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Hooray!Congratulations on the main page. My condolences on the pain that brings. I hope you have returned in triumph...or returned anyway. Geogre 22:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
POTD notification Hi Ghirla, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Stpeteskyline.png is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 5, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-05. howcheng {chat} 02:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC) Valentina TereshkovaThe first woman in space turns seventy today, but our Main Page is perfectly ignorant of the fact. Ditto about Gabriel García Márquez, who turns eighty. Do you think it is OK? --Ghirla 14:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Ghirla, I share your frustration that the round anniversaries of Marquez and Tereshkova are considered not mainpage worthy by some decision makers here. Interestignly, the featured today Dred Scott Case annoversary, while important to be sure, has little relevance on our today's life, thanks god, as the world and the US since then have thankfully changed a lot from those disgraceful days, while the relevance of one of the greatest writers of the century and the first woman in space ever remains profound. Well, I will at least go check and make sure, that those are mentioned in ru- and uk-wuki mainpages. --Irpen 18:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Moving articles correctlyHi, Ghirlandajo! I'm sorry I have overlooked some procedures. The last couple of days I have been busy reverting false article moves made by a now blocked user, User:SndrAndrss (with a host of similarly named aliases). Basically, he has moved articles from the correct, English transcription of Russian names into the incorrect (Norwegian, as it happens) transcription of the names. This was done quite some time ago, and the articles have been edited quite a few times since then, som it's rather time-consuming work (having to do it manually). However, I'm absolutely ready to comply with all the rules & regulations regarding this revertion work. I'll make a list of the names which have been wrongfully moved, and will post move requests where appropriate. Thanx for the reminder! Best regards Guaca 14:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
ZimyatovI moved it to WP:RUS-compliant romanization. It should stay there unless someone can demonstrate that (and why) some other spelling is more preferrable. Thanks for the heads-up.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC) Dixie ChicksHi Ghirlandajo. I just wanted to give you a heads-up on a partial revert on the Chicks page. It's time there's a clarification there between a band (e.g., Chicks) and a music group (e.g., Spice Girls). Thanks for raising the issue. Xiner (talk, email) 14:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC) commons:Image:Basil IV.jpgDo you have any idea what the source was where you found this image? Now it is on commons, but unfortunately it might perhaps be removed in the future if it doesnt have a clear source. Thanks already. --Hardscarf 09:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Batu Lintang campHi Ghirlandajo, Have a look at Batu Lintang camp. It's written by young lady who is worried that the article in not balanced enough. Please, give her some advice how to proceed. --Camptown 08:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Internet troll squadsPer our past discussion, I would like to inform you that I consider this comment uncivil ("no Russian editor can edit Poland-related articles in English Misplaced Pages without facing some sort of harrassment", "gang of Polish editors "). Please refactor / remove / apologize for it. Thank you, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 20:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
(outdent) Piotrus got in touch with me so I'll just clarify that the door remains wide open at mediation. If you'd like to renew it just go ahead and start posting again. You're both incredibly valuable to this project and I hope we can move in productive directions. And particularly to Ghirla, one of the reasons I'm a Wikipedian is because of you. Way back when you approached me about collaboration on the Nadezhda Durova page I had been utterly frustrated by a couple of obstructionists at another topic. You came along at the right moment and it was a joy to work with you. If it hadn't been for that bright spot I might have given up and left the site. So if there's a fair and neutral way I can help out now, I'd put some other things on the back burner and make you a priority. You've earned it. Warmly, Durova 00:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Welcome back!It's good to see you active again! Errabee 20:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Template:Sergeymilacommons:Template:Sergeymila has been nominated for deletion. Could you please come in and give more explanation about the permission so that it can be kept? Thanks in advance. - Andre Engels 13:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Oddball edits to Russian history articlesI don't know a lick about the topic, so could you look into what Kingfish (talk · contribs) has been doing all over the place? Considering what he did at {{History of Russia}}, I doubt he's really a new editor. Circeus 16:19, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Russian-Circassian WarHi Ghirlandajo, I was wondering if you could take a look at the Russian-Circassian War article. It has just passed GA and, as I noticed your contributions to similar articles, I was hoping you would be able to take a look. The article covers the longstanding hostilities between the Circassian region and its inhabitants, and the Russian's, lasting from the mid 18th century until ~1864. I hope you can take a look for me! Will appreciate any help you can lend to the article. Thanks, SGGH 07:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC) Soviet invasion of PolandGhirlandajo, re your comment on my talk page, I know you aren't as involved with Misplaced Pages as in the past, but would you be prepared to come and critique this article on the talk page? I don't care how savage your criticisms might be, I would be prepared to address them (I have only English-language sources available, but a lot of them). I am not interested in arguments between Polish and Russian-speaking editors, but for personal reasons I desperately want this article to reach the highest standard; I don't want to be associated with an article regarded as POV, and I'm prepared to do what it takes. qp10qp 17:28, 9 April 2007 (UTC) Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1979-89Ghirla: I saw your comment in the Panjshir offensives discussion page. Obviously there is a lot of misinformation afloat in the West regarding what happened in this war, and we'll need to get the facts straight in the future. I've expanded the discussion page a bit; you may want to take a look at it and comment. Kenmore 03:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Restoring of Internet Troll Squads after AfD was endorsedПривет Ghirlandajo! It seems that user Biophys has restored recently his Internet Troll Squads article containing his original research again, this time under Internet brigades title.Vlad fedorov 04:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Христосъ Воскресе!-- Biruitorul 17:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Van Morrison songsHi Ghirlandajo: Appreciate the encouragement and also your contributions. Read your user page comments and I couldn't agree more. I'm looking up material on the two songs you mentioned as they are very important songs and need articles. I'll let you know when I enter them. Thanks so much! Agadant 18:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Petr BaranovskyFYI: Posted rewrite on Petr Baranovsky NVO 09:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC) ArbCom/PiotrusCase has been started, probably you will be interested: M.K. 10:22, 20 April 2007 (UTC) Your questionNo, on the whole not. Bishonen | talk 12:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC). Eagle hunting
Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/PiotrusHello, An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus/Workshop. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Picaroon (Talk) 20:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC) Dmitry Pozharsky article questionHi Andrey, I was wondering what the source of this info was: "In autumn 1611, when Pozharsky was recuperating at his Puretsky patrimony near Suzdal, he was approached by a delegation of burghers who offered him to assume command of the second Volunteer Army then gathered in Nizhny Novgorod. The prince agreed on condition that he will be assisted by Kusma Minin, a representative of the Nizhegorod merchants." Specifically, I was wondering about the names of the towns--the sources that I've been able to find (including the ones listed in the article itself) seem to have these names somewhat different. For example, the "patrimony" is usually called Lindeh, and tends to be placed near Nizhny Novgorod, not Suzdal. I'm very interested in finding out where you found Puretsky/Suzdal, if you could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. Best, H.J. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Homerj801 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC). Ghirla,
TsarevnaI just stumbled across this stub while looking for something else - is the info there correct, I thought the Tsarevna was the daughter-in-law of the Tsar, the wife of the Tsarevich, not the Tsar's daughter - am I right or wrong? Nice to see you back albeit fletingly and seldomly Giano 22:05, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Bronze Soldier of TallinnDear Ghirla! We need a correct architectural classification. Can you come up with a more appropriate classification than Stalinist architecture? It was deleted by somebody who suggested socialist realism instead. I thought "socialist realism" may sometimes be part of the "Stalinist" style, especially since the monuent was erected under Joseph Stalin in 1947. -- Camptown 09:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Why is it that one Swede and one Finn have to alone defend both the Russian and the neutral point-of-view in this article, againt a horde of agressive and hostile POV pushers from Estonia? Up to now there has been virtually no participation from Russia. -- Petri Krohn 08:46, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
StructureI see what you did with the positive, mixed, and negative sectioning, but, Misplaced Pages IS written in formal english, and when you are writing non-fiction, there needs to be at least 4 sentences to be considered a stable paragraph. If you can find some more stuff for that first paragraph fine. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 14:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Image:1915 Dance by Rodchenko.jpgHello, Ghirlandajo. An automated process has found and removed a fair use image used in your userspace. The image (Image:1915 Dance by Rodchenko.jpg) was found at the following location: User talk:Ghirlandajo/Spring 2006. This image was removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image was replaced with Image:Example.jpg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image to replace it with. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 23:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC) article about KuzminHi, I saw that you restored the old version. This is partially justified, since the new one contained lots of errors; however, the older one is also full of errors. For example, 'The Trout Breaks the Ice' was definitely written before 1929 (in fact, it was published by 1927); it is hard to disagree that this is one of Kuzmin's major works (esp. since everything he wrote after 1930 disappeared), but homosexual motives do not play but a minor role in it. Why did you decide to undo all the later changes? Best, Sasha C Праздником!-Kuban Cossack Kizhi!Thank you, for your clean up of the article your oversight to the article gives it the prestigious touch. Most excellent. LoveMonkey 03:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Better late than neverYou asked me two years ago to make an image for you, well, here it is. I wish I had it ready for Den Pobedy, but I hope you like it. User:Zscout370 02:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Just to Inform youYou and the number of articles you have successfully submitted to DYK has been noted here because you have been discovered as one of the twenty-five highest DYK article contributors. If you feel compelled to continue to update your number of DYKs on this list, and therefore the list itself, then it would be very helpful and help make sure that the list is as up-to-date as possible. If you, indeed, do not wish to be present on this list, then please notify me, the creator. Regards, —A • D 11:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Greetings Andrey.I am a brandnew member on wikipedia though I've been reading articles here since about 2002, I've decided to register here yesterday. You've edited an article I wrote and I wanted to ask you for guidance, can we have some kind of correspondense about this article ? MiskinSorry, but I'm right on that one. The user DID have a history on the topics: prior blocks were on Epirus and Macedonian related articles. All of the user's disruption is on Greek/Persian/Macedonian/Ancient Greek civ topics. a 24hr block is appropriate for a new editor who accidentally violates the 3RR, or even a warning and no block. But for a 2 year, established editor, with MULTIPLE previous 3RR blocks: he is well aware of the policy and willfully chose to disrupt it. Ironically, I was warned before all of this that a block would be ineffective, as his alleged admin friends would come unblock him. I'm not sure whether you're one of those alleged friends or not, but I continue to stand by block, and I feel the facts stand with me. The block review is up on AN/I if you wish to comment. ⇒ SWATJester 16:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Never claimed you were one of them. It was on email, not on IRC by the way. Anyway, given the way AN/I responded, I think I've been justified, but I'm obviously more than willing to proceed to ArbCom: it'll likely have to be done at some point: now or in a few months. I realize my prior edit may have come off a bit accusatory, please note that was not my intent at all. I was warned that he had "friends" and lo and behold, my apparently well justified block was overturned promptly, despite numerous uninvolved admins later providing overwhelming support for it. See how I could be a little jaded on this one? Something fishy is indeed going on here. It's obviously has nothing to do with you, you simply oppose the block and that's fine. ⇒ SWATJester 19:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
I fully well agree, if both sides are revert warring, both need to be investigated. I'm strongly considering taking it to ArbCom so the arbitrators can put a stop to the revert warring permanently: it's been suggested multiple times that the case would be more appropriate there. If that happens, I'll be sure to let you know, obviously your input would be valuable there.⇒ SWATJester 21:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Re: Image:8thdukecroy.jpgI have re-instated the no-source tag. Misplaced Pages image policy requires that all images - irrespective of copyright status - include information on where the image was sourced from. This includes images that are public domain because of their age!. Madmedea 22:08, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Abu'l-Khayr KhanThanks for your very good work on the Shaybanid dynasty article. However, Shiban needs to link to an article about him, not to the article about the Shaybanid dynasty. In the Abu'l-Khayr Khan article you restored the Shiban link to a redirect to Shaybanid. I have now written a stub for Shiban and replaced that redirect. The Shiban article has a hatnote to the Shaybanid dynasty article. The reason that I unlinked Shiban (in the Abu'l-Khayr Khan article) in the first place was that the link did not say anything more about him than was already said. Links have to provide additional information if they are to be useful. I do appreciate your work. So much that I find in this area is so poorly written, and poorly sourced, it is a joy to see good information going in. --Bejnar 01:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC) Template:UnreferencedWow, guess that I had to say sorry about this one, I remembered reading about the template help article months ago which suggests the tag should be placed above the article or sections, I guess they had changed it. Anyways, thanks.Eiorgiomugini 17:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC) WP:UNDUEYou needs to be more specified of what you trying to say, here is what it said: Eiorgiomugini 17:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC) AshinaAlright, thanks, I think the Ashina is a minor issue, I don't know about you, but if you continued to do so in other articles that I had edited minutes ago, I would considered that as WP:Stalking.Eiorgiomugini 18:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I hope that you're aware that people are free to added in whatever source they like provided they does have a citation. The article Tarim mummies I edited today are days ago after you edited for your information. And you even made a personal attack on my talk page too. I said I might be wrong about the tag, but that doesn't meant you should had accused me for that Eiorgiomugini 18:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC) Actually it is not true that you may add whatever source you like. Please see WP:RS. Moreover, the text that's added to an article must be comprehensible. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 18:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC) WP:RS doesn't said anythings about comprehensible. Mind to give me a specified quote? Eiorgiomugini 18:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC) AshinaOn the contrary, I think your English is quite good. I have no idea what is being said in that segment, so I moved it to Talk and asked for clarification. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 18:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC) Statement refactoringI moved your statement under the general arbitration clerk privledge to refactor. - both the Miskin case and the one below it had become unreadable from the volume of statements. In both cases, I removed all statements not by participants so that arbitrators could more effectively find key pieces of information. This is a new move, but it's provided for by policy written specifically to deal with cases that were getting out of control. Phil Sandifer 06:31, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/MiskinHello, An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Miskin. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Miskin/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Miskin/Workshop. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - Penwhale | 17:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Yaropolk I of KievYaropolk I of Kiev Privet, Andrey. I am going through a number of articles on Saint Vladimir, since the Dutch article on him is basically no more than a stub and contains errors. So, I fell upon his brother. You wrote most of this article. The problem is with the conversion text about Bruno of Querfurt. Our article on him states he was born in 970, so if he converted a ruler of Kiev, that must have been Vladimir and not Yaropolk, who died in 980. Of course, Bruno's birth year may be wrong, but that date was from the Catholic Encyclopedia. 1911 EB says 975! That would exclude Vladimir as well - hm, one of the sources for the Bruno concversion story is a known forgerer, perhaps this is one more thing he invented. As for the entire story about Yaropolk's conversion, there may be something to it. Weller's History of Russia (in German originally) says that Vladimir was the candidate of the heathens in Kiev (actually he writes "in 980, the heathen party in Kiev was still strong enough to impose their candidate for the throne") However, he may have been using the same source(s) as you. I notice the article on Yaropolk has since be marked as lacking references or sources. I will probably be able to add some. But again: what were yours? I hope this does not appear unfriendly to you. I did not know you knew so much about music, by the way. --Pan Gerwazy 19:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
50 000 editsHello, I'm a french admin and Student, with something such 15.000 edits on all wiki projects. Since I know all the time and energy that take to me to do this, I have one question :
Yug (talk) 15:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Russian-Circassian WarI appreciate your efforts with the above article, but please be more specific with your comments. Having to trawl through edit summaries, with "this article needs to be completely rewritten" being the most helpful of them to be found, doesn't give me much of an idea as to what needs to be changed and fixed, and thus I have less of a chance to be able to follow your advice and improve the article! I realise that you have been here a long time, and know what you are doing far more than I, but I'm never going to be able to improve an article if you are going to slice through it without giving me any real idea of what you want changed... Also, you have fact-tagged a couple of things which are cited about 4 lines or so below, during previous FAC's of mine such double citing was advised against, so I haven’t fixed these fact tags. Getting conflicting advice here that I would appreciate clarification on... In short, please make a comment on the talk page or my own talk page to air your views so I can actually go about improving the article, rather than just slapping on fact tags and making comments that I can't really follow up on. Many thanks, and I appreciate that you are clearly willing to work on the article. :) SGGH 17:53, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
AshinaI was based on my source for your information, same goes to your saka origin sources, what are you gonna report me about? Eiorgiomugini 07:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
ImagesIs there any reason why the Orkhon Valley article should not have the picture I added? Do you think it is over-illustrated?--Doron 14:39, 19 May 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your comment! By the way, is there any reason why the World Heritage infobox was removed?--Doron 11:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Energy issuesHi Ghirla. First of all, please let me apology not greeting you after your return from wikibreak. Actually we didn't edit same pages quit a long time. Concerning the edits of Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, actually we edited at the same time, so removing your edit about Krakow's meeting wasn't intentional. However, I would like to notice, that Krakow's meeting wasn't about Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, play around this pipeline is going over the head of Poland. The main interest of participating countries was Odessa-Brody pipeline and prolonging this into Plock and afterward to Gdansk. But for investing into such project, you should be sure you will have enough oil. As I explained at the talk page of Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, there is not enough oil without Kazakhstan. Of course, everybody expected Nazarbayev to come Poland, and it's understandable that without Nazarbayev there was nothing to discuss. So, the information about Krakow's meeting could be relevant in some other articles, but not necessarily in this particular article. Of course, all these pipelines are related to the politics, but I think it's better to keep these technical and to add politics only so much as necessary. Concerning the Russia-Belarus energy dispute, the information about Ukraine dispute is not relevant, because in 2006 Ukraine has already price of $230. Again, concerning Russia-Ukraine dispute, there is separate article. Beagel 18:11, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I made some edits to clean up the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline and replaced also external links with references. Concerning your edit on Krakow's meeting, I replaced "...to discuss plans for the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline bypassing Russia" with "...to discuss plans for the energy routes bypassing Russia". This covers both oil and gas connections, including the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline. I hope this is ok for you. I am still worried about the POV tag, because I don't understand what is exactly POV on this article. If possible, maybe you could assist to clarify this issue. Thanks. Beagel 13:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Concerning Prikaspisky (North Caspian?) pipeline, it's actually the western branch of Central Asia-Centre gas pipeline. This is quite corrupt right now and most of the Turkmen gas runs right now trough the eastern branch of this pipeline. The agreement signed on 12 May 2007 by Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan concerns renovation of the western branch and laying second pipe beside of it. It's not clear if this new pipeline will be considered as a separate pipeline or as an integral part of the Central Asia-Centre gas pipeline. According to the news, more technical agreement will be signed later. Therefore I propose right now to put an information about 12 May agreement into the article about Central Asia-Centre gas pipeline.Beagel 17:29, 21 May 2007 (UTC) Thank you, GhirlandajoThanks for helping in Tambov rebellion article. Besides, could you comment on Biophys revert warring on http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive_editing_and_possible_wikistalking. Your help would be appreciated. Vlad fedorov 08:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Russians in UkraineCould you please explaine the reasons on the article talk page? --Hillock65 13:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, AndreyYou have absolutely no need to apologise for anything, Andrey. Of all the messages I have received-for which I am grateful-yours has moved me the most, because of our recent disagreement on the Light Brigade issue. I was hurt, I freely confess, by the suggestion of 'Russophobia' because I love Russia; I love its history, its culture, its people and its literature. I think I have read every significant Russian author since Pushkin. Sadly, only in translation, though learning the Russian language is one of my personal goals. I even understand the dark corners of your history, and have understanding and, dare I say it, even some residual admiration for Ivan Grozny and Stalin. I spent a wonderful Christmas (by this I mean Christmas by the Catholic calculation!) in Moscow in December 2005, staying in the National Hotel. The people I met were unfailingly courteous and attentive-especially the wonderful men! I will reflect on what you wrote on my talk page, but I feel very angry just at the moment. It may sound paranoid but I think that I have been deliberately 'set-up' by a stupid and petty-minded clique. Long live Mother Russia! Clio the Muse 08:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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Renaissance architectureGhirlandaio, I've got to ask this, since you are an experienced editor. Do you look at what you are doing? I really don't mind putting in the Palace of Facets, if you prefer it to the cathedral, but your comment and your removal of a perfect example of Neo-Renaissance building (the Cathedral of Montreal which was illustrating the section below) was arrogant to say the very least. --Amandajm 14:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC) Re: Italian WarsOh, I'm not taking it to heart at all; I have nothing but the highest respect for Wetman's work, and the occasional misunderstanding doesn't change that. Kirill Lokshin 15:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Welcome backGood to see you back on English wikipedia. --Lysy 18:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Foreign relations of the Soviet UnionI'm glad you liked it! Clio the Muse 05:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Expurgation?I have nothing against using Russian spellings and even Russified names (e.g., Alexander Khakhanov, Ivan Gurielov) were they are evidently appropriate. I have added the Russian spellings to those passages in the text where the families' connection to Russia becomes apparent to the reader.--Kober 10:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Commons:Deletion requests/Template:AutotravelI'm interesting in your opinion. Alex Spade 12:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC) talk page of 3 LöwiIs there a particular reason why you would be interested in messages left to 3 Löwi? Digwuren 15:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
ErotophobiaI am sorry. You were saying? who are calling on erotophobia? It would be considered as WP:STALK if I did participated on all of your articles you had edited. Eiorgiomugini 17:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Ghirlandajo, I had no idea what are you blabbing about, but if you think my intention was bad, so be it. Eiorgiomugini 17:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is where the problem goes, considered your responses from edit summary and my talk page, I don't think you are assuming a good faith. Eiorgiomugini 17:51, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
SuyabFor your information, I did not changed your addition much, just keep adding details and accurating the article, you might want to take a look at it. Its fine for me if don't like it, I had used to it anyway. Eiorgiomugini 21:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Editors from TartuYou predicted that the issues with this group of editors from Tartu would end up in WP:ArbCom. I find it very likely. There does not seem to be any way to stop this wave of
I find the way the AfD for Estland was presented an indication of bad faith. The nominator first removed about 30 links to the article, then claimed that "no other pages link to this page". The latest edits deleted all content, without waiting for the AfD to close! -- Petri Krohn 23:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC) P.S. I created Estonia (1917-1918), using some material from Estland. Although you do not usually contribute to 20th century subjects, you may want to have a look at this. -- Petri Krohn 02:13, 27 May 2007 (UTC) Ice MarchA page on the Ice March is now in existence! I would be grateful for any comments, amendments or additions that you might care to make. Some illustrations would be a help. Best wishes Clio the Muse 02:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC) RE:KalenderhaneCiao Domenico ;-), thanks for your questions, I started to answer in the discussion page of Kalenderhane (now I am in vacation here). Cheers, Alex2006 07:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC) Ashina mediationI had made a several requests for mediation on the article Ashina, and now for both of us. I would hope that you could come over and agree with this, you might insisted on your way. The point is to prevert any further disputes that might carried out in the future, this is not a reprisal. Moreover I will not held responsible for any consequent on the editing war, because I did tired. Eiorgiomugini 10:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
I am telling you that I would not responsible for any those flaw accustions on the RfC. And you did interested on mediate as you said on RfC. I am aware that it concerned over more than one article, but those disputes happened mainly in Ashina, moreover a mediation could only insert one of the article name. You are always welcome to edit any article that we had disputed over. I can sense that you are a very sensitivity guy. For example, I asked for image uploading from another guy in privacy, you randomly uploaded on your own, I had no idea how you did know about the conversation between me and another guy. Do you even realise that almost all your contributions are on the line of controversy, there's room for the debate for those issue (e.g. the birthplace of Li Bai). When asked for source, you simply wedge in another source and misrepresented it to convince the others, does that ever occur to you what I would think? Eiorgiomugini 07:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC) I am listing an example, such as the cases for Li Bai's birthplace. As for the image, I had asked for uploading the exactly the same image an hour before you uploaded it, is that really a coincidence? Eiorgiomugini 07:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC) 20 mins coincidence? Sure, whatever you meant. Eiorgiomugini 08:05, 29 May 2007 (UTC) DYK nomDear Blnguyen, if you care to cast your eye over the history of Roger Morris, you will see that it's slightly unusual. I wished to nominate the recent expansion for DYK, in order to encourage further mainspace contributions by Clio the Muse:
But, on second thoughts, I decided that it still looks stubby. I'd like to know your opinion whether it could eventually qualify. --Ghirla 20:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Western Turkic KhaganateYou can't removed a tag from a anon or nobody that had added it, is so obvious that the entire article itself is unsourced, maybe you could provided some reference to it. Eiorgiomugini 09:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC) TranslatePlease make use of your cyrillic language ability and translate the sources you provided earlier without removing the References section. Also, are there guidelines that actually said foreign-language titles are needed on a translated title by the way? This had not been done so similarly on the others articles, as far I am awared of. Eiorgiomugini 14:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC) Tong Yabghustarted this article. Would appreciate any help you could provide. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 15:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Re: Question about CommonsIf you have the email from the website owner, just forward it to the permissions email stated at the Commons and I can review the email there. User:Zscout370 21:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC) Nasz (talk · contribs)I suppose something should be done about this, he is adding nonsense at a frightening rate now. dab (𒁳) 06:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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Tong YabghuHello. I think you got the wrong guy here, the second war happened in 619, but the events described in his page are from 628-629. Also, did they invade from the east?Azerbaijani 13:32, 30 May 2007 (UTC) The 627-629 campaign was a third war. The second war also occurred during Tong Yabghu's reign. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 14:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Hermitage sales"Clandestine" yes, but i don't think a Government can "smuggle" it's assets out of its own territory. "Stolen" hardly applies, though "scandalous" certainly does. The Hermitage website does not inspire confidence in asserting that Andrew Mellon was "forced by financial difficulties" to sell his paintings to the NGAy btw. He had a big anti-trust case, but this was not the reason for his gifts. I'm not sure the Van Eyck link isn't still the better one for the Alba Madonna, but am not bothered about it. Legran was just a small cog in the transactions. Johnbod 14:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/BadlydrawnjeffHello, An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff/Workshop. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, David Mestel 18:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Tashtyk cultureThanks for helping to expand this article. That is a great picture you uploaded. Might it have appeared in the 1st edition of the G.S.E. (and thus, I believe, be public domain?) Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 19:11, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Image:Леонтьева.jpg
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Fair UseYes, I see that they were uploaded before the policy changed. Unfortunately, I think they have to go if they don't conform to the current policy. (See Misplaced Pages:Fair_use#Non-compliance.) I'll try to add fair use rationales where I think they're appropriate and see how it turns out. Thanks! --Butseriouslyfolks 05:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC) DYK×2
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Heh,Too bad you're not a bureaucrat either to promote me, rather than correcting your comment! :-) NikoSilver 13:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC) Supraśl LavraHi Ghirlandajo, I am the author of the article 'Suprasl Lavra'. I titled the article 'Suprasl Lavra' because that is the title that the monastery is known by in Poland, and natives of Suprasl are told that it was one of only four such holy places in the Russian Empire. I had looked on the history page of the official website and they didn't mention the date that it was given the distinction of 'Lavra' (address is http://www.monaster-suprasl.pl/ but they use the term Lavra throughout the page (Polish term Ławra, declined as Ławrze). I had called the monastery about where I could find out and cite the information. The reply was that 1) The term lawra ws given by the Patriarch of Constantinople at its foundation in the 1500's and 2) The only place that the person knew to cite this information was in an old Russian book from the late 1800's, and that he would provide the name to me if I called back tomorrow. My question is will this suffice, and since you speak Russian, would you be able to find sources on the Lavra in Russian. If what local lore say is true, there were extensive pilgramages here during the period of Russian rule, and the Orthodox church was promoted and protected by the imperial government, which would hint that there would be a lot of literature about it in Russian (hopefully) thanking you in advance for your trouble, --Orestek 20:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
You edit on PitsundaLazica is a Graeco-Roman designation for the region known to the medieval Georgian (and Armenian) annals as Egrisi (hence, the name of Mingrelia). --Kober 08:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Miskin caseIt is getting very dirty now: . Actually, I had never heard of this guy Miskin before I saw your exchange with Swatjester. I had a look at Mardavich's talk page history (I wonder if everybody involved in this case did that) and saw that he had "archived away" comments by Miskin and by an admin who had warned him in a different case. Oh, and in case you wondered, I ahve never got any e-mail from Miskin. Checked just now. --Pan Gerwazy 09:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
miskin arbitrationGhirlandajo, I have nothing against releasing the emails. Like I said, I even screenshotted them so that everyone would be able to see them. However, I did make a promise of confidentiality. I'm contacting the people involved to see if they have issues with being identified. It's a little slow, because it's more than one. I have a great deal of respect for you. If you would like to see them, I have no problem showing them to you, provided you keep it to yourself and the ArbCom, until I am told that I can publically release them. ⇒ SWATJester 22:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC) DYK
Russian translationAndrey, I need your help. Please look at the Putin thread on the Humanities desk (3 June). What is it that Jack has written? Love Clio the Muse 13:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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Buri-sadAnother Gokturk entry. Are there any other Russian sources on this guy that you might be able to tap into? Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 16:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Native Speaker?Like Clio, I am astonished to discover that English is not your first language. To have your cradle tongue be language with a different alphabet and a different structure, too, and not to have spent time speaking with native speakers is almost beyond belief. (I do believe you, though; I am getting used to the facts of the great skill, talent and training of so many of the Ref Desk participants.) Most of the English used on the web is of such abysmal quality that I am further impressed that you quote it as a principal source. Perhaps you have access to sites that I have never come across. Bielle 19:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC) DYK
Regarding edits to Mail.ruThank you for contributing to Misplaced Pages, Ghirlandajo! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Misplaced Pages. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule alexa\.com, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Misplaced Pages. Please read Misplaced Pages's external links guidelines for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 09:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC) Battle of KonotopI noticed that you reverted my edit in this article. Would you care to explain on the discussion page the reason for it? If you have concerns over the neutrality of the article please note your objections on the discussion page. As of yet there are none. I hope you saw what kind of tag you reverted. Reverts without discussion are counterproductive. Please start dialogue istead of rivert war. --Hillock65 12:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Third Perso-Turkic WarWent through about half of it, will finish the rest later. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 22:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC) Church of KishHi. Please see . Thanks. --Grandmaster 10:30, 7 June 2007 (UTC) Tashtyk, Tagar, Ket et al.I am looking in on them. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 16:18, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Желание успеховHi Ghirla, I noticed you changed my Желаю Вам успехи to Желаю Вам успехов. While I can see why the latter might make sense, I seem to recall learning and hearing the former, and it gets a fair number of Google hits. Is the former version really incorrect? --Reuben 02:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Possibly unfree Image:Zvenigorod_savva.jpgAn image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Zvenigorod_savva.jpg, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at Misplaced Pages:Possibly unfree images if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Butseriouslyfolks 05:16, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Block of RussiannameHi. I made that block because Hillock65 had requested that Russianname stop reverting his talk page, and Russianname refused, reverting it 14 times in one day. The sheer amount of reverting without discussion looked pretty out of control, so I blocked him to prevent the situation from escalating. It's only for 24 hours, but if you know Russianname and feel that's too long, I would be okay with shortening it. Apparently Hillock65 got blocked, too. --Masamage ♫ 17:46, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
ArbComYour comment was not "mysteriously deleted", it was moved to Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Miskin/Evidence by an ArbCom clerk. If you read the rules on top of the evidence page, it explicitly says "Do not edit within the evidence section of any other user". --Mardavich 18:36, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
ApologyHi Ghirla. I in no way deliberately left you out of the list of people who had commented; your opinion is as completely valid as every other contributor. Please chalk that error on my part down to a simple oversight - I didn't mean to offend. Sorry! Neil ╦ 20:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Location of Vändra in 1843: Estonia or Livonia?As you concentrate on pre-20th century Russian history, you might be able to comment on this issue. Is it correct to say that Vändra, the birthplace of Lydia Koidula, was in 1843 located in northern Livonia? ...or should we say southern Estonia? Is mentioning Livonia undue weight? Please comment at Talk:Lydia Koidula. -- Petri Krohn 00:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Pietro BoncompagniThanks for digging up an appropriate categfory. --Wetman 23:37, 9 June 2007 (UTC) Valley of Geysers
Mikhail PavlovichHello, Andrey. Thanks for your interest in the articles I have written on the Russian royals. By early next month I would write about Mikhail Pavlovich, at u request. However, information about him it is scarce. I want to ask for you’re help adding to my Romanov’s articles their name in Cyrillic alphabet. Thanks Miguel 1:16, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Your msg.Thanks for letting me know. No, I don't think it was I who semiprotected it, but it doesn't matter. I'm OK with it being SP'd. ←Humus sapiens 09:08, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Forum ref?May I ask why you use forum as reference for death date? Its not really neccessary as nobody disputes date of death(at other article I wanted only ref for claims of him not being deported to USSR by UK) and as our friend Petri said, its not really good source anyway.--Staberinde 15:38, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Third Perso-Turkic WarHello. With regard to the territorial changes, that is meant for the changes after the war, not during. The Khazars never occupied the territory, they left it (even before the war with Byzantium was completely finished). Also, they invaded Georgia (Iberia) and Caucasus Albania, they never invaded Azerbaijan, which at that time was the area below the Araxes river.Hajji Piruz 20:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
AfD EtiquetteRegarding the Estonian Age of Awakening business, please note the following:1. Withdrawing a nomination is not in itself an attempt to close the AfD. You're welcome to add the relevant templates when you withdraw the nomination, but if you don't do that, the AfD remains live until an administrator or another user adds them. I would have closed it myself, but since I was one of the ones recommending the article be kept, I thought it was best to wait for another admin or user to do it. Given that the AfD remained open, moving and commenting out recommendations that other users had made isn't a good idea. Yes, they should probably have noticed that the discussion was no longer active, but the thing was still open. 2. While I can appreciate your dislike for comments and questions being included in an AfD's main page, please note that there's actually no requirement that they be moved elsewhere. 3. In relation to the question you were asked about why the debate had been categorised a certain way, please remember that it wasn't (or at least it shouldn't have been) a judgement on you. Rather, it was a question. The manner in which you replied was abrupt at best. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:38, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Gokturk mapThe one I put up was an approximation of a map in an old Turkish historical atlas, but it might be possible to do an expansion map. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 12:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC) Image:GokturkFlag.pngPlease see Misplaced Pages:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_June_11#Image:GokturkFlag.png. Thanks. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 13:46, 11 June 2007 (UTC) Please joinMisplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-06-10 Podilsko-Voskresenska Line. --Kuban Cossack 17:23, 11 June 2007 (UTC) Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia, 1961Hi Ghirlando. Sorry, I looked, but I wasn't able to find any English-language material on this. Jayjg 15:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Third Perso-Turkic War
Estonian Orthodox ChurchYou might want to add this, and the linked articles, to your watchlist. Also check this out: Estonian Orthodoxy in the 1990s. The section "Post-Soviet Developments" is an excellent presentation of the Estonian legal position. What do you call a situation, where the state denies a church the right to legally practice religion. In China it would be called "religious prosecution". -- Petri Krohn 04:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC) Ghirla...I'm curious of your bold movings and whether the edits like this are the breach of WP:NCNT. Thanks for any feedback :) --Brand спойт 09:52, 13 June 2007 (UTC) |
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