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Right now, the above "translation" project is primarily focused on developing lists for coutries. Do you think the MILHIST project would have any interest in having a list of the relevant articles in other languages that don't yet exist in English? I know you aren't the leader anymore, but I have a feeling Roger is kind of busy and I think you probably are as familiar with the project as anyone. John Carter (talk) 15:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I think that could be useful. The best scenario, in my opinion, would be not a list for the entire project—that would likely grow so large as to be pretty useless—but lists for each of the "national" task forces, organized by the prevalent languages there. So, for example, the French military history task force would get a list of articles from fr.wiki, and so forth. Would that level of precision be feasible? Kirill  02:01, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Fritzpoll told me that that the best way to proceed would be to give a list of categories which were to be included in the listing for each project or work group. On that basis, I tend to think that there is a slight chance that some of the articles included in each list wouldn't be necessarily relevant to the specific work group, but only a slight chance, as I don't think the French wikipedia, for instance, is likely to have many articles on military personnel who have nothing to do with France. Give me some time to look over the various relevant categories in other languages and I'll see what I can do. John Carter (talk) 13:02, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, could you please explain what the problem is rather than just referring to a talk page, it isn't immediately clear what's been going on. Thanks Smartse (talk)

Oh crap, just got really confused by someone linking to your essay about professionalism in their signature.... nevermind! Smartse (talk) 17:43, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Kirill

Any chance of you running for a new term on arbcom? You have done a stellar job in the past, your influence would be missed. Viridae 03:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

I firmly second this comment. AGK 22:29, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I had the pleasure to meet Kirill in person at the last Wikimania, and used the opportunity to demand his return at least several times every hour. He can testify to the sincerity of my desire to have him return (and, possibly, to how annoying I can get!)  :-) — Coren  22:35, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Me four. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I dunno what I was doing when I wrote that originally - spelling and wording mistakes now corrected. Viridae 01:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I am sure Kirill would get the most votes. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ;-) Kirill  02:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

You're right, and you should know better because you've been there done that, but YEE HAA !!! — Rlevse • Talk • 02:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Very nice, I was hoping you would! Still quite a drought in candidates. Cheers, Amalthea 02:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)