User talk:Alex Nisnevich

'''I'm back from my one-year WikiBreak (10/20/05 - 10/25/06)! However, I am very busy in RL, so I won't be able to go on Wikipedia very often.'''

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AD&D races
Hi, what arrangements have you made for using material from "Fizban's Dragonlance Archive" and other AD&D-related sites? Note that Wikipedia does not allow inclusion of copyrighted material unless the author has agreed to release it under Wikipedia's license. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks. Gazpacho 19:45, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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 * If you are able to secure permission, the original article can be restored. I don't think you should mention that you have already used the material when you ask. Gazpacho 22:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Software programs
Please note that copyright applies to online promotional material too. The ExamPro advertisements have a copyright notice. Gazpacho 04:10, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

I actually know the CEO of PrestoSoft. What kind of proof would you like? --Alex Nisnevich 04:12, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Wiki meetup L.A.
Hello. Are you coming to the very first Los Angeles Wiki Meetup? - Eric 04:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, can't come. --Alex Nisnevich (talk) 04:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright tags
Thanks for uploading Image:LunaLovegood.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? I know you said that your friend allowed you to use it on Wikipedia. If permission was given for use on Wikipedia only, and does not include third parties, then it needs to have the tag Template:Permission. Unfortunatly these type of images are no longer allowed on Wikipedia and will deleted. Please ask your friend if they can release the image under the Creative Commons Attribution License v. 2.0. The details can be found here:. If your friend agrees, please tag the image with Template:Cc-by-2.0. Thanks so much, michael180 21:55, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll ask. Please don't delete the images yet! Give me some time. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 22:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I obtained permission. I'm putting the copyright tags in now. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 21:00, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I noticed Image:LunaLovegood.jpg still does not have a tag. Please add one. Thank You. --michael180 14:02, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Likewise Image:ScienceFictionStub.jpg   &mdash; PhilHibbs | talk 15:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi! I just wanted to belatedly thank you for supporting "Falcon (computer game)" as "Gaming Collaboration of the week". Shame it didn't pass. --The Merciful 08:38, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Godricgryffindor.jpg
The image page said it was licensed under the creative commons license, but your upload comment merely said you had permission. Did your friend explicitly license it under the creative commons license? Reply on my talk page, please. Superm401 | Talk 04:23, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Vandermonde's identity
You addition of the section heading that said Proof made the article misleading, in that it made it look as if everything in the article under that heading is about the proof. In fact, only the first paragraph after the new heading is about the proof; the part after that is about something else. Sometimes a new section heading necessitates other new section headings (and in this case, I've now added one). I've seen the same thing happen in lots of other articles. Michael Hardy 23:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops. Maybe I should have read the article more carefully. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 17:40, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

SWD316
You asked me what crime I commited to get to Wikipedia. Speeding. It's a minor crime to speed on a highway but still a crime. PS dont post message's there, post them on discussion pages — M o e   ε  21:13, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

(Serovich)
Hey, You messaged me about Shannara WikiProject. Yeah, sure I can join the project (if I can figure out how to use Wikipedia that is). Elfstones is my favorite book after all.

For now I am working on The Four Lands page because I like geography. I'll probably split it into 4 parts (no need to ask which) and maybe even make separate pages for large cities. You may remove Four Lands from the to do list if you wish, I'll take care of it. Then maybe I'll do some work on characters and other small-scale stuff.

One more thing, the plot summary for The Sword of Shannara is wrong. Yes, wrong, not inaccurate. Along with small mistakes whoever made it obviously did not understand its ending of the book or confused it with Lord of the Rings. Can you please fix it or find someone to do it or put it on to do list. I did not read the other book plots.

Now with business taken care of let me introduce myself. My name is Alex Serov (да, я тоже русский). My nickname is Serovich(not sure why). I live in United States (Maryland). Right now I'm studying in university. No notable special interests. I read books, play computer games, and various sports for fun. I read all four of the first Shannara books and The Scions of Shannara, now reading The Druid of Shannara. Unfortunately I have no books after that. I'm telling you this because I don't want to edit my personal page (I consider that the most boring activity one can think of). My email is serovich@gmail.com. Ok, thanks, hope to hear from you.

--Serovich 07:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Is this where I'm supposed to reply? Sorry I'm still a little confused with WikiPedia.


 * Thanks! -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 22:35, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. Yes, you can reply here.

(Denjo)
To Alex from Denjo: I thank you for your offer and I most humbly accept!
 * Thanks! You can sign up here. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 02:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

(Torsin)
Re: Shannara Invite. Hi, sorry a little late, haven't had much time lately. Thanks for the offer, I guess I could help out once in a while if you send me something to work on. You can email me: use my wikipedia user name @yahoo.com. Torsin 16:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

(Kumarhk)
Shannara Portal!

I've just created the Shannara Portal at Portal:Shannara. Feel free to go there and edit. It's yours.

Image removal on MTG set template?
Why did you remove the images from MTG set template? The last note about it on the MTG project page said it looked ok. -- Norvy (talk) 04:02, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops. I didn't see that note. Sorry. You can change it back. -- Alex Nisnevich (talk) 04:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Please vote again
Hello. I saw your vote at WP:TFD for the deletion of the template Web comics-stub. Heeding User:Grutness' advice, the nomination was moved here, but the votes were not. So could you please cast your vote again, this time in the new discussion? Thanks in advance. --Fibonacci 03:40, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

WP:Israel
FYI, you broke the redir link (unintentionally I am sure) so I had to revert your change. Please use preview next time. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens←ну? 21:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Requesting comments on template alteration
Hello. I see you are using one or more of the User instruments templates in your Babel box. Inspired by some recent developments, I want to rework all the templates in there (including ones used on user pages), to make them more like the regular Babel templates. However, I thought I should hear from the people this would affect before actually doing it. Please weigh in at User:Ddawson/User instruments. Ddawson 10:30, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup taskforce
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Urgent:image
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Image Tagging Image:Sigma.png
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Category:Millennial Generation Wikipedians
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Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005
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Image Tagging Image:ChessRook.jpg
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I have already deleted the old image from Template:Chess and would like you to change the image for chess bio if this is not a free image. It's bad enough to have unsourced images but we really shouldn't have them on so many pages. Thanks. gren グレン 12:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Taekwondo and Hapkido Peer Review
I've recently made Peer Review requests for Taekwondo and Hapkido, when I learned that you practice both. Could you look at both articles please and give us feedback on what needs to be improved? (Also, is the writing quality of the articles good enough for an encyclopedia?) I'm sure you have good knowledge of both martial arts. Thanks. Wikiman86 15:30, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Looking for an honest opinion
I'm working on the article motorized bicycle. I created a timeline. It is nominated for deletions. I was wondering if you could give me your opinion of the subject either at Articles for deletion/Timeline of Motorized bicycle history or on my user talk page. Thank you. (p.s.: love the some of your categories, I stole you idea and put some on my user page.) --CyclePat 01:40, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND
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New user box
Hello Alex, Im SWD316. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! — M o e   ε  03:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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WikiProject Jewish culture
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re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment
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Shannara Portal
I've created the portal for Shannara at Portal:Shannara, but it needs heavy editing. -- 05:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Russian Translation
In the following sentences:

Добро пожаловать в Википедию — проект свободной многоязычной энциклопедии, в которой каждый может изменить или дополнить любую статью или создать новую.

На русском языке сейчас доступно 107 336 энциклопедических статей.

In know that Википедию is Wikipedia, in Russian. I need to know, what is welcome?

Thank-You,

Book s worm Sprechen-sie Koala?  10:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia 1.0
Hi Alex, thanks for signing up as a reviewer. We are currently in (I hope!) the last week or two of reviewing for WP:V0.5, if you want to help us complete the task sooner, we'd appreciate your help. Take a look at Version 0.5/To do - we are mainly reviewing FAs, a few core topics and the core biographies at this point. I'd also appreciate a fresh pair of eyes at Version 0.5 Set Nominations on the "isms" and the religions/deities sets, any comments you have would be welcome. In August we felt that we had too many FAs on unimportant topics and not enough important topics covered, but I think we have more-or-less restored the balance now. We have done that by accepting a lot of B-Class articles (and a few Start-Class) on important topics from the lists and sets shown (nominations outside of those lists have closed). Once you've taken a look, by all means contact my talk page for answers or suggestions.

By next month, we should be able to open up the next phase, which would probably be called Version 0.7, and of course there will be lots of reviewing there too. In the longer term, we are looking to generate much larger lists automatically from the bot-based assessments (over 150,000 articles have now been assessed by WikiProjects! All while you were on wikibreak!). But for now, these manual assessments are kinda better (though much slower!), because we know a person has physically looked over the article for the CD - I think this will give us a nice reliable & balanced "core" of articles we can rely on for all future releases, even after the automation comes in. Many thanks, Walkerma 21:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the welcome! I'll see what I can do with the "isms" and religion sets. Alex Nisnevich 02:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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Strugatsky novels
Hi, I've registered on Wikipedia a year or so ago, but I have just gotten around to doing stuff the past couple of days. I've noticed you also listed improving Strugatsky-related articles as your current focus. Do you have anything specific that you're working on? I've written a fairly long article on Space Apprentice/Probationers a few days ago, but I haven't gotten around to uploading and formatting it yet, maybe tomorrow afternoon. I've also started writing an entry about recurrent characters in their early novels (Bykov, Yurkovsky, etc.) - I think it would be good to have them in one place, and then the novels pages could link back to it, no need for repetitions - but that's nowhere near upload-ready yet. I'll let you know when I put them up - will you be as kind as to look them over? I read their works in Hungarian, and I don't speak any Russian, sadly. Happy editing! - prezzey 02:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not doing anything specific Strugatsky-wise, just fixing up everything that I can see. I'd be happy to look over your articles! =) Alex Nisnevich 02:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay, thanks!! Here it is: Space Apprentice. It still needs a section on significance, and proper categories, and a bunch of other stuff, but right now I should really really be doing something else called "schoolwork" :] The English might be clunky in places, my sleep cycle has just gone casters-up *sigh*. prezzey 23:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I read it over, made a few minor changes, and asked several questions in Talk:Space Aprrentice. Alex Nisnevich 00:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хроник вдохновляющих историй сообщества Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой органицации, чтобы убедить людей поддержывать наш проект, и мы знаем, что у людей, которые строют и используют Википедии есть много, что рассказать!

Я ищу вдохновляющие страницы пользователей, и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила Вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у Вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедия ли когда-нибудь Вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы показывали редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Этот метод имел огромный успех, в результате чего у нас была наиболее финансово успешная кампании по сбору средств в историе организации. Кроме того, мы остались верны духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как Ви и я.

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще редакторов Википедии на русском языке, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию и интервью с редакторами.

Если Википедия положительно повлеяла на Вас или на кого-то из Ваших знакомых, или у Вас есть что-то интересное сказать о Википедии, я бы очень хотел услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если Ви бы хотели участвовать в проекте Истории Википедии, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен поговорить.

Конечно, если у Вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Извините за плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за Ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

__________________________________

Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

I'm scouring user pages looking for inspiring, motivating and interesting stories of how Wikipedia has affected the lives of people. I'm asking questions like "How has Wikipedia changed your life?", "What's the most interesting story you have about Wikipedia?" and "Has Wikipedia ever surprised you?"

Last year, we used the annual fundraiser as a way to show the world who it is who actually writes Wikipedia. We featured editors from Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, India, United States and England. This campaign was a huge success, resulting in the most financially successful fundraising campaign ever. It was also a campaign that stayed true to the spirit of Wikipedia, educating the public that this free top-5 website is created by volunteers like you and I.

This year we want to highlight more Russian-language Wikipedia editors, so I am in the process of planning a trip to Russia to interview editors.

If you or someone you know (or have heard about) has been positively affected by Wikipedia, or have something interesting to say about Wikipedia I'd very much like to hear about it!

Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project, or if you know someone else with whom I should speak.

Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I will answer as soon as I can. I apologize for any poor translation of this letter, I am using Google-translate. I hope it makes you laugh :)

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 22:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Meetup
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Personal questions
Hi,

do you mind if I were to ask you a few personal questions? Feel free to not answer them, but I ask them because I wish to know something about 'memory' in Russia or with Russians in general. I ask these questions to several native Russian speakers, so forgive me if you encounter these questions on different talkpages. So here are the questions:


 * When were you born?
 * Were you 16 or older in the 1980s?
 * Were you born in Russia/Soviet Union? Where?
 * How do you remember the Soviet-Afghan war/Afghan war?
 * How do you remember the Soviet repression, such as the Gulag or the prison camp system?
 * How do you remember the public discussion in the 1980s/1990s about the repression and the prison camp system?
 * How do you feel about the victims of the Afghan war and the victims of the repression?

Answer in anyway you like (which includes not answering as well of course), thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Mallerd (talk) 18:38, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia could use your knowledge of Russian right now...
Hi! I'm C h r o m a Nebula   (talk) , and I noticed the article Kinzelyuk Waterfall when I was patrolling Recent Changes. The article is short, needs better sourcing, and the waterfall itself may not even be notable. Unfortunately, as this is a Russian waterfall, the best sources for it are most likely in Russian. Google Translate isn't good for entire sources, so I was wondering if an experienced Russian-speaking Wikipedian such as yourself could help improve this article. Thanks, C h r o m a Nebula   (talk)   00:53, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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