User talk:DDima/Archive 1

Did You Know...? #1-10 DYK 1

Molodets!!! :) --Irpen 00:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks!! :) Molodets to you too! DDima 01:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)


 * P.S. "Great people think alike". I was about to create and article when your version was announced. Keep it up!


 * Nice work! Thank you again! Ukrained 22:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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№ 2. --Irpen 04:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Irpen. But without you and everybody else who contributed to the Andriyivskyy Descent article, I probably couldn't have done it. Thanks again, --DDima 04:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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'Your article, Lviv tram'', was selected for DYK! 6''' Thanks for your contributions!  + +Lar: t/c 00:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

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 * Please let me know if I can help you get any of your articles on the main page. thanks again for recommending Potemkin Stairs Odessaukrain 09:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You are welcome:) If you need any help on any of your articles, feel free to ask for help. Thanks, —dima /sb.tk/ 14:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome
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Ukrainian topics
I addition to the standard generic greeting above, let me add a link to Ukraine portal at Wikipedia where you can find several links of interest if you want to contribute to the Ukraine-related topics. Similarly, there is a sister Russia portal since many editors contribute to the topics of both countries. --Irpen 05:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note. I resored Golden-Domed. In the future, please do not forget to sign in. It would then be easier to resolve any issues like that in the future. --Irpen

Khreschatyk for DYK and FA
Hi. I'm going to suggest your Khreschatyk for both the DYK and the FA (although never did). Starting this page was just great! Please help further editing and promoting with whatever you can do and as soon as you can (DYK can't wait). Thanks, Ukrained 23:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Allow me



 * Wow! I am honored! Thanks for the wonderful award Irpen! I wasn't expecting any since I just joined Wikipedia, but it really made my day. :)) --DDima 02:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC).

You are welcome :). Please continue your good work. See comments on talk:Khreschatyk which we all greatly expaned, BTW. Also, please consider enabling your email as right now your "email this user" button is disabled. --Irpen 02:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Dima, thanks for the excellent images you uploaded. Since they are not linked to any articles, as of now, there is a danger that they may get forgotten orphaned. If you can't think of any articles to put them too now, the way to prevent them from getting lost would be to upload the to Wikimedia in one of the Kiev related cats, like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiev or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kiev. Still, finding an article for them, or writing one, if it doesn't exist would be ideal. This is just a suggestion, of course. I am simply taking an effort that your images get some exposure. Being simply uploaded may not bring them any. --Irpen 21:13, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I just added the Hidropark image [[Media:Kyiv_1002.jpg]] to the Hidropark article. Maybe it would be a good idea to add the Kievo-Pechersko Lavra image [[Media:Kyiv_Lavra_View_003.jpg]] to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra article? --DDima 21:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I created a new Category:Images of Ukraine and tagged your images. Hopefully, that cat will be found useful. --Irpen 03:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --DDima 04:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Creating articles
Again, thanks for your work. A comment, if I may to the articles you are creating. Some of them where on my todo list and I am happy to see that others do the work. One thing to think over though. We have a problem with too few editors writing for Ukrainian topics and one way to attract editors in WP, a project largely of the anglophones, is to give the Ukrainian topics extra prominence. One can get the best prominence at Wikipedia by sneaking UA-related articles to the mainpage. There are two ways to do it: the long and honorable one, but very time consuming, is to produce articles that can be voted to WP:Featured status by a community. Those may become the article of the day and will attract attention of many editors to Ukraine. Producing the featured article is obviously difficult and we have only limited resources. The second solution (a sneaky workaround) is to get Ukrainian articles to a WP:DYK window of the mainpage. This window features some interesting trivia but has one strict limitation, only trivia covered in recently created article (used to be 72 hours, now 5 days) may be featured and the articles have to be in decent shape, not necessarily close to being "featurable" but at least not to be stubs. Two of the articles you created recently have potential for WP:DYK, the European Square by the fact that it was changing its name 8 times in 200 years (see talk and refs) and Andrew's Descent due to the Richard the Lion Heart building there.

The DYK would look something like this:

Did you know...
 * ...that the European Square in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine was known under seven different names (under one of them twice) in the last 200 years?
 * ...that one of the buildings at the Andrew's Descent, a historic street of Kiev, is called by the locals the "Palace of Richard the Lion Heart" a 12th century King of England?

Since you created the articles already, the clock of their being DYKable is ticking fast. Would you help develop them? I would be happy to do this on my own since I love the Kiev articles and the info on the web is abundant but I have only limited time. We were succesfull to get Khreschatyk and Verkhovna Rada building to DYK recently. A good start but lots of work ahead. Cheers, --Irpen 06:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC) P.S. Please do not forget to announce your articles at the Ukraine portal. --Irpen 06:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I would be glad to develop them to the DYK or maybe even a featured article. But I too, have only limited time. I'll try my best on these articles as soon as I can. Thanks, --DDima 16:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Please do not take this as if I am telling you what to do but I take a liberty to suggest that you prepare the article in your userspace and only when it is close to be acceptable for the DYK level paste it to the mainspace. I did that with Verkhovna Rada building. Take a look at this history of user:Irpen/sb2 page! What I did was working on the draft there and contacted a copuple of wiki-friends to help me expand it there. Once it was close to be acceptible for WP:DYK, I posted it to the mainspace. For DYK the article doesn't have to be even close to the WP:Featured quality, but still not a stub, reasonably structured and with the info you would like to DYK. The reson to develop it it your own userspace is that once it is posted to mainspace the clock starts to tick with the time it could be used for DY running out quickly.

To put it shortly, please consider creating DYKable articles in your userspace first, giving me and a couple of interested parties a notice and always announce the newsly created articles at the portal at once. We had success lately with both Khreschatyk and Verkhovna Rada building featured at DYK. Hopefully we will keep doing that. Cheers, --Irpen 19:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)


 * When I finished writing the Andrew's Descent article, I was thinking that I should have done the article instead on my user page. It'll be easier getting pages done on the user space to DYK status. Now, I'll do them in my User:DDima/sb2 space. Thanks for the advice, --DDima 20:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Dima, I am now trying to write for Andrew's Descent and can't really concentrate, too many distractions of everyday life. BTW, pls enable your email in prefs or just drop me an email through "email this user" link. Perhaps, we could coordinate with this article. Thanks, --Irpen 01:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Irpen, I enabled my email in the preferences. Feel free to email me. Thanks, --DDima 01:45, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, please check it now. --Irpen 02:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Templates
Hi. Please do not create single use templates, like Template:Infobox Chernivtsi. For more information, see: Infobox templates. Thank you. bogdan 19:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I personally don't see any problems with having single-use templates, but it really doesn't matter to me, just as long as the info on the infoboxes is still on the articles. If you really want to, then we can substitute the infoboxes and then delete them just like you proposed on tfd. Cheers, --DDima (talk) 20:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, here's what I propose: you make a template with variables, then you can replace everywhere so that the previous single-use templates can be deleted, how's that? Right now, this is going to be a heck of a mess to work out. Don't forget to add the Infobox to Infobox templates. Circeus 16:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * That's fine. I'll try my best to replace them and make a template with variables. --DDima (talk) 22:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Just tell me afterward so I can delete the unneeded templates. Circeus 00:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'm done. Thanks, --DDima (talk) 00:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Metro maps
Hey not bad work for Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoi Rog. However I would ask you to expand on the version, maybe converting them into svgs or making them image wholly, i.e. adding a logo and a legend. The problem is these systems are single lined, so we do need to keep the template for the future articles on stations. Also do you mind if I edit the version of the maps like I did on Kiev Metro. Cheers. --Kuban Cossack 16:42, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll try to add the logos and converting them into svg format. And just like you said, we should keep the templates for the future articles on stations. Also, I don't mind if you or others edit the versions of the maps. Thanks again, --DDima (talk) 18:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Kuban kazak, there is no need to put two types of English labels (i.e. translation from Ukrainian, and translation from Russian) on one map, as you did with Kiev metro map. What may be needed is English labels and Ukrainian labels. The Ukrainian labels are actually present on metro/tram stations, so an English-only speaker can easly match a map with his current location.--Anonymous 05:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * In Kharkov and in Krivoi Rog Russian is definetely present in the labels as it is on Dnepropetrovsk. Kiev might be different but I do solidly remember Ploshchad Lva Tolstogo written on the wall. Me and ddima actually draw maps and write articles. Seriously get a life. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|border|]] 09:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Cossack, please be civil. DDima, do you want to get together on Kiev tram? I am tired of edit warring on political articles and could use a break in the form of a non-politically involved article or two. I know relatively little on the subject, but I love Kiev, everything connected to it and there is sufficient amount of info online. How about user talk:DDIma/Kiev tram as a location to start working on the draft? --Irpen 16:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The rest of discussion is moved to user talk:134 based on anon's IP. --Irpen 21:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Anyway what do you think? --Kuban Cossack 00:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Nice job! --DDima (talk) 01:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Kiev tram
Hi Irpen, I would love to work on the Kiev tram article together at the location you suggested. But I have only limited time, and I will try my best on the article as soon as I can. Cheers, --DDima (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC) OK, you start it and I will follow when I can. I am also rather busy. Check www.mashke.org and I think I posted another link for you some time ago. Will find... --Irpen 02:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Here is some more: Amand Struve (his bridge info is missing from Kiev bridges, to do for us), Kiev tram is dying, The first - in Kiev, Kievans for public transportation --Irpen 07:46, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Added bridges. A starter only. --Irpen 09:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all the links, I'll try to get something on Kiev Tram done tonight. BTW, nice job on the history sec of Kiev Bridges.   --DDima (talk) 22:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. For now we can go without separate articles on each bridge, I suppose. Also, do you remember the towers that stick out of Dnieper river seen when you cross it by the railroad Darnytsya Bridge? I wonder which fromer bridge are they from. Mashevich's www.mashke.org is the most comprehensive site on the trams but others can be used as well. I am not sure I will have time tonight :(. Cheers, --Irpen 22:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think I remember them. Speaking of Kiev Bridges, I think we should add Paton's little pedestrian bridge (Пешеходный Парковый мост над Петровской аллеей) since it is famous. Also, I don't know if you already know of this site, but there are some good pictures and info of Kiev as well as on some Kiev Bridges here: . --DDima (talk) 23:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes! I very well remember the Чёртов мост! I even have a pic of myself on the bridge with the spectacular view in the background. Hardly encyclopedic :). Tried to look quickly online but didn't find much. Cheers, --Irpen 23:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Ukrainian City
I was not by what I found, although I did take the time to fix the template. I ended up removing two sections that were not used anywhere, assuming they were unlikely to ever be. Circeus 01:28, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for spending your time on fixing the template! But may I ask you to add the flag section to the template up so if there is a flag for the city we may add it? Like on Vinnytsia, there is a COA and a flag. I tried doing it today but had no luck (I'm not very good with templates :). Thanks again, --DDima (talk) 01:45, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll try doing that. It's going to be one hell of a ride with the conditionals, that one... Circeus 02:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Kiev Botanical Gardens
Kiev Botanical Gardens, just noticed that the link that you gave on the Metro station article is to the wrong park. Now not being an expert in Kiev's parks, but I can give to different sattelite views, and it looks like there is some disambig work to be done on these two places: and. --Kuban Cossack 13:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I just added info on the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden to the Kiev Botanical garden, inside which the station is located, and renamed the link on the Universytet station. BTW, thanks for starting the Kiev metro articles. I tried starting on them earlier, but had little luck. —DDima (talk) 21:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Really there is nothing hard, start with the basics of a few links and some solid facts like Krestyanskaya Zastava and then slowly add on to that until you get a Park Kultury-Radialnaya. The only issue is that I see no point in doing that prior to having a few good photos of the station. Now I only got hold of 1960s (pre-1973) photos that are on the commons cat:Kiev Metro. So for the first stage of the Metro I shall compleate within a week. Other stations is where I need help (with their photos). Thanks for the garden disambig btw. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|border|]] 21:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Allow me 2


Apologizing in advance for not asking for Alex' permission I hereby substitute his original award by the one to the right which I asked minted with a raspberry ribbon, a historic color of Ukrainian Cossacks, yours and mine ancestors and, in many ways, founders of the modern Ukrainian nation! Keep up the good work! --Irpen 19:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Alex, for the wonderful award! And also to both of you for appreciating my work toward Ukraine-related articles. Cheers, —DDima (talk) 20:37, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

New Map
What do you think? Should we generally adapt this standard elsewhere? Also can you give me a hand on the design of this template for Baku Metro (I want the text to align right on the left branch) if it confuses you then that is good, here is a forum thread about it. --Kuban Cossack 15:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Btw unless you did not know if you want find the interstation distance then you can do it by either inspecting the Piket numbers on the station (exactly on the halfway mark of the platform, on the tracks) or just to get a hold of a scheme like this. All the pikets are measured from some arbituary point. In Kharkov all are single way whilst in Moscow they are bysided. For a single sided line say in Kharkov for e.g Proletarskaya - Moskovskiy Prospekt, distance = 17973.5 - 10480.0 = 7493.5 metres (yes that is the accuracy). In Moscow bysided means that the arbituary point is somewhere in the middle of the line so therefore and the opposite side would have a 0 after the PK to denote the difference. To find distances say Planernaya Vykhino on the purple line is 15075 + 20845 = 35920 metres. Just a little technical detail you might like. --Kuban Cossack 15:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I like it, but the black legend on looks weird. Maybe we should make it white, just put a border around it? And adapting the standard elsewhere would be a good idea. Also, on the map there is a typo: Arkhitektora Beketor a should be Arkhitektora Beketov a. I'll try to help with the template, although I'm not very good.
 * I'll make it all black...eventually, standard ahh, make it rather diverse, it be more fun..--Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 21:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I just started working on the Donetsk Metro (saved it today). Would you like to help out? And thanks for the technical details. —DDima (talk) 20:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Check the map now...--Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 23:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks different, but great! —DDima (talk) 23:37, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheers, the top corner would need to be photoshoped nicely (I could be asked to go more than paintbrush) and the bottom corner bilinguilised (although the order has carefully balanced to reflect the current status of the Metro following the City Soviet's decision to raise Russian as an official language several months ago.) That is how it operates right now. All the maps and station signs remain in Ukrainian, but voice announcemets on stations and in trains have reverted to Russian, and on a technical, depot, level it never even became Ukrainian. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 23:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Those should be done, but the map looks just as well. Also maybe the possible expansions should be listed? But we don't need them yet, just for later. —DDima (talk) 00:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, but first I got a bigger burden to face. Read the urgent announcement at Portal:Russia new article board. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 21:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes I know, I just saw that. Hope you have luck keeping them away from the template. —DDima (talk) 21:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Kazak, don't disturn the Ghosts. Keep the Ukrainian first and put the Kharkiv first as well. The latter is the name most used by the English L media. How many times do I have to tell you that? As for the order of the stations, please note that the Ministry of Justice of UA issued a protest to the decision of the regional language and this will likely be decided is courts, as I thought. Please don't tell me about Russophone population and don't tell me about the European Charter for the minority language. We don't make these decisions and should take no position on them as Wikipedia editors. For now, Ukrainian is the only official language in Ukraine and please remember about it. --Irpen 01:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Irpen I specifically labled my work as PD and withhold all copyright you see something you don't like - fix it. I am not an octopus with eight hands. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 12:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Anyway I have now completely bilingualised the map. If anybody is unhappy with the language order, PD-Self says you are free to reverse it. Any further questions? --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 22:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Kiev Map
And this as well. I think future extensions that are only under construction should be added. For perspective and planned developments a separate MAP (not scheme) is required. Like Mno did for Kiev, but that one should be updated however. --Kuban Cossack 12:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks great, and much better than the original one. —DDima (talk) 13:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I think I should add Podolsko-Voskresenskaya Line to it as well, because technically that is under costruction...--Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 13:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

С Праздником!
--Kuban Cossack 00:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Hotel Ukrayina
Perhaps you would like to participate: User:Kuban kazak/Hotel Ukrayina. --Kuban Cossack 20:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks. Will try to help as soon as I can. —DDima (talk) 20:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
Почему ты добавил этот шаблон в категорию Category:Ukrainian navigational boxes. Разве он навигационный?--Ahonc ( Talk ) 11:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Нет, не навигационный. Я вчера cделал шаблон Ukrainian Political Parties после того, что в категорию Ukrainian parliamentary election 2006 поставил, так что не пересмотрел. Сейчас revert сделаю. —DDima (talk) 21:34, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Care to help?
Hi there. I'm looking to add penpix to all the UNT players who will likely be a part of the WC squad. Do you mind helping me upload pictures for all the players (I'm not too familiar with how the whole copyright system works)? Thanks ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Palffy (talk • contribs)

Kakhivka Reservoir
Почему Kakhivka, а не Kakhovka? Ведь на украинском Каховське водосховище, и город называется КахОвка.--Ahonc ( Talk ) 08:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Я назвал Kakhovka потому, что на website Encyclopedia of Ukraine названо статя Kakhivka, но ты прав, что город Кахoвка. —DDima (talk) 15:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Encyclopedia of Ukraine often uses the diaspora pravopys rather than the more common one. --Irpen 22:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, they do use correct names, which is why I started it like that, but I think the more common one may be used. We can alway change it back if we don't like it. —DDima (talk) 23:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

When we say "correct names" we should make sure we mean one and the same thing. Both Defence and Defense is "correct" but one is British and another is American English. Galician dialect, Canadian Ukrainian or Hutsul dialects aren't "incorrect". They just happen to differ from standard Ukrainian, that's all.

I think we primarly use the Ukrainian names as they are written in standard Ukrainian, except for placenames that have established English names. Due to an unforturnate Ukraine's obscurity, not many places have standard English names and we should use their names in standard Ukrainian transliterated into English, shouldn't we? As per Ukrainian official sites, such name is Kakhovka. I suggest we move the article. Would that be OK? --Irpen 03:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I see no harm. And yes, when the city name is not so known, then we should just translate the Ukrainian name. —DDima (talk) 03:54, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I will copy this discussion to the article's talk and will move the article after that. --Irpen 04:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, —DDima (talk) 04:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello DDima
I just decided to answer you here, instead of e-mailing you. I do not have the rights to the pics. It is a long story, but i can't give wikipedia the rights to the pics. I hope you understand.

I hope to see you on the site again. We have worked so hard to build the site, and would love your contributions. Odessaukrain 02:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's alright, I understand.


 * And I love your site. It have a lot of good information and articles. I would love to help, and hopefully I will, but I can't promise anything big as I have never even been to Odessa. See you around, —DDima (talk) 02:31, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your understanding. When I am back in Ukraine I will buy you a beer and explain everything, but right now there are issues I can't discuss. :)


 * You may find the book Old Odessa on my site interesting. I scanned the entire book and am slowly trying to translate it.  the first page took me 2 hours!  It doesnt help that the scanner doesnt work to well, and misspells the Russian.  Just type: Old Odessa.


 * The Culture and Etiquette in Odessa page can apply to all of Ukraine, I read those pages and smile. Many daily habits and cusomts that you see as everyday I found strange, surprising, sometimes annoying, but always facinating.


 * Lord how I miss Odessa! Thanks for messaging me and brining up some really good memories!


 * Signed:Odessaukrain 02:37, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

E-mail
Check your e-mail. --Kuban Cossack 15:51, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Transcription problem Russian (Ukrainian?) -> English
I was looking for a kindly soul who is a native speaker of Russian, fluent in English, and with perhaps some knowledge of Ukranian as well. And, most importantly, who is prepared to help me out with a transcription problem. The issue is: What is the correct spelling of Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva? When I search the internet I stumble over a zillion different spellings: Tatiana, Tatjana, Tatyana Alexeyevna Alexeevna Alexejewna Afanasyeva Afanassjewa Afnassjewa Afanaseva and all possible combinations thereof, and probably many more if I were to put some more effort into it. According to [http://www.pims.math.ca/~hoek/teageo/TEA.pdf Exercises in Experimental Geometry. 1931] and Die Grundlagen der Thermodynamik she spelled her own name "Tatjana Alexejevna Afanassjewa"; so that would be a good reason to stick to that. Except for one little detail: Her primary foreign language was German, so perhaps this would be the correct transcription in German but not in English? So I don't know; I give up. That's why I decided to ask for help from an expert, and I hope you are able to help me out, or at least point me in the right direction. Thanks a lot for any help you may be able to offer, JdH 04:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm not sure that I am an expert in this field, but I'd be glad to help you out. I believe the name should be translated into English, not German, even though her primary foreing language was German, because we are writing on the English Wikipedia. I really don't see any problem with the current article's name because it is how I would have translated it. Simple googling it gives us 225 possible matches (although I didn't google them all, and there might be many different Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva's...). Another thing that would help us determine the correct name would be her name written in Russian/Ukrainian, do you have it? Thanks, —DDima (talk) 15:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks as lot for your help. Unfortunately googling on the existing name only serves to confirm what is in the present article. What is happening is that there are many copycat sites out there that simply copy whatever is in Wikipedia; that's why you find so many hits when you google with the present name. You may want to do a simple experiment to confirm that: Deliberately introduce a misspelling in some Wikipedia article, and watch that error proliferate all over the internet :-).


 * Anyway, when I google for Russian spellings then what comes up with is Татьяна Алексеевна Афанасьева-Эренфест or Татьяной Алексеевной Афанасьевой-Эренфест; I am clueless of why there are two different spellings, perhaps one is Russian, the other Ukranian? Or is it perhaps a difference in grammatical case? Thanks again JdH 18:14, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, I know that many other sites copy wikipedia material. But for the Russian spelling, it is in the nominative case and the second one is the genivtive case. If you have any more Russian/Ukrainian name problems I'd be happy to help.:)) Best Wishes, —DDima (talk) 01:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Belarusian language
Thanks, DDima, for your help with Belarusian language. The change of the newspaper title was completely moot point, though. This is a third known newspaper of that title. Also, I hope you'll find the Belarusian Latin alphabet in interesting reading. ---Yury Tarasievich 18:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Yes, I figured the change of the name would be moot point. And I did take a look at your Belarusian Latin alphabet article and saw it very interesting and well written. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 01:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks Ddima! I live in New Jersey now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.198.125.87 (talk • contribs)
 * You are welcome:)) —dima /sb.tk/ 19:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey DDima
I took some terms and sentences from: User:DDima/sb2/Potemkin Stairs looks like you already built the page. Travb (talk) 09:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the mention
Thanks for the mention in regards to Potemkin Stairs! I REALLY appreciate it. Odessaukrain 04:51, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, the article is clearly DYKable. We should think of a nomination, guys. --Irpen 05:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What the hell does DYKable mean? Travb (talk) 09:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, I figured it out: Did you know. Thanks anyway... Travb (talk) 09:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Was going to nominate
I was going to nominate this page, but I have to come up with a catch title, as per: Template_talk:Did_you_know. Odessaukrain 09:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Confirm sentence?
Can you tell me where you got the sentence about the funicular before the elevator on the Potemkin Stairs? Do you know anything about this: "the money for its [elveator] repair was stolen" There seems to be no source for this. Travb (talk) 10:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, see here: . But about the money being stolen, I don't know. —dima /sb.tk/ 17:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

List of cities in Belarus
Stop vandalising page "List of belarusian cities":
 * Lacinka isn't allowed, according to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28Cyrillic%29
 * Polish names shouldn't be mentioned, cos Polish isn't state lang. in Belarus. Followin sucha logic, you must put names in Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Old Ruthenian.
 * Lacinka has some different versions, followin your logic you must put names in:
 * GDL times lacinka
 * All versions of lacinka of 19cent.
 * Tarashkyevich's lacinka
 * And finally, Stankyevich's lacinka

Got my point? - 82.209.209.138 09:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I would be more careful by throwing out vandalism anyplace if I were you. I agree with you that Lacinka should not be in this list. Also, anon, pls sign in so it would be easier to resolve any disputes in the future. Best, —dima /sb.tk/ 18:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Kiev Metro stations

 * Hi there! I don't agree with your recent moves of articles of Kiev Metro stations. There are some station articles that have the same name throughout systems of the former USSR and I (and some other users) find it preferable to keep it the way it was before the move. Can you please at least discuss major moves on the Russia/Ukraine portal? Thanks, —dima /sb.tk/ 18:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

My apologies I'll try to be more careful with these articles. Please feel free to move them back over their redirects (you shouldn't have to be an admin to do that...) Again, pardon me if I made things more difficult. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, its alright. Just please be more careful next time. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 18:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Per this edit
Does this mean you are off to Kiev, in that case i expect at least a dozen from each station, including all vestibules, and all of the decorations, also get a shot of Ukrayina (interior if you can). Also here is a bit of a mess is it Шерстопрядильная or Шерстепрядильная. --Kuban Cossack 15:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No, unfortunately not. What I ment was that I have relatives and friends that live in the neighbourhood (and I live there when I am in Kiev) so I'll try to get photographs of the stations from them (it shouldn't take long, we all have internet access). But if I will be in Kiev (possibly in Winter or next Summer), I will definitely notify you. BTW, nice work on all of the Kryvyi Rih Metro Tram station articles. Sorry for the misunderstanding, —dima /sb.tk/ 15:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, what about the spelling? --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|border|]] 15:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the second one (Шерстепрядильная) is correct, but I don't know for sure. —dima /sb.tk/ 15:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Raions
I would like to help out with Ukrainian subdivisions, and have noticed that there is no set spelling of Ukrainian raions. Template:Donetsk Oblast spells them ending yi (apparently this is more prevalent on Google), while Template:Kherson Oblast finishes them with y. Furtheremore Template:Cherkasy Oblast doesn't even use suffixes and simply names the raions after the administrative centers, much like the naming policy that was decided for oblasts. Please respond at Talk:Subdivisions of Ukraine; you seem to have put in alot of work with this topic. Thanks!--tufkaa 14:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Type/scale in coor title dm template
Hi Dima, First of all - I would like to thank you for your contributions to Ukraine related articles. In return I would like to share with you single tip on how to improve their quality - in all your articles you use only 6 arguments in coor title dm/dms templates. This result in links like 50_45_N_33_28_E_. Please consider using one more argument to define best viewing scale for map. Read more here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates. Thanks once more, --TAG 08:01, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the tip. I will try to correct the coordinates when writing the articles. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 16:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Ukrainian hryvnia
Thank you for what you've done to Ukrainian hryvnia. I've been trying to get it standardized for all currencies. You help is much appreciated! --Chochopk 21:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. But there are some more things that should be done to the article. Hopefully, I'll get around to doing the same to the Ukrainian karbovanets:)) —dima /sb.tk/ 22:02, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * A tip for applying infobox: you can copy the empty start up stub from here, so that you will be required to fill in any missing values. This way, you won't leave any lingering copied value from other currencies. =) --Chochopk 20:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I didn't notice that...:))) —dima /sb.tk/ 20:03, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Trains
Make sure you sign on there and consider putting your DYK applications there as well. Also it is a great place for technical questions. A few weeks ago they rated all of our articles, and they are good people in general.--Kuban Cossack 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for reminding me about that...will sign up soon. —dima /sb.tk/ 17:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Make sure you watch all of them, shall we create our subwikiproject on our transport systems that we discussed on the FSU template several months ago? look. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 23:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I believe it its time to start it. —dima /sb.tk/ 23:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Allow Me 3

 * Thank you very much Kuban kazak!!! The edit to Kiev should have been done a month ago by me, but I just happened to reach it today. Thanks again, —dima /sb.tk/ 22:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

List of rivers of Europe
Hi, I think you misunderstood the idea behind the sorting of the list. "In Ukraine" means that the mouth of the river is on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. And the main rivers that flow into the sea sorted west to east along the coastline. The Western Bug, for instance, is part of the Vistula system, so you'll find it under Baltic Sea, in Poland. That's also the reason that the Berezina is listed under "In Ukraine", because it's part of the Dnieper system. Thanks for adding some new rivers, by the way. Markussep 18:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I guess I did misunderstand. After I finished, I thought something was wrong, but was going to fix it later today. But thanks anyway for correcting mistakes. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 19:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA
 Kuban kazak would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Kuban kazak to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Requests for adminship/. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so. ~
 * I thank you anyway for the nomination Kuban kazak but I will decline it. —dima /sb.tk/ 04:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Pezinok
Please see Talk:Pezinok. Thank you. --רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 05:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

An idea
First sign on to WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy then let's think of how we shall make the Kiev Pechersk Lavra an FA. Here is an idea, do you think it is possible to create a clickable image (say plan of the complex) with the ability to navigate there like here. --Kuban Cossack 23:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. The article is in horrible condition, but perhaps you could first help a little with St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral that I have want to finish up within the next 2 days (and nominate for GA) and then move on to Kievo Pecherska Lavra? —dima /sb.tk/ 15:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Inuse
If you're making major edits to an article, you may want to consider inserting the inuse template at the top, and saving the page, before you do make any major edits - this will inform other users to not edit the page so that you don't encounter an edit conflict. --JD don't talk email me 22:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks was going to do that in a sec. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 22:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

List of urban-type settlements in Ukraine by Oblast
Awesome.--tufkaa 02:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I decieded that it was time to start it. But it will take a long time to finish it up, may I ask for your help? Also, I could not find and population figures for the cities. I checked Verkhovna Rada website and did not have much luck. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 02:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2001 Population data are available on the census website . The date has been used in the list of cities.
 * Also, on the Rada website, if you click on each particular settlement, you will be given population of that settlement (but I don't know as of which year; it's supposed to be the most recent estimates available). Also, I guess, as for the list of urban-type settlements, this file would be helpful. Now, I would say, programming skills are needed. A good programmer can write the program of automatic transliteration in an hour or less. Also, it would be a little more exciting then doing it manually. --MapLover 07:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not a programmer, but am willing work on transferring names and populations over one by one. Let me know if a program is developed.--tufkaa 15:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks didn't notice the first link. Perhaps we could make an automatice translation. I am no programmer either, but again, we (well not me) did List of cities in Ukraine by Oblast by hand, and the cities-towns/oblast templates, but it will defenetly be easier if we do it automatically. —dima /sb.tk/ 15:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Guys, I was not doing any programming for a while, but here I found a program (w97macro.zip), which is a macros for Microsoft Word, which transliterates Russian and Serbian into Latin. I applied the program to the file we need to transliterate, and it works. It installs and deinstalls itself correctly. But it transliterates assuming Russian or Serbian transliteration rules. Thus, all we need is a table with Ukrainian transliteration rules. --MapLover 00:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes it a lot easier! Maplover, do you want to create the table or shall I make it, given into in Romanization of Ukrainian table? —dima /sb.tk/ 00:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm creating it now. I'd like to see how it works. I'll email you the table. Please doublecheck. Thanks, MapLover 01:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, —dima /sb.tk/ 02:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I cannot email you a file as an attachements through wiki, and I cannot upload a doc file into wiki. So, at the end, here it is:
 * Before installation, put this file (without doc extension) instead of the original file in the same directory as Setup.doc. (Or, better, combine this file with the original). --MapLover 02:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I checked it over and it seems all correct to me. I do not have word on my laptop, so I will install the file and start translating tommorow near 14:00-15:00 Wiki time. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 03:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Dima, I'll do it by msword. Probably, over this weekend. MapLover 04:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for saving me the trouble! Maybe I'll start (and hopefully finish) List of villages in Ukraine to complement the same category when I do get msword.... —dima • talk • sb • 04:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Ukraine national football team
Hi again!

Do you mind assisting me with what to do with regards to the Ukraine national football team page? I've already filed several warnings about the user, (see ), but I also think there needs to be a separate resolution for the football team page. The user does not appear to respond to reason, so I think we need some other solution to the page, since this will become a flat out edit war, especially if the admins don't respond appropriately. Do you mind helping me out with either a poll or some other sort of resolution for the page? Thanks =)) --Palffy 16:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't have much time right now, but I'll see what I can do. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 17:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Commons
Вітаю. Велике прохання завантажувати нові зображення, які мають вільну ліцензію (не Fair use), у Commons, щоб їх можна було використовувати у іншомовних вікіпедіях. --Yakudza 21:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Дякую. Will do this the next time I upload pictures. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 22:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Yakudza 22:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Lenin's picture
I would have to agree. It's a nice picture, but it is so random; it may fit somewhere in a section about history, but modern Kiev? The picture will have to come down sooner than later. --Riurik 04:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I fixed that joke. --Irpen 07:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Hello. Would you like to run for an adminship ? - Darwinek 16:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Darwinek! Thank you for your proposition that I run for adminship. I accept. —dima /talk/ 04:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha! I was about to offer the same thing but I see I've been beat! --Crzrussian 22:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You can co-nom if you wish, but I am currently waiting for Darwinek to come back from his vacation, —dimæ [diskussion—archiv] 23:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, DDima! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Prodego talk  13:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)



Well, hmm...
You're ahead of me. I was just going to drop a certain userbox on your talk page, but I see that in that I am a bit late. Only on wikipedia, --Riurik 04:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, for being ahead of you, but I just thought it was cool idea of yours. Thanks guys and З Днем Незалежності України!, —dima talk///

Adminship 2
Hello. I will nominate you for an admin in future but some users could vote oppose due to your little amount of edits in some namespaces, mainly in the Wikipedia (Project) namespace. See Kate's Tool for your edit statistics. - Darwinek 22:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Darwinek. Sorry that I didn't answer you until today, but I agree with you that I don't have many Wikipedia namespace edits and need to catch up on them. Thanks, —dima/s-ko/ 15:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)