:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
