Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board/Archive07

Medical schools in 19th century Saint Petersburg
While writing a new article (Józef Mianowski), I found two schools in Polish sources I am having trouble translating for Wikipedia: Medical-Chirurgical Academy in Saint Petersburg and II Hospital of Land Forces. Any better translations, Russian names and pipes to relevant articles would be appreciated.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Images up for deletion
A couple of historical photos used in quite important articles are up for deletion due to violations of fair use rationales. The cited problem is that the photos themselves are not iconic enough. I have commented on one but have not looked at others. These are: Image:Gorbachev-coup.jpg, Image:Gorbachev_Meeting.jpg, Image:Gorbachev_with_Yeltsin.jpg, Image:1991_coup_yeltsin.jpg, Image:Oct93 1.jpg and Image:Gaidar_and_Yeltsin.JPG. --Konstable 01:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)
Feel free to comment and help improve the article.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 15:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Russia
The article was nominated for FA, I think readers of this board will be interested in commenting and hopefully improving this article.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 15:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

FAR on History of Russia
History of Russia has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Colchicum 17:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Russian language FAR
Russian language has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Colchicum 18:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

"Active measures" article
I suspect that I will not be able to handle the "Active measures" article alone. This is a chaotic list of Cheka---KGB-FSB operations. IMO the first thing is to rename the article into something meaningful for English reader. Every intelligence service has covert operations against the adversaries of their state and politics. No big deal. As a first step, at least various unproved allegations and other speculation must be removed: it is enough proved cases to serve as examples. Second, a `'Míkka 02:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

ru-sib pearl
Please take a careful look at preomerzitelneysiy perl of ru-sib:Россея. Is anyone going to finally do something with this heap of sick ooze? `'Míkka 19:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Since meta over a year does nothing to close this incubator of ethnic hatred, I suggest to initiate the english wikipedia ban on wikilinks to ru-sib. This is an unprecedented case of wikimedia-sponsored exercise in outrageous bigotry carried out by a small group of devoted Russophobes. `'Míkka 19:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)


 * "Agree" Elk Salmon 13:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

User Israeli pics
It looks to me user Israeli was uploading pics that all of them wasn't made by him. And he was targeting them as self-made with PD release. Two my pictures were deleted some time ago because of my request. Now I see also several pictures of other authors, that are not him definitely. I have feeling none of pictures he has uploaded are made by him. Elk Salmon 13:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I am not sure any commons admins read the board (maybe ZScout does?). Elk, can you start a deletion request on Commons? Alex Bakharev 22:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Help please
Hello. I need someone who speaks Russian who is willing to take a look at this thread. It seems that there is a naming issue with an article which may be causing some bots to make some edits which keep getting reverted. I would appreciate it is anyone could provide any assistance. --After Midnight 0001 14:37, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Russian wikiProjects
Ive seen recently articles (talk pages) are tagged with both WikiProject Russia and WikiProject Russian History. IMO it is an overkill and unnecessary clutter.

Please take a look at wikiProj Maths template, e.g., inTalk:Graph property. It has a parameter called "field". In our case the project is "Russia", with subproject/subfield "Russian history".

Any comments? `'Míkka 20:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Two articles that need a third (!) opinion.
WP:OR. WP:SYN. WP:FRINGE. WP:UNDUE. I kid you not.


 * Operation Sarindar coatrack for all sorts of allegations by Ion Mihai Pacepa - also a last stand of the "Iraq had WMD!" warriors. Should be merged with the article on the author of these allegations.
 * Communist terrorism Another coatrack which both refers to actions by terrorist gangs claiming to be communist (somehow the IRA is missing in that funny list of usual suspects), and state terrorism as practised by communist states. Should be renamed to reflect this, or split up.

As of now, only two Western authors are trying to defend some sort of rationality at those two pages.--Pan Gerwazy 10:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Russian martial arts
Could you please help with the Russian martial arts thing?

I will tell you the problems:

1. Russian martial arts article needs referencing, and i couldn't find thise.

2. There are articles about martial arts in Russian that need to be translated to English. After translated to English, they also need to be referenced and expanded (the demends on the English Wikipedia are higher). Those articles are:, ,.

If you can't do that, then please leave that messege to someone who can help here. Thank you. PocketMoon 17:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

nl:Wikipedia:Mededelingenbord voor aan Rusland gerelateerde onderwerpen

Siberian Nort: new developments to watch out for
Here someone is suggesting that one of the proponents of Zalotarëv be made an admin. 
 * He appears to be a general fan of constructed languages, rather than zolotarist, I see no problems with him. `'Míkka 16:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, we will see. In any case, he was still editing the Dutch article on Siberisch very recently, and trying to restore the volgota link I deleted . I have posted the text where Zolotaryov conceded it was all a joke on the talk page of the Dutch Siberian article and informed the new but still small Wikiproject Russia there. (Also answering your later remark) I do not remember the volgota link in English, but it definitely was in the Dutch and Ukrainian version. By the way, since then, both languages have white-listed volgota (and therefore, wikislavia). In the Dutch wikipedia, Jan van Steenbergen was one of two people asking for the whitelisting Why would they want a link to the main volgota page, which only lists "news" articles extending to June 2006? Jan van Steenbergen is also a journalist for Ablak, a Dutch magazine treating new developments in Eastern Europe. I just discovered he has an article at Polish Wikipedia,  --Paul Pieniezny 16:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Another one to watch out for:Siberian/North Russian language‎ I've already had to delete nonsense about the language being spoken in China, Peru, Ecuador, ... Note that it is very difficult to edit all the articles about the language (even Dutch and Belarusian), because you first have to delete all references to volgota.com, which seems to be on a universal spam list in all languages. No surprise, but it is rather funny that it somehow protects those articles. --Paul Pieniezny 10:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * "volgota.com" - what do you mean? I don't see this ext link in en: wikipedia articles. `'Míkka 16:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * See above. The technicality seems to be that anyone who edits the articles where the link is already present, needs to delete the link, or the edit does not pass. --Paul Pieniezny 16:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Looted art
The article has sections on looting of Afganistan and Cyprus, a gigantic section on 'looting of Germany' (primarily by Soviet Union) and no section on 'looting of Russia'. I think this should be remedied.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:30, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It seems that Russians do not have much of this rancorous, vindictive habit to accuse everyone of long past misdeeds against Russians. `'Míkka>t 02:14, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I beg to disagree :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

..and be wrong. This was already discussed, Pitorus. Please do not try to inflame this board. --Irpen 02:10, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

One-sentence translation request
I'm having a bit of trouble translating this sentence:

ответственный секретарь районного профсекретариата, секретарь уездного Бахмутского комитета РКСМ, секретарь Константиновского райкома РКСМ

Can anyone help out? It refers to Maksim Saburov, a person whose article I'm currently writing. -- Palatinus Regni!!! 19:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Alex Bakharev 05:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * the "Responsible Secretary" of a raion labor union organization, Secretary of the Bachmut uezd Committee of Komsomol, a Secretary of Kostiantynivka raion Committee of Komsomol


 * Thanks a lot. -- Palatinus Regni!!! 08:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "Executive secretary" would be a better tranlation of "ответственный секретарь".—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Municipal formations in Russia
Please see Talk:Subdivisions of Russia. `'Míkka>t 06:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Шереметев, Василий Борисович
I plan to translate pl version of ru:Шереметев, Василий Борисович (pl:Wasyl Szeremietiew), but... what's the proper English transliteration? PS. Don't hesitate to stub it before me... :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 08:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Vasily Borisovich Sheremetev. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Kaliningrad and Immanuel Kant State University of Russia
At Talk:Kaliningrad, I have posited separating that article into Kaliningrad and Königsberg. I have done the same at Talk:Immanuel Kant State University of Russia regarding a split between Immanuel Kant State University of Russia and the University of Königsberg. Input would be appreciated. Olessi (talk) 18:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Иван Никитич Хованский and others
Another Russian commander I could stub from pl wiki (pl:Iwan Chowański). Do note that Ivan Khovansky redirect to Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky; I'd guess its a relative but no the same person, and Ivan Khovansky should be turned into a disambig. And as long as we are at the subject: Юрий Алексеевич Долгоруков (pl:Jurij Aleksiejewicz Dołgorukow, ru:Долгоруков, Юрий Алексеевич) - Yury Dolgorukov perhaps?, ?? (pl:Jakow Czerkaski, ru:?), Wasyl Buturlin (red link at pl wiki), Jurij Boratyński (another red link). They are probably notable.-Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 14:13, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Vladimir Narbut

 * Please help to save the article (from Afd) - Vald (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Russian science fiction
Or Russian fantasy and science fiction. I would like to request this article. The exististence of this rich genre is barely mentioned in Russian literature; the world Russia is not mentioned in either Science fiction or Fantasy articles, which just show enormous gaps/biases in their coverage. Note categories: Category:Russian science fiction and Category:Soviet science fiction - they are in dire need of a parent article; Social_science_fiction contains some useful material. Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:10, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

The Exposure Upper Jurassic adjournment on the right coast Kuibyshev of a water basin
This article (with perhaps the longest title I have ever seen on Wikipedia) was recently nominated for deletion - see AfD. While the nominator has since withdrawn the nomination for deletion, a number of issues have come up that requre attention. Most of it relates to the translation of the article, and there are also some potential copyvio problems. Could someone here please look into it? Thanks. - 52 Pickup   (deal)  15:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

"Sazonov's Thirteen Points"?
What was the text of Sazonov's Thirteen Points issued during First World War ?--Molobo (talk) 21:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Is it time for "Russian Universities" project?
I noticed that Wikipedia entries on Russian universities and institutions of higher learning are in pretty dire condition. List of institutions of higher learning in Russia‎ contains something like 70% of empty links and list itself by no means complete. It is crying shame. Is it time to do something about it? New wikiproject or smth of this kind? RJ CG (talk) 20:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest a taskforce within WikiProject Russia.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:31, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Russia portal

Mstislav, Prince de Halicz
Hello,I am editing an article on Philippa of Hainault whose ancestors included Kuthen of the Cumens and his Russian wife a djeanne (talk) 05:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)e Halicz who appears to be either a daughter or granddaughter of Mstislav.I need to know her exact relationship to him.Thank you.

Film editors wanted
WikiProject Films has solicited interest in creating a Soviet/CIS cinema task force. We'd like to cordially welcome all regular editors of these articles to voice their interest in starting this task force so as to see if there is sufficient support. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 02:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Soviet and post-Soviet films task force
Just thought that the community would like to know that WikiProject Films has a established a Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for overhaul and creation of a single WP:RUSSIA project
Going thru tonnes of Russian articles, I was actually very surprised to find 3 articles that one would probably expect to be featured articles are not; those being Russia, Moscow and Russian language. I was also surprised to find that many articles I expected to exist do not; prime example being many of the Federal government ministries. Then there are other problems such as:


 * Naming conventions - very little continuity and no real guidelines for Russian names and articles in wikipedia as a whole - an example is here.
 * Categorisation - naming conventions will help somewhat - following other naming conventions will help too - an example of poor categorisation throughout Russian articles - Category:Russian_people
 * Article assessment - there are no guidelines for this, and it has resulted in some unusual results. Guidelines are needed.
 * Article review - there are no guidelines specific to Russian articles and with more than one project, other projects won't necessarily know of review requests. Additionally, because of the number of projects with very little scope in each, wider community views can be missed. For example, Russian language was a featured article until 23 August 2007. It's featured article review, unfortunately it went unannounced on all Russian projects, apart from this corner
 * Collaboration - there is none to very little collaboration on Russian content between the various projects and unfortunately article quality, and perhaps stability, will suffer for it.
 * Recruitment/outreach - As we are members of various Russian projects, we took the time to add our name to a list, because we have an interest in a certain (or all) aspect/s of Russia. New members are needed, but how will they find the projects? There needs to be co-ordination to 'recruit' new members; particularly from ru:wiki.
 * Scope - just what is the scope for the various projects? WikiProject Russian federal subjects has a very narrow yet defined scope; WikiProject Russian history has a hazy 'historical' scope; a question being raised here.

What I am suggesting is the following projects be merged into WikiProject_Russia and for it to be co-ordinated much like any other all-encompassing project. The projects I am suggest to be merged are:


 * WikiProject_Russia - main project
 * WikiProject Russian federal subjects
 * WikiProject Russian history
 * Portal:Russia

Other projects which can be used as guides on how to structure the project could be:


 * WikiProject Australia
 * Portal:Australia - a featured portal

By merging all projects into a single project, we can then create "work groups" for specific Russian topics, such as:


 * History
 * Politics
 * Places (geography)
 * Culture (language, music, literature, film, etc)
 * Biographical
 * Society
 * Transport
 * Economy
 * etc

Perhaps others have other ideas.

Of course there needs to be concensus from all projects for a merge and structures be discussed, etc, but firstly, there needs to be discussion on the pros and cons of such an idea. I have posted this on the other project talk pages, and have asked that all discussion take place here so that all projects can read off the same page. --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 07:47, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Soviet/Russian names for Eastern Front operations
Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia. Cirt (talk) 19:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)