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Cossacks and Ukraine
Wikipedia has certain biases and will often take sides of the strongest (in history) and/or politically allied. The fact that Russia used to be exceptionally left-leaning and strong (i.e. more historical sources will reflect Russian Empirical propaganda in one way or another) for many years, as well as the fact it maintains large Wikipedia editors groups, makes it many times more likely for the website to take their side. What it especially means is that Wikipedia is much more forgiving for Russian biases to slide through while being likely harsher towards Ukrainian biases, and therefore is more open to revert any changes we, Ukrainians, make. As such we must avoid making biases on our parts, especially such noticeable. Our updates must be correct in nature, be graduate or small and be easy to defend in case of the discussion. Hence, excluding Russia from the Cossack connection will not only be incorrect but will damage our reputation and will make others revert our changes back leaning towards Russian versions and propaganda. We must stay strong and true to the facts. And the facts here are as I described: Cossacks had different levels of contributions and connections to each country involved, but mostly they contributed and quite literally originated from Ukraine (even if we take the Khazar origin, it only contributed fully when assimilated with Ukrainian/Ruthenian population). Hence the mentioning of Ukraine must be before the mentioning of Russia (preferably it must be Ukraine -> Poland -> Russia, or Khazar's State -> Ukraine/Ruthenia -> Poland/Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -> Russia/Russian Empire). 2601:98A:4001:B070:157D:5170:36EE:1AFC (talk) 04:29, 23 September 2022 (UTC)