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The wiki transcription on the areas of Bellorussia, Ukraine and East Prussia.

These rivers are in Belarus now, hence the main spelling. Old Polish and Ukrainian spellings make sense to be added, since they can draw references from older docs. Since these rivers are very small, hardly there is a really established English spelling IMO. Mikkalai

But Bellorussian spelling is cyrillic. The english transcription is not established. Why don't we try traditional Polish translation, that is the only latin transcription that is well established for such a names? As far as I am concerned, Germans also copy Polish translation. Cautious 13:08, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Moved discussion on Dance music, Dance (music) etc. to Talk:Dance music. --Lexor 03:31, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Digraph

Hello, Mikkalai. Since you recently turned digraph into a disambiguation page, you should now fix all the links that point to the wrong page. And, you should list it at Links to disambiguating pages, so that people know it should be checked for incorrect links in the future. Thanks, Minesweeper 04:15, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re: Dance in mythology and religion

Thanks for moving that "information" from Dance page. As I mentioned on the Talk:Dance page the objection was not only lack of facts and PoV, but also it was ethically and legally questionable to present this plagiarized material on this page, let alone in Wikipedia.

Sfdan 12:19, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I noticed your edits in Subdivisions of Russia -- can you please have a look at the issue I described on its talk page? --Shallot 20:09, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for that, BTW. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for reverting Fredrikj's edit to List of esoteric programming languages. :) -- Schnee 17:28, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I wasn't really after the underscores in those redirects, rather the broken double redirect, but it was trivial to fix them so I did that while I was at it. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Please see Talk:List_of_esoteric_programming_languages, the matter needs to be cleared up. Fredrik 19:30, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey

I moved your message on my talk to Talk:Communism, hope you don't mind, but I felt it was useful for everyone to hear what you and I had to say. My response is there. Jack 07:00, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your message. As you noticed I am interested in Ruthenia. As you know it is quite dangerous topic, especially becouse of nationalistic sentiments of interested nations. I suppose, you are from Belarus. What do you think about using in English the term of Russia both in the meaning of Rus and Rossiya, and mixing the meanings (for example in the article about Kiyevian Rus. For example for many Ukrainians this is terrible. If you have been in London you could have an opportunity to see a monument of Wladimir the Wise. The script on the monument is: Wladimir the Wise, ruler of Ukraine. It could look ridicoulous, but according to me it is as true as the name of Russia in the same place. I think that the article about Kiyevian Rus is very misleading. In slavic languages the difference between names of Rus and Rossiya is very clear. But for the persons without knowledge of Slavic languages do not. And the point about famous Russian people...

Obviously, in the Middle Ages there were used the terms of Russia, Rossia etc. But it was a transliteration of the name of Rus. The term of Russia in the modern sense has different meaning: Russia as a state and a country, not the historical Rus.

The term of Ruthenia was commonly used for Rus through centuries. I think that using it is much more precise than Russia in the same meaning. I supose that non Slavic readers of the Wikipedia have got the right to get the full and honest picture of the situation without nationalistic mithology.

What do you think about that,


Regards,

Yeti

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Polish-Lithuania If you take into account that today Estonia was created from the Estonia province and norhern part of Livland DorpatTartu, Estonia also inherited some land from the commonwealth. Province of Estonia was claimed by Poland, but I don't know if ever achieved. Cautious 11:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your question on Daniel's page. It looks like you would not be able to upload this text to Wikisource. The website has the following notice:

This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.
Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution in print form for educational purposes and personal use. If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source. No permission is granted for commercial use of the Sourcebook.

We can only include text that can be released under the GFDL, so something which disallows commercial use can not be copied here. If you could find the original, that you could use that as it is public domain, but the version from that website can't be used unfortunately. Angela. 22:11, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I answered your question on the Village pump but I should also add that although officially I have quit Wikisource, you can still ask me if you have any questions about it. Angela. 23:43, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've nominated you at Requests for adminship. This doesn't guarantee anything, but if other people agree, and you also agree, you could be a sysop. (Being a sysop wouldn't require you to do anything, and could possibly be useful occasionally. In any case, it can't hurt.)

I don't know if you would want to or if your name is actually Russian, but it's possible in Preferences to set your signature to Мыккалаи (or however it is spelt). Κσυπ Cyp   23:08, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)


Please, have a look on Carpathian Ruthenia page if you can. User Yeti

Indeed. It seems very characteristic of East Slavic culture that the history of the lost Jews of Carpathian Ruthenia had to be removed to a separate ghetto. Don't you realize that they are a part of the history of that place, where genocide was so successful? Instead of suppressing embarassing history, why not set it into a broader context, using your own deep Slavic understanding? Wetman 04:39, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Like what you did to Cube. Solves the issue neatly. Syntax 23:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template for my reply to your question on "sibling group" vs. "subgroup". Yes, they are distinct. -- Jmabel 20:26, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello! I see that you have moved White Guard to White Guard (Finland), which might be a good call for disambiguation. However, a number of links to the Finnish White Guard are now pointing to a disambiguation page instead of its proper article. I trust you plan to follow this up and do the necessary updates. Best regards. -- Mic 09:23, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Anti-Semitism

I have to confess I don't entirely understand your responses to my recent statement on this page. I would prefer it if you wrote your comments outside of mine, or if necessary, copied and pasted my comments within your own. Otherwise it is confusing (if to nobody else than to myself :). I'm honestly interested in what you have to say, and I do understand the content of what you said (for the most part, the "if no:shut up" thing didn't make any sense to me at all) but I don't understand how it applies to what I said. I would enjoy further dialogue on this if it's not upsetting to you, but please try hard to speak simply, and not make any presumptions about my POV or understanding of certain "obvious" factors. Sam Spade 03:37, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

no problem, thanks for the changes. If you want to discuss personal POV, or other subjects not best for the Talk:Anti-Semitism page, contact information for me is here User:Sam Spade/Info. Also, you can use my user page all you like as well. I am always happy for intellegent, polite conversation (which incidentilly, I have consistantly found you more than capable of). :D Sam Spade 06:41, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

KGB

Done. In my opinion Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB all ought to be redirected to an article called Soviet political police which deals with the whole history from 1917 to 1991. I might have a go at it some time. Adam 11:31, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Plrease explain usage of "́" in KGB. Kenny sh

This is the accent mark. Since Russian words are unusually long compared with English, it is usually difficult to figure out which syllable is stressed, therefore Russian lexicons and textbooks for verys small children use accent marks to show proper pronunciation. Mikkalai 15:35, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sysop

You are now a sysop. I recommend adding your name to Wikipedia:Administrators. Congrats. Tuf-Kat 19:26, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm, it's normal for people to accept sysop nominations before being turned into a sysop. Κσυπ Cyp   11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Oh well, unless you specifically don't want to be a sysop, and reject the offer at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, I guess you are one anyway... Κσυπ Cyp   11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying what that puzzling comment meant in War Communism... I had no idea what the comment was trying to say, now that you clarified it I see why it isn't necessarily wise to delete it.--Nelson 01:34, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)

Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик

I've replied to your post at Wikipedia:Village pump#Transliterations from Russian. I've posted a proposal there and created a place for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. as a place to discuss all this. -- BCorr ? Брайен 03:17, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

mdash; or #8212;

I've been told that the mdash is inferior to the #8212 dash. I've noticed you'ver replaced the latter with the former. I have been using the 8212 dashs for almost a year having been encouraged to do so by many other sysops. What is your opinion on this issue? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 03:58, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about the typo, but in the future the #8212 is definitely the way to go as it is a more universally translated character than the mdash. — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk]

— and — are exactly the same thing.  They denote the same Unicode character, EM DASH (U+2012).  It is better to write —, because it is human-readable. — Monedula 16:25, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

afrikaans

Don't blame me. I can't read Africaans so don't expect me to find where the actual link is. Keeping a misleading link is more destructive than I am. The new link looks like Great Britain. --Jiang 22:18, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

At least you managed to find the proper word, didn't you? So would any other person who would want to find a link into afrikaans. You destroyed even this feeble connection. Mikkalai 22:51, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
But it's a link to the wrong article. that link goes at England, not United Kingdom. It's just plain misleading. The new link you inserted leads to an empty page. That is also unnacceptable. --Jiang 22:54, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The new link leads to place where you can find further links using the "What links here" link. It is more acceptable than no link at all. Mikkalai 22:58, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I cannot agree: wikipedia is full of empty links. Articles will be eventually written after all. Mikkalai 23:00, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
And BTW, I myself have found plenty of information by tracing through empty links and then "what links here". Mikkalai 23:02, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The difference is that interlanguage links are not red. You might want to bring this up at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. The bot operators remove any empty links from the list. --Jiang 23:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Why is color so important in the context of this discussion? The link still provides some connection, possibly indirect, to information otherwise unreachable. Mikkalai 23:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The color alerts people what they're in for. Please propose that the status quo be changed at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. I am simply following what has been done. In any event, if interlanguage links to the wrong subject should always be removed. --Jiang 00:05, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Appologies on the spiders, thanks for catching that! Mark Richards 21:30, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, could you please help me with World War II traitors hunt? I mean it would be usefull to add some info about the treatment of German collaboraters, real or alleged, in Soviet Union just after the war. Cautious 10:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Koopsta Knicca

Your vote to delete Koopsta Knicca was removed after one day. Is your vote no longer "delete" in light of the changes made to the article? Thanks - Texture 19:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

More spiders

Since you seem to be a spider expert, I thought I would draw your attention to my question on Wikipedia:Reference desk, would appreciate your advice, Thank you! Mark Richards 04:30, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, thanks anyway! Mark Richards 17:14, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Apostrophe

I am sorry to always be bugging you about punctuation and special characters but I noticed you replaced the ' with a "& #8217;" (’) I thought that we were being asked not to add these characters for compatability reasons. Has something changed that I have not heard about? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 04:38, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • If I did so, it was unintentional, and I don't know how. My keyboard has only ' and `. Could have been cut'n'paste from somewhere. What was the article? (BTW you may spare apologies when talking to me, I'm an easy man.) Mikkalai 08:31, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The Unicode standard says that "2019 right single quotation mark, this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe".  So it is perfectly legal to put ’ (’) instead of '. — Monedula 16:34, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Heated debate

Mikkalai, I feel we both have let our tempers get the better of us. I appreciate you removal of your complaint against me, and appreciate the gesture of good faith. I still don't understand the reasons for the Polish pages, but I recognise I was probably hasty in my assumptions about what you are doing. I look forward to working together more congenially. Yours, Mark Richards 05:38, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Chernobyl history

Mikkalai, can you please fix the following sentence in Chernobyl history:

Nestor Makhno In the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, it was taken first by the Polish Army and then by the Red Cavalry of the Red Army.

The name 'Nestor Makhno' seems inserted into the beginning of the phrase without any connection to the rest.

--Cantus 21:54, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Good catch on Tupolev. Now I recall his initials were ANT, but still proliferated this silly typo. Pleasure to work with you! --Humus sapiens Talk 01:05, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Typos etc.

No problem. Do you think the new info in Great Purge should be integrated into the rest of the article a little more? Maybe placed after the first paragraph of the main part of the article? Everyking 03:52, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vladimir Vysotsky

The phrase about CDs is plain stupid, but there were several vinyl plates, French and Russian, during his life as well. Dear Mikkalai, while I'm appreciating your help in this matter (I'm definitively no expert on V.S.V.) I do not like the wording... If there were vinyls, French and Russian, why not say so in the article, and maybe list some of them in the discography section. (I'm well aware that CDs were available only later.) --Palapala 10:28, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Apology accepted :) Could you have a look, I found some more titles, no chance to have them confirmed, put them into the text as a comment, needs somebody with knowledge of Russian... --Palapala 20:03, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Talk:Expulsion of Germans after World War II

I would like to invite you to discussion around the article. There is hot dispute over some issues. Thanks in advance! Cautious 12:44, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Molotov

I put some constructive proposal in the talk page. Plaese read and then we can make edits. Cautious 10:13, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Graham scan

Hi. Some time ago, on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, you mentioned factual errors in the article Graham scan. Are you still going to make those corrections? — Thanks! — Timwi 04:08, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Old Finland

Would it maybe be warranted with a Russian (cyrillic) translation?

The term is said to be originally Russian.
--Ruhrjung 03:55, 2004 Mar 26 (UTC)

Sorry, I know nothing in this respect. Mikkalai 22:54, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tsar vs Emperor

Are you intending to change all English references from "Tsar" to "Emperor"?
--Ruhrjung 22:16, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No. As I understand, it is a valid English usage. Mikkalai 22:53, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
So why change it in Peter Carl Fabergé[1]?
--Ruhrjung 23:39, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I merely rolled back your rollback. You called it controversial; I see no controversy. Moreover, formally it is more correct (especially Empress Consort is more exact than Tsarina). If a guy wanted his favorite monarch to call Emperor, fine. As to your question, still no. But starting from Peter the Great, the first declared Russian Emperor, I will object converting Emperor into Tsar. Mikkalai 01:39, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Various subjects

From 65.73.0.137

I see you've deleted my additional information on things like Spongebob Squarepants, Scooby-Doo, and Peter I of Russia. Let's discuss each of these three one by one. Forgive me that this message be long.

As with Spongebob, his popularity has been widespread, and many kids throughout the United States, and probably throughout the world, love him. Also, his funny reputation has received wide appreciation. Who can disagree that Spongebob is #1 on Nickielodeon and with kids as well? Who's bigger in popularity than him? The Simpsons and Family Guy are more popular with adults and South Park may be less popular with teenagers than Spongebob.

Scooby is extremely successful also. Notably, his first movie won over $100,000,000, and his second one released recently became #1 by far on the Billboard charts when it first came out. Who else besides Spongebob is bigger than Scooby when it comes to kids? Dora the Explorer is generally for tots and Yu-Gi-Oh! is for mostly boys and older girls. I think Scooby is even bigger with these age groups.

Now about Peter the Great, as I've seen you imply that since 1721 Russian rulers should be more accurately be called emperors than czars. You went against your own words by deleting my info of Peter being czar from 1682 to 1721. And the list should either be "List of Russian Emperors" from Peter the Great on and "List of Russian Tsars" from the first ruler to Peter the Great, or simply all as "List of Russian Rulers".

Deleting images is one thing. This is an act of vandalism and I regret what Hadal and RickK complained on my page about. But on account of text, it's frankly none of your business, as well as anybody else who claims "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", to tear off reasonable public opinion. And your power of blocking people from editing must be limited also. You might want to add additional information or correct grammar mistakes, but let the public edit public opinion. To tell you the truth, I condemn the editorial atrocities performed by you and others of your type. God forbid you to carry on with being editorial tyrants, socialists, or communists. Citizens like me have unalienable rights and should decide for themselves what's bull@#$% and what's accurate. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to tell the truth of things going on.

First of all, please register and get some name to be taken seriously. On the cartoons: as I commented in one of reverts, statements like "he is #1" are very strong and I am not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00. Please don't forget that wikipedia is read not only in the USA. As for tsars, please stick to things that you really *know*, not just read in next best encyclopedia. FUI: Russian rulers were called both tsars and emperors. It is not like, he was colonel and then became general. Good luck to uncover more of wikipedia conspiracies. Mikkalai 16:13, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Return message from 65.73.0.137

Hi! I get your point for the most part, but there are just two more things I want to clarify with you. First of all, I corrected a grammar error in your last message from "regicter" to "register". Second is my concern about your comment of being "not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00." You shouldn't judge a person by his/her user name, because I've heard of talk from those that use proper nouns (i.e. "Hadal"), on pages for other cartoon shows, that is nonsense. That's all I'm discussing for this message.

After 2-3 months of editing you'll notice yourself that 80% of anonyms are vandals or random posters. Besides, in many cases IP addresses are not constant. In addition, many people contribute from several computers. Finally, it is not easy distinguish you from, say, 65.73.0.157 While it is true that some names are suspects, still, some names gain themselves a solid reputation. You may well build a reputation for 65.73.0.137, but I bet it will take longer :-) Mikkalai 00:46, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sukhoi

I was considering moving Sukhoi Corporation to Sukhoi as I had just moved PSC Tupolev to Tupolev, but then I noticed that you had just moved it from Sukhoi, which is now a disambiguation page.

I would prefer to have the entry called "Sukhoi" in keeping with standard practice. There could be a redirect from Sukhoi Corporation if needed (which I don't think there is). There is certainly no need for disambiguation for Sukhoi, though. The organization was named after the person, and in that sense both terms are one and the same. -- Paul Richter 06:02, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't know what standard practice you refer to. On one hand, there is Ford Motor Company as the primary title. On the other hand there are Boeing and Messerschmitt. I will not strongly object if you revert to your, aviation way of naming, as long as the names of persons will be clearly referred immediately at the beginning of the articles, as it was done for Boeing and Messerschmitt, but not for Tupolev and Sukhoi Corporation. Mikkalai 15:30, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:Kenneth Alan is a known problem user. Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Kenneth Alan and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan Mintguy (T)

Someone else's copyright disclaimer

Mikkalai, thanks for the question and link. The page in question also has a link to a copyright policy that includes the following:

With as many files as people have sent to us, it's entirely likely that there are copyrighted files in our archives which are not freely distributable.

I would say that if one were being safe they wouldn't copy the information, but use it and restructure it, incorporate it with other text; rewrite it to make sure it wasn't blatant copying (a timeline of someone's life is really mostly public information, unless the timeline author has some special research that they have done, and even then facts are fact and never copyrightable. If you just dump this stuff into Wikipedia and it turns out that the owner finds out and objects, well then this could lead to problems as copying infringing material is usually held to be infringing (if it is not fair use). Is there any other way around this? Probably not. I suggest that without knowing who the author of a work is, it should not be copied onto Wikipedia (of course Wikipedia does not check copyright from contributors, one of the reasons that use of Wikipedia content is problematic for many people. — © Alex756 05:04, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message

There is no "state disibility insurance" page please create one before using all those redirects. thanks. GrazingshipIV 17:53, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher

Hello Mikkalai, on the above named page you deleted:

"In his conversations about art he appears to expressed his true opinions, for example lending Social History of Art by Arnold Hauser, an English Marxist art historian to one of his friends."

giving as a reason "nonsense phrase removed". The phrase may be wrong (and the punctuation isn't quite right), but it clearly isn't nonsense; Arnold Hauser really was an English art historian who really was a Marxist, he really wrote a book called Social History of Art, and it was published (and controversial) just a few months after Fisher/Fischer entered the US - posing as an artist, but pretending not to be a communist. So, far from being nonsense, the claim is eminently plausible and interesting if true. If you have reason to doubt that the statement is true, it would be helpful if you said why, rather than just calling it nonsense. Securiger 04:31, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hello,

I have nothing against Hauser. It is the statement about Fisher that is nonsense. How "true opinions" are related to "lending a book", pray tell me. And by the way what's so important about these "true opinions" to be entered into the context of the article? And how can we be sure they were true? And why an opinion of the person who claims this is important for this article or even credible? Mikkalai 05:01, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If I understand correctly, your objection is not with the claim that Fisher had such conversations or lent such a book, but with a) whether it is important enough to include in the article and b) whether that reflected his "true opinions". Is that correct?
Is the inclusion important? Probably not. But I find it very interesting. Fisher was an experienced, well trained, senior spy operating under a carefully constructed deep cover. Yet he performs (allegedly) these activities which might cause some to question his loyalty, perhaps even bring him to the attention of the FBI. Why? Overconfidence? Needing relief from the strain of maintaining a false persona? Recruitment activities? (And if the latter, what else did he get up to that was never detected?) As I say, interesting.
As for his "true beliefs", the quoted text only referred to his apparent true beliefs - that is, we're not talking about some kind of unknowable insight into the innermost depths of his soul, just the fact that he was actually a Soviet agent, not the semi-retired lumberjack he pretended to be. The implication is that revealing himself to have a book on Marxist interpretation of art history would be very odd for a semi-retired non-communist lumberjack, and might suggest that he may have been a communist. Was he in fact a communist? I would suggest that everything we know about him strongly suggests that he was (at least close enough to fool an NKVD investigation), but this is irrelevant to the question of the book (and accompanying conversations). Even if he wasn't "really" a communist, showing such a book, and having such conversations, risked drawing needless suspicion to him.
Of course, a perfectly valid objection to the inclusion of (a gramatically corrected version of) this text would be that it isn't true; I haven't seen any prior references to this incident! Securiger 06:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for causing you to spend so much time. I finally got your point. The problem is that both the article authour and you failed to assume the point of view of an "innocent" reader (like me).
I would strongly suggest to forget about Fisher at all and read the sentence "as is". The paragraph speaks about arts!!!. What the hell his "true opnions" supposedly about arts (since we are reading about arts at the moment) have to do with giving someone a book. If I were from McCarthy times, I'd guess that there is something wrong that the book is by a communist.
Like I said, now I understand the intentions of the phrase. The easiest remedy would be to (1) pull the sentence out of the "arts" paragraph, and (2) rephrase it more explicitely, e.g., "In his conversations about art he appeared to express his true political opinions...." . I suspect you can do it better than me. Pleasure talking with you, Mikkalai 16:32, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)~

Could you take a look at my rewrites of Korean Workers Party, Communist Party of Cuba and Communist Party of Vietnam?AndyL 04:44, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for all your work on Russian Revolution of 1905 -- fixing my errors, typos etc. TwoOneTwo 15:36, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Come on! In cyrillic, Kazak is spelled with the same letter at each end of the word! Maybe you should write Khazakh!

Dawit

I am afraid that you are confusing Kazakhs (Kazah in Ru:) with cossacks (Kazak in Ru:) Mikkalai 20:10, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)


No... No...!,See this site by my Kazak friend: Kazakstan or Kazakhstan. Kazakh in cyrillic is written:Қазақ. The same letter is written in the front and the back! The reason for Kazakh with and h is because in Russian it is written: Қазах

--Dawit

Now I see. You were speaking about self-name in the native language, not of Russian or English name. There is a point in this, but in English there is a long tradition of transliterating from Russian and kazakh. Turkic-arabic transliterations are Qazaq. I would recommend to refer to the official website of the state for arbitration. An additional argument is avoiding the confusion mentioned above. Mikkalai 20:40, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ok! Yes, the official website of the state does have it different than the official passport! But--to avoid confusion like what you mentioned above, Kazakh is fine!

Muratuli Dawit

Croydon

Many thanks, Mikkalai, for doing the Redirect for Croydon. Appreciated --Dieter Simon 00:24, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cyrillic

I saw that you have removed the "See also" table from Ya and Yat. Would you like to start a WikiProject on Cyrillic letters (or do everything ourselves)? Then we could use MediaWiki messages for these tables. My initial idea was that each table shows all letters, with letters which belong to the same language bolded. For example, Ya would have MediaWiki:RussianCyrillic, Tje would have MediaWiki:SerbianCyrillic, and so on. We also need to agree on naming (whether Ka (letter), Ka (cyrillic), Ka (cyrillic letter)) and a few more things. I would make articles on Serbian and Macedonian letters, and I could make a program which would create code positions tables. I was talking with Shetsen and he told me he would do Yus. What do you think? Nikola 01:26, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

See User:Nikola Smolenski/Cyrillic tables. It seems that my experiment with table headers has gone wrong, but everything else is, I think, fine. If you don't have any objection, let's start to use it! Nikola 19:45, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) Why in three fonts? (2) Since 1/3 of characters are not seen in all 3 fonts, how about adding images? (3) "It's HTML entities" -> "Its HTML entities"

Mikkalai 01:19, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

(1) I used only two fonts, Same as Ya, same is used on Latin letters and for Yat. (2) Of course, images would be preferred even in articles on common letters, but until someone makes an image, this is, I think, better then nothing. (3) Shit :( Nikola 10:53, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
I fixed the problems. About transliteration: yes, it should be mentioned. I don't think that a special table or paragraph is needed as most letters would have only one transliteration anyway and even for those that have more they are all easy to mention in a single sentence. Nikola 12:56, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
(1) I see. I said 3, because each letter is section tile, so I see a big letter 3 times: it title and in two examples, all different. Visully, it is a bit too much for me. BTW, do you have cursive fonts? That would be a useful addiion, indeed. Mikkalai 16:02, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
I see, well, section titles would not make it to the articles :) I made a few cursive examples for A; which one do you like the most? I favour the last one... Nikola 07:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
I am afraid all of them look the same on my computer, and all have the same drawback: the capital letter doesn't look "calligraphic", just italic. Bu the way, when writing "cursive" I had in mind "calligraphic" fonts, the ones that show pieces of connecting lines. Unfortunately I don't have them on my computers.Mikkalai 18:40, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
I understand now, I'm afraid that it will not be possible until someone draws images. I could include more fonts, but people who don't have them, will see just ordinary letters. Do you think that italic is needed? Nikola 07:36, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
I consider two options: (1) include one font only. If one really wants to see in different fonts, one may cut into a text editor and look at the letter in all fonts available at his computer. (2) Include only fonst where letters look really different. Fro this POV, you will need only 2 fonts: regular and the italic one that is close to "calligraphic". Mikkalai 16:54, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

(2) is impossible without images. (1) is possible, possibly better, but all Latin letters (see A, B, C, D...) use both fonts and I was aiming for consistency. Nikola 13:25, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Fascism

Could you please weigh in at Talk:Fascism? WHEELER seems to think I'm the only one against his suggestions. AndyL 07:28, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Browser problems

Please note that your browser is inserting Windows "smartquotes" into articles you edit. See a diff of your most recent edit to Talk:Fascism [2] for an example. Whilst they look fine on your browser, they can be a big problem for other users who do not use the proprietary-standard Windows character set. -- The Anome 22:24, 7 May 2004 (UTC)


My apologies. You are right, you are not to blame for this. The smartquotes were already there: your browser was only converting them to (perfectly valid) HTML numeric entities. At least now we can see the wretched things more easily in the source. -- The Anome 22:45, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Ruzzi

Could you please see my question to you at Talk:Rus' (people)? Thanks. -- Jmabel 04:35, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I have prepared a new article in place of the old one, which is a obvious non-sense. Please, feel free to express your opinion. Talk:Carpathian Ruthenia, Yeti 20:59, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

renaming Karelia articles

You may want to say your meaning at Talk:Karelia?
Ruhrjung 09:05, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Trans-Siberian railway/railroad/Railroad

I've replied extensively at the village pump, but basically, you're right that I was over-zealous with my 'fixing' of double redirects. I still maintain that they should have been done, but by piping rather than by changing the base text. Sorry - when I have time, I'll fix what I've broken. --ALargeElk 09:10, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Timmay!

But why not leave it in for the time in the future when it's implemented? RickK 00:11, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

RatFiv

Hey thanks for adding the comment about the language name being a pun - I didn't think to write about that in the original article. WPWoodJr


Salsa

Hi there, I saw you contributed to the salsa article, so I wondered if you would be interested in a wikibook about rueda commands (german)? Furthermore since you have three versions of your user page - by the way, is there anything in polish about salsa? - maybe this learning project, primarily for vocabulary, might be of interest to you as well. If so, please let me know on my talk page. Get-back-world-respect 13:14, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Are we guilty of systematic Polish nationalist bias? Could you help me understand what's going on here? 172 01:59, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Who??

Who are you talking about in Talk:Diagonal?? 66.245.12.170 22:10, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

To make sure you know this, I can do 2 for the triangle and 5 for the square, of course! Let's try the pentagon. I see an inner pentagon, 5 acute triangles, 5 obtuse triangles, and the outside, which totals 12 for the pentagon. The hexagon is complicated. Does anyone know a formula?? Don't ask me why my IP number changes; it just does every time I log off and then log on later. 66.245.12.170 22:29, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Stalin

Is it true, that 1948-53 Soviet media started already anti-Semitic campaign? I was convinced that this was to come after Doctor's plot? Cautious 22:50, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Relative/Parallel

Hi. I moved the pages to __ key: Parallel key, and Relative key. I'm not sure why this didn't occur to me sooner. Hyacinth 20:32, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Ёр юзырь пейж:

(1)Ытык-Кёль
(2)Bely OK, but Siniy is better than Siny. Mikkalai 16:28, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
(1) Ыттык-Кюель was found using a Yandex search. It is in the table only to give an example of a name starting with an Ы, anyway. Change it, if you want to, I don't mind.
(2)How would one make a decision when to use "-iy", and when "-y"?--Ezhiki 17:41, May 28, 2004 (UTC)
How about you putting your table into the new Transliteration of Russian into English article. (I am tempted to do do this myself, but I wouldn't rob you of priority, glory and the rest :-) Here we can all discuss several confusing things, bout for russians to write for English and for English reading these translits. Mikkalai 18:34, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
Don't worry about priority, glory, and the rest since everything is under the GDFL license anyway. It's not like I was working on a book to be published :)
I'll copy the table verbatim for now, so it will be at least placed somewhere where it can actually be found and commented on, not to mention tons of related material that can be added to it. Pleasure working with you.--Ezhiki 18:41, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

dance technology

dance technology is a dance form, your edit on the list of dances was incorrect.

i have now started a stub for this topic, the link was made in preperation for future addtions.

much of the dance content on Wikipedia relating to contemporary dance, choreography, dance notation, contact improvisation, improvisation, notable dance artists, ballet, technical terms etc contatins errors or is incorrect.

As a dance scholar i find this situation unaceptable and i am organising a re assesment and updating of the dance content on Wikipedia buy other dance scholars, practitioners and artists of note.

thank you for you time

ohka

your assersion is still incorrect,

according to your point of view that 'techniques' do not count as forms;

  • Contact improvisation
  • Interpretive dance
  • Ballet

sould also be removed,

dance technology IS a dance form - look at the links and or inform yourself of the subject area.

Dance technology is the application of existing and emerging technologies to dance practice

Contact improvisation is a technique to create improvised movement

Interpretive dance is a technique to create improvised movement

Ballet is a technique that has different forms etc etc

dance technology, Contact improvisation, Interpretive dance all have many differnt faces, if there was only one resulting type of dance it would be a technique. the many divergent works created make these dance forms.

dance theory is my professional practice (BA, MA) so yes, i desire to make serious and systmatic contributions but there are aspects of the dance context that are pure miss-information. i can see that you have made similar changes in the areas that you have extensive knowledge in.

thankyou for the welcome Ohka- 20:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Dance technology is a dance form in which existing and emerging technologies are used to extend traditional dance practice and develop new dance practices

better? Ohka- 00:48, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

fact or fiction - dance

my wiki convention may be wrong but my information is correct, not from Google but 8 years of dance study with a MA and current phd research to back it up.

your dance information should be drawn from reliabble sources, perhaps i should start providing more book references to demonstrate that the information i am adding is valid and correct.

yes dance names are off eg dance technology but so are athers such as modern dance (which is really expressiionist) classical ballet (dance to romantic music) postmodern dance (modernist) etc etc.

your unqualified reversions will only serve to ditance the scholarly dance community from adding to this resource, and they have a valuable conribution to add

wrong info eg: Choreographer Robert Fosse William Forsythe Meryl Tankard are NOT classical ballet choreographers. the entry for what a choreographer does is also off the mark. Choreography ? the advice is aoutdated and does not allow for the fuller picture of what choreography is ... there are pages and pages of this miss information in the dance context.

i hope you will think more before reverting my edits - or perhaps look at the other work i have added such as Dance notation to see the informed efforts i am making to update the content here.

Ohka- 17:45, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

List of Gulag camps

I've been running some statistical analyses of the wikipedia database looking for anomalies (see User:Topbanana/Reports if you're interested). One of the things thrown up is item 446 on the List of Gulag camps - it looks to me like there's a | missing from the link somewhere, but have to confess it's all Russian to me. I noticed you're a frequent editor of the article - can you assist? - TB 15:36, 2004 May 31 (UTC)

terms for administrative assembly

Does it make sense to make a list or a category various terms that denote gatherings for council, management, etc., both nation-specific and international ones: kurultai, ting, Loya jirga, veche, parliament, Congress of Soviets, etc.? Or are these belong to a list of forms of government (absent from it now)? Mikkalai 05:57, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'd suggest that they would be a great addition to forms of government but that they are more of a 'related group' than something you would work through as a list. imho, anyway. --VampWillow 11:41, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi Mikkalai. I moved this from the pump as you may not have seen it since you're away. Angela. 11:12, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

just to say hello

Hi! I've noticed you edited a lot of pages related to Belarus. That's nice! I was just wondering what kind of interest you have in Belarus. And I also would like to contribute to the project... So I thought you may help me to get started here.

(That was me. I forgot to put my sig. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC))

Joseph Stalin article

I posted an article to Joseph Stalin's discussion after you rolled back changes made to the page. I don't believe Suvorov's theories should be included on the Stalin page, when they appear to be pure propoganda and (as far as I can tell from a Google search) his theories are entirely dismissed by the academic community, and he responded to academic refutation with nationalistic claims. Please join the article discussion to clarify your opinion.

Art categories

Hi,

I noticed that you have recently been active in editing articles in the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 22:23, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Muscovite princes

Hello, Mikkalai!

Was it you who compiled the list of the Muscovite princes? I noticed a few strange things. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought that "Muscovite" meant "of Moscow" (I'm not a native speaker). If I am right, then there are names on that list which don't belong there, e.g. Andrei III, who never was a Prince of Moscow (he was a Prince of Vladimir and Gorodets). Could you please explain? Maybe you were trying to compile a list of all the Russian (not "of Moscow") princes as opposed to Kievan princes? Thank you.


KNewman 13:33, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

KNewman, you can read Ruthenia (together with discussion page!) to get better understanding why and when the word Muscovite was used. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

dance sport

hello,

if you have time could you add a DanceSport section to dance and also include a little bit of dance as sport at the end. you know more about this than me and would do a better job.

thanks, Ohka- 11:27, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wikiproject

I've noticed you've been very involved in the various dance articles- if you'd like, Ohka and I have started up Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dance in an effort to organize, catalouge, and improve these articles, as this section of the wiki is terrible.

Feel free to jump right in! Lyellin 15:13, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)


Poland

You and the Polish editors should have a look at the horrible pro-Communist edits that User:172 has been making to People's Republic of Poland. Adam 03:03, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Bossa Nova

see its talk

User page

Hi, Mikkalai!

Sorry you are having trouble with my user page talk. I am, however, perfectly OK with using the languages preffered by my correspondents. If they want Russian, that's fine with me. If tomorrow they'll want Farci, I don't care (not that I will be able to read it, of course). The point is, it's my user page, and it's up to me if I want to allow languages other than English there. It's not like they are using Russian in the articles name space.

Sorry if this sounded a bit harsh—if it did, I didn't mean it.--Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 16:00, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

Ballroom and cha-cha and other confusing things

It's not a problem, Mikkalai. I really didn't mean to cause a stir at all. I've been teaching social dance for [mumbles a number inaudibly] years, so I've learned about many, many disagreements!

I'd be glad to chat if I ever come to San Jose; (I've got a brother in SF so I might do, but I'm in rural Australia at the moment!) Or, feel free to use the e-mail function here.

Quill 00:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Meetup

So if you're from San Jose--are you coming to the Silicon Valley Wikipedia:Meetup tonight in Mt. View? Elf | Talk 01:23, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Oops! Missed it. Mikkalai 07:02, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Chernihiv -> Chernigov.

Dear Mikkalai,

could you please read Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Use common names of persons and things, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), Wikipedia:Naming policy poll (I'm surprised that you are not aware about this yet), then check http://www.google.ru/search?q=chernihiv vs http://www.google.ru/search?q=chernigov , and revert your recent move of Chernigov into Chernihiv?

And please don't move Kiev to Kyiv either.

Thanks! Dr Bug  (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 08:04, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! Dr Bug  (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 18:15, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
1984, DrBug. Nothing is what it seems. Under veneer of allegedly good intentions I can discern the ugly face of Russian imperialism. -- rydel 17:55, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, if you add a link to an article on my watchlist, I may follow it if it is of interest. I also sometimes frequent New Pages. I enjoy doing a little clean-up work; it's useful, yet not as tiring as adding new content. Everyking 21:48, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Please cease

Please cease your unwanted edits to Wikipedia:Administrators/Administrator Accountability Policy. It is my decision as to how long the discussion will last, as I am the proposer. It states clearly in the text "Please do not edit this proposal..." Anyhow, if you insist on continuing to make this edit, I will be forced to block you from editing for "disruptive actions" as per Wikipedia:Blocking policy. Thanks. blankfaze | (беседа!) 20:56, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Please change your tone in the discussion of Wikipedia:Administrators/Administrator Accountability Policy. You are being excessively hostile, and making personal attacks against other users. Snowspinner 00:00, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

1) Your serious comments would probably be taken seriously if they weren't drowned in a sea of personal attacks. 2) Were it not for the fact that you were not a new user, I'd have banned you myself under the disruptive users policy. Blankfaze's threat was misinformed - not out of line. Snowspinner 00:44, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)


IRC Banning

Mikkalai, I've been banned from the #wikipedia IRC channel by Snowspinner, for what he considers "personal attacks" against him.

I don't feel I did make any personal attack, nor am I aware that banning from IRC for "personal attacks" is supported by policy (but with so many policies, perhaps it is and I've missed it). And in any case, I think it contravenes policy for Snowspinner to take action in a dispute to which he is a party to.

In what way do I contest the banning, and Snowspinner's banning for a dispute he is party to?

A log of the conversation leading up to the ban is given at User:Orthogonal/IRC ban by Snowspinner.

Thanks. -- orthogonal 04:56, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Passion flower pollination

Hi, I left a note for you at Passion flower. Thanks. Pollinator 02:50, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Mikkalai,

I am new here. Haven't plenty of time to scroll painfully across these help texts of the wonderful but peculiar wikipedia features, since the internet is full of similar systems to waste time endlessly. Someones just great and someones nonsense.

So, Gene S hasn't time to pay attention to the Chechen databases I've given, nor I have to the Wikipedia in-depth features or other irrelevancies however academic and scientific and interesting they were (I spent my younghood at such an academy, so I think I know your way of thinking plus basic methods, but since then I've been a get-a-result or get-out man of businesses).

As a long-term hobby, my aim was to focus on the Chechen issue itself and not to produce wonderful texts to be filed in such dusty and quite academic bookselves where they have no affect on anything but some professors' merits.

Well...in order to continue the dispute, most shortly and effectively and usefully, I need just a short introduction of your techical salient points. Nothing more or nothing less.

On the other hand, I am one of those who's been up-to-date since the beginning of the Russia-executed campaign against the independence of the ChRI, so I may contridute some refreshingly true aspects.

It's up to you to buy or to leave me.

BIR

Mary Monnett Bain

Dear Mikkalai-

I take great umbrage at your comment that the article that I was working on for Mary Monnett Bain "looked like OCR".

By making that comment you make it seem as if I were copying the article, which I was not. If I am at error, it is for not completing the article.

When making such snap (and incorrect) judgments in the future, as a courtesy, please contact the author instead of implying that a work is being copied from another source.

Very truely yours,

Stude62

  • Mikkalai, sorry about my vituperation on that vote. Stude62 improved the article greatly, and now I have no problem whatever removing the VfD tag (done already) and the nomination from the page. I stick by my assertion that listing it wasn't a mistake, at the time, though I was proven wrong. I'm always happy (sincerely) to be proven wrong on those matters, but I was getting (and am getting more) touchy about edits to the VfD page. Given the number of folks now trying to subvert the entire process, I couldn't tell where you stood on the matter. It is policy that nominators should be the ones who make early removals in all but egregious cases, and I consider it courtesy to ask the nominators rather than simply doing it, even in those cases, but I really want to apologize for losing my cool on the debate. That's not me, and it's not the person I strive to be. (P.S. I've written a note on Stude62's page, too.) Geogre 01:06, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You have two fewer cows :-(

Hi. Can you respond over at Talk:List of "You have two cows" jokes? I would very much like for the two jokes you removed to be put back, but I've been hesitating for days waiting for you to present a compelling counter-argument. (I'm taking this waaay too seriously.) --Ardonik.talk() 01:23, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

El Coronado

  • User:El Coronado - posted an elaborate hoax: a set of articles about Anarcho Coronado de Murillo and a number of nonexistent "revolutionary" parties. After that he maked references to these wikipedia articles in some forums. This is not only hoax, this is a misuse of wikipedia. I suggest to remove all what he created. If he will persist, ban him. Mikkalai 01:26, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • I talked to him, but he removed my comments. Mikkalai 01:26, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)


Please add your evidence and comments here - Wikipedia:Requests for comment/El Coronado. -- Netoholic @ 01:52, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I left a message for him on his Talk page (trying to be VERY gentle about it. We'll see how he responds. RickK 06:22, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

He's got a link on his fake page to Google, showing all of the Wikipedia articles and mirrors as proof of the existence of his fake person. RickK 06:32, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

I have also now (9 hr later) left a note on his talk page. We'll see how he responds. If he responds poorly, that will be grounds for either RickK or me to certify the RfC, I believe. Geogre 15:12, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ok, sorry if i have caused alot of trouble because of the anarcho coronado articles, my father was a legend in mexico but during the 70s was never heard of again, so i tried to put a article about him, but you guys call it false. Atleast i know hes real. you can take down all my articles now and ban me, im just another liar, aren't i? -El Coronado

Silence is Defeat

You deleted this page with the comment "crook scheme"; could you explain, please? If it's a fraud then it might be worthwhile to explain that in the article. —No-One Jones m 00:26, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

cc from user talk:Mirv
May be I am wrong with deletion. A very simple webpage does noything but solicits donations. I will not be surprised if it also steals your paypal account on the way. He also inserted plenty of references to his site around wikipedia suggesting that he offers something "free". Mikkalai 00:36, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'll VfD it as non-notable spam then. —No-One Jones m 00:41, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Irish cities

Oh don't worry about it, it's just that it's all a bit crazy, and it was amusing to see the status go to 4 different formats used over the last 24 hours! Hopefully we can get things down to 2 formats at least and remove or expand the redirects. Thanks for the stats. zoney ▓   ▒ talk 00:30, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vernichtung and eradication

My English may be insufficient, but I would guess that "eradication" is one of the more appropriate translations of Vernichtung, others being "extermination", "annihilation" and "destruction".
--Ruhrjung 19:52, 2004 Sep 15 (UTC)

Evolutionary Philosophy of Aurobindo

Hey... I'm glad to see the sign (copy vio) up... I actually saw major edits done to the Aurobindo page which an anon. user had made and moved them to a separate article (Evolutionary Philosophy of Aurobindo) with unvoiced fears that the content might be plagiarized. --LordSuryaofShropshire 23:11, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Polish Geography

Perhaps you might be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Polish Voivodships. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 19:03, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Dvoryanstvo

Please don't delete VfD headers until the 5 day open discussion period has ended. RickK 05:13, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

I don't think this qualifies. Besides, I don't want to see a precedent set of the creator of an article coming in and deleting the VfD header because of their perception. I agree that it looks as if the discussion will fail, but there's no harm in leaving it there until the end of the period. RickK 05:20, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I apologize, I thought you were the originator. I'm not going to edit war over this, but I am extremely worried about setting a precedent. Would you have done this if the vote were close? RickK 05:31, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

I'm writing in response to your comment: I delisted the article primarily because the vfd page is very big, and IMO it is a good idea to clean it in the clear cases, to relieve some sore eyeballs. You've got the right idea; VfD is huge. However, early de-listings are controvesial, as RickK noted. I agree with him that it's important to not set a bad precedent, opening the doors for controversial de-listings.
There was a discussion a while back on the village pump about this very issue, and the end result of it was Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Maintenance, which everyone seems happy with. It's not official policy, but it's been used over a dozen times without complaint. This is a way of cleaning up the VfD page without actually de-listing the article in question. Why not give it a try instead? • Benc • 06:14, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)


Who gives a shit for still another snake oil peddler? Mikkalai 05:21, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 ;-) I concur, but I'd like to see a neutral-POV article on the guy, (and I hate lawyers who represent peddlers). func(talk) 05:42, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've moved the above from an article's talk page since I feel it is highly inappropriate to start making attacks on people when you know they are going to be reading that talk page. If you have anything constructive to suggest for the article, please do, but don't let the talk page descend to the level of making meaningless attacks. Thanks. Angela. 06:38, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Rurik

Thanks Mikkalai for explaining to Gene. I was about to answer him but found your answer and you said it all. Thanks again! :)--Wiglaf 15:43, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cetegory:Partner dance

I was wondering if you're aware that you spelled category wrong? I have to delete it as I understand categories cannot be moved. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 19:25, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Khrushchev Secret Speech

I see your point on this - article should be expanded.

One question - shouldn't it be clarified that the secret speech was known outside the Soviet Union in fairly short order? Also it must have been circulated via samidzat(sp?) within the Soviet sphere as I see references to it in the translation I've read of Gulag Archipelago. Thus, was the 1988 event the first "official" acknowledgement of the speech by the Communist government? Ellsworth 22:21, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. :-) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 07:16, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Requests for comment Shorne

A few of us are talking about doing a RfC regarding Shorne. Before we can do that we must pass this threshold:

"Before listing any user conduct dispute here, at least two people must try to resolve the same issue by talking with the person on his or her talk page or the talk pages involved in the dispute. The two users must document and certify their efforts when listing the dispute. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be deleted."

I you feel that any issues exist with respect to his edits, please enter into a dialogue on User talk:Shorne and see how much progress we can make through negotiation. Fred Bauder 18:44, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)


Cabet and Communism

Hello, my name is Fredrik Bendz, and I'm the one who wrote the original article about Etienne Cabet, and put some remarks about him on the Communism page. (I did not understand that it was considered unethical to add information without asking). I don't know how to contact you apart from writing here. If you want to reply, you can write to fredrik2 at bendz net. I have now found several articles that mention Cabet as the man who coined the word "Communism" and I have read a letter by Friedrich Engels, which I interprete as crediting Cabet as the originator of the term. However, Engels' language is very emotional and not so "rational" so I'm not definitely sure whether he strongly agrees or strongly disagrees that Cabet was responsible for creating communism. See these links:

"The term ‘communism’ was first used in modern times to designate a specific economic doctrine (or regime), and a political creed intending to introduce such a regime, by the French lawyer Etiénne Cabet in the late 1830s; his works, especially the utopia L'Icarie, were influential among the Paris working class before the revolution of 1848. In 1840 the first ‘communist banquet’ was held in Paris - banquets and banquet speeches were a common form of political protest under the July monarchy. The term spread rapidly, so that Karl Marx could entitle one of his first political articles of 16 October 1842 ‘Der Kommunismus und die Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung’." http://www.marxsite.com/MandelCommunism.htm

"In fact, in all the report of our correspondent, there is nothing produced, which he could have procured from this source and from that of personal inquiry, if it be not the two novel facts, that the German Communists got their doctrine chiefly from Cabet and Fourier, whom they attack; as our correspondent could" http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/01/13.htm

"In particular, communism is a dogmatic abstraction and by communism I do not refer to some imagined, possible communism, but to communism as it actually exists in the teachings of Cabet, Dezamy, and Weitling, etc." (Letter by Karl Marx, 1843) http://eserver.org/marx/1843-letters.to.arnold.ruge/1843.09-ruthless.critique.txt

"Anarchist-communism must be distinguished from collectivism, which was both a diffuse movement (see, for example, the different components of the International Working Men’s Association, the Guesdists, and so on) and a specific anarchist current. As far as the latter was concerned, it was Proudhon who supplied its theoretical features: an open opponent of communism (which, for him, was Etienne Cabet’s “communism”)" http://www.zabalaza.net/texts/txt_anok_comm_ap.htm

Cabet used the word before Marx and Engels. I think it is historival revisionism to deny this fact and pretend that communism was coined by them, when it was not.

Category:Russian ethnic groups

Would you mind if that category was re-babtized to Category:Ethnic groups in Russia? /Tuomas 04:06, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Absolutely not. But there already is a fat Category:Chinese ethnic groups I mimicked, as well as Category:US ethnic groups. Please make sure they allow you to re-baptize these as well, and act in sync: we better have the same style. Mikkalai 04:17, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I guess you've guessed that my problem was with you categorizing the Finnic Karelians as Russians. I'm not unaware of such habits, but I guess you are similarly aware of how this may be controversial. China is beyond my horizon, but the US-issue constitutes no problem as that category doesn't re-define ethnicity. /Tuomas 05:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You are right. A less ambiguous title is better. Mikkalai 16:24, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It looks good! I'm pretty busy in RL at the moment, but was prepared to do something similar tonight! /Tuomas 20:08, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Grr

Do you really think "[it] is often used by cheap prostitutes in leopard print cat suits" is suitable text for an article? — Kate Turner | Talk 15:59, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

I normally tell off people that say this, but... we do need to maintain some semblence of professionalism in articles, or the whole thing will turn into a complete mess. If you can find an NPOV way to say it (I can't believe I'm writing this) then feel free to put it back, I suppose... — Kate Turner | Talk 16:46, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

Could you consider voting for Partisans (Yugoslvia) as a collaboration project?AndyL 21:35, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Reversions

Did you notice that CPSU is now a disambiguation page? -- Chuq 05:12, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

FPGA

Why did you remove the slashdot discussion link ? maybe it's not encyclopedic as you say, but I find it very informative and contains a lot of pros and cons opinion. Is there a particuliar Wikipedia policy which prevents linking to fora ? User:khalid hassani

Polish-Bolshevik War

You added a link to (so far non-existent) Curzon's Note to the Soviet Government article. Which note does it refer to? Also, is the info present in my User:Halibutt/Curzon line project or the Curzon Line article? [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 08:42, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Zionist Revisionism

Mikkalai hi. I agree with you its somewhat strange to redirect a page into a page with completely different contents. Let me try to explain why this is what needs to be done in this case (i.e. redirect to Revisionist Zionism. The page Zionist Revisionism, despite its suggestive name and use of capitals does not refer to any movement or school of thought in existence. The author could have choosen different names to it, as he openly admits, and was simply not aware of the existence of Revisionist Zionism [3]. Now, personally I think it is much more likely someone writing "Zionist Revisionism" in the search box is mispelling an existing movement than replicating Alberuni's thought processes.

Finally, and much more to the point ;-) the redirect was suggested on the talk page more than a week ago and nobody suggested differently (in particular, nobody thought the article should redirect to Israeli-Palestinian history denial). In effect, the only objection was Alberuni's, who didn't want the article redirected at all. As for why it should be redirected, it seems you missed the VfD. Check it out.

Thanks. Gady 12:44, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Evacuation of East Prussia

I noticed you did a good job of NPOV-ing the page before, and now I need your help in doing so again. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 18:59, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for sorting out that article. I suspected you could do a better job at it than myself. :) -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 18:05, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Band geek

I've modified my reason for listing slightly, but am telling you so you have a chance to change your vote if you feel you need to. Thanks! - Ta bu shi da yu 23:45, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Exploding whale

Hi Mikkalai, what bragging were you referring to in the edit history? There was no bragging, and he did say that quote (you can hear it on the video). I'm restoring it as it's a major part of the video, and a major quote from the video. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:51, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, that's not bragging. He was merely reporting that he became a "land blubber" which was a humorous statement and signficant to his news story. Have you actually watched the video yet? - Ta bu shi da yu 05:39, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Mikkalai, I'm asking again for you to take this to the talk page. You are the only one removing this statement, and I disagree that its bragging. Please, don't use the edit summary to discuss this issue. That's totally inappropriate. Please use the talk page if you don't agree with me, or your think I'm inaccurate in the way I'm presenting something! Please use the talk page to tell me where I'm inaccurate incidently (if this is the case). Thanks. I'd really like to prevent a revert war here. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:32, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have clarified further and commented on the Talk:Exploding whale#Reversion of edit. Thought you should know. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:34, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have placed the Exploding whale page on WP:RFC. I won't revert your revert, because then I will be engaging in an edit war with you. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:03, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I can't beleive I have to explain the joke to you, but here goes: land-lubber is seafaring slang for those people who stay on land and never go to see. The joke is that Paul Linnman is a "land-lubber" before the explosion, and becomes a "land-blubber" after the explosion. The play on words here is that blubber rhymes with lubber, and blubber is the fat of a whale. Hence the joke. If you don't get the joke, I suggest you stop making edits with summaries like it is amazing how after this long dicpute someone stll fails to see the difference between "land-blubber" and "land-blubber newsman" [4]. Sheesh. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:35, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Mikkalai, stop making ad hominem attacks. Please also take the time to review no personal attacks. Thanks. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:44, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Unexplained reversals

# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zerg (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by WIKIMANIA)  (top)
# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zoomusicology (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Hyacinth) (top)
# 18:20, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zurich Premiership (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Bornintheguz) (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Öland (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by 130.238.5.5) (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) Zootomy (top)
# 18:19, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Zootomy (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by 200.4.57.101)
# 18:18, 14 Nov 2004 (hist) m Romuva (Reverted edits by D6 to last version by Ancheta Wis) (top)

Would you explain? -- User:Docu

U.S. embargo against Cuba

You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

RE: Karl Marx External links

Moved to Talk:Karl Marx


re: Categories of forced migration

Hi. Sorry if I appeared a bit pushy when I changed the categories for the pages relating to forced migration. To me, the word "punishment" implies that the forced migrant did something wrong which someone is punishing them for. I'm much more comfortable with "persecution", one of the legal reasons to be recognized as a refugee. Cheers, BanyanTree 02:47, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

too late for you

You wrote: Surprisingly, I am #66 as of October 2004 Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. Me better slow down and not turn wikiholic.

Sorry, too late for that. Anyone above #300 is automatically sent medication for their condition.

WpZurp 18:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Category:Traitors

I have added Category:Traitors to Categories for deletion, your input would be appreciated. - SimonP 20:04, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)

Hey person

Don't edit my posts. Especially when they're telling the truth about a dumbass Stalin apologist who uses the most pathetic analogies to the U.S. to try to prove his "point." Unrepentant Stalinoid 10:15, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 21:43, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Join RWNB!!

Hello!

I see from your contributions that you are interested in Russian topics. Perhaps you would like to join the new Russian wikipedians' notice board? It is a discussion forum for wikipedians interested in all things Russian. Also, each week we pick an unfinished stub article to improve through collaboration.

Russian Collaboration of the Week

Every week, a lacking Russian topic is picked to be the Russian Collaboration of the Week.
The current RCOTW is Vostochny.

Notice boards and Collaborations-Of-The-Week have become increasingly popular on wikipedia reciently, with Irish, British, US and many more. There is also a score board for competing collaborations! See FAC.

Isn't it about time we got articles on Russia up to standard?

Hope to see you on RWNB!

Seabhcán 12:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

English

Hey, don't worry about it, you communicate well enough, and I want to see more inter-linguistic wiki's, not less. Actually I'm considering editing on the german wiki once my deutsch gets a bit better. Nice chatting w ya, [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 18:57, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

egal

:-( - Lord Kenneth 03:04, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Redirects you created to "Vasili IV of Russia"

Hi, you created a redirect from Vasiliy Shuyskiy (and also Vasili Shuiski, Vasili Shusky, Vasili Shuysky, Vasily Shuiski) to Vasili IV of Russia, but there's no article at Vasili IV of Russia. Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Vasiliy Shuyskiy, Vasili Shuiski, Vasili Shusky, Vasili Shuysky, and Vasily Shuiski, on WP:RfD You need to create something at Vasili IV of Russia (even a stub will do), or the redirect will go away. Thanks! Noel (talk) 14:30, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Vasili copyvio

Oops, sorry about that! My bad. --Improv 19:00, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Asle Toje

What's with the blanking of Asle Toje? If there's a problem with the article you should put it on VfD instead... Evercat 01:03, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand - I see now it's on VfD, but (unless policy has changed and I haven't noticed, which is certainly possible :-) that means you should either leave it up "as is" if no concensus has yet been reached, or delete it completely if one has been... Also, you say check the page history, but there's only a very short history... Evercat 01:12, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ah. It's like that. :-) Evercat 01:16, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps a note on the page itself, ie This deleted page temporarily blanked and protected to prevent recreation. Evercat 01:21, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Gallagher

I note you moved the comedian from Gallagher to Leo Gallagher. I'm pretty sure there was something of a consensus to have it the previous way. While you're right, Leo is probably not the most famous person with the last name Gallagher, his stage name is simply "Gallagher". He is (for some reason) very famous in the US (he even briefly appeared on the Simpsons) and I seriously doubt many people even know Leo is his first name. It's wikipedia policy to have people listed under the name they are most known by. Anyone searching for him would type "Gallagher", while those searching for Liam or Noel or whomever would use the first names as well. I think it should be reverted, but if you want to put this to some sort of vote I'd go along with it. -R. fiend 23:09, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Topic cut

Probably just my error, I was thinking I had edited in the source article, thanks,

By the way, I fixed the Gallagher problem Leonard G. 07:08, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thumper

Why was the thumper article deleted(I dont know who did that?) and the disambiguation removed?

Eric Urban 23:06, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your edit to the geek group

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=The_Geek_Group&curid=1001863&diff=0&oldid=0 surely articles on wikipedia should be from the perspective of wikipedia not the organisation described so changing they to we seems wrong

I accidentally reverted to the older version when I added the info about the "thumper", sorry. Anyway, it turns out that the content is verbatim copied from the geek's website, which is inadmissible and should be completely rewritten. Simply changing "we" to "they" will not do, for a number of reasons. Mikkalai 04:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Misplaced Universism vote

You should know better than to discard even a misplaced unsigned vote, since unsigned votes are valid VfD comments.

You aggravated the offense by failing to make an edit summary, thereby disrupting proper review of your action.

This is especially egregious, as you knew where the voter was aiming for and even edited the article yourself minutes later, and it would have demanded a trivial additional effort for you to do it right.

--Jerzy(t) 07:44, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)

NSK

Please see my question at Talk:Neue_Slowenische_Kunst#Category. Thanks in advance. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:22, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Mikhail Gromov

If you look at what links to the Mikhail Gromov, you'll see that all the links mean the mathematician and not the aviator. Furthermore, the aviator article is a stub. Therefore, may I humbly ask that you either do a disambiguation follow-through on the pages referring to it, or remove the disambig page altogether, moving Mikhail Gromov (mathematician) back in its place, and adding a short disambig. notice about the aviator to the beginning of the page? Thanks in advance, BACbKA 09:14, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for moving it back! BACbKA 22:09, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure how this relates to the above comment, but I've noticed that you've removed Gromov (the mathematician) from List of French Jews. Is this because you believe that he is not Jewish or that he is not French? Juko 19:42, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry - I've only just noticed your comment on the discussion page. In reply to your questions: Gromov was born in Russia but became a French citizen in 1995. He is most likely ethnically Jewish (one reliable source is [5], but I can get more details if you like). I don't know how he identifies religiously. However the general consensus on List of Jews and similar pages is that ethnic identity is sufficient (though an individual with only one Jewish parent who does not identify as Jewish should be mentioned as such). Juko 20:14, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

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

Universism

Please don't revert my summary of universism again. I have spent the last several days reading many of their documents and the first few sentences are, in my opinion, a reasonable summary of their views. The words you dismissed as buzzwords have specific meanings in philosophy and you can read articles in the Wikipedia about most of these philosophical positions. In fact, Ford Vox has gone around creating links in many of these articles to the Universism article. I'm not a Universist trying to puff it up. In fact, you might recall that I'm the person who proposed that the article be deleted on the basis that it was too self-promotional and that the movement is still not significant nor the ideology particularly distinctive or original. The article is getting less self-promotional, but I still think it should be deleted. In case it isn't, I'm trying to make it a reasonable summary of "universism". --BM 00:24, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

re: Quarantine

Can you just quarantine based on categories? If so, we might want to quarantine most of the articles while they are in some tagged maintenance mode (VfD, CSD, Clean-up, Disputed, etc). Rossami (talk) 03:51, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/oboguev/images/rkpbxii.htm

Marxist Article

I approve of your edits on Karl Marx, El_C and I have been fighting for over a month, about it. :)--198 01:40, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thumper (capacitor bank)

I do not disagree with making this page a redirect, but I strongly disagree with how you went about it. Admins are not supposed to delete articles that they themselves nominated for deletion. Moreover when I found the vote it was a borderline 4-2 in favour of deletion. Only your vote, cast after the debate had been closed, moved it into clear deletion territory. - SimonP 01:01, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

HYP

May I ask you to please read the evidence that I have posted on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/HYP, follow and read some of the links that Google brings up, and consider whether afterwords you still want to delete the article? Thank you. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 09:03, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Police

Can I ask why you appear to be changing every article categorised as Law enforcement to Police? It does seem rather pointless, since the Law enforcement category is well-established and has numerous subcategories. Do you intend to recategorise the terms in every subcategory as well? -- Necrothesp 00:01, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re your reply on my user page. In many countries in the world, law enforcement and police are indeed synonymous. The definitions of 'police' vary from place to place. In the United States, for instance, many Federal and other investigative agencies are not considered to be police. In Britain and many European countries, almost all law enforcement officers are police (with the exception of a couple of government agencies). But 'law enforcement' covers them all. It therefore makes sense, in my opinion, to use a single category of Law enforcement to avoid confusion and arguments about where individual articles should go. Also remember that many constables, for instance, are or were not technically police officers. You've changed the category to Police, but constables existed long before the term 'police' started to be commonly applied in the 19th century. -- Necrothesp 09:48, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I shall attempt to do a bit of a restructuring in the categorisation when I have the opportunity. Cheers. -- Necrothesp 13:34, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Deletion

I see you're doing deletions on the deletion log. Wikipedia:Goat shit/addendum2 is obvious vandalism (a blank page) that could use speedy deletion. Thanks. VFD 05:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)


Phthalocyanine

Why did you delete the bibliography of the phthalocyanine page ? mkengel

Edits to NKVD

Dear Mikkalai, let's "talk" as you suggested. 1. IMHO, it's more ethical to talk first when you deleting smthng, not when somebody asking you why. I'do this every time I remove other people's thesises. Or may be you haven't formulated you opinion yet, just wanted to delete? 2. What the hell is wrong with mass deportations of Tatars and others? I think it's much more proven and known than mass executions. Please substantiate your edit to this as soon as you can. Please don't make me suspect you of POV-motivated vandalism. Hoping to resolve the contradiction, AlexPU

Attention WP Tatars, Lithuanians! Please be involved with your references and links!AlexPU

Old Ruthenian

I really didn't get your logic in proposing to move Old Ruthenian to Old Russian. Care to explain? --rydel 15:30, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

America

You reverted my edits in America and killed all formatting. Also, you restored "America's Cup". It doesn't belong there. It is a disambiguation page, for things that have the same name, "America", not the list of all terms that contain the word "America".I am sure you will agree there are hundreds of these. Please read the Wikipedia:Disambiguation rules. Therefore the only reason of inclusion of "A's Cup" could be that it is sometimes called simply "America". Even in such case it must be explained in the article. Mikkalai 17:05, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You're right. I boobed. Please accept my apologies. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 17:08, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"Renationalization"

Thanks for your observation about "renationalization." Somehow this didn't occur to me, as I cast about for an existing term or a neologism to subsume "Germanization," "Russification," "Polonization," "Americanization," etc. Maybe a better word will turn up; or, again, maybe this one will have to do double duty. Logologist 05:49, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hegumen

Hello, Mikkalai! Thanks for finding the time to write the Hegumen article. I wish someone could write an article, which would fully cover the hierarchy in both Catholic and Orthodox churches (all those archimandrites and the like). Oh, I finished the article on the Union of the Russian People, if you are still interested. KNewman 20:15, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Soviet Union

Will you be able to protect this article? We could also use help trying to calm down a Russian-American user attempt to insert POV into the article. Thanks. 172 23:43, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! 172 00:36, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) BTW, the anon posting the comments below wasn't me-- the 172... IP address was a coincidence. 172 00:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Could you place a protected notice in the article itself, rather than just saying it on the talk page? http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/redopart.htm#70

Stalin/Soviet politician

Hello, Mikkalai. I just noticed you removed Joseph Stalin from Category:Soviet politicians and I was wondering why? He's now rather conspicuous by his absence as he's the only Politburo member not included in the category. MK2 11:05, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"penkyamp" could be a general noun

  • Keep: Fellow Wikipedians, please pause and think for a second: do you know the exact origin and meaning of "penkyamp" in the Cantonese language? Proper nouns(let's have no doubt that "Penkyamp" is indeed a proper name for the orthography), have varying degrees of SPECIFICITY. The fact that the name "penkyamp" does not automatically lead us to the origin of such system doesn't mean that such system wasn't in use under different names. Let's see: "penkyamp" as a GENERAL NOUN is inspired by Mandarin "pinyin", which is itself both a proper name for a system and a general noun designating "phonetic script". As a result, "penkyamp" as a general noun has been in use among the Cantonese referring to any phonetic script since at least the birth of the Mandarin Pinyin. And "Penkyamp" as a proper noun for a specific system might not be in place well after this system was in use for many years, only until it was introduced to us as such. What if on-line records before 2003 has been mostly erased?

Besides, the article started under the entry Cantonese Romanization instead of Penkyamp. Maybe back then "Penkyamp" wasn't finalized as its only proper name. It could be "Lomazi" or "Zeuyamp". At least it's nothing as specific as "Jyutpin" (a name that is hightly stylized and specified as a "PINyin"--note: not a Cantonese pronunciation--- of the "Jyut"(Guangdong)-- nothing can get as specific as this, which will garantee to trace back to its origin as an officially sponsored scheme). But "penkyamp" is not as specific as this. It means "phonetic script", is spelled as is pronounced in Cantonese, and is in circulation among the Cantonese thanks to the already existing Mandarin "Pinyin". I urge you to think twice about our obsession with the specificity of the proper name of the entry: what you call "Penkyamp" is actually of secondary relevance. The question is, what kind of usage, or systems were in existence before this name was finalized, on Wikipedia?

Thanks for your help in editing Battle of Orsha. I would like to draw your attention to another highly partisan article - Baptism of Kiev. Perhaps something should be done to make it conform to the neutral point of view. Cheers. Ghirlandajo 00:00, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on Soviet Union. We've been responding to Libertas effectively, but I'm beginning to doubt that he wants to work reasonably with us. 172 05:52, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello Mikkalai. I don't know if you've noticed, but André Nilsen is listed on WP:VFU again. For what it's worth, Wile E. Heresiarch 22:21, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, your recent edit of the Bugaloos referencing the Boogaloo style of music is highly inaccurate. I suspect you've never ever seen the show. As a childhood fan, I can vouch that the show's musical styling was nothing remotely similar to Latin dance music. Please revert your contribution, or I will.

Hi. Will you be able to take another look at Talk:Soviet Union again? Thanks. 172 05:41, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Żymierski

Michał Rola-Żymierski aka Michał Łyżwiński - done. May I ask what did you need the article for? Halibutt 09:34, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Well... yes, these were two different offices. As you probably know, no communist country feels safe enough - ever. Each unit has to be supervised by other units of administration, and the supervisors also need to be supervised. UB (and then SB) were at the bottom of the ladder, while KBP (the Commission) was an umbrella over all similar organisations. Later on (1949) they created yet another unit of control on a yet higher degree - it had a lenghty name with the most important names in it being "PUWP" and "state security". If you read Polish you can check here for more details. The Commission of Rola-Żymierski is the second one from the top, the other Commission is on the top. Halibutt 10:01, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Libertas

Libertas has to be blocked for 24 hrs for breaking the three revert rule on History of post-Soviet Russia. Would you be able to look into this? Thanks, 172 04:27, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Belorussian or Byelorussian

Please see Talk:3rd Byelorussian Front#Belorussian or Byelorussian --Philip Baird Shearer 15:01, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It is my intiention to fix all the links but a guest arrived a day early, and the wikipedia is very slow, so I have to delay the action. Regards Philip Baird Shearer

List of dances

Hi! - I fear the List of dances has doubled sections. --Roland2 21:10, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Totalitarism

Я не считаю, что у добавленного мною раздела о США меньше права быть в статье, чем у разделе об СССР. И тот и другой содержали одинаковый объём релевантной информации.

Во-первых, как я отмечал в Soviet Union, серьёзные публикации обычно не называют СССР тоталитарным государством. Этого не делали даже авторы Library of Congress Country Studies (1989 год) - слово "тоталитаризм" встречается там лишь однажды, когда автор пишет, что на момент смерти Ленина СССР не был тоталитарным государством.

Поэтому приводить СССР в качестве примера в статье Totalitarism принципиально ошибочно. Это как приводить его в качестве примере в статье о капиталистических государствах или странах Африки!

Никакая правка исходного материала не изменит этого факта.

Поэтому я считаю, что весь фрагмент про СССР следует удалить, а в качестве примера либо добавить Nazi Germany, либо исключительно сталинский период, либо, что лучше всего, обойтись без странового примера вообще.

Вместо этого я предлагаю, взяв за основу структуру заголовков, предложенную Fred'ом, описать в каждом разделе какими качествами должно (в соответствии с теорией) обладать тоталитарное государство, используя только rock solid примеры, взятые из истории СССР (в основном, сталинский период), Германии, США (в т.ч. сегодня), исламских государств, оруэлловской Океании и других стран.Paranoid 02:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Поскольку, как я уже сказал выше, я считаю, что раздел о United States ровно настолько относится к статье, сколько разедел о СССР, я не уверен, что я соглашусь с его удалением. Несмотря на то, что это disruptive, я думаю, что у меня есть такое же право быть disruptive, как у Libertas или Fred'а. Paranoid 02:19, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Modulo operation

Thanks for your change. The person who deleted the article modulo (computing) was not right to do so, and ever since never replied to my repeated inquires to explain himself. Good job! I will do some more clean up in the new article Modulo operation. Oleg Alexandrov 04:05, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ron Paul

I have posted a note on Talk:Ron Paul inquiring about your reversions there. RadicalSubversiv E 20:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Soviet War

This is close to FA, I thought you might be interested in this topic and I'd appreciate your input. Plz take a look at the Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland/Articles#Help needed for most current discussion. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Norway Model United Nations Society

FYI, redirects to section headings don't work. You can only redirect to the page. —Ben Brockert (42) 21:33, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Never heard that before, and it's technically iffy (section titles aren't static), but it doesn't matter too much. —Ben Brockert (42) 21:58, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Religion in the Soviet Union

I just stumbled on this article section: Persecution_of_Christians#Discrimination_and_persecution_in_the_Soviet_Union

Since you're our resident expert in Soviet matters ( :) ), I thought it could use your help. It's heavily POV right now, and lacks clear information (particularly regarding the Soviet legal framework - the original author seems to have been ignorant of the religious rights stipulated in the Soviet Constitutions). I've started a bit of editing, but you could probably do a lot more.

Regards, Mihnea Tudoreanu 13:14, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Country

You called the template "obviously buggy", can you please explain what you mean? It was designed to look and just like the country template pages being created recently, and can be made to work on any country article. Can you at least agree to try it for some time on the two articles it currently is in use on? I think that seems fair, and non-controversial, if it means we can come to some compromise on this situation. I ask that you not continue this edit war when people are trying to get involved and provide new options. -- Netoholic @ 05:44, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)


Please be patient. Someone else edited the template in the meantime. I will correct all problems, but please leave these two articles. -- Netoholic @ 06:08, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

I've updated Belarus. Please report any problems to me until the exact format is finalized. I welcome your input. In the meantime, I will try and keep the article up-to-date with changes, but feedback from live articles in now what I need to make this workable for all. -- Netoholic @ 06:14, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Re: Russia, that same situation is being repeated on most country articles. It is why I am hoping this option will become accepted. I'll do what I can. -- Netoholic @ 06:29, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Template:Kings and Dukes of Poland

Please help us to get things under control in False Dmitriy I, Vasili IV of Russia, and Michael I of Russia. Polish nationalists repeatedly include Wladislaus IV of Poland in the list of Russian tsars and delete Nicholas I (who was crowned as king of Poland in Warsaw) from the list of Polish rulers. Thanks. Ghirlandajo 09:23, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Army Group Centre

Please see Talk:Army Group Centre. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:20, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

3 Revert Rule

I believe you have violated the 3 Revert Rule on both Arthur Koestler and Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Rather than trying to force policy changes on Wikipedia, and engaging in fruitless revert wars, why don't you try to gain consensus for your changes instead? Jayjg | (Talk) 21:14, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I've counted mine. I count 3 for me, 4 for you. Do you get a different count? Jayjg | (Talk) 21:20, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You've made the same change 4 times in under 24 hours. I see that as 4 reverts, as do many others. Jayjg | (Talk) 21:51, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Soviet War

I'm having a hard time cleaning the Polish nationalist POV out of this article. Would you be interested in taking a look. Thanks. 172 22:05, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

BTW, could you protect the article. There's a revert war going on. 172 22:28, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What a coincidence, I wanted to ask you to take a look and protect it from 172 POVism :> Anyway, about your comments in Miedzymorze edit (No reason to fight a harmless guess (or a dream) with a guess. Besides some see strength in gererogeneity. Also, how about EU?) - whad did you mean? As it is 3am I am having trouble understanding your comment. Perhaps you should post it in talk? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Tnx for joining the discussion. I am all for reaching a consensus. Unfortunately 172 doesn't seem to quote any sources, just state his 'obvious points'. My sources are in references + new ones added by Halibutt and Balcer in Talk (for obvious reasons we can't add them to the main article). Btw, I like alternate history too :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 11:22, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

country infoboxes

Hi, there's a new Solution E that's been proposed for the country infoboxes; I've changed my vote from the Solution D that I proposed earlier. The new option, proposed by User:Zocky, transcludes a subpage instead of using the template mechanism for this.

I share some your concerns about the new Template:Infobox Country. While a template such as this can help bring greater order to the pages, I don't think that it's quite ready to deploy. I've tried to get a dialogue going with Netoholic, but he seems unwilling to engage.

Please see: Nepal's infobox is implemented at Nepal/infobox using Template:Infobox_Country; Tuvalu's is implemented at Tuvalu/infobox as a wiki table.

Discussion is @ Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countries and voting's @ Wikipedia:Country_infobox_vote.

Thanks. — Davenbelle 00:28, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

crisis vandalised again

Hi there, I noticed you have reverted this article before - u are sysop? I have put a notice on vandalism log ... Can you revert it again please? Thanks max rspct 18:02, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Johor Bahru landmarks

I see you moved the landmarks to a separate article. Most of those were merged in from separate articles that were redirected to Johor Bahru. If you are going to split them out again, then you should fix those redirections also. It was me that merged them in because I didn't think separate articles were warranted. In due course, I would have deleted them from the main article, too, and put the redirects up for deletion. There isn't anything very encyclopedic about lists of shopping centers, and the other categories are only marginally better. So, I wouldn't say a separate article listing landmarks is really progress. But you've gone and done it now. --BM 21:38, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Southwestern Krai

Hi Mikkalai - I see you've taken the plain geo-stub off the Southwestern Krai article since I put the Russian-geo-stub on it. Understandable, but I did have a reason for leaving it there: It was a reminder that it should also have a Ukraine-geo-stub marker... if there are ever enough Ukraine articles to make such a stub! Still, It's likely that won't happen for a long time, if ever, so I'll leave the article without the plain geo-stub (i.e., as you amended it). Grutness|hello? 10:21, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Fronts

The idea is that the "true name" is "Western Front", not Soviet Western Front, since the last term may well disambig to front to the west of Soviet Union

In this case we are not taking about a frontline but a military grouping. The reason I chose that format is because army groups and armies are done that way. eg US 12th Army Group and British Fourteenth Army. Neither country uses the country prefix internally when talking about thier own armed forces, it is just a common disambiguation. (BTW Wikipedia uses number characters for army groups and spelt out numbers for armies, I don't know why, someone started to do that before I was involved with the project.)

If after reading this explanation, you want to move "soviet g... front" to another name that you think is more appropriate, I shall not stand in your way. Philip Baird Shearer 11:33, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Prague Offensive

As I am sending you a message: I would like to move Operation Prague to Prague Offensive and keep the word operation for "operation codeword" like operation Mars. Is that OK with you? Philip Baird Shearer 11:33, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Svislach River

You have reinserted the expression "a right tributary" into this article. What do you intend this to mean? The true (or proper) tributary, on the right-hand side while going upstream, on the right-hand side while going downstream, the tributary that flows west, something else? Rmhermen 14:56, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Neither tributary nor orographic sequence explain what left and right might mean. Google shows few hits on the term and none that I looked at explained it. The majority of them seemed to describe Russian or Eastern European rivers (but a few Asian, European and North American ones too.) I'm puzzled. Rmhermen 21:58, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Chernobyl

Please resolve your differences on Talk:Chernobyl. As an administrator, you no doubtly know the three revert rule, and you came very close of violating that rule. Chernobyl has been protected until you have resolved your differences with the anonymous user. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:53, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It was requested at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and it looks very much like an edit war in progress. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:50, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Muddling through the talk page on Chernobyl, I think whoever that anon user is, isn't getting the point what you're trying to say. I still feel it should be left protected, otherwise you'll be just reverting it like mad. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:29, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ussuri Krai

Did you get a chance to review my comments at Talk:Ussuri Krai? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 15:34, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Oops. There was nothing wrong with the fact you restored in Amur Krai; I was just using the Ussuri krai corrected article as an example and axed the fact accidentally. Thanks for restoring it.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 20:33, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Elena Filatova

I don't understand why did you revert my removal of incorrect information from the article, despite the fact that the reason for removal was given. Could you explain it? Do notice, that I don't disagree with the conclusion of the paragraph I edited, but rather with one of its premises. -- Naive cynic 02:48, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

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

SMERSH

I responded. --DIG 22:17, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mikhail Glinsky

Please see how our Polish friends mutilate the page on Talk:Mikhail Glinsky. What do you think about it? --Ghirlandajo 15:01, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your additions and comments with respect to WP:PMEX. If you plan on helping out more you might want to take a look at that page, the talk page, and list yourself as a participant, especially if you plan on working in on one specific area/category. Just for reference, when you change the status, please put ::~~~~ on the next line to keep track of who did it and put a timestamp on it (the timestamp may play a critical role in the future as we compare newer versions of PlanetMath articles). For an example of an article that's got lots of comments/signatures/timestamps, see 00-XX General. Thanks! CryptoDerk 01:04, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

"Movie"

"Movie" is American SLANG, why can't we use "film" which is proper formal international English instead?

Yes, we can. the problem is not in the name. Actually, there are two of them.
The first one is that you are an anonymous editor, and I have problems with explaining what you have done wrong. Of course, I could have left a message at User talk:82.118.120.77, but experience shows that in 98% of cases this is useless. As I see you are making quite a few contributions. Why don't you get yourself a name? It will take only a coulpe of minutes, but will give you a number of conveniences.
Now, back to the case. Every article has a history of edits, see "Page history" link. By copying a content of the article into another page you are makig this history lost. There is a special function called "Move this page" to rename articles without losing the track of edits.
As for SLANG, I am afraid that the word is the mainstream now. American English has the same rights for existence as the British one, and is the issue would be put to vote, I am not at all sure who will win. There are quite a few editors who change "organization" into "organisation" and "color" into "colour" at every wikipage they can lay their hands on. And the comparable number (may be even larger) does exactly the opposite. Therefore there are the following rules of thumb. Articles on British issues have rights to command British English. American-related ones call naturally for American English. Any other article is better left in the (A vs. B) language of the last decent edit (of course, the language must be consistent thoughout its text). Mikkalai 18:24, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Film is the proper formal term for a motion picture. "Movie" is slang, and colloquial (note the dimunitive ending "-ie"). I have no particular penchant for "British English", but American English is NOT always international - despite the fact some Americans think it always is. I intend on getting a user name soon (this is not a home pc, but a cafe one), but I am logging off just now (too much time on today). I take your points on board, and am listening to what you have to say. I notice you have done a lot of good work elsewhere on wikipedia in areas I'm interested in... all the best.

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

William Walker Atkinson

Thanks for your correction. I saw the WWA bio and it clearly needed some fixing up so decided to give it a go.

You fixed one of my hyperlink fixes by putting double brackets around New Thought Movement instead of just New Thought. Glad you caught that.

I don't know if the original text is copyrighted but whoever put in the original article took the bio pretty much word-for-word from the William Walker Atkinson Homepage which I added as an external link.

Finally, I have no idea what word the original author meant by "comproof" in the last sentence of the next to last paragraph. 21:10, Feb 15, 2005

Black (Re)partition

The redirect wasn't there before, I just added it. Yes I'm sure Black Repartition is more correct, but I was reading a book that used the other, and was trying to look it up. Also, I've found that giving the multiple variants of names is really valuable to people doing online research, because it lets them know what other search terms they might try. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:46, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Military in foreign conflicts

It looks like you're the one that added this section to Military history of the Soviet Union. I think that's great, we need something like that in the article, but it would be nice if we had more information and a better layout. Now, I could offer the latter (I'm thinking something along the lines of what I did for the general Timeline) but I don't have the source you mentioned. Could you provide some quantification of the aid the Soviets offered to these countries? Whether it be as specific as the ",000 aircraft, 900 tanks, 1,500 artillery pieces, 300 armored cars, hundreds of thousands of small arms and 30,000 tons of ammunition" I found on the Spanish Civil War page or something as general as "Moscow commisionned the sale of several T-72s to the Libyans" (which I just made up). Anything that could be useful in making a table of some sort. Thanks. Ryan Anderson 00:23, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neologism guy

FYI I put a new listing for the neologism guy in the long term alert section of VIP: [6]. I've decided to block him if I see him creating any more words. Rhobite 04:54, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Stars of Scorpius

Hiya.. just noticed you created this category, and wondered why? Isn't Category:Scorpius constellation a good place for them? —Stormie 08:16, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Never mind, I see you deleted it. :-) btw, thanks for pitching in to help clean up some of these star stubs from the .de Wikipedia! —Stormie 08:17, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Name/people spelling

I'd appreciate if you could look over Polish-Soviet War and Stanislaw Koniecpolski and correct some names I likely wrote in Polish instead of more appopriate English/Russian spelling. I am putting finishing touches on both articles and will nominate them for FAC soon, so if you have any advice I'd appreciate it as well. Tnx. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 14:11, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Votes for Deletion

Hi, I just wanted to point out you seem to have been forgetting to sign your recent VfD entries. --InShaneee 04:54, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Chad Bryant page

This has been recreated after speedy deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Chad+Bryant The contributor appears to have vandalised the VfD page. Kappa 22:03, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Lists of English words of international origin

I saw the history comment. Thank you for your indication that you think that this is the right direction to go. Nohat has also done a blanket reversion of every single one of the dictionary articles that I've modified so far, back to the versions with the dictionaries in. I've tried to persuade xem that there's a policy here, and that I'm implementing a course of action that seems to have a clear consensus, on the above talk page. Uncle G 20:28, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

Russia

Hi there! Could you please tell me what was wrong with this edit? I can't see why you reverted it. Just wanted to check it's not in error. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 19:12, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. I figured it should have been something of that sort. Thanks for restoring it.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 19:56, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Dragostea Din Tei

As you seem to be conducting the conversation over Numanuma and DDT, i'm going to consult you before I do anything.

Basically, Dragostea Din Tei has several factual flaws and the VfD for Numanuma suggested clean-up may be needed. I am willing to fix the errors and re-write the article, but as you've only recently done a lot of edits, I thought i'd check first..

Inparticularly, the article needs to be about the song itself, and it's actual performance on release, and not dominated by a sub-section on Numanuma. The article is more about memes/parodies than the song itself and thats a problem.. Possibly a 'See also' might be suitable for the Numanuma's inclusion, because having practically the same information on it's own page and merged into DDT (originally because the person who done it assumed Numanuma was to be deleted) is a bit pointless. - Hedley, 06 Mar 2005, 00:45

3 Revert Rule

I think I should advise you about what's been happening in the Numa numa article. It seems like there's a little revert war going on there. The problem is, you've reverted that article 3 times in less than 24 hours. One more revert will fall under the Three-revert rule guidelines. I think you're already familiar with them, since you're a sysop yourself. What we have there, however, can't be classified as vandalism since those edits are not corrupting the page's content in any way. This is a simple case of disagreement. If it's not just vandalism, the subjects will be targets of the 3RR rule, normally. In cases of multiple reverts such as this, the article should be left for someone else to deal with, and if that really doesn't do the trick, the page should perhaps be protected for a while.

That said, you should take care with that. Another revert under 24 hours will probably get you blocked, whether by me or by someone else that figures out what is going on. It's nothing personal, just the guidelines. By the way, there is more than a single anon user reverting that article back, and none of them reverted the article 3 times already. At least, not that I've seen. The rules apply to them just the same way, though.

Carry on.--Kaonashi 17:33, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Subdivisions_of_Belarus#naming

Hi Mikkalai! I found you are contributer to Subdivisions of Belarus. Would like to hear your comment about Talk:Subdivisions_of_Belarus#naming Privjet Tobias Conradi 19:04, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

River naming

Wow, what an awful awful awful initiative. I'd understand it if the folks at WikiProject Rivers agreed upon it (although I can't imagine why), but making such massive changes without even asking—terrible! This user has my full lack of support in this.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 17:52, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Yup, I have just added my message to yours on his talk page.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 18:00, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mikkalai, could you state what you want at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming_methods thx+regards Tobias Conradi 23:07, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)


maybe you join Stan and me, because we are in favor to allow River-less. You can add comment "it is up to the main contributers to decide whether the title is X or X River". I just did not put you to Stan and me, because you were against mass-renaming, but I would support renaming in cases of the not allowed verison [X (river), X river, River X where not english]. Tobias Conradi 00:02, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Revisionist Zionism

Could you please take a look at the dispute at Revisionist Zionism? User:Guy Montag is trying to censor material critical of Revisionist Zionism, particularly documented evidence of fascist sympathies among various Revisionists in the early 1930s. AndyL 23:03, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately my knowledge of the subject is close to none. Mikkalai 04:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Images on DDT

I don't suppose you could fix the images on Dragostea Din Tei for me? The captions aren't displaying at I can't figure out why, probably something obvious but i'm sure I coded it right.

  • Cheers, was wondering why the help file wasn't giving me much support on the case. Hedley 00:47, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)


Flag of the Soviet Union

Question, do you think there should be better images for the Soviet flag page? I personally think the hammer and sickles are too small for the flag. I also think we could stick the RSFSR and the 14 SSR flags on one page. I would like to see what you think. Zscout370 01:43, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Russian joke edits

Hi Mikkalai,

Just wanted to let you know that I tinkered with (and reverted some of) your recent changes for Russian joke, and put explanations of the reverts on its talk page. Stop by there and let me know if you still have questions. By the way, if you would prefer to switch the discussion the matter in Russian, by all means feel free to do so on my talk page / Кстати, если Вы предпочитаете перенести обсуждение статьи на русский, приходите пожалуйста на мой talk page. Zyqqh 11:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Order needed on Talk:Dragostea Din Tei

I'm at a dispute with User:KeithTyler over whose version of Dragostea Din Tei is best for the article. Personally I think his version was poorer and, after some chat room agreement, I reverted it. Now we are in debate over it and need some sort of third party to sort the situation out. I'm happy with whatever version is generally thought to be the better, and as you've shown interest in the article, I thought i'd ask you. Talk:Dragostea Din Tei has the debate under header 'Reword Reversion'. Hedley 11:43, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

500,000 article!

Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

Congradulations on the half millionth article. The press release is going out now. Duk 16:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations indeed! You were simply contributing a small article to increase knowledge. You had no idea you would be the article that put the English Wiki to the half-million mark. What an honor for you. Congratulations, my good sir! Bo-Lingua 16:33, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just thought I'd say congratulations too! Well done for making the 500,000th article. Two enthusiastic thumbs up! Craigy 20:51, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

  • To all of you with congrats. Folks, are you aware that in fact you congratulate me for my laziness: did you happen to see the numerous "To be continued..." in my stub? Had I chosen to write a decent article instead I would have misssed the magic number. Mikkalai 21:03, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • the "To be continued..." notes are exactly why you needed to know that the press release linked there. Duk 21:24, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • Congratulations on your laziness, then! Your article still made it to the half-million mark, therefore I must envy you.
    • True, laziness it is, but if you ever needed an incentive to complete an article, here's a good one of the sort that doesn't come up often. It may even make you complete the article... involuntarily?  :))—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 21:36, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
    • Yes, please, expand this. I want to but I'm afraid I don't know much about the topic. --Tothebarricades.tk 02:50, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just want to say awesome going with the 500,000 article on the Soviet Union. Way to go. wow. NewGuy4

Congratulations, half-millionaire! lol --Waninoco 01:44, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- Congrats =D sars 10:42, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

I know that you're sick of this, but Wow! How exciting is it for you to have written the 500,000th article! That is so cool! 500,000! Wow.

Admiral Makarov

I know you have your hands full, but I wanted to bring to your attention an Admiral Makarov article I just created. It is rather rudiment even for a stub. If you feel like improving it or refer to someone else, please do so. Regards, Irpen 20:02, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hi Mikkalai.

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 23:24, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Rumors Stalin's ancestry

Hi Mikkalai. Usually I enjoy being on the same side with you, but this time I'm going to ask you to revert your change back because a serious encyclopedia is not a place to list unsustantiated rumors. I don't see what makes this particular rumor worthy of being mentioned in WP. If you still insist on having that rumor listed, please provide the sources and we'll have to add something to the effect that there are those who prefer to blame Stalinist atrocities on others. I'm sure you are well aware of the dangers of using Jews as a scapegoat. I just remembered, there was an anon opinion in Talk:JS that since Jugashvili starts with "Ju", that must be it. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 02:39, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Knyaz Konstantin (several of them) and Nikolay Kostomarov

I tried to bring some consistency into Knyaz'ya Konstantins articles and references prompted by the name of Stepan Makarov's battleship. Dropping you a note in case you feel like improving the Konstantin disambig page as well as Konstantin Romanov, Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin (disambiguation), and Knyaz Konstantin (disambiguation) pages and the references thereof. Also, you may want to look at Nikolay Kostomarov stub I just created. On my side, I plan to work on several locations in southern UA and history events associated with them, like Ochakov, Mykolayiv/Nikolaev, etc, trying my best not to prompt UA vs RU nationalistic flames from many concerned editors. I know you have your hands full enough. So, please let me know know if there is a better place to post such notes than your talk page. Thanks for all your work for the common good! Irpen 03:59, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Branch and bound

Hi! Could you take a quick look at the latest modification to Branch and bound, specifically the change of construced to constructed? This looks like a valid typo fix, but this particular user has a history of introducing such typos, which I'm trying to track down. Given science's propensity at creating near-words (and my ignorance of the subject at hand), I thought I'd ask. Fbriere 18:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. The edit is OK. Please remember that many IPs are dynamic, i.e., may be assigned to different computers. Mikkalai 18:37, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, but there's a certain recurring pattern of small annoying edits in the middle of technical texts that I found suspicious.
Anyway, I've resurrected his deletions in Snake, and all that's left is this deleted paragraph in Theory of everything. There doesn't seem to be any reason for this deletion, but the article has changed too much to bring it back as is. Do you think I should ask about this on the talk page? Fbriere 20:59, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Sure, any issues about a particular aricle must be discused on its talk page in the first place. Mikkalai 21:55, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Will do. Thanks! Fbriere 22:03, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

-icle

I didn't recommend it for transwiki, I just did the transwiki and then recommended it for speedy deletion. An administrator deleted it. Then, I accidently re-created it. I've since asked RickK (since he's an active admin) to re-delete it.

As far as the other -suffixes I'd transwiki and redirect them too. Kevin Rector 20:23, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Now it redirects to List of English suffixes. I've un-asked RickK to delete it. Kevin Rector 20:25, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe Ok.

Maybe OK to add "1. For albums, movies, books: one or two links to professional reviews which express some sort of general sentiment. For films, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic offer collections of reviews. 2. Web directories: When deemed appropriate by those contributing to an article on Wikipedia, a link to one web directory listing can be added, with preference to open directories (if two are comparable and only one is open). If deemed unnecessary, or if no good directory listing exists, one should not be included. 3. Fan sites: On articles about topics with many fansites, including a link to one major fansite is appropriate, marking the link as such. In extreme cases, a link to a web directory of fansites can replace this link."


The Karl Marx entry is about Marx and his philosophy; therefore, readers should be directed to forums where they can discuss Marx's philosophy. Discussing philosophy is intergral to philosophy, and since the dominance of the paper encyclopedia is finished, we no longer need to limit entries to anti-dynamic entries. Forums where Marx's philosophy can be discussed are crucial to the continued importance of Marx in intellectual life. Please refrain from deleting these links in the future, though I do invite you do judge each forum's quality.

Southwestern Krai

Mik: This article you created seems to conflict with Northwestern Krai. Which is correct, or is it just that you didn't change the "North" to "South"? Noisy | Talk 13:21, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

recent block

I unblocked your recent block. I am not making any judgement on who is right or wrong on the Bernard Lewis article. But the editor you blocked is not a vandal, and should not be blocked, especially by the other party of a dispute. Talk it out on the talk page, and if the two of you cannot reach a compromise, ask for mediation or RfC. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:50, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Order of Victory

I thank you for looking at the page and making the needed changes. Zscout370 03:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fenestrocryptophobia

"And" what? RickK 08:13, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

"Avoid self reference"

From Wikipedia:Avoid self-references "If, however, you read about online communities, the article may well discuss Wikipedia as an example, in a neutral tone, without specifically implying that the article in question is being read on — or is a part of — Wikipedia." Kappa 21:28, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Wikipedia policy doesn't say anything about taste. The article is specifically discussing online communities. And reputation in wikipedia is the #10 google hit for "reputation" [7]. Kappa 21:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • LOL you're confusing me with someone who thinks highly of wikipedia. But never mind. Kappa 21:48, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kukuruznik

If I'm not mistaken Antonov An-2 has same nickname. Probably Kukuruznik should be reorganized as disambiguation page. --EugeneZelenko 01:58, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • I start suspecting that Po-2 was not called kukuruznik. Mikkalai 03:36, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I don’t sure but may be Po-2 was called that way at beginning of "Небесный тихоход". --EugeneZelenko 15:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Zemlya i volya

I'm not sure what you intended by turning "printing shop" to "typography" in Zemlya i volya, but that can't be the right word. "Typography" is much too abstract a noun to make any sense in this context. I'm guessing that it's a false friend from some other language, but I can't work out what English word you might mean. I'm reverting, but please, if you can work out the right word, go ahead. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:13, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't going to revert your whole edit (which I see you just did), just this one choice of word. Oh, well. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:23, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
Happens. BTW I nominated it for WP:COTW: how come this article is still missing? Or there is a synonym I don't know? Then please edit the redirect. Mikkalai 01:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm confused. Nominated what for WP:COTW? And a synonym for what? (Just answer here, I'll watch.)-- Jmabel | Talk 01:29, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

printing shop. Mikkalai 01:31, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I see. Because printing shop is currently just a redirect to printing? Be that as it may, I'm guessing that "printing shop" is precisely the right term here: a place where things (books, pamphlets, newspapers, posters) are printed, whether by means of typesetting, block printing, or (nowadays) photo-offset or laser printers. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:44, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
Yep. It was me who created this redirect 10 minutes ago. Mikkalai 01:48, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FWIW, a redirect does not necessarily imply a synonym, just a place where the relevant material is covered. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:45, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
When I spoke about a synonym I meant exactly that: another word for the same thing, which I possibly didn't know, and hence redirected to printing. Mikkalai 01:48, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
"Print shop" is more common in the U.S.; I think "printing shop" is more common in the UK; that isn't even a redirect. Anyway, as you can easily see, "typography" is something else and more abstract; "typographer" is a word, but it's more narrow than "print shop": it's a person (or, less commonly a business) who sets moveable type. It can sometimes be used, loosely, to mean a moveable-type print shop, but it's a loose usage. Even back in the sixties, when this was still the common say thing were printed, I never remember hearing anyone say "I'll take this down to the typographer." It was "I'll take this down to the print shop."
Probably does deserve an article, but a redirect to printing is not bad at all. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:07, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Takeover logo

Hey.. Leave the goatseish takeover logo in, it's amusing, and a realistic reaction. The area does look silly with tree logos and so little text.. I'd add more text but the rapid editing makes it hard to get non-trivial edits in without much work. :) Gmaxwell 22:48, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK. Mikkalai 23:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Deletion

Why did you delete my article, American national women's hockey team? -- Earl Andrew - talk 06:01, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not sure how it got blanked. I don't think it was me. -- Earl Andrew - talk 07:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Subdivisions

I need to get used to "Brest Province" now, after seeing and talking so much about voblasts ;-) I was about to create "Category:Subdivisions_of_Imperial_Russia" to place the historical Krais, Oblasts, Guberniyas there. But I wonder, why is it Imperial Russia and not "Russian Empire"? Like most of the other Empires ? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 09:43, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

since google has 112K for ("Imperial Russia" -wikipedia), 214K for ("Russian Empire" -wikipedia) and I suspect some wikimirrors still to be in the results, I created Category:Subdivisions of the Russian Empire --Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"Imperial Russia" is a term for a historical period, "Russian Empire" is the name of the state. Mikkalai 15:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you can support the move "Province of X" -> "X Province" at Talk:Provinces of Italy --Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wasn't there a general discussion about "Smth of State" vs. "X Smth"?, like, about rivers, citries, etc.? Mikkalai 15:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Never seen one. I only had individual discussions. Some people did not like the moves to english, other did not like uppercasing, and with Italy I entered discussion about "Province of X" vs. "X Province", thought this would be a much easier case, because this form is really rare, actually it is only used for Italy and for the Swiss cantons. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Russian joke

Здравствуйте! Не могли бы вы добавить в данную статью секцию о китайцах с кратким описанием наших стереотипов о них :)

  • Доклад первого тайкунавта: при боры в порядке, кочегары чувствуют себя отлично.
  • Во время операции у острова Даманский, китайские генералы разработали 3 типа тактики: наступление, отступление и просачивание через границу мелкими группками по миллиону.
  • В китайской семье традиция: когда рождается мальчик, на пол роняют ложку. Какой звук издаст предмет, так ребёнка и назовут.
  • Китайская армия окружила отряд советских пограничников. "Здавайся, лиенсо!" – кричит главный из хубейбинов – " вас всего-ничего, а нас китайцев – один миллиард человек". "Боже ты мой, как же мы вас хоронить-то будем!!!" (хотя это, по моему, анекдот про русских  )

Самый короткий анекдот про эстонцев:

  • Вот уже третий день парят над городом эстонские парашютисты.

А также другие разделы:

Анекдоты с местной спецификой.

Татарстан

  • Шаймиев участвует в в качестве гостя call-in program. Туд а звонит татарская бабка ис спрашивает: Минтимер Шэрипавищ, эйтегезче (скажите пожалуйста), сабирайытись ли вы пайти ещё на один срык?

Ответ: Ита ущень палитищески выдержанный, правильный, необходимый и ущень-ущень важный и дауны (давно) нэзривший уапрыс. Следующий вопрос пожалуйста. (анекдот был особенно популярен до четвёртого срока)

  • Как известно в русском языке есть пословица – "незваный гость – хуже татарина". Как-то татарская интеллигенция написала коллективное письмо в институт Русского языка в Москву с просьбой упразднить пословицу. Через месяц приходит официальный ответ: "пословица исправлена. Теперь во всех словарях будет писаться "Незваный гость – лучше татарина"". (хотя это тоже кажется. анекдот про русских)

Мари Эл

  • Марийца спрашивают "Это правда, что ты купил джип "Чероки" ?" "Да, да, чирокий-чирокий джип купил"

Чувашия (старинный дореволюционный анекдот)

  • В кафе приходит черевенский чуваш, видит, как людям подают чай с лимоном и говорит официанту:

"Каки людям - таки нам. Чай пить будем с огурчам"

Самый длинный (наверное в мире) анекдот про архангела Гавриила (рассказывается 40 минут).

и т.д. --Untifler 15:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

GNMA

Hi. I saw you moved a lot of stuff about the GSEs from the GNMA article to the article on the Federal Housing Administration. Treally, the Federal Housing Administration has little to do with the GSEs. (It is not a Government Sponsored Enterprise). The FHA is indeed a part of the Federal Government, but it offers mortgage insurance. It doesn't buy or sell anything, or have anything to do with the securities market (Except that some of the mortgages that Ginnie Mae pools have previously been guranteed by the FHA). You could argue that the material you moved really has to do with all three housing GSE (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Ginnie Mae) and really belongs in a generic article about all three, but I really would be hard pressed to think that someone might look at an article about the FHA to find information about the controversies involving Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae. Best regards, Morris 17:36, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

I think that the new article you created is okay. I might make some additions. The controversy really long predates the accounting scandals. You can look at some stuff that congress person Leach had been talking about in the late 1990's. The very last sentence I don't like (talking about what we conjecture will happen in the future isn't really encyclopedic). We should probably have cross references in the articles for all three mortgage GSEs. Maybe there should be a small article Government Sponsored Enterprise for GSEs in general that would point to all of them, and your new article. Morris 18:59, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

I've already crosslinked some, see "what links here"...er, "there" :-), and there already is government sponsored enterprise. Mikkalai 19:05, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RCOTW

Hello. I know there is not a Russian Colaboration of the Week anymore, so why not just create a special thing called "Russian Colaboration Project" where we just focus on one page, and we can replace it after the article is believed to be fixed. This process can take as long as it needs. I am just wondering what your thoughts about that are. Zscout370 23:41, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week

We always count from the exact hour and minute when deciding when a COTW candidate expires rather than waiting until the end of the day. Ie, a nomination made at 03:25 on 4 April 2005 expires at 03:25 on 11 April 2005 if it doesn't receive at least five votes, not at 23:59. I believe all three items I removed had expired by the time I removed them though, come to think of it, since we've just gone into Daylight Savings Time in Canada I might have been off by an hour. I'll check. AndyL 19:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I was 17 minutes early in the case of Greco-Persian Wars (sorry, I miscalculated due to the commencement of daylight savings time). The two other items had both expired, however. AndyL 19:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • In the case of the Russian COTW, there will be people who want to contribute something, but there is no project. I do not think that every single week there is going to be a new project for every week. So that is why I want to propose just a colaboration project that can end once the group sees fit. But if your dicussing about that issue, then I sincerely apologize. Zscout370 19:57, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hardworking families

Please reconsider your vote for the article hardworking families; I have expanded it a bit more. Cheers. – Kaihsu 14:15, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism

Hi Mikkalai, I saw tonight that you seem to have created Jewish ethnocentrism again, even though it just went through a VfD. Both the page and the title were regarded as problematic as I understood the vote. Was there an agreement with someone that this be created again and redirected to MacDonald? I deleted the redirect and have asked the admins for guidance about the title, and I also deleted your edit to Culture of Critique, though with hindsight I'm not sure I should have done that as there was nothing objectionable or false about your edit. It was just the issue of the title being back again that concerned me. I apologize if I've acted in haste. Best, SlimVirgin 06:17, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

This page has now been deleted at least twice, after a successful motion to delete both its content and its title, and a defeated motion to undelete it. If you insist on recreating it, someone is likely to raise an Rfc on you. You'd be much better advised to spend your time on more useful matters.

I've deleted your redirect and added a message. Please leave it alone now. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

As a long-time Wikipedian, you should know better than to ignore the results of a VfD. You're lucky you're not being blocked for repeatedly re-creating this page against community consensus. Noel (talk) 19:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have never edited the article content (blanking doesn't count), unlike you. It's you who are using your admin powers on an article you've been involved in editing. Noel (talk) 19:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Very interesting splitting a hair. Blanking does count. Sometimes it even counts as vandalism, you know. Mikkalai 21:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism re-creation

I, like many others, have deleted this article again as per VfD and VfU.

If you restore it, as I suspect you will, you should only restore the versions in the history after February 6, not the entire history. Nevertheless, obviously I think you should not restore it at all so soon after VfD and VfU. -- Curps 20:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)


If you just click on the "Restore" button it restores the entire history by default.

However, further below there is the Page history, with a box beside each revision in the history. Click the box to create a checkmark in each revision you want to restore, and then click on the "Restore" button. Only those checkmarked revisions will be restored.

Nevertheless, even restoring only your recent versions since Feb 6 will be controversial. -- Curps 20:12, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Trying to recreate an article so soon after a VfD and even a VfU will inevitably be very controversial. I don't think it was good judgement on your part.

It is Wikipedia policy that an article that was VfD'd can be speedily deleted if re-created. Of course, sometimes a hoax or prank or vandalism article gets deleted and then someone later creates a real article, and in this case the new valid article would not be speedily deleted. That's not policy as far as I know, just common sense... but nevertheless, this flexibility shouldn't be abused to create a minor variation on the original article to try to overturn the VfD. Some people perceive this is what you are doing.

-- Curps 20:43, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for not replying sooner. Whatever your intentions, I believe it was very rash and inadvisable to re-create this article the way you did, especially so rapidly. It's quite unlikely that it would pass VfD at this point, and people can invoke policy and speedy-delete it. Some people believe the title itself is POV. It would be best to wait a few weeks or months before raising the issue again. And note that Chinese ethnocentrism was also deleted by VfD, with less controversy but on the same grounds, so it's not a purely Jewish issue. -- Curps 22:33, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, Sinocentrism only redirects to Chinese nationalism. For me it's not a very useful redirect. But again, I think it was much too soon to try to re-create an article, because people perceive it as an unfair attempt to subvert the very recent VfD and even more recent VfU. So they will oppose you not just with logical arguments but also with inflamed emotion, and you will have a very hard time persuading people not to speedy-delete any re-created article. This very short delay (only a few days) was poor judgement, and I'd urge you to wait for quite some time before trying to re-open the issue. -- Curps 23:04, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bureaucratic Blundering

Hi, Mikkalai. I'm Uncle Ed, the first elected bureaucrat at Wikipedia. I noticed some people talking about you behind your back (here) and thought I'd ask you for your side of the story.

If there's any misunderstanding, I'm sure you and I can clear it up together. So, what's this all about? -- Uncle Ed (talk) 16:16, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Ed, I very strongly object to your characterization of this as "talking behind someone's back". Scroll just a bit upward from the link you provided, and you see Mikkalai himself exchanging messages on that very same talk page. I myself have exchanged messages with both Mikkalai and SlimVirgin on my talk page and theirs. All these pages are public, anyone who cares to can read them. It is perfectly normal for discussions on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents to lead to side-discussions on user talk pages. -- Curps 19:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, I owe you an apology for that, Curps. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 20:34, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
They were talking behind my back at admin pages until I have occasionally found this out. Mikkalai 20:39, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Yes, Ed guessed it correctly. I found all these pages by a luck of accident. No one bothered to notify me that I am being discussed at some administrative pages, and I expressed my discontent with this at several occasions. But evidently no one reads my messages; no wonder no one hears my arguments. Mikkalai 19:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Well yes — Mikkalai has a comment about half an inch (on my monitor) from the section to which Uncle Ed links. It's not behind his back; it's more as though he suddenly left the room in the middle of a debate. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
About leaving the room, can I go out to take a leak, please? Or is it against some of your readings of wikipedia policies? Mikkalai 19:50, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
And again, Mel, pal, you blatantly shifted my reply down, obviously without reading in a haste to put more shit unto me on my own page. Read my lips: no one notified me!. Mikkalai 19:53, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Well yes, it's customary in a discussion to insert one's comment directly after the comment to which one is responding. I wasn't responding to yours, but to Curps'; I did read yours, but it made no difference to what I said. You seem to be taking offence at everything, no matter how innocent. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
No, it is not. We both are replying to the same text. Take your place in a line, please. I.e., I am pointing at yet another twisting of wikipedia rules to your satisfaction. Also you are saying that you read my comment here, and you are still inserting yours. Sorry, Mel, but I have take an offense again: this implies that you consider me a liar. Not talking to you anymore. Mikkalai 20:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Guys (and maybe gals?), let's all chill out. Take a day off. Or read that time-honored classic, "Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot". (Gosh, if there's anything I'm proud of, it's starting that article! :-)

Look, I just wanted to mention that the essential first step in resolving a dispute is to talk with the other party. Not about him. It's only when you feel you've exhausted dialogue possibilities that you start gearing up for a "Request for Comment" (i.e., a formal complaint).

Especially on anything as touchy as the Jewish-Nazi conflict (or whatever the correct name for it is). You know, this is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, and there are huge demonstrations going on organized by some "neo-Nazi" party (the NPD?) which is itself at risk of being banned by the chancellor. Talk about yer basic "violation of free speech".

There are so many points of contention and emotional scars that it's going to be more easy to bruise someone's feelings than to give them a warm, fuzzy. You know what I mean? Let's try to be kind to each other. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 20:44, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

I do not see persons in wikipedia. At every given moment I see a particular text. Right now, I've just noticed, at two different places I am both with (at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cleo) and against (at Talk:Jewish ethnocentrism) User:BM. I am fine with this. But I am not going to tolerate a whole campaign of being called vandal, troublemaker, provocative, liar, producer of BS, etc. Mikkalai 20:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I see persons behind the text. I've even met some in the flesh, like last year in Boston. I even drove an official of the Holocaust Museum from NYC to that meeting (talk about non-anti-Semitic credentials ;-)!

I woke up early, thinking about all the wrangling over the various votes and wondering what to do about it. Then I figured I'd just do a lot of editing on all the j.e.-related articles I could find. This I have done, and now I take my rest.

Please read the new versions of Ethnocentrism and Kevin B. MacDonald. I think you'll like them. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 21:21, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

German minority in Russia and Soviet Union

A magnificent expansion of this article has been performed by User:Diderot and I believe the article should be dropped from the COTW nominees. Circeus 15:21, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Saudi Arabia

There were 2 consecutive separate vandals at Saudi Arabia, which was itself was giving me problems, then I got called away from the computer. So thanks for joining in. Have a nice day, --SqueakBox 18:52, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Putin Nonsense

I have no idea who put the nonsense it in, but I was wondering if the addition of the judo activities and his KGB photos are ok with you. Zscout370 00:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • One more thing, thanks for reverting the vandalism from my page. I owe you one, comrade. Zscout370 03:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Solzhenitsyn's Reference to the Russell Tribunal

I just finished reading Population transfer in the Soviet Union and was fascinated. Perhaps you may be interested in reviewing this footnote from the Gulag Archipelago I am trying to get inserted on the Russell Tribunal page. Any help you can give wiould be appreciated. -- nobs

And yet again, we may require your help. Please contact me at my talk page. KC9CQJ 05:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)


Mikkalai: thx for your help the other night; perhaps you do something with ASA for the disambiguation page where I added Anti-Soviet Agitation. --nobs


Here's some sources to begin:

[8] [9]--nobs

Code word (figure of speech)

Thanks for your contribution, and sorry for the confusion.--ghost 20:54, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edit summaries for VfD

Hi Mikkalai,

Could I ask a small favour? It would be greatly appreciated if you would leave edit summaries when you add the VfD template to a page. Just "VfD" would more than suffice. Otherwise individuals who have watchlisted pages like Gallery of Book of Kells pages, Gallery of illuminated manuscript images, or Link's Quest for Ass might not realize that the page is being considered for deletion. (Though why anyone would have that last one watchlisted is beyond me.)

Thanks, --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 23:38, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Ph34r

Sorry, I was trying to come up with a quick reason so I could block him and clean up after him. He was using a script, apparently, and he was posting this message in dozens of articles:

"You can not suppress the voice of minorities. Wikipedia is no longer a true wiki. Sure, the pages are editable, but the true power still rests in the hands of the cabal. This is unfortunate. I am creating this page, Ph34r and the racists, to protest cabalists. If you are a member of the cabal, please reconsider your position -- the RFAr is essentially groupthink ? a bunch of ordinary Wikipedians who have been poisened by power. Power is not always well. Could it be?"

I wouldn't worry about it. He was blocked and all of his junk was deleted within minutes, it was a pretty good effort on our part, I think :) Adam Bishop 00:23, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ack...thanks. That's all cleaned up now too. I don't think there is a way to stop bot attacks at the moment, unfortunately, but we're doing our best. Adam Bishop 00:39, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was the one who blocked Raef and started deleting his junk. Thanks for helping, it was a lot of stuff to clear out. I think that i is really important to check New Pages for this, as some of these bots only create new articles, and I was the only one to notice at first because I was checking. Academic Challenger 00:48, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Paco Thomas talk page

Thanks for catching that. I always delete the talk page when I speedy something, except when I don't notice. I suppose a reminder to check would be helpful, though I'm sure some will always slip throught the cracks. Tuf-Kat 05:21, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Image:Fortune cookie 20040628 223108 1.jpg
I MacGyverMagic, hereby award you with a cookie for your updating of "Did you know" the last couple of days.

I was too busy with other stuff to update DYK the past few days. Thanks for taking over. Here's a nice oriental cookie for your efforts. Mgm|(talk) 09:25, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Decolonization, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Evacuation of East Prussia

Sam Spade and Chammy Koala keep on reverting my efforts not to start the article as talking about "The Prussian Holocaust". I notice that you were the main one arguing the other case before, so any help would be appreciated. john k 15:44, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

For your various and noble contributions involving pages that focus on the Russian Federation, I hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit. Display this on your page with pride, comrade! Zscout370 (talk) 20:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Gold Star-awers.jpg
Well, not only I did the work I didn't plan to do, I've got myself a barnstar for the work I didn't do! So, let me better have myself a worn-off and corroded Gold Star of the Hero of the collapsed Soviet Union instead. Mikkalai 20:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thats fine with me. Zscout370 (talk) 22:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Lists_of_words

I've closed this discussion as it seems to have reached a consensual conclusion. Could you please visit it briefly and tell on the talk page if you agree? Thanks, Radiant_* 10:35, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Discordian Pope

Wrong. Even shorter: we delete "articles", not "things". Mikkalai 18:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Would you mind elaborating a bit? I have no idea what you're disagreeing with (other than, of course, using the overly general word things when I should have used articles)—but that doesn't seem to be all you're getting at. JRM · Talk 19:04, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

I see your point. I should rephrase: "Wikipedia:Votes for deletion is not Wikipedia:Duplicate articles". JRM · Talk 19:28, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

For the record: I'm not very pleased that you closed the vote right along with making your own comments. The rephrasing above will never see the light of day now, for example. It's one thing to respect the deadline, but another to give yourself the last word in a debate you participated (and voted) in. I'm sure a few extra hours wouldn't have hurt anyone. It's not exactly disastrous, but I'd appreciate it if you were willing to consider this in the future. JRM · Talk 20:55, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

Minsk photos

Great pictures! Could you please upload then on commons: and add in commons:Category:Minsk? Thank you. --EugeneZelenko 02:43, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Massimo Pigliucci

An older revision of the page was an exact word-for-word copyvio. After posting a notice, the author took a hint and revised it. Also, I consider there to be a difference between a newbie user and an anonymous editor (I afford the latter less patience). -Casito⇝Talk 07:46, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. You helped me understand that I was biting the newcomers. I realized that I am probably not the best person to fight vandalism and spam, and my time could be better spend doing less stressfull things. Thanks again, Casito⇝Talk 02:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

non-Jewish vs. Gentile

You have reverted my change from non-Jewish Poles to Gentile Poles in Norman Davies article commenting that Gentile is a non-neutral term. Can you explain your position? To me non-Jewish Poles (or Americans or Russians, etc.) sound very Judeocentric. --Ttyre 12:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Firework

Please check talk pages before moving articles – Talk:Firework clearly shows an ongoing discussion about the name and the current voting shows that it should stay at the singular (as per naming conventions). I've therefore undone your move. violet/riga (t) 17:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Nice work on the split - it's worked really well. violet/riga (t) 12:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

My compliments

I know we havn't been on the same side of things, but your commitment to NPOV is breathtaking. Please keep up the good work. Sam Spade 21:23, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

disambig

nobody is confused as to what a disambig page is, and your comments are completely unnecessary. Originally the song was on the disambig page, and for some reason when the proper link was put there the song name was gone; there is no reason for it not to have been on the disambig page. If "morning glory" is another term for morning wood, there is absolutely no reason it shouldn't be on the disambig page; for instance, acid (disambiguation) includes a link to LSD despite the two different names of the articles. what would normally be a redirect is a perfectly valid thing to have on a disambig page. Rather than starting a minor revert war you could have spent five seconds trying to make the page more accurately reflect what it should reflect, and DISCUSS this with people as obviously not everyone agrees with your edits to that page and your conception of a disambig page. Thank you. --Heah (talk) 23:39, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Really what i was reacting to was your "please learn what a disambig page is for" comment and not discussing the issue as obviously there was disagreement over what should be on that page. It seemed to be an unnecessary comment, and if several people disagree with your edits it seems like some discussion is called for other than you saying "please learn what a disambig page is for". The policy on disambigs does not seem to strongly support either your position or the position of me and Cburnett, being vague and a "general" policy like most policies here. This encyclopedia is a cooperative effort, and in this kind of situation it seems that discussion instead of simple reverts is vitally important for this place to be working as it should.
I understand your objections to the album being there, which is why i edited it to make it clear that the song was called "morning glory". i have no strong feelings about the erection thing; i've never heard the term used in that way, but if it is in wide use it should be there. the lsd/acid example was an analogy to that, not the song and album. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but putting terms used for something on a disambig page- the term being a possible name of the article, one that might otherwise share the same name with other items on the disambig page- doesn't seem to make this too much of a dictionary. Again, i don't know if it should be there or not so i'm leaving the page as is, but if it IS a widely used term i feel it should be there and i'm not sure where you think the policy says otherwise. thanks. --Heah (talk) 01:21, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Re Personal attack

Hello. Please have a look at my comments on my talk page. Thanks. hydnjo talk 23:03, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your comments. I agree with you that this guy is not nasty but is really trying to contribute useful information. I aso agree that more of a "hand-holding" approach would have been more productive. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Regards, hydnjo talk 01:14, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Okrana

I am thinking of doing an article on Okrana. It relates to the conspiracy to assassin ate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Causes of World War I. Any input may provide at your convenience if you are interested would be appreciated. Thanks. Nobs 18:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

You probably meant "Okhrana". Mikkalai 19:03, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Order

Dzieki :) I've added some more information.--Witkacy 01:40, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Trey Stone and Davenbelle

Hi! Trey Stone has Requested Arbitration with me:

I see from my review of some of his activities that you have encountered Trey Stone in the past, so I'm bringing this to your attention. Comments and evidence of your own are welcome.

Sincerely, Davenbelle 02:39, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Vfd vote

I invite your vote and comments on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Occupied territories of Baltic States. Balcer 18:22, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

References

Mikkalai, normally when we do a full translation of an article (in answer to requests at Wikipedia:Translation into English) we add a notice like the one you've removed from Colonel General. The main point is to make it clear that the actual authors of the material are probably not active in the English-language Wikipedia, and that one should not presume that anyone active in the English-language Wikipedia can really vouch for the sourcing beyond the translation. Lately, we've also been indicating the date at which the foreign-language article was accessed, because it's important to know that changes after that date are not reflected. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:34, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hero of Belarus

Hello. Thanks for fixing the above page. I was wondering if you wish to make any comments at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Hero_of_Belarus/archive2. Thanks. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 19:32, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Communist Party of Soviet Union (Bolshevik)

Please see Talk:Congress of the CPSU -- Vít Zvánovec 16:01, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Re : Vicefield

Hi Mikkalai,

Thanks for reminding, I'll keep that in mind. Anyway, I'm more a mop and bucket cleaner actually, in fact I spend much less time vandal-fighting in relative to other sysops. ;)

- Regards, Mailer Diablo 20:08, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Russia Portal

I welcome you to look at Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Russia. It is not complete, but it will pretty much be a new Notice Board. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:22, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Dear contributor, first I would like to say a big thank you for your time, care, and enthusiasm in editing Wikipedia articles. I hope you find it just as much fun as I do.

I am writing with a small suggestion. I wonder if you could write an edit summary every time you make changes to an article (or when you start a new one). Even a short summary helps. To see how often you have done so in the past, you may go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=YOUR USERNAME.

Edit summaries are important for a number of reasons. Every time you change an article, a record of that change propagates to every single person who has that article on their watchlist. Most people have an article on their watchlist because they care a lot about it, so they would like to be informed about what is going on with it. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. This is why your edit summary, which will take you maybe 15 seconds, is a time-saver and a great act of candor to the other people interested in the same article as you. Accurate edit summaries are important because they create trust regarding your contributions and help resolve disputes.

There are other, very convincing reasons for putting an edit summary. More information is available at Wikipedia:Edit summary. If at any point you have any questions about this rule (or anything else for that matter), please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you and happy editting! - FrancisTyers 20:03, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

(I copied this from my talk page, as it happened to me once) - FrancisTyers 20:03, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


Minsk motorcycle

Thanks for your input. The name difference is always a tricky thing to explain to insurance companies. :) - FrancisTyers 20:45, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

About the Speedy Deletion of British Legalise Marijuana Campaigns

I think it was rather unreasonable for that to be deleted so fast. I looked at their website [10] and I voted keep because it looked like a notable organization. You should have let other people comment on it. Oh well. Revolución 05:12, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

The Speedy delete seems to have been technically in violation of the CSD policy. For details, please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Misapplication of CSD policy. Thanks, Sincerity 12:44, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Baltic Russians

Hi Mikkalai, I just want to assure you that I did not have in mind to censor the talk page by that deletion [11] in any way. Also, I was careful to make sure that deletion did not alter any arguments of any party, neither did it affect the strength of these arguments in any way. I simply, as I responded there to your comment, wanted to make the discussion easier to follow by giving the talk page some structure. What I removed, had no relevance to the editing disagreements, which seem to be being resolved now rather amiably. At least this was how it seemed to me in good faith. Of course I immediately restored the deleted text once you requested. Irpen 21:36, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Landmarks

You are right :)--Witkacy 21:38, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Domeyko

Yes, its not a matter of life and death, however Czalex is ignoring facts. See talk: [12]. He also claimed that Lucjan Zeligowski was Belorusian.. See [13] --Witkacy 22:13, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Policy proposal for bots

I noticed that you placed something on the proposals for the Wikipedia for bots. What do you mean by "report in the edit summary the username of the author of the previous edit"? I'm not so clear on your idea, can you explain it to me? -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

The problem is that would be extremely hard to do so, furthermore it would tax the Wikipedia even further as bots will be forced to get the history page first then post. -- AllyUnion (talk) 20:46, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Have you tried hiding users that are marked as bots? -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

My other only suggestion in mind is a feature request at BugZilla for the MediaWiki software... From a programmer's standpoint, it looks like there isn't an easy way to solve it. Technically, I thought that if you hid users marked as bots, that the last change should appear is a person who isn't a bot. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

belorussian SSR

Mikkalai, I think that Jan 1 1919 it was proclaimed LitBiel Lithuanian-Bellorussian SSR. Am I correct? This "state" was later abandoned and afterwards BSSR was found. Eon 05:40, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Domeyko

The category "Belarus born people" is not correct.

He was born in partioned Poland, Lithuania (geographic), in Imperial Russia.--Witkacy 15:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

The category might be sth like Litvin people--Czalex 17:56, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
One must present very serious reasons in the article to put a person in this category, not like you did with Domeyko. It is one thing that a person says "Litwo, ojczyzno moja". It is a totally another someone's deductions. Don't you know that Slavic ethnoses are pretty intermixed, and the matter of nationality is largely self-determination? With Domeyko, you are free to write a section how he is considered in Belarus. This would be a proper way, not to push your opinion down other peoples' throats. mikka (t) 18:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Problem tez w tym ze jesli zrobi sie podobne kategorie dla Litwy i Ukrainy, polowa Polakow sie w nich znajdzie. No ale nic, narazie chyba bedzie spokoj, a problem Domeyki trafi na polke :) Dzieki.--Witkacy 10:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I jaka wysnowa z tego zrobisz? :)--Czalex 17:56, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Niema spokoju... mikka (t) 18:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Tego problemu nie ma dla Litwy i Ukrainy, z mojego doswiadczenia (chiba ze kilka ludzi ze sprzecznymi rodowodami: np. Bohdan Chmielnicki, ale to zdarza wzsedzie). OK back to interlingua. The problem of Belarusian ethnos is unique in certain respects and is waiting for an article. Instead of fight for each historical person individually, I am repeatedly urging people to write a good article, "Litvins," with examples, genealogies, etc., which can be a basis in this kind of discussions. mikka (t) 18:16, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Template:Mmuknr photo

Re comment left on User page not Talk page. The user page contains about 20 photos - all my recent photo uploads have been to the Commons.

But what has Template:Mmuknr photo got to do with uploading photographs? There is no connection whatsoever.

-- RHaworth 18:29, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

Merkulov

Two question my friend: (1) Are you familiar with this document [14], and (2) Boris Merkulov and Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov are the same person I assume. Thank you. Nobs01 22:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (provinces)

Maybe you can have a look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (provinces). Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time

Thanks for creating a separate superset superset VfD for these articles. I would have probably missed them otherwise. Wikibofh 04:00, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why are you reverting all of my pages that I put a disamg on them?

People should be awear of the diffrent articles that have the same name to them.

I just found out you are an adim, but still, why are you reverting?

68.169.113.246 Talk to me, 68.169.113.246 My contributions 10:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I just saw your comment on Solomon talk and now understand why you did what you did. Sorry.

Good idea

I like the idea of the article Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae. See the Talk page for my comment. smile

VFD

Just letting you know about Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/HYP (universities) 2. If you have an opinion, please vote. I am notifying people who have been active on either side of the debate. —Lowellian (talk) 23:50, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Dubious deletions concerning Gilgamesh

Moved to Talk:Epic of Gilgamesh

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/College admissions and ranking shorthands in the United States

In that discussion you wrote "Actually, it would be a good idea to make two articles". That's been done (in a way that I think won't incur GFDL problems). Please re-visit the discussion. Uncle G 04:45, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

Question

Hi there, Mikkalai! I thought that maybe you could answer my question. Is the material in the online Great Soviet Encyclopedia copyrighted? I figure that since it was published in 1973 (am I right?) all the stuff in it is OK to reproduce (like pictures etc.). Do you know anything about it? I tried e-mailing their website admin, but received no reply. If it is copyright-free, maybe we should create a template Template:Great Soviet Encyclopedia or something like that. Thanx! KNewman 14:21, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Computer games inspired by Strugatsky's books

Hello! May I ask why the information about "Stalker" and "Hard to be a God" was deleted completely? Even if it were an advertisement (which I sincerely doubt - except for the word "epic" there was nothing "promotional" in it), then why not rewrite it in a more appropriate way and leave it? Why delete the whole thing? I'm really against this kind of attitude towards others' work. --Koveras 11:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Encyclopædia damatica

2004-12-29T22:45Z has edited your comment under "VfD history" in Talk:Encyclopædia damatica, inserting the word "again". I'm not sure about the speedy deletion comment, so I don't know whether the "again" is appropriate. Regardless of that, I thought you would want to be alerted that your comment has been altered. --Aussieintn 02:40, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Word use question

Mikkalai, why is it that you refuse to use the word bastardization? It would seem that one other character, and now I, have tagged along in support of this (ironically) legitimate word. Every source (electronic, paper, and social) expresses more merit in the word bastardization rather than corruption. I even have the support of my English professor whom also agrees that words are bastardized, not corrupted. Please get back to me on this one, and thanks for the cat.

Self-induced abortion vfd.

Thank you for voting to keep the article on self-induced abortion. I promise to continue working to develop and improve this article. -- BD2412 talk 15:25, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

antarctic krill

hallo mikka! thank you for promoting our most beloved mystic critter. May I ask you to put some of the Antarctic krill into the Russian namespace, please - best regards Uwe Kils 18:52, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Drum wrench

Hi there -- Just saw you'd noted on Israeli Terrorism Vfd discussion that the arty's Vfd nomination hadn't made it to the main log. I nominated Drum wrench on the 10th -- eight days back for Vfd, and I'd guess it won a Keep, or so the vote page would indicate when accessed from the article... which I'd visited again during the Man Tool vote. (Whew!) (I hope that's clear — and I'm the one who is browsing Vfd as don't have energy to write tonight. Right???!!!) In any event, during the three step nomination process on what I believe to be the main log, things went a bit screwy. That (wrench) article still has a Vfd Tag (Template) so hasn't been processed, or is being overlooked. Since you know how to check, I thought I'd refer it to you. When things went screwy, I'd ask an Admin — it's on my talk page somewhere on the 11th-13th — to check it out, and he thought things were fine. Since it's still hanging with that tag, someone needs to check it out. The Man Tool is gathering votes towards a merge if the trend continues, but the Drum wrench arty already mentions it... which implies a redirect is the likely outcome. Still need to see if anyone is processing the vote tally, or if was off the main log. Thanks! Frank [[User:Fabartus| User:fabartus || TalktoMe]] 04:26, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vote

"BTW, in some Parallel World this article is already in wikipedia, so it is no harm to delete it in Our World. Surely the one who can use this algorithm can also find its description Over There" - love that vote! :) Radiant_>|< 21:35, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Comintern affiliates

Mikkalai: I was thinking of the need possibly for a Wiki Category within Category:Communism of Category:Comintern affiliates organizations. Two question: Is this a good idea and (2) if interested, could you help create the seperate category. Thank you. Nobs01 01:10, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proposed title change

Please read about proposed title change Talk:Camps_in_Poland_during_World_War_II. --Ttyre 22:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Phobia (attitude)

Please see Talk:Phobia (attitude). HKT 01:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

On which grounds the images i have uploaded towikipediaare removed? ~


Mikka...I wasn't saying that what you did was POV, what I said was that your stated fears about what people might think if they clicked on phobia in Afrophobia, etc., made it sound like your rationale for creating Phobia (attitude) was an expression of your POV. I was not saying that you had done so because you're pushing a POV, merely that that your use of that rationale, especially in making the article with that particular name, makes it sound like you are. As I said, if the amount of material at Phobia#Non-clinical uses of the term becomes sufficiently unweildy there to warrant its being moved to an independent article, I would fully support that, although I think Phobia (attitude) would be a singularly bad choice for a name for such an article, especially in light of the fact that non-clinical usage of the term is generally as -phobia and then normally as a (usually very POV) way of delegitimizing a prejudice, perceived or invented. Kol tov. Tomer TALK 00:07, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

  • Mikka...In light of your recent protests against editors who don't share your views, or who don't regard your arguments as particularly convincing, I think you're letting this VfD get to you on a personal level. None of the comments have been directed at or against you. It's unpleasant to have your work questioned, or trashed, but nobody's using this as a forum to judge you. Please don't assume that's what's happening...as I go to add yet another comment... :-p Tomer TALK 09:32, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

I don't mind the word "attitude", I just don't think it's appropriate in this context. What is described by phobia (attitude) is already covered at prejudice, discrimination, and intolerance. Meanwhile, such "phobias" are covered already in -phobia. That English would reuse a word, however, with completely opposite meanings, is not that shocking. Look up "cleave" sometime.  :-) Kol tov. Tomer TALK 15:27, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

To tell you the truth, Mikka, I think that all of the articles (Afrophobia, etal.) that you've cited (in Phobia (attitude) and its VfD) should note that they are neologisms. I see that what you have done by creating this article is try to make a link for people so that they understand what "phobia" is meant in all those various articles. Your efforts are admirable and I see that you have only tried to be helpful. However, I think such an article is liable to confuse people and lead them into thinking that defining phobia (even as an attitude) as "prejudice, hatred, discrimination, or hostility" is technically acceptable. Therefore I suggest the following (and I hope we can achieve some consensus on this): The common (but technically flawed) use of the term "phobia" should be placed prominently in the wiki article phobia, and discussed more thoroughly there. The links (Afrophobia, etal.) should also be placed in that section. You have mentioned that this usage of the term is too inconspicuous in the Phobia article, and I hope this suggestion would resolve that. By the way, I don't mean anything personal by my aggressive involvement in this VfD (though I didn't initiate the VfD, and I wasn't going to initiate it without waiting for a response from you on the talk page of Phobia (attitude), but someone beat me to it. I'm sure having an article deleted is no fun). I'm sorry for my aggression, and for stepping a bit outside the boundaries of decorum (you know, the "Sigh..." thing). I must say, you reacted to the VfD quite professionally, and that alone speaks volumes about your responsibility as an editor and your good temperament as a person. I look forward to collaborating with you on Wikipedia, if the occasion arises. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, HKT 06:22, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gabrichidze

...is cited for vandalism in progress, as he keeps adding his irrelevant and copyvio images in a number of places. FYI. Radiant_>|< 11:38, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Soviet history

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Grutness suggested a category name change to Category:History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia on WP:CFD, and it seems to be gaining momentum. I was wondering if that would be an acceptable alternative for you? --Kbdank71 20:23, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

feces

Please respect the consensus on the discussion page. LittleRedRidingHood 20:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well done for the continued reversion of feces. Perhaps you might consider protecting the page to prevent the continued vandalism - someone keeps englarging the image and placing it at the top. 62.253.96.42 22:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Trey Stone

You posed a question about Trey Stone on the Stalin discussion page. This: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Trey Stone, which has morphed into this: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Trey Stone and Davenbelle, might answer your question in regards to that. Ruy Lopez 06:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

image copyright policy

Hi Mikkalai. Thanks for the note on User talk:Gabrichidze. Is there any discussion about the changed image copyright policy? I would like to read more about others peoples opinion about that. Also, not sure if you have read this quote from User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Non-commercial_only_and_By_Permission_Only_Images_to_be_deleted : There are a great many complexities and borderline cases associated with this. "Fair use" presents a challenging example, and I think that we rely far too heavily on fair use and that virtually all (yes, virtually all!) of the images which are currently tagged as 'fair use' should be deleted. But this is a grey area and so at this time, I only urge people to be cautious about those. Sounds to me like the fair use images should go, and the only reason they stay is that there are so damn many of them, and it would upset a lot of people. Anyway, thans for your work! -- Chris 73 Talk 11:08, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Listing of minor births in the year articles

Sorry, but is it your intention that the year pages should list the birth of everybody born in that year with a Wikipedia article? I hardly feel the birth of a TV actor is a significant event in a year, and the Categories for people born in that year are sufficient for listing the less known people born. OK, currently there are only 24 people in the 1992 category, but there must be nearly 800 for 1944, should we list all of them? Average Earthman 19:35, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • I should clarify - should we list all of them in the article that should be about the events of the year? If people want to spin off a Births in 1992 article (which has been done for some years) then good. But I'm not in favour of clogging up a useful article with 'cruft'. I'm not deleting them either - these people are keeping their articles. If people really feel the need to have articles on TV-movie actors and porn stars, they can. But the birth of a TV movie actor or porn star is not a significant event in any year. In other words, Wikipedia is not paper, no, but we shouldn't regard the time of people using Wikipedia as being utterly worthless, that we feel the need to throw useless information at them. Average Earthman 22:38, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Oh, and if you want fair treatment, you have about 800 names to add to the 1944 article... Average Earthman 22:40, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commonwealth English

Are you sure that "ae" is used in all versions of Commonwealth English? If so, please put this info in this article. (I was revering the troll in Feces and was going to reinsert your change, but decided to confirm the issue first.) mikka (t) 02:13, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It is defineatly used in NZ english and AU english, I am not completly sure about the other englishes but it should be (the only exception possibly Canada). Most other wikipedia articles use Commonwealth English and American English for both common spellings (Color, etc) . Either way Commonwealth English is far more accurate than British English.--Clawed 09:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Schubert

Someone restarted the Schubert Family article. I have redirected it to Franz Schubert but you may want to speedily delete, SqueakBox 17:55, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Normanist POV-pusher

I just thought you might be interested to comment on what's going with the article on Igor of Kiev. You may want to check User_talk:Dbachmann as well. --Ghirlandajo 19:34, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Homocide vs. Homicide

You removed the former from -cide under pretense of wrong meaning, but the two are clearly different words with different meanings.

Additionally, how exactly does one declare that a neologism has a "wrong meaning"? ^_-

Blocking LittleRedRidingHood

Mikkalai, why did you block me from editing for the past 48 hours? I emailed you and you did not respond, so I am asking you here. On the blocking page, you called me a troll. Will you tell me what I did that was against the rules? Or were you just angry because I reverted an edit of yours? LittleRedRidingHood 05:01, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have asked you to identify which post or edit caused you to block me from participating for 48 hours, and you refused, because you know there was no valid reason. Instead, you threaten to silence me permanently. It is clear that you used the block in retaliation over an edit dispute, and you will use it again to silence criticism of your behavior. Nevertheless, I will continue to contribute to Wikipedia and I will behave within the rules, because I believe the project is worth it. LittleRedRidingHood 29 June 2005 04:42 (UTC)
It would be beneficial for other users if you would respond to inquires posted to your talk page, Mikkalai. Gemini6Ice 29 June 2005 18:58 (UTC)
While I disagree with LittleRed's and Gemini's position on the Feces article, I agree that Mikkalai must respond to this concern. It appears that he abused his adminship. Floopy 6 July 2005 17:38 (UTC)

Sorry, no feeding trolls. mikka (t) 6 July 2005 17:52 (UTC)

I have started a RFC on your behavior. Shame on you. [15] Floopy 7 July 2005 00:54 (UTC)

Liberty dollar

The "Liberty dollar" article reads like their promotional brochures. I see that you've been involved in trying to balance the POV, but the article is not yet NPOV, in my opinion. The other editors involved seem to be partisans or somehow involved in this business. I think that the best strategy may be simply to remove extraneous or unsourced material. You've had more experience with the article than I have, so I'd be pleased to hear you thoughts on how to handle the article best. Cheers, -Willmcw June 28, 2005 09:04 (UTC)

BBC North West Today weather game

Hi Mikkalai, BBC North West Today weather game which you deleted has now been speedy undeleted and converted to a redirect. Merging requires that the page history to be retained in order to remain GFDL compliant. Sjakkalle (Check!) 28 June 2005 10:47 (UTC)

Maryam Rajavi and Mojahedin-e-Khalq

Dear Mikki, I have written a similar note to this to the administrator called Ed_Poor. I wanted to thank you both for having acted in a fair and impartial manner with regards to Maryam_Rajavi & Mojahedin-e-Khalq pages which the Iranian regime was constantly misusing by reverting facts into lies. I appreciate your efforts and I know that the regime used bad language at times to try to prevent you from acting fair. I also wrote a note in the Talk section of the Mojahedin page explaining that I was wrong to have judged Wikipedia as incapable of stopping deliberate acts by the Iranian regime to demonize the Iranian opposition. I take back what I had said because you guys have shown that you can act fair.

With Best Wishes, --RezaKia 29 June 2005 22:49 (UTC)

Anons

Why do you choose to associate anons with vandals? 81.213.0.98 30 June 2005 15:37 (UTC)

Because 80% of them are, unfortunately. Half of the rest are occasional editors, who, even in good faith, write something that requires editing. mikka (t) 30 June 2005 16:00 (UTC)

Could you move those pages (admin required)?

Could you please look at Uman, Ukraine and Izmail, Ukraine listings at Wikipedia:Requested moves. They are listed for long enough, moves are non-controversial, there is a voting consensus and they seem to be forgotten. If you agree that page moves are warranted by the policy by now, could you just go ahead and move those? Thanks! -Irpen July 1, 2005 01:39 (UTC)

Budyonny

The commander of the Red Army on the Byelorussian front (I think his name was Pavlov) was shot for the defeats in that sector in 1941, and the commander of the Air Force was also shot. Budyonny survived his far worse disasters because he was a Stalin crony. I have restored the sentence you deleted. Adam 3 July 2005 23:59 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. It seems to follow that if I am correct about Pavlov, then I am correct to say that other generals were shot for failures far less catastrophic than Budyonny's. Of course the point should also be made that in both cases they were only following Stalin's "no retreat" orders. Adam 4 July 2005 01:44 (UTC)

I wasn't actually refering to the 1942 order you cite, but to Stalin's general insistence from day 1 that there should be no retreat and that any general who did retreat was ipso facto an enemy of the people. Pavlov after all did nothing but obey orders and was shot as a result. All this was a means of scapegoating people for defeats caused by Stalin's lack of preparedness. My original point was that Budyonny presided over defeats far worse (even allowing for your point that he was not actually in operational control), yet escaped without punishment. The same was true for Voroshilov, Timoshenko (not as incompetent as Budyonny of course), Mekhlis, Kulik and other Stalin cronies. If it hadn't been for the fact that a few competent generals such as Zhukov survived the purges, the Soviet Union would have lost the war in 1942. Adam 5 July 2005 00:06 (UTC)

<Sigh.> Let us talk in 20-30 years, when the smoke and sand of the Sovied history settles down. It would be ridiculous for me to defend Budyonny here, but look here. Pavlov and Budyonny (asuming he was in real command) were in exact same positions at the outbreak: Pavlov's forces were in the Bialystok salient; Budyonny's in Lvov salient. But Pavlov was hit in full in a week and the whole Belarus was lost in next week, whereas Soviet Southern/Southwestern fronts held until September. So I would not say that Budyonny's defeat was "far worse." Even with the causalty numbers in Battle of Kiev (1941), which are screwed, the outcomes were comparable. I would consider a very simple scenario: Pavlov had fallen under the initial Stalin's fury, and with a pretty apparent reason, but when Budyonny's turn came, the overall size of the catastrophe was already too clear to put a blame on a next single person. I am aware of the theory that Pavlov was made scapegoat supposedly to cover Stalin's own miscalculations, but this sounds pretty childish IMO. And speaking about the genius Zhukov, AFAIK it was he who put all these troops by the border in the first place.
Anyway, I would suggest you not to discuss with me interpretations of historical issues: I am not a trained historian. In wikipedia I prefer to contribute isolated facts. mikka (t) 5 July 2005 00:45 (UTC)

Those are good points. Please amend the article accordingly and we can discuss the edits. Adam 5 July 2005 01:18 (UTC)

Also, perhaps you can answer another question for me. I am reading Christopher Browning's The Origins of the Final Solution. He is discussing the construction of the extermination camps in the General-Government in late 1941. Of Belzec, he says: "The labourers were selected by the local Polish administration."

I was struck by the phrase "local Polish administration." I have always assumed that the Germans completely dissolved the administrative aparatus of the Polish state in 1939 and ran the country themselves with German administrators. Does this phrase suggest that there was still a Polish civil administration in place in the General-Government in 1941? That Polish civil servants were still at their desks working for the Germans? How does this sit with the frequent claim that Poland was the only occupied country in which there was no collaboration with the German occupiers? Adam 4 July 2005 02:18 (UTC)

So it is correct that at the local or municipal level the Polish civil administration remained in place? If this is correct it should be noted at the General-Government article. Adam 4 July 2005 02:52 (UTC)

I am not pursuing this inquiry in order to make a case about collaboration, still less to make judgements. I am just curious to learn something I wasn't previous aware of. If you find out more about this please let me know. In the meantime you can help me deal with the stalinist idiot Ruy Lopez at the Budyonny article when it is unprotected. Adam 4 July 2005 06:09 (UTC)

The issue is not the case; it is just a piece of information that is missing. mikka (t) 4 July 2005 17:17 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/I1

Dragon's Flight pointed out a serious omission to this proposal: that the image description page of WikiCommons should include the content of the one on Wikipedia. I have reworded the proposal to include that. Because the wording changed, I have hidden your vote; please read the new version and see if you support it now, and reinstate your vote under the appropriate section depending on whether you do. Yours, Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 08:17 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3

PBurka pointed out that an important omission from this proposal: a band could meet WP:MUSIC criterion #5 (sharing a member with a famous band) and still be speedily deletable by this criterion. I've added a sentence to the proposal to reflect this: it now reads An article about a musician or music group that does not assert having released at least one album, nor having had media coverage, nor having a member that is or was also part of a well-known music group. If the assertion is disputed or controversial, it should be taken to VFD instead. Please consider if you support this new wording, and change your vote if not. Yours, Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 09:54 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you with the requests above. Those two proposals were the only two that had an important omission and required a quick fix while there were still relatively few voters. I'm sure there'll be plenty more discussion, but no more significant changes. I've extended the voting period by one day to ensure they get their proper time. Thank you for your consideration. Radiant_>|< July 5, 2005 10:05 (UTC)

"15 mln terrorists"

Please take a look at this message I posted: Talk:German_exodus_from_Eastern_Europe#15,000,000_terrorists?. I am kind of puzzled. Do you have a clue? --Irpen July 5, 2005 21:59 (UTC)

CSD Proposal 3-B

You voted or commented on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A or both. I have proposed a revised version, at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal refers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 05:37 (UTC)

You have been accused of abusing your adminship

You should not ignore LittleRedRidingHood's concerns. Scroll up. Floopy 6 July 2005 17:43 (UTC)

I have started a RFC on your behavior. Shame on you. [16] Floopy 7 July 2005 00:54 (UTC)


List of extinct languages

Mikkalai, what I'm trying to do in that article is make the thing consistent. Latin is extinct in that sense, but so is ancient Greek, which Miskin does not want to list. Don't tell me you support Old French being listed as extinct but not Ancient Greek. Decius 8 July 2005 03:20 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Mikkalai

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Mikkalai has been delisted. Do you want to keep it? If not, it'll be deleted. --cesarb 8 July 2005 23:31 (UTC)

I see no reasons for me to keep it. mikka (t) 8 July 2005 23:36 (UTC)
Deleted. --cesarb 8 July 2005 23:53 (UTC)

Lefty and Righty deletion

Whilst I see why you voted this for deletion I checked out it's Alexa rating and number of comics published and it seemed that it should be okay by the wikipedia giudelines. Could you please clear me up about this please? Boyinabox

Distinguishing parallism from concurrency

Increasingly in Computer Science, parallelism is distinguished from concurrency. I have gone through and made the disambiguations that I could find.--Carl Hewitt 01:25, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of Christo

Hi--I thought I should let you know that I've just undeleted Christo, which you apparently deleted on June 30. I assume the deletion was some sort of accident, since there was no reason for it to be deleted (the redirect was a useful one, and furthermore, the page history contained early versions of the article now at Christo and Jeanne-Claude). No big deal, of course, but I thought I'd better mention it. --Camembert 13:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Page protection

Responded at my talk page – ABCD 20:06, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Replied again. – ABCD 20:36, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Anti-Semitism in Poland

Hey, Mikka. I noticed that you voted to delete the article. Ditto about the garbage! However, I've reverted the article to a more NPOV version by Piotrus. Ttyre seems to have reverted it to a very POV verison so as to increase the number of delete votes. Feel free to take a second look. Thanks. HKT 22:27, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

The Editor's Barnstar

I, Deryck C., award Mikka with this editor's barnstar for decisively splitting articles. (KC)
I, Deryck C., award Mikka with this editor's barnstar for decisively splitting articles. (KC)


This is just a little token of gift for your hardwork. Leave me back a comment if you like!Deryck C. 03:14, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Speedy

I replied to your comment on my talk page - Satori 04:02, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Communism

Hello again. If you have time, please take a look at communism. Strong poorly written POV keeps on getting reinserted in the article. 172 | Talk 15:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I was a "tad oversensitive"

Hi Mikka, I just want to add to what I wrote on VfD page, that I didn't mean you were intolerant in that discussion. I was just ticked off by your quick blanking of the U.H. article I wrote that immediately followed my entry at VfD at that point. Anyway, we don't seem to disagree on the basic things here, just solutions have to be worked out. I've stricken out my intolerance accusation at VfD. Sorry. Peace! --Irpen 00:56, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

(Old) Ruthenia

I just thought that perhaps redirect of Old Ruthenia to Ruthenia might also be not a bad idea. The Ruthenia article already includes the info on usage and etymology. Not that I would mind deletion of Old Ruthenia, but the old way (redirect to Kievan Rus') was a more odd solution, I think. --Irpen

In fact, the "old" redirect was to Ruthenia. mikka (t) 17:36, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
All right. Should we restore it then? My point, as I said, is that whether the article ends up with a delete or a redirect, nothing can prevent a malicious user to recreate a fork or fill the entry with bs. A redirect to Ruthenia seems both reasonable and defensible. I am just afraid, the deletion won't last (even if it passes). Anyway, the fork will go away for sure. --Irpen 17:51, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Empress Alexandra Fedorovna

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is again having a vote: upon the heading, at Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse. At least I am against that "Alix" version, as she was not well known by it- however, there are certain people who are pushing it through.
I am interested in how a cultivated Russian person nowadays would call her (if the "consort" name "Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress of Russia" is forbidden as per encyclopedic conventions)?? Nowadays, in Russian history books etc?? And, in earlier literature (such as how was she reported before 1917 in Russia, if "Empress of Russia" be not allowed? 217.140.193.123 18:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Please feel free to stop by the naming rules discussion here and contribute to a general policy on the naming of Russian royal consorts. One of the proposals would use "Empress Alexandra Feodorovna" (+disambiguation, from the wife of Nicholas I) to name her. If the naming rules are changed to approve this, I will happily vote for it, but it will take a consensus there to get them changed, so please comment. Thanks! Choess 04:01, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

autonomy of Finland

I realized that you have been discussing the position of Finland during 1809-1917. Possibly I need to make some additions and amendments to Grand Duchy of Finland article, but perhaps it is better first to ponder those things. Finland WAS then a part of Russia, not an independent country, and it is wrong to say that they (e.g my ancestors) only were in personal union. The case is not the same as UK - Canada today, rather is is closer to UK - Scotland today. The contemporaries regarded Finland as a clear part of Russia. It had autonomy (own administrative machinery etc). But certainly no independence ever for foreign policy nor military policy. Depending on the time, Finnish internal affairs were sometimes regulated from Russia a bit heavily, sometimes only mildly. Peaceful times and loyalty of Finns led to situation where Finns were allowed to take care of their own administration rather independently most of the time - but this was practical result, not juridical right (let me remind of a citation from Tsar Nicholas I when some Russian minister bugged him to decree something re Finland: "Let the Finns remain in peace. They are the only corner of my huge realm that has never ever caused even a minute of concern and bother to me"). Some Finns themselves then, more of them in the last 20-30 years of Russian rule, and later explainers in the independent Finland, have stressed the autonomy, explaining it to almost unrecognizable extent - theorizing of it being just a personal union, deriving a bit too much of Alexander I's speeches to Porvoo diet (apparently when he said Finland is elevated among nations, he meant as one nation of the Russian empire such as Tatars or Belorusians, like a tribe, not an independent nation), and reading a bit too much from the practical self-rule quite often allowed to Finland. Juridically, in administrative etc usage of Finland, the monarch was "Emperor and Grand Duke" when in Finland - and Emperor (etc) when in other parts of Russia. Nicholas II was particularly desiring the use of Tsar, which was at that era a bit more common in use in Finland too ("Tsar and Grand Duke", "Tsaari ja suuriruhtinas", "Tsar och storfurste"), earlier rulers were almost always "Kejsare och Storfurste, Keisari ja Suuriruhtinas". In loose parlance, the ruler quite often was Tsar "tsaari" anyway. The only university was "Keisarillinen Aleksanterin-yliopisto" (Imperial Alexander University),no mention of "grand ducal" there. Actually, Finnish penal code still has some archaic paragraphs remaining, stating something about "emperor and grand duke" - if I recall it correctly, there existed until 1990's an inapplicable but remaining provision of grave punishment for killing the "emperor and grand duke" (jurists actually wrote an opinion that it cannot interpreted to mean killing the president). 217.140.193.123 13:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

References to the origins of Salsa (dancing)

In a project, I soon might be involved in a serious research about Salsa dancing style. I have found very interesting sources for why its origin comes from New York, although there are other possible origins. Please, can you give us REAL pointing references with names, exact dates (not "between 1940 and 1970", we can not be too much unprecise with a lap of 30 years!!) and places. Thank you in advance.

deletion voting: Aingeljã

hi again.

you said that you may be interesting in voting for whether or not Aingeljã should be deleted.

Here is the page: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Aingeljã.

peace – ishwar  (speak) 15:10, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

Russian/Russian language

(moved to Category talk:Russian films)

Hinduism

I notice that you cleaned up a spamming editor who hit, among other pages, BAPS and Swaminarayan. I don't know if this is a field that you know anything about, but I've been hoping to get more "dis-interested" editors involved. There are partisan editors who make apparently POV changes. Some of it is obvious even to me, but the details are beyond my knowledge or interest. Anyway, if you happen to add them to your watchlist that'd be swell. Cheers, -Willmcw 20:41, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately my knowledge here is close to none. mikka (t) 20:55, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
That makes two of us. Thanks anyway. Cheers, -Willmcw 21:15, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Feces

I have linked the human poop image instead of having it openly displayed on the article. Please look over the article now and let me know if the new revision is to your liking. --Ardonik.talk()* 00:39, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Greek films

Some Greek films (well, one that I know of: Zorba the Greek) are in English, and some (again, one that I known of: Z) are in French — but when I created this category I checked others of the same form, and saw that they used the language-based parent category (presumably to avoid having two categories, one very small). It's a compromise, but I think that it works. I'll add a proviso to the category page, though. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:56, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

clean up of slow company

I did some cleanup of slow company. If you believe that more cleanup is needed, then would you please decribe what is still needed on the talk page? WpZurp 17:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Something that might interest you

Hi. I've listed this image (Victim of Lenin's Famine.jpg) on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. I don't know if you've seen the image before, but you might want to have a look and vote. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 08:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

My mistake

Re: [17] Yes, it meant only tag removal. Thanks for fixing my mistake. 172 | Talk 18:56, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Dab style

Mikklai, I restored the formatting on Jerk (disambiguation) and explained why in the Talk page. This better conforms to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), though I admit I'm not sure how to handle the "clean and jerk" definition on the page. I originally decided that it didn't hurt to leave it; I prefer to leave it, but it would not bother me if you wanted to remove it. - grubber 15:14, 2005 July 28 (UTC)

Sun Ming Ming VfD

Hi. I follow Chinese basketball, and I can assure you that, irrespective of the other articles submitted by the same user, Sun Ming Ming is real and notable. I've added some external links to the article that show this. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 18:10, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Domeyko

Of what importance is this link [18] for the Domeyko article? its two times shorter then the whole article (on wikipedia), so why do you restore it?--Witkacy 21:40, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Poza "nowymi" informacjami ktore mozna zmiescic w jednym zdaniu, niema na tej stronie zadnych rewelacyjnych informacji o Domeyce. Wiec poza reklama strony litewskiej, ktora nie zajmuje sie tematyka zycia Domeyki, nic ona nie wnosi i jest zbedna.--Witkacy 23:49, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Tak na marginesie, fajnie pisac do kogos nie pochodzacego z Polski po polsku, nie meczac jezyka anglosaska gadanina ;)--Witkacy 23:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Alexandras

Please kindly check Alexandra Romanova - welcome to comment. 217.140.193.123 00:32, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey Mikka, thank you for keeping my talk page clean. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:22, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Ossetian pages

Please! Don't revert any changes without reading discussion pages! And please, leave explanation for your actions. That pages about history and not about game playing! In history first of all Null Information is better than False Information.

I reverted your unexplained deletion of a piece of text. mikka (t) 16:29, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Ok! Thanks for extending information to acceptable level!

Polish barnstar

I, Halibutt, present you this barnstar of national merit for your valuable input into Poland-related articles and positive thought in the plethora of discussions you took part in. Also, for the common sense you preserve in discussions on topics related the the Republic of Both Nqations. Halibutt 14:20, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Translation

Could you please help translating Russian phrase: "na podstupah k ...." into English? --Ttyre 19:50, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you... it referred to a city. --Ttyre 20:26, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Bhadani's father

Back in late April, Bhadani joined WP; the first article he created was one about his late father Hariram. He very quickly learned about the criteria for notability, and agreed with me when I told him it would qualify as a speedy delete; the deletion log says that you're the admin who removed it from the namespace. It occurred to me this morning that the page could be undeleted and placed as a subset of his userpage, with a little note explaining about how this was the very first article he ever created, and a link to User:Bhadani/Hariram. I mentioned this on his talk page, and he tells me (via my talk page) that he'd be very happy if this could be done.

Can it? Possibly with the photo as well?DS 15:15, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Life is a flow

Dear Mikkalai, I express my “Double” thanks to you, First, for deleting the article (Hariram) about my late father and saving me from the embarrassment of an open discussion: you may have noticed that I had removed the picture of my parents just before the decision was taken to delete the article. And, I thank you now for gifting me back the article, sure inside the wikipedia, but at an appropriate place. We all know life is a flow and one must flow with it, not drift. I discovered wikipedia about four months before, when I was on a vacation, and found the community of wikipedians really nice. Wikipedia has given me a wide and open window to express me and participate in the team work of building an online encyclopedia. I thank you again. --Bhadani 16:55, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Hero of Belarus

Thank you for defending me and my article on the article's talk page. I owe you one. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 17:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

The talk page has seemed to die down, though there was opposition of posting the article on the talk page due to Belarus persecuting the Poles. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 20:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#.5B.5BUser:Chosen_One.5D.5D

Could you comment on this? Thanks. --Dmcdevit·t 20:26, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

My replies are posted to the above link. I still need to see what made you think I was a joker. Also some relevant information on my talk page, where I respond to User:Tabor. Chosen One 22:26, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
In response to your HP-link-at-Harry-Potter-fandom question, refer to [19], section "Publicity". Chosen One 00:33, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Rayok

You recently reverted my change to Rayok. I had removed non-relevant link. If you look at peep show, you'll see it's a disambiguation page. There are actually multiple movies, videos/shorts, comics, and other things that use this name. Also, a "peep show" can be a number of different things. Many other articles link to "peep show" to mean exclusively "sex show". Others use it in the broader (literal) sense. If you want the text "peep show" to link to an article, you should find an appropriate article, or create one. Generally, there should not be links to disambiguation pages. --rob 05:27, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Please go to peep show and click "What links here". Then, please fix the remaining bad links. When making a fundamental change the content of an article (to actually change what it's about), it's always good to check what links to the article, to ensure all links are relevant. Thanks. --rob 10:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for reminding. mikka (t) 15:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Blocked user

A couple of days ago, you blocked User:Chosen One, User:Albus Dumbledore, and User:Draco Malfoy for trolling, then later unblocked Chosen One at my and his request. Now Draco Malfoy has asked on his talk page to be unblocked, insisting that he really intends to stop fooling around and start creating an encyclopedia with us. Now, I'm not vouching for him in any way, but perhaps you could contact him on his talk page and see what he says. Hermione1980 16:43, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Archaeological cultures

I saw your comments at Kurgan. Thanks. You are free to Russify a whole slew of articles I've created/revised, but especially Maykop culture (just now), Sredny Stog culture, Khvalynsk culture, Srubna culture et al. You'll find them in category:EEIC or in category:archaeological cultures. --FourthAve 04:18, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Homestead, Florida

Hi, I have a guy who's trying to add real estate spam and pov into this article. He's threatening to violate the 3rr rule. Would appreciate help and mediation. I may be in the wrong here. Thanks.--Muchosucko 20:40, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism of Category:Russian films

Your continued vandalism of the above-named category has been reported at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts. You have been warned about this by several users trying to clean up this category and move films made in/by the Soviet Union to their proper category, Category:Soviet films, but you continue to revert them inappropriately to the category reserved for the films of the nation of Russia. This appears to be a deliberate, unilateral attempt to overrule common sense and concensus on the purposes of the two categories. 12.73.201.63 00:10, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

You are continuing to ignore the talk at Category talk:Russian films. mikka (t) 00:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Minor edits

Hi there, Mikkalai! Thanks for pointing that out to me. I've never even read Wikipedia's defenition of a minor edit :). I've always thought that a minor edit could be either a typo or a few new sentences. From now on, I'll consider my new edits as "major". D*mn, I wanted to checkmark "minor edit" while saving your talk page :). Cheers! KNewman 21:55, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Your reversion and aversion to Freenet

Hello, please don't take it personally, but i have reverted your removal of the Freenet links. I've never seen any policy of Wikipedia that stated that only World Wide Web articles can be reffenced. If your argument was that not all users have Freenet installed, than you also must go and remove any ISBN refferences, since not every person has ability to buy a particular book. If you wish to create a precident, rather than removing links one at the time i would suggest placing Template:Freenet links on vote for deletion or something, so that everybody can just talk it out rather than start revert wars.

Also please note that all the freesites that were addes were in fact relevant to the particular toppics, and thus can be useful to a person who is doing the research about a topic, if that person just happen to have an access to a freenode. Thank you for your time. Beta_M talk, |contrib (Ë-Mail)

This is just upsetting, i have written this and more on the page you have sent me to, but the software has eaten it... so it seems. Crap like that just makes me want to stop with the whole wiki thing... damn. Oh, well, i'll survive. Beta_M talk, |contrib (Ë-Mail)

Communist state

i noticed you recently made an RV on Communist state. if you could also revert the intro back to the pre-Dirk version (ie the one me and 172 had argued for on Talk for a while) i'd appreciate it, the current version is rather verbose and excessively wordy with all the "utopian phase" nonsense. J. Parker Stone 03:08, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Anarchism

That IP (217.172.180.35 (talk · contribs)) doing bizarre edits at Anarchism is most probably Hogeye (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), which has been blocked for a full month because of malicious editing. I found proof that that IP is an open proxy and blocked it indefinitely. --cesarb 03:10, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Lenin

Have you read the book on him by Robert Service --max rspct 19:13, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I will contribute to Penal labour .. Oh yeh u could move it if u feel the need using the 'move' tag. The Robert Service book is very good - It shows Lenin had no problem issuing decimation orders against villagers and much much more. Check out the Maxim Gorky page for some advice he gave him. If i could suggest another book (flawed but a great class analysis of 20cent bourgie revolutions: 'Two Hundred Pharoahs, Five Billion Slaves' by Adrian Peacock (get it on amazon) --max rspct 11/8/05

I agree with what you were saying on the Lenin talkpage. I think I mistook the other editor's comments for yours. My humblest apologies. I still recommend the books though. - regards -max rspct 16:44, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Khvalynsk and Samara cultures

See my comments at Talk:Khvalynsk culture. For the Khvalynsk culture, Mallory gives this ref:

  • Agapov, S.A., I.B. Vasilyev and V.I. Pestrikova (1990), Khvalynsky Eneolitichesky Mogilnik, Saratov, Saratov University.

disambig

You're welcome. This I have not heard of before. I always add other links to dab pages. I don't see why not. As always, those are still only guidelines, not rules. [[User:JonMoore|— —JonMoore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 22:19, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Жыве Беларусь!

Hello. I was wondering what word is that in English. Thanks. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

User:20040302/Atheism

Sure I agree! How?! (20040302)

Sure I agree! How! Maybe you should talk to User:Skyler1534 (20040302)

Disambiguation

I only now noticed the discussion going on a week ago at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), but I want you to know that if you ever revisit the issue, please drop me a note on my user talk page. I am in agreement that there should be no hard restriction against multiple wikilinks within a line. I find it appalling that there are people systematically going through Wikipedia removing links on disambiguation articles by citing the current guideline as absolute law. I think that boldfacing the primary term sufficiently distinguishes it from the rest of the line that there is no reason that other words within the line cannot be linked. —Lowellian (reply) 01:36, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

List of Jews

Thanks for fixing up my minor problems...by the time I got done moving all that stuff around I was so sick of it, I apparently didn't check thoroughly to make sure it all made sense.  :-p Tomer TALK 02:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Planar graph

Hi, it is unclear whether you are connecting Pontryagin with the topic of the section (Kuratowski's thm) or what is mentioned just before your addition (Robertson-Seymour thm). Please disambiguate it. Thanks. --Zero 00:29, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

My Belarusy

Sir, the page has been cleaned up. I was wondering if you wish to visit the article and see if there are still any problems with the article. Thanks. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 19:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Kaliningrad Oblast

Dear collegue, we need your help to bring Kaliningrad Oblast back to normalcy. See the talk page and edit history. --Ghirlandajo 19:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

A request

Perhaps you might be willing to restore the Wikiproject to this version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipedians_for_Decency&oldid=21575756? It's been protected due to bad faith edit warring, but it was protected to the wrong version (by accident?)

Thanks. Erwin Walsh

User:2004-12-29T22:45Z

Hi, Mikkalai. Excuse me. I just don't understand why all of a sudden my user page is marked with a blue wiki hyperlink and has content in it. When I look at the history of the page, it appears as if you had made two edits on June 2, and then another user is listed who supposedly made an edit in July. That's completely insane. What's wrong with the wiki? Is this a program error of MediaWiki? You never made such edits, and all of a sudden they appear on my user page's history and the user page isn't blank anymore. Something's wrong. There has to be a programming error or something, or someone replaced a totally different page with my page. I mean, am I nuts or is something really wrong with the wiki all of a sudden? 2004-12-29T22:45Z 04:18, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

I put a deletion tag on the user page, and it got deleted, but I don't know why it got filled with content and with a history list in the first place. That was really strange. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 13:43, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I had never realized that my user page had had content on it back in June and July, because in both cases the content was deleted immediately after the edits were made, so I never saw the blue hyperlinks on those two occasions. Thanks again for the explanation. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 16:42, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Ethnic cleansing

Mikkalai, I'm sorry I had to revert your edits on Ethnic cleansing. The paragraph you edited ("In pre-state Israel/Palestine, Arab armies...") is one that an anonymous user (which we like to call "Helen") keeps trying to add, for several months now, against the general consensus. We tried to reason with this anonymous user or find an alternate place for his/her radical opinion, but Helen just wouldn't listen. Your edits were fine; alas, that whole paragraph does not belong in that article. Owen× ☎ 21:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Republic of Luxembourg ?

Hello, I thought you might be interested in this although the discussion is a bit old now. - pir 01:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Catholic encyclopedia

I've noticed have made some contributions incorporating information from the Catholic encyclopedia into wikipedia. I've created a project page for the Catholic Encyclopedia as part of the Missing encyclopedic articles project to coordinate efforts and hopefully make the work easier. Reflex Reaction 14:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Dragons

Concerning your move of Zmey to Slavic dragon - please take a look at Zmeu and Balaur. Should we move them too? --Ghirlandajo 17:19, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Ukrainization

Need your opinion on the attempts of several users to delete the article on Ukrainization. Thanks. --Ghirlandajo 06:48, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Dolgoruki

Since you have participated in "Use English" talks, please visit Talk:Ekaterina Dolgorukova to contribute to the current poll. 217.140.193.123 06:10, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Winter War

The number of combatants at each side seems to be controversial. What I have at hand, cites that Finns had 250 000 at the beginning which rose to 270 000 during the war when new men were trained and equipped with captured material. Soviets started with 430 000-460 000 and reinforced them to 1 000 000 till the end of the war.

Another question seems to be the result of the war. You removed the "Pyrrhic" as a nonsense, but I disagree: The result of the war fulfills what can be considered as a "Pyrrhic". SU managed to gain territory in the following peace treaty, but military, political and internationally results made the net effect of the war very negative to Soviets. The only positive result from the war was that it opened Stalin's and STAVKA's eyes to the sorrow state of the army creating urgent need to reform the army. Although Finns managed to score number of tactical victories, the war wasn't militarily victorious to Finns because of territorial losses. Although SU gained land in the peace treaty, it cannot be said to be political victory to SU because it (and subsequent Soviet policy) forced Finns to search German support resulting Continuation War and threat to Leningrad. Also the poor showing of Red Army made Hitler underestimate Soviet military contributing to the beginning of operation Barbarossa. The war also discredited SU and communism not only in Finland but around the world making it harder for SU to make political and economical treaties. --Whiskey 09:09, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wisconsin transportation

Mikka...I see you've deleted the category. Can you also delete the talk page please? Thanks. Tomer TALK 22:17, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

thanks :-) Tomer TALK 22:29, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Druzhina

Hi Mikkalai, I saw that you deleted the redirect to Housecarl. IIRC, the Slavic lords used to have two companions riding with them, whereas the Scandinavians used to have about twelve housecarls on foot, a hird, which was called a druzhina in Kievan Rus'. I don't know whether there were any Slavic druzhinas prior to the arrival of the Varangians, and I'd love to see an article on Slavic druzhinas, but I have not got access to that kind of information. As it now stands, a redirect to housecarl is better than a red link.--Wiglaf 07:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't remember from where I got the information. If I had remembered it, I would have written about them ;-).--Wiglaf 15:39, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Anti-Romanianism

This new article is heavily POV. It seems like the name was invented specially for English WIki. Your comments on Talk:Anti-Romanianism are very welcome. --Ghirlandajo 20:11, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Urrutia

According to my tracert program, the IP address of our anonymous editor at Benjamin Urrutia traces back to the Chicago Public Library. During the VFD, I called Chicago directory assistance and asked for the number of Benjamin Urrutia. It is unlisted at owner's request, which means that he does indeed live in Chicago. I still stand by my comments defending the existence of the article during the VFD, but with these facts in mind, I think I'll be more in favor of slimming the article down. It seems to be largely the result of self-promotion. --goethean ॐ 21:57, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: Belarusophobia

See histories of List of Belarusians and List of Russians. mikka (t) 21:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I reverted List of Belarusians. I think you should ban this IP. --EugeneZelenko 01:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prime Number Shitting Bear

Mikkalai - did you forget that you'd voted stated an opinion on this one when you closed it? brenneman(t)(c) 03:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

And your point is...? mikka (t) 03:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Let me be more direct. To close an AfD in which you have participated smacks of bias. Your terse answer seems to indicate you think it is proper to do so. IS that in fact your opinion?
brenneman(t)(c) 07:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Next time please read the policies before jumping to conclusions. In this case let me save you some time and answer. Yes, the current policy is aware that it may smell (and may not), and such action is restricted and in some cases forbidden for non-admins. Actions of admins can be revised as well. My terse answer was just that: terse. Don't try to read betwen lines (some people may be with poor command of English rather than stupid or offensive) and please keep in mind that most people here work in their spare time, which may be scarse at times. mikka (t) 07:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

This (slightly uncivil) exchange could have been avoided if you'd simply found some other AfD to close, as there are plenty out there. Alternatively, you could have extended a bit more courtesy to me in the first instance. Good day to you, sir.
brenneman(t)(c) 07:37, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

There is a huge amount of clean-up. See top of User talk:Jimbo Wales about copyvio images cleanup. As for courtesy, please allow me to return an advise and ask you next time to state your concern more clearly. As I explained, some people (like me) are not at best terms with English and prefer not to read between lines. I am aware you were trying to be polite and to avoid bluntness, but I genuinely had no idea as to your inentions, although I suspected this had to do with the "conflict of interests". It is one thing to talk to a person you chat every day and who can read your mind. It is totally another kind of dialog with a complete stranger, most probably of different cultural background. mikka (t) 07:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm... Ok. I'm sorry. I took the second comment to mean that I was being stupid and/or offensive. Can we just both go back to doing what we were doing before with no hard feelings? Sorry to have wasted your time.
brenneman(t)(c) 07:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Done. mikka (t) 08:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Anti-P VfD

Thank-you for re-adding the tag. I don't want to be pushed to three reversions though I consider its removal vandalism. Watch for it again and please if you have anything to add by way of criticism beyond the juvenile crap now appearing on talk it would be helpful. Marskell 18:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Take a look here. Alx-pl D 19:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism threat

Hi. User:LevKamensky has issued a threat:

"So my suggestion is to delete all my contributions. And to abort my participation at Wikipidia. Otherwise I’ll come back with other Ips and haunt user:mikkalai, user:zoe and others, whose behavior I consider immoral according to my standards. I will vandalize every contribution that they make."

Please be aware that he may attack you or your edits. - Tεxτurε 22:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Taymyria

Hi Mikkalai. I noticed that on Taymyria, you added the bit about how it is also known as Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous District. I think I read somewhere that it was called Nganasan-Dolgan Autonomous District. Any thoughts on which one is right? --Hottentot

Baudouin de Courtenay

Done, hope you like it. BTW, his daughter had even more impressive name... :) Halibutt 09:19, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Hero of the Russian Federation

Can you and others help with the article? I want to get this up to Featured status. Zach (Sound Off) 07:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Śvislač

Is there any policy about toponymy namings? I doubt that average English reader know Belarusian łacinka... --EugeneZelenko 01:29, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Nu Draconis

For all but first-magnitude stars and a few exceptions for noteworthy or unusual stars (such as Algol, Polaris, Mira, etc), the Bayer designation is more commonly used in English than any traditional name. In many cases, the traditional names also pose problems of variant unstandardized spellings or variant names (Alphecca / Gemma), (Alkaid / Benetnasch). So generally the star name articles are at the Bayer designation title. -- Curps 07:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:Talkheader

Considering the fact that the tfd of Template:Talkheader got only speedy keep votes, would you object if I unlisted it? --fvw* 19:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

It just got rescued by a lone delete voter; never mind. --fvw* 19:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
So my vote does not count. How nice of you. mikka (t) 20:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
There's a whole pile of speedy keeps in between them, they're both lone delete votes. Or alternatively, yours is a lone delete nomination and his is a lone delete vote.
This speedy keep thingy seriously bothers me. It is so easy to astroturf a "speedy keep" in short time. At least 48 hours should be timed out for fair judgement. mikka (t) 20:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
As for pedantry, yes I am a proud Bureaucratic Fuck, and your edit summary sucks. mikka (t) 20:19, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RfC

I've removed your comment from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Snowspinner 2. If you'd like to comment on Radiant's proposal on the talk page or somewhere else, please do so. - brenneman(t)(c) 00:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

And I restored my comment. I have the same rights as others. Also I would suggest you read carefully what other people write before jumping at conclusions. mikka (t) 00:25, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I find it interesting that you're concerned with your "rights". I was trying to remind you of your responsibiities. No jumping took place.
brenneman(t)(c) 03:35, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
In a really nice way, by deleting my post as if I am a random vandal. Then, after I restored it, you moved it into the talk page while leaving other ones in place. I cannot help but suspect that you had an ulterior motive here. mikka (t) 03:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
  • If you'll examine this you'll see that I removed all non-cardinal comments to the talk page with three exceptions. In each case a user explained why they had changed their own text.
  • Your comment was the only one I did not place on the talk page. I came and invited you to put it on the talk page.
  • A corrosive "disendorsement" of an outside view is both uncivil and unhelpful. This is not a request for comment on the deletion system, nor on Radiant's proposal.
  • You may argue that by "opening the floor" he invited such commentary, which is why I noted "If you'd like to comment on Radiant's proposal on the talk page or somewhere else, please do so."
  • You've accused me of both "jumping at conclusions" and of having "an ulterior motive". Do you not find that ironic?

brenneman(t)(c) 05:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

You like to be right. So be it. <Plonk>. mikka (t) 05:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Your message on Monkbel's page

At the bottom of any edit window you have the "Insert" section, which should let you insert any character used for European languages (by clicking on it if your browser uses Javascript, or just cut-and-paste if it doesn't). -- Curps 15:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Systemwars.com

Hi. You voted to delete Systemwars.com and it was deleted. However, Tony Sidaway has decided that your vote and the consensus that agreed with you was insufficient. He has recreated the article in violation of policy and relisted it for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Systemwars.com (second version). Please take a look. - Tεxτurε 15:45, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Cfd closures

I am not trying to be rude, or "uptight" as you put it. A closed Cfd, is just that. There is no point in the discussion, much less further adding to it. You have commented on Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_deletion#category:institutions, and should voice your opinions there. If every user decided to changed closed discussions at their whim, there would not be an accurate history of closed discussions. I am going to revert your addition to the closed discussion one more time, and urge you to move your objections, comments and such to the talk page. Thank you. ∞Who?¿? 19:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Disagreed. Thank you. mikka (t) 19:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

inserting special characters in different skins

Take a look at what User:Func has done. He uses a different approach: see [[20]]. You might be able to use that with the skin of your choice, if that skin allows you to customize in a manner similar to monobook.js. -- Curps 21:02, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

russo-turkish wars

I do not know how Russions percieve the wars, but in reality all these wars are percieved as a single entity from Turkish History. I thought your view was the same when I saw the main page. Main page stated the same fact. Generally in Turkish books this section is given a cheapter and small sub-cheapters for each campain and battles. ((Accept Crimean war)). That is conceptually more integrating. At the end a story tries to give the relations between its components.--tommiks 18:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Somebody advised me to create War Series on this issue. I'm working to create a menu that will link each item. Just along this view, I do not see the need to keep one paragraf stories under some of these pages, especially disconnected from the perious and next ones :-).--tommiks 18:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

For the mention of discussions under these pages, There is only one page that is very extensive one that is the last one. Thanks for reminding for me. I will move that discusion under the main page.--tommiks 18:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

For that page, I have been on this only two hours, And I'm just copy thext so that others wont be lost. I DO NOT DELETE TEXT. I will add more info under that section, after I finish the task.

I will leave it to your hand it is not that important.

Thanks, I have hard time understanding how you concepts are organized. Because the smallest concept (as you claim) is battle, campaign or war in this issue. Your time sections (which you claim are the smallest concepts) which cover 30-60 years is not coherant niether from a "specific goal" that organizes all the campaings or battles, nor the battles you cluster together sometimes share the same region. I do not know the benefits of you are seeking. BUT that is o.k.

The fate of Bolsheviks would be a good example!!

Hey, I do see your point! Do not get me wrong. I was just doing something that has already being done in "textbooks". One good thing about Bolsheviks is that they dissolved without passing through the same path of Ottomans. If you explain each case (war, battle, etc) under its page, you can give more perspective. But current text with 10 periods is very baised against Ottomans. We can work on a single page that will be NPOV, and each section, depending on the time and parties, can be dealed seperately. If you break it into ten period pages, you will loose the increased flexibility. But that is fine.... There are good things and bad things how Bolsheviks approached the problems.

Linkspam

Thank you very, very much for tracking down and eliminating the recent linkspam from 195.209.85.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log). If you look at the history I went through Friday and eliminated literally hundreds of links left by this guy over the past couple of months. I warned him then, and I posted another warning to him tonight before discovering you have already removed his spam.

If he does it again, please post {subst:spam3} to his talk page. If he does it again after that, please let me know and I will block him give him spam4 and a block. Jdavidb (talk) 03:29, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

An Award
For your diligence in deleting linkspam, I award you this WikiMedal for Janitorial Services, along with my undying appreciation for helping to keep this place clean

Natalie Glebova

Image:WikiThanks.png Thank you for your contribution at Natalie Glebova.
Please keep it up!!! - P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

10 October 2005

Template:Russion-Ottoman_War_Series

A bunch of the articles linked from there were un-redirected by User:Tommiks. I saw you seemed to be moving around things with him and... well, I just wanted to point out that I re-redirected Battle of Chigirin and wanted to make sure you thought my course of action was proper. gren グレン 10:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Personal attack - thanks for your help

Hello, Mikkalai. This is just to thank you for this. I've seen worse attacks, so I would have been able to survive :-) I think, by the way, that this was the reason Mr or Mrs Anonymous was annoyed with me! Regards. Ann Heneghan (talk) 23:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Tanks

thanks for the notes! Can the discussion history around the article be erased? ZlatkoMinev 03:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

purity ring

Why would you delete an article about purity rings??

shrimp farm

Heya, while it's true that shrimp farm has been getting a lot of vandalism and newbie tests, this is pretty much par for the course for pages featured on the main page. Generally this isn't considered a bad thing, as these tests are often people's first step into getting aquainted with wikis. I've taken the liberty of unblocking, hope you don't mind. Don't worry, hundreds of watchlists are keeping an eye on this article. --fvw* 18:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I should have known this. I've seen this before. I don't open the main page much lately. mikka (t) 20:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Me neither, I just sort of guess based on what's getting lots of test edits ;-) --fvw* 20:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Korolyov

When I was moving him from Sergei Korolev to Korolyov (I checked how he is spelled in Britannica and the media first), I accidentally moved to Sergei Korolyov instead of Sergey Korolyov, as I beleive I should have done, and created a redirect from Sergey Korolyov to Sergei Korolyov on the way by accident. I think Sergey Korolyov is more correct but I cannot move the article there because an entry is occupied. This issue is trivial enough IMO, that it should not require a formal vote at WP:RM. Could you just delete the redirect at Sergey Korolyov yourself and move the article there? Or should I submit it to WP:RM despite the issue seems trivial? Thanks, --Irpen 02:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Please vote on list of lists, a featured list candidate

Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:38, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

commons:Image:Belarus solidarity16 banner.gif

I doubt that this image is PD. At least source site should say this explicitly. --EugeneZelenko 02:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Whatever. I don't really care much. I doubt that these guy bother about copyrights either. mikka (t) 16:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

lists of computer graphics and computational geometry topics

Hello, I noticed you added three lists List of combinatorial computational geometry topics, List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics and List of numerical computational geometry topics to List of lists of mathematical topics. They seem to be pretty short and overlap a lot, would you agreee to combine them into one big list with sections (I can do it)? Probably List of computational topics in geometry and graphics. I think it would be easier for both readers and editors. Samohyl Jan 06:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

ROSTA

Hello, I just wanted to commend you on your excellent choice to add to the ROSTA article, that's a great illustration of agitprop -- but I'm very interested to know what the Russian text says. Any chance you (or someone you know) could provide an english translation in the caption for that image? That would be even more excellent. :) Eaglizard 13:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, just superb! Your transliteration itself is exemplary, and really captures the spirit of the subject (imho). Hurry up and join the strike team of exemplary labor, indeed! Could we propose that as a slogan for new editors? <smile> Also, your notes are very insightful and useful. Thanks for making Wikipedia more wonderful! Eaglizard 17:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Not all agree with you <frown>. mikka (t) 04:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Wendish dragon

One more article about Slavic dragons... How many national dragons do we need? --Ghirlandajo 14:23, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

-phobia

Why did you remove all of my additions to the article -phobia? — JIP | Talk 21:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

интеллигенция

Are you sure that the term intelligentsia "is a borrowing from Russian language", not from Polish "inteligencja" ? I thought it was brought to the West by Great Emigration after the November Uprising and later, in course of the Spring of Nations ... --Wojsyl (talk) 07:18, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

All the etymologic dictionaries I was able to consult cite it as a Russian word. Ir entered English first in a negative context associated with the revolutionary activities of the so-called nihilists. If borrowed from Polish, it would be inteligencja not intelligetsia, of course. --Ghirlandajo 14:29, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Pan-Slavic colours

The flags of Poland, Bulgaria, Yamalia, Taymyria, Evenkia and whatnot are now listed as having pan-Slavic colours. Do you think it's alright? --Ghirlandajo 14:29, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

World Trade Center/Plane Crash

You deleted this article in Sept due to invalid chars in the title. It contained the original entries made on Sept 11th about the Sept 11th attacks. As a result, the earliest entries now accessible in WP are those of December 2001 on September 11, 2001 attacks, which are mostly links to now deleted pages. So, we cannot see historical info about how people thought of the attacks when they first occurred.

It is also part of WP history, since WP was created in 2001 and the Sept 11 attacks are one of the main events of 2001. Right now, anyone researching 2001 on WP could not determine if an entry was made about the attacks at the time they occurred. (It was, within approx 1hr of the first plane crash, and the content, as I recall it, reflects the dawning reality that they were terrorist attacks)

I think historical reference should take precendence over syntax considerations in the case of this specific article. I notice on your user page you log the history of your own contributions to WP - as I have on mine, so you have an appreciation for WP history.

As a solution, I propose that either the entries are moved into the history of the regular Sept 11th article, or that the deleted article is restored. I first viewed World Trade Center/Plane Attacks in Oct 2004, but I cannot recall the link I followed to reach the article, it might have been via some discussion, or via a search. There is no obvious link, so moving the entries to the standard page might be a good overall solution.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks much for promptly restoring it (oops!, I didn't sign original above) - Rye1967 20:34, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Humor

So how do I safely do humorous things on Wikipedia? In other words, how do I without breaking policies? --Shultz 21:51, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Allow me to answer that: http://uncyclopedia.org/ --MarkSweep (call me collect) 06:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Debate Page

A link was added in the debate page, and you reverted it. (Link was High School Debating Forums) Explanation. TDS 20:17, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Notability, relevance. WP:NOT: wikipedia is not a link farm. The site has absolutely no encyclopedic info. mikka (t) 20:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Explanation noted. Just trying to learn my ways around here :) Thanks mikkalai TDS 20:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
      • Created a page for High School Debating Forums - going to go ahead and put it back on Debate. If that's not okay with you, drop me a line on my talk page. - TDS (talk) 22:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
        • I posted on the VFD on HSDF in support, because after all I am just a hapless noob =) I guess it is not too notable. Please read the comments I posted though. TDS (talk • contribs) 04:56, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

-phobia

I'd turned them into redirects because that was the consensus on WP:RFD. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 02:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Lusophobia

I'm writing an article on this now. Lusophobia is used in English, though not as much as Lusofobia in Portuguese, particularly in a Brazilian context - I will do a Portuguese language version of my article after I complete the one in English.

Quiensabe 20:47 UTC 2005-10-30

St. Volodymyr's Cathedral

Please check the history and talk of this article. I reported the behaviour at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Repeated_wholesale_removal_of_info_from_St._Volodymyr.27s_Cathedral too. The problem is that vandal is inventive to avoid 3RR by making small modification each time. Should he be blocked? --Irpen 06:11, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. May I ask that you to keep an eye on the article. 3RR rule needs modified to accomodate the sleeky small changes, I think. --Irpen 06:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Maryam Rajavi page

Dear Mikkalai,

how are you? Do you have some tools to block IP addresses from editing pages? I think that this possibility should be created and used. For example, two most recent edits of the Maryam Rajavi page were from islamic fundamentalists connected as generic anonymous IP addresses - the first erased the page completely and the second one wrote that she is an anti-Iran terrorist. ;-) I believe that this semi-locked status would help at many other places, too. All the best, Lubos --Lumidek 14:19, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I understand you can block IP addresses. What I meant was to block all IP addresses for a given article. Tx, Lubos --Lumidek 18:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Links to disambiguation page

Dear Mikkalai, as far as I know, links to disambiguation pages are discauraged. It's advised to link the appropriate articles directly. (See, for instance, Template:Disambig). Why did you reverted my corrections?--AndriyK 09:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Btw, your Russian friends are so buisy removing Belarusian apelling from Smolensk article. Why don't you help them? ;) --AndriyK 09:19, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

List of Masons

You'll have to decide for yourself the character of the page I recommended and Lightbringer dis-recommended. After all, there's no particular reason you should care what I have to say. :-) --SarekOfVulcan 17:31, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

P.S. -- mind if I swipe your new comment link?

revert wars and vandalism

Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Andrew_Alexander and Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Repeated_wholesale_removal_of_info_from_St._Volodymyr.27s_Cathedral. This attack of Ukrainian nationalist is getting on the nerves. --Irpen 17:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Irpen 21:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


Nice edit on Slavic peoples

I couldn't put it better myself. 72.144.68.54 02:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Learningly challanged :-)

For your question of "Why am I using Easytimeline?"; I have problem in text, basicly I'm challanged. I'm dyslexic and it is easier to understand things in graphics for me, there are %16.76 of American public school studnets that is same as me. I would like to learn your country's stats on this very very important issue. May be, I hope, that it will give you an understanding what I'm doing. During that time, I will create a seperate page, and link it under the main page for you to develop your text based timeline. Hope this will make you happy. If not, there is a another method, I can develop this page with a different name and give the rest to you.--tommiks 15:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

4 U there is no need to inject text that is already in the page. I told you before, A PAGE of RUSSION EXPENSIONISM is no issue for me to fight on. I belive its consequences are more dire for the people who fall into its propaganda, and then lived its consequences. And remember! Ottomans let these people live their culture, all the governers for sanjaks were originating from them. If they were unhappy, a big chunck of its their own missery. Just read the pages under the wikipedia, and you 'll see how they react towards the "House of Ottoman". It is sad that they ignore 300 years of their own life, just to deny improvements gained by Ottoman period. There are european states, even today, that do reject the Turkey's demand to produce index of Ottoman Cultural Heritage.--tommiks 15:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Mikkalai you are an IRREDENTIST and CHAUVINIST Communist ANTI-ROMANIAN plus ANTI-SEMIT VANDAL!!!!!

you want to change the borders of Romania and Moldova, you all the time come and delete the lines of Romania in Moldova site. For your knowledge in Moldova are living Romanians in case you didn't know you KGB activist and communist! you are an IRREDENTIST and russian gay and spy! go to change your site not that of Romania and Moldova you fucking eye-glass!

VANDAL is Mikkalai, YOU ARE AN ANTI-ROMANIAN ANTI-SEMITISM VANDAL!!!!!

MIKKALAI YOU ARE AN ANTI-ROMANIAN VANDAL STOP NOW! YOUR FACE IS IS LIKE A KGB SPY! WHY ARE YOU EDITING LIKE AN ANTI-ROMANIAN? YOU ARE A POLISH KGB! IT IS NOT GOOD TO BE ANTI-ROMANIAN! ROMANIA IS GREAT; ROMANIA WILL WIN!

Being so anti-romanian and anti-semit is not good for your helth Mikkalai mikka. Good to see your picture mikka you are now in the database of the activists of the anti-romanian order. You will pay for all.


mikka (t) 19:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Mikkalai, you may want to sign on to Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/86.105.71.34. This appears to be one of the sockpuppet IDs of the same person. -- Jmabel | Talk 17:46, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Atharis

Why did you leave merge notices to merge Atharis with Asharite? Sunni Islam makes it clear that these two are alternative movements in Islam, not synonyms. I didn't find any Athari material in Asharite after Yuber redirected Atharis to Asharite. Art LaPella 01:13, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. My weak eyes. Confused "Ashari" and "Athari". mikka (t) 03:14, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the correction. Art LaPella 03:33, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

liberal vs strict interpretation of 3RR

Hi, in case you missed, I would like to draw your attention to the recent discussions at User_talk:AndriyK#User_blocked followed up at User_talk:Robchurch#3RR. The latter link is an interesting policy debate. I thought you might be interested. --Irpen 18:45, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Japanese cruiser Kuma

I'm confused. Why do you think that Japanese cruiser Kuma is not a historical article? User:Caerwine seems to agree that military ships are historical (see his edits of Agano class). Neier 22:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Dechronification

Hi. I thought you forgot about the article. How did you remember to go back to Dechronification? Also, I've seen you around before. How do you keep "following" me everywhere, and have enough time to remember an insignificant user like me, even though you have many other articles and users to take care of?

Dechronification is also fully endorsed by Ray Kurzweil, and "Death Is An Outrage" (essay/article on aging and dechronifying) is found at http://www.kurzweilai.net, which is one of Ray's sites. See how notable Ray is? Please, read about him.

Thanks.

--Shultz 21:08, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

  • He noticed because most of your contributions seem to be nonsense, misinformation and general sillyness. SchmuckyTheCat 00:58, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia usage and editing embodies a new "paradigm of internet usage" for me. I haven't actually edited in a Wiki before so since I'm just learning the ropes on so many aspects of this, I'm "immature" in this field. Just like I was immature in the chatrooms a long time ago, and I'd make remarks that got me in trouble, but I've matured in that aspect since then. Don't worry, I'll soon grow out of it. I trip as I go along, but I learn as I go along also by learning where not to step over next time so I don't trip again. --Shultz 03:41, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia then. Don't be alarmed or insulted of other folks watch your contributions while you learn the ropes and mature to our community. SchmuckyTheCat 21:53, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Ukrainian SSR

Please explain, if you don't mind, at talk:Ukrainian SSR why you called the text you removed as a "POVish and irrelevant derogation". It was derogation of who or of what? And how was that irrelevant? Thanks, --Irpen 02:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Response to Copyright Warning

In response to your warning about my inappropriate use of a copyrighted image: I apoligize I was under the impression that the website I had taken the image from had a free for use for any purpose policy, one of your colleagues has already informed me I was mistaken. I will be sure to be more careful when uploading images in the future.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg (talk) 08:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Russophobia

Could you look on the page ? Right now it makes even Partitions of Poland seem a reaction to Russophobia :) Not to mention it doesn't seem to source any of the various serious claims. It also lists Serbs, Orthodox religion etc.Both of which fit into other articles (leaving aside if they are true or not). --Molobo 16:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Explanation

Hi Mikkalai,

Now that the AfD squabble is thankfully behind us (at least for now), I would like, with your permission, to try once again to explain my reasons directly to you, in a friendly, non-hostile, non-sarcastic way (if at all possible), hoping that you will want to give them some serious consideration.

First of all, I have to clarify that my primary concern was not -- believe it or not -- the preservation of the List of country names in various languages, but rather of the other lists you had initially included in your AfD (quoting from your original AfD: "This also concerns List of European regions with alternative names, List of European cities with alternative names, List of European rivers with alternative names, and others."). While these additional referenced lists were removed from the AfD by Halibutt on 2 November 2005, my focus remained on those. Why I was primarily concerned about those other lists will hopefully become clear in the paragraphs below.

Let me begin with an example, which may at first seem extraneous, but is in fact extremely germane. Suppose you wanted to know the etymology of the English word algebra. What would you do? You would of course look it up in an etymological dictionary. That is precisely what an etymological dictionary is for: to answer that kind of question. You would find that it is a word of Arabic origin. However, suppose your question was not "What is the etymology of algebra?", but rather "What words are there in English that have an Arabic origin?", a very, very different question. At this point, you will agree, an etymological dictionary would be of little use. What you need is a list. Sure enough, the Wikipedia does have precisely such a list: the List of English words of Arabic origin. (There are also a List of English words of Sanskrit origin, a List of English words of Portuguese origin, and possibly others.)

I suspect you are beginning to catch my drift. Why is it useful to have such lists as Names of European cities in different languages, List of European rivers with alternative names, List of European regions with alternative names, and others? Precisely because it is extremely unusual, in the universe of all city names, river names, region names, etc., in the entire world, for these to have such multiple names (exactly in the same way as it is unusual for English words to be of Arabic origin). You don't believe me? Consider the map of any country, Britain, for example. While London has a variety of names in foreign languages, there are thousands of place names such as Acton, Brixton, Croydon, Kilburn, Luton, Paddington, Tottenham, and so on, that don't. While Cornwall has a variety of interesting names in foreign languages, most English counties don't, e.g. Essex, Middlesex, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and so on. Ditto for river names. And it would be exactly the same if you considered the map of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, you name it.

In order to use a dictionary (such as the Wiktionary) to find the foreign-language forms, you would have to know a priori which forms to look for, i.e., you would have to know already which place names have foreign-language forms. But how can you know that in advance? In other words, the purpose of these lists is to answer questions such as: "What European cities have alternate forms in foreign languages?", "What European rivers have alternate forms in foreign languages?", "What European regions have alternate forms in foreign languages?", etc. These are all very different questions than "What names does Paddington have in foreign languages, if any?" (which you can look up in the Wiktionary), but those are precisely the questions that linguists, historians, toponymists ask. Why? Because the fact that a city has a multiplicity of foreign-language forms has great historical and linguistic implications, and it is the responsibility of the linguist, the historian, and the toponymist to study the reasons why that happened.

Unfortunately, these lists have been abused in a way. They have become very long and they now include place names with, say, just the standard form plus maybe one local dialect form, or the Latin name, or something like that. Those examples are clearly not as interesting. However, if you scan through the lists, you will immediately observe which names have a great variety of forms and focus on those for your analysis.

The case of List of country names in various languages is somewhat different, because now virtually every country in the world is included in that list. But that was not the case when that list was started. When the list was started, it did not include tiny states such as Andorra or San Marino, or new country names, such as Zambia or Zimbabwe. It included primarily old European countries, whose variety of foreign-language names is truly staggering and very hard to explain or make sense of, even for the most proficient language historian (just consider the foreign-language names of countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and several others). Then, users kept adding and adding. And how can you draw the line and say: "No, don't put Andorra in there, because it is not very interesting"? You can't. But, again, the list is useful, because, with a little patience, you can still identify the most interesting cases, in the sense that I have explained above.

In conclusion, my main point is: These lists answer a completely different type of questions than the ones that are answered by dictionaries, such as the Wiktionary. I hope I have explained my reasons for opposing the deletion of all those lists. I suspect that precisely the same reasons were in the minds of all the other users who voted to keep them, whether they were prompted to do so by me, or not (as I repeat, at least eight or nine of the keep votes were from people I had never heard of, and had not contacted).

Thank you very much. Pasquale 20:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Детский фольклор

Привет! Я тут вспомнил, что в русском юморе есть такое направление, как детская страшилка. Что-то типа:

Девочка как-то купаться пошла. В среду нырнула, в субботу всплыла

Я спросил у сантехника Петрова: "Почему у вас на шее провод?" Но Петров ничего не отвечает. Только ботами тихонько качает.

И ещё кое-что о национальных стереотипах:

Недавно на корейский язык была переведена повесть Тургенева "Муму". В корейском переводе название книга звучит "Ням-ням". --Untifler 08:41, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

John Blenkinsop

Apologies for disagreement over railway locomotive.

According to the Encylopaedia Britannica online John Blenkinsop was the inventor of the first succesful locomotive.

I beleive there should be some emphasis on this.

Thanks

Dehydration

I'm not sure that just pointing that paragraph to Drying was an improvement, especially since Drying doesn't yet exist. Drying (food) exists, but that paragraph talks about more than just food. --Syrthiss 21:14, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

lol ok. My apologies :) --Syrthiss 21:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Fascism in Russia

Mikka, I didn't think enough and f..ed up the page moves. I first wanted to move Fascism in RU to Nationalism in RU and later realized it was a bad idea. Afterwards, I was moving it back but accidentally moved to it Fascism in Russia in Russia nonsense name. Now it can't be moved to the original name. Could you please delete Fascism in Russia redirect and move this article back to its place. Sorry for not being careful enough. --Irpen 04:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

John Blenkinsop

I don't understand why you removed the link to the encylopaedia Brittanica which adds credibilty to the page?

And alo is you are going to revert edits please have the courtesy to expain why. Otherwise it just comes accross as arrogant. --195.93.21.4 21:52, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Please get yorself a name, if you want to talk or use the artile talk page, Talk:John Blenkinsop.mikka (t) 21:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:Freddy

I don't understand what you mean. Could you further elaborate your point? -- Jerry Crimson Mann 16:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't mean to claim any kudos, mind you, and I don't like your tone which sounds like laying a blame on me. I'm not a newbie, but I'm not too sure in creating new pages for ambiguous items. Then tell me the most appropriate way to do so. Originally I would just hope to create a disambig page for better sorting, but never realised I would be slammed like a criminal thanks to my contribution. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 09:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Ce inseamna asta?

De ce ma-ti blocat? Pe cine am insultat eu? Pe dracul ala de om scarbos care spune minciuni despre neamul nostru? Si ce mare lucru i-am spus? Ca un edit de al meu este egal cu 10,000 de al lui? Asta este insultare? Pai uite ce porcarii spune el! Plus ca ma-ti amenintat ca daca repet din nou, ma blocati indefinitiv. Aveti voie sa faceti asa ceva, asa cum vreti dvs?

Eu nu va inteleg. Ori sunteti cu dracii aia de rusi, ori cu noi. --Anittas 21:50, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Mikka, I don't know how good your Romanian is, so I'll provide a basic summary. Anittas is asking why you blocked him, blah blah blah... what he did wrong... was it that he said this or that... is that really an insult... blah blah blah... more etc etc. --Node 10:26, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Nici eu nu va inteleg. Nu aveti dreptul! Bonaparte  talk & contribs

Moldovan vs. Romanian

Look at the history of Moldovan language. It started out as a redirect to Romanian language. Why? BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME LANGUAGE. It started out as a redirect, and it should've stayed as a redirect. Preacher King of Mao 22:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Please don't engage abruptly into things you evidently don't understand. mikka (t) 23:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
There's a revert war going on. One of the versions is POV, one is factionally inaccurate. The entire thing would be better off as a redirect. - Kookykman|(t)(c)
Don't make it a redirect because it removes people's work? So if somebody created an article that stated that 2 + 2 = 22, and hundreds of people worked on it, and contributed to it for 2 years, and I came along and put it up for speedy delete, we should keep it because dozens of people worked on it? Besides, the information is still there if they care to check the history. Preacher King of Mao 23:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Are you planning to respond, Mikka? You've made other edits to your user talk page recenty. - Kookykman|(t)e
No. Sorry, this is not a chat board, to discuss various "if somebody...". As an advice to a relatively new editor, please don't meddle with heated discussions about things you have only vague knowledge, unless you are contributing solidly backed facts or fixing typos. mikka (t) 02:48, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Administrator abuse?

Hi Mikka. I don't know if you know me all that well - I'm an administrator at the Romanian Wikipedia, and I've been involved with negotiations at the Moldovan Wikipedia concerning its future. I must say I am a bit concerned at your use of blocking to stop an edit war. Now I know that Anittas, Bonaparte, etc, did act in a bad and quite incivil manner, but I think a lot of your actions and Node's actions were quite ignorant (i.e. multiple reverts despite constructive edits) and often provoked a lot of the outbursts. I have also found no reasons on a public log or anywhere regarding your block. Does en.wikipedia not have a structure for that? Because at ro.wiki, blocks are only done in the case of pure repeated vandalism or persisently-false and tendentious information after multiple warnings. We have a user who has defaced a page with propaganda 10 times, and is still not blocked. Rather, his pages were reverted and he was talked to in a civil manner. He has since stopped. That is because, at least in my opinion, blocks are quite draconian. They represent everything Wikipedia isn't - repression of the opposition, hierarchy, etc. So, I'd just like to say - and don't take me in the wrong way - I think it's time to calm down a bit, be a bit more understanding and work together in constructive dialogue. Additionally, I feel that your use of blocks borders on un-neutrality, because you're involved too sigificantly in the argument. A more neutral thing to do would've been to call in a neutral administrator to decide the "guilt" of those accused of vandalism, and apply a block. The reason I'm angry is because I get the feeling that there is some sort of cover-up going on, at least that's the perception. The Moldovan language article had no dispute/NPOV tags on it, people were blocked silently, etc. The Moldovan language page needs both the disputed and the NPOV tag on it before all these significant disputes are solved. Ronline 05:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Ronline, the reason was ad hominem attacks. After he warned them once, they did not stop. So, he blocked them for one day each. After that, Anittas just says some minor things so he's not blocked again, but Bonaparte came up with this whole long infringement of my personal discretion and posted it, and after that said some very nasty things aswell, and thus Mikka banned him for 1 week. None of these blockings were, to my knowledge, for edits to the actual article -- only to the talkpage. However, I think Anittas may've been blocked earlier for some sort of violation. And he has a relatively recent history with 3rr too. --Node 10:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
You think wrong. I've never been blocked before. And I was blocked for saying that one of my edits is worth 10,000 of your edits - or something like that. Mikka said on my talkpage that his "blocking has nothing to do with justice; it is an action to put the fire down". Personally, I think you're a vandal and should be banned from Wiki - for all eternity. --Anittas 12:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt

Thanks for your vote of support for Halibutt. Could you perhaps address the statement by Ghirlandajo, who is accusing Halibutt of strong pro-Polish and anti-Russian bias? It would certainly add a more legitimacy to Halibutt's position if Ghirlandajo would be moderated by somebody who is not Polish (like me or Halibutt). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:03, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Nice. Piotrus, you may chose your favourite tactic and unblock Molobo for the umpteenths time, and she/he will moderate me and a bunch of other Russian editors ;) --Ghirlandajo 23:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Holodomor

Please check Holodomor. I could do that myself, but I am too tired now. Some of the recent changes are actually incorporatable, so it is not a matter of simple revert but needs a little work. Can't do now. Also, do you check you email ever? If so, please drop me a note from an account that you read, at least occasionally. Cheers, --Irpen 07:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you aware of how many times you have reverted the Holodomor article within last 24h ? Almost all your edits there are only reverts. What's happening to you ? --Wojsyl (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

List of Eastern European surnames

Why such a page exists? IMHO it's another example of Wikilistomania. There are tens or hundreds thousands Eastern European surnames. What's the point? --Ghirlandajo 07:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Missing image

Hi there - in working on the Pregnancy article, I noticed that you removed the link to

Image:Pregnant mermaid.jpg
A pregnant woman, close to term, takes a swim

, saying that it was missing. It is, indeed, missing, and I'm trying to figure out where it has gone and why. Do you have any insight? Thanks! Trollderella 17:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

It was not my file, but I recall the source, as I edited it. It was licensed correctly iir. Is there a log of image deletion so that I could track down who deleted it? Thanks, Trollderella 17:32, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Those guidelines are pretty damn hard to find. Has anyone ever thought of puting them somewhere they would be seen, like, oh, I don't know, the file upload page?! Also, are you serious that any image that does not have the right for commercial use is to be deleted? Trollderella 00:23, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
The dropdown is a list of some of the acceptable licenses (though not all of them), and some that are not acceptable. It's certainly not helpful in discerning which ones are allowed. I don't think that a link to the page explaining which licenses are allowed is unreasonable. It has never been the case previously that all images need to be compliant with the GFDL - there are hundreds of 'fair use' images for example. That's beside the point though - a link, explaining which licenses are allowed, or adding all the ones that are allowed, and removing the ones that are not from the drop down, would be good. Trollderella 21:40, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Wholesale reversion

Hi Mikka,

I did not revert the page wholesale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moldovan_language&diff=28651797&oldid=28599432

Everything I removed was for a reason. I felt that the words changed by Vxkmai were incorrect in many cases or at the very least unnessecary ("compulsory subjects" and "required subjects" are the same thing, for example); I felt that the parallel texts were misleading (as Christopher Sundita explained, texts to show examples of differences vary greatly in the number of actual differences, and can be chosen to manipulate the opinion); and the part about Grigore Ureche was alrdeady in the article at a later point (now it's duplicated) in a less POV way.

The only revision that was perhaps not nessecary was the removal of the map, although I personally don't think it should be there.

--Node 21:51, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Mikka, I'll list my objections to the currentversion one by one.
  • Also -> formerly -- Vxkmai's replacement of "also" with "formerly" mirrors similar text used often in Romanian sources about Moldovan topics. They similarly say that Micea Snegur is sometimes "incorrectly" known as Mircha. The truth is, many current sources still refer to "Moldavian". The only difference is, it's not the most popular term anymore. "Formerly" implies that people stopped using it altogether.
  • "Presently the Moldovan language...Romanian" -> "Moldovan...Romanian, the official language of Romania" -- I'm not sure what goal the "presently" achieves, and I think it's important to emphasise that we're talking about two official languages here.
  • Letopiseatzul section -- Currentversion says "established that... _are_ essentially the same language". In the older version, it said "established that... _dialects of the time were_ essentially the same language". This seems important, because a 300-year-old source cannot comment on the modern situation.
  • "As concerning the education" -> "Concerning education" -- the former is awkwardly worded and does not sound like good English. It doesn't change the meaning, but it does sound much more natural in my way.
  • "seminary of chishinau" -> "chisinau seminary" -- same thing. It seems a more natural way to say the same thing.
  • "is" -> "was" -- this is talking about a condition that was in the past, not the present.
  • "Russian government forbid" -> "Russian imperial government forbade" -- that's just plain bad grammar. "forbade" is the past tense of "forbid". I think "imperial" is nessecary to distinguish it from the Soviet government of later times.
  • "tsar" -> "tzar" -- normal English spelling practices
  • "ukraine" -> "the Ukraine" -- in English, there are some placenames that are supposed to have "the" in front, as in "the Sudan", "the Lebanon" (not used so much anymore), "the Ukraine"...
  • "the migration of the population, including" -> "all this back and forth motion, along with" -- The original phrase ("back and forth motion") was referring to the transfer of territory between Russia and Romania. Vxkmai mistakenly interpreted it as referring to movements of population.
  • "had to" -> "were encouraged to" -- if a Moldovan really didn't want to learn Russian, they truly had that choice. Especially people in secluded rural areas, may have not learnt Russian. Nobody forced the entire population of Moldova to learn Russian, though it was strongly encouraged through Russian linguistic imperialism.
  • "would be reunited" -> "will become one" -- Vxkmai's version supports a Romanian nationalist view that Basarabia is rightfully part of Romania. Basarabia was long part of many different empires. Romanians speak of "reunification", but it could equally be "reunited" with Turkey, Ukraine, or Russia. "will become one" seems more NPOV to me.
  • "banned" -> "forbidden" -- a difference of connotations. "forbidden" implies to me that they were completely disallowed and anybody using them would be persecuted, whereas "banned" implies to me that they were just gently told "don't use these anymore, they're not allowed" with no punishment.
  • "They were largely attended ... of Moldova" -> (removed) -- this section was pure speculation, and biased towards a pro-Romanian POV. There are no sources to back up that speculation. Also, there are no sources for the "they were largely attended by" part.
  • "its contents are disputed as being neologism resulting from Russification" -> "that is not the case since some of the words weren't even real words" -- they weren't _neologisms_ borrowed from Russian, they were just fake words. They were nonexistant, a figment of Stati's imagination by all accounts. A good portion of his dictionary is composed of such nonsense words.
  • "== Linguistic view ==" -> "== Romanian vs. Moldovan ==" -- Vxkmai inserrted a highly POV, peacock, and unsourced statement regarding the view of "most experts", and "minor", all of which are unacceptable. The section I re-added, however, gave specific opinions of various prominent linguists and politicians, and was sourced.
  • Constitutional comparison is unacceptable. I do have a comparison from a reliable source which shows countless differences, from Dyer in 1998. The source is written by an expert, and is relatively current. I proposed it on the talkpage, but it was dismissed by Bogdan, Bonaparte, Anittas, Ronline, Dpotop, et alia, as invalid for various reasons. I contend that, if my more recent and more reliably sourced comparison is disallowed, their comparison should not be present either.
That's all. I did not make those arguments specifically because I felt that all of my changes were so minor as to be undisputed. However, you got angry because of an alleged wholesale revert on my part and in turn reverted me, so now I have supported every single reversion I made (with the exception of two which are trivial). Unless you have a specific dispute for these points, I request you change back. --Node 05:13, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Also, I'm curious to know your thoughts towards my analogy between Trasianka (Be), Surzhyk (Uk) and Moldavski limba (Mo) -- do you think these contact phenomena are analogous? They are clearly the result of similar situations (period of Russian domination, after which a large Russian influence remained), and are all mixes between Russian and the native language. The only major difference between the situation of Trasianka, Surzhyk, and Moldavski limba, is that Belarusan and Ukrainian are closely related to Russian (approximately 80% cognate, I believe), while Romanian is more distantly related. --Node 05:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
As you can see, I ammended the list to eliminate the things you've changed now. Thanks :) --Node 10:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello

You protected the Moldovan language page and then immediately made several edits. Please don't do that unless you give a really good reason for it. You might've been undoing vandalism but you didn't say. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 08:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I think he said that addentums can be done, even by commission from other users, as long as the new info can be verified as a source and are relevant. I see no reason why he shouldn't be allowed to do this. --Anittas 08:34, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

the protection was done against anonymous reverts to a corrupted version. The current active editors are very close to verion that satisfies both sides. I see no reason to stop the work completely because of a bunch of vandals (or sockpuppets)that contributed nothing but flames. mikka (t) 08:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I unprotected the page. I still feel very uneasy about what you did. If anything else, it doesn't help your relations with others working on the article. It looks bad. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 05:53, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Moldovan language

It only a mater of politeness to wait until the consensus at Talk:Moldovan language reached. Average English reader may click the link and read, if he wants to know. But the main issue here is that an infobox is for listing basic data, (kind of table of contents), not to explain them. Either you keep it clean and plain, or you are opening the door to various "explanations" and notes and comments, and who will decide which notices are important to "average English reader" and which are not. mikka (t) 06:09, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm guessing this is with reference to my recent edit of Republic of Moldova, since I have not edited Moldovan language today. I'm not sure how it is "only a matter of politeness" to check the talk page of one article before editing another.
As a native English speaker educated in the United States, who has also spent years in the UK, I think I have a pretty fair sense of what the average English-language reader can be presumed to know or not. Very few English-speakers have any knowledge of the Eastern Romance languages, and if two different names are used, would have no way to know that these are essentially the same language unless we tell them. Most have heard of Romanian (though fewer know that it is a Romance language). Probably not one in ten has heard of Moldovan, and even those who are moderately informed might easily jump to the wrong conclusion that it refers to Romanian written in Cyrillic script.
To be honest, I find the claim that Moldovan is a distinct language from Romanian to be almost certainly either misguided or disingenuous, and I have yet to be shown any reason to take it seriously. Moldovan schools use many textbooks printed in Romania; I have yet to hear anyone seriously assert that this means the students are studying in a foreign language. While I am slightly short of fluent in Romanian, so I might miss a (very) minor difference of dialect, I can say unreservedly that Moldovan government web sites, written presumably in official Moldovan, do not have significant linguistic differences from the Romanian I am used to reading.
At most, there might be certain minor dialectic differences, but I've never seen a shred of evidence that they are any larger than those found for Romanian within Romania, which is to say that they are considerably smaller than for Spanish within Spain, French within France, or (by far) German within Germany: Romanian is one of the most uniform languages in Europe. The existence of a handful of regionalisms do not constitute a language, or we'd have to say that almost every city in Europe has its own language. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Very nice argument. I congratulate Jmabel. Say now Mikka, do you agree with this? He has experience and he knows better than you! Bonaparte  talk & contribs
Yes, I agree with her. You seem to completely miss my position: (1) the distinction is official; (2) I don't believe that in the course of 60 years there were no minor differences accumulated in official langauge; which is absolutely so in spoken langauge (3) The current intention is to replace Moldovan by Romanian completely, and I have nothing against this. But this was not officially declared yet. mikka (t) 21:55, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Cabbage Revolution

I wrote the small page on the "Cabbage Revolution" on 18 Nov. Please explain to me what you mean by it being a "nonsense hoax" and why you deleted it. I appreciate it.

Please read what wikipedia is not, wikipedia:verifiability, wikipedia:No original research. "Possible popular uprising" in 2008 is fantasy, even more its name. Why not "Potato Revolution"? Cabbage is hardly characteristic of Russia. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cabbage Revolution for others' opinion. The article could have survived if the term was in wide circulation, which is clearly not so. mikka (t) 16:42, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Polish invasion of Russia

Polish invasion of Russia is a dab page. Please read the guideline wikipedia:Disambiguation. If you want a full article, please write Polish invasions of Russia. mikka (t) 16:32, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

But I was reverting to your own version of the page. OK, no more reverts from me. --Ghirlandajo 16:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

RfAr

An arbitration request against User:AndriyK has been filed. If you intend to participate/co-sign, please add your name to the "Involved parties" section and write a statement.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 18:02, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

reverting Dovbush

Mikka, I have left many Dovbush's edits unreverted yet, but if you choose to revert him, could you please check his entire recent contributions. Thanks, --Irpen 22:22, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Etymology of ukrajina

Why did you remove my parallel between Ukrajina and Denmark? Please use the Talk page before undoing changes that others have used time and energy on. Semantic and morphological parallels are the most important thing in etymology. This is what helps us determine whether an explanation is plausible or not. So please, if you don't like the first of the three given etymologies, don't remove the arguments for this one but provide similar (possibly, better) arguments for the other ones. This dispute is not yet dissolved, so what an encyclopedia article has to do is provide enough information for the readers to decide for themselves. To call an opinion 'silly', as you did, is not a sufficient argument against it, and not very good style. --Daniel Bunčić 08:11, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Mikkalai, please stop this stupid edit war!! Take part in the discussion instead! --Daniel Bunčić 10:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Deleting frivolous Jewish categories

Hi Mikkalai: Kindly take a look at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 25#Sub-Categories of Jewish people. This area needs some cut-backs again. IZAK 03:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Evolutionary flames

Hi,

Do you have any insight into what is going on with the rfd against Evolutionary Materialism? It seems that a huge number of people have ganged up on a rather inoffensive article. I've edited the article in ways to take care of any objections that seemed to me to have some merit, but I doubt that any of those who voted to delete will bother to take account of changes. I'm puzzled by the amount of heat in the delete comments. P0M 07:07, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


Jewish categories

I would be grateful if you could reconsider your vote on these as the previous vote was only on categories which link Jewishness by country not by occupation. The vote did not deal with any categories such as Jewish philosophers or Jewish classical musicians, therefore to claim there was a consensus to delete these previously is misleading. I really do not see how these two categories are at all frivolous. However, I do agree that Category:Jewish baseball players is too specific, and Category:Jewish American actors is unworkable as people may identify as Jewish as well as quite a few other ethnicities so could end up in multiple variations of these nationality-ethnicity-occupation categories. Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Sub-Categories_of_Jewish_people Regards Arniep 15:27, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Unfortunately the lists are being deleted with the reasoning that categories exist. So this whole thing seeems a big mess. I would be grateful if you could at least vote to keep Jewish classical musicians and philosophers as these are both serious scholarly categories. Arniep 17:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Lenin rv

Dude, how "deep" was that rv? I can't seem to get an accurate comparison of the edits since your last but-one edit (was that the reverted to version 01:24, 19 November 2005 ??) -max rspct 15:48, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


the royal families executions I would really rather not include, and deleted this information once because i believed it to be false. but user: willie keeps changing it back so i went in and made it NPOV as i could. see Lenin Discussion under topic "royal family" at the bottom

Bonaparte

Could you please respond at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Mikkalai_and_Bonaparte? It may well be that what you did was appropriate: if, indeed, he was uncivil, could you please cite a couple of examples? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Battle of the Stuhna River

Could you please explane why you consider Stugna to be correct spelling for the River in Ukraine? The East Slavic tribes of present-day Ukrainian (as well as Belarusian) territory did not have "g" in their dialects (see book by Shevelov cited in Ukrainian Language). What is the reason to for using Russian transliteration?

Was it legal to remove the article without discuusion?--AndriyK 01:34, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Action_Vistula#Naming

Since you moved it once, you may be interested in the current renaming discussion.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 06:26, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Vandal

Some idiot keeps reverting the user- and talkpage of a girl who left Wiki, hopping that she still reads Wiki; he wants to harass her. Can you put a stop to it? I've asked him to stop, but to no avail. See the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Winnermario&action=history

--Anittas 09:18, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Mikka, take a look at this: Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ronline. --Ghirlandajo 09:22, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Important AfD

Hi. If you have time please take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators. I'm a bit worried that the main protagonist for the keep side is threatening to reverse the long-established consensus against creating historical categorization schemes on Wikipedia based on editors' original research. If you are interested, arguments against generating such a list have been stated and restated over the course of several years at Talk:List of dictators. Thanks. 172 21:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Photomask

Dear Mikka, the information I posted to the Photomask article is very true and up-to-date. I worked in the photomask industry since 1996. I just joined Wiki (still no user page), so my edits are currently very sequential, so there are many revisions. I hope to streamline my methodology as I get more practice. Regards, Guiding light 18:21, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, it was my mistake; I was careless with my edit. mikka (t) 18:31, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Tugay Bey

What do You think about that? Radomil talk 23:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks. WikiThanks.
I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

African Greys

I would appreciate if you took the time to explain why you removed my edit on African Greys: "Greys captured in the wild need time and effort to adapt to human presence, and have a tendency to growl. Hand-fed Greys generally make wonderful and very affectionate companions." Rastapopoulos 07:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Republic of Moldova

Could you please see my question to you at Talk:Republic_of_Moldova#Trying_to_solve_this_language_thing? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:17, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Discussing a banal subject

Hi Mikkalai,

When you created the List of toilet slang lately, I wrote on its discussion page what I had been willing to write on the toilet humour discussion page for a long time: that the list is somewhat redundant. Today you added the factual accuracy dispute banner to the article, which bears a reference to the talk page. The only message on the talk page is my comment on its redundancy; if anything, I did not dispute its factual accuracy, however difficult such a list may be to control. Caesarion 09:44, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Arkhipov/Cuban Samba

Thank you!! most interesting. I found this and got confused... but maybe it's a totally different story? (:Vera:) - Introvert talk 10:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


Shultz

Shultz came to me saying you've been persecuting him and his redirects. I've gone carefully through the history of both of youse's talk pages, and I think he's right. While he did do a number of naughty things a while ago, his record has been clean recently. Your wholesale deletion of redirects is beyond the pale. None of them except possibly the stupid Eel ones fit the speedy delete criterions. AfD was the way to go for the ones you disagreed with, not abusing your admin powers by deleting them and throwing out accusations that Shultz was wiping your comments off his page to hide censure (he said he was archiving them, and he did in fact archive them at User talk:Shultz/Runins. Feel free to check the timestamps) and such. Keep your eye on him if you will, but don't delete redirects simply because you don't like redirects. I don't want a replay of Cool Cat and his stalkers here.

On a side note, why does everybody seem to call/associate you with the KGB? --Maru (talk) Contribs 04
37, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Relocating Warnings and Block Notices to Subpages

And is it ok to relocate warnings and block notices to a subpage, as long as the link to it is easily seen? Or do they have to stay on the main User Talk page no matter what? If so, then for how long? --Shultz 18:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Shultz, notice that it was I who linked to it, not you, even after Mikkalai attacked you for removing it: you could easily have linked to it then and blunted his accusation. --Maru (talk) Contribs 00:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
My dear friend, one does't have to dodge and blunt. One simply has to work here. There are plenty of playgrounds on the 'net. Playing at the construction site may get one squashed by a dropped load. mikka (t) 00:33, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

LInk removal does not seem fair

Hello Mikkalai,

I am fairly new to Wikipedia and I tried to add a few relevant links to my graphic design website - all have been deleted for no apparent reason. I am just curious why. Thank you! Mihai

Answered in User talk:Allweb99. mikka (t) 08:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Years

I didn't say that I was referring to the items in the lists as needing sources. I meant the header text or any other text used in the articles. It is possible to discuss a year in detail. The only reason our year articles are lists is because nobody has bothered to discuss most of the years in detail. I think you should re-add the {{unsourced}} tags. Also, I have been discussing these very issues with members of the Wikimedia Foundation, who agree on sourcing such information. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-1 13:49

Varangians

I'm not an expert either but it seems suspicious to me to identify the Varangians with Finns. I assume this is just another attempt to claim them by a modern nationalist. I don't know anything about the Cwens though so I shouldn't revert that one, although it seems just as suspicious. Adam Bishop 18:56, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

That is a theory proposed by a Finnish scholar. Unfortunately, his name escapes me, but I don't think it is notable enough anyway.--Wiglaf 21:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Please see my comment concerning this annoying anon on Wiglaf's talkpage. Tupsharru 22:40, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Well, I wrote a Letter to Walter-Elias-Disney-Studios Incorporation which asked if we may copy the text into Wikipedia, and the Answer was that the Copyright has already been released, and put under no other license. Kindly do not attempt do revert as much versions as possible, because there is no need to do so. Please revert your nonessential revert. Many Thanks, not existant in this language,/213.168.110.83

answered at. mikka (t) 22:43, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

History of Belarus - help needed!

Ghirlandajo is out of control. Mediation and input from more Eastern Europeans editors is needed before he managse to portray this as some kind of Polish-Russian war. Your input would be appreciated.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Putin

Your attitude on Talk:Vladimir Putin is a bit over the top. Care to tone it down a bit? -Seth Mahoney 04:48, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Guess not. -Seth Mahoney 21:42, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:NoFact

Moved to Template talk:NoFact. mikka (t) 05:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


Our forum

Welcome to the Romanian Wikipedia notice board! This page is a portal for all Romanian-related topics and a place for Romanian editors to gather and socialize and debate. Discussions are encouraged, in both English and Romanian. Post any inquiry under their relevant cathegory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Romanian_Wikipedian%27s_notice_board

--Anittas 17:45, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


supercalifragiblablablablablablablabla

I can't find time to put the Wikisource link. However, many thanks.de:Benutzer:Abzt.
P.S.:I have once worked for Disney, thats why I got the answer.
P.P.S.:Any questions about mary Poppins, I've got the Script and the Video!

Basescu translation

Hi mikka, I've translated the article on the ML talkpage. Anyways, its nothing new, the same politicians bla bla bla. In the future, if the guys cause any trouble and forget to translate, I'll be glad to help.--Orioane 17:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, on the Transnistria page :D. --Orioane 17:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Basescu did well when he said that Moldova is a Romanian country and that Moldovans are Romanians. Go Basescu! --Anittas 18:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I have to thank Orioane, he did that 'cause I hadn't time. You may read now Mikka. Best wishes! -- Bonaparte talk & contribs 18:46, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Russo-Polish War

Hi there! I noticed your recent rv of the article on Russo-Polish War. I thought you might want to know that the thingie you reverted is sourced at the talk page. Cheers! Halibutt 20:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Symbols of Belarus

These symbols aren't only for BNR, they were used before its existance and now they are used by the independence movement in Belarus. --Molobo 14:08, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Humanistic medicine

Hi, I did some reasearch online and cleaned up/expanded the Humanistic medicine article (mainly working from [21]). I'm assuming the original article was written by a group of students at UPenn, but I don't think it qualifies as original research, since it's a pretty prevalent (albeit recent) concept in medicine. Cheers —Bmdavll talk 00:36, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

FairTax

At Talk:Ron_Paul#Income_tax you commented on Ron Paul's support of abolishing the Income Tax, wondering how it was possible.

If you haven't in the intervening months, you should read about the FairTax.  :) SFT 03:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Judas of Slavdom

Mikka, I exhausted my patience with Molobo as far as this article is conserned. Maybe you can do it better than me? --Irpen

Infernal_machine

Could you tell me why you deleted Infernal_machine? You didn't supply a reason. I got an email about it. It looks like it may have been AfD territory, unless it was copyvio, but I'd just like to here what the reason was before judging. Thanks. Dmcdevit·t 01:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

lenin joke

I see you are a russin speaker. I also guess that you are young. This joke was originally about a hare, because it is a hare who is a hero of kindergarten songs. And a hare is "nice" (zainka-serenkij, etc.) and "smart" (not wise; he cheats wolf ahd fox all the time). I was going to fing a good version with hare and reinstate. But it will be OK for now.

I guess, the hedgehog version probably appeared later, already in post-Soviet times, when a hedgehog series of Russian jokes started. (I mean the jokes where hedgehog' s function was primarily being a funny word. Of course, there were quite a few jokes with hedgehog before, based on his main trait: lots of needles) mikka (t) 22:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I did a search on rambler.ru using "так вот ты какой дедушка ленин" and "заяц" or "зайка" and can not find one, almost all use "ежик". I admit that i am young and might have missed some earlier versions of this joke, but nevertheless i think modern version with "yezhik" should stay as it seems to be the most widespread using rambler.ru or yandex.ru tests.--Hq3473 06:05, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Transliteration_of_Russian_into_English

Hi, what is wrong with the transliteration bookmarklet you removed? thank you in advance for your answer ptica

This is an encyclopedia, not a link farm. Your link doesn't provide any information about the topic, which is "transliteration". Neither it is notable to deserve a reference. Finally, it is not mature. mikka (t) 16:32, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

You judge it from position of a man, that naturally can read cyrillic, but your skill is not common for a mankind. The tool instantly "transliterates" your current web page, making it accessible to broader audience - counting in all slavonic nations. You are right that maturity is a issue. ptica

Please stop deleting reference

Mikkalai:

Please stop deleting the referece re: Clinton's health care plan from the page. The thesis referred to in the link is a credible well-researched source. Thank you.

It is not reference, it is spam. The link contains an abstract and a solicitation to purchase the full version of the text. mikka (t) 16:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Fine. The reference is a good one however and the solicitation can be removed. this would not constitute spam.

I just asked the author to remove the solicitation from the page. I should be removed shortly. In the meantime, I have reinserted the reference to the page.

OK. Sorry. I didn't pay attention that the content of the thesis was published in wikinfo, linked from the page as well. Still, this is a work of a student. If it presents new facts, please add them into the article. Otherwise the opinion of a nonnotable person cannot be a reference. mikka (t) 18:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:2004 & other years

I see what you are trying to do, but I really feel, it's not neccessary. I suggest you mark them as {{db-author}}. Renata3 20:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

That's how you feel. I feel different. Wikipedia is a community. It is bigger than any micronation. It deserves a record of its history. I will discuss the issue at the village pump. mikka (t) 21:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Wendish mythology?

There is an anon who constantly adds articles on wendish mythology, totally unreferenced and smacking of original research. Take a look at rai (mythology) and peklo, for instance. AFAIK wendish mythology is but poorly documented, and things that he describes as wendish are frequently taken from other slavic mythologies. For instance, Alkonost he mentions in the article on Slavic paradise is a purely Russian invention. There are fake etymologies, too. I think we should do something with this, but I'm not sure what exactly. --Ghirlandajo 14:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

RFC on User:Antidote

Hello, I believe this person was responsible for mass voting on Catholic, Jewish and Serbs articles and numerous other disruptions including arbitrarily changing population numbers and removing people from lists dating back to March, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Antidote and Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Antidote/Contribution_table and Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Antidote/User_comments. I would appreciate if you could endorse the request for comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Antidote#Other_users_who_endorse_this_summary, Regards, Arniep 15:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello mikka, I have realised that most of your meetings with this user were under their ip addresses so you will not have realised that they are the user Antidote. I document them here (click the numbered links): Bulgarians [22], List of Belarusians [23], [24], [25], [26], [27] Romanians here [28], [29] and Serbs here [30], [31]

. I would be grateful if you could reinstate your endorsement. Thanks Arniep 18:51, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Spaniards

Why did you revert my edits on Spaniards? I fixed the spacing - that's all. Do you have something personal against me (evidenced from your vote on the RFC)? Antidote 18:25, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Can you keep the spacing the same though? Also, are you entirely certain that those statistics are accurate? Antidote 18:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Nevermind - I fixed them myself. Antidote 18:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I only changed the 8 to 10 million mark in favor of the higher - I did it for vanity purpose with the 0s, and you're right, that shouldnt be done. Antidote 18:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Viktor Filatov

Mikka, could you please take another look at this article. I wonder should the fellow be here in the first place. His only claim for notability is hosting an obscure anti-Semite web-site. Also, please check your email. --Irpen 18:53, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

User Antidote

Hello mikka, you not have noticed my previous message as it arrived with others:

I have realised that most of your meetings with this user were under their ip addresses so you will not have realised that they are the user Antidote. I document them here (click the numbered links): Bulgarians [32], List of Belarusians [33], [34], [35], [36], [37] Romanians here [38], [39] and Serbs here [40], [41]

. I would be grateful if you could reinstate your endorsement. Thanks Arniep 18:51, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Also you warned the user about image copyright when the user first created the Antidote account in October [42], the user Antidote replied "You people are completely impossible. First you bitch about copyrights, then when I put them on you bitch some more. " [43]. The user continues to upload images with no source all marked public domain or no rights reserved. Regards Arniep 19:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
What do personal disagreements on a copyrighted images have to do with an RFC against me? see Special:Contributions/Arniep for his rally against me, Mikkalai. All images I upload ARE uploaded correclty and often the authors are asked or freeness verified. You have no idea what you're talking about and I would ESPECIALLY appreciate if you do not accuse me of these image violations which you clearly have very limited knowledge about. Your rally against me is inching too far now. Antidote 20:02, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


  • Antidote has continued to upload images with no source since he was warned by you in October, I think that is all I need say as it is clear the user does not respect the opinions or advise of other Wikipedia users. Regards Arniep 21:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Arniep, for god sakes, what are you TALKING about?! Show me how all the other images around wikipedia have sources attached to them - you're NOT going to find many. I make sure to ask for every image I get and to research it as much as I can after those comments. It happens to be that most are public domains. Your comments here are completely uncalled for and are really driving me angry. It is enough. Antidote 21:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


Take for example this Image:Olga1962.jpg which I uploaded and then this Image:English-people.JPG or Image:Burnham bust.gif which I didn't. Why are you targetting me and not the infinite amount of other image uploaders that do the same? I'd say about 80% of images on wikipedia do not explicitly list the source but this is a criteria against me on the RFC?? Yet, I, unlike others, actually try my best to make sure the images are acceptable. This is too ridiculous. Antidote 21:26, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Has the situation really changed?

I noticed that you restored the Lueshi article and on the talk page cited the improper AFD interpretations. However, I still do not believe the main issue with the article has been resolved - the AFD decision that Lueshi is severe fancruft and only widely popular on the GameFAQs message boards. Hbdragon88 02:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Wendish Mythology

I do not want to be anonymous. I just hadn't thought of making a login as long as I was able to write in the wikipedia it was ok. From now on I will try to remember to login. It is by no means my intention to create false slavic mythology. My work in this field and very serious. I'm not one of those pagan believers recreating their own ludicrous mythology. I just want find out more about this mythology. Some of my knowledge stems from very old books. But I guess the Bozaloshstsh may have been a failure.

Most of my knowledge is based on German Mythology books, a thesis by the Danish poet Ingemann, Saxo Grammaticus, and Helmoldus.

LK

Serbophobia

My objection was that someone wrote Serbophobia is a political term and not a clinical diagnosis. If you look at Russophobia or Anti-semitism, I very much doubt that there are lines saying how Antisemitism is not a clinical diagnosis (while true of course, it is written with the intended implication that Serbophobia somehow doesn't exist or isn't something to be taken seriously). It wasn't a major concern. --estavisti 04:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Just had a closer look at your edits for Serbophobia, thanks for helping out. --estavisti 04:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Please add new comments in new sections, e.g., by clicking here. Thanks. mikka (t)

External links

There is nothing on the pages you linked to that indicates the link you keep deleting is inappropriate. I feel your suggestion of getting someone else involved was a good one. Many thanks, SlimVirgin 03:37, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

listed at the wikipolicy page Wikipedia:External links. Wikipedia:Spam

Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves

Image galleries

You have in the past commented on Image Galleries nominated for deletion. Most galleries are nominated because the nominators feels that galleries violate WP:NOT. The William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion (here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Molobo

You may be interested in this discussion. Alx-pl D 20:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Bialowieza

I believe you shouldn't have moved the article on your own, without explanation. While I certainly find the solution a decent way to cut the gordian knot, perhaps it could at least be announced to the community prior to the move. As a sidenote, I always have a problem with such moves, as previously the alternative was to use either the Polish name or the Russian one. And currently we're using neither. Halibutt 09:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Diet External Link

I noticed that you removed a link that I placed in the external links. After reading this page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/When_should_I_link_externally I determined that there was no way for me to copy and paste the free tools and resources that SparkPeople offers. Instead, since it is free website that provides all who visit with free diet plans- I decided that would appropriate to link with. What are your thoughts on the subject? Thanks.

I am glad that Mikkalai removed the advertisements for the website. Wikipedia is not the appropriate place for such advertisements. - Tεxτurε 15:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree that Wikipedia is not a place for advertisements, however I feel that it is a great place for information to be shared. SparkPeople is no more commerical than calorie-count.com (a current external link), both are free sites (unlike most diet sites) and offer a large amount of information that can not be duplicated on the Wikipedia website. Thank you and I look forward to reading your thoughts. Respectfully, Nancy.

CfD

Hey man, I didn't realise this was one of your categories that I CfD'd. I thought it was some kind of pov pushing exercise. Sorry for the inconvienience. Perhaps we could find a better name for it? - FrancisTyers 10:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Anittas' RfC

This guy Bonaparte is a great nuisance. Take a look at this if you have time: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Anittas. --Ghirlandajo 11:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Mikka, you're the only cool Russian left on Wiki. Don't join the mob. --Anittas 12:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Anittas, it is you and other Romanian users who persist in molesting and personally attacking a Moldavian user everywhere, most recently on Category talk:Wikipedia flamers --Ghirlandajo 18:22, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
He is not Moldavian/Moldovan. I don't know what he is, but if you find out, let me know. So far I know these combinations:

Russian Jew, American Jew, Moldovan Jew. The last one was proven to be false, so it can only be one of the first two options. --Anittas 18:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Varyag

Yeah, that was a mistake that those even got submitted. Thanks for helping fix my error. Joshbaumgartner 21:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Belarus

Okay, I read most of the article on Belarus (will finish the rest later). What's the difference between being a Belarusian and a Russian? Bela, I believe, means white. Don't you belong to the same family? Maybe I'm ignorant on this subject, but if you guys not Russian, how come your name of Belarus implies a link to Russia? And I got nothing against the Russian people, as individuals. My problems with them are on a political level. --Anittas 01:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mikka. I would like to know more about the context in which you blocked User:Bonaparte. I don't know enough about the case to make a judgement as to whether the blocking was justified or not, but I think in recent times Bonaparte has not done anything that would justify such a fast block. Anittas (I hope you don't mind involving myself in this) - Belarusians are related but separate to Russians. AFAIK, Belarus implies a link to Rus' not to modern Russia. They also speak a separate language and are a separate ethnic group just like the Ukrainians. And I suppose not all of them are pro-Russian, due to Belarus' recent history. Thanks, Ronline ✉ 03:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, Ron, from what I heard, Ukrainian is very similar, if not the same language, to Russian; but Ukrainians oppose that thought. They are still Slavs and should have a brotherhood between them, but it seems that they fight more with each other, than with others. Still, Lukashenko wanted to unite his country with Russia in an economical union. That was in the 90s. I don't know now. Yeah, I think BP could be unblocked. It's not his fault he interpreted kocenii as sperm. I thought the same, and I even said the same on the talk-page. If Node didn't mean sperm, what did he then mean? --Anittas 05:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

There's a guy who changes his IPs often and attacks Uzbek almost on daily basis. I have warned him in the past, but today he returned as 80.80.215.120 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), blanked Uzbek and List of Indo-European roots and vandalized my user page. I reported him on WP:ANI, but he went on vandalizing my user page and messed up Sogdiana, replacing the words Iranian (meaning peoples of Aryan heritage and not citizens of Iran) and Tajik with Uzbek and Turkic. It is a well-known fact that the Sogdians were an Indo-European people from the Indo-Iranian subfamily. They had nothing to do with Turkic peoples or with Uzbeks who migrated to Central Asia more than 1000 years later! When he was close to breaking 3RR, he logged in as user:JamesBrown and reverted my corrections. Please help to fend off attacks. --Ghirlandajo 17:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into the matter. Vandalism continues unabated, however. The same guy, the same offenses. --Ghirlandajo 13:44, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

TVrage.com remade

Hi. User:-ACL- remade TVrage.com with, AFAICR, the previous content. Can you have a look? -- Perfecto 00:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Node ue

Warning! User:Node ue didn't reached the consensus yet.

Now let me see you if you block him. -- Bonaparte talk 20:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I will warn him first. mikka (t) 21:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Well on that page you said something else...I don't want to remind you. And you didn't warn me either. But I suppose who has the power of Admin has all, isn't it so?

However I am truely convinced now. -- Bonaparte talk 21:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

You were warned many times before. And you were actinig as a provocateur in this particular exchange. My position is the same as in the case of Anittas: Anittas was provoked to shout Jewwwww in an immediate exchange. As I said I am not going to look into long history of your relations. No one pays me for that. If Node will act offensively unprovoked, he will be blocked. mikka (t) 21:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

What about him vandalizing the page? I just had to revert his propaganda, again. This guy is a terrorist and CIA should take care of him. --Anittas 21:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Which page? I don't keep track of your discussions for a very long time. mikka (t) 21:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
The Moldovan language page. --Anittas 21:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I told you all that I will no longer be interested in the content of this page, since serious editors joined the discussion. mikka (t) 22:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Well... you see Mikka? The real provocateur is not me or somebody else. You know very well who is it. You said on the page "If other people tell you "don't" then you rather don't." Now, how many told that guy to stop?? and still he didn't stop? tell me! Bonaparte talk 21:22, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

To stop what? mikka (t) 22:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Arabic numerals

I hope you will take the time to fix all of the redirects we fixed when we moved the page a few days ago, as now everything pointing to Hindu-Arabic numerals will need to point to Arabic numerals to avoid the direct. Peyna 21:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi mikka. There seems to be a misunderstanding. I didn't move the article on Hindu-Arabic numerals article even once. All three moves were done by someone else, and I completely agree with you, that they were all premature. Thanks! deeptrivia (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Intelligentsia

Hi! I would love to know more about the context of "intelligentsia" appearing in 1836 diaries of that Russian pal (I forgot his name - Vasily Zhukovski?). Libelt and other Poles using it were from Prussian part of Poland, wonder where they would have chance to hear it. Szopen 12:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Unnecessary block

Why did you block Pretzel? Musical Linguist also needs to be blocked

And your IP will be blocked as well, if you don't stop trolling. mikka (t) 23:24, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

"rm image of a supposed 'nerd'. he looks rather like a moron (on a serious note: there is nothing specifically nerdish in the pic)"

I nominate this for "Best Edit Summary Ever".Tommstein 07:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Accession_of_Romania_to_the_European_Union&diff=32165150&oldid=32077700

Now let me see if you block node ue since you asked for proof. And you did warn him once. He seems to transfer all his hatred also to other articles created by me. Bonaparte talk 14:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Bona, I've just seen your new article - Romania's potential. This is a masterpiece. Period. --Ghirlandajo 16:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Blocking IP 213.216.199.10

Hi,

213.216.199.10 is the transparent proxy/NAT server of the OPOY. At least my traffic goes thru it if I don't specify proxy IP address. I think this is a controversial way to restrict editing - Don't You?

Samppa

213.216.199.2 15:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

DYK

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--Gurubrahma 16:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

World's largest university

Need your opinion on this article. --Ghirla | talk 17:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Vacation

How long will you be gone for? If it will be for a fortnight or less, there are other solutions that can be employed. Uncle G 21:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Or less. Which? mikka (t) 21:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
    • If it's solely people scribbling abuse here that worries you, I can keep your page on my watchlist and revert any vandalism whilst you are gone. Uncle G 21:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
      • Don't worry mikka, please have a good time and enjoy your vacation to Belarus. Happy New Year! Bonaparte talk 21:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

-phobia

Just so you know, all of the phobias I added (with the exception of xanthophobia) are listed in my school Psychology textbook. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 01:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Nixer

Mikka, while you unblocked Nixer, he complains that his IP remains blocked. Perhaps it's an automatic block imposed by Wiki over your block of his username. Since you unblocked the user already, I see no reason not to unblock his IP. --Irpen 06:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Irpen, you may relax. Nixer is blocked again. --Ghirla | talk 18:17, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Superceded (sic!)

Do you mind correcting the spelling on Moldovan language page ? Also the inserted bit doesn't contain any references (please see the talk page) --212.0.211.204 18:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Vseslav of Polotsk

Hi can you help me to restore the history of Vseslav of Polatsk? IIRC this page was extensively renovated by me in January, but then User:Rydel moved it to its present location by cut&paste, and the history is gone. Is there any way to restore it? --Ghirla | talk 18:17, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Tango (Dance)

Dear Mikkalai, I see you reverted my changes on tango (dance) (external links to descriptions of tango figures) on Dec 25. Any specific reason why you would do that? Are they out of place here? Pforret 14:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Sting (biology

Sting (biology) had two simultaneous proposals to merge to other articles (Venom (poison) and Stinger (organ)). Having placed the only comment so far in the discussion on this, in favour of the 1st option, I was a little surprised to see you removed that merger tag for the second option.

I guess you did not like the expanded mark-up used rather than the plain 'mergeto' tag. I thought likewise as I went to add the second mergeto suggestion. However I then reallised that the expanded format allowed a forced choice of where the discussion takes place, and having 2 merge suggestions was clearly going to split any discussion held about this page. I've therefore reverted, hope you don't mind :-)

I suspect the merge sugestions will generate little interest, and i'll be bold in about a couple of weeks (allowing you time to return from your wikibreak) and will happily perform the merger. David Ruben 13:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:HoJiP temp

I don't want to delete it myself in case ISAAC stirs again. And perhaps some of this material may atually be used somewhere else. I don't know what to do with it, but I see no reason to delete it right now. I won't object to it if you delete it though. Enjoy your vacations!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Bonaparte's block

Mikka, you blocked Bonaparte (talk · contribs) for one week. In my opinion, that is a bit excessive and, as there is no firm policy backing to this block and the fact that you are in a content dispute with this user makes it, in my view, inappropriate. Bonaparte has already served 24 hours and that is the typical block vandals are given. Anyway, as Bonaparte has agreed to stop revert-warring over Cyrillic names (see User talk:Bonaparte#Unblocking) I have unblocked him. I just wanted to run this by you. Thanks. Izehar 20:21, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I am in content dispute with every vandal. I disagree with your unblocking without alking to me first. I am watching this user for a long time and I am doing what is right: eacalating punishment for persisiting in improper behavior. Your interference without knowing history is unwelcome. I am esetting the block for 48 hours as a trade-off. mikka (t) 20:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Mikka, for what it's worth I think it is bad form to use admin powers in a content dispute where you have previously taken sides. I'm not saying Bonaparte is right (you'll see from his and my talk pages that I have rpeeatedly urged him to calm down and use proper process). On the other hand, by blocking Bonaparte it seems to me that you are effectively giving an advantage to one side in a POV dispute - this is not to assume bad faith on your part (I quite agree that Bonaparte is very prone to flying off the handle and any other admin would probably do the same - but not necessarily only to Bonaparte, which is the point). I would suggest that the edit wars might be better sorted by a brief period of page protection, forcing both sides to the table to thrash things out on the talk page rather than edit warring. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 21:36, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I didn't take sides. At these Moldovan pages I am solely dealing with vandalism and revert wars. You from your own experience must know that only blocks are effectively acting on Bonaparte. Not punishing him makes him feeling invincible. When you talk to him, he talks back. I will be blocking him as much as I think necessary, since no one else bothers to deal with his disrupting behavior. mikka (t) 02:51, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, your blocks surely do the trick. Every time you block him, mysterious new IPs appear on posting. And how about Node? How come you ignore his vandalism and provokative postings? See my message below this one, or are you going to protend it's raining? If you deal with a problem, deal with all causes. --Anittas 03:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Colleague, there are 8 of you fighting node ue. I would be #9. Isn't it a bit too much? mikka (t) 03:38, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Mikka - like it or not, I think you have involved yourself in a content dispute with Bonaparte, at Tighina and Moldova. Yes, they're small things, but I think what you've done is blocked him for having a different point of view, and I don't think that conforms to policy. I think it's important to engage in much more active dialogue with Bonaparte, but I think his point of view can be argued as well - therefore, his edits are not simple vandalism or disruption. A one week block in this case is particularly unsuitable. From now on, please consult the community before a block - Bonaparte genuinely feels he is being wronged, and that's not good. Or, please tell another sysop to do the block, since it can be argued that you're in a conflict of interest regarding Bonaparte.

I've never accused you of not being impartial, and I do think that you are quite impartial, I think the conflict is more in terms of the approach. Your approach is very hard-line, in my opinion - it's like "I've blocked you now. Deal with it. There are no appeals". I think that's a very dangerous approach to justice, because it breeds alienation and therefore conflict and distrust. And that's never good! Ronline ✉ 07:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

There is no content dispute here. The guy is repeatedly (even after explanations, hence deliberately) deletes pieces of information that bear to Moldovan language and Moldovans. I don't mess into the "content" where he tries to push his POV that such things do not exist, but his removal these terms wherever these are used in official language will not be tolerated, as well as removal other purely factual pieces aimed at elimitation of history. he also has a habit to meddle in things that has no knowledge, like "correction" of translation of Hungarian terms. As for "breeding conflict", please explain this to Bonaparte. He is the most belligerent and obnoxious editor I've ever met in wikipedia. Just look thru a couple of last archives of Talk:Moldovan language. Fortunately for him, he thrives in a narrow area where only a handful of people work.
My "harline" approach: I say: certain people become more arrogant seeing only soft talk. So far I've seen no evidence of change in his attitudes. You say: "I've blocked you now. Deal with it." Wrong. In the beginning I paroled him two times. Each time he dived headlong back into wordfight.
So, once more, this is not a kindergarten and he is not a timid newcomer, and I firmly believe that his behavior is disruptive, and each time he goes over board and I notice this, he will be punished. It is up to you to be a "good cop" with him in milder cases, like revert wars in Moldovan language. mikka (t) 07:54, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Node removing text

Node keeps removing messages of Bonaparte, saying they are personal attacks against him. Here is what he removed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AMoldovan_language&diff=32723645&oldid=32712190

Where is the personal attack? And don't give me the stuff about you not wanting to be involved in such disputes. You chose to involve yourself the day you used your tools on some of the involved parties. Also, you're not on vacation, so you can remove the disclaimer. --Anittas 01:27, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

DYK

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Human feces picture

Why did you revert my edits to last version on Human feces article? We don't need Image:Human feces.jpg because it's considered vandalism. Adnghiem501 02:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Administrative Region of Tighina

I understand why you'd redirect it to the city article, as the content was largely about the city, but they're really not one and the same. Would you mind either undoing the redirect and salvaging a stub or writing an article about the region itself? Ambi 06:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Jan. 2006 save

Unless I get apologies for unjust blocking when I was fending off trolls I am not returning to editing. mikka (t) 20:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

If you didn't bother to look into the matters before fucking me, fuck you all too. mikka (t) 20:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

First you tell me I not to block a troll, then I cannot revert trolls and vandals. This attitude is disgusting in the environment when half of my edits are reverts of trolls and vandals. May Jimmy Wales collect more donations. He will need them to to store the history of vandal edits in wikipedia database. mikka (t) 20:40, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Request

Mikka, I'm sorry you are reacting in this way to your block and I will unblock you if you want. In fact, I think that your block was a mistake from the first place - those anons were removing an interwiki link to a Moldovan language article and were removing POV tags. It is generally accepted that those templates/links remain in articles, so in my opinion your reverts were justified and the anon's edits potentially can be characterised as vandalism, and if so, you are exempt from the 3RR according to policy. In fact, when the anon reported you, I left a note relevant to the anon's trolling and no other admin. wanted to block you. If you want to be unblocked, tell me here, I will be watching this page - if you'd rather wait for the block to expire I'll understand. I think it's a bad thing when valuable contributors leave Wikipedia - they tell us don't bite the newbies, but I think that should apply to experienced contributors as well. They are the people we want to keep. Izehar 20:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

PS I advise you to unlock your userpage. Izehar 20:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I will not type a single word elsewhere until the disgusting behavior of a big group of Romanian wikipedians will be discussed by a third party and condemned. While looking aroung my block I wandered to Wikipedia:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board and find the talk there simply sickening. It is just a snake's nest, with hatred oozing from their fingertips. mikka (t) 21:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

If you want my opinion, certain practices on the Romanian notice board seem akin to the (now deleted) Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia: organisation of POV push. I sometimes am found on the Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board, where discussion of nationalistic edits never happens, so it contrasts with the Romanian one in certain respects. I understand that it may seem like a cabal, but we still have policies like WP:V, WP:NOT and WP:NPOV - so obviously, cabalism cannot work. I do admit that hatered does seem present, especially against User:Node ue and while using a message board in the Wikipedia namespace for such purposes is frowned upon by me, there is not much that can be done about is, as any nationality can have a message board on Wikipedia. Izehar 21:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Did I suggest to delete their board? Still, I happen to know a hundred or so Romanians (a couple of Romanian software and electronic design companies) and can assure you that this message board produces a very distorted picture of Romanian people, which is sad. mikka (t) 21:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
If that message board is being used to organise POV push campaigns and to criticise editors who don't have pro Romanian POV, then in my opinion, it is being abused. Our UK message board is never used for such purposes. To get back to the point though, should we get you unblocked and get this thing over with - if you want to tell me something confidential, don't hesitate to e-mail me. Izehar 21:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I have to say: while I have a strong interest in Romania and try to continue working on Romanian topics, the atmosphere there has become poisonous. I tried bringing one RFC related to this, on a matter I thought was blatant, but apparently it was deemed not blatant enough, and I don't have the energy to go through, compile a record, and play public prosecutor.
Mikka, as you know, I think that at times you have been a bit free with the blocks in matters where you are involved, and I've disagreed with you on some issues (but who haven't I disagreed with on some issues?) but on the whole I find your contributions excellent and would like you back. I find the gloating by some contributors over your apparent departure disgusting.
Perhaps the key to this is an open-ended RFC not focused on the behavior of any individual, but looking in general at topics related to Moldova and Romania. Think of it as a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I suspect we will all take our licks here and there, but it may bring broader attention to the problems and possibly move towards some kind of resolution, or at least a working truce.
Please don't stay away out of spite. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Um, while I don't know anything about the Romanian/Moldovan disputes, I think that negotiation through mediation would be more appropriate. IMO you should forgive and forget, and seek to solve the content dispute rather than seek criticism of other users. Once the content dispute is solved, the other disputes will go away. Izehar 21:40, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
You are misjudging the issue, probably looking at it locally. mikka (t) 21:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Maybe - IMO the most important issue now is getting you unblocked and preventing you leaving. If you go, then the "anon trolls" will have "won". After that is over, we should see about the content disputes (last time I checked, this was an encyclopaedia and we were supposed to be writing it). The way I see it, the first step should be to identify the "problem articles" and follow by negotiating on all differences, producing sources etc. We'll see about that in its turn though. Izehar 21:54, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
My friend, I am repeating: you are misjudging the issue. Negotiations have already failed. Now the first step must be to ban certain people who proved to contribute nothing but hatred. Unpunished, they feel unstoppable and hooliganism escalate. My arms were twisted several times when I tried to do this while not even a finger waved towards the troublemakers. So now it is either them or me. Period. If the community plays blind, I am out of it. I am not contributing a single word to articles until this bunch is put at bay. mikka (t) 22:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Bans are issued by the Arbitration Committee or by Jimmy Wales. In fact, User:Dbachmann recently requested arbitration on the nationalist trolls on Rajput - the decision is still pending (see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rajput). However, my advice to you is, if you are considering that channel, to be careful and make sure that your behaviour has been impeccable, or the ArbCom may issue sanctions unfavourable to you as well. Some other users have claimed that you have abused your admin privileges and have called for your desysopment - if there is anything in those accusations, I would recommend extreme caution. As I have said, I am extremely unfamiliar with the situation, so I can't really comment - I'm sure you are more aware of the "goings on" than me and what a likely turnout would be. If their behaviour is indeed what you claim, the ArbCom may ban them from all Romania/Moldova related articles - it has happened before. Izehar 22:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Should I unblock you or do you want to wait for the block to expire? Izehar 22:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I've whinned too much. Over and out. mikka (t) 22:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd just like to tell you that the block was done fully in respect of the 3RR policy, without any judgement. The page you reverted to was POV, just like the page you reverted from. Thus, it was a content dispute, not a "reversion of troll activity". For that reason, I don't see why people are getting so worked up over it. Many respectable users have been blocked under 3RR, it's no big deal according to the policy. Ronline ✉ 00:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Exactly. I reverted anon trolls regardless was it node ue's version or his anti-friends. It is not the first time I was overruled and it is not a big deal indeed; I don't have a superiority or inferiority complex. That you fail to see the difference between "content dispute" and trollish revert wars by anons and don't see that people are "getting so worked" over a broader issue of Romanians here is your big problem. You let trolls rule. I am not talking to you any more. Go join your badmouthing friends at you know which notice board. <plonk> mikka (t) 00:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Transnistria

For some value of trolls. You also persistently reverted, for no reason obvious to me at any rate, addition of what looked to me like a relevant news story from the BBC into Transnistria. Do you mind letting me know what the problem was with that particular edit? I am genuinely curious. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 22:48, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Already discussed in the corresponding talk page, unfortunately unfinished. I'd reply to bogdan: "a newspaper is a source of news, not facts. You'd be surprized now much bullshit has been reported by BBC. So if you are using it as a source, you better do it with attribution, rather than as a matter of fact. An article about an orphanage for mentally ill is hardly a reputable source about economy of a state, even if it presents some background." mikka (t) 23:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
By the way of an example, Here are qoutations from two articles listed in the "references" to Transnistria:
  • from Economist "According to a recent report from the International Crisis Group, a Brussels think-tank, Transdniestria has five or six arms factories making small arms, mortars and missile-launchers, for sale to the world's trouble-spots." - true
  • from BBC News: "Many homes only get hot water three times a fortnight, because Transdniester now has to pay Russia market prices for gas." - false, or POV, to put it mildly
The fist article conforms wikipedia requirements of verifiability: it provides sources of important facts so that the facts can be verified. In contrast, BBC more and more works in a paparazzi style. mikka (t) 23:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
As an aside, I second your low assessment of BBC standards. Latterly, I have refrained from providing links to their media. --Ghirla | talk 00:23, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Your leaving would be a great loss to wikipedia

Mikka, I do not know anything about this whole dispute; I came here because I saw your user page was a red link and got worried. You are one of the most valuable contributors to wikipedia and I think your leaving would be a great - no, enourmous - loss. Please do not let any group of vandals drive you away. If you leave then the vandals win. It seems your conflict is with a group of Romanian editors and, being a Romanian myself (and a staunch anti-nationalist at that), I offer you my help. -- Nikodemos (f.k.a. Mihnea) 22:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Your impression is wrong. I am in a conflict with only one Romanian editor (regardless how many others think they are in conflict with me). mikka (t) 22:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Come back please

You will be missed :( - FrancisTyers 22:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

That's all touching

...but as I see you don't get it. Please don't litter my talk page. I am not an attention whore kid playing misery or throwing tantrum. I even blocked this page for two cool-off days expecting this kind of messages. mikka (t) 22:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

And I mean it. Meanwhile you may read GoodBye, just to know that I am aware how silly I may look, so don't contribute to this. I may suggest you still another silly outlook: since I am an apparent wikiholic, you may consider this hunger strike against troll cabal. Wikipedia rules were written long ago when each editor was precious, and it was less damaging to let 23 trolls rave than to lose a single contributor. Today good editors are abound, but vandalism and trolling increased enormously as well. Right now there are 1 admin per 1172 articles. I have over 4,000 articles on my watch list and when I am diligent, I spend more than an hour simply checking against screwing up. When I skip a couple of days, I inevitably find bullshit not picked by others. Of any 5 serial vandals I detect, 1 sneaked past eyeballs quite some time ago. AfD has grown ENORMOUSLY in my two+ years. Still, each time I go thru newpages backwards by 3-4 days, there is lots of bullshit. It is both emotionally difficult to tolerate mischief, but also emotionally difficult to wage endless wars. And the recent backstab really pissed me off, and I am not going to let it go lightly. At the moment I simply don't know what to do. So bug off while I am mad and cannot think clearly. mikka (t) 01:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Move to delete 99% of all Lists and Categories of Jews: Sixteen reasons why this should become a fixed Wikipedia policy

Hello Mikkalai: Here is something about our old topic, please see: Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Lists by religion-ethnicity and profession#Move to delete 99% of all Lists and Categories of Jews: Sixteen reasons why this should become a fixed Wikipedia policy. Also, please stay calm and don't lose your cool. Wikipedia needs you! IZAK 11:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


Allow me

Mikka, on behalf of the entire Wikipedia I award you this Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas Thaumaturgus (Ukrainian: Орден Святого Миколи Чудотворця) for your contribution in the "accrual of the common good" as per the order statute. Thank you! --Irpen 20:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Mikka, on behalf of the entire Wikipedia I award you this Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas Thaumaturgus (Ukrainian: Орден Святого Миколи Чудотворця) for your contribution in the "accrual of the common good" as per the order statute. Thank you! --Irpen 20:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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Arbcom

mikka (t) 20:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

user:Bonaparte

I asked you some questions here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_January_2006/Candidate_statements/Mikkalai . It would be nice if you can answer them, from Bonaparte talk 12:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Mikka, I nailed Bonaparte (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) at Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser. Check WP:AN/I for the rest.
I think that Bonaparte should be blocked indefinetely for this activity. The question is whether it could be done by an admin's discretion or the ArbCom submission is needed for that. This is certainly enough for an ArbCom but it is SO time-wasting. This AndriyK's monster case was a nightmare and they are still "voting" on undoing the bad-faith redirects (leaning towards undoing though).
Any advice? --Irpen 02:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

My arbcom question

I took a look at Wikipedia:Arbitration policy, which you reference in your answer, and in my opinion, the present ArbCom has been very casual in its observance of that policy, so I think that perhaps something more emphatic is in order. I linked to an old version of the "Bill of Rights" because that proposal has been subject to edit wars and vandalism. --HK 15:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Red Army civil war song

Hi Mikkalai. I wonder if you can help me with something. There is a Red Army song from the civil war called “The Red Army is the Strongest”, (english translation according to a CD I have: The best of the Red Army Choir) which starts with the lyrics: the white army and the black baron... If you know it, could you tell me the correct Russian title. The song was translated to many languages, and there is already an articles about it in the Swedish wiki, and the German wiki, and I assume there is one in the Russian. So I was thinking I should write one article for the English wiki too, and you are more than welcome to help me if you like. --Bronks 9 january 2006.

Thank you. I’m very grateful for your help. (I only know a little Russian, but not much, only at a tourist level, I can read the letters). But I’m pretty sure the two versions I mentioned are the same as, Красная армия всех сильней. I’ve heard them both (and I wrote the), it is the same melody, although the texts are different. The Swedish version is not about the red army, it’s about how the workers build the land etc, but it is the same music as Красная армия… maybe the german article saying it was based on Reinhold Glière’s march is mistaken. Anyway, thanks.

--Bronks 10 january 2006.

Arbcom candidate userbox

Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.

{{User arbcom nom}}

If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 02:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Bonaparte

Hi Mikka, I guess you were right about Bonaparte. I have indefinitely blocked three IP addresses, which I believe are open proxies (I can edit through them if I configure my browser to):

Do you recognise them? The are the ones that strung you and Ghirlandajo over the 3RR. I suspect that they may have something to do with Bonaparte (their standard of English). I apologise for having questioned your judgement. I guess you were right all along. Izehar 22:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

RfC

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Anittas 2 --Ghirla | talk 16:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi mikka, I'v noticed that you have been crossing out Bonny's name from the assiciations he had joined. He had joined the Wikipedia:Mentorship Committee (!) and you missed that one ;-) Izehar 18:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I am not crossing it out. These are free associations after all. But I think they must be aware of certain things, because I noticed that at his talk page some people still ask for his intervention. By the way the fact that you preferred to notify me rather than to do what I did makes me think that despite your apology, you unonsciously feel that I have some personal grudge against Bonaparte and that it will be my pleasure to strrrrrrrrrrrrike him out from yet another place.
Please be advised that I was and am pissed off exactly by this attitude: the apparent perception that I am on some personal quest, a Big Bad Admin and Three Little Romanians. mikka (t) 19:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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