User talk:Brandmeister (old)/Archive 7

Family trees, only for the elite?
Hi, i am wondering if i can post the tree of a decent middle class family of artists and professionals. Please let know if there are limitations, Adrian Comollo (talk) 15:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If they conform to the WP:N, yes. Of course there is no need to check out all relatives. --Brand спойт 16:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK
Thank you for your contribution. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 15:56, 26 April 2008 (UTC) Perhaps you could expand this with info on tea production in the country? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 16:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I will within the next few days. --Brand спойт 18:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiCookie
Just stopping by with wikicookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Strasbourg
Since when has the Battle of Strasbourg another name that is more common in English? Please provide sources for that claim. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We should stick to historical place names, for example Siege of Leningrad, not Siege of Saint Petersburg. --Brand спойт 09:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It is a very clear rule that the most common name in English should be used and nothing else. Read the policy if you have the leisure to cite it. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I requested a move for the article. Discussion is here. Wandalstouring (talk) 10:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:T. Kirven and S. J. Love.jpg
Could u tag any copyright status?. Thx--Sanandros (talk) 08:23, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Pornography in the United States GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
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Proposed deletion of Atlantis Reef
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Re: RD/E
Yes, I have the version of My Immortal that happens to be the same as in the video, which I downloaded on LimeWire. It depends on where you downloaded your version, because both are on LimeWire, although I would think if it's on iTunes it wouldn't be hard to find the version you're looking for. --Crackthewhip775 (talk) 19:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanx. --Brand спойт 19:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * NP. :) --Crackthewhip775 (talk) 20:04, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi
People want to delete this article, Siege of Gordium, because virtualy no sources exist for the event. Please go to the deletion page of this article, and explain to them why it should not be delete, because I checked and found out. You added Siege of Gordium to Alexanders battles template (therefore you are the original creator), I created it by adding a sentence from the unsourced sentence in the Gordium article. If you have any sources for this siege, now is the time to display them on the article, I tried to find sources, and I could not find any either, thank you.--Ariobarza (talk) 00:20, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Ariobarza talk

Anderson maps
Hi Brand, given this award you gave to Adil Baguirov, especially for the talkpage of NK, I think it is safe to affirm you find what he wrote in the talkpage which was dismissing Armenian history and turning anything Armenian as Albanian, worthy of an award. If you are so concerned with accuracy, you'll stop using dubious sources like using the Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia to add claims on Wikipedia which are contradicted by official sources. Here for instance, not only you are at fault in translating the title of the source used as if it was published in English but you even claim him having received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award in 1969. From the awards official site in 1969 it was Mother Teresa who received it. Obviously this was fixed, but reverted by Grandmaster who claimed that maybe there was more than one awardee, when there is indeed only one awardee per year. This is one example of the inaccuracies you perpetuate on Wikipedia and I just had the occasion to tell it to you to show you that you are in no position to question the credibility of the sources when you seem to use worst quality but given the amount of articles you create about Azerbaijan it is almost impossible to follow them and correct them.

As for that quote from Anderson, this is what Britannica writes: A few native Armenian rulers survived for a time in the Kiurikian kingdom of Lori, the Siuniqian kingdom of Baghq or Kapan, and the principates of Khachen (Artzakh) and Sasun. The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761. Those are still there, word by word in the 2008 Ultimate edition DVD. Several other sources have been provided. Grandmaster is actually not denying this, but is claiming that the Meliks were not totally independent to justify its removal. The map is therefore not inaccurate for the purpose of its use, which is to show where those principalities were. All this debate is a total waste of time. - Fedayee (talk) 23:28, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not about turning anything Armenian to Albanian, but what is actually Albanian to Albanian. Show me other inaccuracies if you think I prefer indiscriminate refs. It's apparently a rare case but the source can't be challenged because it's not English. The source was translated to show which reference was actually used and I see no fault here. All in all I would rather give credit first to ASE and then to Andersen. Though I didn't question the existence of principalities, even Meowy confirmed some inaccuracies in map, so we can't name it flawless. As such it's to be removed and we had a long thread indeed. --Brand спойт 13:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

History of the fire service worldwide
I saw your interest in developing such work. Do you feel it would fit better under a language project or on its own fork? I think it would be a very interesting project. Do you feel there would be enough contributors for it? We could easily set something up on our site thefirewiki.org. Leave me a message on my talk page. --Mfinney (talk) 05:51, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar!
I hope to get Azerbaijan into suitable shape before year-end. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:47, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Fire in the Winter Palace
There are messages for you at the end of |Giano's talk page. --Hans Adler (talk) 13:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Discussion of theFireWiki
Great to hear! Take a look and see what your thoughts are. As well, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Your ideas, that you've posted on here, sound very interesting. Can you give me some ideas of what direction you wanted to go?--Mfinney (talk) 13:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration
Hi Brandmeister You might want to take a look at this talk page entry at Talk:Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. --The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 20:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: NK revert
While I agree Capasitor has engaged in some tendentious editing practices, I am not willing to sign off on such a mass revert. If you feel Capasitor is making bad faith edits, either to the article or the talk page, there are places to go to air your grievance. But I strongly suggest against starting any kind of edit war or system of mass reversions. --Golbez (talk) 22:32, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

"Shine, Shine, My Star"
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Heydar Aliyev International Airport
Dear Brandmeister, thank you for your changing in the page. But the reason for "undo" of your edits is Picture_tutorial - any "faces" in tha page must "look" to the center of the page, not to the left or right margin. Пожалуйста, не обижайтесь! --Ds02006 (talk) 03:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

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Deleting pages you created
Just to let you know, if you want to remove a page that you added by mistake, you can tag it db-g7. No need to go for a full deletion discussion in those cases. Stifle (talk) 21:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will bear in mind. --Brandспойт 09:49, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Baku-Gazakh motorway minibus crash
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DYK for Mirza Khazar
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Multiple reverts
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 * Hi Brandmeister. I ask you to be more careful with reverting articles. I think you made recently some reverts which were not justified. In the NK article you twice removed information which was based on reliable sources and which you or any other user never contented (even after you moved them, at least you should bring up your consideration to the talk page). Then you reverted my edits in the Artsakh article, however I participated in the discussion about the ancient population of Artsakh beginning from August 2008 and my last edits were explained at great length. You never participated in that discussion, yet you revert my edits without even mentioning why you don't agree with them, instead you should first familiarize yourself with the relevant discussions, then explain your opinion in the talkpage and wait for the opinion of other users. Just now you reverted my last edits in the Panah Ali Khan article with the edit summary let's discuss first, and again you don't clarify why and what you think needs discussion. Such obscure reverts are and result in edit warring and they are harmful and do not combine to build consensus. Thank you for you understanding. --Vacio (talk) 16:44, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

your edits
Can you clarify please why you delete every mention of republic of Azerbaijan's linkage to Iran or Iranian culture? I do not understand anti-Iranism among the team of editors from the republic of Azerbaijan.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 14:41, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Generally because the linkage is dubious or biased, for example the Persian origin of the Maiden Tower in Baku is not confirmed universally. But it still depends on each particular case and indeed there are still some remains of Iranian heritage in Azerbaijan. brandспойт 16:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * do you deny that republic of Azerbaijan was Iranian territory? --Babakexorramdin (talk) 16:37, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Originally it was not, but has been such intermittently as the result of conquests. brandспойт 12:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Here lies your bias. the territory of what is the republic of Azerbaijan has been for more than 2000 years an integral part of subsequent Iranian empires, untill Russians conquered it in 18012 and 1828. There were even movements from within the your society to reunify it with Iran. Now you hate Iran so much despite the shared history, culture, religion and language, while you are so in love with Turkey who has committed genocide on Azeris in the course of history.      Anyway what you say is illogical, what conquest? in that sense was transcaucasia not much different than any other part of Iran, such as Khuzestan, Fars, Khorasan, Mazandaran etc... in fact the territory of republic of Azerbaijan has been for more continous time part of Iran than for instance Khorasan, yet no one questions the Iranian character of Khorasan.Remember you are an Iranian country and not an Ottoman or Russian. Your whole history and culture is deeply Iranian. Actually Iranians do not give the label Iranian to many peoples, so you may regard it as an honor!--Babakexorramdin (talk) 12:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The word empire speaks for itself. I don't hate Iran, but restrain Iranian claims similar to your nationalist statement Remember you are an Iranian country. brandспойт 13:43, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There is nothing nationalistic in it. That is a cultural fact. It is like to say that Sweden is a Nordic country. But it is your guys who claim Iranian territory, funnily when 20% of your republic's territory is occupied by a smaller country (which was also part of Iran any way). On the other hand Turkey did all it wanted with you and even wanted to assasinate your president, and even demanded that you speak istanbuli Turkish. And of couyrse it is Iran that is bad and Turkey it is good, moreover Russia is a liberator. What a funny world. Any way to be clear: no claims on Iranian history and territory will be tolerated and at the moment you have power of numbers on Russian wikipedia, but that will change soon. So it is better that your team peacefully reverts all those chauvinistic lies there. Your team has its hand full with the problems they have with Armenians. A problem with Iranians is bad for you, because there are 10 times more Iranians than you.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 14:25, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * First of all, I would like to inform that I edit in Ruwiki extremely seldom, just check the contribs. Secondly, your country of 20% is unrecognized internationally, including Armenia and Iran. Regarding Iranians, don't worry, I don't care whether they are 10 times or 20 times more. brandспойт 17:15, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fine it is claer that you have some aversions against Iranians and you kept quite about Turkey. And you are honest that you did not deny that many people from your country including the team of editors in wikipedia do have territorial claims on Iranian territory. And I did not understand what has international recognition to do with it? What I said is that your nationalism is destructive to your country. When a former province or lets say Armenia occupies 20% of your territory it is extremely ridiculous to claim territory from a country which is at least ten times more populous and militarily and economically stronger than your country. It is not fine for your people, who I any way regard as co-Iranians and wish them well.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 22:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your help against Pan-Turkists, but don't have any claims to Iran. I even don't recall the official Azerbaijan having such claims since its independence from the Soviet Union. Thanks for wishing well anyway. brandспойт 11:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Ganja
Hi please use the talkpage to give your rational. I gave my rational. The Persian name was there a year ago. If the Russian name is there, then the Persian name should be there. Again any word that has etymologically Persian root or probable Persian root and has been used extensively in Persian literature (and it has been since more than a 1000 years) is valid. This has nothing to do with your argument with Babak, but please use the talkpage. Note the Azeri language did not exist for some articles (say Nezami or others) but I have allowed it to be there with its latin script. So it is best to be inclusive here and not exclude names based on narrow nationalist criterion. In this case the criterion is etymologically of the word which is Iranian and has been used long before the Russian or even the existence of the Azeri-Turkish language. Thanks. --Nepaheshgar (talk) 23:43, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nepaheshgar, In fact all placenames in the republic of Azerbaijan that existed before 1930s should be written in Iranian-Azeri script, because they used that alphabet themselves in the republic of Azerbaijan before the imposition of Cyrlic and Latin on them by Russians and Turks. On the other hand in Iran Latin and Cyrlic were never used.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 11:18, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * As to 1930s, see Azerbaijani alphabet, from 1918 till 1939 Latin letters were used. There was no imposition by Turks of Latin alphabet, it was adopted in Azerbaijan to get rid of Soviet pattern and be close to European alphabets. brandспойт 11:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * No see your banknotes from the times of Rsaulzadeh and the early Soviet times, they are written in in Iranian-Azeri alphabets. Only in the end of 1920s were Latin introduced, but it was a different type of Latin as it is today. After the indepedence Elchibey wanted to abolish the Azeri language and Turks were pushing to replace your language with Istanbuli Turkish. he didnt succeed but could anyway impose a Turkish-alike Latn Aphabet. It is clear that you hate Iran and do not want to admit your Iranian heritage, so you vioalte the history with regard to Iran. But at least be sincere to your own history.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 13:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Please do not delete Persian names for etymologies that are Persian. This is an Encyclopedia and I am not here to make political claims.  Just like we do not delete the Turkish name in Tabriz even though the name is not Turkish.  But anything that has relavance is inserted and the more names, the better.  Thanks. --Nepaheshgar (talk) 16:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Andrey Kistyakovsky
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Template:Future at Eurovision Dance Contest 2009
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Your edits
Hi, and thanks for your contributions. I noticed that you linked some dates in Paulinus of York recently. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. Furthermore, there is an temporary Arbcom injunction on mass linking/delinking of chronological elements, although this is no suggestion from me that you are in breach whatsoever. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Thank you for your attention. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:08, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Note
Someone mentioned you by name at Articles for deletion/Azerbaijan–Spain relations. Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 17:33, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

your question
I think we have had discussed this already. From the sources oit is obvious that 1- the territories of these Khanates were Iranian territory 2- they were of predominantly Turkicspeaking Shia background, so there is a continuity with the people of the republic of Azerbaijan rather than with Armenia 3- These Khanates were to various degree self-governing depending to the political context of time and the mode of governance of the Iranian empire. In this sense they were no more or less different than other parts of the Iranian empire. All these are obvious from the sources. --Babakexorramdin (talk) 14:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * They were not Iranian territories in terms of incorporation, but had a varied degree of independence, as you outlined. The Baku Khanate in particular was independent, as confirmed by majority of sources I cited. Iranian POV there should be dealt according to WP:UNDUE. brandt 14:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The sources say exactly as I said. Please do not push your POV.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 14:40, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It is not my POV, the issue is addressed at Baku Khanate's talk. brandt 14:48, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Bax brand, mushkulun nadir? Bu Arazi Iranain arazisi iddi. This is what the sources say. Think good, it is not bad at all for the interests of the republic of Azerbaijan visavis Armenia! Please do not make a conflict about these obvious things--Babakexorramdin (talk) 15:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Karim bey Mehmandarov
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WP:AE
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Restriction
Brandmeister, pursuant to Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2, and for the reasons given in the AE thread above (permalink), you are sanctioned as follows: For six months, you are restricted to one revert per page per seven-day period with respect to any article related to the region of Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, and the ethnic and historical issues related to that area. Reverts of obvious vandalism are exempt.  Sandstein  07:34, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Просьба
Здраствуйте Brandmeister. В русской вики вы создали Шаблон:История Азербайджана. Не могли бы создать в русской вики Шаблон:История Ирака, я затем дополню и оформлю его. Заранее спасибо.
 * Сделал. Brandt 19:15, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

RFCN
Hi there. I have closed this RfC because there has not yet been any attempt to discuss the concern with the user, as per the instructions on WP:RFCN. -kotra (talk) 00:15, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

WP:AE
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Статьи
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June 2009
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