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== The history of Sochi==
Dear Ghirlandajo,
Thank you for your modifications, but please be informed that you are biased against the real people of Sochi and Circassia and i can't believe a real editor and researcher in Misplaced Pages can remove the truth not because he is not convinced but because the easiest way to him is to remove instead of search for resources , and i can't understand that you removed my contribution by giving a weak reason!!!
What do you mean UNPO.org is not reliable source ????
Please be informed that UNPO stand for Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization not a shop for doing propogandas.
Best Regards,
ShapsougSochi1864


== Portrait of Anna Yekaterina Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina (1693-1761) ==
Ghirla:


Dear Ghirlandajo,
I see you've been editing my Battle of Krasnoi article...you added Hess's famous painting of the battle yesterday. I have read a great deal about Napoleon's 1812 Invasion of Russia, and I'd like to collaborate with others in creating/maintaining articles on the 1812 war in Misplaced Pages. I'm interested in Russian sources regarding these battles, as they have been traditionally overlooked by western historians who write about the 1812 war. Contact me at my home email.
Regards,
Kenmore


With respect to a biographical study concerning the celebrated adventurer Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck I am looking for a portrait of Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina, the wife of chancellor A. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin. Unfortunately, though a German lady, it seems that there is no portrait of her known in Germany. Can you help?
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== Holy crap! ==


I am looking to hear from you. If possible, can you send me your answer as eMail to
Holy crap, you've contributed exponentially! I envy you! Good work. ] (]) 06:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
andreas_pechtl@hotmail.com ?


Yours sincerely,
== on leaving ==


Andreas Pechtl,
Take it from me who's been living here in the West for ten years. They look and sound more menacing than they are. If you can, please don't become angry. You can keep any article you like for yourself, but not on Misplaced Pages. They do it to prevent a hierarchy from springing up. I'm not telling you to be awash wtih joy when your article becomes edited, but it wouldn't hurt to take a filosofskaja perspektiva on the thing. --] 17:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
:Second that. I would be devastated if you really quit. Check the preceding heading, for instance. --] 20:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
:Thirded. I would be immensely sad if you would quit, Ghirla :( Please stay! -- ] <sup>]</sup> 23:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
:Fourthed. Per above - you are one of the most productive editors. It would be a significant loss for Misplaced Pages if you left. --] 23:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
:Fifthed. You simply cannot do it to us ] 01:14, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
:But of course! Also, please see . --] 04:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
:I haven't read all of the context here, but from what I have seen of your contributions, I hope you stay! ] 10:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
:Ghirlandajo! how could you have ever got caught up in such a knot? Think of me! think of ]" We need you here. --] 16:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


7 December 2009
==DYK==


== Project Ukraine ==
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гуд найт! I saw you wrote some excellent new article about Ukraine! Thanks for that! Would you like to join our project Ukraine (click on advert to learn more). We could really need some new articles about the subjects you wrote your last ''Ukrainian'' articles about (there are lots of castles there!)! — ] (]) 21:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

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== Medieval emporia: Dierkow and Bardy ==

I noticed you removed Dierkow and Bardy from the emporia template. I think they should be re-added. *About Dierkow, there is not much known yet, but this does not automatically make it unimportant or tiny (though there is a possiblity).
*Bardy-Swielubie in turn is well researched and was not that tiny.
*Dierkow and Bardy are listed here along with the other emporia now in the template (Groß Strömkendorf/Reric, Dierkow, Ralswiek, Menzlin, Bardy-Swielubie, Jawno Pomorskie/Truso).
*If you are concerned that each archaeological side at the coast will be added, don't be, there are no more known sites at the present.
*It does not hurt to leave them in.
*"No evidence of non-Slavic presence": This was only true for the early, Carolingian stage of Bardy, as outlined in the next paragraph of the article, the Scandinavians moved in only in the 9th century. I rephrased the article to make that more clear.
If you still think it is a bad idea to put them back in, let me know. Regards ] (]) 11:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
: Feel free to readd them! By the way, I don't think we should limit the template's scope to the Baltic Sea as you did. --]<sup>]</sup> 11:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
==Awards==
{{userbox|blue|yellow|]|<big>For creating so many ''Lviv related'' articles, I hereby award you the Ukrainian Barnstar of National Merit. Note the raspberry color of the ribbon, the historical color of the ].</big> — ] (]) 20:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)}}

Thanks. I didn't know that the Cossacks liked raspberries :) More Lviv substubs will be added as soon as I have free time in the Russian Misplaced Pages. Best, ]<sup>]</sup> 21:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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== Question about image ==

Hi there. I'm doing some work on tagging featured pictures on the English Misplaced Pages. Coming across ], I found that you a <nowiki>{{NoCommons}}</nowiki> tag. This was back in 2006, and the current preference is to put everything on Commons. Do you have a problem with me asking for this image to be deleted from WP or do you still have a pressing reason? Thanks! ~ <b style="font-size:small;">]</b><sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 04:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
: I'd prefer to keep the local image. Shouldn't we respect each others contributions and attribute them properly. Last year I found it on Main Page of the Wikimedia Commons without any information as to who uploaded and nominated the picture. That was rather disheartening. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
::Very true. I asked you first b/c I respect the intentions of photographers/image uploaders. That said, this image is actually in the public domain (and especially since it's not your work), you really have no say over what happens to it after you upload it. I'm going to have the local copy deleted, but once that occurs, everything will be the same once I reenter the missing data (if you're not aware, Commons images are called to a local Misplaced Pages and local wikipedia templates can still be added, such as the FP and POTD templates). Sorry for any confusion, but PD images are not needed on Misplaced Pages; they belong on Commons so every language Misplaced Pages can access them. Thanks for understanding. ~ <b style="font-size:small;">]</b><sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 21:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
:::FWIW, I you as the original uploader and much of the info from the local copy to the Commons copy (the caption of the local copy was more complete). Hopefully this doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it's the right thing to do. ~ <b style="font-size:small;">]</b><sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup> 21:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

== ] ==

Interesting move. Do you have a link to attest the German version of his name? I can't seem to find one. ] - ] 10:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
: See , for instance. By the way, the text of the Russian article was taken verbatim from the ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

== ] ==

On T:TDYK]] you said there was little information in English. That doesn't really matter. Are their other-language sources to use? - ]|] 12:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

==Baikoff==
Hi, Ghirla! When you get a moment, could you check if ] is legit? Thanks!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 14:08, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
: Why, it's a nonsensical joke --]<sup>]</sup> 14:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
::Thought as much. Will prod it now. Thanks!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 14:45, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)

==Vorotynsk==
Hi, me again. I've got another question for you, if you don't mind. In the ] article, there is a mention of the village of Spas-on-the-Oka. I was unable to find anything about this village. I also did not quite understand the "which now marks the spot" part—currently, the village (''selo'') of Vorotynsk is located on the location of the ancient town, and there is a larger (and newer) settlement (''posyolok'') of Vorotynsk not too far away from it. There is (and, to the best of my knowledge, was) no populated place called "{{lang|ru|Спас-на-Оке}}" anywhere in the vicinity. Could you, please, clarify? Where exactly is Savior Vorotynsk Monastery located, do you know? Same goes for New and Old Vorotynsk villages—are these in reference to the selo and posyolok? Thanks again!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 15:34, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
* Check map coords here . Spas is referenced on many similar tourist sites, it has postcode 248903 and appears to be administered by the city of Kaluga although nearby Vorotynsk is in Babyninsky rayon. ] (]) 18:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Correction: the P.O. is in Rosva (Росва on Google maps) which is due north from Vorotynsk, east of Spas. ] (]) 18:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
**Thanks, NVO, it helps, although this still does not resolve everything. In addition to Spas in jurisdiction of Kaluga, there is also another Spas in Babyninsky District; both are listed simply as "Spas", not "Spas-na-Oke" (which is why I ignored them when posting the original note) and none of the two is located on the spot where ancient Vorotynsk stood (the selo of Vorotynsk is in that spot now). Any further ideas?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 18:49, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
***Here's the almighty KLADR , see fifth line from the bottom of list. It is деревня Спас, Спасский сельский округ города Калуги. "Na Oke" is omitted in all official data; it is actually inside Oka-Ugra salient. Kaluga police has a vacancy for a local cop - wanna apply? ] (]) 19:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
****Ah yeah, here's the dream job I always wanted, thanks so much :) Regarding Spas, any clues as to when the "-na-Oke" suffix is/was used? Or is it more of a colloquial name that never made it to the official records?
****Anyway, based on this discussion, is everyone going to be OK with me butchering ] a bit? The monastery sentence should be moved to ] (based on the coordinates); "Spas-na-Oke" does not seem to do anything with Vorotynsk except being located fairly close (but definitely not on the spot of old Vorotynsk the town), so its mention can be removed; also removed should be the mentions of New and Old Vorotynsk (which are not officially called that). Sounds good so far? Thanks!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 20:09, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
****By the way, my 1859 book on inhabited localities of Peremyshlsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate lists the selo of Spas (near the Ugra and Oka Rivers) as "Spas or Spasskoye", so the "-na-Oke" designation must be relatively recent.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 20:14, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)

== DYK for Stroganov Palace ==


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==Romanesque, Baroque...Quousque tandem, Ghirlandajo?==
Dear Ghirla... I think that there is a structural problem with our editions. I thank (again) your efforts and encourage you to continue with this project, I think that it is worthwhile. When I first heard about it, I felt so surprised and emotioned thinking in a free, universal Enciclopedia, at everybody´s hands, free and collaborative, I couldn´t resist to form part of it. I don´t know more of your leaving than the messages above, but think it twice.


== My user space ==
Now...I think part of the problem could be that we cannot think that the only valid point of view is ours. I know that you write a lot (A LOT) in this wikipedia, and it can be tiring to see that your editions are changed. If we change what we think is bad (or false, or incomplete...) somebody else can think that that was complete, or true or fine. THAT IS THE POINT FOR THE TALK PAGES. I say this for several editions and reversions you have just made because that was your point of view, without a simple word, as if you were tired of giving explanations to poor ignorants. Some of them have been already discussed, but now I find:


I had noticed you were returned to us, is one allowed to say welcome back? before fiddling with my Versailles, you should go and take a good look at ] and make some changes there, I needed you a few month ago writing that - you should have been writing it! - Welcome back :-) ] (]) 21:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
1- That the article you have made of Baroque Architecture is "untouchable": no word can be added or removed without a reversion. The only explanation is: "Garcilaso, please integrate your additions into Spanish Baroque and Spanish architecture; this article is just a brief overview; it cannot be endless)". Well, you may think that the article is perfect like that, but I think it is not. If it gives the only explanation of Churrigueresque as a superficial, decorative style for plain facades, the vission of the style is incomplete, and not "enciclopedian". After that briliant speech about facades, one can be mistaken. Not mentioning two important baroque spatial structures like Granada`s Charterhouse or Transparente from the Cathedral of Toledo is form my point of view, unwise for a general overview of the style. The same happens to the Madrid 17th century baroque. Who are you to decide about what is relevant or what is not more than other wikipedists? I told you once, and I implore again: Ask before deleting!
: Thank you, my friend, but I still spend most of my time in Russian Misplaced Pages. My contributions in English are limited to fixing some pesky errors, and I would start an occasional sub-stub every once in a while. --]<sup>]</sup> 22:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


== DYK for Luigi Pernier ==
2-You didn´t even know about the existence of the ] and find yourself capable to decide WITHOUT discussing the fact, which is the correct name for the article. As you recognized, there are other wikipedian who know more about that subject. Some have participated in the discussion, and found that the best name for the article is ]. Please, please, ASK before deleting or moving, yours is not the only point of view in the world, and perhaps others have good documentation too, although their level of English could be worse. I again encourage you to continue with your valious apportations to this project, the only thing I want to transmit you is that listening and talking and improving a poor article is much better that the best of the editions if it is authoritarian, and collaterally, one could learn a lot!. Yours sincerely, До скорой встречи,] 16:23, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


:Hello, my greetings for deciding to stay here. I see that you have changed the article on First Romanesque, thank you for your help. About Baroque, you have a message in ]--] 18:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
::So the only way to have an opinion of yours is to edit the article and get it together with your reversion... I am still waiting for your answer, I don`t want to be acussed of "revert warring" if I change the article ] after your silence. Yours eagerly, --] 09:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


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==Order of Glory==
Hi there, Andrei! Thanx for fixing the picture of the Order of Glory on my user page! Some dude erased a while back claiming it to be a copyvio or something like that :). How are you these days? Will you ever return to serious editing in English Misplaced Pages? Drop me a line. ] (]) 08:18, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


== Beregovaya compressor station ==
== You are not to even think of leaving! ==


Hi, Ghirla. Could you help with the exact location of the ]? Some sources says that it is located in ], and most of the sources says that at ], e.g. of gas pipelines. By my understanding it is located in west from Dzhubga and in east from Arkhipo-Osipovka, and definitely there is only one compressor station, not two. Do you knew any reliable source about the location? ] (]) 07:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I leave this site for five fucking minutes, and what do I return to? - Shock! I'm mortified you uncouth bastard Ghirla, you have used the "eff word" in public - what sort of dumb fucking bastard are you? Rude edit summaries too? - it's beyond belief - you should be flogged off the site while simultaneously being tarred and feathered. Well that all seems to have happened, so would you mind now returning so we can all get on with the project in hand, and in future remember some people have very middle class sensibilities and while you and I may periodically say to each other "your last edit was a load of fucking rubbish" some other people are of a little more delicate disposition. I'm glad to see Wetman has tried to talk common sense into you - (he could be forgiven, as the only gentleman on the site, for thinking he keeps some very strange company) - so come on get real and lets get on with it! Oh and if you are now seeing sense, could you please expand ] (no-one else, save Wetman, is likely to have the ability) as per request on my talk page as I have been skiving from a real life job to go and watch football, and now have to spend a few serious days in the real fucking world ] | ] 20:12, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
: The map is in error. The Beregovaya (literally, "coastal") station, launched in November 2005 as part of the ] network, is situated in the Drovyanaya Shchel' gorge near Arkhipo-Osipovka, ] District at an elevation of 235 meters. Some pictures are available . I suspect there will be another compressor station built in Dzhubga as part of the ] project. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
*Hi there, Andrey! I've registered as KNewman in Russian Misplaced Pages myself like a month ago. I certainly understand your position, for I see how people abuse Misplaced Pages and its valuable contributors. I'm also thinking about moving to the Russian Misplaced Pages myself (you prolly noticed how I've been submitting only stubs lately). I'm gradually losing interest, but the habit (addiction?) won't let me go :). Maybe, something will change. Anyway, what will your name be in the Russian Misplaced Pages? Lemme know. Take care and try to visit us here more often. Cheers! ] 05:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks. It should be the same compressor station (probably expanded) for the South Stream. There is only one incoming pipeline, and it is not logical that the compressor station for the South Stream would be located east from the Blue Stream pipeline. ] (]) 12:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


== Easter Greetings ==
Sorry to see you go. This is a big loss to the English Misplaced Pages. Good luck with the Russian language version. ] | ] 06:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


Христос воскрес! Хрыстос уваскрос! Alleluia, Christ is risen! Kristus is uppeston!--] (]) 09:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
==What a Delightful Contribution==
: Воистину воскресе! --]<sup>]</sup> 10:25, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
==Istomina==
Hi, Ghirla! I almost started to move ] to "Yevdokiya" when I noticed that it was you who created the article originally (and you normally know what you are doing :)). Could you, please, clarify, why the title says "Avdotia" when her actual name is "{{lang|ru|Евдокия}}"? I do not immediately see it. Thanks!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 13:48, April&nbsp;23, 2009 (UTC)
: Replied --]<sup>]</sup> 12:04, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
::Not sure why, but I followed-up there as well :)—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 15:22, April&nbsp;29, 2009 (UTC)


==]==
What a delightful contribution, Giano. I'm sure Ghirla will reconsider his thoughts on leaving, especially since you actually left your real life job momentarily, to go and watch football. ] 22:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Привет, я тут случайно написала статью в англовики (со мной такое первый раз, обычно токо правлю). Сделай пожалуйста одолжение, посмотри грамматику, а то у меня с ней всегда оч. плохо было 0_0 --] (]) 15:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
::Thank you! - are you trying to make a point here? ] | ] 13:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::No, can't I give you a f-----g compliment without there being a hidden agenda, or some deep thought behind it? If I was ''trying to make a point'', believe me, you wouldn't have to ask me if I was. ] 13:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::::No you f-----g can't, because this is the grumpy page; and ] himself seems to be sadly absent - let us all just hope he returns to continue his valuable edits, or in all seriousness, it will be Misplaced Pages's loss. ] | ] 22:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::::::Alright fine, then don't f-----g, thank me in that case! ] 02:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


==New Picture available for Uvs-Nuur==
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Obsolete due to mistaken image description.
Your edit comment for undoing ]'s edit on ] was "rvv", despite his edit comment and his entry on the Talk page. While I agree with your revision, I don't think Kurt's edit was vandalism. Please assume good faith when dealing with other editors. See ] for the guidelines on this.<!-- Template:agf1 --> -- ] 15:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
http://de.wikipedia.org/Benutzer:TKN from German wikipedia. --] (]) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
:JHunterJ, Kurt have shown enough to assume POV pushing rather than bad faith. And please do not use patronizing templates to leave a message to anyone but newbies. If you have anything to say to the user, like Ghirla, please take a minute to write it on your own. --] 19:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


==Terminals== ==]==
Good image of the church, Andrej. It's a pleasure to see your name at English Misplaced Pages.--] (]) 12:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Don't we all just love Nixer. I could explain him for the zillionth time that what he does in plain rude, but technically he is not violating anything. As long as he doesn't, I just don't want to waste my time on one letter discrepancy, moving stuff back and forth. In ''this'' context, it doesn't make one iota of a difference. Unless his moves interfere with work of other editors (and please let me know if they do), I abstain.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 16:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
: Thank you, my friend. I'm pleased to see your name too. Can you help me in identifying ]? --]<sup>]</sup> 19:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
::Would it be the spiral staircase ''scala a chiocciola'' in a wing of ], Vignola , built by conte Ercole Contrari the elder, ''allegedly'' to designs by ]?
::: I was tempted to use it for illustrating the Vignola article, but, since the attribution to him is by no means certain, should we let it rest on commons in relative obsurity? --]<sup>]</sup> 08:59, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


==Your inputs to the Shamordino Convent and other articles==
== Lvov family ==
Hey Andrei,
I've noticed you've been editing some of the Misplaced Pages articles I earlier uploaded images to. Many of the images have been deleted for no apparent reason. I will upload them again. If you don't like some images you can always move them to a gallery.


Please, move Shamordino Monastery to Shamordino Convent (I tried but couldn't do this). This is a community of nuns.
Thanks for the reply. I was in Aleksin and Popovka yesterday. I now know that the last 2 sentences in that little section I wrote on the estate were rubbish. The house burnt down before WW2 having been used as a Dom Kulturi since the revolution. Are there any problems other than that? I think it would be a good idea to have some reference to the L'vov family's estate in Popovka on their page. I belive they were only there from the mid 19th century until the revolution but I still think it's relevant. There are various memorials to Georgi Evgenevich in both Aleksin and Popovka.
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: Only a sysop can move this article. You'd better upload your pictures to ], so that any wikipedia could use them when needed. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:53, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
:: OK. Could you please contact a sysop on that? (I actually don't know who that is :-)) ] (])


==Hey there!==
Thanks again.
Nice to see you, Ghirla! ] | ] 07:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC).
: Thank you, Bish. It's great to know that you are still around! --]<sup>]</sup> 08:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


== DYK for The Death of Procris ==
==http://ru.wikipedia.org/Аварцы==
Could you expand ] by translating above mentioned article? I would be very grateful.


Regards, ] 23:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
:Hello, I shall try to find time to translate some bits of this stuff over the following days. I don't relish their unsourced genocide blabber, though. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 12:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


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== Philippa of Hainault ==
Any time you revert without discussion I will be happy to re-revert you. Note that I did not re-revert Mikkalai's revert ''even though he made the exact same revert'' because he entered discussion on the talk page. --] 01:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Ghirlando. As regards, ], I believe that Kuthen of the Kumens's wife was of the Galitzine family. ] is just another version of her name as is ]. Her first name is a mystery.--] (]) 17:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
: There's some mistake on the part of amateur researchers cited in the article. There is no record of Kotyan's wife, but a medieval Russian chronicle names several of his sons-in-law, including ], Prince of ]/] (in connection with the ] in which they both took part). In other words, it's Kotyan's daughter rather than wife who may be described as "N of Galicia". --]<sup>]</sup> 18:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
::I believe you may be right, however his wife was most likely of the ] family as well. Until that can be proved, I'll remove the reference to Kuthen's wife from the Philippa of Hainault article.--] (]) 05:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
::Mission accomplished. It now reads that Elizabeth was the daughter of Kuthen only, no mention of her mother. Thank you for drawing my attention to this error (which was made by me). Hopefully we'll discover who mothered Kuthen's children.--] (]) 06:00, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
::: Fine. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


== DYK for Borki train disaster ==


Ghirla, please, please,please forget about this guy and his reverts.


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Remember June 17th? Yes, that was when you had a row over the redirection/disambiguation page ], had a row with Halibutt and supported me against a '''''RUSSIAN''''' user over ]. June 17th was also the day when Ideogram proposed to mediate between you and Suicup. The same day, he was at the village pump asking whether sending e-mails to other guys someone had a tiff with before proposing that person for RfC, would be considered canvassing for votes. (archive, so you'll have to search for "Ideogram") Three days later, he is at your talk page, threatening with ArbCom. When you take this off, he suggests an RfC on you at the Russo-Turkish War talk page. All of this within his first month at Misplaced Pages. And now the mediator is in a revert war with you over exactly the same matter! So, forget it, putting up a NPOV disputed tag over that section was the only thing to do.--] 12:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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:Many thanks for your alert. I have had apprehensions about this account from the very start. It would have been instructive to check it for sockpuppeteering, too. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 12:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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::He's either really a young newbie who, in spite of or because of being at the computer for 16 hours every day, has failed as a moderator - or he's a returnee making calculated errors. In both cases, he won't be socketpuppeteering, I think. But again: forget about him. Take care and uspehov at Russian Wiki. (yes, I've been there) --] 13:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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==Heritage Registers==
:::It's quite amusing how paranoid you people are. Ghirla has accused me of trolling, wikistalking, revert-warring, and now sockpuppetry. You people are really incapable of assuming good faith, aren't you? --] 13:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


Please take a look at my inquiry at ] - I'm kinda stuck with reproducing ''kanzelyarit'' in English. P.S. Thanks for the dyk nom. ] (]) 07:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
== Manuel Tolsá ==


== Puzzled ==
Hi. That's not ridiculous at all, although I admit I should have cited a source for it. It's not my opinion, but an opinion expressed in several of my sources. (I'm not qualified to have an opinion on that question.) Here is one source:


I'm puzzled by this . Are you under the impression that I'm active on IRC? ] (]) 11:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
"It is one of the finest in America, and, according to <nowiki></nowiki> Humboldt, second only to the statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome."
: I'm under impression that your integrity as a sysop has been steadily eroding for about three years. Why you behave the way you do is not for me to say. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
:: I disagree with your first assertion, of course. But you have not answered my question. You appear to be associating me with IRC, and in this you are incorrect. If you don't care about being wrong, then say so and I won't trouble you any further. If you do care about being wrong (and I would rather hope you did) I'm interested in what you meant ] (]) 12:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


:::Ghirlandajo merely mentioned this editor as an example of the atmosphere of intimidation, which appears to be demonstrated perfectly well right here. The association with IRC is a red herring.--] (]) 15:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
The original Humboldt quote is "M. Tolsa, professor of sculpture at Mexico, was even able to cast an equestrian statue of King Charles the Fourth; a work which, with the exception of the Marcus Aurelius at Rome, surpasses in beauty and purity of style everything which remains in this way in Europe."


:::: Right on spot, Wetman. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I actually toned that statement down somewhat to allow for the passage of time, for one thing. Both of the statues mentioned in the quote are used as illustrations in the Misplaced Pages article ].


::::: I'm afraid I'm no wiser about how to interpret your original statement. Whilst clearly demonstrating ill-will towards me, it is otherwise incoherent. However, it is now clear you realise I'm not active on IRC, so some progress has been made ] (]) 18:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Here is a quote from Frances Calderón de la Barca's ''Life in Mexico'':


== The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo) ==
<blockquote>We spent a long time here examining these antiquities; but we have seen nothing in Mexico to equal the beauty of the colossal equestrian statue in bronze of Charles IV, placed on a pedestal of Mexican marble, which stands in the court of the University, but formerly adorned the middle of the square. It is a magnificent picture of sculpture, the masterpiece of Tolosa, remarkable for the noble simplicity and purity of its style, and was made at the expense of an ex-viceroy, the Marquis of Branciforte.</blockquote>


] appears at the bottom of ]. It has a link to ] at the bottom of it. I've updated the list to include this painting. ]/<small><small>(])/(])/(])</small></small> 15:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
My intention was to show the level of artistic achievement in Mexico at the time. I think that is an important point to make. I plan to put the direct quote from Humboldt in the article. I don't see how there could be any objection to that. But please let me know what you think.
] 17:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC) : Nice --]<sup>]</sup> 16:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


== Back to heritage registers ==
Hi. I put the Humboldt quote in the article. Thanks for adding the other image, by the way.
] 06:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)


What, in your opinion, should appear in ]? I put together ], please let me know if anything significant is missing. I will definitely expand/clarify on legal fubar story; what else? ] (]) 05:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
==DYK, again==

== DYK for Gonzaga Cameo ==


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== Adjectives in Extreme North (Russia) ==

Hi Ghirlandajo, I'm not overly concerned about this, but I saw your change to ], and was wondering if the adjectives are actually particularly useful; they're not exactly quantifiable. Would it not be more useful (and Encyclopedic) to simply detail the aspects which you're attempting to describe via adjectives?
And apologies if this mixes up the formatting you have on this page - I'll try to correct it if that happens. ] (]) 16:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

== DYK for Gorgoneion ==


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==Review/copyedit for ]==
== Image:Falconet - Pygmalion & Galatee (1763).jpg ==
Actually I do not know when the photo was taken. What it would be your advice? (] 13:21, 17 July 2006 (UTC))
*I have reuploaded my photo as PD-self. Are you sure it is Falconet not Pietro Stagi? ] 15:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
**It was not me who uploaded the image, so I'm not in the position to comment. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 16:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


Andrey, please take a look - you might have better sources on the subject. Most of the article is based on Lanceray's book from 1930s; I don't have specific modern sources but Shvidkovsky provides completely different dates (and frequently different attributions, but it was expected). Regards, ] (]) 17:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
== Avars ==


== DYK for House of Lorraine ==
Thanks anyway. Did you translate the Avarian Khanate from Russian Misplaced Pages too? Two new articles came from this who couldnt be more satisfied. ] 16:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


== Congress of Berlin POV problems ==


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We seem to be unable to agree on what to leave here, as I've changed it several times now only to have you revert it. Since continuing as we've been is pointless and fruitless, let's see if we can come to some sort of agreement about what to put in.
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The official name of the city on the Bosphorus has not been Constantinople for several hundred years, since the Ottoman takeover in 1453. It seems like a better idea to me to list the then-official name of the city rather than a Western name, but I am not hard set on that. However, I have a problem with the phrase "Bulgaria and several Orthodox Slavic states were precluded from gaining independence after centuries of the Muslim Ottoman yoke." The whole sentence reads as being negatively biased against Muslims and Ottomans, and positively biased towards the Orthodox Slavs. The word "yoke" in particular has only negative meanings in this context. While some may have/do consider the Ottoman rule of the Balkans to be oppressive, it is not the place of a ''neutral'' encyclopedia to decide whether or not it was oppressive.
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And finally, just to set the record straight, I am neither Turkish nor Muslim, nor do I have any feelings one way or the other about Turks or Muslims. My changes have not been nationalist, rather they are simply an attempt to keep the article neutral. Considering the anti-Muslim Ottoman and pro-Orthodox Slavic nature of this phrase, however, I can't help but wonder if you may have some bias yourself? I don't mean that as an insult, just an observation.
|On ], ''']''' was updated with a fact from the article ''''']''''', which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the ].
I sincerely hope we can work this problem out to both of our satisfaction. Please feel free to post any comments on my talk page as well. ] 23:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
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: See ]. --] 07:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
: You asked me for my third opinion. I gave it to you. It wouldn't insult you if I did what you just did?
: I wipe my hands. Do what you want. Settle it between yourselves. --] 07:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
: Have you ever heard that it's easier to break than to make? Take a look at my history of contributions. How many times did I revert anything? How many times did I erase anything? Why is that? --] 08:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
:I don't consider this sentence to be POV. I interpret it as a reflection of the 19th century state of mind of the involved Balkan Slavs, as an explanation of their feelings and motivation, which itself is a historical fact. -- ] 09:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
::Not sure I got everything of what VKokielov said there, but I'm satisfied with the article as it is now. Thanks to everyone involved, I'd much rather have resolved this peacefully, and I'm glad we could do so. ] 14:51, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
: Oh well, "yoke" is actually a word I would, too, usually avoid using. When I deal with the topic I'd almost always refer to the period as 'Ottoman rule', because I believe this term reflects the essence of it better (although 'Turkish yoke' was once used in the Bulgarian historiography, it is now obsolescent). Also, referring to the Ottoman Empire as 'Turkish' is ]. The years Bulgaria spent under the Ottoman Empire are about 480, so 'almost five centuries' would be better in my opinion (this is usually how it is referred to). Hope my opinion was of use to you :) '']]]'' 22:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
::: Other opinions are always welcomed in a dispute, and I think you managed to sum up my point in regards to the use of yoke far better than I managed to! ] 05:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


== You have been nominated for membership of the Established Editors Association ==
==] redirect==
Hi Ghirlandajo,


The Established editors association will be a kind of union of who have made substantial and enduring contributions to the encyclopedia for a period of time (say, two years or more). The proposed articles of association are - suggestions welcome.
You changed the redirect of ] from the disambiguation page to the monastery page, stating that it caused the article to be orphaned. I don't understand this, as there would still be tonnes of links to the monastery page, especially from the World Heritage template you recently changed to reflect the move. The point of a disambiguation page is for people who type a subject into the search box. Preferably, no article should link to a disambiguation page, but directly link to the desired article. So the argument of changing a redirect due to orphaning reasons shouldn't occur. The links that now link to the ] redirect (since the exclusion of the world heritage areas) are mostly ''trying'' to link to one the towns. I would like to change it back, but would rather wait for your reply. Thanks --] 11:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


If you wish to be elected, please notify me . If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them
:It ''was'' listed on Requested Moves, and it was in the backlogs. Therefore it wasn't moved hastily, as it was at RM for a longer period than it should have been. Secondly, there has been a discussion on the talk page since July 4, which is ample time. Your reason for not moving was addressed by the other editors in the discussion, and you never replied to them. How am I suppposed to know the validity of your claim if you no longer discuss it? I did check for myself, and the article said that "Daphni is a monastery", and there was no mention of a shrine. It has been 15 days since your last edit on the talk page, and it looks as though you conceeded defeat or don't care enough to participate. If you actually persisted with a discussion, then you may have swayed other voters, and your vote would have held more power as it is substantiated. Consensus requires discussion, and according to that discussion, consensus was reached. --] 12:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


Please put all discussion .] (]) 10:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
::I don't know what Ghirla is talking about. I already reverted the Dafni page so it links to the ] page. One by one, I am fixing all links that the "link to" the ] page. A lot of them are meant to link to the suburb ] south of Athens while a few of them are meant to link to various other places called Dafni (some of which don't even have articles). Only a few on them were meant to link to ]. Hope this helps.--] 14:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


==GA Reassessment of ]==
::: OK, all done. Please see my note ] for more info.--] 15:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I am conducting a reassessment as part of the ] process. I have found come concerns which need addressing if this article is to keep its GA status, which may be found at ]. Thanks. ] (]) 19:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


== Askold and Dir ==
==Georgy Zhukov Mediation==
*Hi, I am mediating the ] and welcome your comments on the mediation page. ] 01:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


Fringe theory? What are talking about? The whole Russian history is the fringe theory. Why are parimary chronicles lay the base of Russian history? Book of Veles is being denied by the Russian church. Of course, because that church primary mission to destroy our history, the Slavic history. The primary chronicles were written by that church to come up with the new history. Why is that there are no prior historical records exist until those chronicles? Are we to believe that our ancestors were that stupid that they left us no historical records? Or, maybe, were they eliminated? I believe so. ] exists and it is the only surviving record of our ancient history. Why do we want to deny it? What would be the reason to come up with what the church believes to be not true? Do not forget what was happening at the times when the ] was converted into Christianity. All Slavic religion was eradicated. Why? Because they did not know how to believe? :) What a crack! No wonder that the church now wants to get rid of ]. ] (]) 19:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
==Orenburg==
School project (or whatever that is) is back again, I would guess. I wonder if they are going to pillage articles on Russian cities every semester; it's getting quite tiring. I still have a backlog from previous occurences. I wish they at least answered any inquiries, but they never do, which is a pity. If we could show them how to do things right, they could be very useful. Anyway, I copyedited Orenburg, please feel free to review in case I missed anything.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 12:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


== GA reassessment of ] ==
==Alexandrov==
I have nothing to look it up at this time. Thanks.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 15:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


I have conducted a review of this article which has a large number of issues which need attention. I have delisted it. The reassessment is at ]. Thanks. ] (]) 13:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
== DYK ==


== Otto von Habsburg's Patrilineal Descent ==
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Why do you state that ]'s patrilineal descent is faked? It was presented by Portuguese Genealogists on ''Raízes & Memórias'' publication, Nr. 21 - December 2005, pgs. 11 to 20. Are you saying Portuguese Genealogists and official publications in Portugal aren't credible? ] (]) 17:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
== ] ==
:Actually, the two first names are not the right ones according to the forementioned publication. I'll proceed and correct them. ] (]) 15:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


== Permission for use an image ==
You cited some academics in this article but it doesn't seem to show the source from which you pulled the information. Could you please add that while it's probably still fresh in your mind? ] ] 07:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


Hello, I'm Bagratun from the Spanish wikipedia. I ask you to allow me to use the image File:Hutyn.jpg to illustrate the article in Spanish. I think is a really good photograph. Thank's for your response either is positive or negative.
== Девятаев ==
Greetings, Bagratun.
--] (]) 00:43, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
: I'd like to, but the image is not mine. It comes from the website listed on the page. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:59, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


== Fantastic work ==
Привет! Как я выяснил, существует 2 статьи про одного моего земляка. ] и ]. Нельзя ли привлечь общественнось к разарботке одной и наиболее полной статьи :) Кстати, среди жителей Казани Девятаев считается "сомнительным героем", т.к. как рассказывают, немцы после его побега провели децимацию узников лагеря... зато куда большей его заслугой считается тоЮ, что он испытывал и водил первыые в мире суда на подводных крыльях ("Ракеты"). --] 14:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


Wow, very nice work on all the articles youve helped create/expand! ] (]) 09:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
== ] ==


== You were discussed ==
I inserted "]" (the term found in "]" intro) to avoid the "Muscovy" reference, which sounds stupid in reference to this time period. Could you please split the ] article to make a good reference to a period of Russian history after "великое княжество Московское" and before ]? Is there a good English term? `'] ] 18:21, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
:Petrine Russia was ] in all but the name. As Russia was de facto imperial, not Muscovite, between the foundation of St Pete in 1703 and Peter's assumption of the imperial title in 1721, the link to Imperial Russia is quite justified. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 18:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
::But the proble is that in RTW 1710-11 the rererence is to ] (an article about the modern state). Please re-read carefully my questions. While you are right, it was not called "Empire". IMO we need a good reference term for this intermediate time period. `'] ] 18:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


Here: I just came to let you know something is going on about your not-loved arbcom:)) Regards, ] (]) 23:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
== DYK ==


== Notification ==
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Hi Ghirlandajo. I'm posting to let you know that your name has been mentioned on a list of potential candidates for adminship on the talk page for RfA's ]. If you are interested in running, or if you would like to make any comments, feel free to join the discussion. <tt>]</tt> (]) 20:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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==Biographies==
== что значит by no means typical stalinist? ==


Привет. Could you please review/fix/advise on ], ] (there were your creations), ], ], ], perhaps ] too. ] (]) 20:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Это как?! Этот стиль - не только высотки в Москве. ] не могло быть построено до революции, ни в эпоху конструктивизма, ни тем более во времена хрущёвок/брежневок. Это типичный стиль сталинского периода. Почему ты думаешь иначе? ----] <sup>(])</sup> 11:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


== Ondine ==
- тоже не сталинский стиль?! ----] <sup>(])</sup> 11:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


Important! - Round up what few ballet enthusiasts you know on Misplaced Pages and get them to vote on the proposed merging of the Ondine articles that would see the article about Frederick Ashton's production of the actual ballet, being merged into one about the music.
: Ok. P.S. Я не из Красноярска. --] <sup>(])</sup> 14:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


See here: - ]
== Thank you ==
Thank you, Ghirlandajo for the explanation of the "peacock language". Now I really agree with you on that. And you really understand about styles of architecture. Drama of songs is when a poet becomes a playwriter and writes a play ] 11:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:You are welcome. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 12:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


And please vote to oppose this change, as this music would not have been written had it not been for Ashton's ballet!!!
== DYK ==


Thank You
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] (]) 20:13, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

== Flore et Zéphire ==

{{talkback|Robertgreer}}

==Galitzine==
Shouldn't ] at least be in plural? The article, after all, is about a family/house, not about a standalone last name?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 14:24, November&nbsp;24, 2009 (UTC)
: Cf ], ], ], etc. I'd leave the title as it is. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::I'd say those are bad choices, too, but whatever. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 15:50, November&nbsp;24, 2009 (UTC)

== FPC nomination ==
Hi Ghirlandajo. I've nominated ], an image uploaded by you, for featured picture status. Feel free to comment on the nomination at ]. --] <small>(] | ])</small> 22:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

== The 50 DYK Nomination Medal ==

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Once again, thanks for the great article -- ] <small>]</small> 13:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


== ] == == Stalinist voluntarism ==


In the article on the ] there is a line which appears to date from an edit you made in 2005: . Shortly after you linked Stalinist to ], but neither on that page nor on ] can I find references to "voluntarism". ] itself is a disambiguation page. The net result is that I'm not sure what the reservoir is supposed to be an example of. Can you clarify? ] (]) 18:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
It is not the first time I tell you this. You do ''not'' have any ] over the presentation or content of an article. had no justification whatsoever. ] 15:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


== ] ==


Could you please look at this? It`s incredible. --] (]) 08:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
==Invitation to join ]==
Hi there! I've noticed that you've edited articles pertaining to the ]. I wanted to extend an invitation to you to join the ] dedicated to organizing and improving articles on the subject, which can be found at: ''']'''. This WikiProject was begun because a need was perceived to raise the level of quality of articles on Misplaced Pages which deal with the Eastern Orthodox Church.


:]. Can I expect any support from your side? --] (]) 22:51, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
You can find information on the ] about the WikiProject, as well as how to join and how to indicate that you are a member of the project. Additionally, you may be interested in helping out with our ]. I hope you'll consider joining and thank you for your contributions thus far! &mdash;] <sup>]</sup> <sup>]</sup> 18:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


==Title change for ]==
== re:Template:Hero Cities ==
Hi. I have placed a ] at ] as to why you moved it from ]. ] (]) 02:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


== One for you ==
I'm not sure what is the problem with inclusion. I can see a potential case for not having it at all (that the link is rather coincidental and not necessarily worthy of a navigational template, but I doubt that'll be enough for TFD), but as long as the template exists, I am not sure what arguments can be proposed against its inclusion in ] or ]. Is there some potential PoV issue that I'm not seeing?
this is more your department than mine. <small><span style="border:1px solid blue;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 18:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)


== Aleksey vs. Alexei (Fyodorov) ==
I can see one or two ways the template can be refactored, though. Right now, I'm not sure why it should take as wide a space as it does, and the split by countries does not seem to be so relevant. After all, it is their status as Hero Cities that is outlined in the emplate, not their exact location ({{tl|Metros in FSU}}, to take a random example, has no such split). Besides, if I am not mitaken, they were all part of the same political entity at the time they were awarded. ] 14:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
:No problem, I'll rework it as soon as I'm done with my watchlist review. ] 17:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
::Is the version now better? ] 02:17, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


Greetings, ]! I noted in past edits of the ] page you favor this as the more accepted spelling of his surname, yet the page text uses "Ale'''x'''e'''i'''" throughout. Wouldn't consistency be appropriate? (I only know the editing rule regarding ] vs. ] in the English-language WP, that a page remains as initially written in this regard.) I need to know this for the list of key words I maintain for ]. What do you advise? ''-- Cheers, ] (]) 06:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)''
==Kola==
: I think ''Alexei'' should be changed to ''Aleksey'' wherever possible. Best regards. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:23, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Re . "Of which it is now considered a suburb" implies that there is an official definition of a "suburb" (there is none in Russia). It also suggests that Kola is currently subordinated to Murmansk or is even a part of it, but in reality it is not directly subordinated to either Murmansk or to Murmansk Oblast. It is a raion-level town, the administrative center of its own ].
::Would you say this is a rule or guideline particularly in transliterating from the Ukrainian, or in general from all Cyrillic-alphabet languages? (N.B. none of which I've studied; I'm just at the stage of mastering the letters.) '' -- ] (]) 06:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)''
::: This applies to Russian names. The Ukrainian counterpart to "Aleksey" is "". --]<sup>]</sup> 06:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)


== You are now a Reviewer ==
The fact is that Kola is located in the vicinity of Murmansk, and that Murmansk and Kola residents probably view Kola as a "suburb", because Kola was Murmansk's sattelite for so long. That, however, is just a colloquial expression. I am not convinced that such wording is better for encyclopedic purposes than my version.


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If you have any suggestions as to how to improve wording without losing essential information, I am quite open to hearing them. Best,&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 17:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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::Thanks, that's what I thought (that you used the term in informal sense). I do believe that "satellite" is more precise, though. A "suburb" in general is a residential district, i.e., a part of town within its administrative boundaries or an administrative entity immediately adjacent to them. Although there is no official definition of a suburb in Russia, even in informal sense it is somewhat misleading when applied to Kola. A "satellite" town is one closely associated with a bigger urban entity, but still administratively separate from it.
::My other question was why you removed the bit about Kola being granted town status again in 1965. Thanks.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 14:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
::::::Well, it does, but it's not immediately obvious. Anyway, I don't have strong feelings about this. Thanks for taking time to answer.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 14:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


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== "Incompetent" move back to ] ==


==Merge of the ] and the ]==
:I moved the page back to Pik Lenina because it is not clear that Independence Peak is the correct name. A contradicts this and was cited on the talk page. I think that Lenina should be retained until the situation is clarified; this is, after all, a Tajik mountain, not a Russian one. I thought it was OK to move pages (back) in this manner but the move was contested (unfortunately I overlooked this on my watchlist) so I will look into and probably take up the proper procedure. ] 01:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ghirlandajo! I've proposed ] and then noticed that once you had proposed the same thing. I think you might be interested in the matter, so please watch out for the possible discussion (there have been no replies yet, but may be some will appear). ] (]) 17:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


== RE:Congrats == ==Karl Wenig's painting==
Hey mate! Among many interesting pics you've uploaded, is also the picture ''Last minutes of False Dmitriy I'' by Karl Wenig (''File:Karl_wenig_1879.jpg''). Sometime ago, someone else uploaded a better (no offence!) copy of the same file (''File:Last_minutes_of_False_Dmitry.jpg'') . So, um, I was thinking about deleting 'your' picture, but it requires orphaning, i. e. deleting it from ]. I didn't want to be rude and just mess with it, but if you have nothing against, could you please erase this pic from your gallery, so it can be deleted? - ] (]) 17:55, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
: I suppose the vanity page should be deleted. It's of no use anymore. --]<sup>]</sup> 14:48, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


==Dashkov==
Hey. I wouldn't speak too soon. The Poles are pretty tenacious, and doubtless will campaign vigorously or find some device to get it moved to a Polonocentric name. '''] ('']'')''' 14:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thanks for moving ], i was just filling the red link from frs, those english are sloppy with the foreign nobility. but what about ] where someone undid my move the same way? maybe it should be '''Countess ]''' ] (]) 17:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
:. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 15:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
: Perhaps ]? Anyway, the word "countess" is redundant in the title. --]<sup>]</sup> 05:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


== Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 13#Category:New York City Ballet repertory by season ==


May I call your attention to a proposal at to delete ]? — ] (]) 22:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
== I seem to have stumbled into a historical picture preference ==
Hi, I noticed your edit comments on the page for ] about the "superior" historical image that I replaced. I had not read the Nevsky Prospekt page prior to visiting today but was certainly surprised not to find a modern picture in place. I realized that I had a few, though they were certainly not the most stellar examples. I guess there's no reason to "orphan" one of the historical pictures, but I hope you aren't implying that there shouldn't be a picture there from the last hundred years! Maybe all three can be on there? (I only delinked the one because of the excess of pictures on the page!) If you have a better modern picture, that would also be fabulous. Let me know what you think ] 16:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


==DYK for Gomel Palace==
==Ethnic slur==
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Ghirlandajo, I agree with you that there have been some problems from ''some'' members of the Polish Wikipedian community. However, I find this particular comment that you made about Poles being a type of "Holes", offensive . Could I please ask you to reconsider your words, and remove the comment? --] 17:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
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==Hi!==
Hi Ghirlandajo, you have been active since the above request was made, but I see no reply here or on Elonka's talk page. Please respond as soon as possible, see ] for more on this subject. - ]</small> (]) 17:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
:Hi Ghirlandajo, I've restored the above comment that you accidentally removed. Please be more careful in the future. - ]</small> (]) 20:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Hi Ghirla, great to see you! ] | ] 20:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC).
: Thank you, dear Bish! I'm also glad to see you again. --]<sup>]</sup> 22:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
: Nice to see you here. Anyway, have you ever heard of ]? I am already sorry that I asked :-( -- ] (]) 09:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


==DYK for Smolensky Cemetery==
:: Ghirlandajo, I see that following my request, that you did indeed comment out the statement that I had concerns about , though I didn't find out about this until after your block (I don't routinely scour your contributions). In 20-20 hindsight, I would have liked if you had told me that you took the action. However, for what it's worth, I would like to thank you for removing the comment, and I apologize for any mis-match in communications. On the whole, I think that you are a very productive and hard-working editor, and I welcome your point-of-view in discussions, as long as you are able to present them in a civil manner. At this point, if you are willing, I too am willing to wipe the slate clean and start fresh, and look forward to working with you towards our common goal of improving Misplaced Pages. Is this acceptable to you? --] 18:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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}} <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 06:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


==List of Baroque residences==
==Svetlogorsk photos==
Здравствуй Гирландайо! Хочу спросить - чем тебе так понравились зимнее фотки летнего курорта? :) Речь идет о Светлогорске. Если кому интересно, на статье уже есть ссылка на Wikimedia Commons где старые фотки и другие (кстати я туда свои помещу чтобы потом на Русской и других уикипедиях разместить). Еще вопрос - почему ревертал последний параграф? ] 23:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


Great work on the ] - it's looking great. I've been trying to fix some of the redlinks in various articles for some of the Italian palaces - ] and ] so far - which happen to link from articles I've been working on as part of my Italian noble families mini-project. Please let me know if there are any other redlinks you would like me to assist with. Regards, ] (]) 07:03, 23 July 2010 (UTC).
==]==
: Thank you. I'm thinking about ] and ]. Is Germany beyond your scope? We also need a separate category for pleasure palaces. --]<sup>]</sup> 07:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
* I see that you have changed the names within the article, but not moved it to ]. What is your source for his "original name", and, if correct, would it still be preferred to use the "original" over the version more commonly used today? (See ] for article naming conventions). Also (and this is a matter of personal taste), I think I prefer the previous image. --] 16:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


==Repin==
== Personal remarks ==
Hey Ghirlandaj. I'm hoping to expand ] in the next few weeks or so, but sources in English are few and far between; I have some stored up, but would needed help from a VA native speaker to properly do service. It is has been a collaboration with Johnbod, and he suggested you, somebody I've seen about a fair amount on art pages. So I suppose this is a cap in hand request. No worries if you are preoccupied. Best. ] (]) 22:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
: That's one painting (and painter) I really hate! But I will add the page to my watchlist. If you need to translate any specific text, let me know. --]<sup>]</sup> 14:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
::Well thank you very much for the translations, they will add great dept and scope to the page. I will start adding, but might need to verify page numbers etc with you at some stage. Pity to hear that you are Repin-phobic but can understand that too! Best. ] (]) 17:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)


==Uts==
There is never a reason to make personal remarks about another editor, and nationality has nothing to do with editing. If you have a complaint about a specific editor's behavior, that's one thing, but there is no reason to refer to groups of editors by their nationality, as you did . This is not the first time this has been a problem, see ] and ]. Thus, I am blocking you for 48 hours and warning you again to avoid personal remarks. ] ] 17:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I do, actually. There are also ''stanitsas'' which are even bigger than that (and also without articles). If you think any of those need to be created ''urgently'' and you don't have time to do it, by all means let me know&mdash;I can write a fairly decent stub (and no, it's not going to be just the dry stats, unless that's all you need). Also, what connection does this have to "novoyaz" you mentioned in the edit summary? I don't understand. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); July&nbsp;27, 2010; 21:10 (UTC)
::Half a year ago, when Piotr enthusiastically pursued his anti-Ghirlandajo campaign to which the above links allude, the ArbCom decided the issues of blocking, not some stray and reckless admin who failed to explain which "ethnic slur" I used and to which editor I applied it. That from the editor with whom I have not spoken or otherwise interacted for months is given full credit now, shows how low the standards have plunged here and that the likes of him, bonny-like manipulating through delations behind the back of others, are more needed here than myself. . There is no denying it now. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 19:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
:Your talk is cheap unless you state succinctly where is the offense. Piotrus always has a grudge against me, if you follow his incessant and groundless complaints which have been going on for two years, I feel pity for you. I can see no offense in literal copying and pastying a comment from ], which has caused no reproach there. Why don't you block ] who first posted this joke? Why don't you block a dozen editors who joined him? Although I never addressed it to a Polish editor, I deleted the comment immediately following Elonka's request above, yet Balcer restored it a minute later. Why don't you block Balcer, especially as it was he who disregarded the consensus by moving ] as he thought fit? The whole affair belies your assertion that "nationality has nothing to do with editing". I see that you chose to single me out of numerous editors who were accessory to this rather harmless joke, without a prior warning, only because one Polish admin pursues his rabid anti-Ghirlandajo crusade on ] and there is no instrument to defrock him, as admins are no held accountable in this project. In short, this project becomes less reputable day by day and evolves into a haven for brainless admins who seek to oust content creators. If you didn't bother to look into the matters before fucking me, fuck you all too. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 18:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
::I provided a diff of the edit in question, as you can see in the message I left you. I have no opinion on the other matters you bring up here. You may also wish to look at ], which is what brought this to my attention. ] ] 19:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


==Lake Peipus==
S volkami zhit, po volchyi vyt. Protiv loma net priyoma esli net drugogo loma. Duraka rabota lyubit. Proletarii vseh stran soedinaites. Ili pan ili propal. Tolko blednolitsy mozhet tri raza nastupit na odni i te zhe grabli. That's all I can say in this respect. `'] ] 22:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Before I revert you there, could you please read the references of and explain your changes. No, Britannica is not an authority on hydrology. Yes, Chudsko-Pskovskoe is a possibility, but in any case, this has to be discussed at the talk page first, and again, how about refs ? ] (]) 06:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
:<small>A translation upon request of curious colleagues</small>: To live with ] means to ] like wolves. There is no technique against a ] (a long heavy pointed metal bar used for digging (and ass-kicking); no wikipedia article looks like) if you don't have another pick. A ] is ]d by hard ]. ] Either you be of '']'' or you are done in. <<< ] The Great Snake, ] The ] ] and ] are ]ting in the ] by the ] silently ] a ]. There is a ] in the ]es. Chingachgook steps into the ], there is a ]ing ], Chinga returns with a ], and proceeds with silent smoking... There is another rustle in the bushes. Osceola steps into the darkness, there is a ]ing sound, Osceola returns with a ], and proceeds with silent smoking...There is yet another rustle. Mr. Holmes steps into the darkness, there is a ]ing sound, then another one... Holmes returns with two ]s, Chingachgook solemnly ]s to Osceola: "Only ] can step twice onto the one and the same ]."...>>> Eto vsyo chto ya mogu skazat po etomu povodu. `'] ] 00:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
: Britannica is an authority on everything. It's up to you to prove that it's not reliable. This is the best known general encyclopaedia reflecting the views of the scientific mainstream. Besides, I don't see a point in following hydrologists on the issue. If anyone, we should consult historians/linguists. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::This is a discussion for the talk page of the article. In short, Peipus is a historical name, which was the major one, but not anymore. By area, the lakes (there are three of them, not one) are more in Russia, but the English literature calls them more by Estonian name (try searching any source, Google Books, Google, whatever, restricting to English language results). Being bold is good, but to a certain extent. Cheers. ] (]) 06:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::: Your reply did nothing to address my concerns. From what I can see, the coverage of Russian lakes/rivers in the English segment of Misplaced Pages is a joke. There are no pages on many major rivers (check the number of interwiki links in ] or ], the former being one of Asia's longest rivers). And the existing pages lack in content: e.g., ], with its ridiculously Anglo-centric title. All right, why should I care. --]<sup>]</sup> 07:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::::Well, that what I was doing these weeks - expanding those articles lake/river/sea articles, but stopped for now, just before Don, and any help is welcome. As to Peipus, there are wikipedia naming policies and conventions, and it seems to me after your reply that this has to be decided at the ], and you are welcome to bring your calm thoughts .. ] (]) 07:14, 6 August 2010 (UTC)


===comment=== === Don ===
Thanks for . I think ] should go to ]. Or maybe we should just move ] to ] :-) -- ] (]) 16:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
<nowiki>{{unblock reviewed}}</nowiki>
: There is little we can do about it. Alas. --]<sup>]</sup> 20:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
*| While there is a very late night in Russia now, I am putting this request on my own judgement at the talk page of one of the most valuable editors who, I think, was blocked in error. I am asking ] or another neutral an uninvolved admin to review the matter giving it a thorough attention. For details, please see ] at WP:ANI and links thereof. --] 02:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
::Looks like I only -- ] (]) 20:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
*|2= This is only a 48-hour block. While I'm sure Ghirlandajo appreciates Irpen's support, I'm not going to even consider unblocking if Ghirlandajo doesn't make the request.]]<sup>]</sup> 16:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
:As the issuer of the block, I'm obviously not neutral here. I wish for more input at an/i, tho. ] ] 03:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
: Any admin that would try and review this block is hereby strongly encouraged to read the whole ], and click on all evidence provided by ''both'' parties, not just Piotrus. It will give a clear picture of what is going on and hopefully lead to unblock. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 11:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


== Barge haulers ==
See also the discussion on ]. ] <small>]</small> 16:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


Please note that I've moved your page from "Barge Haulers on the Volga/Temp" to ]. Temp pages should be in user sandbox space, not in article space. Thanks. ] (]) 02:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
*User unblocked after 24 h. I maintain that immediate long blocks are warranted only in the case of grave abuse. Any "cumulative" accusations require deliberation. We are not going to block Elonka for defamation of Ghirla when she wrongfully insisted that Ghrla said "Poles are holes", are we?
:(BTW I don't see her rushing to apologize for misunderstanding, but rather a flurry of "yes, but..." from Polish wikipedians. Which hardly can be interpreted as an intention to bury a hatchet. I suggest everyone to stop for a while and think: what is the '''ultimate''' goal: to punish Ghirla or to improve the cooperation?) `'] ] 17:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Can someone tell me, or translate for me, the meaning (as a native speaker of English, I don't understand the remark), what the meaning of the phrase '' the Poles use us like holes'' is suppose to mean in English. It's seems pejorative on the surface, but I honestly don't understand its intent or what it is supposed to mean. Thanks, ] 18:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
* Holes I presume would be taken to refer to ]. '''] ('']'')''' 18:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
**Hold on here now. First of all, the exact phrase of Ghirla is . That is why I firmly stand that grave accusations and resulting long block require proper deliberation. Of course, '' the Poles use us like holes'' sounds as "Poles fuck us". While "The Poles treat other wikipedians as holes" means "Poles treat other wikipedians as empty space", i.e., Poles ignore our opinion and do whatever they want one way or another (well, after some thinking, it is basically the same as the first version :-) but at least not so offensively phrased). FUI, there is a common Russian expression "to give (or to have) a hole from ]". (wow, a missing article here! : "bublik" is a ring-shaped roll of white bread or pastry, like ], but definitely different: large hole and stiff crust. The ] in the picture has ''bubliks'' on top of the string and a string of smaller rings called '']''. Still smaller (and drier) rings exist (not shown), called '']''). `'] ] 18:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


==Defunct towns and former cities==
***Not sure where this is leading us, but I would like to point out that 3 minutes before Ghirla wrote his second version of the "joke" (interestingly, I would not be surprised if it was a Dutchman who invented thisjoke) the word "holes" was used by someone else in the meaning of "empty space": ].--] 18:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Nope, we definitely don't need to have two of them. Re-organizing the whole defunct/former/abolished/destroyed mess is one of the projects on my to-do list, but if you have an inclination to sort them out, please do so by all means, because I don't have any plans to start working on this any time soon. Help would most certainly be appreciated. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); August&nbsp;10, 2010; 21:01 (UTC)


== DYK reminder == ==Hunyad Castle==
Hunyad castle is not a gothic revival, it was a precise renovation of an erased Gothic-Renaissance castle. ]


== Editors in Samara? ==
Just a friendly reminder to list DYK proposals at the ''bottom'' of the relevant date, rather than the top. ] 22:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


Hey Ghirla, do you know of any editors in Samara who can help out with photos as required at ]. If you can think of anyone would you mind pointing them out to me, or perhaps point them to that page? Cheers, --] <sup>]</sup> 22:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
== Alexander Palace ==
: ]. I left a note on the talk pages of Atgnclk and Роман Янковский from ]. The Samara wikipedians are not very active, though. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
:: Hey Ghirla, some of them will be ] due to the buildings being built before the 1943 cut off date - the embassies were relocated to Samara in 1941. So I don't think we will hit any snags in that regard. Thanks for posting the messages, I appreciate it; perhaps I will get an answer or two :) Cheers, --] <sup>]</sup> 12:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


==Outrrrrrrrageous!==
Dear Ghirlandajo:
Feel free to leave a message on the talk page, file an ], or move it back. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); August&nbsp;20, 2010; 14:24 (UTC)


== Re:Salon ==
It's Bob Atchison from the Alexander Palace Time Machine. I changed, corrected (we have redone many of the online books) and added some links on some of your pages that pertain to the Romanovs and the Alexander Palace, but you deleted them as spam. We have thousands of pages in our site - as you know - and Yahoo named it "Site of the Year" a few years back. Millions of people visit the site every year and our 20 online books are used by schools around the globe. Our discussion forum on Russian History has around 4,000 registered users and 200,000 postings in the 18 months. We are not trying to get more traffic via these links - we have lots already. I posted these from my IP - I didn't get an account until just now so that I could write you.
I see your point, and personally, I would find that interesting to read. But it would be difficult: the article has a section of "Salons outside of France", where the nations outside of France are given a summary - such as the first salons, the most notable salon-holders and a few words about the importance and characteristics given to the phenomena in each country. There, of course, Russia should be included as well. To give Russia its own section would, therefore, make it necessary to give each nation its own section. France is already treated specially, but that is of course because it is the original country of the phenomena. My suggestion is therefore, that Russia is either included in the "Salons outside of France"-section, or, if it is given its own section, that each nation mentioned in the "Salons outside of France"-section is given its own chapter under this title, where Russia, of course, is one. Individual Salon-holders al deserve their own articles. Good luck! --] (]) 12:55, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
*I answered in ]. `'] ] 04:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


:Not every paragraph in a Misplaced Pages article needs a '''boldface''' title. There is surely room at ] for a more complete discussion of the role of salons in Russia.--] (]) 17:25, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
== ] ==


==List of regional characteristics of European cathedral architecture‎==
You may be interested in , about which purported knyaz I have never heard. ] ] ] 13:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Found your comment.
As you have probably observed, this article has recently been calvbed off another article. It originally pertained directly to Western Europe, but no longer does.


I have been working on the other article first, and making headway, but have been interrupted by some more pressing personal matters. I will get around to fixing this present article soon I hope, by including regional characteristics from many other countries in a fuller way. Meanwhile, can you give some thought as to which characteristics and photos should be included for Russia etc? ] (]) 07:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
== Possible Molobo return ==


== Ivan IV ==
It is a problem that I cannot use checkuser, as the logs do not go back far enough. Molobo's last edit was so long ago that I get no results, and have nothing to compare the current IPs to (even at Molobo's own request). The IP editor in question, however, is clearly a sockpuppet of someone, and someone who's been in the thick of it before. Unfortunately, it's on many IPs, and so there's no easy solution. I suggest you go to ] and present the clear evidence that this is not a new user, but an abusive reincarnation of a probably banned user, and see if you can get some admins on his tail. ]·] 17:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Please revert . I can't see, how 2 non-vague historical evidences may not suffice:
# Флоря Б. Н. Иван Грозный
# ]. Записки о Московии
for proof please read russian wiki (section "Отношения с царём") about his favourite ] (]) 15:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
On the third day of your silence I will revert your edit. Thx for understanding. ] (]) 06:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


==Belsky==
What was your reference on ]? I have a ref for most of the stuff, but not all details. BTW, you should add a ref to ] too.


Will see what I can do on ], but I do not think I have good sources. ] (]) 06:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
== ] ==


== Luigi Premazzi Picture in Tsarskoe selo ==
Thank you for your supportive comments here They are appreciated. That Fred Bauder thinks I can be banned instead of Eternal Equinox has caused me to have a severe sense of humour failure. In retrospect, of course instead of making light of Eternal Equinox, I should have taken her very seriously - which is what she wanted - but frankly she and her edits on our talk pages were (at best) a joke - so one could either laugh or cry, and crying has never been my style. That Fred Bauder thinks Bishonen should be "cautioned" is, in short, disgusting. She seems to spend hours and hours trying to create harmony on the site, and takes her responsibilities as an admin 100 times more seriously then most of the others. I think the Arb-com now needs a huge kick, and to rid itself of insulting and incompetent buffoons. I expect I shall stick around Misplaced Pages, but at the moment mu entheusiasm for it is at an all time low. Sorry this is a (sort of) spammed message, but when I saw all of your comments for the first time this evening, I felt a quick response was necessary, but that makes it no less sincere. Thanks once again, it's nice to feel supported. ] | ] 19:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


Hi Ghirladajo,
== DYK ==


I was wondering how you obtained the following image:
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My wife has written a book on Russian history of the period that that painting is from, and she wants to use this reproduction as the picture for the cover of the book. However the publisher requires permission from the photographer. Do you happen to know who that might be?
|On ], ], ''']''' was updated with a fact from the article ''''']''''', which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the ].
I would appreciate any information you could provide. I can be also reached at the alexinquest@gmail.com
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Thanks.
Alex
: I believe the painting was scanned by the Hermitage Museum. Try searching for "Premazzi" on their website. --]<sup>]</sup> 19:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)


::I have uploaded a higher resolution version of the image and added a link to the source page. State Hermitage Museum would have even better versions of this, but most likely you would have to pay to get access. -- ] (]) 15:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
==Baku fire temple==
hi Ghirla - I don't know anything about it, but it looks fairly referenced, and agreement seems to have been reached between editors, so I assume it's ok. The only way to be sure is to check the references yourself, of course. regards, ] <small>]</small> 22:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


==Russia GA reassessment==
==Pointless edits==
An article that you have been involved in editing, ] has been nominated for a ]. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments ] . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. ] (]) 03:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)


==Stubs==
I was waiting for someone to point out. Hahahha. Thanks. --] 15:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Please do not use "stub" as an excuse for removing information from an article. Our stubs are under development, and if some information appears "too detailed" for a stub, well, that's just editors expanding the article out of stub status - and that's great! ] (]) 12:39, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
:I reserve the right to disappoint you. ] --] 15:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:: --] 15:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


==In (the) Bryansk Oblast== == Moving on ==
Здраствуйте. I've already indicated my desire elsewhere, in a number of venues, to move on from past conflicts. I trust you will see clear the path to same. Let's not re-litigate the past. Best, ]<small> ►]</small> 14:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Hah, I knew you'd ask! Anyway, first of all, ] (any common typo would collect a respectable number of hits, for example). Second, your googlefight link is to "Bryansk ''region''" vs. "the Bryansk ''region''", which is not the same as ''Bryansk Oblast'' ("Bryansk region" can refer to any area around Bryansk, not necessarily to just the oblast). "Bryansk region" can easily take the definite article, when one speaks of a certain (i.e., previously defined) region around Bryansk. Third, look at :) Fourth, the number of hits returned in both cases is too small to make an accurate judgement. Fifth, I actually happened to ask native speakers about what they think of this issue&mdash;you can find the discussion in my archives ]&mdash;the bottom line is that while using the definite article before the name of a krai/oblast is not entirely incorrect, it sounds archaic. I ain't gonna argue with an English major on that :) And finally, the majority of articles utilizing the similar construct ("''in X Oblast''") do not use definite articles, so I removed the one in question partially for consistency sake. Hope this answers your questions.&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 15:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:Seconded. --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)


== Babolovo Palace ==
==Cheers!==


Great job on the ]. It's precisely these kinds of articles that make Misplaced Pages the excellent source that it is. Had not heard of the palace previously. DYK, maybe? ] (]) 15:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
I thought that you may be interested: - - & BTW, like you I too had thought of leaving, but did not as we have miles to go! --] 17:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:May be you would like to:: . Regards. --] 17:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


==Vladimir==
==Novosil - town status==
Hopefully should work? I still think that there are way too many pictures of churches for one article, but oh well. Is there nothing else in the city of interest?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); September&nbsp;24, 2010; 17:04 (UTC)
Hi there Andrei! I got this info from the Russian Misplaced Pages. There's also a ''Мой Город'' encyclopedia (sort of), which says the same. If you know for sure you can prove otherwise, go ahead and change it, I'm all for it :). ] 18:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
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==About your edits of Avarian Site==


== ] ==
Вы пишите по-английски на аварской странице, что "Шамхальство Тарковское съыграло выдающуюся роль в разгроме Надиршаха в местности Андала". Во-первых,не "Андала", а "Андалал", а во-вторых вы всё перепутали. Кумыки (тюркоязычный народ в Дагестане) были не только покорены Надиршахом, но выступили даже в качестве его союзников. что же касается Казикумухцев (кавказоязычных лакцев), то они первоначально попытались сопротивляться Надиршаху, однако были разбиты.Шамхал Сурхайхан сдался в плен. Егьо сын-Муртазаали сумел бежать с небольшим отрядом. Аварские вольные общества вместе с самым крупным вольным обществом- Андалал ('Andalal четыре дня (под трёхдневным проливным дождём) бились с Надиршахом. Никакой помощи от лакского Муртазаали не было. Он явился со своей конницей лишь на четвёртый день, когда исход битвы был уже решён.--] 22:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


Listen, please, do not be judgmental seeing me as some anti-Russian or whatever. I am, certainly, not that. The information about the Vladimir Principality is too vague. There is really no historical development on how it actually appeared and why until Yuri Dolgoruki. There is also no clear mentioning that Andrei Bogolyubsky changed the Vladimir Principality into the Grand Principality. Little or no information is on the conflicts that took place in the Northeastern Rus. The information that I posted is drawn from other articles and mostly based on the Russian version as well. Would it be possible instead of just purging my edits at least let me know that they need to be revised? ] (]) 01:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
== Dear Ghirla ==


==???==
Dear Ghirla, I'm truly sorry to bother you at your talk page, but if you don't mind to give me just a little moment, I would like to talk with you for a minute. I swear, it won't take long.
??? I may recall one or two where I got a distinct impression that you didn't like them, but a "number"? 90% of the moves I did since August were those of soccer players; somehow I don't think that's what you've got a problem with? Care to elaborate? I always appreciate feedback, even from an old grump like you. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); October&nbsp;6, 2010; 14:10 (UTC)
: I refer to your way of moving our articles about Russian towns to the most monstrous title imaginable, e.g., ], ], ], ], etc. As if a town of 35000 people were on the same level of prominence as a village of ten people (see ], for instance). Such moves defy common sense and everything that is important when naming articles (namely, conciseness, naturalness, and so on). --]<sup>]</sup> 07:14, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
::Ghirla, this is not the Russian Misplaced Pages. To our average reader, an obscure town in Russia is not much different from an obscure village&mdash;it's not like we are equating, say, the village of Moskva in Kirov Oblast with the capital of Russia. The naming is in full compliance with ], and our guidelines are, of course, already the epitome of "common sense" and "naturalness" (OK, I'm pulling your leg here somewhat, but at least that's their intent). If you have a problem with a particular guideline, you can always file an RfC, and if you have a problem with how a guideline is being applied, you can always submit a ]. If you have reasonable concerns, I'll be the last person to ignore them. Why you choose instead to bitch about how everything sucks and only you can save the day is frankly beyond me. No offense, but it's not easy to take your opinion seriously when you start blabbering about a completely unrelated "problem" in a random venue.
::At any rate, the four moves you've found (one of which isn't even by me) are a far cry from "we need to run a bot to revert all that". Cut out the panic, will ya? Even the statistics don't corroborate you theory that these moves are somehow "damaging". Chernushka, for example, was moved on August&nbsp;20. It was getting on average prior to being moved, and it after being moved. Apparently, the article isn't as hard to find as you would lead us to believe. And ] is getting more daily hits now than before the move ( vs. before the move). Hmmm...—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); October&nbsp;7, 2010; 14:33 (UTC)
::: Those statistics are broken, nobody knows how they count hits. Why not take a cue from the Russian Misplaced Pages which at least has pages on those villages (in English Misplaced Pages, they are likely to remain red-linked for the next 15 or 30 years). If it is ] for Russians, I don't see why it should be so complicated for foreigners. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:27, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
::::Not sure where you got the idea that the stats are "broken" and that "nobody knows how they work", but broken or not, they are at least consistent. The numbers themselves may be off, but the trends they show are pretty accurate (DYKs, major re-writes, and moves always show a spike in activity, while forgotten and abandoned articles show a steady small stream of hits over time with no aberrations). Not that it matters. What matters is the guidelines which we (not ru_wiki) have in place. In case you haven't noticed, I am not the one in charge of writing the guidelines; I'm just a poor peasant stuck with having to enforce them (including those where lunacy is apparent). In this case, I don't even have a problem with the applicable guidelines, so why should I be the one to "take a cue" and waste my time trying to think up something ''better'' to replace them with? Like I said in the past, if you have a problem with the way things are done, you either find RfC ], or simply live with the parts of the system you don't like. Just .—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); October&nbsp;7, 2010; 16:01 (UTC)


=="Russian Princes"==
I wish to thank you for taking the time to take part in my RfA. The fact that one of the greatest contributors Misplaced Pages can boast of having has noticed it, is in itself a flattery to me, and this I tell you from the heart. I must tell you, tho, that your words have left me very concerned. You express that promoting new admins is a threat to hard working editors. I am worried that you, or anyone, may think of me as I threat to your evidently great work. I'm not sure if you're speaking on a general basis, or just about me; the fact that you said this solely at my RfA seems to indicate the latter, which is why I'm concerned. Have I done something you consider wrong, or acted inappropriately, or did something that may lead you to think I could abuse the tools? I'm simply asking you this in order to improve, since I ''don't'' want you to change your opinion in the least - I've said at my RfA, and many times, that one should express what our heart really tells us, and that means your !vote should stay as it is. I'm only asking you this because of the concern that being distrusted causes me.
Wondering if you have an opinion on what should be done with ]? Thanks.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); October&nbsp;20, 2010; 13:30 (UTC)
: Dunno. It's full of odd transliterations and factual mistakes. Наспех сляпанная поделка. --]<sup>]</sup> 13:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
::Yes, I can see that. But is there anything salvageable? Or anything it can be redirected/merged to?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); October&nbsp;20, 2010; 14:02 (UTC)


== Undiscussed page move of ] ==
Dear Ghirla, I'm sorry to bother you, I truly am. I just wish to make sure that you know you have nothing to fear from me - in fact, the only time that I recall we've ever interacted was when once. I hold you in the highest respect, and I'd be extremely happy to talk with you if you wish more information on the matter. Warm regards, and До свидания, ] <b><font color="#FF0000">♥</font></b> ] - 16:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
:That was a very sweet thing you did, my dear Andrey, tho I didn't want you to switch your vote, but just to put your mind at rest! :) I'm so incredibly happy that this has served me to add yet one more Russian friend to my list, and I hope you consider me your own from this moment on. Someday, soon I hope, we should talk more and I'd be delighted to hear your words about your beautiful country, which I was blessed to visit seven years ago. Indeed, the absence of Izehar, and especially Latinus, who is a dear friend of mine, is saddening. I hold the hope that someday they'll surprise us and return to WP - and if that happens, make sure to bring the champagne, I'll bring the cake! :) Hugs, and всего наилучшего! ] <b><font color="#FF0000">♥</font></b> ] - 16:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


Please don't do this without discussion. The best name for this article is already under discussion at ]. It helps no-one if a number of different editors move it back and forth without agreement beforehand. ] (]) 09:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
==Olgierd is polonized version of Algirdas==


== ] ==
Dear Girlandajo, I am lituanizing only Lithuanian names. Algirdas is one of them. Could you provide your arguments, why I am not rigth, stating, that Olgierd is polonised version of name Algirdas. ] 11:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


I have read that there was a bodyguard or some such institution in medieval Russia that was composed of very tall, young men, carrying an axe. They supposedly wore white, and the appearance of their height was increased by wearing tall hats. One often sees them in operatic and theatrical productions from time to time. Were these the Rynda, or was there also some other group that fits this description? The English article is paltry and the Russian article was not much help. Are you familiar with the subject at all? Thanks. ] (]) 20:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Ghirlandajo. At the moment I really do not have enough competence to dispute with you Olgierd/Algirdas problem. If you are right, my apologies are here .
: I think you are right. I will probably add some details to ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 05:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


==Russian painters==
==]==
I'd like to draw your attention to the thread ], about the editing activities of {{User|Leningradartist}}. Any comments or advice relating to same would be mush appreciated. --] ] 08:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, this stub as it stands now is quite funny. According to , although some of the CR became derelict, a lot of them are still functioning and operated by children, including the one in ]. Also, interwiki there is wrong and should point , not to a CR in Minsk. OK, I'll try to fix the article, although I don't know, whether I'll have a time to expand it. ] 18:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
==Image tagging for Image:Monomakhcap.jpg==
Thanks for uploading ''']'''. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Misplaced Pages's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.


== Photos from Russia ==
For more information on using images, see the following pages:
hi ghirla, at begin wikilink User:Russavia/Required photos end wikilink i have compiled a long list of photos that i am needing for numerous articles i have under development and future articles i will be working on. Do you know of anyone who can help with any of the photos, especially those i need from russia. If u could put me in touch with anyone, or conversely them with me, i would be most appreciative. Cheers, russavia
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== Golden Eagle Awards ==
This is an automated notice by ]. For assistance on the image use policy, see ]. 11:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


hello, I would like to know where you found that ] institued the ]. Please give me a reference for that. Thank you.--<span style="color:#A4D3EE; background-color:#E0EEEE;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> ] </span><span style="color:Black; background-color:#A4D3EE;font-family: 'Gigi'">]</span> 20:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
== World War II controvercy ==


==Death of Ordu Khan==
Do you have time please to have a look on the World War II. There is some movement leading to Nazi apology end even saying Germany started the war some users call "bias against German people". Probably I need some support.--Nixer 09:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I see that in your revision of the article about ] there's dates 1204 (birth) and 1280 (+). This data was translated to all the existent articles in others languages, less Russian (and catalan because I'm trying to stablish it). Can you check if is the correct date?; the successor Qun Quran already deceased in 1280 but reigned 1251-1280, while Orda reigned 1226 (in fact not before 1227 and surely from 1229) to 1251. If is not, and must be c. 1251, please correct all the wikipedies that copied the wrong date. Many thanks. --] (]) 18:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)


==Opinion?==
== ] ==
This is something you may know about and have an opinion on. ] ] 21:35, 16 April 2011 (UTC)


==Re: ]==
Hi. Thanx for the attention paid to my efforts. I was not able to find out the exact amount of Russian troops who participated in the battle. The original figure 22000 was a mistake and i deleted it. I found in ''От Тарутино до Малоярославца. К 190-летию Малоярославецкого сражения. / Сб. статей. – Калуга: «Золотая аллея», 2002'' that the total amount in the Tarutino camp was 97000 but it does not mention how much did really participate in the assault. Probably you have better sources? ] (]) 20:20 August 7 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noted that you removed the caption of the image of the estate of Rozhdestveno that indicated that "Nabokov inherited the ]- designed estate "Rozhestveno" in 1916." The picture had been taken by User:Alexey Lavrov attesting that it was VN's house, and VN describes (p72) that he inherited the house in 1916, upon the death of his uncle Ruka. Can you please explain where you see the problem with the caption that you had to remove it? ] (]) 02:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)


:As you noticed there is now a ] site in the English WP; it would be helpful if you could include a comment about the building, namely when it was built, who the architect was, and - if this is not known, as claimed in the French WP - to say so (preferably with a reference). ] (]) 15:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
*Hi. I sent an e-mail to ]. Now waiting... ] (]) 10:43 August 9 2006 UTC


== Navahradek == == ] ==


You might want to check out ], although you may already have it on your watchlist.
You should reconsider your wording, becase it's biased and not based on any facts (ureferenced, and cannot be refernced). it's not only Lithuanian historians who find first capital of GDL in Vilnius - but also, Polish, German, Belarusians. I'm preparing list of references. an dpleas, explain what does mean "traditionaly"?--] 07:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


I'm not entirely happy with how things are proceeding, although I think they will get sorted out. See ] for some of the background.
What's wrong with Gediminyds now? Asking for references is nationalistic trolling? Look to a ] for a words to be avoided - it's obvious that "some sources" is not a proof neither reference, and merely an opinion. Any reference would help here. Also not mentioning hypothesis as a brother is neglecting research, and is also a POV.--] 11:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
:If you take a look at the top of this page, you will see my warning that "Edits by established ghirlaphobes from Poland and former Polish dominions will be promptly removed". That's what I'm going to do with your trolling. I see that your edits are motivated solely by lithuanian nationalism. As such, they will be reverted on sight. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 11:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


I am assuming that Joe will agree with me and make sure some of the material recently removed is restored.
:::Wow, what a declaration, to a simple quoestion. Sounds very cooperative. Do you mean all my edits will, be reverted by you without even evaluating? BTW I've never considered myself form Polish dominion or Ghirlaphobe, just wondering - when i did became one.--] 11:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


Assuming that happens, I have some question about the material which I believe you added.
==DYK==
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You added the sentence:
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Hi, I noticed your two beautiful images of ]. I have a less lovely picture, but one which is in the public domain. I was thinking I might replace one of the fair use pictures but thought you might have some feelings one way or the other (or even have a superb picture of your own!) ] 02:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Among his pioneering monographs on ] were "Climate and Life" (1922) and "Foundations of Climatology" (1928).
:Sorry, got busy editing! I have uploaded two images to the commons of the convent! The categorization is going slowly, though ] 20:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
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I wonder if "Foundations of Climatology" is a typo. There is such a work, but by someone else. Berg wrote "Principles of climatology", and I'm wondering if you meant to say that.
==DYK==
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I don't know who added the list of works, but one is "Principles of climatology" (1926). However, suggests it was 1938, not 1926. Do you concur?
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BTW, 175K edits? Quite impressive. Quite.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">]]</font> 17:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)


== ] ==
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In the past, you commented on his name there. The issue is back. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]&#124;]</sub> 20:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
== Stalin Prize ==


== ] ==
There exist category "Nobel Prize winners" and even "Heroes of Socialist Labour" why do you oppose the category "Stalin Prize winners"?--] 17:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


Can you identify the source of the translation? I am needing to know that the translation is in the public domain to be able to transfer it to Wikisource, and there is no information available to make the determination. Thanks. — ] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">]</span>'' 00:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
== Georgian-Abkhaz conflict ==


== Proposal ==
Please list me the phrases you feel wrong and I will deal with them. I do agree the article is biased. Unfortunately I have no knowledge here. `'] ] 18:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


Hi, {{u|Ghirlandajo}}. Please have a look at this proposal If you in the English Misplaced Pages, you will be able to be blocked or banned in the Russian and any other Misplaced Pages as well when this proposal is approved. And vice versa. Take my best wishes. --] (]) 07:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
== Nikita Khrushchev's estimates on Winter War ==
I reverted your edit because 1,000,000 is sourced . Search with Khrushchev and you'll come up with "According to Khrushchev, 1.5 million men were sent to Finland and one million of them were killed. 1000 aircraft, 2300 tanks and armored cars and an enormous amount of other war.."


== ] ==
That's a very high and unrealistic estimate but if that's true that Krushchev said that then it should be like that. Show a source that shows 270,000? I was not able not find. --] 19:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Created 16/10/2011. {{-)}} Yours --] (]) 11:45, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
: It indeed seems to be true, check . --] 19:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
:: This is a myth resulting IMHO from crappy knowledge of Russian, see article's talk for details.
:: If there is another source supporting the figure, okay. But there is no such thing in Khrushchev's memoirs. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 20:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


Could you delete it? Yours --] (]) 14:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
: Why should we bother? --]<sup>]</sup> 07:55, 26 November 2011 (UTC)


==Slavic dragon== == Suyab ==
Many sources in Polish. But check out this:
Is it enough?


Dear Andrey,
] 23:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


I hope we can communicate in Russian,
== Igor, father of Svyatoslav? ==


Я была бы Вам весьма признательна, если бы Вы помогли мне точнее идентифицировать источник, ссылку на который Вы разместили.
Hi there, Ghirlandajo. You seem knowledgeable in the area, so I'll ask you if ] was the father of ]. If so, then there should be a clear statement of this in Svyatoslav's article. --] 17:56, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


Я не нашла внятных упоминаний об издании, которое называлось бы Central Asian Journal. Эту ссылку (и сам абзац) Вы добавили в статью Suyab (http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ghirlandajo), впервые она появилась в этой редакции http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Suyab&oldid=134279581).
== DYK ==


Forte A. An Ancient Chinese Monastery Excavated in Kirgizia // Central Asian Journal, 1994. Volume 38. № 1. Pages 41-57.
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Thanks Ghirla. Tweaked the tagline a bit, hope it's ok. Cheers -- ] <small>]</small> 23:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


Фрагмент издания, упомянутого Вами, необходим мне для завершения популярной книжки, посвященной Суябу. Я гарантирую указание Вашего имени (если Вы того пожелаете) в разделе Acknowledgements.
== DYK redux ==


] (]) 05:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
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* It is apparently Central Asiatic Journal, . The article is not online.--] (]) 06:33, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
*: That's right. I was using . --]<sup>]</sup> 17:11, 17 November 2011 (UTC)*tnx

== A barnstar for you! ==

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And another. Thanks kindly for your work at DYK! -- ] <small>]</small> 06:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


Thank you. --]<sup>]</sup> 17:02, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
==Borodino==
This was your reply On January 16, 2006 when I suggested that the result should read "Marginal French victory:"


== Polen, Polen über Alles ==
"It's OK with me but I would like to know what other editors think."


I know this may be the worst possible place to post an anti-Polish rant, but here I am anyway. Anyone is free to move this discussion to a more appropriate place. My question is this: is it me who is suffering from polofobia, or does Misplaced Pages have some kind of a pro-Polish bias?
In your last edit, you spoke about "consensus," but no such thing exists among the editors involved. There are basically two camps: those who want to label it "indecisive" and those who want something like "Pyrrhic victory." There's no consensus; don't try to suggest there is.] 15:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


I started off studying the ]. On the list I see that '']'' was built in ], ] in by "] Inc." or whatever. Studying the article ] I learn that the town has perpetually been Polish from times immemorial.
==DYK==

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After some work on ] I end up reading the article on ]. The second sentence of the article tells me that Poles are (or were) main ethnicity of the city. Further down I understand that a terrible wrong was done to Poland in 1991 when Lwów was not returned to Polish sovereignty after the end of the second Soviet occupation.

To sum up, ] is totally dismissive of the existence of ], while ] reads like a ] rant. -- ] (]) 16:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

== Arthaniya ==

Что значит, не используется, а ссылки? Arsania — это русское прочтение, ибо в русском нет звука , поэтому либо «с», либо «т». И вы куда-то "y" потеряли, получился греко-латинский суффикс -ia, которого в арабском нет.--] (]) 16:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
: Главное, какой вариант предпочитают академические источники на английском. --]<sup>]</sup> 17:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:: Arsania не предпочтительнее, вы сами можете убедиться по поиску в ГуглКнигах, там это может быть вообще всё что угодно, включая имя личное и реку в Урарту. И как вы себе представляете, чтобы они арабское слово именно так транслитерировали? У них есть своя система транслитерации, чаще более точная, чем кириллическая, им не нужно для этого обращаться к русскоязычной литературе. В итоге получается, что мы арабское слово транслитерируем через кириллическое посредство, ну не бред? Википедия здесь пока английская. ]. --] (]) 09:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
::: Ok, убедили. --]<sup>]</sup> 13:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

== Rurik ==

::
Colleague, even if this name is a "modern myth", it is part of "Rurikology", so to say. I google books it may be found in the range of ~150 years in several languages. I think this issue deserves explanation in wikipedia, otherwise it continue to pop up thanks to well-meaning, but less educated people. So, can you explain, in ] article, how it is "Tatischeff stuff" and all? ] (]) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:'''Ефанда. Ингорь.''' Имел Рюрик несколько жен, но более всех любил Ефанду, дочерь князя урманского, и когда та родила сына Ингоря, ей обещанный при море град с Ижорою в вено дал.
Of course, I could have done , but I guess you can do it better. ] (]) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:: The page was heavily vandalised at some point after I had lost interest in English Misplaced Pages. I reinstated a version of the page last edited by me 5 years ago. P.S. Nobody cares about such matters here. Every article on Russia's early history steadily comes to ruin. --]<sup>]</sup> 19:39, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

==]==
I wonder, would you be at all interested in correcting the (no doubt many but inadvertent) mistakes in this new article on an interesting person? I would be very grateful for any comments you might have. -- ] (]) 21:52, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
: I've tweaked it a little. that the Red Cross was born in Russia during the Crimean War. ] contains more info. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for that. A few questions/comments, if I may:
*There seem to be relatively few sources in English that mention her (hmm - thinking about it, there must be something in Helen Rappaport's "No Place for Ladies"; but do let me know if there are other good ones in Russian I should be using) but most of those that do exist seem to prefer ] (or a variant) in preference to ] or ]. Should the geographical soubriquet really be translated?
*Are there records to dismiss the idea that she could have died in Sevastopol in around 1910?
*I'm not sure Dasha is the best Russian counterpart to ] (a better comparison might be ] perhaps). ] is closer to Nightingale, although no article yet (that might change shortly), but personally, as Florence was more of an organiser than a nurse, I think ] is the best fit. No doubt we ought to be reporting what the sources say.
There are clear parallels, but I doubt ] or the ] would accept that the Red Cross was "born" in Russia in the form of the Sisters of Mercy! -- ] (]) 21:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

== Barnstar ==

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: Thank you. --]<sup>]</sup> 05:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
==Vyborg vs. Viipuri==
I returned Finnish name to Vyborg at the time when it was refered officially in Finnish (in a similar manner it is still referred in it's Swedish form of Vyborg's Swedish era. It is used in the similar way as in the article of ] or ], where the historic names are used when explaining their periods. In fact, I'm not satisfied how the history is presented currently, it gives too much space to the last century, and highlights it against previous centuries.


== sennaya square ==
Also, after the Winter War, the town was incorporated to Karelo-Finnish SSR and it retained it's Finnish name. Only after the Continuation War was the town (with Priozersk) incorporated to Leningrad Oblast. (BTW, should we also stop talking about the Siege of Leningrad and talk about the Siege of Saint Petersburg instead?)


Hi Ghidlandajo, could you please let me know why you replaced the photo that I put in the Sennaya Square page?
And I truly like to see more text about current Vyborg. --] 13:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
The photo you put was taken from the Russian version, but it's not a good photo at all, because it's at night, so you can't see anything, and you can't distinguish any recognisable features of Sennaya Square.
Thanks.
] (]) 10:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
: Because your photo is of inferior quality and does not illustrate the article at all. ]. If you want to upload your personal pictures, you may consider using ] or ]. Misplaced Pages is not a proper place for storing such stuff. --]<sup>]</sup> 13:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


Hi Ghirlandajo, thank you for reply. I understand your point of view, and I am thankful for you opinion, specially because you have a lot of experience, and I'm very new at editing wikipedia articles.


In my opinion, the night photo taken from the Russian article is not good, for the following 4 reasons:
== How busy are you? ==
1) it's at night
2) you can't see anything
3) you can't recognise sennaya square in it
4) it contains things that are wrong, such as the column seen at the back, which doesn't exist anymore


Also in my opinion, the photo that I put is better because:
I was just re-reading ] this evening, it realy does need a brief section on Russian Palladianism, that picture dumped at the bottom of the page looks all wrong - please write just a few words for a section on the subject - if you don't - I will, and it will be all wrong, and then all you Russians will pile in on it - so in the long run it will be more simple for you to do it in the first instance.........please? .........nice begging pretty please? ] | ] 19:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
1) it doesn't have any of the problems with the other photo
2) everybody can recognise sennaya ploshchad from this photo


For these reasons, I understand that the photo that I put is not 100% ideal, but I think it's better than the night photo from the Russian article.
==]==


But like I said, you are a very important wikipedia editor, so if in your opinion it's better to have that night photo, I trust your opinion.
The Khrenovsky stud is situated near the town of Bobrov in Voronezh oblast', not near Novomoskovsk in Tula oblast'. See . Also thanks for the image and for the two DYK nominations. Probably you can find some more images for this article? ] (]) 11:38 August 16 2006
:OK, I'll see what I can do. --<font color="FC4339">]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">]</font></sup> 09:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


Thanks,
== ochen harasho ==
] (]) 14:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


==Commons link in the infobox==
and thank you for the honor. You seem to be well in control of your material, I will defer to you any decisions. Regards, ] 11:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ghirla. Could you please clarify what you meant by ? I can probably implement such a parameter fairly easily, and it seems like a good idea to have a Commons link in the infobox, but I thought I'd check with you first as to what it is exactly you were expecting. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); January&nbsp;4, 2012; 17:44 (UTC)
: Hi, Ezhiki. A standard link to an eponymous category in the Wikimedia Commons is all I ask for. --]<sup>]</sup> 17:50, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
::Is close to what you had in mind?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); January&nbsp;4, 2012; 18:12 (UTC)
::: Yep, thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


==Do we?== ==New article==
Good work, Ghirlandaio! But you have now prompted me to make more requests!


Can you do some more of the churches in the article about cathedrals and great churches, including this one ]?
. Do we really require links in other languages? Thanks. --] 13:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


Sorry to be such a nuisance!
== DYK ==


] (]) 23:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
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: Ok, Amanda. --]<sup>]</sup> 09:21, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

== ] ==

Если Вам несложно, проверьте там, пожалуйста, названия. По Новгороду я надеюсь сделать всё в ближайшие дни, удобнее сразу создавать статьи с подходящим названием. Заранее спасибо.--] (]) 05:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
: Надо будет посмотреть повнимательнее. Сомневаюсь, например, что киевским Золотым воротам место в этом списке. Вы планируете отдельные статьи по монастырским соборам? --]<sup>]</sup> 08:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
:: Да, но не в первую очередь. Сначала - отдельные плюс сами монастыри, там, где нет.--] (]) 15:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

==DYK nomination of VimpelCom Ltd.==
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==DYK for VimpelCom Ltd.==
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== ] ==

Dammit, Andrey, I spent a long time yesterday fixing all the links to ], and now you've moved it again. I don't agree with moving it to that name (although I do see that ruwiki has it under that). I think ] is more descriptive, and fits with the other various sundry Tsareviches we have around here. Can we please move it back? -- <b>]&nbsp;]</b> 15:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
* I'm afraid we cannot. His namesakes are just a footnote in genealogical compilations and cannot compete in importance with this key figure of Russian history. Check ]: "Article titles and redirects should anticipate what readers will type as a first guess and balance that with what readers expect to be taken to. Misplaced Pages does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". --]<sup>]</sup> 17:57, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
**And is that in fact the most frequent name? I have no idea if it is or not... -- <b>]&nbsp;]</b> 18:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

==Yaroslavl==
A very funny edit summary on Yaroslavl; thanks for cheering me up :) Just out of curiosity, though&mdash;is there nothing else to see in your city except for the bloody churches?—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); June&nbsp;11, 2012; 12:09 (UTC)
* Most of other things are unavailable due to the lack of Freedom of Panorama.--] (]) 13:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
**I know. I was just pulling Ghirla's leg :) FOP issues aside, his fascination with quaint little churches is just too tempting of a target not to make fun of.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); June&nbsp;11, 2012; 13:19 (UTC)

== ] ==

When/if you have time, could you perhaps copyedit the article? It was ] (not by me) for DYK, and there have been some questions concerning terminology of ecclesiastical architecture I can not answer properly. I also asked ]. Thanks in advance.--] (]) 20:18, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
* Огромное спасибо.--] (]) 05:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

== Lubok ==

Hi Ghirlandajo (nice username!), I added ] because it was from a early date and it is in the commons category Lubok. Do you have any idea why it is in that category, and if it should be removed from it? ] (]) 07:15, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

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== О правке статьи "Михаил КеруЛЛарий" ==
== Coordinates Template ==
Hello,
I propose that we use ] instead of ] for geographic coordinates of cities and towns. The latter one requires seconds, which are useless to indicate for large objects like towns. The seconds are normally omitted, which results in a treble apostrophe with the latter template.


О Михаиле Керулларии. Уважаемый Ghirlandajo - текст мой. Использовал источники по истории христианской Церкви. Священнослужитель. Имею за плечами светское высшее образование, аспирантуру. Пожалуйста, откликнитесь. Предлагаю найти компромисс. С уважением, диакон Олег Котов.


== ] ==
==DYK==

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Hi there, thank you for {{diff|Ivan Tarkhanov (physiologist)|next|534157965|your help}}! --] (]) 19:12, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

== Madonna ==

* ''(])'' – '''] → {{no redirect|Madonna}}''' I am notifying you because you were involved in writing this article. ] (]) 11:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

== ] ==

Hello, I was working on disambiguating the links to ] when it became clear to me that it really could be a broad concept article. I checked the history and saw your where you changed it from an article to a disambiguation page. Rather than reverse your edit, I thought I'd check with you to get an explanation for your edit summary. What do you mean by "back to disambiguation, no need for forking"? Thanks, ] (]) 17:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
:Please see ]. ] (]) 06:50, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

== Navboxes on author pages ==

Since you are the leading registered editor in terms of edits at ] and ], you might want to participate in the discussion at ] regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 17:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

== Infoboxes arbitration case ==

I notice that you've added a comment yeserday to the Workshop page of the Infoboxes arbitration case . Per the header at the top of all the Infobox case pages the workshop closed on the 7th. I'm not an arbitration clark so I wont remove your addition myself, but it would be most polite if you would self-revert. The workshop talk page does remain open. ] (]) 12:21, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

== Ternopil castle ==

You are a complete idiot, changing Krakow to Krakiv and Jan Tarnowski to Yan Tarnovsky. This castle was built by Poland to protect Poland. I do not know why such a chauvinistic moron is still tolerated here. ] (]) 21:55, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

== FAR ] ==

I have nominated ] for a ]. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets ]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are ]. ] (]) 01:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

== Legionnaires' disease question ==

Can you please explain why you reverted a perfectly proper merger of Legionnaires' disease ? Especially as you've never edited the article, you failed to give any rationale whatsoever in your edit summary. Why did you revert the merger and then go off to Ymblanter and say I've created a content fork? The page was merged, Ymblanter has had to restore my merger. Please explain your 'edits.' Thanks. ] (]) 20:48, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

==Agrippina, Countess von Zarnekau==
Hello, just letting you know I nominated an article you tagged as a hoax for deletion - ]. Regards. --] (]) 07:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

== ]==

Can you please be so kind as to take a look at the above article, which I'm working on. I've found lots of errors in the Soviet era books on the palace, which I think/hope I am correcting - you may known better. I'm using an English book for the section on the owners, but I think it has a lot of death dates wrong because Misplaced Pages has articles (which you've worked on) on many of Shuvalovs of the same or very similar names, but the death dates don't quite correspond. I'm pretty sure they are the same people, but would like to you to check them out before I link to them from the article. Thanks. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 15:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::I think this ] may be the one who married Prince Vorontsov's daughter. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 15:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::: Nope. Vorontsov's son-in-law was ] (]), the owner of ]. My article ] has a family tree. An anglicized version is . --]<sup>]</sup> 15:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::::Thanks, I thought you would be the person to ask. I'll translate it from the Italian. I've just found this man ]. Interestingly, despite his name, he only lived at the Vorontsov Palace because his wife inherited it - would he have owned it himself through her, or could married woman own property in Russia at that time? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 16:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::::::: If Vorontsov-Dashkov had divorced his wife, she would have kept the estates inherited through her mother. --]<sup>]</sup> 11:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::That's interesting edit , the book is very vague as to why that wing vam to named after the Shuvalovs. I wonder if she had separated from her husband - hence she used that as her country seat rather than one of her husband's. It's odd that with so many houses, the Suvalovs (together) would choose to share one with her brother. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 10:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::: I believe she lived separately from her dissolute husband with her children, the young Shuvalovs, from the 1850s onward. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::::That would explain why she and the children spent so much time at the Vorontsov property then - avoiding her husband. Is this the last private owner ? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 10:37, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::::: I'm not sure. His elder brother (1868-97) had a son, (1893-1920), who died from typhus in Novorossiysk. That guy probably would have inherited the palace after 's death. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::You recent edits are all v interesting. I wonder how much of a dalliance the Princess had with Pushkin? Apparently she had Hunt (the architect) recreate "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" in a courtyard at Alupka - an odd thing for a woman who claimed to rebuff him. I shall be writing that courtyard garden up in the grounds section tomorrow - it's all a fascinating subject that keeps leading to other interesting pages. I was thinking a single page on the 19th century palaces and castles of the Crimea would be good to do. I would quite like to do a trip there, probably though it's not currently the best holiday destination. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::: I bet :) There was probably nothing serious between the Countess and Pushkin, although this is a matter of some debate. He was motivated by vanity rather than a true feeling; and she spurned his advances. Poets were not highly regarded in the Russian aristocratic circles of the time. Pushkin was very young and held no official post, so there was a precipice between them. Some also found him physically repulsive. The Bakhchisaray poem was certainly a bestseller, but it did not become well known until after his departure from Odessa. --]<sup>]</sup> 22:41, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::::*How good are you on Islamic architecture? the Russian published sources say there are influences of ], but the English published source, which I have been heavily using (and trust), say it's not not Moorish at all, but ], and Mughal architecture when superimposed on European architecture appears Moorish, but isn't. Apparently in the 19hh century the palace was frequently referred to as ], but that was erroneous because Moorish and Mughal are quite different. As you know, I will fight any corner on European architecture, but I don't understand the finer points of Islamic and only have a rudimentary understanding of it - are you or ] (who is the primary author and got the page to GA) any wiser than me? DDima and I discovered a few months ago that the old Soviet sources did contain some errors and wishful thinking. I think it is Mughal, but don't want to discredit a Russian source if you and DDima don't agree. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 19:07, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Giano, I know nothing about Islamic art. For older writers, "Moorish" was an umbrella term for all Islamic architectural influences, don't you think? ] in Moscow is routinely described as Moorish Revival, for instance, although its models are Portuguese. I don't have any sources on the Crimean palaces at hand. A quick look at the Google Books found four Russian-language sources highlighting the Jama Masjid as the main inspiration for the southern facade. Some authors of guidebooks, unversed in the mysteries of architecture, repeat (in passim) that, apart from the Delhi mosque, Blore was inspired by "the palace of Muhammad I and Carlos I in Alhambra". They probably found this in some old book and so repeat without thinking. Never mind. The Lions' Terrace is not exactly the ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 17:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
* In the 1830s everyone read the '']'', and Pushkin based '']'' on one of Irving's stories. Alhambra was probably viewed as a generic term for any luxurious Moslem residence. The line "There is no God but Allah" supposedly appears 9000 times in the Nasrid palace. Perhaps these associations or some details of the interior led to the name "Alhambra" which was applied to the south part of the palace from 1844 onward. Filatova in her catalogue of the Vorontsovs' portrait gallery (Г. Г. Филатова. Портретная галерея Воронцовых. Volume 1. Alupka, 1997) claims that the southern palace of the palace was called Alhambra on account of the inscription. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:06, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
** Translated from the article Галиченко А.А. Воронцовский дворец в Алупке: новороссийский губернатор и английский архитектор // Пинакотека. - 2004. - № 18/19. - С. 26-31: "Elisabeth Vorontsov was fascinated by the Alhambra tales of Washington Irving and even undertook, in 1838, a journey to Spain to see the famed palace. She brought with her to Alupka the views of Alhambra interiors drawn by an Enlishman named Satu (Сату????) and Blore's design for the garden which was based on the ] gardens in Granada. It took several years and a help from soldiers to realize the Irving-influenced design in Alupka". --]<sup>]</sup> 18:22, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
::::Well I see that well known architectural historian Winston Churchill calls it 'Moorish' - who am I to argue with him? I think the article should point out that the architecture is strictly speaking Moghul, but conveniently suited contemporary ideals of Moorish romance. Would you be happy with that? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 18:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
::::: Of course. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:50, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::Good. as you may know, I have not done at FAC for years; I rather fell out with the idea, but I think I would like to see this featured. However, I am not nominating it unless you are completely happy with it. You know this sort of stuff far better than I. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::: Giano, I don't think I ever took part in the FAC process, and I don't think I ever will, given my poor English and lack of interest in letter-worship and pedantry. --]<sup>]</sup> 22:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

==March 2014==
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== Kinzelyuk Waterfall ==

Hi! I'm ] ] , and I happened to notice the article ] as I was patrolling Recent Changes. I understand that you reverted my addition of a {{citation needed}} tag. I did not mean to confuse or offend you. On the contrary, I was confused by the claim that it was "probably" the highest waterfall in Russia, and thought the source cited referred to the Talnikovy Waterfall (I was mistaken). Another thing I noticed about the article is that most of the links to other geographical features in that area are red links. Could you consider possibly creating those pages (as I can't read the Russian sources)? ] ] 16:25, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
* Hello. Normally I'm tempted to write an English geo-stub only when I see a whopping number of interwiki links (e.g., ]). I don't think the American public cares about the mountains or rivers of Russia, even if the mountains and rivers are really huge. So it's not worth wasting my time. Especially since the stubs here are quickly disfigured by ugly infoboxes or by ]'s nasty activities. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
**A wonderful day to you too, Ghirla! :)—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); <span class="nowrap">March 21, 2014</span>; 18:24 (UTC)

== Olga of Kiev Edit ==
Hi. Why did you remove the sentence I added to the ] article (about ]s)? ] (]) 05:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
* Because the comparison qualifies as ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:22, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

== Your DYK nomination of Pastila ==

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:*You will need to do a quid pro quo (QPQ) review of another nomination for your own to be approved. If you need help finding resources for DYK reviewing, there are the ], ] (which explain them in greater detail), and the ]. ] (]) 22:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

==Wikilinking==
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== Nice to see you... ==

...around again, and indeed to see two people adding to ] in the same week! I've been poking around ] a bit, I don't know if this is an area that interests you? I've said in the past that ] could do with some additions on Central/East European matters but I don't think we should add that the Bulgarians invented the Renaissance, as they all apparently learn on their mothers' knee. ] (]) 15:47, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
* Nice to see you too, Johnbod. The Boyana claim is ludicrous, yet the wider Orthodox culture was essential for the Middle Ages. This aspect is sorely underrepresented in the article (judging by the illustrations, at least). --]<sup>]</sup> 12:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
** Steppes art is fascinating, but I don't have time for it at the moment. There are too many artifacts that require articles in this language edition of Misplaced Pages. The ] immediately springs to mind. --]<sup>]</sup> 12:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

== ] — final call for QPQ ==

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* As you may see from my user page, I was the first wikipedian to receive a DYK medal and the 200 DYK medal and, in the words of the then arb YellowMonkey, used to be the "driving force of DYK" from 2005 on. After spending so much time and effort on DYK, I find the latest requirements to review still more DYK nominations unfair and discouraging. If DYK does not care about its patriarchs, you'd better close the nom. --]<sup>]</sup> 16:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

==Is this genuine?==

I've just stumbled upon this page: ]. Is it genuine or a hoax? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:44, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
* Apparently genuine, though the prose is excessively florid. Her stepson ] is a well-known film director in Russia. Another stepson was the CEO of the ] studio. ] certainly lacks notability for a Misplaced Pages article. --]<sup>]</sup> 07:44, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*: I think I agree with this. Should we nominate the article for deletion?--] (]) 07:51, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*:: I think we should. --]<sup>]</sup> 09:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*::: Good, I will do it later today.--] (]) 09:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*::: ]--] (]) 14:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
:::::::I was just checking that she existed. I know the Romanovs fell on hard times, but I never knew they had to resort to being trick cyclists - just shows how resourceful good breeding can make one. Icidentally, I just looked at the Stroganoff Palace, "''This chain of ownership was preserved until 1919 when the last Count Sergei Stroganov sold his rights to the entail''" I would love to know how much his rights were worth at that time. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 19:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

== Bolding ==

The bold conflicts were more historically important or more successful in the achievement of their goals.] (]) 15:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
* Who decides which conflicts are important and which are not? There is no way a rebellion that spread over the territory roughly the size of Western Europe is less important than events in Bulgaria. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

==CPSU Central Committee members==
This might seem like a strange question, since its something I should probably do myself, but since I can't speak or understand Russian its a bit difficult. Even so, do you know anyone who would be interested in creating articles on the 28th different Central Committee (a list of their members, similar to ]). I have , found it by using Google Translate, but as you may understand, the translation services falters from time to time very seriously, which makes it all but impossible in certain cases to know who is actually who. I'm not saying you should do this, but do you know anyone on Misplaced Pages interested in making such a list? That we don't have a list on this topic says a lot about WPs covering of Soviet, and Russian history. --] (]) 07:45, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
: I can make some of the list but would you please create some appropriate redlinks first? I generally do not like creating orphans.--] (]) 09:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

==DYK for Stripped Classisim?==
] is a brand new article. If we can work together to make it long enough (I need your help), I would be pleased to nominate it for a ], and list all the contributors as creators. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">] (])</span> 15:04, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
:] comments. Needs your input and help. Thanks. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">] (])</span> 01:58, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

==Merger discussion for ]==
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==An article about Russian monastery==

Hello! You thanked me for my article about the ] in Novgorod, so I checked your page and figured it out that you seem to be a guru of Misplaced Pages in this field. I have actually just created an article about ], so, it will be a compliment for me if you would find it curious enough to check ;) Take care! --] (]) 21:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

== DYK for Stripped Classicism ==

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== Precious ==

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'''core goal of the project'''<br />
Thank you, veteran productive editor in English and Russian, for a wealth of quality articles written, substantially revised and edited, often in collaboration, such as ] and ], for "being a driving force of DYK, and for adhering to the core goal of the project", - you are an ]!

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Five years ago, you were recipient no. ] of Precious, a prize of QAI! --] (]) 06:52, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

==What do you know==
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I have just returned from your very impressive country with lots of photos, but I see most of the places I've visited have already very good articles already - most of them with your name n the history!. However, one building caught my attention which does not. Maybe because I've had to research the internet to even find out what it is/was. It seems to be a a lesser known Yusupoff Palace on the Nevsky Prospect. Google "''Number 86, The 'Actors House' & a former home of Princess Tatiana Vassillievna Yusupova.''" It's a real neoclassical building with lots of bass relief, and I have photographed it from both angles and will upload tomorrow or later tonight. There seems to be little info available in English at least, but I'll start a page and see of it grows. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 18:52, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
: We have a dedicated Commons category for this building ] but apparently no article.--] (]) 18:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::Oh! I thought I had discovered a building that no one had noticed. Well ] now I have looked at them are all lopsided (that's the best) - is there anything much known about it? Perhaps on a Russian language website. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:46, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::: Please upload your photos by any means. It should be known smth about the building, I will try to se whether there are any sources easily available.--] (]) 21:13, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Giano, you chose the worst time of the year to visit the country! In March, the weather must be atrocious. This building caught my attention last year so I decided to upload a vintage photo (''to the right'') from which contains some info about the palace. It was built by Colonel Fyodor Petrovo-Solovovo in the early 1800s (] was his son). In 1835, Count ] commissioned Gasparo Fossati, a Swiss-born architect, to have it remodeled. --]<sup>]</sup> 22:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:We actually have ]--] (]) 22:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:: Now we have a curious connection with Constantinople! By the way, a previous building on the site belonged to Prince Kurakin who had several other Neoclassical palaces in a similar vein. I happened to upload a picture of his Moscow residence last week (see another picture to the right). --]<sup>]</sup> 22:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Actually Ghirla, the weather was very good if a little cold - mostly blue skies! I will start a page later today, it can be a stub and we will see what happens. Is it your opinion that it was not a Yousupoff Palace? I'll call the page ] - it can always be changed. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 09:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
:::: When the snow is gone, tons of garbage appear on Russian streets. Sightseeing is best after the week of April ]s :) As for the Petrovo-Solovovo House, contains more information. In the late 19th century, the building belonged to Princess Tatiana Yusupova, the wife of ] and the mother of Princess ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 16:08, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I always like to see places before the tourists arrive. I even love Venice best in the winter. Two things struck me hugely about St Pete's - one as the cleanliness of the streets, and the other was the amount of people using the churches for religious purposes; I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it everything was far more impressive than I expected it to be. I expect that was not the real Russia, but it was the nearest I'm likely to get to it. I ate my breakfast every morning staring at the Petrovo-Solovovo House across the street, which is a pretty nice way to start the day, and what made me curious about it. I'll expand the page a little over the next few days. can you keep an eye on it - my Russian translation is decidedly dodgy at the best of times. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::*PS: Years ago, when I was a child, I was told a story about another Princess Zinaida Yusupova who died sometime in the 19th century aged 100. After the revolution, when the new owners were knocking her house about, they found a walled up skeleton of one of her lovers - have you ever heard this story, of have I misremembered and confused something else? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">]</span> ] 20:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::: The building is listed as both Petrovo-Solovovo House and Zinaida Yusupova House. We can rename the article in one of these names (I do not hold a strong opinion on this).--] (]) 11:46, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

== Обсуждение в Рувики ==

Уважаемый коллега, обращаю Ваше внимание на . Возможно, Вам ст''о''ит принять в нём участие. --] (]) 12:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
* Посмотрел. Энтузиасты скайпочатов, как и предсказывалось, уже закрыли все обсуждения происходящего, прикрикивая: "Здесь не место! Обсуждать нечего!" Видимо, осмысленно обсуждать что-либо выходящее за рамки рутины разрешено теперь только офф-вики :( Очистить лог от кляксы было бы шагом к выходу из кризиса, но это сделать можно и без моего участия. --]<sup>]</sup> 19:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
:* Дал ссылку на Ваш ответ. --] (]) 20:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
:* P. S. Вы, однако, не совсем правы относительно закрытия темы; похоже, что это было сделано из каких-то иных побуждений: ... --] (]) 21:16, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
* Пожалуйста, будьте выше , пытающихся пиариться на фоне грандов проекта. Основная масса участников прекрасно понимает, чья роль важнее, и никогда не подаст руки этим геростратам. Просто исключите таких и им подобных из поля своего внимания и продолжайте работать. Плохой участковый - еще не повод менять квартиру. И не забывайте, что вы в ответе за ], кого приручили. --] (]) 04:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
* Кляксы больше нет! Возвращайтесь! Без Вас неуютно в проекте...--] (]) 11:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

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== Cossacks in Ukraine ==

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А зачем переименовали? еще как минимум два человека с таким именем есть, см. ]. --&nbsp;]. 10:59, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
* Велика вероятность, что в ближайшие 100 лет статей на английском о них не появится. Когда появятся, будем думать о внесении уточнения в заголовок. Сейчас это излишне. --]<sup>]</sup> 11:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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I attempted to create the article, and this is the best I could come up with. (I am afraid it is still better than the Russian article). I remember that Russian history is one of your main interests, so if you could have a look at some point it would be highly appreciated. There is obviously no hurry.--] (]) 17:47, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
* The article is almost too good as it is (for the English-speaking public, which does not give a damn about such subjects). --]<sup>]</sup> 15:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
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== Alexander Nevsky, Revision by Vuhdeem as of 08:22, 4 October 2014 ==

Alexander Nevsky,Revision as of 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem - contradicts dates of article: "In 1237, ... He gave his 8-year-old son Aleksandr Yaroslavich to Batu into amanat (hostages). While staying in the Horde from 1238 to 1252,... , wed Batu Khan's daughter, "

Known wikipedia sources give: 1236 - first rule in Novgorod in age of 15, first visit into Orda - 1247 in age of 26, no Khan's doughter as a wife.

Now it found in uk.wikipedia article "Володимир Білінський". It may be timely view of this particular person.

Vuhdeem revision also removed date 1236 of previous author: Ghirlandajo Revision as of 15:02, 10 June 2005, and inserted itself stright among sentence of Ghirlandajo Revision.

Revision 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem should be limited to "OTHER VIES".

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* This type of trash was common in late 2014, especially from ukrainian IPs. Just delete it. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:14, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks to master touch of Ghirlandajo
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I have removed the synopsis, which you state was published in 1927. It is therefore still under copyright. Sorry, — ] (]) 21:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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::Sorry for not replying sooner. The material was published in 1927, it still could be under copyright. The Wikisource page says the copyright was never renewed, but I don't know how they determined that. — ] (]) 22:28, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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== Kiy Island ==

Hi Ghirlandajo, cab you please show me where in ] it states that the rule is not applicable to stressed vowels. I can't see anything other than a distinction between words of Russian and non Russian origin. Am I missing something? Thanks. ] (]) 07:07, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
* {{ping|Ezhiki}} {{ping|Ymblanter}} is not described in ] because the placename Кий is an exception to the rule. Apart from ], I can't readily think of any other words consisting of the single syllable ending with "-ий". The "Ky" version is completely nonsensical, because it leaves the syllable without vowels. It is impossible to pronounce. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
*: I am sure it should be Kiy. May be we can make a footnote in ], I can not right now think of other single-sillable name with "-ий" but tehnically it is possible. Compare ] which nobody romanizes as Vy.--] (]) 18:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
:::To my mind there is no difference in pronunciation between Kiy and Ky as the y in Ky is being pronounced as a vowel but I understand it might look a bit weird visually so happy for it to stay where it is if everyone agrees. As an aside, what do people make of ]? ] (]) 19:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
::::It's not so much about stressed/unstressed vowels, as it is about the usual practice of replacing "-iy" with "-y" in adjectives and certain first names ("Valery", "Makary"), but not in nouns or words of non-Russian origin. This is actually mentioned in WP:RUS—scroll all the way down to the bottom of the "Full rules" table, where endings are explained; the third column explains how the "-iy" ending should generally be dealt with. {{small|("Kyyy" is awful but inevitable, since the word being romanized is a direct borrowing from Sakha and looks pretty weird in Russian, too).}} Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 15:54 (UTC)
:::::Where does Kiy/Ky come from in this instance then? ] (]) 16:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
::::::There are multiple theories, but most likely the name is either of Finno-Ugric or Saami origins. At any rate, it's a noun now, and the "-iy" ending in nouns would not be reduced to "-y" when romanized.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 16:39 (UTC)
::::::P.S. By the way, similar cases include ] in the Republic of Dagestan, ] and ] in the Republic of Ingushetia, and my personal favorite ] in the Tuva Republic. Of these, Fiy is the largest (with ~1,500 people).—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 17:02 (UTC)
:::::::Thanks for the info, very interesting. ] (]) 17:31, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
::: BTW -iy is often stressed in Ukrainian surnames. e.g., ]. --]<sup>]</sup> 05:17, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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: Имеет смысл переписывать, удалять не нужно.--] (]) 10:53, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
:: Спасибо. Просто ещё два раздела не перевёл, думаю, имет ли смысл. Хотя, если кто-то поправит самые очевидные ошибки, то, вероятно, имеет. ] (]) 12:25, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
::: Конечно, имеет. В принципе, всё понятно. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:29, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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The history of Sochi

Dear Ghirlandajo, Thank you for your modifications, but please be informed that you are biased against the real people of Sochi and Circassia and i can't believe a real editor and researcher in Misplaced Pages can remove the truth not because he is not convinced but because the easiest way to him is to remove instead of search for resources , and i can't understand that you removed my contribution by giving a weak reason!!! What do you mean UNPO.org is not reliable source ???? Please be informed that UNPO stand for Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization not a shop for doing propogandas. Best Regards, ShapsougSochi1864

Portrait of Anna Yekaterina Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina (1693-1761)

Dear Ghirlandajo,

With respect to a biographical study concerning the celebrated adventurer Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck I am looking for a portrait of Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina, the wife of chancellor A. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin. Unfortunately, though a German lady, it seems that there is no portrait of her known in Germany. Can you help?

I am looking to hear from you. If possible, can you send me your answer as eMail to andreas_pechtl@hotmail.com ?

Yours sincerely,

Andreas Pechtl,

7 December 2009

Project Ukraine

гуд найт! I saw you wrote some excellent new article about Ukraine! Thanks for that! Would you like to join our project Ukraine (click on advert to learn more). We could really need some new articles about the subjects you wrote your last Ukrainian articles about (there are lots of castles there!)! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 21:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Medieval emporia: Dierkow and Bardy

I noticed you removed Dierkow and Bardy from the emporia template. I think they should be re-added. *About Dierkow, there is not much known yet, but this does not automatically make it unimportant or tiny (though there is a possiblity).

If you still think it is a bad idea to put them back in, let me know. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 11:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to readd them! By the way, I don't think we should limit the template's scope to the Baltic Sea as you did. --Ghirla 11:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Awards

For creating so many Lviv related articles, I hereby award you the Ukrainian Barnstar of National Merit. Note the raspberry color of the ribbon, the historical color of the Dnieper Cossacks.Mariah-Yulia (talk) 20:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't know that the Cossacks liked raspberries :) More Lviv substubs will be added as soon as I have free time in the Russian Misplaced Pages. Best, Ghirla 21:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Question about image

Hi there. I'm doing some work on tagging featured pictures on the English Misplaced Pages. Coming across this image, I found that you added a {{NoCommons}} tag. This was back in 2006, and the current preference is to put everything on Commons. Do you have a problem with me asking for this image to be deleted from WP or do you still have a pressing reason? Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16♣kiss me 04:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd prefer to keep the local image. Shouldn't we respect each others contributions and attribute them properly. Last year I found it on Main Page of the Wikimedia Commons without any information as to who uploaded and nominated the picture. That was rather disheartening. --Ghirla 10:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Very true. I asked you first b/c I respect the intentions of photographers/image uploaders. That said, this image is actually in the public domain (and especially since it's not your work), you really have no say over what happens to it after you upload it. I'm going to have the local copy deleted, but once that occurs, everything will be the same once I reenter the missing data (if you're not aware, Commons images are called to a local Misplaced Pages and local wikipedia templates can still be added, such as the FP and POTD templates). Sorry for any confusion, but PD images are not needed on Misplaced Pages; they belong on Commons so every language Misplaced Pages can access them. Thanks for understanding. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣T 21:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
FWIW, I credited you as the original uploader and included much of the info from the local copy to the Commons copy (the caption of the local copy was more complete). Hopefully this doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it's the right thing to do. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣T 21:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Johann Hermann von Fersen

Interesting move. Do you have a link to attest the German version of his name? I can't seem to find one. Neddyseagoon - talk 10:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

See here, for instance. By the way, the text of the Russian article was taken verbatim from the Russian Biographical Dictionary. --Ghirla 10:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Luigi Pernier

On T:TDYK]] you said there was little information in English. That doesn't really matter. Are their other-language sources to use? - Mgm| 12:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Baikoff

Hi, Ghirla! When you get a moment, could you check if this stub is legit? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:08, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

Why, it's a nonsensical joke --Ghirla 14:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thought as much. Will prod it now. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:45, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

Vorotynsk

Hi, me again. I've got another question for you, if you don't mind. In the Vorotynsk article, there is a mention of the village of Spas-on-the-Oka. I was unable to find anything about this village. I also did not quite understand the "which now marks the spot" part—currently, the village (selo) of Vorotynsk is located on the location of the ancient town, and there is a larger (and newer) settlement (posyolok) of Vorotynsk not too far away from it. There is (and, to the best of my knowledge, was) no populated place called "Спас-на-Оке" anywhere in the vicinity. Could you, please, clarify? Where exactly is Savior Vorotynsk Monastery located, do you know? Same goes for New and Old Vorotynsk villages—are these in reference to the selo and posyolok? Thanks again!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:34, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

  • Check map coords here . Spas is referenced on many similar tourist sites, it has postcode 248903 and appears to be administered by the city of Kaluga although nearby Vorotynsk is in Babyninsky rayon. NVO (talk) 18:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Correction: the P.O. is in Rosva (Росва on Google maps) which is due north from Vorotynsk, east of Spas. NVO (talk) 18:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Thanks, NVO, it helps, although this still does not resolve everything. In addition to Spas in jurisdiction of Kaluga, there is also another Spas in Babyninsky District; both are listed simply as "Spas", not "Spas-na-Oke" (which is why I ignored them when posting the original note) and none of the two is located on the spot where ancient Vorotynsk stood (the selo of Vorotynsk is in that spot now). Any further ideas?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:49, March 6, 2009 (UTC)
      • Here's the almighty KLADR , see fifth line from the bottom of list. It is деревня Спас, Спасский сельский округ города Калуги. "Na Oke" is omitted in all official data; it is actually inside Oka-Ugra salient. Kaluga police has a vacancy for a local cop - wanna apply? NVO (talk) 19:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
        • Ah yeah, here's the dream job I always wanted, thanks so much :) Regarding Spas, any clues as to when the "-na-Oke" suffix is/was used? Or is it more of a colloquial name that never made it to the official records?
        • Anyway, based on this discussion, is everyone going to be OK with me butchering Vorotynsk a bit? The monastery sentence should be moved to Rosva (based on the coordinates); "Spas-na-Oke" does not seem to do anything with Vorotynsk except being located fairly close (but definitely not on the spot of old Vorotynsk the town), so its mention can be removed; also removed should be the mentions of New and Old Vorotynsk (which are not officially called that). Sounds good so far? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:09, March 6, 2009 (UTC)
        • By the way, my 1859 book on inhabited localities of Peremyshlsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate lists the selo of Spas (near the Ugra and Oka Rivers) as "Spas or Spasskoye", so the "-na-Oke" designation must be relatively recent.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:14, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Stroganov Palace

Updated DYK query On 13 March, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stroganov Palace, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Thanks for the nom! Royalbroil 04:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


My user space

I had noticed you were returned to us, is one allowed to say welcome back? before fiddling with my Versailles, you should go and take a good look at Winter Palace and make some changes there, I needed you a few month ago writing that - you should have been writing it! - Welcome back :-) Giano (talk) 21:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, my friend, but I still spend most of my time in Russian Misplaced Pages. My contributions in English are limited to fixing some pesky errors, and I would start an occasional sub-stub every once in a while. --Ghirla 22:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Luigi Pernier

Updated DYK query On 17 March, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Luigi Pernier, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Order of Glory

Hi there, Andrei! Thanx for fixing the picture of the Order of Glory on my user page! Some dude erased a while back claiming it to be a copyvio or something like that :). How are you these days? Will you ever return to serious editing in English Misplaced Pages? Drop me a line. KNewman (talk) 08:18, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Beregovaya compressor station

Hi, Ghirla. Could you help with the exact location of the Beregovaya compressor station? Some sources says that it is located in Arkhipo-Osipovka, and most of the sources says that at Dzhubga, e.g. this map of gas pipelines. By my understanding it is located in west from Dzhubga and in east from Arkhipo-Osipovka, and definitely there is only one compressor station, not two. Do you knew any reliable source about the location? Beagel (talk) 07:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

The map is in error. The Beregovaya (literally, "coastal") station, launched in November 2005 as part of the Blue Stream network, is situated in the Drovyanaya Shchel' gorge near Arkhipo-Osipovka, Gelendzhik District at an elevation of 235 meters. Some pictures are available here. I suspect there will be another compressor station built in Dzhubga as part of the South Stream project. --Ghirla 10:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. It should be the same compressor station (probably expanded) for the South Stream. There is only one incoming pipeline, and it is not logical that the compressor station for the South Stream would be located east from the Blue Stream pipeline. Beagel (talk) 12:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Easter Greetings

Христос воскрес! Хрыстос уваскрос! Alleluia, Christ is risen! Kristus is uppeston!--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 09:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Воистину воскресе! --Ghirla 10:25, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Istomina

Hi, Ghirla! I almost started to move Avdotia Istomina to "Yevdokiya" when I noticed that it was you who created the article originally (and you normally know what you are doing :)). Could you, please, clarify, why the title says "Avdotia" when her actual name is "Евдокия"? I do not immediately see it. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:48, April 23, 2009 (UTC)

Replied here --Ghirla 12:04, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Not sure why, but I followed-up there as well :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:22, April 29, 2009 (UTC)

Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli

Привет, я тут случайно написала статью в англовики (со мной такое первый раз, обычно токо правлю). Сделай пожалуйста одолжение, посмотри грамматику, а то у меня с ней всегда оч. плохо было 0_0 --Shakko (talk) 15:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

New Picture available for Uvs-Nuur

Obsolete due to mistaken image description. http://de.wikipedia.org/Benutzer:TKN from German wikipedia. --141.76.178.109 (talk) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Tolentini

Good image of the church, Andrej. It's a pleasure to see your name at English Misplaced Pages.--Wetman (talk) 12:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, my friend. I'm pleased to see your name too. Can you help me in identifying this image? --Ghirla 19:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Would it be the spiral staircase scala a chiocciola in a wing of Palazzo Contrari Boncompagni, Vignola , built by conte Ercole Contrari the elder, allegedly to designs by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola?
I was tempted to use it for illustrating the Vignola article, but, since the attribution to him is by no means certain, should we let it rest on commons in relative obsurity? --Ghirla 08:59, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Your inputs to the Shamordino Convent and other articles

Hey Andrei, I've noticed you've been editing some of the Misplaced Pages articles I earlier uploaded images to. Many of the images have been deleted for no apparent reason. I will upload them again. If you don't like some images you can always move them to a gallery.

Please, move Shamordino Monastery to Shamordino Convent (I tried but couldn't do this). This is a community of nuns. Denghu (talk)

Only a sysop can move this article. You'd better upload your pictures to Wikimedia Commons, so that any wikipedia could use them when needed. --Ghirla 08:53, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
OK. Could you please contact a sysop on that? (I actually don't know who that is :-)) Denghu (talk)

Hey there!

Nice to see you, Ghirla! Bishonen | talk 07:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC).

Thank you, Bish. It's great to know that you are still around! --Ghirla 08:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for The Death of Procris

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Shubinator (talk) 01:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Philippa of Hainault

Hello Ghirlando. As regards, Philippa of Hainault, I believe that Kuthen of the Kumens's wife was of the Galitzine family. Halicz is just another version of her name as is Galicie. Her first name is a mystery.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

There's some mistake on the part of amateur researchers cited in the article. There is no record of Kotyan's wife, but a medieval Russian chronicle names several of his sons-in-law, including Mstislav Mstislavich, Prince of Halych/Galicia (in connection with the Battle of Kalka in which they both took part). In other words, it's Kotyan's daughter rather than wife who may be described as "N of Galicia". --Ghirla 18:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I believe you may be right, however his wife was most likely of the Halych family as well. Until that can be proved, I'll remove the reference to Kuthen's wife from the Philippa of Hainault article.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 05:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Mission accomplished. It now reads that Elizabeth was the daughter of Kuthen only, no mention of her mother. Thank you for drawing my attention to this error (which was made by me). Hopefully we'll discover who mothered Kuthen's children.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 06:00, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Fine. --Ghirla 06:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Borki train disaster

Updated DYK query On 15 May, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Borki train disaster, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
JamieS93 18:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Heritage Registers

Please take a look at my inquiry at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Russia#Lost_in_translation_..._Heritage_registers - I'm kinda stuck with reproducing kanzelyarit in English. P.S. Thanks for the dyk nom. NVO (talk) 07:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Puzzled

I'm puzzled by this . Are you under the impression that I'm active on IRC? William M. Connolley (talk) 11:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm under impression that your integrity as a sysop has been steadily eroding for about three years. Why you behave the way you do is not for me to say. --Ghirla 10:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I disagree with your first assertion, of course. But you have not answered my question. You appear to be associating me with IRC, and in this you are incorrect. If you don't care about being wrong, then say so and I won't trouble you any further. If you do care about being wrong (and I would rather hope you did) I'm interested in what you meant William M. Connolley (talk) 12:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Ghirlandajo merely mentioned this editor as an example of the atmosphere of intimidation, which appears to be demonstrated perfectly well right here. The association with IRC is a red herring.--Wetman (talk) 15:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Right on spot, Wetman. --Ghirla 15:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm afraid I'm no wiser about how to interpret your original statement. Whilst clearly demonstrating ill-will towards me, it is otherwise incoherent. However, it is now clear you realise I'm not active on IRC, so some progress has been made William M. Connolley (talk) 18:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo)

Template:Michelangelo appears at the bottom of The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo). It has a link to List of works by Michelangelo at the bottom of it. I've updated the list to include this painting. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Nice --Ghirla 16:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Back to heritage registers

What, in your opinion, should appear in Russian register of cultural register? I put together a draft, please let me know if anything significant is missing. I will definitely expand/clarify on legal fubar story; what else? NVO (talk) 05:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Gonzaga Cameo

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JamieS93 08:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Adjectives in Extreme North (Russia)

Hi Ghirlandajo, I'm not overly concerned about this, but I saw your change to Extreme North (Russia), and was wondering if the adjectives are actually particularly useful; they're not exactly quantifiable. Would it not be more useful (and Encyclopedic) to simply detail the aspects which you're attempting to describe via adjectives? And apologies if this mixes up the formatting you have on this page - I'll try to correct it if that happens. Random name (talk) 16:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Gorgoneion

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Dravecky (talk) 08:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Review/copyedit for Vincenzo Brenna

Andrey, please take a look - you might have better sources on the subject. Most of the article is based on Lanceray's book from 1930s; I don't have specific modern sources but Shvidkovsky provides completely different dates (and frequently different attributions, but it was expected). Regards, NVO (talk) 17:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for House of Lorraine

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Giants27 21:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

You have been nominated for membership of the Established Editors Association

The Established editors association will be a kind of union of who have made substantial and enduring contributions to the encyclopedia for a period of time (say, two years or more). The proposed articles of association are here - suggestions welcome.

If you wish to be elected, please notify me here. If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them here

Please put all discussion here.Peter Damian (talk) 10:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Erast Fandorin

I am conducting a reassessment as part of the GA sweeps process. I have found come concerns which need addressing if this article is to keep its GA status, which may be found at Talk:Erast Fandorin/GA1. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Askold and Dir

Fringe theory? What are talking about? The whole Russian history is the fringe theory. Why are parimary chronicles lay the base of Russian history? Book of Veles is being denied by the Russian church. Of course, because that church primary mission to destroy our history, the Slavic history. The primary chronicles were written by that church to come up with the new history. Why is that there are no prior historical records exist until those chronicles? Are we to believe that our ancestors were that stupid that they left us no historical records? Or, maybe, were they eliminated? I believe so. Book of Veles exists and it is the only surviving record of our ancient history. Why do we want to deny it? What would be the reason to come up with what the church believes to be not true? Do not forget what was happening at the times when the Rus was converted into Christianity. All Slavic religion was eradicated. Why? Because they did not know how to believe? :) What a crack! No wonder that the church now wants to get rid of Book of Veles. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 19:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Canaletto

I have conducted a review of this article which has a large number of issues which need attention. I have delisted it. The reassessment is at Talk:Canaletto/GA1. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Otto von Habsburg's Patrilineal Descent

Why do you state that Otto von Habsburg's patrilineal descent is faked? It was presented by Portuguese Genealogists on Raízes & Memórias publication, Nr. 21 - December 2005, pgs. 11 to 20. Are you saying Portuguese Genealogists and official publications in Portugal aren't credible? Dgarq (talk) 17:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the two first names are not the right ones according to the forementioned publication. I'll proceed and correct them. Dgarq (talk) 15:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Permission for use an image

Hello, I'm Bagratun from the Spanish wikipedia. I ask you to allow me to use the image File:Hutyn.jpg to illustrate the article in Spanish. I think is a really good photograph. Thank's for your response either is positive or negative. Greetings, Bagratun. --Bagratun (talk) 00:43, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to, but the image is not mine. It comes from the website listed on the page. --Ghirla 06:59, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Fantastic work

Wow, very nice work on all the articles youve helped create/expand! Omegastar (talk) 09:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

You were discussed

Here: I just came to let you know something is going on about your not-loved arbcom:)) Regards, FeelSunny (talk) 23:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Notification

Hi Ghirlandajo. I'm posting to let you know that your name has been mentioned on a list of potential candidates for adminship on the talk page for RfA's here. If you are interested in running, or if you would like to make any comments, feel free to join the discussion. decltype (talk) 20:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Biographies

Привет. Could you please review/fix/advise on Vasili Bazhenov, Alexander Kokorinov (there were your creations), Pietro Gonzaga, Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, Mikhail Matyushin, perhaps Maly Theatre (Moscow) too. NVO (talk) 20:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Ondine

Important! - Round up what few ballet enthusiasts you know on Misplaced Pages and get them to vote on the proposed merging of the Ondine articles that would see the article about Frederick Ashton's production of the actual ballet, being merged into one about the music.

See here: - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Classical_music#Straw_Poll

And please vote to oppose this change, as this music would not have been written had it not been for Ashton's ballet!!!

Thank You

Crazy-dancing (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Flore et Zéphire

Hello, Ghirlandajo. You have new messages at Robertgreer's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Galitzine

Shouldn't this at least be in plural? The article, after all, is about a family/house, not about a standalone last name?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:24, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Cf Czartoryski, Sapieha, Rohan (family), etc. I'd leave the title as it is. --Ghirla 15:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
I'd say those are bad choices, too, but whatever. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:50, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

FPC nomination

Hi Ghirlandajo. I've nominated File:Whitehousenight.jpg, an image uploaded by you, for featured picture status. Feel free to comment on the nomination at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/White House at Night. --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

The 50 DYK Nomination Medal

The 50 DYK Nomination Medal
Congratulations on passing the milestone of 50 DYK nominations. Good work! Binksternet (talk) 17:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Stalinist voluntarism

In the article on the Rybinsk Reservoir there is a line which appears to date from an edit you made in 2005: As the time goes by, however, it has been increasingly viewed as a typical sample of Stalinist voluntarism. Shortly after you linked Stalinist to Joseph Stalin, but neither on that page nor on Stalinism can I find references to "voluntarism". Voluntarism itself is a disambiguation page. The net result is that I'm not sure what the reservoir is supposed to be an example of. Can you clarify? 79.144.205.168 (talk) 18:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Talk: Hryhorii Skovoroda

Could you please look at this? It`s incredible. --Kuiavian (talk) 08:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Hryhorii Skovoroda. Can I expect any support from your side? --Antoni Chojnacki (talk) 22:51, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Title change for St.George Bank

Hi. I have placed a query at St. George Bank as to why you moved it from St.George Bank. Nurg (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

One for you

this is more your department than mine.  Giano  18:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Aleksey vs. Alexei (Fyodorov)

Greetings, Ghirla! I noted in past edits of the Aleksey Fyodorov page you favor this as the more accepted spelling of his surname, yet the page text uses "Alexei" throughout. Wouldn't consistency be appropriate? (I only know the editing rule regarding AE vs. BE in the English-language WP, that a page remains as initially written in this regard.) I need to know this for the list of key words I maintain for our archives. What do you advise? -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 06:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I think Alexei should be changed to Aleksey wherever possible. Best regards. --Ghirla 06:23, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Would you say this is a rule or guideline particularly in transliterating from the Ukrainian, or in general from all Cyrillic-alphabet languages? (N.B. none of which I've studied; I'm just at the stage of mastering the letters.) -- Deborahjay (talk) 06:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
This applies to Russian names. The Ukrainian counterpart to "Aleksey" is "Oleksiy". --Ghirla 06:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Misplaced Pages:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 01:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge of the Great Northern Expedition and the Second Kamchatka Expedition

Hi, Ghirlandajo! I've proposed this merge and then noticed that once you had proposed the same thing. I think you might be interested in the matter, so please watch out for the possible discussion (there have been no replies yet, but may be some will appear). Greyhood (talk) 17:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Karl Wenig's painting

Hey mate! Among many interesting pics you've uploaded, is also the picture Last minutes of False Dmitriy I by Karl Wenig (File:Karl_wenig_1879.jpg). Sometime ago, someone else uploaded a better (no offence!) copy of the same file (File:Last_minutes_of_False_Dmitry.jpg) . So, um, I was thinking about deleting 'your' picture, but it requires orphaning, i. e. deleting it from your uploads gallery. I didn't want to be rude and just mess with it, but if you have nothing against, could you please erase this pic from your gallery, so it can be deleted? - ArCgon (talk) 17:55, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I suppose the vanity page should be deleted. It's of no use anymore. --Ghirla 14:48, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Dashkov

thanks for moving Pavel Dashkov, i was just filling the red link from frs, those english are sloppy with the foreign nobility. but what about Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg where someone undid my move the same way? maybe it should be Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg Pohick2 (talk) 17:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps Marianne Lindberg? Anyway, the word "countess" is redundant in the title. --Ghirla 05:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 13#Category:New York City Ballet repertory by season

May I call your attention to a proposal at Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 13 to delete Category:New York City Ballet repertory by season? — Robert Greer (talk) 22:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Gomel Palace

Updated DYK queryOn July 16, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gomel Palace, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
RlevseTalk06:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi Ghirla, great to see you! Bishonen | talk 20:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC).

Thank you, dear Bish! I'm also glad to see you again. --Ghirla 22:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Nice to see you here. Anyway, have you ever heard of this guy? I am already sorry that I asked :-( -- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Smolensky Cemetery

Updated DYK queryOn July 20, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Smolensky Cemetery, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
RlevseTalk06:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

List of Baroque residences

Great work on the List of Baroque residences - it's looking great. I've been trying to fix some of the redlinks in various articles for some of the Italian palaces - Ducal Palace of Modena and Palazzo Estense so far - which happen to link from articles I've been working on as part of my Italian noble families mini-project. Please let me know if there are any other redlinks you would like me to assist with. Regards, Stalwart111 (talk) 07:03, 23 July 2010 (UTC).

Thank you. I'm thinking about de:Weimarer Stadtschloss and Prague Cathedral of St. Nicholas. Is Germany beyond your scope? We also need a separate category for pleasure palaces. --Ghirla 07:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Repin

Hey Ghirlandaj. I'm hoping to expand Barge Haulers on the Volga in the next few weeks or so, but sources in English are few and far between; I have some stored up, but would needed help from a VA native speaker to properly do service. It is has been a collaboration with Johnbod, and he suggested you, somebody I've seen about a fair amount on art pages. So I suppose this is a cap in hand request. No worries if you are preoccupied. Best. Ceoil (talk) 22:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

That's one painting (and painter) I really hate! But I will add the page to my watchlist. If you need to translate any specific text, let me know. --Ghirla 14:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Well thank you very much for the translations, they will add great dept and scope to the page. I will start adding, but might need to verify page numbers etc with you at some stage. Pity to hear that you are Repin-phobic but can understand that too! Best. Ceoil (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Uts

I do, actually. There are also stanitsas which are even bigger than that (and also without articles). If you think any of those need to be created urgently and you don't have time to do it, by all means let me know—I can write a fairly decent stub (and no, it's not going to be just the dry stats, unless that's all you need). Also, what connection does this have to "novoyaz" you mentioned in the edit summary? I don't understand. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 27, 2010; 21:10 (UTC)

Lake Peipus

Before I revert you there, could you please read the references of this version and explain your changes. No, Britannica is not an authority on hydrology. Yes, Chudsko-Pskovskoe is a possibility, but in any case, this has to be discussed at the talk page first, and again, how about refs ? Materialscientist (talk) 06:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Britannica is an authority on everything. It's up to you to prove that it's not reliable. This is the best known general encyclopaedia reflecting the views of the scientific mainstream. Besides, I don't see a point in following hydrologists on the issue. If anyone, we should consult historians/linguists. --Ghirla 06:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
This is a discussion for the talk page of the article. In short, Peipus is a historical name, which was the major one, but not anymore. By area, the lakes (there are three of them, not one) are more in Russia, but the English literature calls them more by Estonian name (try searching any source, Google Books, Google, whatever, restricting to English language results). Being bold is good, but to a certain extent. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 06:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Your reply did nothing to address my concerns. From what I can see, the coverage of Russian lakes/rivers in the English segment of Misplaced Pages is a joke. There are no pages on many major rivers (check the number of interwiki links in ru:Демьянка (река) or ru:Курейка (река), the former being one of Asia's longest rivers). And the existing pages lack in content: e.g., Don River (Russia), with its ridiculously Anglo-centric title. All right, why should I care. --Ghirla 07:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, that what I was doing these weeks - expanding those articles lake/river/sea articles, but stopped for now, just before Don, and any help is welcome. As to Peipus, there are wikipedia naming policies and conventions, and it seems to me after your reply that this has to be decided at the talk page, and you are welcome to bring your calm thoughts .. Materialscientist (talk) 07:14, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Don

Thanks for the tip. I think Don River (Russia) should go to Don. Or maybe we should just move Thames to Thames River (England) :-) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 16:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

There is little we can do about it. Alas. --Ghirla 20:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks like I only made things worse! -- Petri Krohn (talk) 20:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Barge haulers

Please note that I've moved your page from "Barge Haulers on the Volga/Temp" to User:Ghirlandajo/Barge Haulers on the Volga. Temp pages should be in user sandbox space, not in article space. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 02:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Defunct towns and former cities

Nope, we definitely don't need to have two of them. Re-organizing the whole defunct/former/abolished/destroyed mess is one of the projects on my to-do list, but if you have an inclination to sort them out, please do so by all means, because I don't have any plans to start working on this any time soon. Help would most certainly be appreciated. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 10, 2010; 21:01 (UTC)

Hunyad Castle

Hunyad castle is not a gothic revival, it was a precise renovation of an erased Gothic-Renaissance castle.
The ruins of the castle in 1865

Editors in Samara?

Hey Ghirla, do you know of any editors in Samara who can help out with photos as required at User:Russavia/Required_photos#Samara. If you can think of anyone would you mind pointing them out to me, or perhaps point them to that page? Cheers, --Russavia 22:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Most of them will be deleted anyways. I left a note on the talk pages of Atgnclk and Роман Янковский from ru:Категория:Википедия:Участники из Самары. The Samara wikipedians are not very active, though. --Ghirla 06:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey Ghirla, some of them will be

Outrrrrrrrageous!

Feel free to leave a message on the talk page, file an RM, or move it back. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 20, 2010; 14:24 (UTC)

Re:Salon

I see your point, and personally, I would find that interesting to read. But it would be difficult: the article has a section of "Salons outside of France", where the nations outside of France are given a summary - such as the first salons, the most notable salon-holders and a few words about the importance and characteristics given to the phenomena in each country. There, of course, Russia should be included as well. To give Russia its own section would, therefore, make it necessary to give each nation its own section. France is already treated specially, but that is of course because it is the original country of the phenomena. My suggestion is therefore, that Russia is either included in the "Salons outside of France"-section, or, if it is given its own section, that each nation mentioned in the "Salons outside of France"-section is given its own chapter under this title, where Russia, of course, is one. Individual Salon-holders al deserve their own articles. Good luck! --Aciram (talk) 12:55, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Not every paragraph in a Misplaced Pages article needs a boldface title. There is surely room at Salon (gathering) for a more complete discussion of the role of salons in Russia.--Wetman (talk) 17:25, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

List of regional characteristics of European cathedral architecture‎

Found your comment. As you have probably observed, this article has recently been calvbed off another article. It originally pertained directly to Western Europe, but no longer does.

I have been working on the other article first, and making headway, but have been interrupted by some more pressing personal matters. I will get around to fixing this present article soon I hope, by including regional characteristics from many other countries in a fuller way. Meanwhile, can you give some thought as to which characteristics and photos should be included for Russia etc? Amandajm (talk) 07:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Ivan IV

Please revert your edit. I can't see, how 2 non-vague historical evidences may not suffice:

  1. Флоря Б. Н. Иван Грозный
  2. Генрих Штаден. Записки о Московии

for proof please read russian wiki (section "Отношения с царём") about his favourite Soshial (talk) 15:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC) On the third day of your silence I will revert your edit. Thx for understanding. Soshial (talk) 06:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Belsky

What was your reference on Belsky family (Gediminid)? I have a ref for most of the stuff, but not all details. BTW, you should add a ref to Shuisky too.

Will see what I can do on Patrikas, but I do not think I have good sources. Renata (talk) 06:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Luigi Premazzi Picture in Tsarskoe selo

Hi Ghirladajo,

I was wondering how you obtained the following image: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Premazzi.jpg used in the article Tsarskoe Selo. My wife has written a book on Russian history of the period that that painting is from, and she wants to use this reproduction as the picture for the cover of the book. However the publisher requires permission from the photographer. Do you happen to know who that might be? I would appreciate any information you could provide. I can be also reached at the alexinquest@gmail.com Thanks. Alex

I believe the painting was scanned by the Hermitage Museum. Try searching for "Premazzi" on their website. --Ghirla 19:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
I have uploaded a higher resolution version of the image and added a link to the source page. State Hermitage Museum would have even better versions of this, but most likely you would have to pay to get access. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 15:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Russia GA reassessment

An article that you have been involved in editing, Russia has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments here . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Philipmj24 (talk) 03:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Stubs

Please do not use "stub" as an excuse for removing information from an article. Our stubs are under development, and if some information appears "too detailed" for a stub, well, that's just editors expanding the article out of stub status - and that's great! Rklawton (talk) 12:39, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Moving on

Здраствуйте. I've already indicated my desire elsewhere, in a number of venues, to move on from past conflicts. I trust you will see clear the path to same. Let's not re-litigate the past. Best, PЄTЄRS J VЄСRUМВАTALK 14:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Seconded. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Babolovo Palace

Great job on the Babolovo Palace. It's precisely these kinds of articles that make Misplaced Pages the excellent source that it is. Had not heard of the palace previously. DYK, maybe? Dr. Dan (talk) 15:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Vladimir

Hopefully this should work? I still think that there are way too many pictures of churches for one article, but oh well. Is there nothing else in the city of interest?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 24, 2010; 17:04 (UTC)

Vladimir-Suzdal

Listen, please, do not be judgmental seeing me as some anti-Russian or whatever. I am, certainly, not that. The information about the Vladimir Principality is too vague. There is really no historical development on how it actually appeared and why until Yuri Dolgoruki. There is also no clear mentioning that Andrei Bogolyubsky changed the Vladimir Principality into the Grand Principality. Little or no information is on the conflicts that took place in the Northeastern Rus. The information that I posted is drawn from other articles and mostly based on the Russian version as well. Would it be possible instead of just purging my edits at least let me know that they need to be revised? Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 01:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

???

A number of moves??? I may recall one or two where I got a distinct impression that you didn't like them, but a "number"? 90% of the moves I did since August were those of soccer players; somehow I don't think that's what you've got a problem with? Care to elaborate? I always appreciate feedback, even from an old grump like you. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 6, 2010; 14:10 (UTC)

I refer to your way of moving our articles about Russian towns to the most monstrous title imaginable, e.g., Vereshchagino, Vereshchaginsky District, Perm Krai, Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai, Otradnoye, Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Chernushka, Chernushinsky District, Perm Krai, etc. As if a town of 35000 people were on the same level of prominence as a village of ten people (see Chernushka, for instance). Such moves defy common sense and everything that is important when naming articles (namely, conciseness, naturalness, and so on). --Ghirla 07:14, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Ghirla, this is not the Russian Misplaced Pages. To our average reader, an obscure town in Russia is not much different from an obscure village—it's not like we are equating, say, the village of Moskva in Kirov Oblast with the capital of Russia. The naming is in full compliance with our naming guidelines, and our guidelines are, of course, already the epitome of "common sense" and "naturalness" (OK, I'm pulling your leg here somewhat, but at least that's their intent). If you have a problem with a particular guideline, you can always file an RfC, and if you have a problem with how a guideline is being applied, you can always submit a move request. If you have reasonable concerns, I'll be the last person to ignore them. Why you choose instead to bitch about how everything sucks and only you can save the day is frankly beyond me. No offense, but it's not easy to take your opinion seriously when you start blabbering about a completely unrelated "problem" in a random venue.
At any rate, the four moves you've found (one of which isn't even by me) are a far cry from "we need to run a bot to revert all that". Cut out the panic, will ya? Even the statistics don't corroborate you theory that these moves are somehow "damaging". Chernushka, for example, was moved on August 20. It was getting on average around ten hits a day prior to being moved, and it keeps getting about the same number of hits after being moved. Apparently, the article isn't as hard to find as you would lead us to believe. And Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai is getting more daily hits now than before the move (around 10 vs. ~2-5 before the move). Hmmm...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 7, 2010; 14:33 (UTC)
Those statistics are broken, nobody knows how they count hits. Why not take a cue from the Russian Misplaced Pages which at least has pages on those villages (in English Misplaced Pages, they are likely to remain red-linked for the next 15 or 30 years). If it is ru:Верещагино for Russians, I don't see why it should be so complicated for foreigners. --Ghirla 15:27, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Not sure where you got the idea that the stats are "broken" and that "nobody knows how they work", but broken or not, they are at least consistent. The numbers themselves may be off, but the trends they show are pretty accurate (DYKs, major re-writes, and moves always show a spike in activity, while forgotten and abandoned articles show a steady small stream of hits over time with no aberrations). Not that it matters. What matters is the guidelines which we (not ru_wiki) have in place. In case you haven't noticed, I am not the one in charge of writing the guidelines; I'm just a poor peasant stuck with having to enforce them (including those where lunacy is apparent). In this case, I don't even have a problem with the applicable guidelines, so why should I be the one to "take a cue" and waste my time trying to think up something better to replace them with? Like I said in the past, if you have a problem with the way things are done, you either find RfC thataway, or simply live with the parts of the system you don't like. Just don't shoot the messengers.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 7, 2010; 16:01 (UTC)

"Russian Princes"

Wondering if you have an opinion on what should be done with this? Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2010; 13:30 (UTC)

Dunno. It's full of odd transliterations and factual mistakes. Наспех сляпанная поделка. --Ghirla 13:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes, I can see that. But is there anything salvageable? Or anything it can be redirected/merged to?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2010; 14:02 (UTC)

Undiscussed page move of Muhajirism (Caucasus)

Please don't do this without discussion. The best name for this article is already under discussion at Talk:Muhajir_(Caucasus)#Rename_to_Circassian_Genocide. It helps no-one if a number of different editors move it back and forth without agreement beforehand. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Rynda

I have read that there was a bodyguard or some such institution in medieval Russia that was composed of very tall, young men, carrying an axe. They supposedly wore white, and the appearance of their height was increased by wearing tall hats. One often sees them in operatic and theatrical productions from time to time. Were these the Rynda, or was there also some other group that fits this description? The English article is paltry and the Russian article was not much help. Are you familiar with the subject at all? Thanks. Dr. Dan (talk) 20:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I think you are right. I will probably add some details to Rynda. --Ghirla 05:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Russian painters

I'd like to draw your attention to the thread here, about the editing activities of Leningradartist (talk · contribs). Any comments or advice relating to same would be mush appreciated. --Ohconfucius 08:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Photos from Russia

hi ghirla, at begin wikilink User:Russavia/Required photos end wikilink i have compiled a long list of photos that i am needing for numerous articles i have under development and future articles i will be working on. Do you know of anyone who can help with any of the photos, especially those i need from russia. If u could put me in touch with anyone, or conversely them with me, i would be most appreciative. Cheers, russavia

Golden Eagle Awards

hello, I would like to know where you found that Nikita Mihalkov institued the Golden Eagle Awards. Please give me a reference for that. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 20:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Death of Ordu Khan

Hello, I see that in your revision of the article about Orda Khan there's dates 1204 (birth) and 1280 (+). This data was translated to all the existent articles in others languages, less Russian (and catalan because I'm trying to stablish it). Can you check if is the correct date?; the successor Qun Quran already deceased in 1280 but reigned 1251-1280, while Orda reigned 1226 (in fact not before 1227 and surely from 1229) to 1251. If is not, and must be c. 1251, please correct all the wikipedies that copied the wrong date. Many thanks. --88.19.48.203 (talk) 18:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Opinion?

This is something you may know about and have an opinion on. Giacomo Returned 21:35, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: Speak, Memory

Hi, I noted that you removed the caption of the image of the estate of Rozhdestveno that indicated that "Nabokov inherited the Rastelli- designed estate "Rozhestveno" in 1916." The picture had been taken by User:Alexey Lavrov attesting that it was VN's house, and VN describes (p72) that he inherited the house in 1916, upon the death of his uncle Ruka. Can you please explain where you see the problem with the caption that you had to remove it? Ekem (talk) 02:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

As you noticed there is now a Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate site in the English WP; it would be helpful if you could include a comment about the building, namely when it was built, who the architect was, and - if this is not known, as claimed in the French WP - to say so (preferably with a reference). Ekem (talk) 15:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Lev Berg

You might want to check out Lev Berg, although you may already have it on your watchlist.

I'm not entirely happy with how things are proceeding, although I think they will get sorted out. See User talk:Liveintheforests#Leo S. Berg for some of the background.

I am assuming that Joe will agree with me and make sure some of the material recently removed is restored.

Assuming that happens, I have some question about the material which I believe you added.

You added the sentence:

Among his pioneering monographs on climatology were "Climate and Life" (1922) and "Foundations of Climatology" (1928).

I wonder if "Foundations of Climatology" is a typo. There is such a work, but by someone else. Berg wrote "Principles of climatology", and I'm wondering if you meant to say that.

I don't know who added the list of works, but one is "Principles of climatology" (1926). However, this search suggests it was 1938, not 1926. Do you concur?

BTW, 175K edits? Quite impressive. Quite.--SPhilbrickT 17:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Kirill Eskov

In the past, you commented on his name there. The issue is back. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

The Princess of the Tide

Can you identify the source of the translation? I am needing to know that the translation is in the public domain to be able to transfer it to Wikisource, and there is no information available to make the determination. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposal

Hi, Ghirlandajo. Please have a look at this proposal “Global blocks and bans.” If you have a long block log in the English Misplaced Pages, you will be able to be blocked or banned in the Russian and any other Misplaced Pages as well when this proposal is approved. And vice versa. Take my best wishes. --Psychiatrick (talk) 07:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Cafe Gurzuf (painting)

Created 16/10/2011. Yours --Borealis55 (talk) 11:45, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Could you delete it? Yours --Borealis55 (talk) 14:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Why should we bother? --Ghirla 07:55, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Suyab

Dear Andrey,

I hope we can communicate in Russian,

Я была бы Вам весьма признательна, если бы Вы помогли мне точнее идентифицировать источник, ссылку на который Вы разместили.

Я не нашла внятных упоминаний об издании, которое называлось бы Central Asian Journal. Эту ссылку (и сам абзац) Вы добавили в статью Suyab (http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ghirlandajo), впервые она появилась в этой редакции http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Suyab&oldid=134279581).

Forte A. An Ancient Chinese Monastery Excavated in Kirgizia // Central Asian Journal, 1994. Volume 38. № 1. Pages 41-57.

Фрагмент издания, упомянутого Вами, необходим мне для завершения популярной книжки, посвященной Суябу. Я гарантирую указание Вашего имени (если Вы того пожелаете) в разделе Acknowledgements.

77.95.61.126 (talk) 05:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
tnx for contribution to Suyab
Gkurmanova (talk) 03:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. --Ghirla 17:02, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Polen, Polen über Alles

I know this may be the worst possible place to post an anti-Polish rant, but here I am anyway. Anyone is free to move this discussion to a more appropriate place. My question is this: is it me who is suffering from polofobia, or does Misplaced Pages have some kind of a pro-Polish bias?

I started off studying the list of largest domes of its time. On the list I see that Jahrhunderthalle was built in Wrocław, Poland in by "Deutsches Reich Inc." or whatever. Studying the article Wrocław I learn that the town has perpetually been Polish from times immemorial.

After some work on File:Wrocław Collage.png I end up reading the article on Lwów. The second sentence of the article tells me that Poles are (or were) main ethnicity of the city. Further down I understand that a terrible wrong was done to Poland in 1991 when Lwów was not returned to Polish sovereignty after the end of the second Soviet occupation.

To sum up, Wrocław is totally dismissive of the existence of Breslau, while Lviv reads like a irredentist rant. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 16:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Arthaniya

Что значит, не используется, а ссылки? Arsania — это русское прочтение, ибо в русском нет звука , поэтому либо «с», либо «т». И вы куда-то "y" потеряли, получился греко-латинский суффикс -ia, которого в арабском нет.--Luboslov Yezykin (talk) 16:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Главное, какой вариант предпочитают академические источники на английском. --Ghirla 17:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Arsania не предпочтительнее, вы сами можете убедиться по поиску в ГуглКнигах, там это может быть вообще всё что угодно, включая имя личное и реку в Урарту. И как вы себе представляете, чтобы они арабское слово именно так транслитерировали? У них есть своя система транслитерации, чаще более точная, чем кириллическая, им не нужно для этого обращаться к русскоязычной литературе. В итоге получается, что мы арабское слово транслитерируем через кириллическое посредство, ну не бред? Википедия здесь пока английская. Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Arabic. --Luboslov Yezykin (talk) 09:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Ok, убедили. --Ghirla 13:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Rurik

Efanda:

Colleague, even if this name is a "modern myth", it is part of "Rurikology", so to say. I google books it may be found in the range of ~150 years in several languages. I think this issue deserves explanation in wikipedia, otherwise it continue to pop up thanks to well-meaning, but less educated people. So, can you explain, in Rurik article, how it is "Tatischeff stuff" and all? Lom Konkreta (talk) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Ефанда. Ингорь. Имел Рюрик несколько жен, но более всех любил Ефанду, дочерь князя урманского, и когда та родила сына Ингоря, ей обещанный при море град с Ижорою в вено дал.

Of course, I could have done some research myself, but I guess you can do it better. Lom Konkreta (talk) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

The page was heavily vandalised at some point after I had lost interest in English Misplaced Pages. I reinstated a version of the page last edited by me 5 years ago. P.S. Nobody cares about such matters here. Every article on Russia's early history steadily comes to ruin. --Ghirla 19:39, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Dasha Sevastopolskaya

I wonder, would you be at all interested in correcting the (no doubt many but inadvertent) mistakes in this new article on an interesting person? I would be very grateful for any comments you might have. -- Ferma (talk) 21:52, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I've tweaked it a little. It is claimed that the Red Cross was born in Russia during the Crimean War. ru:Крестовоздвиженская община сестёр милосердия contains more info. --Ghirla 08:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for that. A few questions/comments, if I may:

  • There seem to be relatively few sources in English that mention her (hmm - thinking about it, there must be something in Helen Rappaport's "No Place for Ladies"; but do let me know if there are other good ones in Russian I should be using) but most of those that do exist seem to prefer Dasha Sevastopolskaya (or a variant) in preference to Dasha from Sevastopol or Dasha of Sevastopol. Should the geographical soubriquet really be translated?
  • Are there records to dismiss the idea that she could have died in Sevastopol in around 1910?
  • I'm not sure Dasha is the best Russian counterpart to Florence Nightingale (a better comparison might be Mary Seacole perhaps). Ekaterina Bakunina is closer to Nightingale, although no article yet (that might change shortly), but personally, as Florence was more of an organiser than a nurse, I think Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna is the best fit. No doubt we ought to be reporting what the sources say.

There are clear parallels, but I doubt Jean-Henri Dunant or the ICRC would accept that the Red Cross was "born" in Russia in the form of the Sisters of Mercy! -- Ferma (talk) 21:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Russian Barnstar of National Merit  
For obvious reasons. INeverCry 23:54, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. --Ghirla 05:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

sennaya square

Hi Ghidlandajo, could you please let me know why you replaced the photo that I put in the Sennaya Square page? The photo you put was taken from the Russian version, but it's not a good photo at all, because it's at night, so you can't see anything, and you can't distinguish any recognisable features of Sennaya Square. Thanks. Azylber (talk) 10:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Because your photo is of inferior quality and does not illustrate the article at all. WP:NOTREPOSITORY. If you want to upload your personal pictures, you may consider using Flickr or Wikimedia Commons. Misplaced Pages is not a proper place for storing such stuff. --Ghirla 13:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ghirlandajo, thank you for reply. I understand your point of view, and I am thankful for you opinion, specially because you have a lot of experience, and I'm very new at editing wikipedia articles.

In my opinion, the night photo taken from the Russian article is not good, for the following 4 reasons: 1) it's at night 2) you can't see anything 3) you can't recognise sennaya square in it 4) it contains things that are wrong, such as the column seen at the back, which doesn't exist anymore

Also in my opinion, the photo that I put is better because: 1) it doesn't have any of the problems with the other photo 2) everybody can recognise sennaya ploshchad from this photo

For these reasons, I understand that the photo that I put is not 100% ideal, but I think it's better than the night photo from the Russian article.

But like I said, you are a very important wikipedia editor, so if in your opinion it's better to have that night photo, I trust your opinion.

Thanks, Azylber (talk) 14:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Commons link in the infobox

Hi, Ghirla. Could you please clarify what you meant by this comment? I can probably implement such a parameter fairly easily, and it seems like a good idea to have a Commons link in the infobox, but I thought I'd check with you first as to what it is exactly you were expecting. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 4, 2012; 17:44 (UTC)

Hi, Ezhiki. A standard link to an eponymous category in the Wikimedia Commons is all I ask for. --Ghirla 17:50, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Is this close to what you had in mind?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 4, 2012; 18:12 (UTC)
Yep, thanks. --Ghirla 18:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

New article

Good work, Ghirlandaio! But you have now prompted me to make more requests!

Can you do some more of the churches in the article about cathedrals and great churches, including this one Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Khabarovsk?

Sorry to be such a nuisance!

Amandajm (talk) 23:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok, Amanda. --Ghirla 09:21, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

List of buildings of Pre-Mongol Rus

Если Вам несложно, проверьте там, пожалуйста, названия. По Новгороду я надеюсь сделать всё в ближайшие дни, удобнее сразу создавать статьи с подходящим названием. Заранее спасибо.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Надо будет посмотреть повнимательнее. Сомневаюсь, например, что киевским Золотым воротам место в этом списке. Вы планируете отдельные статьи по монастырским соборам? --Ghirla 08:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Да, но не в первую очередь. Сначала - отдельные плюс сами монастыри, там, где нет.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of VimpelCom Ltd.

Hello! Your submission of VimpelCom Ltd. at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Zanhe (talk) 05:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for VimpelCom Ltd.

Updated DYK queryOn 5 May 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article VimpelCom Ltd., which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/VimpelCom Ltd..You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Panyd 08:05, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Dmitry of Uglich

Dammit, Andrey, I spent a long time yesterday fixing all the links to Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582), and now you've moved it again. I don't agree with moving it to that name (although I do see that ruwiki has it under that). I think Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582) is more descriptive, and fits with the other various sundry Tsareviches we have around here. Can we please move it back? -- Y not? 15:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

  • I'm afraid we cannot. His namesakes are just a footnote in genealogical compilations and cannot compete in importance with this key figure of Russian history. Check WP:TITLE: "Article titles and redirects should anticipate what readers will type as a first guess and balance that with what readers expect to be taken to. Misplaced Pages does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". --Ghirla 17:57, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Yaroslavl

A very funny edit summary on Yaroslavl; thanks for cheering me up :) Just out of curiosity, though—is there nothing else to see in your city except for the bloody churches?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 11, 2012; 12:09 (UTC)

Transfiguration Church in Kovalyovo

When/if you have time, could you perhaps copyedit the article? It was nominated (not by me) for DYK, and there have been some questions concerning terminology of ecclesiastical architecture I can not answer properly. I also asked Peter I. Vardy. Thanks in advance.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Lubok

Your edit

Hi Ghirlandajo (nice username!), I added the image because it was from a early date and it is in the commons category Lubok. Do you have any idea why it is in that category, and if it should be removed from it? Lotje (talk) 07:15, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Featuring your work on Misplaced Pages's front page: DYKs

Thank you for your recent articles, including Bobrok, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Misplaced Pages's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

О правке статьи "Михаил КеруЛЛарий"

О Михаиле Керулларии. Уважаемый Ghirlandajo - текст мой. Использовал источники по истории христианской Церкви. Священнослужитель. Имею за плечами светское высшее образование, аспирантуру. Пожалуйста, откликнитесь. Предлагаю найти компромисс. С уважением, диакон Олег Котов.

Ivan Tarchanoff

Hi there, thank you for your help! --SU ltd. (talk) 19:12, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Madonna

Gostiny Dvor

Hello, I was working on disambiguating the links to Gostiny Dvor when it became clear to me that it really could be a broad concept article. I checked the history and saw your edit where you changed it from an article to a disambiguation page. Rather than reverse your edit, I thought I'd check with you to get an explanation for your edit summary. What do you mean by "back to disambiguation, no need for forking"? Thanks, SchreiberBike (talk) 17:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Gostiny Dvor#Requested move. SchreiberBike (talk) 06:50, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Navboxes on author pages

Since you are the leading registered editor in terms of edits at Nikolai Gogol and Leo_Tolstoy, you might want to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#Derivative_works_and_cultural_references_templates regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Infoboxes arbitration case

I notice that you've added a comment yeserday to the Workshop page of the Infoboxes arbitration case . Per the header at the top of all the Infobox case pages the workshop closed on the 7th. I'm not an arbitration clark so I wont remove your addition myself, but it would be most polite if you would self-revert. The workshop talk page does remain open. Thryduulf (talk) 12:21, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Ternopil castle

You are a complete idiot, changing Krakow to Krakiv and Jan Tarnowski to Yan Tarnovsky. This castle was built by Poland to protect Poland. I do not know why such a chauvinistic moron is still tolerated here. Tymek (talk) 21:55, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

FAR Rus' Khaganate

I have nominated Rus' Khaganate for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Legionnaires' disease question

Can you please explain why you reverted a perfectly proper merger of Legionnaires' disease here? Especially as you've never edited the article, you failed to give any rationale whatsoever in your edit summary. Why did you revert the merger and then go off to Ymblanter and say I've created a content fork? The page was merged, Ymblanter has had to restore my merger. Please explain your 'edits.' Thanks. Malke 2010 (talk) 20:48, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Agrippina, Countess von Zarnekau

Hello, just letting you know I nominated an article you tagged as a hoax for deletion - Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Agrippina, Countess von Zarnekau. Regards. --Muchness (talk) 07:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)

Can you please be so kind as to take a look at the above article, which I'm working on. I've found lots of errors in the Soviet era books on the palace, which I think/hope I am correcting - you may known better. I'm using an English book for the section on the owners, but I think it has a lot of death dates wrong because Misplaced Pages has articles (which you've worked on) on many of Shuvalovs of the same or very similar names, but the death dates don't quite correspond. I'm pretty sure they are the same people, but would like to you to check them out before I link to them from the article. Thanks. Giano (talk) 15:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I think this Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov may be the one who married Prince Vorontsov's daughter. Giano (talk) 15:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Nope. Vorontsov's son-in-law was it:Andrej Pavlovič Šuvalov (ru:Шувалов, Андрей Павлович), the owner of Pargolovo. My article ru:Шуваловы has a family tree. An anglicized version is here. --Ghirla 15:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, I thought you would be the person to ask. I'll translate it from the Italian. I've just found this man Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov. Interestingly, despite his name, he only lived at the Vorontsov Palace because his wife inherited it - would he have owned it himself through her, or could married woman own property in Russia at that time? Giano (talk) 16:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
If Vorontsov-Dashkov had divorced his wife, she would have kept the estates inherited through her mother. --Ghirla 11:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
That's interesting edit , the book is very vague as to why that wing vam to named after the Shuvalovs. I wonder if she had separated from her husband - hence she used that as her country seat rather than one of her husband's. It's odd that with so many houses, the Suvalovs (together) would choose to share one with her brother. Giano (talk) 10:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I believe she lived separately from her dissolute husband with her children, the young Shuvalovs, from the 1850s onward. --Ghirla 10:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
That would explain why she and the children spent so much time at the Vorontsov property then - avoiding her husband. Is this the last private owner ? Giano (talk) 10:37, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure. His elder brother Ivan Vorontsov-Dashkov (1868-97) had a son, Illarion Ivanovich (1893-1920), who died from typhus in Novorossiysk. That guy probably would have inherited the palace after his grandmother's death. --Ghirla 10:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
You recent edits are all v interesting. I wonder how much of a dalliance the Princess had with Pushkin? Apparently she had Hunt (the architect) recreate "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" in a courtyard at Alupka - an odd thing for a woman who claimed to rebuff him. I shall be writing that courtyard garden up in the grounds section tomorrow - it's all a fascinating subject that keeps leading to other interesting pages. I was thinking a single page on the 19th century palaces and castles of the Crimea would be good to do. I would quite like to do a trip there, probably though it's not currently the best holiday destination. Giano (talk) 20:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I bet :) There was probably nothing serious between the Countess and Pushkin, although this is a matter of some debate. He was motivated by vanity rather than a true feeling; and she spurned his advances. Poets were not highly regarded in the Russian aristocratic circles of the time. Pushkin was very young and held no official post, so there was a precipice between them. Some also found him physically repulsive. The Bakhchisaray poem was certainly a bestseller, but it did not become well known until after his departure from Odessa. --Ghirla 22:41, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
  • How good are you on Islamic architecture? the Russian published sources say there are influences of Moorish architecture, but the English published source, which I have been heavily using (and trust), say it's not not Moorish at all, but Mughal architecture, and Mughal architecture when superimposed on European architecture appears Moorish, but isn't. Apparently in the 19hh century the palace was frequently referred to as The Alhambra, but that was erroneous because Moorish and Mughal are quite different. As you know, I will fight any corner on European architecture, but I don't understand the finer points of Islamic and only have a rudimentary understanding of it - are you or DDima (who is the primary author and got the page to GA) any wiser than me? DDima and I discovered a few months ago that the old Soviet sources did contain some errors and wishful thinking. I think it is Mughal, but don't want to discredit a Russian source if you and DDima don't agree. Giano (talk) 19:07, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Giano, I know nothing about Islamic art. For older writers, "Moorish" was an umbrella term for all Islamic architectural influences, don't you think? This building in Moscow is routinely described as Moorish Revival, for instance, although its models are Portuguese. I don't have any sources on the Crimean palaces at hand. A quick look at the Google Books found four Russian-language sources highlighting the Jama Masjid as the main inspiration for the southern facade. Some authors of guidebooks, unversed in the mysteries of architecture, repeat (in passim) that, apart from the Delhi mosque, Blore was inspired by "the palace of Muhammad I and Carlos I in Alhambra". They probably found this in some old book and so repeat without thinking. Never mind. The Lions' Terrace is not exactly the Court of the Lions. --Ghirla 17:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

  • In the 1830s everyone read the Tales of the Alhambra, and Pushkin based The Tale of the Golden Cockerel on one of Irving's stories. Alhambra was probably viewed as a generic term for any luxurious Moslem residence. The line "There is no God but Allah" supposedly appears 9000 times in the Nasrid palace. Perhaps these associations or some details of the interior led to the name "Alhambra" which was applied to the south part of the palace from 1844 onward. Filatova in her catalogue of the Vorontsovs' portrait gallery (Г. Г. Филатова. Портретная галерея Воронцовых. Volume 1. Alupka, 1997) claims that the southern palace of the palace was called Alhambra on account of the inscription. --Ghirla 18:06, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
    • Translated from the article Галиченко А.А. Воронцовский дворец в Алупке: новороссийский губернатор и английский архитектор // Пинакотека. - 2004. - № 18/19. - С. 26-31: "Elisabeth Vorontsov was fascinated by the Alhambra tales of Washington Irving and even undertook, in 1838, a journey to Spain to see the famed palace. She brought with her to Alupka the views of Alhambra interiors drawn by an Enlishman named Satu (Сату????) and Blore's design for the garden which was based on the Generalife gardens in Granada. It took several years and a help from soldiers to realize the Irving-influenced design in Alupka". --Ghirla 18:22, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Well I see that well known architectural historian Winston Churchill calls it 'Moorish' - who am I to argue with him? I think the article should point out that the architecture is strictly speaking Moghul, but conveniently suited contemporary ideals of Moorish romance. Would you be happy with that? Giano (talk) 18:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Of course. --Ghirla 18:50, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Good. as you may know, I have not done at FAC for years; I rather fell out with the idea, but I think I would like to see this featured. However, I am not nominating it unless you are completely happy with it. You know this sort of stuff far better than I. Giano (talk) 20:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Giano, I don't think I ever took part in the FAC process, and I don't think I ever will, given my poor English and lack of interest in letter-worship and pedantry. --Ghirla 22:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

March 2014

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Kinzelyuk Waterfall

Hi! I'm ChromaNebula (talk) , and I happened to notice the article Kinzelyuk Waterfall as I was patrolling Recent Changes. I understand that you reverted my addition of a tag. I did not mean to confuse or offend you. On the contrary, I was confused by the claim that it was "probably" the highest waterfall in Russia, and thought the source cited referred to the Talnikovy Waterfall (I was mistaken). Another thing I noticed about the article is that most of the links to other geographical features in that area are red links. Could you consider possibly creating those pages (as I can't read the Russian sources)? ChromaNebula (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

  • Hello. Normally I'm tempted to write an English geo-stub only when I see a whopping number of interwiki links (e.g., Kureika River). I don't think the American public cares about the mountains or rivers of Russia, even if the mountains and rivers are really huge. So it's not worth wasting my time. Especially since the stubs here are quickly disfigured by ugly infoboxes or by User:Ezhiki's nasty activities. --Ghirla 18:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Olga of Kiev Edit

Hi. Why did you remove the sentence I added to the Olga of Kiev article (about Bat bombs)? Fi11222 (talk) 05:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination of Pastila

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  • Ghirlandajo, it has been eleven days since the above was posted, and no action has been taken at the nomination or on the article. You have been active on Misplaced Pages in the interim, so please give your attention here as soon as possible. One week is the standard response time; in this case, if there isn't something in the next couple of days, the nomination will likely be marked for closure. Hope to see you posting soon! BlueMoonset (talk) 07:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikilinking

Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Misplaced Pages.

I noticed an article you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:

  • dates
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(This even applies to infoboxes.)

Thanks, and my best wishes.

Tony (talk) 07:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Nice to see you...

...around again, and indeed to see two people adding to Nikolay Veselovsky in the same week! I've been poking around Steppes art a bit, I don't know if this is an area that interests you? I've said in the past that Middle Ages could do with some additions on Central/East European matters but I don't think we should add that the Bulgarians invented the Renaissance, as they all apparently learn on their mothers' knee. Johnbod (talk) 15:47, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

  • Nice to see you too, Johnbod. The Boyana claim is ludicrous, yet the wider Orthodox culture was essential for the Middle Ages. This aspect is sorely underrepresented in the article (judging by the illustrations, at least). --Ghirla 12:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
    • Steppes art is fascinating, but I don't have time for it at the moment. There are too many artifacts that require articles in this language edition of Misplaced Pages. The Pazyryk carpet immediately springs to mind. --Ghirla 12:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Pastila — final call for QPQ

Ghirlandajo, this is a final call for you to provide the required quid pro quo review of another DYK nomination, a requirement for your own nomination above to be approved. If we don't hear from you in the next couple of days, we will regretfully have to close your nomination as unsuccessful. I hope you will stop by and post at your nomination, which is linked above. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:00, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

  • As you may see from my user page, I was the first wikipedian to receive a DYK medal and the 200 DYK medal and, in the words of the then arb YellowMonkey, used to be the "driving force of DYK" from 2005 on. After spending so much time and effort on DYK, I find the latest requirements to review still more DYK nominations unfair and discouraging. If DYK does not care about its patriarchs, you'd better close the nom. --Ghirla 16:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Is this genuine?

I've just stumbled upon this page: Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander. Is it genuine or a hoax? Giano (talk) 20:44, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

I was just checking that she existed. I know the Romanovs fell on hard times, but I never knew they had to resort to being trick cyclists - just shows how resourceful good breeding can make one. Icidentally, I just looked at the Stroganoff Palace, "This chain of ownership was preserved until 1919 when the last Count Sergei Stroganov sold his rights to the entail" I would love to know how much his rights were worth at that time. Giano (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Bolding

The bold conflicts were more historically important or more successful in the achievement of their goals.Catlemur (talk) 15:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

  • Who decides which conflicts are important and which are not? There is no way a rebellion that spread over the territory roughly the size of Western Europe is less important than events in Bulgaria. --Ghirla 08:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

CPSU Central Committee members

This might seem like a strange question, since its something I should probably do myself, but since I can't speak or understand Russian its a bit difficult. Even so, do you know anyone who would be interested in creating articles on the 28th different Central Committee (a list of their members, similar to 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China). I have a list, found it by using Google Translate, but as you may understand, the translation services falters from time to time very seriously, which makes it all but impossible in certain cases to know who is actually who. I'm not saying you should do this, but do you know anyone on Misplaced Pages interested in making such a list? That we don't have a list on this topic says a lot about WPs covering of Soviet, and Russian history. --TIAYN (talk) 07:45, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I can make some of the list but would you please create some appropriate redlinks first? I generally do not like creating orphans.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Stripped Classisim?

Stripped Classicism is a brand new article. If we can work together to make it long enough (I need your help), I would be pleased to nominate it for a WP:DYK, and list all the contributors as creators. 7&6=thirteen () 15:04, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Stripped Classicism comments. Needs your input and help. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen () 01:58, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Majorat

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An article about Russian monastery

Hello! You thanked me for my article about the katholikon of the Antoniev Monastery in Novgorod, so I checked your page and figured it out that you seem to be a guru of Misplaced Pages in this field. I have actually just created an article about Desyatinny Monastery, so, it will be a compliment for me if you would find it curious enough to check ;) Take care! --Sterndmitri (talk) 21:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Stripped Classicism

Updated DYK queryOn 27 February 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stripped Classicism, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stripped Classicism. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Precious

core goal of the project
Thank you, veteran productive editor in English and Russian, for a wealth of quality articles written, substantially revised and edited, often in collaboration, such as Domenico Ghirlandaio and Stripped Classicism, for "being a driving force of DYK, and for adhering to the core goal of the project", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Five years ago, you were recipient no. 1142 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

What do you know

The Petrovo-Solovovo House
The Kurakin palace in the 1880s...
...the same townhouse after a horrible "renovation" undertaken in the late 19th century

I have just returned from your very impressive country with lots of photos, but I see most of the places I've visited have already very good articles already - most of them with your name n the history!. However, one building caught my attention which does not. Maybe because I've had to research the internet to even find out what it is/was. It seems to be a a lesser known Yusupoff Palace on the Nevsky Prospect. Google "Number 86, The 'Actors House' & a former home of Princess Tatiana Vassillievna Yusupova." It's a real neoclassical building with lots of bass relief, and I have photographed it from both angles and will upload tomorrow or later tonight. There seems to be little info available in English at least, but I'll start a page and see of it grows. Giano (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

We have a dedicated Commons category for this building commons:Category:Nevskiy 86 but apparently no article.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Oh! I thought I had discovered a building that no one had noticed. Well my efforts now I have looked at them are all lopsided (that's the best) - is there anything much known about it? Perhaps on a Russian language website. Giano (talk) 20:46, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Please upload your photos by any means. It should be known smth about the building, I will try to se whether there are any sources easily available.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:13, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Giano, you chose the worst time of the year to visit the country! In March, the weather must be atrocious. This building caught my attention last year so I decided to upload a vintage photo (to the right) from this website which contains some info about the palace. It was built by Colonel Fyodor Petrovo-Solovovo in the early 1800s (ru:Петрово-Соловово, Григорий Фёдорович was his son). In 1835, Count Władysław Grzegorz Branicki commissioned Gasparo Fossati, a Swiss-born architect, to have it remodeled. --Ghirla 22:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

We actually have Fossati brothers--Ymblanter (talk) 22:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Now we have a curious connection with Constantinople! By the way, a previous building on the site belonged to Prince Kurakin who had several other Neoclassical palaces in a similar vein. I happened to upload a picture of his Moscow residence last week (see another picture to the right). --Ghirla 22:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Actually Ghirla, the weather was very good if a little cold - mostly blue skies! I will start a page later today, it can be a stub and we will see what happens. Is it your opinion that it was not a Yousupoff Palace? I'll call the page Nevsky Prospect 86 - it can always be changed. Giano (talk) 09:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
When the snow is gone, tons of garbage appear on Russian streets. Sightseeing is best after the week of April subbotniks :) As for the Petrovo-Solovovo House, this page contains more information. In the late 19th century, the building belonged to Princess Tatiana Yusupova, the wife of the last Prince Yusupov and the mother of Princess Zinaida Yusupova. --Ghirla 16:08, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
I always like to see places before the tourists arrive. I even love Venice best in the winter. Two things struck me hugely about St Pete's - one as the cleanliness of the streets, and the other was the amount of people using the churches for religious purposes; I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it everything was far more impressive than I expected it to be. I expect that was not the real Russia, but it was the nearest I'm likely to get to it. I ate my breakfast every morning staring at the Petrovo-Solovovo House across the street, which is a pretty nice way to start the day, and what made me curious about it. I'll expand the page a little over the next few days. can you keep an eye on it - my Russian translation is decidedly dodgy at the best of times. Giano (talk) 20:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
  • PS: Years ago, when I was a child, I was told a story about another Princess Zinaida Yusupova who died sometime in the 19th century aged 100. After the revolution, when the new owners were knocking her house about, they found a walled up skeleton of one of her lovers - have you ever heard this story, of have I misremembered and confused something else? Giano (talk) 20:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
The building is listed as both Petrovo-Solovovo House and Zinaida Yusupova House. We can rename the article in one of these names (I do not hold a strong opinion on this).--Ymblanter (talk) 11:46, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Обсуждение в Рувики

Уважаемый коллега, обращаю Ваше внимание на это обсуждение. Возможно, Вам стоит принять в нём участие. --Humanitarian& (talk) 12:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

  • Посмотрел. Энтузиасты скайпочатов, как и предсказывалось, уже закрыли все обсуждения происходящего, прикрикивая: "Здесь не место! Обсуждать нечего!" Видимо, осмысленно обсуждать что-либо выходящее за рамки рутины разрешено теперь только офф-вики :( Очистить лог от кляксы было бы шагом к выходу из кризиса, но это сделать можно и без моего участия. --Ghirla 19:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Пожалуйста, будьте выше мелких личностей, пытающихся пиариться на фоне грандов проекта. Основная масса участников прекрасно понимает, чья роль важнее, и никогда не подаст руки этим геростратам. Просто исключите таких и им подобных из поля своего внимания и продолжайте работать. Плохой участковый - еще не повод менять квартиру. И не забывайте, что вы в ответе за тех, кого приручили. --213.87.138.136 (talk) 04:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Кляксы больше нет! Возвращайтесь! Без Вас неуютно в проекте...--DarDar (talk) 11:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

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Real Palace

Please move again Royal Palace of Valencia to Real Palace. If you had read the article, you would have noticed that, in this case, real ≠ royal. The palace name arises from the fact that it was an almunia or real (from Arabic riyad, garden), not because it was a royal residence.

That's why the name of the palace in Spanish is Palacio del Real and not Palacio Real, or in Valencian Palau del Real instead of Palau Reial.

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Alan genetics

Hi Ghirlandajo. Could you verify the Russian-language source used at Alans#Genetics? Krakkos (talk) 21:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

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Just a question

Hello! Just so I will understand things correctly: Why do you think the "Gallery" heading at Furillen is inappropriate, but not the pictures? Articles describing places usually have a some pictures from the place and most of these pictures have a Gallery heading. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 12:01, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

  • Sorry, the title is useless clutter. Please check WP:Gallery: "If a gallery would only lend itself to a title along the lines of "Gallery" or "Images of ", as opposed to a more descriptive title, the gallery should either be revamped or moved to the Commons." --Ghirla 16:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining. w.carter-Talk 16:39, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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English: Coat of arms of the Kievan Rus 10th-11th c. Русский: Эмблема Киевской Руси 10-11 ст. Українська: Емблема Київської Русі 10-11 ст.

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Cossacks in Ukraine

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Russian wooden architecture

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Rus'ka Pravda

Hi! Ukrainian scientist say so. So, please, remember укр. Руська, рос. Русская. --Бучач-Львів (talk) 07:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Nadia Khodasevich Léger

Thanks for the message. You might be interested in the article on Petrovskoye-Alabino. There is a rich seam of grand Russian houses still lying in ruins... Theramin (talk) 01:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

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Fyodorov

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Перевёл бы

Привет. Лучше вместо скрытия доперевёл бы и всё. --Zimin.V.G. (talk) 06:34, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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А зачем переименовали? еще как минимум два человека с таким именем есть, см. ru:Сычёв. -- deerstop (*•̀ᴗ•́*). 10:59, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

  • Велика вероятность, что в ближайшие 100 лет статей на английском о них не появится. Когда появятся, будем думать о внесении уточнения в заголовок. Сейчас это излишне. --Ghirla 11:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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Principality of Toropets

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Alexander Nevsky, Revision by Vuhdeem as of 08:22, 4 October 2014

Alexander Nevsky,Revision as of 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem - contradicts dates of article: "In 1237, ... He gave his 8-year-old son Aleksandr Yaroslavich to Batu into amanat (hostages). While staying in the Horde from 1238 to 1252,... , wed Batu Khan's daughter, "

Known wikipedia sources give: 1236 - first rule in Novgorod in age of 15, first visit into Orda - 1247 in age of 26, no Khan's doughter as a wife.

Now it found in uk.wikipedia article "Володимир Білінський". It may be timely view of this particular person.

Vuhdeem revision also removed date 1236 of previous author: Ghirlandajo Revision as of 15:02, 10 June 2005, and inserted itself stright among sentence of Ghirlandajo Revision.

Revision 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem should be limited to "OTHER VIES".

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Thanks to master touch of Ghirlandajo VSL56 (talk) 09:37, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

The Spook House

I have removed the synopsis, which you state was published in 1927. It is therefore still under copyright. Sorry, — Diannaa (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

  • I'm going to revert your edit. The text is taken from the Wikisource page which states that the work is in the public domain. As the text has been available on Wikisource since 2004, I see no reason to delete it from Misplaced Pages. --Ghirla 17:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Sorry for not replying sooner. The material was published in 1927, it still could be under copyright. The Wikisource page says the copyright was never renewed, but I don't know how they determined that. — Diannaa (talk) 22:28, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
User:Cryptic has checked the online database here, and discovered the material is PD, so I have restored it. Thanks for your patience, — Diannaa (talk) 01:04, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. --Ghirla 07:19, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Kiy Island

Hi Ghirlandajo, cab you please show me where in WP:RUS it states that the rule is not applicable to stressed vowels. I can't see anything other than a distinction between words of Russian and non Russian origin. Am I missing something? Thanks. Fenix down (talk) 07:07, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

  • @Ezhiki: @Ymblanter: The situation is not described in WP:RUS because the placename Кий is an exception to the rule. Apart from Viy, I can't readily think of any other words consisting of the single syllable ending with "-ий". The "Ky" version is completely nonsensical, because it leaves the syllable without vowels. It is impossible to pronounce. --Ghirla 18:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
    I am sure it should be Kiy. May be we can make a footnote in WP:RUS, I can not right now think of other single-sillable name with "-ий" but tehnically it is possible. Compare Viy which nobody romanizes as Vy.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
To my mind there is no difference in pronunciation between Kiy and Ky as the y in Ky is being pronounced as a vowel but I understand it might look a bit weird visually so happy for it to stay where it is if everyone agrees. As an aside, what do people make of Kyyy? Fenix down (talk) 19:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
It's not so much about stressed/unstressed vowels, as it is about the usual practice of replacing "-iy" with "-y" in adjectives and certain first names ("Valery", "Makary"), but not in nouns or words of non-Russian origin. This is actually mentioned in WP:RUS—scroll all the way down to the bottom of the "Full rules" table, where endings are explained; the third column explains how the "-iy" ending should generally be dealt with. ("Kyyy" is awful but inevitable, since the word being romanized is a direct borrowing from Sakha and looks pretty weird in Russian, too). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 20, 2016; 15:54 (UTC)
Where does Kiy/Ky come from in this instance then? Fenix down (talk) 16:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
There are multiple theories, but most likely the name is either of Finno-Ugric or Saami origins. At any rate, it's a noun now, and the "-iy" ending in nouns would not be reduced to "-y" when romanized.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 20, 2016; 16:39 (UTC)
P.S. By the way, similar cases include Fiy in the Republic of Dagestan, Niy and Kiy in the Republic of Ingushetia, and my personal favorite Iy in the Tuva Republic. Of these, Fiy is the largest (with ~1,500 people).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 20, 2016; 17:02 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, very interesting. Fenix down (talk) 17:31, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
BTW -iy is often stressed in Ukrainian surnames. e.g., Taisia Povaliy. --Ghirla 05:17, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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Glinski Rebellion

Статья совершенно нечитабельная, или ещё куда ни шло? Если первое, то, вероятно, её было бы проще удалить, чем переписывать, а мне не следует заниматься самопереводом с таким уровнем владения языком. Azgar (talk) 10:47, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Имеет смысл переписывать, удалять не нужно.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:53, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Спасибо. Просто ещё два раздела не перевёл, думаю, имет ли смысл. Хотя, если кто-то поправит самые очевидные ошибки, то, вероятно, имеет. Azgar (talk) 12:25, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Конечно, имеет. В принципе, всё понятно. --Ghirla 15:29, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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Ok, thanks, I see now. I didn't go that far back. Eric 12:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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Sourcing on some old information about GUM

Hello! There is a user who has been cleaning up some articles apparently, and removing unsourced materials. I saw this type of removal on the article about GUM (department store). The information is interesting, so I am curious if you have a citation for it anyway (perhaps from a Russian language source?). Your insertion was here, all the way back in 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=GUM_%28department_store%29&diff=prev&oldid=53153064. Cheers! Top5a (talk) 07:45, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

This is an LTA, all removals mortivated by OR must be rolled back. They changes the IP addresses daily which makes the tracking more difficult. Ymblanter (talk) 21:26, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I am an inexperienced editor, yet I see so much abuse in this manner (you can probably tell how much it irritates me if you see my user page). By the way, I enjoyed your page, thank you so much for all your contributions to the original vision of Misplaced Pages. Cheers! Top5a (talk) 23:16, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
The more recent edits at least same to be in the same range: 2603:7000:2101:AA00:0:0:0:0/64. I have noticed these for a while so I am not sure if the older edits will still be in that range. Mellk (talk) 23:31, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, I have blocked the range, initially for two weeks. Ymblanter (talk) 11:14, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Just so you know, that range immediately went back to the same activity as soon as the block expired. @Ymblanter Cheers. Top5a (talk) 23:29, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
Not yet, but if you see again the removal of unsourced but plausible material pls let me know, I will block the range long-term. Ymblanter (talk) 05:41, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, again! Just wanted to let you know that there were some recent edits made to the lede of the GUM page, as well as a renaming of the page, and I do not have the ability or knowledge to verify those changes. cc: @Mellk Top5a (talk) 19:49, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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