User talk:KNewman/Archive 1

Re: Moscow Metro
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. In response to your question, I'm not actually from Moscow but I used to live there. If you have anything to add to any of these articles (especially pictures!) I would appreciate it. Camerafiend 01:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Umbrella repairer
Hi - I deleted this article because it said almost nothing, except that an umbrella repairer repairs umbrellas, which is obvious - just a dictionary definition, not an encyclopedia article. And it really isn't a topic for an encyclopedia article, is it? Unless there is something significant about this title, as compared to any other kind of repairman, we don't need an article.

If, perhaps, there was some famous umbrella repairman in history or fiction, or if umbrella repairing was involving in a big legal fight over work rules, or something like that - then it could use an article! - DavidWBrooks 14:37, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Muscovite princes
Was it you who compiled the list of the Muscovite princes? Where? (please always provide links to pages in question). Anyway... No I am not. Fell free to fix what is to be fixed. For now, I'd suggest to remove the word "muscovite", and gradually comment each name with proper princedoms (in some cases they will be miltiple, I guess). I am not a historian, BTW, so my advice in history is mostly useless to seek. Mikkalai 02:03, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Iskra/Pravda
&#1055;&#1088;&#1080;&#1074;&#1077;&#1090; Kirill,

please see my recent comments posted on the Talk:Pravda, maybe you could refactor them into smth useful either in the Pravda or in the Iskra articles.

Kind regards, BACbKA 00:11, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Grozny as article of the week
Actually, the title "article of the week" is misleading. The article for the week, once chosen, is a stub that people work on for the week and attempt to bring up to featured standard. See Article of the week and Wikipedia talk:Article of the week (where a discussion is ongoing about renaming the project. The candidates specifically must be stubs or short articles!!! However, usually the subject must be deserving of a good article, as the idea is to fix gaps or failures of Wikipedia. For example, the past week has seen Renaissance go from a short pathetic article to a detailed in-depth one. zoney &#09608; &#09608; &#09608;  talk 19:25, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article of the Week
Hi there - as Zoney has pointed out above, the title of Article of the Week is quite misleading (and there is currently a vote to get it changed - see the talk page). AotW is not a stamp of approval: the idea is to choose a non-existent or stub page and to try to create a featured-standard article in one week from widespread cooperative editing. I'm not sure if that is what you intended with Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet as it looks quite large already - if you want lots of people to help you to finish the article then that is what Article of the Week is for. Hope his helps. -- ALoan (Talk) 00:33, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * First of all, KNewman, let me thank you for all the hard work you've been putting in for Wikipedia! The Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet article that you wrote looks like a very solid addition to the Wikipedia. Like others have said, though, the Article of the Week is for the Wiki community to jointly grow a stub into a lengthy article. What you're looking for, I think, is Peer review. Please feel free to add the "Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet" article to that page; I (and other Wikipedians, no doubt) would be glad to review and edit it. &bull; Benc &bull; 02:00, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Indeed - apologies if my first message above comes across as a little 'crisp' - I was just concerned that AotW was probably not the place you were looking for! If you can find something that is not as well covered as the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet (thanks to your work) then please add it to WP:AOTW. -- ALoan (Talk) 02:15, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Russian sailing navy
Hi, do you have any sources for earlier Russian naval history? I've seen a few references to a substantial fleet (for instance the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) was timed so that the Russians were still iced in), and the cryptic reference to John Paul Jones as Russian admiral, so I suspect there's a lot more story out there. Stan 05:26, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Translation of &#1050;&#1077;&#1076;&#1088;
Hi K - can I draw your attention to the List of false friends to point out that Russian &#1050;&#1077;&#1076;&#1088; does not refer to cedar (Cedrus, not found in Russia), but (depending on the exact location) to either Siberian Pine (Pinus sibirica, central Siberia), Korean Pine (Pinus koraiensis, far southeast Russia) or Siberian Dwarf Pine (Pinus pumila, east Siberia) - thanks, MPF 09:42, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not posting chick in Aurora article. Yesterday I uploaded correct Aurora pic (as in here). Now Image:Aurora.jpg seem OK to me - maybe try to refresh browser cache?... Pibwl 17:45, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Normanist theory
Thank you, I really appreciate you kind words. Yes, I believe I am the only writer of the Normanist theory and I have written most of the rest too. My wife is Russian and has a mother who is a professor of history at the Academy of Science in Moscow. I just asked her about what you wrote, and she says that she has heard about it. I'll try to see what I can find about this in English. I have the habit of always double checking information (no offense) :).--Wiglaf 06:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Hi KNewman. Yes, I have heard about the mistranslation (sine hus, etc.). The theory makes sense, but I don't think it contradicts the Normanist theory. It rather supports by explaining the odd names Sineus and Truvor.


 * In fact, you're very welcome to add the information about the German gentlemen under The Antinormanist theories in the same article.--Wiglaf 07:46, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Rulers of Kievan Rus'
Hi! I've actually been watching the article ever since I asked that, so I see a lot of improvements have been made. Nice work, thanks! Adam Bishop 22:32, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sergei Ivanov
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for your work on Sergei Ivanov. Nice job! Wmahan. 04:43, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

I must second the thanks, you have a way of helping to make an article both readable and informative. --Aika 20:49, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Statue of Liberty
Sorry, I don't know where the copper came from. No, I didn't write the article. I added a few bits to it here and there. If you click on the "history" tab you'll see that like many Wikipedia articles this is the product of many, many contributors. The best place for you to ask this question would be on the Talk page for the article, i.e. Talk:Statue of Liberty


 * Saw your question pop up on Dpbsmith's talk page. I can't find an authoritative source, but several non-authoritative sources say the copper came from the Visnes Copper Mine on the Norwegian island of Karmøy. I'd add it to the article if it seemed to be more than internet hearsay. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 02:33, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Re: User talk:212.76.39.2
Howdy. Don't worry, I'm not creating a separate article under a different name. There is a special mechanism (Redirect) allowing us to refer by different names to articles as needed by the context. This way we don't end up with dozens of articles that would gradually fall out of sync (Though there still remains a problem where to put the main article cf. Talk:Kyiv).

By the way, I really appreciate it that You respect the fact that nations whose history is intermingled with Russia might not agree with the official Russian verison of those events.

Thanks for fixing the stub
I don't feel possessive about it. And thanks for leaving me a note. Take care. &larr;Humus sapiens&larr;Talk 18:19, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Newsletter
Hi, KNewman. I'm a japanese Wikipedian. Looking your name on Translators' list on meta, I come here to ask your help. would you like to join to translation of Quarto, the Wikimedia Foudnation Newsletter? I took part in Japanese edition, and found it was helpful for the community to know about both our activities in entire and activities in each local projects. Now there is no Russina translation and I think Russian Wikipedians will be happy the version in their owh language - and I will be happy if I will be able to read Russian news in the next edition. Or even your glance at our work, Wikimedia Quarto/1/Ja-1, will be my honor. --Aphaea 07:52, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * If you have no time enough translate whole stuff, would you like to help us with your translation of Wikimedia Quarto/Annc? It is five lines' annoucement for the newsletter. Thanks. --Aphaea 14:25, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * mmm, exciting. (-:

Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
Thanks for covering this long-overlooked and extremely important aircraft! --Rlandmann 22:25, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * The link to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was a mistake on my part - I forgot that the Sikorsky redirects to the American company and did not cover Igor Sikorsky's work in Russia. I'll fix these! --Rlandmann 21:28, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Left communism/Left Opposition
They're not the same but that might not have stopped some from using the terms interchangably. Generally, left communists are "anarcho-communists" such as the Bordigaists. Lenin, though, wrote Left-wing Communism aimed, I believe, at Bukharin who was in the early days of the revolution on the far left of the party and opposed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (which Trotsky negotiated). I suppose you can only really tell by the context, if writings refer to Trotsky as a left communist then the writer is using left opposition and left communism interchangably. Usually they refer to different phenomena. AndyL 20:35, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sikorsky Alexander Nevsky
Hi KNewman - I've been following up this aircraft, trying to find out more - but none of my references contains any information on it. I did stumble across a website in Russian (which I can't find again now!) with some information, but it didn't tell me anything more than your article did. I'm wondering whether this was perhaps just a variant of the Ilya Murometz? Or perhaps one specific Ilya Murometz given a new name? If you can direct me to any references, I would be very grateful! (I don't know much Russian, but I read the Cyrillic alphabet quickly enough to recognise names and technical terms, and use machine translations to fill in the blanks!) --Rlandmann 03:40, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

hm-hm. too few data about the aircraft...

Ever have you read the articles at
 * http://skyfireavia.narod.ru/planes/IM/im.htm
 * http://www.ww1.iatp.org.ua/awIljaMuromets.htm
 * http://www.gspo.ru/index.php?s=6eef244a99fe436664d6275ee6085a1f&act=Print&client=printer&f=45&t=368


 * I'll try to check out the paper sources.

and, finally, a question: what is THIS??

--jno 08:19, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Redirect you created at "Krasin (icebreaker)"
Noel (talk) 21:00, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Meetup
Your name is on the list at Meetup/NYC for December 12. In case you forgot to check the page, the venue and time have been both been set. We are planning on meeting at the Moonstruck Diner at 1:30pm. Just wanted to let you know. --   – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   23:07, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

My refactoring of your comments
I'm not sure if you still want it, but here is the text before I refactored it. You are welcome to edit it as you think is suitable. this is a direct link to edit the current version. It just looked bad to me, and maybe I didn't do a good job of editing out the 'bad parts'. I apologise if you think it wasn't a suitable edit. Thanks for the polite note, though, and it's nice to meet you. I hope you do continue to nominate collaboration of the week articles. Your suggestion was a good one Pedant 02:12, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)


 * Nominated December 7 2004; needs 5 votes by December 14 2004

Support:
 * 1) KNewman 04:24, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Comments:
 * There is no article on what some U.S. historians consider a black page of American history - the Great Sedition Trial of 1944. The article on the American comic book, however, is too long to read. What a shame... KNewman 04:24, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * If it is so very important to you, start the damn article. Expect nothing but brickbats for, inter alia, criticising others for putting their effort into articles they regard as important, rather than effort into those you regard as important whilst you are apparantly too lazy to put any effort into the article you regard as important. --Tagishsimon (talk)
 * There's no need to offend me personally, Tagishsimon. Sorry for vaguely expressing my point of view on the American comic book article. I nominated this article only because I felt this was an important historic event that needed our attention the sooner the better. Secondly, I know very little about this trial and decided not to start a tiny stub and let someone knowledgeable work on it. Considering the reaction and all, this is gonna be my last COTW nomination. KNewman 16:17, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Tagishsimon, I suggest me and you to look up the word "collaboration". I never suspected that brickbats are part of it. Probably we need to put the Collaboration article on COTW in the first place.Mikkalai 21:22, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * You never suspected, huh? That's probably just a failure of your imagination. Look up robust criticism whilst you're about it. Meanwhile, if you'll forgive me, I'll get on with the substantive work of starting the Great Sedition Trial article. --Tagishsimon (talk)
 * While it is good that the topic was brought to an attention, IMO it is hardly broad enough to require crowded editing. Two-three dedicated persons will do. Mikkalai 23:21, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I think it would make more sense to change the name of the article to Smith Act Trials and expand the article so that it also discusses the 1941 trial of SWP leaders and the 1949-1951 trial of Communist Party leaders. AndyL 01:32, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to see that change made. --Tagishsimon (talk)-

Mikhail Alekseev
Hello. For some months now, Mikhail Alekseev has been listed as a possible copyvio from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and current paper edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. See the first listing under Copyright_problems for the brief discussion. Could you verify that this edit does not violate either of those copyrights? Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 09:47, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Belorussian or Byelorussian
From you work on Front (Soviet Army) you might like to contribute to the discussion on Talk:3rd Byelorussian Front --Philip Baird Shearer 15:23, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Neither. Belarusan or Belarusian (pronounced with an "s" not "sh"). Happy New Year. --rydel 16:44, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.pravapis.org/art_belarusian_adjective.asp

Third Rail
Hi.

You wrote that Granville Woods invented Third rail. That is a myth. He apparently had a patent relating to third rail in 1901, but there were many earlier patents, dating back 20 years or more, as is documented here. The first subway with a third rail (1890) was built 11 years before Granville invented the third rail! How can that be?

More about this controversy :

"About a Third-Rail Pioneer, Gallant Disagreement" By SEWELL CHAN The New York Times

Names
I often ask fellow Wikipedians of relevant nationality to go over my new texts when dealing with their country and fix the spellings. I try to use English name where possible, but when I can't find them, I use the ones I have in my sources (and they are often Polish). As my policy is to support the use of English name, and in some confusing cases add national spellings in brackets (like in articles about Polish history, where English Trannsylvania is Polish Siedmiogród), I have never witnessed a revert war based on my behaviour - after somebody corrects my text, I simply thank him for it :> Btw, you may want to check the Talk:Polish-Soviet War. There is an apparent POV problem and it would be good to hear more opinions, especially from people user 172 can hardly accuse of being 'Polish nationalists' :> --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:41, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

My Wiki name?
Hi, KNewman, I've been accused of having a dirty name by someone so what does it mean in Serbian? I know an incomplete Russian spacecraft was named Pitchka meaning Little Bird, but now I'm worried does it mean something bad in Serbian? Dwain 14:49, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh great! I assume that that is not in reference to a cat either! Now what am I suppose to do? You have to start all over with a new name right, you can't just change the existing one? Wellm I guess I look really stupid! Dwain 18:24, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for telling me! I feel like a real dope. I'm really thinking of starting over with a new name something like stupid would probably be appropriate! Dwain 22:01, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)

Soviet behavior toward its ethnic Poles
You put a tag on Soviet behavior toward its ethnic Poles, but you didn't make any explanations why. Please finish the VfD process (Go here for help), or remove the vfd tag. —Mar·ka·ci: 2005-02-13 16:58 Z

Quartissimo
Hey KNewman, the second Wikimedia Quarto is having a translation-release soon, and it would be nice to have the founder's letter translated into Russian.. if you have a moment, take a look: WQ/2/Founder. Cheers, +sj  +  14:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ogaden War
Hi KNewman, I was the other person to vote for Ogaden War when it was up at WP:COTW. :( Fortunately, I noticed that Warofdreams made a stub, which I expanded upon.  The article glosses over much of the Cold War politics and you might want to take a look to see what's missing.  Cheers,   Banyan Tree  04:15, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Black Ruthenian language
Please take a look at Talk:Black Ruthenian language. I suspect the article is a device of newbred overzealous belarussian nationalist historians. Mikkalai 22:12, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Falconry article question...
Why do you think the Falconry article contains a possible copyright violation? You left no indication of why you marked the article as such, which ultimately makes your addition of the template worthless.
 * Please, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems#May_16. This is where I posted it. And please, sign your comments next time. KNewman 11:01, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Frustration at ITN
Hello. You may want to chime in at Talk:Main Page. -- 199.71.174.100 01:20, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Great Soviet Enc
Please keep in mind that Great Soviet Encyclopedia has editions & prints after 1972.

Also, taking images and texts from someone's website may violate some strange copyright claims about scanning, OCR, etc.; see, e.g. a similar case with  1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. mikka (t) 19:36, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

COTW nomination
Hiya KNewman, please note when making COTW nominations in future that there is a new template specifically for this purpose. Using this template will help in archiving and general administration of the COTW page. I've mentioned this to you as you nominated a new article after the nomination procedure had been changed, therefore you might not have noticed it. Cheers, Talrias (t | e | c) 19:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good work on Vassian Patrikeyev
I just stumbled over your work on Vassian Patrikeyev - you wrote most of the text that is there, and a good job too. I split the paragraphs to make it easier to read, but I just wanted to say thanks for contributing to the 'pedia. Keep on keeping on! JesseW 28 June 2005 19:23 (UTC)

Good job
You did wonderful contribution of Russian History in Wiki. Good job!!!

--Debora 05:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Answer
Internet connection is no problem, but spare time is. Wikipedia takes too much precious time. I think you know what I mean. But I have to contribute many articles on Upper Volga and Moscow yet :)) --Ghirlandajo 20:05, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Russian tsarinas
regarding the names of tsarinas of Russia: if from abroad, they changed their first name, such as Wilhelmina became Natalia Alexeievna, etc. Now, Wikipedia has certain rules that the so-called consort name is not to be used, because of several persons being e.g Empress Maria Fedorovna. And that a pre-marital name should be used. But I feel that it is acceptable to make a formulation "Natalia Alexeievna of Darmstadt" (the "of Darmstadt" being for disambiguation purposes) instead of using "Wilhelmina of Darmstadt". Now, as there are plenty of Germanist and anglicist opinions, I would like to know some of international opinion. In other words, I am asking you to think whether from the perspective of Russian, (1) would it be acceptable to say "Natalia Alexeievna of Darmstadt" and (2) would that be better or worse than "Wilhelmina of Darmstadt". 62.78.105.68 09:09, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Belsky/Volsky
I suspect a scanning mistake. All the sites on Kineshma, uncluding the official ones, mention the famous Prince Feodor Belsky, not Volsky. See here, for example. One part of the city is still known as Belovskaya. As best I know, princes Volsky never did exist. For genealogy of the Belskys, see here. Cheers. --Ghirlandajo 19:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Ksnyatin
Good evening. The village of Sknyatino stands on the site of the ancient town of Ksnyatin. Sknyatino is a corruption of Ksnyatin, of course. And Ksnyatin means "Konstantin" in Old Russian. If you think that the article's name is confusing, please change it. I wouldn't mind. --Ghirlandajo 17:45, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Alexandras
Please kindly check Alexandra Romanova - welcome to comment. 217.140.193.123 00:36, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Re:Battle of Kłuszyn and other names
I usually write those articles from a combination of Polish-English sources, and where I can't find English name of a given person/place, I give it in Polish, knowing that sooner or later sb will correct it. I am not sure about Kłuszyn/Klushino, however: 2100 google hits for Kłuszyn, 650 for Klushino. Naming conventions (use English) states: Only use the native spelling as an article title if it is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form. It does appear English name is sparsly used, but of course this does raise the question what is the Russian name for it (likely it is more used then Polish one). If you want to move the article, I have no problems with this, atm I think both names are correct. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 09:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Tnx. I passed this to our mapmaker, User:Halibutt. Hopefully with your help we will make the first online map of this war :) I hope that won't fall under NOR :D --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:35, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Shkuro's wolves
Thanks a lot for your articles :) I was wondering if you could write an article about the wolves of Shkuro ? Here is my e-mail : uavgedli@link2mail.net. Thanks !! --84.100.189.50 19:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

minor edits
dear colleague, i happened to notice that most of your edits are labelled as minor. please keep in mind that a minor edit is something that is really minor: typo, moving paragraphs around, etc. i understand your modesty, but quite a few of your minor edits are far from minor. masically, any addition of facts are definitely not minor edits according to wikipedia guidelines, even only 2-3 words are used. mikka (t) 21:46, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Notice board for Eastern Christianity-related topics
Please don't forget to announce your new articles on Orthodoxy-related subjects at this notice board. --Ghirlandajo

Imperial Russian Navy
Howdy. You left me a message at Talk:Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, intending to leave it for me. I just got it. I have not had much time to contribute to Wikipedia lately, but it's good to see someone complete this trio of articles. Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 15:58:24, 2005-08-29 (UTC)

Circle of Tchaikovsky
Bravo, KNewman! My only reference was Kropotkin's autobiography, so I wouldn't be able to go as far as you. I just knew that it was an exceedingly important topic to be left aside without an article of its own. Great work! --Mr.Rocks 00:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Ava K. Molitov
Your reasons for suspecting it might be well-founded, but they're not covered by the Criteria for speedy deletion. You might want to raise a VfD (or AfD I suppose we have to call it now). --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 15:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Ancient Rus
Hi, KNewman! I'm afraid it was just a quick copyedit, but I have recruited two other users -- Wiglaf and Peter -- who tell me they are willing to work on the article as well. It is a broad and complex subject, and my knowledge of Russian culture, I'm afraid, is post Ivan. But we can work on it a little at a time. Best wishes. WBardwin 17:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Stroganovs
Dear Kirill, please don't start new articles on the Russian noble families (Sheremetev, Yusupov, Dolgorukov, &c), as I most certainly take care of them when the inspiration strikes. Sooner or later I plan to develop them into something akin to my previous articles on Galitzine, Tolstoy, and Demidov. As regards Stroganovs, this is an area of my special interest. I even compiled their family tree several years ago and posted it here. --Ghirlandajo 20:23, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Hero of the Russian Federation
Thanks for making the slight changes in the Russian text. Zach (Sound Off) 23:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Question, I wonder if this article is ready for FAC or should it need a copyedit? Zach (Sound Off) 03:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Russian-to-English translation request
Over at Translation into English there is a request to translate Юдаков, Сулейман Александрович so as to expand Suleiman Yudakov. Would you be able to help out by any chance? Cheers. -- Francs2000 23:49, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Alexei Petrovich of Russia
I moved Alexius Petrovich to GD Alexei Petrovich firstly because Alexius was a name conflict (ie Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and wasn't really an English translation of the name, so I moved it. It probably should be moved to Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, but I was in a hurry that day and it slipped my mind. Morhange 21:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

R... Pravda
Hi, I already reverted that edit as explained at Talk:Ruska Pravda. In response to your note there, may I ask you to do edit articles for ua-portal. This fellow who is around for just two-three days is an exception. Otherwise, please show me any recent examples of Chernyhiv/Chernigov-like wars. There has been a spirit of cooperation and respect, so there is no need to generalize user:AndriyK onto the Ukraine portal. May I ask you to watch his edits. I just have a limited time and this mess needs to be cleaned for Wikipedia's sake, and not for yours or mine. Thank you, --Irpen 05:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Re any serious conflicts, if it wasn't done by AndriyK lately, it was probably done by people who aren't on WP for months. Were there any recent incidents? I would love to see more Russian editors helping at UA-portal. In fact I called for that repeatedly as well as to Polish boards. With a few exceptions we never had serious conflicts. If you can, please do contribute to Ukrainian articles. And please do help checking on his edits. I just can't do more than I am doing --Irpen 06:12, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Look, this rampage of AndriyK and a small sporadic company is indeed a mess, but I took it upon myself to clean up most of it. I understand that he is giving us, Ukrainian editors, a bad name, but he will truly succeed if he repells more great non-Ukrainian editors from Ukrainian topics altogether leaving it to hard-core nationalists to write about Ukraine. What I am asking you is help, if you can, to hold the ground, instead of leaving it to unscrupulous gang he is trying to assemble without success. Actually, he assembled none, because readers at maidan.org.ua are normal people just as people at Wikipedia. Feel free to email me using "email this user" link, if you want to talk more about it. Cheers, and I hope you will write about Chernihiv. :). --Irpen 03:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Siege articles
I wanted to send you a thank-you email, but since the link doesn't work, I thought I say it here that I appreciate your two siege articles that I was very much wanting to see for a while. I could not write them myself for the lack of education. I hope you like the pictures, I added to them. Cheers, --Irpen 23:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Курам на смех
Спасибо! One more thing: can you confirm what the literal meaning of the phrase is? (The idiomatic meaning is more important, but now I'm just curious.) —Josiah Rowe 16:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Wiki request
I have a difficult time finding information on the Russian explorer Lavrentii Alekseevich Zagoskin, particulary his exploration up the Kuskokwim river in Alaska. Any contribution that you could make would be greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks for your offer to take this on, and I'll be looking forward to the results. In regards to your query regarding reasons for my interest in this area, you can find the details on my talk page. --Feyer 13:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Tatuism
I cannot believe you are opting to take down a page that is about 2 russians who are bringing a better image of russia to everyone from the image mostly concived when talking about Russia (the days of the USSR). I am talking about the tatuism page, which is for the band t.A.T.u ((brilliant)Russian musicians)

Russian battles
I appreciate your effort with battles (Siege of Smolensk (1609-11), Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra). I hope to nominate the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) for FAC soon. Since you are going over the battles, can you update the Template:Campaignbox Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)? It seems to reflect only some battles from the 1609-1612 phase, and is a bit confusing (what was the first Moscow battle?). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 04:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Survey votes
I can't agree more with what you said at survey's talk. In fact, my message along those line was there for a while. I would hate to see if this will bring to your withdrawal. Please stand by. As of now, it is clear that the vote will be extended since no consensus will be reached within the standard 5 days. It is not trivial what to do about it. Posting to Russian forums for support is only fair but it has caviats that I described in my message. General policy ammendment that would require some minimum history in order to vote has been discussed not once. Please, email me if you have any ideas. I appreciate your intput. Cheers, --Irpen called at Maidan as "дуже хитрий, винахідливий і наполегливий троль" = "a very cunning, ingenious, and stubborn troll."