User talk:NYCRuss

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 * Thanks! NYCRuss   ☎  19:23, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks...
... for the welcome!

I am trying to do a bit of useful contributing, though I don't think I want to log in just now. :-) --93.212.237.92 (talk) 16:30, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Understood. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.  NYCRuss   ☎  17:58, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

per capita of Indian cities.
Don't edit this area if you don't know about it. The figures given there are guessed and outdated and wrong. This figures should not be shown in wiki without proper reference. Don't try to touch everywhere simply to show your presence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D28D:F285:42:95B1:B4AA:127C (talk) 18:46, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you don't properly reference changes, they may be reversed as per wp:rs NYCRuss   ☎  19:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The problem is that, the data shown in the reference is completely wrong and that is the reason why I delete the data. Check the reference provided there and you can see that there is no reference to the figures shown in the wiki. The present data is completely wrong and guessed figures. So it should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D28D:F285:42:95B1:B4AA:127C (talk) 19:25, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I recommend that you discuss changes for that article at Talk:List of Indian cities by GDP per capita. NYCRuss   ☎  21:46, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

You cannot put a wiki article only by using a report from Brookings institute. The PWC and MCkinsey reports shows entirely different figures. Even the brookings report shows a different figure for Bangalore city. Check this report on the per capita of Bangalore - https://c24215cec6c97b637db6-9c0895f07c3474f6636f95b6bf3db172.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/framed/~/media/multimedia/interactives/2013/tentraits/bangalore.pdf

Again check the original Karnataka Government website about Bangalore's per capita - http://planning.kar.nic.in/docs/economic_survery_2014-15/English/9%20Chapter%20State%20Income%20&%20Prices.pdf

In those two reports, it is clearly shown that Bangalore city per capita is much more than the figures shown here. Dont support showing wrong figures in wiki like this. At least check the right and wrong in these reports rater than reverting undauntedly and supporting showing the wrong figures. I have a valuable reason to do this. I am not playing with guessed figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D201:3E1C:7921:C3AA:36D0:FB2D (talk) 10:02, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Your recent notification
Hello. Your recent notification on my talk page makes no sense. I clearly undid some very bad editing by restoring the formerly good photos which someone replaced with horrible own ones. Also I'm not new to Wikipedia, but thanks. Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.244.128.251 (talk) 21:24, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * @46.244.128.251 you deleted more than images. Look closer to what what you're removing.  NYCRuss   ☎  21:26, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I look very close when I edit, I deleted several bad images and nothing else. Would appreciate If you point out what content I deleted besides them. Thanks for the clarification, best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.244.128.251 (talk) 21:30, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm sorry - now I see that I deleted the link - you simply could've pointed that mistake out instead of reverting an otherwise clearly good edit.

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Cobalt Aero = Cobalt Air
Hi NYCRuss,

I have realized you have changed few times name of Cobalt, please note that according to EU Department of transportation it's not recognizing term Aero, therefore can be used only as translation: Aero=AIR or not used at all (as Cobalt Logo does not use Aero/Air just plain COBALT).

Other example: Windorese.aero is airline in Ukraine its under the same terms, name of airline is WINDROSE (lower case air or airline). So name to public is WINDROSE air/airline or just simply WINDROSE.

However if you still have concern about this matter please feel free to create discussion on the talk page to discusses it with other users or make further research by yourself. Many thanks for your understanding.

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Yoenis Cespedes
"The deal is contingent only on a physical." While it's most likely that he will pass it, it's not known at this point, and the deal is not completed. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:42, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Good catch. I missed that.  NYCRuss   ☎  23:46, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * That's the trouble with how the sports media reports these pending deals. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:50, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

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Good afternoon - I participate in the Fraternities and Sororities Project, having written a number of articles, cleaned up others and added graphics. Recently, I've worked on the broader upkeep and mentoring of the project itself. My latest contributions include expanding the watchlist (from 300 to now about 1,200 articles), clarifying structures for new project participants (Notability, syntax, consistency), adding a list to Talk pages, etc.

While doing this, I've noticed a low-level campaign to WP:NPOV, WP:GNG and WP:ORG many of these pages into oblivion.

I happened to see you once weighed in on discussions for this category, and wonder if you would take a look at the recent AfD discussions ongoing, to see if there is a pattern here, like in April of 2011, when you helpfully commented on the Articles for deletion/Alpha Gamma deletion discussion. One user, Onel5969 seems to be aggressive in his "Deletionism" over a more helpful "Inclusionism". But he's also a leading contributor, and perhaps I am in the wrong. My personal opinion is that if an organization was once notable, it remains notable; Fraternities that were good enough for Baird's once, are good enough for Wikipedia. Here are the pages up for deletion now:


 * Articles for deletion/Delta Beta Phi
 * Articles for deletion/Kappa Sigma (Philippines)
 * I'd written another article on Canadian sorority Delta Pi last summer, which was similarly AfD PROD'ed into deletion. Unfairly, I think.

There are a number of similar deletions that have occurred over the past months.

Delta Beta Phi strikes me as an interesting article about a valid, while minor fraternity, which should be kept. Meanwhile, my rationale to keep the K Sig (Philippines) article is at the deletion discussion, but part of this is an assumption that SEC registration in the Philippines offers enough to meet the bar of notability. Some of those weighing in to delete these pages seem to demand multiple, published, independent sources, as if their existence was in questioned or as if these were vanity articles. I don't believe groups like these, especially the older, dormant fraternities will ever have that level of multiple citations available. Yet they are real.

Do you have any advice for me?

By the way, I've recently learned that Baird's Manual now has its Archive online, which has been expanded and enhanced since publication of the latest (20th) 1991 print edition. The online Baird's Archive is available here. I plan to revive that Delta Pi page soon, as it is now in the online Baird's archive, and thereby meets the notability rules that have been flagging it. Jax MN (talk) 18:16, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Russ, formatting question
Hi NYCRuss. I noticed some formatting I didn't recognize on the (rather) excellent List of Phi Kappa Psi chapters and colonies page. Would you tell me either where to find the metadata description of these, or just let me know what they do?


 * HS Α before a chapter name, for example, Alpha
 * --What does the sfn mean, and why is Kapppa spelled this way?

Thanks! Jax MN (talk) 19:36, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

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