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help
Hi,

I need help. I noticed you may have dealt with blocked user hanzohattori and his legions of puppets in the past. I noticed a suspicious IP and put a request for check. Can you just take a look?

Thanks in advance, -- TheFE ARgod (Ч) 19:33, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Nebojša Koharović
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Rollback
I'm guessing that this was a mis-click rather then a deliberate rolling back of another user's vote. In any event I fixed it. Spartaz Humbug! 04:24, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * thanks for that it was a misclick. I am using a mobile device and seem to have clicked it on my watchlist in error. Cheers Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 04:33, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Re : Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list
This arbitration case has been closed, and the final decision may be viewed at the link above.


 * User:Piotrus resigned the administrator tools during the case proceedings and may only seek to regain adminship by a new request for adminship or by request to the Arbitration Committee.
 * User:Piotrus is banned for three months. At the conclusion of his ban, a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed, shall take effect.
 * User:Digwuren is banned for one year. He is directed to edit Wikipedia from only a single user account, and advise the Arbitration Committee of the name of the account that he will use. Should he not advise the committee by the end of the one year ban, he will remain indefinitely banned until a single account is chosen.
 * User:Digwuren is placed on a one year topic ban on articles about Eastern Europe, their talk pages, and any related process discussion, widely construed. This shall take effect following the expiration of both above mentioned bans.
 * The following users are topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for one year:
 * User:Biruitorul, User:Dc76, User:Martintg, User:Miacek, User:Radeksz, User:Vecrumba, User:Tymek


 * User:Jacurek is topic banned from articles about Eastern Europe, their associated talk pages, and any process discussion about same, widely construed, for six months.
 * User:Tymek is strongly admonished for having shared his account password. He is directed to keep his account for his own exclusive use, and not to allow any other person to use it under any circumstance.
 * The editors sanctioned above (Piotrus, Digwuren, Martintg, Tymek, Jacurek, Radeksz, Dc76, Vecrumba, Biruitorul, Miacek) are prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with Russavia on any page of Wikipedia, except for purposes of legitimate and necessary dispute resolution.
 * All the participants to the mailing list are strongly admonished against coordinating on-wiki behavior off-wiki and directed to keep discussion of editing and dispute resolution strictly on wiki and in public. All editors are reminded that the editorial process and dispute resolution must take place on Wikipedia itself, using the article talk pages and project space for this purpose. No discussion held off-wiki can lead to a valid consensus, the basis of our editorial process. Off-wiki coordination is likely to lead to echo chambers where there is a false appearance of neutrality and consensus.

For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 17:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC) - Discuss this

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RE
Hi, thanks for the kind words! I've always thought we two can work together, despite occasional 'skirmishes', as neither of us is keen on advancing any specific POV here :). I indeed find the remedies against me unfair, because the FoF of the arbitrators themselves does not show any considerable misconduct (they even couldn't find or didn't bother to do provide evidence on edit warring, let alone any POV pushing). After all, Biophys was not mentioned at all, Jacurek who was the first one to get a topic ban (6 months) had a record of disruption, according to the FoF. Thereafter, decisions to ban me, Martin and Vecrumba appeared. Wherease Martin rightly pointed out that an arbitrator had made a factual error, we soon learned that Arbcom is 'not looking for certainty'. But well, what can I expect from an Arb who has 1340 (!) article space edits so far. I would have understood a ban on me from participating in Afd's for some time, but outright EE topic ban is pointless in that not a single disruptive article space edit was listed, and neutral, verifiable content edits should matter, after all. Therefore, I'll likely try to have the ban lifted one day, but right now I' just having a wikibreak, as my workload has been quite heavy during the recent months. So, happy holidays and hope we'll come across while editing Wikipedia in the next year, too! Miacek 13:16, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Have a happy new year




Choose whatever you like :) NVO (talk) 06:07, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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Help with a translation please...
Hello. Can you help me with a translation please? Do you know what the writing at the bottom of File:Tamara Karsavina -circa 1910.JPG says? Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:15, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to help, unfortunately I can't find a file with that name on WP or on Commons. Can you give the correct link and I will see what I can do. Cheers, --Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 11:58, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The file has been moved to the Commons, where it's located under File:Tamara Karsavina -circa 1910.jpg. I can't read the scribbles too well, though, because of the low resolution.  It looks like it's four or five words, the first one of which is "Karsavina" (her name), the last one is "Bystrov" (probably the last name of the photographer; although the caption says that "photographer is unknown", so may be not), and "Gos. teatr" in the middle means "state theater" (I guess this one).  What stands between "Karsavina" and "Gos. teatr", as well as between "Gos. teatr" and "Bystrov", I have no clue.  Hope this helps at least a little.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:06, December 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * Many thanks! Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi!
Happy New Year! I hope 2010 will be less stressful for you and and you will be able to contribute a lot to the Wikipedia. Alæxis¿question? 08:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year Scotty! Take care. I know that Australia meets New Year before Belarus! :-)) Vlad fedorov (talk) 20:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Auktyon
Have you heard anything about this band? Are you allowed to edit Russian subjects? I haven't kept up with it all. Happy New Year! ChildofMidnight (talk) 02:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * i am still very much topic banned so i am unable to comment. I will be writing up an appeal over the coming weekend to have the topic ban relaxed to allow me to edit aviation and foreign relations articles, i dont foresee myself asking to edit articles such as the above linked one. I am sure that one of the wp:russia regulars who have my talk page on their watchlist will be able to answer your question though. Cheers Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 10:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Ambassadors of South Ossetia to Russia
I have nominated ambassadors of south ossetia to russia for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. ArcAngel (talk) (review) 01:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * thank you for notification...but as i am topic banned i am unable to participate in the discussion. Please note that if nominating a category for discussion one should not remove articles from the category until it has been discused. And subcategories should also be left in tact, as there may be a categorisation structure in place that editors may want to study before commenting at a cfd. I can be contacted via email if anyone has further queries. Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 03:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Abdul Hamid Ali Hassan -

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Regarding Air Guinee
Good day, I notice you contributed to this article here:, yet you have "censored" or "starred out" references to the Soviet Union, and all the makes of the planes. Other editors have changed the Soviet Union usages, but we do not know what should fill in the blanks for the planes. Can you help?

Thanks in advance, --Taelus (talk) 10:58, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Russavia, I'm at a loss to understand why you did this as you are aware that Wikipedia is not censored. The issue has been raised at WP:ANI. An explanation would be apprectiated. Mjroots (talk) 11:18, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Jane's F-15
Hello Russavia. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Jane's F-15, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to software. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 06:28, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Topic ban partly lifted
Since nobody has yet officially notified you, I'll do it here, even though you've probably seen it already anyway: As per this, your appeal to have your current topic ban lifted in parts has been granted. You are now allowed to include Russia-related topics in your edits relating to "aviation and diplomacy topics". As you understand, the topic ban remains in force on other topic areas, in particular anything potentially controversial about political disputes and ethnic history. It was generally noted that your appeal expressed a positive and mature attitude to the situation, and that you should be welcome to make constructive contributions in your area of expertise.

At the same time, it is my duty to trout-slap you for messing around with asterisks.

Best of luck, -- Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:48, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Air Mali (1960–1985)
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 * I do have a couple more questions (on the DYK page) about contradictory sources and the timing of the crash. The wording makes it sound like it was already on the ground when it crashed.--otherlleft 12:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK
Could you comment at Template_talk:Did_you_know? CW and I have been proposing a flurry of ALTs, and I'd like to have your take as the article author on those. Ucucha 21:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, got a little sleep and have offered my input on the alts. --Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 04:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Australia–Russia relations

 * Just wanted to say good work again on the article. It was close, but looks to have made it on in time for Australia Day. Again nice job, It was quit an interesting and informative read. Kindly Calmer   Waters  09:39, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

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Regarding your dyk hook
Hi, I modified your dyk hook here to clarify, as it sounded to me like the two companies managed the airlines at the same time. Hope the rewording is ok with you. Regards, — mattisse (Talk) 16:48, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

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Australia–Kosovo relations
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Aviation Contest
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Philippines–Romania relations has been nominated for deletion again here
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Resource request
A bit late, but your request was filled.--droptone (talk) 16:21, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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El Al image
Hi Russavia! A while ago you uploaded File:El Al ocean ad.png, as a fair use image. It appears that the image is actually in the public domain. Do you have a higher resolution version? If so, uploading it (at least to Commons for now) would be much appreciated. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 16:20, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Diplomatic missions of the European Union
User:Alinor An editor with a keen interest in the EU has proposed to modify the article to list all the countries that do not have a mission of an EU member state, or only have one such mission. I do not support this edit, as the information does not concern diplomatic missions of the EU, only the missions of its member staets.

We have discussed this issue extensively in Talk:List of diplomatic missions of the European Union. I think what Alinor is arguing is that the embassy of an EU member can represent the EU as a whole, or provide services to other EU members. I do not believe this is the case. And even if such arrangements exist, it would be outside the scope of the article. If you feel inclined, please join the discussions, make your own mind up and share your views. Kransky (talk) 00:06, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Captain German
There's an interesting article about a Soviet WWII partisan,. Although the resource, seemingly, isn't "serious", the story is entirely enjoyable. However, the character is real, and some events in his bio can be verified (there's a Russian wikipedia entry). Have fun, ellol (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed new map style for List of Diplomatic missions by Country articles
As a regular contributor to these articles your views are sought about a new map style for the List of Diplomatic missions by Country articles.

Currently we are using maps which show which countries host a diplomatic mission of a given country (please see as an example the map we use for List of diplomatic missions of Spain). These maps however do not show where the missions are actually located (which may be a few for those countries with large networks of consulates). And the title of this ("Diplomatic missions of Spain") and other similar maps could be more accurate

The map style I propose instead indicates the cities that host a mission of a given country. As an example, I have produced this map for List of diplomatic missions of Singapore.

It is not difficult to make these maps. They are based on the third map below (accessible at on Wikipedia Commons), in which I have indicated all the world capitals and other major cities where diplomatic missions are located. The circles representing cities are not visible because they are slightly different shade of grey, but all you have to do is colour each circle with a distinctive colour, and in no time you can have a more accurate and easier to read map.

I think that this approach is more appropriate for this and other categories of articles which concern cities (such as List of national capitals, Lufthansa destinations, List of cities that failed in their bids to host the Olympics etc.), rather than countries.

Please add your views to this new proposal, including whether you like it, see problems, or see ways how it could be improved here

Thanks! Kransky (talk) 10:16, 26 February 2010 (UTC)