User talk:Kuban kazak/2006 4

Note on adding full Eastern Orthodox Project to your watchlist
This is a note for members of the Eastern Orthodox Project: Since the project's main page has been converted to a portal-style box format, each of the boxes is actually its own page (you can see the page outside its box by clicking the 'Edit' link on any often the section boxes on the project page, which takes you to the edit page for its contents). Because of this, updates to individual box contents will not necessarily show up on editors' watchlists, if you've only got the main project page watched.

In order to keep up to date with all updates to the Project and its pages, I'd recommend adding each subpage to your watchlists. These are:


 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy - The main Project page
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Intro - The introduction to the Project text, in the top box
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Scope - Goals of the project text
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Subsections - Listing of Project sub-areas
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Tasks - Main listing of pages, etc., needing work
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Templates - Listing of Project templates
 * WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Participants - Listing of members
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If you add all of the above pages to your watchlist, you should be informed whenever any part of the WikiProject Eastern Christianity is edited/updated. To discuss this, please see the relavent section of the Project's talk page. &mdash; Antonios Aigyptos talk  09:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Yerevan
Здорова, listen I will be visiting Yerevan for a few weeks in mid October. Let me know what pictures and anything else you want me to get, other than the logo and the map of the metro.--Eupator 19:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

History of Cossacks
I think the level of edit warrings from IPs is not that high to warrant semi-protection. Besides, the only Ianonim acting their is a sock of User:Alex Kov and I was already warned that I am to heavy-handed with him. Lets wait a little bit more. abakharev 01:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Template
I agree with you. Have you seen commons:Template:PD-Russia and Lupo's editing of it? abakharev 01:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:
Welcome back. Really sorry for your camera. Can I ask what places did you visit in Abkhazia?

Indeed, Abkhazia, with its landscapes, is a real paradise on this wicked earth. I remember Gagra and Sukhumi very well though I was just a pre-school child when I visited Abkhazia and it’s too painful to think that the soil of Abkhazia is still saturated by the blood shed there a decade ago. It will be a great misfortune if another war destroys what has been left after the conflict but it is very hard to explain to 250,000 Georgians evicted from their homeland that Abkhazia’s tourist industry will be heavily damaged if they don’t stay calm where they presently live. I’m also not sure how the current regime will exploit these natural resources to make people wealthier. And unfortunately infrastructure is never going to recover due to military expenditures and widespread mafia activities there. I’d suggest visiting Ajaria next year just for a comparison. Cheers, Kober 05:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

question
hi. what do you think about putin's style of regime. i heard that now you don't have real democracy? how is the feeling in the street? bye Superzohar 06:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Lubyanka 1916.jpg
Image:Lubyanka 1916.jpg cannot be PD-old or PD at all because the author died in 1958. YellowDot 00:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

And all the other images
Please do not revert no source without providing a source! Needless to say it's vandalism. Source (i.e. website or book that it was taken from) is required for every single image and is very different from image tag. Without a source copyright claims are unverifiable. YellowDot 00:41, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yellowdot, please seize harrassing editors. --Irpen 18:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Sabbath
Hello. Might I ask you to take a look at this article? It makes a little mention of the Orthodox perspective, which is good, but I think more might be needed. More importantly, it seems, overall, to be written from a strongly fundamentalist Protestant POV. I would appreciate your help in correcting this situation. Biruitorul 00:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem; thank you for your reply. Biruitorul 19:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Annoyances
My friend, there is no need to annoy your colleagues just for the sake of it. Whatever you view right with the article with Ukraine, such actions are unnecessary. If I were you, I would have also removed Stalin, no matter what is the point you are trying to make. Your old fellow Ukrained inflamed his user page for a good reason. He likes to "annoy" his "enemies". Please don't follow in his footsteps.

I hope your kids are doing well. Best regards, --Irpen 18:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * In Russian, official and not, the modern term is "На Украине" and Belarus is still reffered to as "Белоруссия". This is DIRECT translation from Russian, also there is nothing politically incorrect here. My user page is my user page. To be fair if some people are annoyed, then there are pleanty of things that piss me off as well, and its much deeper than userpages. Some people have only an image of a Church on user pages, but inside its the devil that is holding them. (Guess who?) On par with that, my ribbons are innocent. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 18:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you as far as what's correct in Russian. I understand and even agree somewhat with your comment about the user with the church on his page. I can also see why you need those ribbons even though I find them unnecessary. I am talking exclusively about using the specific English grammar that is clearly offensive to some (not to me). That some people behave improperly is not an excuse to follow them. I just suggest that if you must keep those ribbons, at least avoid using potentially inflammatory grammar in English. I would have said NA Ukraine as well as Belorussija in Russian as well. This is, however, English Wikipedia. There may be a good reason to say Belorussiya in the WW2 context, but the modern usage is Belarus and the Ukraine. I modified your page only once, as I did before with Stalin's image. I have no right to persist. You are right that it is your page. All I wanted is making a climate here more productive. --Irpen 18:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And I do not agree with you. In Russian you would say на Кубе, на Ямайки...на Украине. And when I speak English I say THE Ukraine. Treat as identical to Kiev/Kyiv, Kharkov/Kharkiv, Vilno/Vilnuis (The latter example underlines it, officialy Russia uses the latter, however I personally always use the former). As for those people who find it offensive, well I could have put Little and White Russia to be chauvinistic, but I do not identify with those...--Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 18:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Little or White Russia is not chaivinistic if used in the proper context, that is for 19th century. The Ukraine in modern context is simply incorrect in English despite NA Ukraine is correct in Russian. These are unrelated issues. No respected media outlet writes THE Ukraine. You use it in modern context here and this is inflammatory for some users. You may not care but adding inflammation harms the ability of people to work together. I am glad Ukrained or Halibutt have those boxes calling for the partition of Russia in their pages. It makes it easier for those unfamiliar with them to quickly make up their minds about those users NPOV and good faith. Your user page is yours as well as their pages are theres. --Irpen 19:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Sanychi are doing fine, A few days ago they were baptised. --Kuban Cossack [[Image:Flag of the Russian Empire (black-yellow-white).svg|25px|]] 18:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! Wish them well! --Irpen 18:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#wikirules_vs_insults_and_annoyance. Imprevu 18:16, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

How to make a good portal
Use the box-portal. And to find out more go to Portal. Unisouth 07:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Signature
Hi, could you please take a quick look at WP:SIG and remove the image from your signature. I made the same mistake myself, it's no biggie, but images in sigs are a no-no. Thanks, Guy 20:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Seconded. Please help save resources. Thanks. --Ligulem 00:15, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

re: Kiev Metro on uk wiki

 * Sorry I did not answer right away, I did not have much time.. I'll ask the admin about the images. Its too bad they (on uk wiki) don't tag the images, because its much harder for us to find out about the image itself. —dima/s-ko/ 17:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Re
Thanks for the link and don't worry about the map. Well, I find the Georgia section neutral enough. I once promised to upload some photos from the Tbilisi Metro website. However, the website doesn't specify copyright status. I emailed them, but have not heard anything back.--Kober 14:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Rapid transit
Just to let you know, I did do a rapid transit portal. Unisouth 18:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
You've hit the jackpot there!--Eupator 19:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

ru-sib
Why are you removing these link? They don't constitute linkspam; they're links to other language articles. -Patstuart(talk)(contribs) 01:16, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Chechen Wikipedia
There is one admin on the Chechen Wikipedia - me. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:33, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

sib-wiki vote
I authorise that this vote to support closure of sib-wiki was cast by me. --Kuban Cossack 13:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Chechen "rebels"
Hello, could you check Battle of Grozny (1994-1995), Battle of Grozny (1996), Guerilla phase of the Second Chechen War, Battle of Grozny (1999-2000), Circassian ethnic cleansing, Kizlyar raid and other articles by the notorious User:HanzoHattori? I believe you are better qualified than me to judge on their accuracy. -- Ghirla -трёп-  09:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I will look into them in due course, right now I have way too many things on my hands in wiki and in life. --Kuban Cossack 16:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Notorius user here. I use "rebels" for NPOV and because "independence fighters" is long (and awkward). --HanzoHattori 19:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Errors in Kremlin map
Thanks for your info about the errors in the Kremlin map (Image talk:MoscowKremlinMap.jpg); it was harsh, but just & good. I based the map on another wiki-map (Image:Kremlin.svg), which was in Portugese, and, even though I did check other maps as well, serious errors snuck in, due to outdated info and problems with translation. I have uploaded a new map with corrections (clear cache & hit refresh), but some things are still unclear to me. Would you like to help me? Please see Image:MoscowKremlinMap.jpg and its talk page. My regards, --Dna-Dennistalk - contribs 06:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Holomodor and Golomodor
I thought it wasn't useful to have a redirect with only one article linking to it. But if you think the Golodomor redirect is useful, that's fine -- I won't change it again. NawlinWiki 21:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Russian apartment bombings
Hi Kuban, From your user page you seem like someone who may have some strong views on the above article - and I think you might be able to add some balance to it. I have edited it a bit but I am limited by my poor Russian - so it is mainly taken from western sources, which tend to be quite biased. You may also be interest in this documentary on the subject. Cheers, ... al Seabhcán bin Baloney  (Hows my driving?)  17:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

* — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.24.64.23 (talk • contribs)

Steward elections
Здравствуйте, сейчас на Мете проходят выборы новых стюардов и среди них MaxSem (Максим Семенник) возможный кандидат на то, чтобы стать первым русским стюардом Википедии. Если вам не трудно то прошу вас проголосовать на этих выборах. --Eraser 13:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

kyivization
Ukrainian Beer Lovers Party: when struggling with kyivization, don't create red links. `'mikkanarxi 01:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Ukrainian Cossacks
Sir, but its a historical fact you cannot deny this, Kuban cossacks are descendors of the Ukrainian cossacks that ran away from tzarina Catherine, who destroyed the Zaporizhja. The ones that were imprisoned by Cathrine, build St.Petersburg on their own bones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivasyk (talk • contribs)

Correction
Hey there!

...the image is there not to support my political o pn ion - note the typo. Plus, what's that "Bold text" doing there?

Cheers! --Illythr 10:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You might be interested in this
User: An account reported me for claiming he was a sockpuppet, and goes on to mention your name as well. User:Sebbeng 17:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)