User:Rurik the Varangian



"И слово вещее - не ложно, И свет с Востока засиял, И то, что было невозможно, Он возвестил и обещал.

И, разливаяся широко, Исполнен знамений и сил, Тот свет, исшедший от Востока, С Востоком Запад примирил.

О Русь! В предвиденье высоком Ты мыслью гордой занята; Каким же хочешь быть Востоком: Востоком Ксеркса иль Христа?"

- Vladimir Solovyov

My name is Алекса́ндр Григорьев (Alexander Grigoryev). I am a linguistics and history student of Ukrainian descent living in Russia. I like to read and paint. My main interest is the history of Western and Asian technology and linguistics. On Wikipedia, I also contribute to articles on art and architecture.

Currently working on

 * General clean up and monitoring of list of invention articles. I regularly remove entries that don't count as inventions.
 * I regularly remove bad sources, misuse of sources, and text without sources from articles.

Ukrainian articles
Articles that are starred are the ones that I created
 * 2014 Crimean crisis
 * Timeline of the 2014 Crimean crisis **
 * Euromaidan
 * 2014 Russian anti-war protests **
 * 2014 Ukrainian revolution
 * 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Cleanup of nationalist and other POV edits

 * I work to fight the use of unreliable nationalist sources in articles and will remove them if spotted. Nationalism by Chinese or Indian or Muslim POV warriors has been a huge problem on Wikipedia. It unfairly minimizes the many contributions to modern society by the Greeks and Romans, sometimes by misusing or cherry picking sources. I am not a European nationalist, just an editor who believes in Wikipedia's neutrality and reliable source policies. I regularly contribute to articles on the technology of Indians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Persians, Egyptians, and others.
 * See User:Rurik the Varangian/Robert Temple cleanup for my ongoing efforts removing and revising content cited with an unreliable source frequently used in Chinese history articles
 * See Fringe theories/Noticeboard for my efforts to remove another unreliable source used in Indian history articles