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Order of the White Eagle
Hi there. Thanks for your recent addition to Ronald Reagan about the Order of the White Eagle award. I thought that the award is to be presented July 17, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Library. I am scheduled to attend that event, so if it is to be presented then, I am going to remove that addition to the page for now. Happyme22 17:06, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Ukraine in WW2
I see that you are now taking an interest in that disgusting page. I must say that the attention to it is long overdue. However, I do not think it is a good idea to remove other user's comments. Trolls are best exposed when their comments are visible.

Also, would you be interested in working on the article on the Ukraine in World War Two? If created, it would be a nice subarticle in the History of Ukraine. We already have some articles about the history of the nation in the specific period of which Ukraine after the Russian Revolution is probably the best one.

Regards, --Irpen 06:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Forgive me, I fear that if someone saw that statement, they might have some thought in their mind that it is true. I would help with the article in any way I can. Ostap 06:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)


 * LOL. No one takes seriously the Wikipedia articles with the massacres, invasions, collaborations, attack, etc. in the title. It is plain obvious that those articles were started or tilted by the users with an ax to grind. I will let you know if (and when) I (or someone esle) starts a WW2 article. Of course, you can start it any time. --Irpen

Chortkiv offensive
Good work with starting the article. Thanks, --Irpen 03:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Images
Image:Cheremshyna Marko.jpg and Image:Vitovsky Dmytro.jpg‎ uploaded per your request. Happy edits, --Irpen 05:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help. Ostap 14:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Uploading images is not that difficult. There is a link from any wp page that says: upload file. Make sure you choose to title the image with some descriptive filename. Tagging it properly takes some experience. But you will quickly grasp its basics. --Irpen 20:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I did this. I selected the file from where it says browse, and entered the copyright information.  Then I said "upload" and nothing happened.  I have uploaded before a few times, but now it doesn't work.  I don't know what the problem is. You really made the Chortkiv offensive article look good.  Sorry about the "офензива" part.  I guess its been a while, and my english is starting to find its way into my Ukrainian.  Ostap

Foreign names
Thanks. In fact this is not the case, IMO, where the Ukrainian translation is necessary at all. It is important to render a native name when it serves the basis of the English name through a transliteration, like placenames, people's names, rivers, etc. If, however, the English term is obtained through a translation rather than transliteration, then the original term is not important to an English reader and is mere clutter.

Compare:
 * Kyivrada (Київрада) is ...

with:
 * Kiev city council is ...

In the former case we transliterate the foreign term into an English article. In the latter one we translate "Київська міська рада". The reader might use the term, whose origin may seem obscure to him (case 1) but very few readers come to the wikipedia to learn the translation of the words "city" and "council" into Ukrainian and those who look for such info should refer to dictionaries rather than encyclopedias.

So, I am thinking of removing the non-English term from the article. --Irpen 22:42, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That sounds resonable, but I have seen foreign words in other articles where the English term is obtained through a translation rather than transliteration. Do you want me to stop adding the foreign words if the article name is based on translation? What about the Treaty of Kurukove? Ostap 04:23, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, it is hard to have a set in stone rule. This is more or less an editor's judgment issue. Probably, if the term is firmly established in national historiography, it is useful to give it. At the same time, if various authors use different terms, then giving just one is probably excessive. Re "treaty", there are several similar words used in Ukrainian historiography depending on which treaty we are talking about. Some treaties are "dogovir", some are "rada" (Pereyaslav), some are "akt" (Zluky), some are "spilka", etc. Also, some treaties are named through a name of the place (Kurukove Lake) and some through the derived adjectives (Pereyaslavs'ka rada). If there are firmly established word-combination (Pereyaslavska Rada), I would give it. If the event is covered in few books only (Chortkiv) and has no universally established name (it can be "nastup", "ataka", "udar", etc.) perhaps we need none of it.

I recently removed the pure translational name from Seven wonders of Ukraine, but the author restored it. I chose not to persist. This is just food for thought, not a rule set in stone.

For a different but related issue, see Talk:Kiev Bandurist Capella. Happy edits, --Irpen 18:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * So its probably best to limit the Ukrainian names to people and geographic places? Would this also include works of literature? Ostap 05:24, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This is not a sort of the rule to set in stone. So, up to editors. I would definitely include it for works of literature (like Perebendya). BTW, we are almost late to nominate our article on Chortkiv offensive to DYK. I will try to submit something right now but it may be too late. We'll see. --Irpen 06:15, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Submitted but may still not make it because of the last minute and because some might give the nom a fight. We'll see. Feel free to edit my hook. In any case even if it ends up not featured at the main page having the new article is more important. Cheers, --Irpen 07:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * So the article turned out well? That is good. You really made it quite good.  Ostap 07:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Taking an extra effort of DYK submission is worth it for two reasons. It brings readers to the Ukrainian topics, not only to the article in question but often to the articles linked from it. Secondly, it results with the article being copyedited for style, grammar and text by native speakers. Congrats. --Irpen 20:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Did you know...
Congratulations with your first DYK! --Irpen 20:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Hello,

Thank you for your support.

There is a request for comment open at the talk page. Please contribute.

Thanks, Horlo 23:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Bud'mo

Horlo 00:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Ostap, it is of course up to you to decide how to spend your time but I recommend against "contributing" anything to the page name's "debate" for a simple reason that realistically the page won't get moved now. In a year or two, perhaps, the issue might be worth to be looked at again but now it is a mere waste of time. Since Horlo has no better use for his time than conduct his futile crusade and has no desire to make a single meaningful content edit, he types in kilobytes of text at the page designated by the administrators just for him. But as I see you are interested in content writing, I would appreciate that you continue doing it in the time you have for the Wikipedia. Getting involved in the campaigns that are clearly doomed is a big waste of time no matter of whether your heart lies with the campaign's goals. BTW, have you thought of a serious development of the PUW series? If you want to take upon this task, I will try to help with all I can. The main war article would then be a good place to start. Regards, -Irpen 00:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I have voiced my opinion and am now ready to go back to editing articles. Given the evidence, I believe that Kyiv is more accurate.  But perhaps you are right, and only more time is needed before the article will be moved.  I am just curious, what is your opinion? Ostap 00:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello,

Thanks for the help. And don't let anybody tell you what is a wasted effort. Horlo 01:05, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that it is not a wasted effort, and I have made my comment in support of the move. But seeing the coverage of Ukraine on wikipedia I do think we have alot on our hands, even some other things that may be just as important. I wish you good luck with your struggle for greater accuracy, Ostap 01:16, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it should be Kiev as per currently prevailing English usage. How can one prove that the current prevailing usage is Kiev? There has been a lot said about it. I will refer you to three lengthy discussions I had that simply pop up at the top of my head. In fact I had plenty of more. But here are some: As of now, I have no plans to spend time on this debate. But if I see the usage in the media shifts, I would consider it. Cheers, --Irpen 02:05, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ukrainian_subdivisions and several sections that follow
 * User_talk:Irpen
 * User_talk:Bryndza and the next section.

Kiev
It is not a personal attack if it is true. I told Horlo that he lied and spun my words. You don't seem to be interpereting it but you are just taking my text without considering Horlo's filibuster. Accusations of lying, especially when they are justified are not personal attacks. Reginmund 01:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

CUIAS article
Thanks Ostape for the dressing up of the CUIAS article. I will have more content shortly Eduvalko 16:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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Chekayu
Ostape,

Chekayu.

Horlo 00:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I'm sorry if my response was not clear. Please see my response on my user page.

Horlo 05:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Berehynia
Hi, I noticed that you are interested in topics related to Ukraine. I would appreciate if you offered your opinion on the subject of the article Berehynia. The discussion takes place at the article's talk page. Thanks in advance. --Hillock65 11:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Interesting, but mythology isn't really an area I know too much about. I will say that I have always been taught that she was a goddess.  I will see what I can find, and if I get any information I will be sure to bring it to the discussion.  Ostap 16:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Hryhory Loboda
Hi Ostap. Even without changing the spelling, you can fix the template by using a piped link, so it links to one name but displays another. For example, Hryhoriy Loboda makes this: Hryhoriy Loboda, and would turn to bold text on the page.

We usually name articles by the simplified version which commonly appears in books, so that -ій and -ий endings become -y, and often the same version is used in the article. Where the Ukrainian appears in the leading line, I usually put a more precise transliteration there, according to the BGN/PCGN system. This way both versions appear in the article for the sake of web searches, and someone who doesn't know the Cyrillic alphabet can divine the original spelling. I'll have a look and do something to the article. —Michael Z. 2007-09-21 19:26 Z 


 * Hi again. A Google search showed almost no non-wikipedia links for either version, so in this case I went with the simplified name in the text (to match the title another editor chose), plus precise transliteration.  If I look in my history books, perhaps I will get a better indication that one spelling or the other is more appropriate. —Michael Z. 2007-09-21 19:33 Z 


 * "Hryhoriy Loboda" -wikipedia 8 hits
 * "Hryhory Loboda" -wikipedia 9 hits

Looking at what I wrote above—I'm not sure that we actually use the simplified version more often. I usually prefer original names like "Oleksandr", but very often the most commonly used version in English literature is anglicized, like "Alexander", so that would be more appropriate for the title. This is why I like to add the precise transliteration: it will always be consistent, regardless of the whims of English-language publications, or lack of them.

Sorry for the long explanation. Sometimes one has to be very careful about the detail of naming in articles, as you know. —Michael Z. 2007-09-21 19:39 Z 


 * Yes indeed, "Oleksandr" was listed in Dovzhenko's article until recently. I'll restore the transliteration. —Michael Z. 2007-09-21 19:48 Z 

Muscovy
Sorry, did not get your doubt at first. Actually, per EB Muscovy ended even earlier. The last ruler with the title as simply the Grand Duke of Moscow was Ivan III by the end of whose reign the country is more properly called Russia. Ivan IV was crowned as the Tsar and the proper period is called Tsardom of Russia. Thanks for catching this. You could have just corrected. --Irpen 05:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I had no doubt that the onion domes came from Russia. However, the article about Naryshkin Baroque says that it occured in the 17th 18th centuries, yet it said it happened in Muscovy.  I figured that either the part about Muscovy should have been changed, or that the domes came from an earlier Baroque movement in Russia that perhaps took place during the Grand Duchy.  Keep in mind I know very little about architecture. Ostap 06:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Ostap Please keep an eye on the K uban c ossack article. The information is very Russophilic. All my edits regarding the Ukraininess of the c ossacks has been edited out as have all aspects of Ukrainian language and culture there. Recently the addition of the article to the category of Ukrainian population groups was removed despite the fact that Ukrainian c ossacks settled there 200 years ago and Ukrainian is still spoken on the streets Bandurist 15:20, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That article is truly sad. I will help anyway you need me to. Ostap 20:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I am trying. Thanks for your suopport. Bandurist 22:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)
Aargh, a typo. I hate them :> It's 1921, I will correct the errors.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, they are. Btw, I need to to some weeding of Polish new articles, could you disambig the rest of links here?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I owe you an appology
I'm sorry for mis-understanding your intentions there. It's just that after a long-lasting fight with Hillock i kind of got crazy in that place, so sorry. P.S. You might be interested in taking part in what i offered to Bandurist here. M.V.E.i. 21:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Łukasz Ciepliński
Yes, it would seem he satisfies the criteria. My understanding is that the criteria require an orchestrated, notable effort to wipe out a person from history. We can't require such efforts to be ultimately successful, because for persons whose unpersoning did not fail, we wouldn't have WP:RS to use. The article Łukasz Ciepliński mentions such an orchestrated effort in its very lead, and therefore, I'd say the criteria are satisfied. Thank you for the help! ΔιγυρενΕμπροσ! 07:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Good question. I thought about him myself, and I'm not entirely sure, but I tend to think he fits.  However, a major counterargument that I see is that the Soviets preferred to make him more of an Universal Enemy rather than just expunging him, and accordingly, the focus was not as much on removing references to him but on removing references to his relations with Lenin and Stalin.
 * If you manage to find a more definitive conclusion than I have, I would be interested to hear it. ΔιγυρενΕμπροσ! 07:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalwatch
Thanks for your guarding the House with Chimaeras article from vandals and nonsense editors. Since you are a relatively new editor, I just though it might be worthwhile to give you heads up on the fact that reverts of simple vandalism do not count under WP:3RR and mainpage article should be restored from vandalism without waiting for another editor to notice even if you reverted earlier several times. Thanks for your good work! --Irpen 05:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. When will I no longer be a new editor? Ostap 20:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I meant no offense. I just thought it won't heart to give you a heads up. --Irpen 20:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * None taken. It just seems that you have been here for many years. Ostap 20:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Since about the Orange Revolution give or take a couple of months. But I have been less active in some periods and more active in others. You are doing a great work here. Are you following the article Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007? We need to be updating it every 20-30 minutes as CEC updates the newest count data. I am off form much of the rest of the day. Please help if you can. --Irpen 20:28, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I would help but I'm pretty busy and probably won't be on much until later. In fact I'm so busy I shouldn't really even be on wikipedia now, but I couldn't abandon the Kyiv/kiev conversation that started going. Sorry, Ostap 20:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks a lot for helpin out with reverting the vandalism... I too was on the lookout, but you beat me to it every time! Cheers, —dima/talk/ 20:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. The nerve of those petty vandals... Ostap 20:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Petl(i/y)ura
Hi Ostap.

Regarding the Romanization of Петлюра: at the time I had some ideas about how ye/ie, ya/ia and yu/iu was used in transliterations. I still think it would be good to use the different versions to show when an iotated letter palatalizes a preceding consonant, but I now know that no standardized system really does that. I even wrote something like this into a guideline which later made its way into WP:CYR. I've tried to correct it more than once, but some editors who watch that page have their own, unique ideas about transliteration, and no consensus on a change could be reached. (I'll have to try again—in my opinion English-language Wikipedia should use straight BGN/PCGN transliteration for Ukrainian aside from geographic names in Ukraine, and in fact it almost always does anyway.)

For the most part, North American academic publications use ALA-LC transliteration which uses i for iotified vowels (Petliura), and British ones use BGN/PCGN, which uses y (Petlyura). (Many North American publications actually uses a modified ALA-LC, which is easier on anglophone eyes.) "Putliura" seems to show up most in Google search results.

But at the time I also wasn't aware that the Polish orthography would render the name as Petlura, that this version showed up still more often in Google, and this is what the family uses. The article should probably be moved to Symon Petlura (and of course, the text should be cleaned up for consistency). What do you think? —Michael Z. 2007-10-09 01:23 Z 


 * Hi

1) Keep in mind in central Ukraine all vowels after an l are softened automatically. This is part of the central Ukrainian dialect. It has been firmed up in writing in 1934 ie Klas instead of kliasam lampa,instead of liampa. My dad's nianian used to say molioko instead of moloko. The same for Petlura - Petliura. 2) The direct family in Canada spells it Petlura. Bandurist 11:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your help with the revert-war. Hopefully we can now focus on the discussion.

Horlo 02:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I suggest keeping focused on content writing. BTW, Ostap, do you remember our discussion on a development of UA-PL war article? Are you still interested? --Irpen 03:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am going through some available print sources looking for good information on the subject. I am yet to find anything very useful, but I have alot left to go through.  I will do my best.  I have a question, if I create an article Baptists in Ukraine, would this violate some policy because that section exists in Protestants in Ukraine? Ostap 05:06, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You can create a separate article on a more detailed presentation of the subject already covered briefly in another article on a more general topic. Please read this for some general advise. Regards, --Irpen 05:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Chinese in Russian Revolution
On the above - you understand me very well. Absolutely correct. I couldn't have put it better. Someone finally gets the point!
 * Yours truly, --Ludvikus 06:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Great. But why are you preaching to the converted? You've paraphrased my points so well, why don't you make your agreement known to our Polish cousins on the Talk page of the Article? Are the Ukrainians affraid of the Poles? The are today 38.5 Million Poles in Poland - but the are 46.5 Million Ukrainians in the Ukraine! --Ludvikus 06:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Dear Ostrap,
 * Your the only editor who makes me laugh! Here we are, in the middle of an Editors War, and you talk about the weather. That's actually nice - that's prpbably why you don't get upset. Cheers. --Ludvikus 03:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * PS: I've just been informed by a WP Administrator (User:Banno) that the limit for Reversions is not Three Per Article, but Three Per Editor. So by all means, if you believe that the Poster of Trotsky should be Deleted do so. It will give me some pleasure seeing what happens when two Poles now encounter one Ukrainian (I'm thinking in Sportsmanship terms, not Chauvenistic ones). Let's make believe we are playing Soccer. --Ludvikus 04:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm proud of you, Ostrap. Now I've got to go to sleep. Peace & Happiness to you, --Ludvikus 04:46, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * You've paralized the article war - All's quiet on the Chinese front! --Ludvikus 14:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

"illustrates propaganda" vs. "used as propaganda"
14 October 2007 Bishonen (Talk | contribs) (6,114 bytes) (Rv. Please settle on talk before removing this very telling image.    I'm hoping Ludvikus will eventually see that it *illustrates* propaganda, as opposed to being *used as* propaganda.)
 * The latest Reversion is by User:Bishonen: he restored the Propaganda Poster of Lenin.
 * He makes an excellent distinction (the above).
 * However, he fails to see that at the moment it is being improperly "used as propaganda."
 * The Poster is not discussed in the article.
 * It is not Sourced or Referenced exactly - it may be a pretty good hoax.
 * It does not "illustrate propaganda" - the article is not about that. The article is about the Chinese in the Revolution. There is nothing - at this stage of the article's life - which is benefited by the poster. Quite the contrary, it merely portrays the Chinese as the killers in the Russian Revolution.
 * I wish User:Bishonen would have explained how the Poster illustrates Propaganda before he had Reverted.
 * Yours truly, --Ludvikus 16:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone. Ostap, you're wonderful - I though you might have been scared off by that majority!
 * There's now an editor there who says, "What are they Mongolians? Koreans?" He even says, "Look at their mustach!"
 * So now Wikipedia articles use the 'appearance in Propagand Posters as evidence - of Chinese in the Russian Revolution!
 * I wonder if Mikkai is going to Revert you to restore the Poster? I think it is he who created the Stub for the Article, and he, I think, put up the Poster. Best to you, Ostrap. Oh - is there a uniquely Ukrainian slur against the Poles? I'm curious about that. It is amazing how difficult it is for me to demonstrate that an offensive, derrogatory, poster should not be used lightly. Right now the only reason for the Poster is that there appear to be Chinese in it! --Ludvikus 07:00, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You were great - but what happened? How come you left? And why did you mention that Polish/Ukrainian atrocity? I do not understand what just happened? Regards, --Ludvikus 01:57, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That's OK. This is not a Real War. I kinda think truth will prevail in the end. But I'm rather surprised you gave up so soon. We were winning. It seems it's Four (us) against Two (them). So I'm confused by the reason you gave up? And you still didn't tell me why you mentioned that Ukrainian/Polish massacre? What's that got to do with anything? Were you feeling guilty, or something like that? You seem like a fair guy to me, and you are not really responsible for what someone else did which you could not control. --Ludvikus 02:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I knew he (Irpen) was also Ukrainian before you just told me that he's not Polish. I also noticed that he's been a Wikipedian much longer than I have (or you, I think). Let me just say that I do my best to treat everyone fairly and not pre-judge them. Nevertheless, history often helps you to keep a look-out for what may come. So Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, etc., history can tell you a lot what kind of a position a person may hold. And I know, for instance that Poland kept the Ukrainians from having their own independent state. And that Nationalism is a relatively new phenomena (no more than 200 years old).
 * About the Protocols, as you've asked. That stuff is fascinating to me not because it contains every antisemitic accusation you could think of, but because it really is not at all what 99% [don't take this figure too loiterally] of the people think it is. When you go to the Original Source you discover how complex things are - and that they are much more different than you read in the so-called scholarship.
 * And then there's the amasement how people can believe such ridiculous nonesense. I like to study the Preface, Introduction, Commentary, etc. It turns out that this Book is not one book at all, but something which these annonymous editors keep recycling over-and-over-and over-again. Anyway, that's roughly why I'm fascinated by these Protocols - in part because it shows me how amazingly stupid, gullible, and wicked Man - the believer in the Protocols - can be. Now maybe I should go to sleep - like dream of nicer things. Peace. --Ludvikus 02:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * And the answer to your question is "yes." There is nothing any antisemite can think of that has not already been formulated in the so-called "Protocols." --Ludvikus 02:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

The four (4) sources to the opening of our article

 * (1) Пын Мин. История китайско-советской дружбы. М., 1959. (Peng Ming,
 * "History of the Chinese-Russian Frienship",
 * translation from Chinese, Moscow, Sotsekgiz, 1959,
 * original: "Zhong-su yu she", Pekin, 1957 (Russian)
 * '''[no quote supplied by WP editor]
 * (2) Россия и мир глазами друг друга: Из истории взаимовосприятия /
 * Под ред. А.В. Голубева; РАН. Ин-т рос. истории. - М., 2000.
 * Вып. 1. - 365 с. ISBN 5-8055-0043-4,
 * Chapter IV, Section "The Perception of China by USSR Political Elite" (Russian)
 * '''"Chinese detachments, together with Latvians, Hungarians, and others
 * '''guarded the Soviet government already in 1917-1918"
 * (3) a b Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen:
 * The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, Viking Press 2004: ISBN 0670910880 (hardcover)
 * '''"In 1919, 75 percent of the Cheka's central management was Latvian.
 * '''When Russian soldiers refused to carry out executions,
 * '''Latvian (and Chinese force of some 500 men) were brought in.
 * (4) a b c Lukin, Alexander (2002). The Bear Watches the Dragon:
 * Russia's Perceptions of China
 * and the Evolution of Russian Chinese Relations
 * since the Eighteenth Century.
 * China: M.E. Sharpe, p.98.
 * '''[no quote supplied by WP editor]


 * This is the basis of the article's opening. It is important, therefore, to examine these arefully. To a great extent, the status of the article rests or falls on these 4 items. Yours truly, --Ludvikus 12:47, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Lets look exactly at what our article actually says: 'Chinese served as bodyguards of Bolshevik functionaries[1][2], served in the Cheka[3], and even formed complete regiments of the Red Army.[4]
 * 2) Now lets look exactlt at what our four (4) sources actually say: "Chinese detachments, together with Latvians, Hungarians, and others guarded the Soviet government already in 1917-1918" and '''"In 1919, 75 percent of the Cheka's central management was Latvian. When Russian soldiers refused to carry out executions, Latvian (and Chinese force of some 500 men) were brought in.
 * Such use of sources (to interpret, selectively edit, and expand on what's actually said) is prohibited by Wikipedia. At best, it's original research.
 * Yours truly, --Ludvikus 13:12, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Drohobych Дрогобич
That's my parents' home town. It's now in the Ukraine. It was in Poland before WWII. --Ludvikus 06:38, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
THank you for a very nice message. Our nations should be friends forever, we are so close and we share so much of common history. Hope massacres of any kind will never occur, and this is why I am expanding the article - to remaind people and to warn them to where hatred can lead us. Greetings and all best Tymek 18:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Am I happy? You bet! Are you interested in football? Before the war the Ukrainian minority in Poland had several good football/soccer teams. I will later write about it

Tymek 23:33, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Stefan Fedak
Sorry, I missed your question at talk JP. I don't have any really reliable sources for that (but I haven't looked for them neither); I just based this on his article on pl wiki. If you think this is controversial, we can remove his membership from that article until we get a better ref. PS. Perhaps you could stub an entry on him? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There are pl and uk entries, but not referenced. I wonder how did he die in Berlin - was he a prisoner, or a soldier - and if so, on which side? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:06, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Henryk Józewski
I think you will find this new article I wrote interesting. Feel free to expand! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:24, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Ostape, I started an article about the Ukrainian Republic Capella, but as that is my first one, there are surely lots of things to fix. I would really appreciate any help/suggestions. Thanks, Horlo 01:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the editing. Hopefully I will have more to add soon. Horlo 05:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Minorities
That's no bother. I am using naming conventions as used for other Polish minorities; let me suggest you raise the issue at WP:PWNB and suggest batch renaming. I don't expect any objections if this is indeed the naming convention, and in a few days we can rename the article. Since I am usually the only one editing the articles Poland related minorities in the east, they include as much content as I have time and will to add, of course, feel free to expand them as much as you want.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:01, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Protocols of Zion (imprints)
Ostrap! Here's the link to the AfD page for the above --Ludvikus 03:57, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Ostrap. You always come through in the end. Hope you have a pleasant evening!
 * Where are you, anyway? I'm in NYC.
 * Cheers, --Ludvikus 04:09, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Class interests

 * I've started the for it.
 * Feel free to contact me by email on this issue, as you asked.
 * Best to you as always, --Ludvikus 14:23, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Polish repatriation from Ukraine
‎ I'm porting (translating, summarizing etc) over Serhiychuk's book on Polish repatriation from Ukraine. Please join. Bandurist 15:12, 20 October 2007 (UTC)‎
 * I will do what I can. Thanks, Ostap 18:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Ostape, thank you for the info. If the personal attacks - actually, they're quite funny - continue, I will definitely report them.

Thanks for your help with the Ukrainian Republic Capella article, too. Horlo 04:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from eduvalko
Thanks Ostape wise words to go along with what mama always said "Не чіпaйся гім-a бо будеш смердів" Till the next time Eduvalko 06:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Ihor
"People commonly called Ihor" does not include notable persons whose first name happens to be Ihor, like Ihor Drizhachny, etc. Those are not "commonly called Ihor". Only few selected people are called by their first names, princes, tsars, patriarchs and metropolitans. Those are already listed in the Igor article. Ihor and Igor are not different names to warrant separate articles but one and the same name in different languages. --Irpen 03:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * What now? originaly I did say "people named Ihor" Ostap 03:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The former solution would have been a List of people by name: Ihor, but all such lists from Aadu to Zvonimir were deleted at some point as community decided that such lists are useles junk. So, first thing is to purge all Ihors but the princes. This would live us with two princes and the article, being a fork of Igor. Forks are confusing and unneeded. So, I suggest replacing it with a redirect to Igor, the name under which this princes are better known to anglophones and add "Iгор" to the latter article. --Irpen 04:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * "Aadu to Zvonimir" ha ha! I have redirected the page. Ostap 04:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, here is how the logic goes. List articles are useful if lists are meaningful. For instance, List of dog breeds is clearly called for and useful. Some lists are marginal, but still their existence may be justified. Take a look at List of Leopolitans. A reader may go through such list and say: "Wow! And this one too? I would have never thought that A and B are indeed from Lviv". But List of people named John (or Ihor for that matter) is of course of little use for anyone. There were such lists and they were all nuked at some point. There is absolutely no justification to have a list that would lump Igor I of Kiev, Igor Sikorsky and Ihor Yukhnovskyi together, is it? So, that was the logic behind deletion of all those lists. --Irpen 00:01, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I understand. Where on earth did you come up with the name Aadu? Thats what was funny.  Ostap 00:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I found Aadu at Category:Given names. --Irpen 00:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Lwów dialect
Could you comment at the talk of this talk page? Input from Ukrainian editors would be valuable.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Has been done. Ostap 22:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Anti Russian sentiment
On your entry for the AFD here, can I ask that you clarify your position. You voted to Delete, and re-write. Well did you mean Keep but re-write or did you actually mean for it to be deleted? --Kuban Cossack 19:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Has been done. Keep the article, but re-write. Ostap 21:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Baptist church image
I have a photo of a baptist church in Kremenchuk. I can scan it, and upload it here. Photo is a few years old, but that church has been there since late 80s. Ceriy 21:46, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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Nachtigall
Ostap I added alot of material to the Batallion Nachtigall and Batallion Rolland sites and also Roman Shukhevych. They are constantly being reverted etc. I'm getting tired of having all my research being just destroyed. Could you have a look and see what is salvagable. Thanks Bandurist 21:58, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin
While writing the article on Jan Czerski I run into this person. He seems to be a Russian explorer/geographer, but one Polish source refers to him as Cossack. Could he be Ukrainian? The article currently calls him a Russian.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Kostiuchnówka
Would you happen to know the Ukrainian and/or Russian name of Kostiuchnówka? I couldn't find one :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Could you correct the name on en wiki and create a stub for it?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Interesting point
I'd appreciate your comment - and perhaps that of your fellow Ukrainian editors - here.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Uh-oh. Redlink. Ostap (talk) 05:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * My bad. Sorry. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Bereza
Thanks; I replied to Bandurist incorporating your remark. As I suggest to him, let's continue the discussion (if needed) on article's talk page. Although I hope there is no need for further discussion (i.e. that my merge and the current name are acceptable).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:50, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * True. Although it is used by some reliable academic publications. Not that I intend to revert you - but something to consider along the lines of neutrality, verifiability and usage of various terms on Wiki.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 08:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi. I started the article last night intending to continue it today. What I have done is translated a Page from Idzio's book and put it on the talk page for our mutual discussion and maybe updating the article. I don't want to butcher it like I have seen on some pages. Bandurist (talk) 14:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Please see my recent reply on Bandurist talk regarding this issue. I believe this discussion may have much bigger impact than just renaming (or not) a single article.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:05, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
For your recent votes. If there are any articles on Wikipedia that you think would benefit from Polish-Ukrainian collaboration, do let me know. I would love to help with them! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 06:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you know who may be interested in helping me stub Ukraine related governorates from Administrative division of Polish territories after partitions? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:52, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Kiev Governorate, Volhynia Governorate, and any others that would be of interest to Ukrainian editors. See blue links from that section for what can be added to such articles. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:11, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Interesting bios
uk:Стефанів Гнат and uk:Кравс Антін - I was reading about the P-U war of 1918-1919 and they came up.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Bans on languages in Russian Empire after the January Uprising in 1863
Could you comment at Talk:Lithuanian press ban? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:05, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Can we have something less alarming?
Hey, man. This is alarming. Please do not scare your colleagues :). Can we have something more optimistic? There are pieces of great poetry without dangerous promises. Perhaps,
 * "The broad Dnieper roars and moans"

Or
 * "The mighty Dnieper roars and bellows"

Or
 * "Roaring, the groaning Dnieper stretches"

(Not so sure which of the translations is the best.) Art pictures were nice too, btw. But of course the choice is yours. Cheers, --Irpen 05:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I suppose thats not the happiest poem ever. I replaced it with something less pessimistic. Ostap (talk) 05:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Much better now :). Oh, and consider to proudly display your wikiawards during the next update. Have a great weekend! --Irpen 05:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I will use the weekend to think about (Думи мої, думи мої…) Blokhin leaving. Ostap (talk) 06:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Kidnapping of Polish children by Germany
Thank you, I am satisfied with that version. "Seems high" indeed is rather... not very serious. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 15:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Vinok
We can move the article back if you wish. It just seemed to that these traditions of the nations based on the common origin are related enough. Presenting it as purely Ukrainian seemed like an attempt to usurp as this symbol of unspoiled girlhood is shared in Belarus as well. Or are you suggesting separate articles on basically one thing, or at least very related things, and titled Vinok, Vianok, Wianek, etc? Of course the Korean or whatever aspect is irrelevant. We agree on that. --Irpen 01:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I just realize what happened with this attacks. I posted a good faith proposal to the Polish board asking them expand the article to cover the similar Polish usage. The help we got was rather unhelpful :( First Piotrus' trying to kill the article entirely and then it brought Molobo, the latter's becoming interested in any article is almost always making it the article's editing difficult. Sorry, for being unwillingly responsible for the current mess. Let me know what how would you like to proceed and I will try to help the best way I can. --Irpen 01:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, I see what you mean. As it is now the situation looks good.  But the vinok is and always will be a Ukrainian symbol :) Ostap (talk) 01:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * No question about it. As well as Vianok's being the Belarusian one. The question is whether there are reasons to keep these related items in one article under a commonly understood to native speakers name. We had a similar issue a long time with closely related kovbasa and kielbasa being separate article. They were later merged as anyone knows what kielbasa is from the local deli. And Kielbasa covers the Ukrainian aspect and gives the Ukrainian word. Look at this for more. --Irpen 01:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The more I think of it, the more I like it. Let's make the redlink Ukrainian wreath blue, put there your original content with small modifications plus the pic I found and I can't care less what happens with the grab-bag of the unrelated issues that this article is turning. We do not need to move the page even. What do you think? --Irpen 02:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Ostap (talk) 02:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. That article is written by you is acknowledged in the edit summary. Cheers, --Irpen 02:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I suppose Ukrainian wreath is best, I wrote the article because of links to it from from Ukrainian dance and Ukrainian Culture pages. What a hassle. Thanks Ostap (talk) 02:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Good article, it's always interesting to read about foreign cultures.I'm glad we managed to solve the issue regarding this article through discussion. Keep up the good work and happy editting Ostap R.--Molobo (talk) 02:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Ukrainian Architecture
Since you have an interest in Ukraine I was wondering if you could help me in expanding the still young article here? --Kuban Cossack 20:36, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure I will try to help. The article looks very nice already.  Thanks Ostap (talk) 20:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Ukrainian wreath
I'm going to take a second try at editing. Please don't just undo it, since whether you agree or disagree, my edit is not intentional vandalism. The trouble with the article right now is that it presents theories passed on from one article in the popular press as if they were established facts, and we need to qualify some of the claims a bit. David (talk) 18:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * David, please present any source that dispute the totally uncontroversial claims in the article. Also, please take your grievances to the article's talk page. TIA, --Irpen 18:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Serhiy Yefremov
Prometheism article mentions the 1930 trial of Serhiy Yefremov in USSR. I wonder if uk wiki has an article on him that could be translated? A quick google search indicates he is a notable and interesting figure.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Print sources list
Great list on your user page Ostap. Do you mind if I use some of those references in a new "Further reading" section at the Ukraine article? Regards, Bogdan що? 05:06, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure. I spent the day going through the library finding all the books I could for writing about Ukraine in WWII. It was hard, they are scattered about in three different sections.  Thats all I found.  Problem is I just realized I will be away from these books for over a month :( Ostap 05:16, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's too bad, but I'm glad to hear someone's putting in effort around here :). How does that look? Bogdan що? 05:37, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It looks good. After you get Ukraine to good article status, you should write Ukraine in World War Two.  That is an article that needs to be written. Ostap 05:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Definitely, I was even thinking about writing a larger scope article, something like "Military History of Ukraine", and then "Ukraine in World War II". Congratulations on the award! Bogdan що? 16:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Cudnów
See move discussion at talk; I have no objections to move if there is consensus for that. We also need to transliterate some of the names in the article - I am using Polish sources and I prefer to leave them as Polish until somebody who knows how can transliterate them. In particular: Tymofiej Cieciura (we probaby need a stub on him); Słobodyszcze (village?). See also the war infobox for more name that may merit transliteration from Polish to English of their Ukrainian variant. Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:150.140.130.80
Hi, could you place a better description of the problem I have put there? Thanks Mallerd (talk) 22:04, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Holodomor denial
Ostape,

I have started an article about Holodomor denial. It is very badly in need of assistance. Please help.

Thanks, Horlo (talk) 09:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I commented at talk. I think AfD. What is your opinion? --Irpen 16:39, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Have you seen anyone but Tottle that denies that the famine took place? What other "editors" deny it? Sorry, I don't understand your edit. --Irpen 07:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * There was an editor who defended denier Tottle here: . I was not referring to you. Ostap 07:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, there are also editors who believe that Ukraine should be partitioned and editors who claimed that the Ukrainian women were eager to please Nazis. Such outrageous views are so rare that even at Wikipedia such "editors" are complete outcasts. The overwhelming majority of people reject such xenophobic views. --Irpen 07:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I apologize, i assure you I was not talking about you, nor did I intend to sound like I was talking about you. That other comment was the one I was reffering to. Ostap 07:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

You don't need to apologize. I did not take your statement on my own account. However, I am stopping to edit this article for now. I invested a huge effort in Holodomor article having written a very significant part of what it is now. I care about the topic a lot, including for personal family reasons, and I take its being used for soapboxing more close to heart than most any other topic's getting soapboxed. Horlo's and Molobo's joining the fest was a final straw. I can't handle them on these topics anymore and argue with their "points". I tried to help with the article but the recent edits were too much. I tagged it and I am stopping to edit it for now. --Irpen 07:52, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh come now, thats all the more reason to keep editing it. Ostap 07:58, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

1939
Hi Ostap I just have a question.I read somewhere that in early September 1939, taking advantage of the chaotic situation resulting from German attack on Poland, Ukrainian paramilitary units temporarily captured the town of Stryj, and retreating Polish forces had to fight for the town, pushing out the Ukrainians. Have you heard about it? Tymek (talk) 14:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That sounds likely. I will look around and try to verify for you.  Cheers, Ostap 21:50, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

З Новим Роком!
--Riurik(discuss) 21:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Сію, сію, посіваю, Bandurist (talk) 01:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Сійся, родися,
 * Жито, пшениця,
 * Горох, чечевиця,
 * І всяка пашниця,
 * Внизу корениста,
 * Зверху колосиста,
 * Щоб на майбутній рік
 * Було більше, ніж торік.
 * Щоб всього було доволі
 * І в коморі, і на полі.
 * З Новим роком
 * Поздоровляю!
 * Щастя, радості, краси,
 * Бочку меду вам в труси.
 * Щоб не злиплись яйця голі,
 * Молодичок Вам доволі.
 * А щоб сало було в хаті,
 * Кабани хай волохаті
 * Запетрушать свиноматок,
 * Отоді буде достаток.
 * З Старим новим роком!

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- George Orwell

З Новим Роком!
Остапе,

Вибач за спізнення, але бажаю тобі всього найкращого з Новим новим Роком.

Щастя, сили, здоровля, і терпеливості.

Horlo (talk) 07:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

What a difference a day makes!
Ostape,

Thanks for the head's up. Actually, we had some people over for New Years and the next time that I logged in, the AfD was already closed.

Amazing, what some people do to ring in the new year!

Horlo (talk) 07:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Józef Piłsudski
Since you commented in the last round, please note that the nomination has been restarted. Thanks for the comments and edits so far! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Regime victim
Regime victim of the Ukrainian Diaspora - I like it xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxx Bandurist (talk) 02:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * He really gave himself away with that one. Quite the POV pusher. Ostap 03:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Come on Ostap, why can't you just have a normal user page with some babel, or a list of contributions, or something :)? Bogdan що? 03:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not that controversial. This type of sarcasm is very effectively (and entertainingly) used by Halibutt on his user page, in the 3rd paragraph.  No more oppression of RVs! :) --Riurik(discuss) 20:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Ukraine
Please, at least not during the GA review. Bogdan що? 02:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It was true. Right now the part about the early Bolshevik rule seems to focus on just the accomplishments, not the effects of the extension of the red terror that went on in the country. Ostap 02:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It was well-referenced and accurate; GA does not mean that an article is "nice", but instead representative of a professional encyclopedia article...which that statement meets. Armenian genocide could be a GA, but it most certainly isn't a "nice" topic and can't ever be, to give a hypothetical example. Oc t ane  [ improve me ] 15.01.08 0239 (UTC)
 * That's not what I meant by "not during a GA review", I didn't want to start an edit war (Good article criteria). That said, it's somewhat obvious that an article like Ukraine, which covers thousands of sub-topics, has no room at all for individual incident. If you're so convinced that the article has a pro-Soviet bias, Ostap, please do add something more meaningful. Bogdan що? 02:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Really, I don't see what your concern for an edit war is. If it's accurate and relevant, then there's honestly nothing to remove and thus no problem. Oc t ane  [ improve me ] 15.01.08 0306 (UTC)
 * That's my point, it's accurate but irrelevant. Bogdan що? 03:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * (edit conflicted) How is it not? Ukraine details what happened in the Ukrainian SSR, and as you said yourself it is accurate, and therefore did occur in Soviet Ukraine, and thus needs at least a "such as" mention, to provide balance. The first paragraph really does read like pro-Soviet bias to me, as well, and more things other than the collectivization and purges deserve note. Frankly, it's nine positive examples versus five negative. Seems a bit off. Oc t ane  [ improve me ] 15.01.08 0322 (UTC)
 * I don't plan on readding it. Ostap 03:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it even necessary to list these things like womens rights, and education? And what exactly does the "right to work" mean?  And, good work with that infobox thing on the talk page, you should put it in the article. Ostap 02:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes it's necessary. If mass policy changes like that aren't significant, then what is? I'm not sure about the right to work part, we could exclude it. I just took the quote (along with the template) directly from Russia. As for Women's rights...I don't have a copy of that book so I cannot specify what that quote is saying. Bogdan що? 03:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe the womens rights introduced were right to easy divorce and abortion. Not exactly the most pleasant rights... Ostap 03:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's irrelevant because it isn't nationwide. Bolshevik policies were nationwide, the Holodomor was nationwide, Religious suppression (needs to be added) was nationwide, Korenization was nationwide, industrialization was nation-wide, collectivization was nationwide, deportation was nationwide. Heated rat cages weren't nationwide.
 * Again Ostap, I don't have a copy of that book, and perhaps it was "the right to work" that was given [encouraged] to women. (P.s., 9-5?) Bogdan що? 03:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That incident might not be nationwide, but it is only an example of the atrocities that were. That said, I see what you mean about not including it.  And I won't try to re-add it.  No edit wars on Ukraine.  Ostap 05:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

9-5? Does that mean you want me to edit some article? Ostap 03:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC) "Frankly, it's nine positive examples versus five negative. Seems a bit off." Please explain Octane, Bogdan що? 03:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

"Not exactly the most pleasant rights"? Are you serious? You are saying that granting women the ability to get a divorce and an abortion was bad? It looks like you and Joseph Stalin share the same views because he recriminalized abortion. Besides the obvious repressiveness of not allowing women to get a divorce and have an abortion, I'll point out that when abortion was criminalized many women had to resort to unsafe home abortions, thousands dieing in the process from complications, infection, etc. It seems that you are consumed by a hatred for all things Soviet. Let me clarify some of the confusion for users here. When the Bolshevik's came in, women's rights were greatly increased through new political, civic, economic and family codes aimed to wipe away centuries-old inequalities at one stroke. Homosexuality was decriminalized and racism was forbidden by law. In addition to granting full freedom of divorce and decriminalizing abortion, the new government (yes, the Bolsheviks) granted women the right to vote, introduced social reforms that made marriage a voluntary relationship, enacted employment rights for women equal to those for men, gave women equal pay and introduced universal paid maternity leave. 'Right to work' meant that the government provided everyone with a job, there was no unemployment. 'Right to housing' meant that all citizens were provided with housing, the government constructed housing and leased them to people for pittance. --Miyokan (talk) 14:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I am not going to debate with you about the morality of abortion, nor the amazing accomplishments of the Bolsheviks. Believe it or not, history has already judged them.  By adding point after point about accomplishments and not telling of the horrible atrocities, you are violating WP:NPOV.  "You are saying that granting women the ability to get ... an abortion was bad?"  No, not me. Russia's very own Orthodox Church.  Ostap 20:15, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Balachka
Have a read and chack language etc. Thanks Bandurist (talk) 03:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Has been done. Ostap 03:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Request
Why would you want to have your userpage deleted? I certainly hope you are not leaving us; it was a pleasure to work with you and I hope to see you here in the future more and more often! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Frustrated with what? Anything I can help with? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Very true; discussions rarely yield useful effect. We are here to write an encyclopedia, not to take part in a discussion (or flaming) club. I highly recommend writing one page articles and dyking them.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Question
Nope, but I am to this notable individual :) Btw, glad to see you decided to keep your userpage. Now, when are you going to restore your talk page? :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Please start using a normal talk page
Please don't take it a wrong way, but the current one is plain annoying. In any case, I came by to ask if you would be willing to stub the Ukrainian-Soviet War article, red linked in the Battle of Kruty. If not, do let me know whom I can try to bug about it. It sounds like a fascinating missing subject, at least as important as the Polish-Ukrainian War. See also my question at Talk:Tsentralna Rada.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 06:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for going back to the normal talk page. Just as Polish war has a subarticle, so I am sure the Soviet one deserves one. We could start by copying relevant parts from the Ukrainian War of Independence and expanding them, with an infobox, list of battles, etc. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:13, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Another useful article to translate, in case you are missing stuff on your 'to do' list :) uk:Армія Української Народної Республіки --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've already started 'Ukrainian People's Army', might be done in a few hours. Bogdan що? 23:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * There is some good information and images here: Ostap 23:13, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I know. I'm also using this book. Bogdan що? 23:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * More here. What do you plan to call the article?  "peoples" or "national"? Encyclopedia of Ukraine uses national. Ostap 23:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I prefer people's; it corresponds with our Ukrainian People's Republic article. You? Bogdan що? 23:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I go with national, peoples sounds too... ugh. Read the People's Republic article. Ostap 00:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, have it your way. p.s., history.franko.lviv.ua doesn't work, is it just me? Bogdan що? 00:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It works for me. But leave it as peoples if you want, that is evidently the most accurate translation. Ostap 00:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, national creates a problem anyways. (i.e., Ukrainian National Army) 00:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Nice job guys. I have translated a related stub from pl wiki: Free Cossacks. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll try to find more information on them. Ostap 00:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

About the Ukrainian Wikipedia maps.. They are copyrighted, but can be included in the article under the "fair-use" policy if the image meets the criteria listed.. It's better to have a freely-licenced image, but if none are available, then you can upload the copyrighted image.. (as long as it meets the criteria..) —dima/talk/ 03:44, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Your anger at "the Ukraine" and google news
Your claim that none of those articles refer to the country itself as "the Ukraine" doesn't hold up.

Result #2 - Debt talks with the Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz..

Result #5 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso:"We are confident that political stability can become a reality in the Ukraine 

Result #6 - “Metalurg” has slipped back to the 13th place in the current championship of the Ukraine 

Result #7 - UEFA chief - "By choosing Poland and the Ukraine, UEFA took...

Result #8 - Teller was commissioned, along with four other artists, by the PinchukArtCentre to interpret the Ukraine for the 52nd International Venice

Result #9 - She writes, "Large populated areas surrounding the reactor site in the Ukraine and in nearby Belorussia remain contaminated

Result #10 - We’ve got 85 netball teams and two track and field competitors from the Ukraine 

etc, etc, etc.

Please don't make unsubstantiated accusations of vandalism next time.--Miyokan (talk) 00:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Despite the odd article that doesn't refer to the country as "the Ukraine", most do, and it is not necessary for every source to refer to the country as "the Ukraine", only to show that "the Ukraine" is still in use.--Miyokan (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Please stop making unsubstantiate accusations again. Firstly "has become established..." - what does that even mean? Predominant is much less confusing and indicates that it is now used by a majority, "although the latter is still in use" is necessary to show that despite "Ukraine" is now more often used, "the Ukraine" is still used.--Miyokan (talk) 01:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

You keep changing your argument. First the problem was that some of the search results do not refer to the country as "the Ukraine" now you are saying its the claim is redundant. The source is not invalid just because you say so.--Miyokan (talk) 01:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

It is not a claim, it is written in black and white. If you would prefer, I could link directly to the news articles which use "the Ukraine".--Miyokan (talk) 01:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't asking a question about the definition of established, I was saying that the sentence doesn't make sense. How it is now is acceptable.--Miyokan (talk) 01:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: My username
I don't mind if people use the full version (it is after all what I use in my sig), nor if they use the short version, or my first name. I am only annoyed by people who interpret the prokonsul part as some desire for power or authority, instead of (as it is explained on my userpage) a tribute to one of my favorite poems. But really I have seen only one person who twisted my nickname to make fun of me or repeatedly criticized it in the above fashion, so it's really not a big deal :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Certainly Piotrus is completely fine. It's stuff like "Piotrus the self-proclaimed prokonsul" that I have trouble with, for obvious reasons :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK hook for USW
See Template_talk:Did_you_know. I've nominated it but there is complain about a 'boring' hook... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do say it there, then.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Please check this out: Controversy regarding the Nachtigall Battalion

and also check out http://memorial.kiev.ua/content/view/539/149/ amazing materials. Thanks Bandurist (talk) 21:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * very interesting. Thanks, Ostap 01:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Uszatek
Thanks dude, I really did not know before that this cartoon is so popular all over the world, including Japan. Anyway, I watched it as a kid, but it was not my favorite. Among others, I liked the Soviet Wolf and Hare (Wilk i Zajac). Greetings. Tymek (talk) 06:10, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Hatred of Western Ukrainians
Can you please explain to me this edit comment. I would like some evidence of how this absoloutely historical fact is "hatred". Even more considering that my wife is from Rivne... --Kuban Cossack 16:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Ostap 16:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Apology accepted... Could you please help convince Hillock to stop destroying the Zaporozhian Cossacks article. The passage about the Pan-Slavic resulting from the Pereyaslav Rada is curcial to the article and fits perfectly in with the remaining ones about the effect the Zaporozhians had on the eventual outcome of Crimea and Ottaman Empire and on Poland-Lithuania. I explained to you in the edit summary that the paragraph that I am removing in the process is repeated essentially word for word five paragraphs down, try reading the section with Hillock's "Corrections" and you will find that what was a concise text becomes repetetive and poorly structured. If there are issues with the order at which the countries are placed, then I more than welcome an attempt to re-writte re-shuffle them, but I would assume chronologically Ukraine should be placed near the end, along with the saving best for last assumption to convince the opinionated editors. --Kuban Cossack 18:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't see the paragraph repeated below. I was curious as to why the cited paragraph was being removed.  Now I understand, probably should have read more thoroughly.  As far as the Kuban Cossacks being the only descendants, that's not entirely true.  The way that Faustian has it now is fine also IMO, if you have seen what he added (I think it says "most").  Sorry for the misunderstanding at the Zaporozhian article and for that edit comment at the SMERSH article.  I was a little off-wiki frustrated at the time. Ostap 05:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I'm glad we agreed... Completly separte note, what do you think of my proposal at Talk:Russian Civil War to create a full navigable template to encompass the various theatres there were in that conflict? --Kuban Cossack 20:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That looks like a lot of work. Ostap 20:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

National Revival of Poland
Thanks for reverting the changes to the National Revival of Poland page. Similar reverting has to be done at National Radical Camp. See the history and talk page there. Any insights that you might have about the sources used would be beneficial. Thanks ABANumber (talk) 17:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Theukrainians.jpg
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 * Fixed. The page with the rationale should always include the wikilinked article to where fair-use is asserted. Otherwise this bot nominates the image for deletion. Don't ask me why. This is how the bot's operator programmed his bot. You may want to ask him but this user is not very responsive to questions. So, just make sure the article is not only mentioned but also wikilinked. --Irpen 02:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. This is all very confusing.  Next time I will wikilink it.  I don't understand how to write a valid rationale, to be honest I just copied the rationale from some different album cover image. Ostap 03:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Covert Polish Missions across the Soviet Ukrainian Border, 1928-1933
A very interesting article: pdf. Enjoy! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

On your deleted edit to Talk:Holodomor
I'm not sure if that was a serious suggestion, but I see it just survived an AfD - or, to be precise, the nominator withdrew it. I do think that material exists for an article dealing with the cover-up by the USSR, related propaganda, and its place in Ukrainian activism and nationalism (if it were a journal article, it would be titled "Holodomor: Reception, Memory and Myth") but that wont happen at the current title easily, and definitely not with the current skew. Relata refero (talk) 22:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Biophys has already said he will help with any issues. Regards, Ostap 23:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Your comments will be appreciated
There is a discussion going on whether the Zaporozhian Sich was indeed destroyed. Your comments in this matter will be appreciated. Thanks. --Hillock65 (talk) 16:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Slight correction on the dispute, its not weather the actual Sich (fortress) was destroyed, but weather the Zaporozhian Host was destoryed. --Kuban Cossack 17:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

No need
Ostap, please stop making sarcastic or WP:POINTy edits and suggestions. Maybe you could do some work in apolitical articles for cooldown? --Irpen 19:34, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I just realized most of the sources I use to write on wikipedia are written by diaspora revisionists and thus are not valid. Ostap 19:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem here. Personal talk pages are the best place if one needs to make a joke. Just do not insert this into articles and don't make outrageous move page suggestions. This would fly on the talk page though. Let's keep it here. --Irpen 20:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this about Kiev -> Kyiv? Because I didn't know it had been proposed 5 times before... Ostap 20:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

No, it is about Ukrainian culture move request (I reverted) and several highly unneeded article edits lately. --Irpen 20:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In my defense, the google results were clear. Ostap 20:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's not a "defense". That's a WP:POINT. --Irpen 21:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. But I thought it was a good point. Ostap 22:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please reread the link above. WP:POINT is considered disruption. Make your point at the talk page calmly instead. --Irpen 22:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I thought it was justified (per WP:IAR). Ostap 22:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I edit non-controversial now. Ostap 04:44, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Re your next move, Lwow, I must say that enough is enough. Drop it please. --Irpen 07:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I am not sure I know what you are talking about. The policies are quite clear.  Kiev is english.  Lwow is english. Galicia is english. Ukrainian wikipedia can have the ukrainian names, but we must use english. Ostap 07:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not English. It's WP:POINT and wasting yours and others' time. A good joke is OK once in a while. The sarcastic remarks don't fall under that category. --Irpen 07:13, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * But Lwow is used thoudands of times more than both Lviv and L'viv combined. Wikipedia can't let those Hrushevskyist Greater Galician nationalists (and their diaspora revisionist supporters) try to change English usage. Ostap 07:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

This looks like an interesting article to translate
uk:Акт відновлення Української Держави. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:43, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Miś Uszatek
Was it shown in Ukraine or Russia? The article doesn't mention that, and is missing names in those languages.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 06:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

This and that-speaking countries
Please do not disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. Not cool.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please. Bogdan що? 22:26, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

How is that disruption? Does not Russia have a sizable Chechen speaking population? Ostap 22:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * See also this recent thread. Quit it. --Irpen 22:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

No one has answered my question. Does Russia have a sizable Chechen speaking population? If so, then it should be included in that category. Ostap 22:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * (*after edit conflict*) Forgetting for a moment that your edit was caused by a completely unrelated dispute in Ukraine, Russia's Chechen-speaking population is not "sizeable" comparing to the total population of the country.
 * Please note that I have no interest in your categorization dispute in the Ukraine article. Whatever grievances you may have there, please take them directly with the editors whose opinion you don't share and discuss them on that article's talk page.  Editing unrelated pages just to prove your point is clearly a disruption.  Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:36, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I did use the talk page before any of this. And the response I recieved justified the inclusion of Russia into Chechen category. Ostap 22:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

And good catch with "sizeable". On Ukraines talk page the editor spelled it "sizeble". I got all confused. Ostap 22:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

circus
Hi, I think Nihil Novi has come up with this term before, and your first guess was right. Anyway, write an e-mail to me, you've got my e-mail on my user page. Tymek (talk) 21:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Requests_for_arbitration
Arbcom are voting to apply discretionary sanctions across East European articles. Martintg (talk) 21:32, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Castle
Hi Ostap, when you have a moment, look at Pidhirtsi Castle. Your help is appreciated. Tymek (talk) 18:30, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ivan Rohach
Please make a comment Bandurist (talk) 03:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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How do you feel ?
You just have been called a Polish nationalists :) How does it make you feel ;] I'm just asking, since one time I was callled a Ukrainian one from UPA :D--Molobo (talk) 01:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Encouraged! :) Ostap 02:19, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Articles on Gogol's Short Stories
Ostap, the reason I tagged these articles with a notability tag was not to doubt the notability of these works, but to encourage editors to add information that demonstrated the notability of the material. From WP:FICTION (emphasis mine): "Wikipedia articles on published works (such as fictional stories) should cover their real-world context and sourced analysis, offering detail on a work's development, impact or historical significance, not solely a detailed summary of that work's plot. This applies both to stand-alone works, and also to series. A brief plot summary may sometimes be appropriate as an aspect of a larger topic." and also "Articles on a work of fiction (a book, movie, television series, video game, or other medium) should demonstrate notability by citing critical reception, viewings or sales figures, development and other information from reliable sources."

Of the works of Gogol that I looked at, the following articles contain only a plot summary and no demonstration of notability:
 * The Fair at Sorochintsï (short story)
 * The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
 * May Night or the Drowned Maiden
 * A Bewitched Place
 * The Old World Landowners
 * The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
 * The Portrait (short story)
 * A Terrible Vengeance
 * The Carriage
 * Nevsky Prospekt (story)
 * St. John's Eve (short story)
 * Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt

I encourage you to work with me here to improve these articles. The goal of tagging articles is not to get them deleted, but to help turn them into good articles. —BradV 02:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)


 * No worries. —BradV 02:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Archduke Wilhelm of Austria
I just returned from a lecture by Timothy Snyder, where he discussed that very interesting person at length. I am sure you will enjoy his upcoming book; I've noticed that 1) Vasyl Vyshyvanyi is Featured on uk wiki (he was a stub before I expanded him a little now) and 2) he would make a good DYK if we were to expand his article over the next few days a little. Perhaps you or your Ukrainian colleagues would like to help me DYK him? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, he was just visiting. But he is a very good speaker; I wish somebody had taped it. At least I took a photo of him, will upload it to Commons soon.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 03:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:POINT
Ostap, please, this edit is WP:POINT. The only thing you can probably achieve by disrupting encyclopedia to make a point is to get yourself blocked. Please think about doing things differently. If I can, I would try to help, but please edit in good faith Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll try harder to restrain myself. But it gets so difficult. Ostap 03:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Alex Bakharev (talk) 06:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Elektronna Poshta
Ostape, I have changed my email. Please check your junk folder just in case it went there. Thanks, Horlo (talk) 06:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Indeed bizarre to say the least. The whole "Slavic" categories thingy needs to be looked at.--Molobo (talk) 11:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Stalking
Please don't stalk me and revert my well-sourced edit as you did here .--Miyokan (talk) 02:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bah. Get over it. I was trying to see if you responded or reverted after you removed sourced material on the Ukrainian nationalism page. By the way, how did you find out about that page? Did you just suddenly have the urge to make some unilateral deletions about the topic? Ostap 02:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * "Unilateral"? Irpen made the same edit.--Miyokan (talk) 02:28, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Irpen removed a theory that the Rus princes were the guardians of Ukrainian statehood.  I left that part out and added back the facts that he removed when reverting. Please read the content before making reverts. Look what he took out  and look what I added. Ostap 02:30, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * "I was trying to see if you responded or reverted"?? Unacceptable. Stalking another editor to another article just to get a rise out of them is uncivil and simple creepy. It is also governed by the Wikipedia behavioral guidelines.You can be blocked for doing that, and all your subsequent edits would be reviewed for any similar incivility. It isn't tolerated here in Wikipedia, no matter how much you feel put upon by the other editor. Use AN/I to complain about them if you feel they have violated the rules. Following them around to berate or revert their edits elsewhere is only going to get you in trouble, and I would urge you to reconsider doing such in the future. Play nicely, or play somewhere else. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  15:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How exactly did you end up here? And do not call me "creepy". That is a clear personal attack. I suggest you take your own advice and play nicely, or play somewhere else.Ostap 16:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No one specifically called you creepy, unless you admit to following another user to a page and revert them to get a rise out of them. If you didn't do this then no one called you creepy. If you did do this, you are wiki-stalking, which is inherently creepy. One or the other, please. I am playing nicely, and not personally attacking you - trust me, you'd really know the difference were I being uncivil. I have simply advised you of the rules, so that if you further follow and revert a user who you have a problem with on one page to another, you can be reported for wikistalking to AN/I, and you haying been warned of the policy regarding this behavior will be documented. See? There's a big difference. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  17:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not need you to advise me of the rules. I am aware of wikipedia policies. If you have some sort of problem with me, take your own advice and go to AN/I and report me. Ostap 17:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. You consider yourself properly advised as to the policy, so if it happens again, you won't be surprised if reported.. I don't have any problem with you at all, and I hope we don't encounter such an issue. I am glad to have been of advisory service to you. :) - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  17:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I think Ostap is being pulled here not actually for stalking but for honesty. I am so used to stalkers that I just pity the poor folk that does not have anything better to do than scrutinize my edits. BTW, judging by the vigor of some, next time I like an RfAdm candidate, I will vote "oppose", watch the support votes casted for "spite" and will switch in the end. No Ostap, you've done no such thing but someone who've done, would recognize himself here, as he would read this entry as well. --Irpen 17:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ostap, my friend, editing contentious topics requires learning a skill to take it easy. Please have a laugh of all this and, similar to what Alex wrote, I would be happy to help you in editing if you ask (you are free not to.) Wikipedia has no "consistency", "justice" or "injustice". Editing it should be fun and when it's no more, the best thing is to take a break. Ask me how I know and I do know as I have many "fans". Take a cup of tee or whatever fits your age and preference, take it easy and please stay cool from now on. It ain't so bad :) --Irpen 21:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I'll be back later, and I will think of an article to write. I guess it has been a while since I've actually added anything. Thanks, Ostap 21:58, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * And your apology on my talk page is heartily accepted. If I was at all unkind, I tender my apology as well. As for the convo with No Consequence, it wasn't an angry matter; I may have a less than perfect understanding of how user talk pages are handled, and it would behoove me to clarify matters for when the issue next arises.. See my comment on his page. As far as I knew things were pretty calm. :)
 * And again, thank you for your apology. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  22:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:AK question
As a non-native English speaker I will simply reply: I don't know :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 03:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Ukrainian cabal
I'd be very proud to be recognized as part of the Ukrainian cabal; it would prove that I am doing something right :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 03:16, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Provocations and such
Remember about WP:AE and applicable WP:SANCTIONS. Harassing editors is now quite dangerous in EE topics, and we should not allow ourselves to be harassed as we had to in the past. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 07:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Polish-Ukrainian relations
I think we should be able to DYK it. Btw, interesting reading: --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Because you are still here... and because you can use something nice on your userpage

 * Hey, thanks! Ostap 06:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Two questions
Since you are an expert on Ukrainian issues-could you check Ukrainian nationalism article. I think it misses core ideas-like what were the concepts of Ukrainian state by Ukrainian nationalists, how did they view their history etc. Wasn't one idea that Ukraine was true legacy of Kievan Rus, while Muscovy was a Mongolian tainted creation(as at least I read it so once). Also if you could check Danylo_Shumuk for neutrality and expand if possible. Recent edits there have been strange, for example Soviet occupation and invasion is named as "Unification of Ukraine", if you would comment if that is how Ukrainians refer to this I would be interested.--Molobo (talk) 22:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The first part about Mongol-tainted does not even need a comment. About "unification", I suggest to check Subtelny, who discusses the fundamental meaning of these events for Ukraine as a national unification it achieved for the first time in its history. Remember, we are talking about the Ukrainian context here. I wonder what scholarly books on history of Russia or Ukraine did Molobo read. --Irpen 22:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Irpen, how did you get here ? As for the Mongolian-I heard it during Ukraine's parliamentary elections and supposedly one of the groups supporting Tymoshenko has had such ideas. If it is true I have no idea, that is why I am asking if the mix of Mongolian, Germanic and East Slavic cultures in Muscovy was determined to too far away from Kievan Rus for Ukrainian nationalists.--Molobo (talk) 22:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Expert? :) Molobo, I have very little confidence in this nationalism article. Last time I edited it, I was labeled creepy (see discussion above). I will look at the article about Shumuk later if I have time.  But I have a question of my own for Irpen.  Why did you remove the part about Yanukovych learning Ukrainian after taking office?  It comes from his profile on BBC News. Ostap 23:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Ostap, this was simply not a stuff for a lead section, that's all.

Molobo, Ostap and I talked a lot in the past. That's how I saw the change to his page. It may disappoint you, but despite your following my edits, I don't return you this favor. Still looking to hear about a single book you read (note a difference with the "source" for the article.) --Irpen 03:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Its strange he learned the only state language after becoming prime minister. On a related note, I want to write about the hilarious egg incident. Do you think it would work to add a section to the current article, or could I write a new one on Viktor Yanukovych egg incident? Or Viktor Yanukovych eggssassination attempt? :) Ostap 04:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I think this material (if properly written) can be added to the presidential election article. Don't you agree? See, there is a compromise solution for most everything. --Irpen 05:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This will never get old. Ok, the compromise sounds good, there is good material here about how the silly incident was manipulated. Ostap 05:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Dealing with vandals
When dealing with persistent vandals, like user:Stepan Bandera and his IP socks, it is best to wait ~10 minutes before reverting. That way chances are that the troll is blocked by then or left. This Drohobych-loving IP also went to Holodomor and falsified referenced data. If you don't plan to turn off your PC immediately, waiting for 10 minutes saves an effort. Cheers, --Irpen 04:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I see. I have reverted IPs removal of the Poles and Jews from that article before.  At least he created an account. Ostap 05:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Holodomor numbers
Please take a look at the Faustian's talk. --Irpen 05:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

UPA reference
Can you check out this site: http://www.cdvr.org.ua/index.php. My understanding of Ukrainian is somewhat limited. Would you consider it a reliable source. Thanks Bobanni (talk) 07:21, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, use it. Ostap 18:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Editing
Ти правильно замітив що ситуація з Голодомором є стара проблема. Можливо у когось є помилкове бачення що хохли плюнуть і дозволять якомусь лоху сунути халтуру. З цим можна боротися тільки з невідступним терпіння та розумінням що цей статус кво можливо буде з нами на довгий час. Я знову дякую за твою підтримку.--Riurik(discuss) 18:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Це моє задоволення. Разом нас багато, нас не подолати :) Ostap 23:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Любі друзі :) ! Нажаль нас не так багато, як хотілося б, щоб будувати статті, але колись "нас" було ще менше ніж зараз. Нічого, пережили і дочекалися вас. Дочекаємось і ще. Але давайте, краще англійською на публічних сторінках.


 * The Holodomor-article, while certainly deficient is by far not as bad as most Wikipedia articles whose subject is politically charged to a similar extent. It needs more cleanup and, perhaps, even a partial rewrite, but it's mostly factual and, relatively (for such topics) well sourced. Speaking of Holodomor theme, its various forks (see Horlo's creations) are by far a greater mess despite being much shorter.


 * Coverage of some topics, however, is clearly deficient. 1915-1925 period is in pity shape. We have 3 rival articles about the civil war and almost no coverage of the Ukrainian-Polish war. Perhaps a task force on this time could be a good idea? Also, I would not object to the Holodomor task force but at least the topic has a rather detailed article unlike the others I mentioned. Thoughts? --Irpen 07:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds exciting, but I don't want to see the Ukrainian Soviet war deleted as a "rather ridiculously" and "ill-named" POV fork. It is a valid article. And I certainly would not support renaming to the "Ukrainian theatre of the Russian Civil War", as was suggested. Ostap 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * As a rule, I prefer to correspond in English. However, I don't feel bound to it.  The comments were made in public domain, with full understanding that these are available for scrutiny by anyone.  I agree that Holodomor is rather well sourced, and more or less in good shape, but that is only because timeless hours were spent by people like us to purge it of vandalism by other users.  I am cynical about the creation of a task-force on Holodomor, mostly because I think it will be another empty project without participation beyond short-term, and also because any work you put through it trying to get an encyclopedic entry to some measure of quality can be destroyed or degraded overtime.


 * Regarding the 1915-1925 period, I don't understand why are people writing "off the cuff" on this? The work on the topic has been done for us.  What have historians written about it?  That's what we should have as an article.  The problem is picking the "right" or I should say balanced history books, a task complicated by fragmentation experienced during that period.


 * Finally, it shouldn't be our job as editors to be engaged 24/7 in constant warring over content, pouring hours on talk pages rather than on the main space. Horlo, like others, is symptomatic of incentives provided by the current structure of wikipedia which permits such volunteering to take place.--Riurik(discuss) 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Honestly, i don't see vandalism as a big problem now. Tendentious editing is by far more headache. I spent by far more time dealing with their activity than with vandals. --Irpen 06:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Vandalism is a problem. Look at the UPA page.  It gets vandalized daily. What can be done about this? Ostap 20:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * At some point "tendentious" editing turns into vandalism.--Riurik(discuss) 15:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Something really needs to be done about the UPA page. Ostap 18:17, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Bud' Laska
A new article has appeared here []. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bud'mo. Horlo (talk) 08:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll do what I can. Ostap 18:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

re: unbelievable
Because somebody has too. Writing content is fun, and it helps. Suffering through flaming and harassment is not, but the alternative is to see the great gift to humankind that is wikipedia destroyed by trolls. I do my best to prove that my optimism - that Wikipedia is great and will be greater - will be proven right, and I hope my actions contribute to the eventual success of the project. Thank you for the award. Perhaps you would like to comment at Talk:Armia Krajowa from the perspective of the Ukrainian editor, form whom AK were much less heroes than for us Poles. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence, who are those people
Thanks for your help with Racism and discrimination in Ukraine! Any change you know something about Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence? The article confuses me (see Talk:Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence) and it makes BYuT looks like semi-neo-nazi (so I suspect a Russian editor at work who is afraid of Yulia Tymoshenko), makes a change from editors who are trying to make Yulia Jewish (see:)..... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 17:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:Sarcasm
I think this essay says it all :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Why this is erroneous
Re: I'd like you to revert yourself; the section is also about the terrorist tactics of OUN. Should we add this to the heading, too? I think not, but neither should the "oppression". --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see what the problem with the word "oppression" really is. That seems like saying that the article's title should be changed because the article describes the oppression of the Ukrainian minority. Ostap 02:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe that the neutral title "Ukrainian minority in the Second Polish Republic" is the best. The section should show the opression, yes, but the violent tactics the UPA turned towards to as well. They were two sides of the same coin, or as Davies put its - vicious spiral, which wouldn't exist with only one of those.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:44, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I find it bemusing to see the talk about "neutral titles" given the title of the article. --Irpen 17:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Your question
It is simple. One board (the main one) is only updated manually and includes articles we wrote and found. Alex's "new article bot" posts her findings to the board_2. Or more specifically, the bot's findings page is transcluded into board_2.

Ideally, we should go through all those bot-found articles, remove false positives, move articles of any importance and relevance to board_1 and keep the rest at board two. I was doing it for a while but lost steam. Still, we need a separate board to transclude the bot's findings. Otherwise, the main one would be overcrowded. Just check the text on the top of board 2. Hope this helps, --Irpen 04:44, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I see.

Re: AfD
I have no experience closing AfD, but it looks like it will be deleted in a day or two.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

IPs
Curiously, the Banach IP reminds me of Drohobych one. You're right though, but as for the Repin analogy, remember that the WP lacks consistency. You keep forgetting. --Irpen 07:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Because he is incredibly persistant, to the point of being annoying? Ironic, its really not often that I end up arguing someone isn't a Ukrainain.


 * And I didn't see the category, that's good to know. I looked at the talk page. Ostap 07:13, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Again, I never said that Banach was a Ukrainian. Neither was Repin, btw. --Irpen 07:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Gogol wasn't Russian either. Ostap 07:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Check category:Ukrainian people. Relax, man. --Irpen 07:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Music
Thanks for the song, I did not know this band, are they Polish? Check this, Lao Che is a band from Plock and they recorded a very popular album based on songs from Warsaw Uprising. Good stuff, hope you will like it. If you want more of the music I like, let me know, and keep those songs coming to me. here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlGgfMNiH5E&feature=related Tymek (talk) 17:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

UNR
Can you paste this to user:Ostap R/template:UNR? It would be more convenient to discuss. --Irpen 06:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Happy Easter!
Happy Easter from the homeland! --Irpen 08:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

About "Racism in modern Russia"
Hello. Why have you delite my changes without explanation?--MPB-152 (talk) 09:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring Tchaikovsky and Banach in List of Ukrainians
Thank you for restoring Tchaikovsky and Banach.

Please note that the Banach entry in the List of Ukrainians is not formatted right after you restored it.

These edit wars with Polish anti-Semitic chauvinists were going on for months. Because of this, it may make sense to restore both the entries in the List AND the references to the sources confirming the connections of both individuals to Ukraine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.14.5 (talk) 00:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Citizenship and ethnicity
Two months ago I requested that a citizenship and ethnicity parameters should be added to Template:Infobox Writer. I has been requested again at Template talk:Infobox Writer and I think if several users will support it, It can added. In the case of Ukrainian writers such a Gogol and others this is important. Please join me there Bandurist (talk) 17:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Leonid Savin
You were asking about an article about this person. It wasn't speedily deleted. Apparently some people think he is deserving a place in WP. Since you noticed the article's recreation, I was wondering if you had an opinion about its singnificance. You can check the discussion at Articles for deletion/Leonid Savin (2nd nomination) and article talk page. --Hillock65 (talk) 15:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the award!
Did I ever give one to you? Or are you not interested in that sort of stuf? Mariah-Yulia (talk) 20:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You have given me one before, and I used to display it. But I didn't want to gloat :) Ostap 22:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Very Much for the Award
Ostape,

Thank you very much for the award. It was both a surprise and an honour. Let's keep building, my friend. Budmo! 08:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Russia-Ukraine relations
I was wondering of your opinion on that article. As far as I am concerned, it is not even an article but an essay "What I think of Russia-Ukraine relations?". It is written purely from someone's imagination without any literature or sources whatsoever. Should I nominate it for delition? What do you think? --Hillock65 (talk) 03:54, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Speaking of two "denial" forks... --Irpen 04:41, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I assume you are talking about Denial of the Holodomor? Ostap 04:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and of Holodomor-Genocide too. --Irpen 04:58, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, try to delete them. I doubt it will work.  However I agree that H-G question is not the nicest article. Ostap 05:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I lost confidence in AfD. It seems to be a pure lottery of who gets more of his ilk mobilized by an off-line campaign. So, I rarely, if ever, nominate for deletion. Makes no sense. I try to make sure that bullshit articles are tagged until they are cleaned up to at least minimum degree of compliance. With some articles even that is not necessary as their titles speak for themselves better than any tag. --Irpen 05:06, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh come now, I don't think it is civil to describe articles as "bullshit". I think the AFD process is flawed to, but if you are so against the existence of this article, why not try? I honestly still don't really know what you even object to in that article, nor do I have a clue why you are against the inclusion of the template.  All I see is you calling the article bullshit, which is really not helpful at all. Ostap 05:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Przemyśl
Mixed, certainly. Just as Lwów is a historic Polish area.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:43, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I think Przemyśl is more Polish than for example Szczecin, but... let's hope this will not be an issue. We have too many of those under every second rock already :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:01, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Zakierzoński Kraj / Закерзоння
pl:Zakierzoński Kraj, uk:Закерзоння. Very interesting, we should at least stub it. I would, but I cannot think what would be a good translation? Land beyond the Curzon? :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Russia – Ukraine relations
Some ideas how to progres with Russia – Ukraine relations? I tried to find consensus at it's talk page last week but got only 1 replay, surley it can not stay the way it is.... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 21:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Huh?
I beg your pardon? --Irpen 07:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I dont get it
Is it some kind of sadistic national sport here to try to get innocent people blocked?

Read my explanations to Faustian before you make funny conclusians Faustian was already answered on. If you try to get at me because of my opinions thats realy weak.

1. Political rethoric - I'm a National Bolshevik, you can find my rethorics on their web site, thats where it's taken from. They spread the information what part of Ukraine was were alot. As i understood, MVEi was also a National Bolshevik, which explaines where he took this rethoric from. Unlike MVEi who as i understood from his block history was a big edit war lover, i perfer compromises and exaples were given to Faustian. The same case for example is when you take to Communists. It's logical they would both use the same rethorics like Class struggle, State as an exploiting unit, and many more. Woulf you block all communists on Wikipedia for that? Is it a witch hunt?

2. I ran over into MVEi one time, and we were on different sides there. He wanted a one piece image on the Russians page, i supported the administrator whuch eventualy blocked him about making a many people collage.

Before playing in detective games which hurt the name of other people, i would suggest you read what i wrote to Faustian. Log in, log out (talk) 08:44, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way. What i wrote there i wrote because i havent known things like that cant be written on Wikipedia, and i havent restored them when they were deleted. You copied what i wrote there on your user page, and thats a pure provocation. You know it was deleted so why to restore it if not to wake an argument? Why to wake an argument if not to block someone who is not in your opinions? User pages are created for other things. I was mature enough not to continue the discussion, and i havent returned their seens. You seem to insist on it for a reason. I already understood that it's your nationalists way to get people who write what you dont like from Ukrainian articles. I'm not MVEi, but i'm sick of Ukrainian nationalists trying to block me by lying i am, your the second already. I leave all Ukraine articles, they dont interest me that much to get people lying on my and puting black marks on my good name. Log in, log out (talk) 08:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry to but in, but I also believe it is User:M.V.E.i. and I believe I can prove it too. Where can I report this, there has to be a special notice board for sockpuppets? --Hillock65 (talk) 12:05, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Another nationalist. Now i'm shure it's an attempt to get me out for my opinions. I dont know you, and i dont know M.V.E.i. so how can you say i'm M.V.E.i.? It more seems you and Ostap R are the same person. Both nationalists, edit the same topics, same IP. A checkuser on you two will be nice. If you really can "prove" it, be a man and bring your claims here, or are you afraid i could answer you on them and then you won't feel so smurt? Cmmon, write them. Log in, log out (talk) 12:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hillock65, if you want to take action here, you need to go to Requests_for_checkuser and file a report. Please see the previous report on M.V.E.i for details.  I agree that there are some similarities in writing style, and editing patterns, but this probably needs a checkuser to prove any block evasion. Papa November (talk) 13:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Faustian. I already explained there all. Log in, log out (talk) 13:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Be more like Yulia :)
I think you should remove the quote from User:Log in, log out from your homepage, ethnical tensions is the last thing that Ukraine needs and that kind of provocations is not gonna help there, besides if you take a look at my talk page you can see that User:Log in, log out is a niece guy. I also see that you enlisted the help of User:Hillock65 at times. I think that that is as effective as appointing Stepan Bandera as Ukraine's ambassador in Moscow... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Your 100% right. I myself regreted that i said what i said and that's why i havent returned it even once after Kuban deleted it. Log in, log out (talk) 09:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I copied parts of what i wrote to Hillock on his user page:

I already explained all on Faustian's talk page and figured it's all clear. If you have doubts, you can ask me questions, bringing out why you think so and recive answers.

What i said on the Ukrainians in Russia talk page was stupid, and the prove i really understood it was stupid is that i havent returned it when it was reverted. If you would know Russian, maybe you know i'm not shure you havent named it in your detales, any way, this rethoric wasn't used only by me, and as i understood by M.V.E.i., but by the whole Russian media during the orange revolution. Am i Mikhail Leontiev? Am i Shevchenko on the night program on ORT? Am i the whost in the ORT news Tolstoy?

Again, the fact that Ukrainians users came against me and got so alarmed when they thought i'm M.V.E.i. shows that he did many things which made many people against him, and i wasn't ok to, but i'm really sorry if you, Ostap, or anyone got offenced. Log in, log out (talk) 09:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

And that and that was nothing but a cheap provocation. If i wouldn't be mature i would say it's the same person. Really out of place. I admited i was wrong their, don't know why you keep on insisting on such a useless fight. Log in, log out (talk) 13:24, 5 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for removing the quote! Sorry if my remarks about User:Hillock65 offended you. You are free to ask the help of anybody you want! I just think User:Hillock65 is a bit too suspicious when it comes too Russian editors, I belief a more friendly approach leads to better results (see above). P.S. I should get elected into the Verkhovna Rada :) Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:25, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Євразійський союз молоді
You are User:Гриць, right? If you have the time could you translate Євразійський союз молодi? I find this subject very interesting and I'm sure English wikipedia could use the article. Thanks, Ostap 00:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll get to it either today or tomorrow. --Hillock65 (talk) 00:36, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I finished Eurasian Youth Union. Have a look. It is still raw and needs some corrections and adjustmetns, I didn't translate everything. I hope you can help with corrections. I will try to subsitute Ukrainian references with English ones later. Cheers.--Hillock65 (talk) 17:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. This is a very good article.  Try for dyk. Ostap 21:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You made few mistakes i fixed. 1. MAII and National-Bolsheviks are not neo-Nazis. I'm not entering with you into a political discussion, they are not considered to be and thats it. 2. NBP are considered radical Left. 3. They are not anti-Ukrainian but anti-governmental, they belive that close ties with Russia is good for Ukraine. The movement has Ukrainian members to. Log in, log out (talk) 18:08, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Self-revert
I did not think that you would report me, but there is an admin that would jump at the chance to block me and probably some users that would love to report me. Even though its not really a revert, you can never be too sure how these things will turn out.--Miyokan (talk) 04:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Need your glasses checked
EXCUSE me? "WP:OR/WP:SYNTH WP:POINT."--Miyokan (talk) 13:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't use glasses so that can't be the problem... Ostap 17:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Ataman Tiutiunik
Hi. Do you happen to know anything about this individual? I just heard about him today - apparently he was one of Petlyura's men, was lured into Soviet Ukraine in 1923 and shot in 1929. Seems quite interesting. This appears to talk about him. If you can find enough material for a small (or large!) article, that would be nice. Biruitorul Talk 23:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What a coincidence! Yes, the very same man. By the way, I don't know if you can find any sources on this (I was told all this verbally, so I don't have any myself), but the way he was attracted back to the USSR is this: a close friend of his became a Chekist and convinced him there was a big uprising in Ukraine and he was needed to lead it. He went to the shore of the Dniester River (then separating Romania from the Ukrainian SSR) and at a signal (a light - it was night), he and his friend rowed a boat across. Then he was arrested right away. Because of this precedent, Petlyura became much more careful, but as we know, the Soviets eventually killed him too. Biruitorul Talk 01:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you - I'd never heard of the guy, but he didn't seem a very likable character. Now it makes sense. Biruitorul Talk 22:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Change the name of the Holodomor article to The Hunger
You told me not to use Russian words? Only If you dont use Ukrainians. Dont talk till you change the name of the HGolodomor article to Hunger. 132.66.180.68 (talk) 06:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This is silly. Do whatever you want. Ostap 07:07, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Cofa?
Hi, Ostap. I was wondering if you could help me with a query. I recently expanded the article Anatol E. Baconsky, and I have trouble locating his birthplace. His biographies say that he was born in Cofa, a Bessarabian village, which they indicate was part of Hotin (Khotin) County. Presumably, it is now part of Ukraine. I found it impossible to locate, and I cannot tell what its current name in Ukrainian is/should be, or what administrative unit it may be part of. I would be grateful for any info that would help me fill the link or add a redlink to be filled eventually. Thanks in advance. Best, Dahn (talk) 16:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Great stuff. Dahn (talk) 16:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:History of Ukraine
I was wondering if you have an opinion on what this template should look like. Currently one of the users is imposing his POV variant. We are trying to find a consensus on what should be included in the template. Please leave you feedback on the talk page. Thanks. --Hillock65 (talk) 14:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

AFD
Oh yes, I think it is an AFD, unless proper sources are found. It is all too easy to brand one extreme, just type BBC antisemitic in google.com and there you go - tons of links, get what you want. Tymek (talk) 03:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Holodomor
Created off topic discussions page for talk:holodomor. Probably less offensive than just plain deleting - could be a teaching example for others. What do you think ? Bobanni (talk) 19:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It looks like the page you made for it was deleted. I dont know what to do with the off topic discussions. Ostap 22:38, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Little context in Annychka
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Many thanks..
Hello Ostap R. I'm sorry for stupid reverts in Truce of Vilna article. And I thank you for your utterances in my talk page. And..I've left English wikipedia, because I don't want vandalise..I'm troll probably, so maybe will be better if I'll leave wikipedia. And..on the end: Many thanks for your contributing to english wikipedia. Good bye Ostap R Alden or talk with Alden 20:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Photo of 2004 Ossetia conflict in 2008 article
Hi. Please add your views at Talk:2008 South Ossetia War. NerdyNSK (talk) 04:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

2008 South Ossetia war
Your recent edits to have given me cause for concern. It is apparent that your edits depicted here constituted an edit war, an action which both is disruptive and warrants a block. As the incident arose over a day ago, I am going to take no action at this time, except to issue you with a final warning for revert warring. Be advised that the other party to the edit war was blocked yesterday by an uninvolved administrator, and you could very well also have been.

In the future, if a party makes a change you do not agree with, it is not necessary to revert him on sight; if a party reverts you, do not re-revert to push through your version of the article. If differences of opinion arise on an article, open a discussion thread on the article's talk page, inviting comments from other editors to form a consensus as to which of you is correct (if any). (Occasionally, discussion can be fruitless; in such cases, seek dispute resolution on the matter.) However, revert warring is disruptive; please don't do it.

Regards, Anthøny 15:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I understand. Ostap 16:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ostap, I'm not anywhere close to 3RR, but thanks for the pre-emptive note! -Colfer2 (talk) 19:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied at User_talk:Colfer2. Those are in no way 3RR reverts.  Look at the diffs. -Colfer2 (talk) 19:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Hope the article ends up a good one! -Colfer2 (talk) 19:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Do not delete my contributions. You are disrupting the flow of wiki. If you dont like something discuss before delete. What Max (talk) 01:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know what you are talking about. Ostap 02:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

read the lines properly..please stop vandalising the article and my neutral edits
the reference says:

''Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch (HRW), who is leading a team investigating the humanitarian damage in South Ossetia, told the Guardian that Russian estimates of 2,000 dead in the conflict were "suspicious".

"The figure of 2,000 people killed is very doubtful," she said. "Our findings so far do not in any way confirm the Russian statistics. On the contrary, they suggest the numbers are exaggerated."

Neistat said that HRW investigators had, today and yesterday, recorded cases of Ossetian fighters burning and looting Georgian villages north of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali.

"The torching of houses in these villages is in some ways a result of the massive Russia propaganda machine which constantly repeats claims of genocide and exaggerates the scale of casualties," she said. "That is then used to justify retribution."

Neistat said that doctors at Tskhinvali hospital had provided figures that 273 wounded people had been treated there during the conflict and a total of 44 dead people had been brought to the city morgue. Russian and South Ossetian officials have claimed that 1,400 people were killed in the first day of fighting, mostly in Tskhinvali.

There have been reports of Ossetians burying relatives in their allotments and there are no lists of the casualties. Neistat stressed that HRW's investigation was not complete''

so stop sexing up with a georgian or us govt. slave like position..please be neutral (NOTE THAT I DIDNT ASK YOU TO BE A OSSETIAN)..

so please stop acting too smart..your cooperation is welcomed.. Cityvalyu (talk) 00:18, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Your POV edits are well documented. How did the US government come into this?  Ostap 00:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * thanks for acknowledging that my neutral point of view is well documented ;) edit are there anyyone can judge and form their opinions about me.i care least about liars even if they gang up to form a majority ..next, the us govt has a puppet organisation called nato into which many countries are wishing to get enslaved on account of some sort of belief that USA cares about them (us also supported iraq once before invading it)Cityvalyu (talk) 02:23, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

The problem
The sources I gave there are all I have on that issue. I don't have other sources because I decided to stop edit that article. I acted rude there and I want to get more experience in discussion, NPOV search, before I go editing serious articles like that. So sorry, but if you want you could use the sources I found then. Kostan1 (talk) 11:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Leonardo's mother
Well done. Amandajm (talk) 10:40, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Music
Thanks for the link, I have seen it before. Tymek (talk) 17:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

A comment
I see you deleted his warning. Yes, that was User:Tananka who made four reverts today in this article.Biophys (talk) 03:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I see. Anyway, the "alleged mercenaries in the infobox" proposal was already rejected.  Its in the archives. Ostap 03:30, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Please use edit summaries, especially on actively edited topics. Your edit to International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was lacking that information.

Second bit of advice, revisit the grammar you used: He said that there were similarities between the situations of the Abkhazian,  South Ossetian and Chechen peoples, and the Palestinian people. You should consider fixing the multiple instances of the word "and" you have there. Cheers! ——  nix eagle 17:43, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Mess to fix
Świniuchy, Swiniuchy... hard to begin where I am not sure what the Ukrainian name is (perhaps we already have an article to merge it to?).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:01, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Lwów pogrom (1918)
You may be interested in the discussion of the role played by the Ukrainian criminals. I know this is not the most pleasant part of our histories (Polish soldiers and criminals participated in it too), but I thought I should blip this recently expanded and to-be-possibly-DYKed article on your radar.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: award
Thank you and yes, I remember. It is truly a ray of hope when I consider that after all you've been yourself, you are still here :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 05:20, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply
You asked this at ANI. What now? Precisely nothing. An administrator came and made this summary. Now the thread will be archived in 48 hours. As you can see, the decision was determined mostly by Irpen. That is how he influential (I can only guess why). I hope this ArbCom case will not stop the productive work of Piotrus. But who knows? He already get a restraining order, and there is an enormous pile of slander at the evidence page. These are not good signs.Biophys (talk) 20:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I know. Wikipedia is flawed, and this whole "Piotrus is evil" thing is absurd. You know what is ironic? Piotrus is on (a form of) 1rr but Miyokan is not! Ostap 21:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I am flattered by Biophys' claim that I am "influential". But he is wrong again. I am not influential at all. Sometimes, stuff I write makes a difference because sometimes I say things that just make sense and in a way that makes it clear. I wish everything I said made perfect sense all the time, but I realize that, like everyone, I make mistakes. So, when I talk nonsense (happens too), I make very little impact. BTW, Biophys, I dislike the part you said in parentheses. You have this tendency of using expressive ambiguities. And, btw, what slander are you talking about? Again, either be specific or say nothing. --Irpen 03:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't get this... I think I got roughly the same opinions as you both but I never had a problem with User:Russavia or User:Miyokan (I think User:Russavia has created some very useful articles actually). Mariah-Yulia (talk) 21:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Biophys had most of the problems with Russavia.  Don't you remember Miyokan's conduct at Racism and discrimination in Ukraine?  He constantly edits against consensus. Ostap 21:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I think the main problem is that nobody wants to compromise here... When I started to compromise here: the problems with User:Russavia soon disappeared. Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If only things were that simple. No one is talking about a community ban for Russavia.  He's blocked for taking part in the creepy outing harassment of Biophys.  That is what Miyokan was blocked 2 weeks for also.  We are discussing whether Miyokan (after 9 blocks, repeated edit warring, outing despite being told "never do it again") has "exhausted the community's patience".  So far it is clear that he has, yet no one will block him.  Ostap 23:12, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I was wrong about the ANI. Actually, I have no problems with Russavia. He was editing for a long time and started following some of my edits only a week or so ago. Unlike Mioykan, he creates a lot of good content, although I do not think we need his Georgia for Georgians.Biophys (talk) 23:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you assume far too much good faith. Ostap 23:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that that is better then being paranoid... remember that it is hard to tell what someone real intentions are when you only have her/his wiki-edits to judge on. Biophys once thought I live in Ukraine... while I never been there longer then 17 day's in a row.... and I once thought that User:Kuban kazak most have voted for Putin while it turned out later he voted for the communists... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 23:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I see Miyokan was banned, apparently for ever. I hope that wasn't too harsh.  oh, crap.  It was too harsh, wasn't it? Ostap 23:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Did not you ask for it too? Anyway, I stated my opinion on what the best solution would more than once already. --Irpen 03:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Due to the deleted edits, I don't think you know exactly what Miyokan did. Ostap 03:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I know exactly what he did. He harassed Biophys by saying that he knows who Biophys is and threatening to publicize this despite Biophys chose to edit under a pseudonym rather than his real name, did not give his name at his user page and signed his posts with a Wikipedia username rather than his RL name. Thus, Biophys made no indication that he was willing to waive his right to edit anonymously and outing or even threats of outing is a grave offense. If you read what I wrote at WP:AN you will find that I wrote the same thing there. --Irpen 03:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Whitewashing
Normally I don't do this but this attempt to whitewash Putin is a bit too much.... some laksom is trying to delete the Putinisms article. PS Hi Hillock65, how are you you? Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice, but... I'm not Hillock65. Ostap 04:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry Ostap, it was late in my time zone the last time I wrote on your talk page. Great last edit on the Russia–Ukraine relations article (from you)! Mariah-Yulia (talk) 20:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's unbelievable that putinisms got deleted. Of course the article was in a bad shape but that doesn't mean it should be deleted. There sure are many other articles that should be deleted if that criteria should be followed. Anyway I managed to save the article in my sandbox, so I will probably rewrite it when I get more time and hopefully be able to revive the article. More sources would be needed also. I've heard that a book has been published about it in Russia but I haven't managed to find it on the net yet. Närking (talk) 21:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The afd was clearly no consensus. And how can that be deleted and not Bushisms? They are both mostly lists of quotes. Just because some Jacob Weisberg wrote a couple of humor books?  This is obviously an issue of Wikipedia systemic bias (please read that page especially here, it is very useful in understanding why Bushisms exists and Putinisms does not). Ostap 21:36, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Just wondering....
A day off? :) Or are you editing during your job? :) Mariah-Yulia (talk) 17:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * How could I not have time for something as important as editing wikipedia? :)Ostap 17:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: decision
For weeks, the arbitrators were saying "in a few days". I'd advise you to take time and present evidence and/or comment more in the workshop (up to submitting your own proposals).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * By all means, you are welcome to propose any findings, endorse, oppose and comment on any existing ones (in the workshop). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:11, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Closing in on Busza/Jaruga
Thanks to User:Dc76, we finally have some leads on the location of the Peace of Busza. He thinks its in modern Ukraine near Vinnytsia - we just need to figure modern names (see the bottom of his post for more detail). Could you help, or direct me to Ukrainian Wikipedians who may know the answer to this? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 13:29, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Ukrainian names
Could you (or another interested Ukrainian user) go through Polish–Ottoman War (1683-1699), Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) and Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671) and see if any names there need update from Polish to Ukrainian? When I write those articles I often have to rely on Polish sources, which of course use Polish names... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Polish politics
You are completely right, articles on Polish politics and Polish political parties need a major change. I would love to take care of it and I will try to make some improvements. These days, however, my time is so limited. Right now Wikipedia is at the bottom of my to-do list, I hope it will change soon, but I do not really know. Greetings. Tymek (talk) 15:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I will be doing my best, and with your help we can move mountains, as we say in Polish. I guess you thought about the whole arbitration stuff, and you thought it has been putting me off Wikipedia. It is not that, I am immune to those things. What I mean by lack of time is simply lack of time. Wife, kids, soccer, work, band. Oh me! Oh my! what a lot of funny things go by. Cheers.

BTW, too bad I am not a student any more. In college, I had way more time for funny things like Wikipedia. Yes, I mean funny. Reading some articles here is better than reading The Onion. Tymek (talk) 05:24, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Olga Kurylenko
Can you keep a look out at the Olga Kurylenko article, some non-acount editors try to make her French and Russian without giving any or bad references. This is like Gogol al over again. Finally Ukraine got a nice poster board and then some bullies in the playground try to steal her and give her to there country. She clearly only mentions her Ukrainian heritage in her interviews. The Russians should finally learn Ukraine (and Georgia etc.) are not part of there country any more! People who speak Russian are Russian(?), why isn't Mozart German then? If those editors really want to do Olga a favour the should protest against the raising of Russian Gas prices in Ukraine instead of claiming only the good bits from Ukraine, I'm fat up with this ethnicity kind of thinking. Everybody from Ukraine is a Ukrainian!, people who look at ethnicity first are semi-Nazi's to me! -- Mariah-Yulia (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Kurylenko as French? Oh my. If anon accounts start vandalizing, ask for the article to be protected here. Ostap 20:20, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that you could do that! Дякую! Mariah-Yulia (talk) 20:39, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Is it just me or does it take ages to get a page protected there, in the mean time a IP-user tried to make her Russian! Wow, didn't see that one coming.... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 00:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's done! Very sad that Russian nationalist even harrash our actrices... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 16:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:User:Poeticbent
Certainly I can see your point. Perhaps you could message Poeticbent and explain your point, I will try to support and moderate if necessary.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:54, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * On another front, what do you think of contributions of User:Tymek (his latest)? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Kuban Kazak-Hillock65
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Kuban Kazak-Hillock65/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Kuban Kazak-Hillock65/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tznkai (talk) 00:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Oleksa Dovbush
I stumbled upon an interesting recent article that we can turn into a DYK if we act quickly - a Ukrainian/Cossack Robin Hood. I will look at the English/Polish sources, but unfortunately I cannot work with Ukranian ones.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Reverted on AK
Respectfully. Further, I do think those estimates are dubious, but I am open to evidence to the contrary (that said, I am certain that there is at least some similar events occurred). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:21, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Tina Karol
I just edited/added this info:
 * On 18 November 2008 Karol gave birth to her first child, a son called Benjamin . The next day Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sent the young mother a bouquet of pink roses and a congratulatory letter, the wife of President Yushchenko, Kateryna Yushchenko, also sent flowers with a message and the mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetskyi also sent Karol a bouquet of roses.

Is this standard procedure with every popular artist in Ukraine? Marco Borsato never got anything from the Dutch Prime Minister.... -- Mariah-Yulia (talk) 23:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

History of Christianity in Ukraine
Please express your opinion at Talk:History of Christianity in UkraineBandurist (talk) 22:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Stryi River
Hi

Can you please explain why you removed the link to the picture of the old hydro electric works on the page

thanks--Chaosdruid (talk) 23:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC) PS i do not know why this is in huge font size or why it is pink !! I created a new section and this is how it came out
 * I removed it because "You can see the ruins of an old one here" isn't really encyclopedic writing style and the link itself didn't work. Ostap 23:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I have just seen that the link did not work, so I agree with you removing it. As for Encyclopedic writing style - How would you have written it ?


 * Thanks--Chaosdruid (talk) 03:43, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I would have put a section called "links" at the bottom of the page and had a link called "Pictures of _____". Ostap 20:00, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * HI - thanks for that, I'll try and do that in future--Chaosdruid (talk) 16:02, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Did you give User talk:90.220.214.52 a king of wikipedia award?
The user at User talk:90.220.214.52 has given himself an award and has put you as the signer.Smallman12q (talk) 18:46, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I was stopping by to ask about this as well. Would you mind dropping the IP a note on their talk page if you didn't authorize this? Glass  Cobra  20:02, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * He copied it from an "hero of Ukraine" award I gave last June to User:Horlo here. Ostap 22:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

If you look under 'USER CONTRIBUTIONS' for Ostap you can easily see that the entry was not made by Ostap Bobanni (talk) 22:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Battle of Loyew (1649)
Could you help with transliteration of the names of the Cossacks? For obvious reasons, I am stuck with the Polish versions... :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I stubbed Mykhailo Krychevsky, perhaps you could expand it with Ukrainian sources? Polish wiki claims he was "the most able Cossack commander of the Khmelnytsky Uprising after Khmelnytsky himself".--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I plan to scour the net in English and Polish for bio info on both of them in the coming days. Anything you can dig out in Ukrainian or Russian would be highly appreciated.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have expanded Krychevsky with info from PSB. I am afraid its next to impossible to dig further :( Could you look at Talk:Wacław Lipiński? Perhaps you could find a Ukrainian bio to confirm or dispel the theory that there is another person of that name? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Alas
Alas, I did not understand your message. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 03:31, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Next Years big Grammy winner

 * Are you sure that isn't a joke? Ostap 00:13, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Well Interfax-Ukraine seems to be a reliable source... Couldn't find another one but I'm a bit to lazy now to look for a Ukrainian/Russian source... — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:43, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Map of Slavic-speaking nations
Ostap R, please, try and give reasons for deleting maps before actually doing it. thanks in advance. Here are the reasons why, in my opinion, the map should be included in the article:

Slavic World is an area where Slavic culture including the Slavic languages and Orthodox Christianity is prominent.

Denghu (talk)

2008 South Ossetia war title vote
There is a vote up again at Talk:2008 South Ossetia war. Närking (talk) 22:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply to your question
You asked if I am going to leave the project. Well, I would like to stay, but there is a user who follows most my edits and openly mobilizes other users to do precisely the same. That makes me uneasy. And you know, I do not like promoting various conspiracy theories or creating articles like LiliPutin ,...Biophys (talk) 13:17, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

New article announcements
Would you please post the new articles you wrote recently on Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements (don't expect any privacy on wikipedia :))). Or is there a special reason you don't wanna do that? — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Is that really necessary? I don't think it is going to help. Ostap 23:51, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Probably not for the content of the articles but I'm hoping it will encourage "Ukrainian" wikipedians to write more articles! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: I am truly amazed
Actually I am just blunting your vigilance =) — Whiteroll (talk) 12:11, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply
Frankly speaking, yes, it is following my edits by a group, and I also do not have time and nerves to fight revert wars with them.Biophys (talk) 19:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Spieprzaj dziadu
Spieprzaj dziadu! this should be deleted. The article has been created by the same person who keeps inserting this into Kaczynski page.--Jacurek (talk) 05:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * It's borderline. The incident did happen, Kaczynski did say it, it was news for like 2 days in Poland. Whether or not you think it's notable depends on whether, for example, you think, every other sentence that Obama says is notable. The creation of the page on it is probably not in good faith, POV pushing, just like having a page published on the fact that some political websites will make a big deal out of every other thing that Obama says a big deal. At the same time it did become sort of a catch phrase there for awhile. I dunno, probably not notable.radek (talk) 07:15, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The article really has no meaningful content at all. I say WP:AfD.  Ostap 17:40, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mykola Konrad
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Mykola Konrad, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Sources do not establish basis for the majority of claims, tone is entirely non-neutral, two references are used but no in-text citations and absolutely no coverage for most of the info, and one of the "references" does not appear to mention him at all

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

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Email?
You don't have your email turned on, it seems. May I suggest that if DD posting a link is harassment, you posting the same link is at best rather careless, especially if you then point exactly what the problem with it is William M. Connolley (talk) 22:05, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops. I see what you mean.  Sorry about that.  And I thought I had email on.  Turning it back on now.  Next time I will do it that way (hopefully there won't be a next time).  Thanks, Ostap 22:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Sofia Rotaru
I have been asked for help at User talk:Mariah-Yulia to help out with some articles about Sofia Rotaru but I don't know anything about her (apart that she was part of Lytvyn Bloc for a while)... Wasn't you interested in Ukrainian showbizz? If you can't help: would you know somebody who could help? Thanks! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 19:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice.  over a year ago I saw problems with it also.  Lets try to straighten this out. Ostap 21:20, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Чудова Фотографіа
Остапе,

Чудова фотографія на твої сторінці.

Будьмо!Horlo (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

You beat me...
I was about to erase this... But then you where quicker ;) — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 18:59, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, the comment was really quite silly, I read it twice and I am still laughing. Ostap 19:01, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes. His bet that Reunification will take place at the end of this year 2009 or by the Summer of 2010 (where the hell can have based that on???) is completely absurd... — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 19:06, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

"Spieprzaj dziadu!" article should be deleted
Yea, I know. There is one editor you seems to hate Kaczynski and that is why this useless article is here in a first place. I never filed any requests for deletion but maybe I should learn how now. I should also ask Piotrus who is a veteran editor for an opinion.--Jacurek (talk) 05:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The procedure is outlined at AFD and is rather simple (once you find the how to list in the middle of a page :). I will need to think about my vote there, hence I would not nominate it myself now (but you have my full support to initiate the deletion discussion). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:44, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

"Courtesy" re: "Spieprzaj dziadu!"
As you will see here, "it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for deletion". Because you didn't notify me, I didn't see that an article I worked hard on was about to be deleted... and in fact ended up being deleted. It's a shame you didn't have the courtesy to tell me about the AFD. WP would be a much friendlier and more productive place if editors showed a little more respect for others' work. Malick78 (talk) 22:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't read that part, and I have never done an Afd before so please try to assume good faith. Sorry. There is always Deletion review.   Ostap 05:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * While I am assuming good faith, it still should have been obvious to you that somebody had spent time on the article and deserved to be notified of your actions. Now going through Deletion Review will waste a lot of my time when I could be improving/creating articles here (and as you'll see from my userpage, I do a lot of creating and improving...). Malick78 (talk) 20:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz
Thanks for the note; I decided to take part in the editing/discussion instead. Anon's somewhat right about his attitudes, but reliable sources are needed. Personally I don't always agree with him, but I appreciate his frankness in speaking out on non-politically correct issues - if he only wasn't that much to the far right... :( Out of curiosity, how did you became interested in his work? Was any translated in Ukrainian? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I am not aware of any work of his that has been translated into any language, including Polish. I liked some of his prose from the 1990s, he was writing really interesting political science-fiction. Google gives a few book blurbs and reviews in English: . --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:06, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Question
Thanks for pointing this out. Radio Maryja is a deeply catholic and nationalistic broadcaster lead by a charismatic figure Tadeusz Rydzyk. The relations with the Vatican are not as good as the Catholic Church would like them to be. Rydzyk is "in charge" and he is very powerfull. Of course it is not as "bad" as some people want others to think about it. The same situation as with Kaczynski's, since the Radio is politically influential and backs PIS, it is being ridiculed and attacked by other political wings and people who are more center or left oriented or the young. Many older Poles love the station but young ones not at all. I will look at the article again when I get a chance.--Jacurek (talk) 18:57, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Editing survey
Hi Ostap R. My name is Mike Lyons and I am a doctoral student at Indiana University in the United States. I am conducting research on the writing and editing of high traffic current events articles on Wikipedia. I have noticed in the talk page archives at 2008 South Ossetia war that you have contributed to the editing or maintenance of the article. I was hoping you would agree to fill out a brief survey about your experience. This study aims to help expand our thinking about collaborative knowledge production. Believe me I share your likely disdain for surveys but your participation would be immensely helpful in making the study a success. A link to the survey is included below. An explanation of my project is included with the survey.

Link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kLMxj8dkk_2bls7yCBmNV7bg_3d_3d

Thanks and best regards, Mike Lyons lyonspen | (talk) 22:18, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Sunday Adelaja
Привет Остап, please check my comment on Talk:Sunday_Adelaja. --Sasper (talk) 00:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Ukrainian nobility
Could you create an article for that? This concept is not clearly defined, and hence I was considering nominating Category:Ukrainian nobility for deletion, but I would like to see if you could address my objection before that. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:49, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Blanket revert on Lemkos article
Just wondering why you made a blanket revert citing vandalism (when there wasnt) on the Lemko page? --Львівське (talk) 01:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Iwan Babij
Hi Ostap, perhaps we should move Iwan Babij to Ivan Babij? Or is there any other way his name was spelled? Tymek (talk) 23:19, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't really know. See the Transliteration of Ukrainian and Romanization of Ukrainian. Apparently wikipedia would have Babiy for Бабій since it uses BGN/PCGN romanization. But I don't think it really matters.  Ostap 03:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Where you in Lviv today?
I met a young man selling mobile phones in Lviv today, was that you? If so your written English is better, our you enjoy to watch Marta strugle with her English (she sold me the Sim-card) —  Mariah-Yulia  • Talk to me!  19:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Haha, how is it in Lviv? Ostap 20:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Beautifull city but outside Площа Ринок and the streets near it nobody seems to speak English... could be problematic during EURO 2012, I get by with some Ukrainian words but if soccer fans will have the patience of me.... Pitty most of the building must get patched up (all of them seem to need atleast a lick of paint), the town really deserves better then the state it is in now... Lot's of Yulia Tymoshenko advertsing also (also saw Yuch and Arseniy Yatsenyuk ads), strange that they want tio bring the campaign to 90 days when it has already started... —  Mariah-Yulia  • Talk to me!  21:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Out of the lede, or out of life?
I’m really disappointed in your blanket revert of a whole lot of well sources info. The data wasn’t linked to any nationalist websites ever challenged or even remotely biased, and so, the only explanation for your action is raw emotion which is unbecoming of an experienced Wikipedian like you. Please keep your cool, because this is not the end of our working relationship by any means. --Poeticbent talk  00:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Socks
Ostap, you are very welcome to discuss such cases with me, but in the case you noticed I do not really see a convincing proof so far. Thank you for your participation!Biophys (talk) 15:45, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration case regarding the Eastern European mailing list
The Arbitration Committee recently passed a motion to open a case to investigate allegations surrounding a private Eastern European mailing list. The contents of the motion can be viewed here.

You have been named as one of the parties to this case at the request of the Arbitration Committee, here. Please take note of the explanations given in italics at the top of that section; if you have any further questions about the list of parties, please feel free to contact me on my talk page.

The Committee has explicitly requested that evidence be presented within one week of the case opening; ie. by September 25. Evidence can be presented on the evidence subpage of the case; please ensure that you follow the Committee instructions regarding the responsible and appropriate submission of evidence, as set out in the motion linked previously, should you choose to present evidence.

Please further note that, due to the exceptional nature of this case (insofar as it centers on the alleged contents of a private mailing list), the Committee has decided that the normal workshop format will not be used. The notice near the top of the cases' workshop page provides a detailed explanation of how it will be used in this case.

For the Arbitration Committee, Daniel (talk) 06:12, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Please comment here
User:Piotrus/ArbCom. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:27, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

History of Ukraine
I will surely do it, and I hope you will check it to see if it is OK. Thanks. Tymek (talk) 03:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Ostap, I said I would do it, and I will. Just give me some time dude. Tymek (talk) 18:33, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I did not write much, as I did not want to repeat information from other articles. Check and make corrections if necessary History_of_Ukraine. Tymek (talk) 01:36, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Lech Kaczyński
Please stop, otherwise I need to report your behaviour. Slijk (talk) 18:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Russian in Ukraine
Hi,

You reverted my edit stating that Russian is the second language in Ukraine. Well, I'm not putting it back right now because I'd want you to give me some real argument.

Did you read the footnotes ? A Gallop poll clearly indicates that 83 % of Ukrainian prefer conducting interviews in Russian. So, it's not "the second languages of some citizens". Plus, the second footnote states that most of business is conducted in Russian. I didn't say it was an official language. I suggest it is a language spoken my most of people in addition of the official one, just as many countries in the world : Morocco, Malaysia, parts of the US (California, New Mexico), etc. So, please, stop making a big deal out of it.93.13.182.179 (talk) 05:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Re : Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list
This arbitration case has been closed, and the final decision may be viewed at the link above.


 * User:Piotrus resigned the administrator tools during the case proceedings and may only seek to regain adminship by a new request for adminship or by request to the Arbitration Committee.
 * User:Piotrus is banned for three months. At the conclusion of his ban, a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed, shall take effect.
 * User:Digwuren is banned for one year. He is directed to edit Wikipedia from only a single user account, and advise the Arbitration Committee of the name of the account that he will use. Should he not advise the committee by the end of the one year ban, he will remain indefinitely banned until a single account is chosen.
 * User:Digwuren is placed on a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed. This shall take effect following the expiration of both above mentioned bans.
 * The following users are topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for one year:
 * User:Biruitorul, User:Dc76, User:Martintg, User:Miacek, User:Radeksz, User:Vecrumba, User:Tymek


 * User:Jacurek is topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for six months.
 * User:Tymek is strongly admonished for having shared his account password. He is directed to keep his account for his own exclusive use, and not to allow any other person to use it under any circumstance.
 * The editors sanctioned above (Piotrus, Digwuren, Martintg, Tymek, Jacurek, Radeksz, Dc76, Vecrumba, Biruitorul, Miacek) are prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with Russavia on any page of Wikipedia, except for purposes of legitimate and necessary dispute resolution.
 * All the participants to the mailing list are strongly admonished against coordinating on-wiki behavior off-wiki and directed to keep discussion of editing and dispute resolution strictly on wiki and in public. All editors are reminded that the editorial process and dispute resolution must take place on Wikipedia itself, using the article talk pages and project space for this purpose. No discussion held off-wiki can lead to a valid consensus, the basis of our editorial process. Off-wiki coordination is likely to lead to echo chambers where there is a false appearance of neutrality and consensus.

For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 17:41, 22 December 2009 (UTC) - Discuss this