Talk:Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

Members?
There are missing sources for some of the members:

Vladimir Arnold:

member of the Russian Academy of Sciences as his wikipage says. maybe some was mixing the two up?

Sergey Karpov:

also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

not mentioned on his wikipage and he is a honorary member really?

Sergey Kapitsa

his wikipage even says he is the president of that academy. I actually doubt that, because the presented source just says member. http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1128

Valery Petrosyan and Gennadiy Onishchenko just no source.

Why does this article have a list of members? Is that a complete list? —BarrelProof (talk) 23:03, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It is claimed that the controversial Russian inventor Anatoly Yunitskiy who invented SkyWay technology is a graduate with a PhD from the RAEN - see this link: He is not mentioned above as one of the members. See the Wikipedia article SkyWay Group for more information on this RAEN graduate.-Zachar Laskewicz (talk) 15:02, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Confusion with Russian Academy of Sciences
The problem of mixing up Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences should be mentioned on the page. 77.64.141.176 (talk) 17:58, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅, hatnote added.  JGHowes   talk  16:24, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Dispute over legitimacy
As can be seen from the edit history, there seems to be some dispute over the legitimacy of this organization and it's various associations. See here, for example. Please discuss it out and come to a consensus. Anyone who edit wars (specifically warning, , and the various IPs) will be blocked without further notice. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:17, 18 December 2020 (UTC) The version mentioning the criticism should be restored, as it is adequately sourced. For example, the Russian Academy of Sciences website does refer to an article discussion this NGO's indulging in pseudo-science, albeit having some form of UN recognition. Significantly, the Russian Wikipedia article on Российская академия естественных наук has an even more extensive criticism section, viz., ru:Российская академия естественных наук, where additional sources are cited. &mdash;  JGHowes   talk  16:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , For those with OTRS access, there's also this: 2020121710013877. &mdash;   JGHowes   talk  13:34, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup, I'm aware of that. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:35, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , Agree with restoring that version. Looks like restored a stable rev and then an IP reverted them before they fully protected it  Merry Christmas!  Asartea   Talk   Contribs!  18:59, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Let's restore the version. There's nothing to see here so far. The new SPA's and ip's have edit-warred without any indication why at all. If someone wants to summarize what's at OTRS, that might help.
 * I've no idea why UN-recognition is meaningful or noteworthy. --Hipal (talk) 19:10, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I've restored it to the version prior to the first edit by CloudySunshine. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:22, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Edit request
Hi. If an admin has a couple of seconds on their hands, it would be good if "erstwhile" in the lede was replaced by "former". While "erstwhile" does mean "former" it's not necessarily a word many people will understand. I don't promote the "dumbing-down" of English Wikipedia, but I do champion using the word most easily understood by the largest number of people. Of course, this is not a crisis of any kind, I just went to change it myself when I realized that the article was fully protected. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:34, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:05, 25 December 2020 (UTC)