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Ambiguous name
Does Kurchatov nuclear physics institute refer to Moscow Engineering Physics Institute? --Gwern (contribs) 03:21 8 December 2006 (GMT)
 * Please don't edit Runet, I'm writing the rest of the article (accidentally saved the unfinished version)! In an hour I'll come up with full version, and that would be very kind if you then spellcheck it! Ss r 03:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I've done what I will do. So edit without fear. --Gwern (contribs) 03:28 8 December 2006 (GMT)

Lenta.Ru
I was mistaken in deleting Lenta.Ru, and have restored the article, as I stated here. &mdash;tregoweth (talk) 19:15, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for cooperation! --ssr 10:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Russian internet culture
Can you provide sources for the 'Internet Culture' section you added to the Russia article? Thanks.--Miyokan (talk) 07:13, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I can see you have added some (thanks), and I have also added a couple extra. --ssr (talk) 11:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Another thing, this sentence - As well as theme of the Internet became included in "traditional" cultural spheres such as literature, music, cinema and even theater - doesn't really make sense, what is it trying to say?--Miyokan (talk) 04:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I was trying to say that "traditional culture" nowadays mentions Internet, it "accepted its existence" — to comply with "Culture" paragraph where my section is placed. If you feel this doesn't make sense in the context of the article, remove it. Talks on "cultural context" may require also an overview of mass media (which seems to be absent now), but I don't feel ready myself for such a work. --ssr (talk) 14:06, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * BTW, do you have an opinion on under what topic the Russian Internet synopsis should really be? I have placed it under Culture because I didn't want to create new root section. But it also can be seen as fitting into Demographics and Economy. So it is about mass media. It looks like a potential standalone topic on something like Mass Communications with references to articles like Media freedom in Russia. --ssr (talk) 15:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Rulez
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Historical structures of Governments of the Russian Federation
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 * Replaced with AfD Articles for deletion/Historical structures of Governments of the Russian Federation --ssr (talk) 11:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion/Kibitka
I've closed the deletion discussion you started at Articles for deletion/Kibitka as being in the wrong forum. Redirects should be listed at WP:RFD, not WP:AFD. I've now listed the redirect at Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 September 12. Cheers, Cunard (talk) 04:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience. --ssr (talk) 06:29, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Orthodox Christianity in Madagascar
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 * You could place some specifying templates if you're in doubt, but instead you decided to be deletist and delete it out now without concerns. This is so bad behaviour, you'll suffer from your destructivity yourself as all of the deletists will. Being a deletist is dangerous for health! --ssr (talk) 00:25, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * BTW I have removed your PROD. --ssr (talk) 00:49, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Help, see here.  Never was a disambiguation page, before see I wanted to add more information to the word Never, about funny sayings which express the notion never in different languages, like for example: When hell freezes over.

The page would looked complicated otherwise.. I thougt I create a separate article for the word and keep the rest as a disambiguation page

About the article never, people agreed on that it was ok to expand it, see my talk page. I did not wanted to make a dictionary of it, I just wanted to add funny sayings. .

Warrington (talk) 12:39, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry so late in saying welcome!
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 * Hello! In fact, an userbox was added by me some long time ago when I was setting up with Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians (AIW). Once I noticed that template I used was unexpectedly replaced with a plaque which stated that I am a member of a "squadron" though I didn’t intend at the time to rollup in any "squadron". OK, I replaced the template with an alternetive AIW template and examined the squadron templates I discovered and found one suiting me (because I did help some pages out in the past). As you can see, it reads "This user has rescued articles by improving them in the face of pending deletion" and doesn’t mention any squadron. So I am a bit surprised to find myself in a squadron without knowing of that. OK, I’ll try to have a look when I have time and figure out if I can do something regarding the squadron activities. --ssr (talk) 07:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Google profile


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 * Tagged with Rescue. --ssr (talk) 06:40, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Google profile --ssr (talk) 06:56, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi ssr, I think you confused some of the deletion procedures:
 * 1) Google profile was proposed for deletion. This process is different from Articles for deletion in that it does not initiate a discussion. Anyone, including the page creator can oppose deletion by simply removing the template from the page.
 * 2) You placed a hangon tag on the Google profile page. This is not necessary, the hangon template is part of the speedy deletion process, which is another, totally different, process altogether.
 * 3) You also created an AfD discussion page for Google profile. This was not necessary because there is no such discussion yet.

I have taken the following steps in an effort to assist you and the discussion deletion crowd:
 * 1) I have removed the template prod on your behalf in order to contest the deletion. I also removed hangon because it belongs to a different deletion process. The page Google profile now looks as it was before; you might have a look. Please improve the page as soon as possible, otherwise someone else might start a deletion discussion soon.
 * 2) I have closed the deletion discussion due to lack of rationale. At this point, no-one would and should discuss this at WP:AfD.

I hope this is in order with you. Don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page should you have further questions. Regards, Pgallert (talk) 09:20, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for the help on this! I am quite pleased with the current outcome and would love to see the article improved by other users, or it is also OK if it remains in current state. I would like potential deletion nominators to tag the article with proper improvement templates rather than mark it for deletion. --ssr (talk) 12:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Corruption in Russia
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Corruption in Russia
Any chance you could translate the word "Кормление" in the "History" section? Google Translate gave "feeding", but that does not make much sense. --Cyber cobra (talk) 07:43, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * My friends provided me with most of translations, including History section, see here: http://ssr.livejournal.com/1613462.html - maybe you can find something useful, I haven't reviewed yet, just starting. Many thanks for the help! --ssr (talk) 07:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

quote marks
Per MOSQUOTE, please do not use curly quotes instead of straight quotes, as you did in this edit. Thanks, --Cyber cobra (talk) 22:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Facebook icon
UnitedStatesian is leading the charge against the Facebook icon. In the section " Created link doesn't work" of the discussion page for the Facebook template, UnitedStatesian has just been proven an idiot. If you can use it to advance the Facebook icon, more power to you. Thanks to RL0919, I now have the information that I need, so I'm leaving the discussion. Good luck to you--the Facebook icon still seems like a useful, harmless addition to me. ProResearcher (talk) 09:03, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for support! --ssr (talk) 16:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:COIN
Hi Ssr. I just wanted to notify you that you've been mentioned at WP:COIN. I think the conversation would be improved if you participate. Have a great weekend!  Ol Yeller Talktome 15:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I have started talking there! --ssr (talk) 18:40, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Alexander Misharin
Your recent editing history at Alexander Misharin shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.

If you wish to avoid being blocked, instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. You may still be blocked for edit warring even if you do not exceed the technical limit of the three-revert rule if your behavior indicates that you intend to continue to revert repeatedly. - Hi, please take it easy with repeatedly removing disputed content unless it is a clear policy violation - move to discussion - thanks - Off2riorob (talk) 19:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your attention to the article. I have described my position at the talk page's last developments. --ssr (talk) 19:44, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Stories Project
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Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I will answer as soon as I can. I apologize for any poor translation of this letter, I am using Google-translate. I hope it makes you laugh :)

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

__________________________________

Привет!

Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хроник вдохновляющих историй сообщества Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой органицации, чтобы убедить людей поддержывать наш проект, и мы знаем, что у людей, которые строют и используют Википедии есть много, что рассказать!

Я ищу вдохновляющие страницы пользователей, и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила Вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у Вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедия ли когда-нибудь Вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы показывали редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Этот метод имел огромный успех, в результате чего у нас была наиболее финансово успешная кампании по сбору средств в историе организации. Кроме того, мы остались верны духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как Ви и я.

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще редакторов Википедии на русском языке, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию и интервью с редакторами.

Если Википедия положительно повлеяла на Вас или на кого-то из Ваших знакомых, или у Вас есть что-то интересное сказать о Википедии, я бы очень хотел услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если Ви бы хотели участвовать в проекте Истории Википедии, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен поговорить.

Конечно, если у Вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Извините за плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за Ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 23:32, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Misharin
Hi, I deleted the video/audio file because there is no sound. There IS sound on the Internet source you obtained it from, but for some reason it doesn't work here. I opened a topic on the file Talk page at Commons. Perhaps you could figure out what the problem is and fix it, or reupload it, not sure. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:40, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for help! I have replied at Help_desk. --ssr (talk) 20:04, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Normal replace file failed. I uploaded as a new file here: File:Alexander Misharin resignation address v2.ogg--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Works for me. I think I should make an admin request for deletion of the first file. --ssr (talk) 05:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

You guys fixed it - great. Thanks for pitching in Canoe.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:38, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome. Could you do me a favour and add a 'citation needed' tag to a Russian article that I edited? I removed the unsourced statement, but it may get replaced, and will need a tag. Булла, Виктор Карлович is the article and the statement was that he was rehabilitated in 1958. This is effecting all his works being deleted in commons. Thanks.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:17, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I thought this was for Bbb23. You have removed the unsourced statement, so no need to add a 'citation needed' currently, do I get this right? I can patrol ('flag revision') the article in current state and watch it, and if rehabilitation information appears again, demand sources for it. Am I correct? --ssr (talk) 06:51, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be very helpful. There is a discussion in commons about deleting all of his works that depends on that statement. If the statement cannot be verified by a reliable source then his works can stay in commons. The only source we have now is a statement by his daughter in an interview, which many won't accept.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:58, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Gro.aidepikiw.ne listed at Redirects for discussion
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Merry Christmas! History2007 (talk) 23:11, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * You too! World peace! =) --ssr (talk) 23:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I am not holding my breath on world peace... but thanks. History2007 (talk) 01:17, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Different variations of "World peace" are slogans many politicians promote themselves with, including big countries' presidents. "World peace" also is a final concept of the Catholic Maria-related belief "Consecration of Russia". --ssr (talk) 06:16, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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Anatole Klyosov
Our article identifies Anatole Klyosov as having controversial (read: not widely accepted) views. You are edit-warring to include his views sourced directly from his own self-published work, with absolutely no independent evidence to establish the significance in the context of the article. You correctly note that this is a highly charged subject. The content remains out of the article until there is consensus for its inclusion, and the onus is on anyone who seeks to include it, to obtain that consensus).

I removed this content in response to a post at the reliable source noticeboard. You will see form my contributions at that I have no little experience in these things, and I have no position on the external dispute at all. Guy (Help!) 13:45, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * One undo is not edit-warring. Two undos in a row, like yours, resemble edit-warring more. When you say "controversial" it doesn't neccessarily mean "has to be erased instantly". You call yourself neutral but subsequent mass-wiping of content from multiple articles before receiving answers on talk pages makes me doubt on that. --ssr (talk) 14:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I am removing the identical unreliable source from multiple articles, often with identical text. I have checked the bona-fides of the journal, and it does not meet our sourcing requirements. I have a lot of experience of sourcing problems and unreliable journals on Wikipedia. Guy (Help!) 14:31, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Invitation to WikiProject Portals
Hi,

I noticed your interest in portals. Here is what has been going on behind-the-scenes with them...

Currently, there are about 1500 portals, comprised of 150,000 pages in portal space, the rest beyond the 1500 being subpages. Most of those subpages contain an excerpt, copied and pasted from some article. Such excerpts never change, and they go stale over time (no longer matching the original source material).

The Portal WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and has grown to 68 members. We've been busy redesigning the portal model so that portals will not need all those subpages.

The design concept called "selective transclusion", which is used for migrating excerpts (moving them to the base page), does so by displaying part of an article the same as a template. An added benefit of this is that it also keeps them fresh, by always showing the current version of the content that is transcluded.

We are also working on ways to make excerpted content, and listed entries, dynamic, so that the material or links shown automatically change over time without the intervention of an editor. Selected articles, could be set up to change daily, for example, to present a different article each day. This can even be made to show a different article every time a user visits the page. Currently, we can do this from a set list. We're trying to make it so that the list is updated automatically from an external source that is regularly maintained.

Other automated solutions are being sought or developed for each section type of portals. To automatically update and archive news, did you know entries, and so on.

Once we get a fully automated design worked out, it will be applied to all the portals that do not have dedicated maintainers. This will reduce the amount of maintenance they need. A single editor will then be able to watch over far more portals than before, ideally, with each portal taking up only a single page in portal space.

The Portal WikiProject is dedicated to updating, upgrading, and maintaining the entire portal system and every portal in it.

Come check us out, and if you like what you see, feel free to join. &mdash; The Transhumanist  05:28, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you very much
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:33, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please ping me. Thank you. -TT
 * And thank you too for the excellent work! --ssr (talk) 05:38, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of HSE Art and Design School for deletion
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Signpost suggestion formatting
I would suggest using Talk quote block to

and what's your own words at Signpost's Suggestions page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:27, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thank you! --ssr (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

What you might do for The Signpost
Respected Ssr!

Thanks for the suggestions for The Signpost. Several things caught my eye. The most obvious one is the statement that Farhad Fatkullin is banned or blocked on the Tatar Wikipedia. Did I misread that? Perhaps you were just making a point with an exaggerated "what if" statement? If it is true The Signpost would love for you to write an article on it, complete with comments from Farhad, of course. Our next deadline is 5 days away (March 26) so I'd guess you might not be able to write it in time. If so the next deadline is about a month after that.

But there are several other topics that would interest our readers, e.g. the points you made at Meta, the summary of The Signpost in Russian, the Proyekt video on paid editing (among other interesting topics), your own experience with paid editing.

In short, I'm very interested in getting Russian stories on The Signpost. I'd guess an article 500-700 words, every other month might be possible. I hope you understand that it's very difficult for me - with my limited and rusty Russian language skills, as well as a difficult political/propaganda situation in Russia - to find an author who has the skills to write such articles.

If you have such an interest, please email me.

All the best,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:53, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for collaboration! I will think and write soon some details. And right now, instantly, at my Meta post there is the link w:tt:Кулланучы бәхәсе:Derslek where Affcom member user:Mehman97 is under the process of resolving. Good to know that you can understand some Russian, you can read what happens there. On other things, I'll write later. --ssr (talk) 15:09, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ssr - I'll go ahead and write a couple of paragraphs at Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/News and notes and contact Farkhad for a quote. Do let me know if you've got anything to contribute and I'll likely merge the two. Smallbones( smalltalk )
 * Thanks for helping! I have talked to user:Frhdkazan and user:Mehman97. Mehman said that he has nothing to say beyond what is written at tt-wiki, but he doesn't object writing. Farhad said he is not sure if he can say something because the process is still unfinished. I myself have no full story because the general background lasts for many years in Tatar language: that bureaucrat, Derslek, established complex behaviour involving copyright violations, there were many previous talks in Tatar. I don't speak Tatar, only Farhad can tell correctly on this. So that, I see that I can't manage to write some for the current issue according to deadline, I will prepare for the next issue to write some by myself. BTW, today, on 26th, the new 2-week Vikivestnik is going to be published: Викивестник № 232 (13 — 26 марта 2020 года). So that, user:Frhdkazan can you comment some to user:Smallbones for the forthcoming Wikipedia Signpost? --ssr (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've gotten some input from Farhad already and we'll have a few paragraphs in this issue. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 15:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Attribution for translated articles.
Hi Ssr, I saw that you created the article Salovati Saidzoda by translating the one from Russian Wikipedia. Thanks for doing that. In case you weren't aware, Wikipedia's CC BY-SA license requires that attribution is given to the original authors. See: Translating from other language Wikimedia projects. Could you add the appropriate notice to the article, and any others you've translated? That would be helpful, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 15:39, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice! I have added Translated page to talk page, will consider the template for the future. And what if I translate page from Russian original by written myself? I plan some, starting with Academset. --ssr (talk) 08:24, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! If you translate a page that is completely written by you, with no other contributors, then I guess you don't have to provide any other attribution. But it doesn't hurt to do it anyway if you have the time, if only because it would stop any other editors who notice it (like me) from bothering you with questions... --IamNotU (talk) 10:20, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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