User talk:Ezhiki/2015

I was just about to slap up this same template, but Iryna beat me to it... Atleast I was the first to steal it for use on Commons. Have a great 2015 old friend! I just wish Greyhood was still around so I could leave him one... INeverCry 22:58, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah well, INeverCry, it's the thought that counts. I'm going to slap one on your talk page. Just consider me a template hog! Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I got to protect both the pics, so nah nah! Happy New Year to you and yours too Iryna! INeverCry 00:59, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, folks! I hope your new year is filled with joy and productivity as well :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 5, 2015; 14:08 (UTC)

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Happy New Year to you and Ym! Can either of you find a source and something to add?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you as well! I've added a link to the encyclopedia article on the Russian Ministry of Defense site, but didn't do anything to our article. This military stuff always bores me to death and I'm not very good with it; sorry! Anyone should be able to use the information at that link to expand the article, however. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 6, 2015; 21:28 (UTC)

Hi there. Please do forgive if I am leaving a message to you in the wrong area. I could not find a 'send this user a message' button. The issue I have is that the word on all online Turkish dictionaries do not end up translating as 'stupid'. We only have the cited book and we can't check that. In Turkish-English dictionaries the word 'abaza' simply means 'abaza' or Abazaians'. I don't think it's a Turkish word meaning 'stupid'. The only translation I got online is from Google Translate and it says 'horny'. So I thought let's have both alternatives. I agree with you Google Translate is not reliable by Wikipedia standards. But we also cannot check the meaning because whoever wrote it cited a book. And I kind of suspect vandalism - with choosing the translation 'stupid' since I am an Abazin person and I doubt this is a Turkish word at all. We have our own language called Abaza. Please give me your thoughts on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.158.170 (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, again, friend. This may be awfully close to the kinds of questions I've asked you before, but on the page of List of cities and towns in Russia by population, it mentions that these are cities ranked by their city propers and not metropolitan or urban area measurements. My understanding of "city proper" in the context of where I'm from means a measurement within the boundaries of a defined administrative/municipal division. However, it appears that may not be the definition on this page for every city. What does "city proper" mean in the Russian context, and can this be made a bit more clear on that page? Like we discussed at length with Sochi, it seems that for some of these cities (more specifically the ones where there may be multiple settlements in one division) while we're definitely talking about a measurement contained within an administrative or municipal division, it might not be a population measurement of all of the settlement territories within those boundaries. --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:40, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Hope your new year is going alright. To answer your question, in the context of Russia, "city proper" refers to the territorial entity (whose boundaries may or may not be identical to the boundaries of the administrative or municipal division which contains the said city). Typically, when an administrative/municipal division only contains one city, the borders of that division and of the "city proper" (i.e., the territorial unit) match, but exceptions do happen. A city may have other territories in its jurisdiction (which are not within the "city proper"), and those territories may or may not contain other inhabited localities. And as far as the population figures go, Census reports them for both the "cities proper" and, separately, for the administrative/municipal divisions. List of cities and towns in Russia by population includes only the figures for "cities proper", as it should. Does this answer your question?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 9, 2015; 16:20 (UTC)

So, "city proper" is a contiguous settlement area within the boundaries of an administrative/municipal division division. I guess my only other question is in a city like Sochi, clearly, the Russian statistics agency clearly distinguishes between a city proper and the administrative area. What about Moscow on that list, though? Is that a territorial measurement or a measurement of the population with the administrative boundaries? I ask, because in recent years, Moscow has annexed huge tracts of neighboring districts/cities, and the urban area isn't always contiguous. Are places like Moscow and St. Petersburg the exception to the rule? Do they use total administrative boundary population even when there are multiple non-contiguous settlements in these huge metropolises? --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:41, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore the above question; I didn't read the page well enough. I see a note was made about Moscow and St. Petersburg. --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Moscow and St. Petersburg are indeed a special case and an exception to many rules which apply to other cities. Their internal structure can also be quite vague and not always well-defined—this is especially true about the status of the localities they comprise. The definitions are better for the newly annexed territories, but something like the territorial status of Zelenograd may very well be worthy of a whole research project. Zelenograd is definitely considered to be a separate city by some sources, equally definitely not to be a separate city by others, and the whole thing is largely ignored by most sources whenever they can get away with it. The definitions of the status of Moscow's few rural localities (pre-annexation) are even worse. The pertinent laws are very vague, with no incentive to improve the wording since little other than academic interest depends on clarifying the issue!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 9, 2015; 17:25 (UTC)

I'm just getting around to going down the list to see if there is anymore exceptions, and as soon as you get to #5 (Nizhny Novgorod), the population given for the city proper is the same population for the entire administrative city despite it clearly stating on the city's page that along with Nizhny Novgorod proper there is one resort settlement and twelve rural localities. I assume that the population of these other settlements combined is very small, but it seems to tell me that the measurement or city proper is not at all consistent even apart from the notable exception of the federal cities. I imagine if I go down this list, I'll find other population figures that are supposed to be for city propers but are actually for the entire administrative city. Is this the fault of how the Russian government measures the city propers, or the person who transcribed the list here on wikipedia? --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean? The number in the list (1,250,619) is the same as what's in the Nizhny Novgorod article (although there was a typo in one of the instances which I have just corrected; it was off by only four people anyway), and that's the number for Nizhny Novgorod proper. "City proper" populations are the only ones included in the Russian city articles. The population of the administrative unit (i.e., of the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod) was, as of the 2010 Census, 1,259,738, but nowhere in the "Nizhny Novgorod" article I can see a statement that the population reported there is for the administrative unit. Could you clarify what made you think it was?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 12, 2015; 15:54 (UTC)

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It's back, re-uploaded as a new image. I started a talk page discussion. I don't know how to go about reporting this or getting a more permanent fix. Maybe request a block on the IP? Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll respond there. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 20, 2015; 14:52 (UTC)

Many years ago, you created Базин as a redirect. I've marked it as a redirect from Russian.

• Is it actually Russian? I certainly recognize Cyrillic, and it exists as a redirect page on ru.wikipedia.org, but I though I'd ask.

1. It redirects to a disambiguation page, is there something more specific that it should be directed to?Naraht (talk) 16:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Naraht! First off, I should clarify that

set index

(on last names). Given the hatnote and the entries under "see also", it could be made into a proper disambig, if the last name material is consolidated on a separate page and linked to.

The redirect (which is indeed in Russian) was created in 2009 when, if I remember correctly, there was a consensus that native Russian spelling of the last names should redirect to appropriate pages. I'll have to re-check if that consensus still stands, but in general, retaining such redirects doesn't seem to be unreasonable. Still, I don't quite remember what compelled me to create that particular redirect—even in 2009, the "Bazin" page did not contain any Russian entries (the Russian last name romanized as "Bazin" is unrelated to the French last name "Bazin"). If an article about a Russian person with this last name is created, the redirect can be pointed to it, and if more than one such article is written (the Russian Wikipedia has three), then it's probably best to leave it pointing to the set index. Does this answer your question?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 20, 2015; 14:49 (UTC)

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Your editing is disruptive. You haven't explained why you think three different population figures are important enough to be mentioned in the lead. You haven't explained why you want to quote every one of them to six significant figures. You haven't understood that "sourced" is a necessary but not sufficient condition for inclusion in articles. And you are repeatedly and dishonestly not mentioning that you are reverting every part of my edit. What exactly was your problem with the words "which is" in this edit? Kindly start behaving properly. 200.83.136.145 (talk) 02:26, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear anonymous editor. First of all, hello. Second of all, it is actually your editing that is disruptive. And I'm not saying this right off the bat to tell you off—as an IP editor, who is presumably new to Wikipedia, you can't be expected to know all the rules and guidelines we have in place. But if you only read one of our guidelines, please make it

this one

(well, technically not a guideline, but it's full of good pointers about acceptable behavior, general policy, and common courtesy). It will explain to you that while everyone is welcome to make any edits they deem to be helpful/useful/reasonable, if such an edit is reverted, the next step is not re-reverting (and then re-reverting again, and then again), but rather discussion. Well, better late than never—I'm glad you started such a discussion now.

For my part, I tried to do my best to explain the reasons for reverting you in my edit summaries. Per that same BRD essay above, it is one's expectation that if such an explanation is insufficient (the space in the edit summary box is, after all, limited), the other party will follow-up on the article's (or user's) talk page.

So, with that out of the way, let's look at the merits of your edits. If you look around Wikipedia, and at the articles related to Russia in particular, you'll see that including several most recent Census figures (and occasionally estimates) in the

lede

is a common practice. Clearly, most people have no problem with this approach, and those who might, don't see it as a big one that needs to be fixed right away. As far as cities and other populated places go, a recent population count is one of the most basic attributes that needs to be included. And since it's a hard number, making it clear where the numbers came from is not optional. As for the previous population counts, those show a trend—something especially important in the context of Russia, where the population is generally decreasing, so any place with a stable or increasing population is an outlier that needs to be pointed out (ideally, with the reasons explained).

With that in mind, does it mean that the lede is always the best place to include this information? Hell, no! Your concern is a perfectly valid one; it's the way you went about addressing it that's problematic. The main purpose of the lede is to summarize the article. That's all well and good for well-developed, long articles, but every now and then, it is important to include the information, yet there is no place in the text to include it. Making a very short section only to repeat its contents in the lede is a practice that's not encouraged, so most of the time this kind of information is simply appended to the lede. The population information in particular would normally belong in the Demographics section (in which case including only the most recent population count in the lede would be perfectly acceptable). There is no Demographics section in the Astrakhan article, however. And, as I said above, creating one only to include three Census figures is not not a good practice either. So, what is one to do then? Well, it's simple, really. If your interest in Astrakhan is truly genuine, perhaps you'd be interested in writing up such a section, which would include not only the three figures, but perhaps a short paragraph about the population development, ethnic composition, or other such matters? It doesn't have to be very long (a paragraph or two would definitely suffice), but it would not only address your concern, but will be a great improvement of the article, which is, after all, the desired outcome. And if your knowledge of this area is insufficient to write a whole section (mine certainly is), another possible solution is to aggregate the Census figures in a table and stick it after the infobox, "sectionless", so to speak. See, for example, this article where this solution is employed. The formatting may look a bit daunting, especially to a (presumably) new editor like you, but I'll be more than willing to help out on that front; just ask! Finally, the sentence (or even the "non-sentence" which so got your goat) with all three figures can be left in the lede until such time when a knight in shining armor—one who knows everything about the demographics of Astrakhan—appears out of the ether and does things the right way.

As you see, just like I said in my edit summaries, there are multiple ways to go about this situation, all of them equally acceptable. What is not acceptable, however, is fixing what you perceive to be a cosmetic problem (too many numbers! too many sources!) by cutting the problem out. In that you behaved like a cosmetic surgeon whose solution for fixing an ugly face is cutting the head off. Problem solved, yes, but has it actually benefited anyone? Removing sourced information is never a good idea, and removing it repeatedly is not only disruptive behavior (see how I wrapped it up to the beginning of this conversation?), but actually a blockable offense. You do get quite a leeway due to being new and all, but stubbornly persisting with reverts cannot continue indefinitely.

As for rounding the numbers, doing that simply has no practical benefit (cosmetics aside). Russian (and before that, Soviet) Census numbers have always been reported with the accuracy to one person, those are the numbers supported by the cited source, hence that's what's used in our articles. Readers who don't need that kind of accuracy can easily round the figure themselves, to whatever accuracy they desire, and those who do need the exact numbers will have them readily available (as opposed to having to dig through the original source in a language they may only have a very basic familiarity with).

Well, this came out a bit longer than I hoped it would. The bottom line: I will now reinstate the original version with all three figures. The main reason for that is the fact that removing sourced information (which is expected to be there, because it's there in every single article about Russian localities) and offering nothing in return is unacceptable. If doing that results in a lede that looks so ugly to you that you toss and turn at nights, you are welcome to either write the Demographics section and move the numbers there, or to move them to a standalone table. Should you choose that path, my offer to help with technical aspects (should you need any) still stands. And if it's the overly precise numbers that bother you so, you are welcome to open a discussion to revisit the general approach used to handle them (Astrakhan is just one of the hundreds and hundreds of articles where Census figures are reported with their original precision).

WP:RUSSIA

would be a good place to start. If there is a consensus to round the numbers, it will be implemented. I, personally, see no practical use for doing the rounding, for the reasons I explained above.

Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 28, 2015; 14:57 (UTC)

Hello to you too and thanks for replying. First off, I'm not new to Wikipedia. I've been editing it for more than a decade. You start by telling me to read the essay called BRD; my opinion on that is that it has caused incalculable damage to wikipedia and must have driven off vast numbers of people whose sensible edits got reverted by people who didn't understand them properly, and used this idiotic screed as a justification. And vast, vast numbers of people revert IP edits simply because they are IP edits. Either they don't bother to even read them, or they feel a sense of aggravation that someone who they regard as an interloper has touched "their" article. I'm not saying that's the case here; I'm just saying that there is a vicious anti-IP culture at Wikipedia, despite its claim to be the encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, and that people often go to extraordinary lengths to undo improvements to articles, simply because they were made anonymously. However, it's clear that you didn't read my edits fully because you twice removed changes other than what you mentioned in your edit summaries.

Your reasoning starts from a fundamentally flawed premise. You've said several times "do not remove sourced information". The mere fact of something being "sourced" is utterly inadequate as a reason for retaining it in an article. It's as laughable as saying "do not remove correctly spelled information". Verifiability is a

necessary but not sufficient

criterion for inclusion.

Your second flawed premise is that somehow removing flawed text could be "unacceptable". Now if a sentence contains a misspelled word, we correct the spelling rather than delete the sentence. But if a sentence contains irrelevant trivia, we remove the irrelevant trivia; there's no other solution. The population of Astrakhan according to the most recent census is encyclopaedic and relevant. And if you really think the sixth significant figure is meaningful then you can insist that it be specified to that (certainly unwarranted) degree of accuracy. But the population at the two preceding censuses is not interesting or relevant. If you think there's something important to be read into the numbers, then say what it is. But otherwise, removing that useless information is necessary.

Now someone took it upon themselves to protect the article, falsely claiming "Persistent disruptive editing". So your misguided revert will stand for now. But if you seriously think that deleting bad material is "unacceptable", and that sourced material should not be removed from articles simply because it is sourced, then you're not following the core policies of the encyclopaedia. That is a problem that goes way beyond this one article. 200.83.136.145 (talk) 18:37, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite right that it is not uncommon for people to revert IP edits just because they come from IPs. That is sad and wrong, but true. And yet, I don't see how this regrettable practice has anything substantial to do with BRD. If one's edit is in good faith (as yours clearly was) yet is nevertheless reverted, there are either other problems with it, or there is a disagreement in place which needs to be resolved. Either way, discussion is a necessary next step. If after ten years of editing you think this approach is "idiotic", I'm not sure there's a way this situation can be resolved to your satisfaction. Insisting one's vision is the only correct one and everyone else must be reverted/is interpreting policies incorrectly/uses an idiotic approach is exactly the kind of behavior that perpetrates the "[nearly] all IPs are vandals and trolls" attitude, thus completing the vicious circle. Luckily for us, your disdain towards BRD notwithstanding, we are having a discussion here.

So let's get back to business of discussing, and start with the "removal of sourced information", which is my main grievance. You are absolutely right that the mere fact of something being sourced is an inadequate reason for retaining information. A piece may be thoroughly sourced and verifiable yet still remain unencyclopedic, out of place, misleading, POVish, or have a whole host of other problems. There is a multitude of situations when removing a sourced piece is not only acceptable, but indeed necessary. It all, however, boils down to the reasoning for removal, and that is what needs to be policy-based or have a consensus. As things stand (as I explained previously), lack of usefulness and over-preciseness are not policy-based reasons. The former is a completely subjective one, while the latter does not have a consensus (note, for example, that the vast majority of articles about populated places in the English Wikipedia report the population figures to one person, except where the precision of the source for those figures is lower). Similarly, retaining the accuracy of the most recent census but rounding the ones that precede it is not the usual practice. And I did agree with you that having all those numbers in the lede is not an ideal situation, as well as explained several possible solutions to remedy that; solutions which do not require a complete removal. Short sentences tend to grow into sections, and sections tend to grow into separate articles. If precise Census counts were included in the demographics of Astrakhan article, you probably wouldn't have a problem with that, would you? Well, the sentence which you were trying to cut is actually the progenitor of that future article, a seed which may eventually grow into a beautiful tree. If you trample on that seed now, maybe another one will be planted months or years after you lose interest in this article, but the damage will have been done all the same. It is precisely this kind of damage that's been labeled "disruptive behavior" by the editor who imposed protection. Don't ever remove anything that can be fixed; only remove things which can't be fixed. It's as simple as that.

P. S. This edit of yours should not have been reverted; this one is completely my oversight, for which I apologize. I have re-instated it.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 2, 2015; 15:24 (UTC)

Hi, any chance you can restore the article, a very notable lawyer who got deleted wrongly by G11, probably because of something within the article which they disagreed with. I'll give it a read for POV or tone or whatever once done to ensure it really complies. It was very well-sourced too. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here we go. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 15:23 (UTC)

Thanks, an idiotic deletion by an insufferable editor (Red Pen of Doom). Lieberman is very notable in his field. I must do some more work on legal bios sometime, we should have so many more of them on wikipedia. If the US coverage isn't terrific, imagine what law and lawyers for many other countries is like. How are you anyway? How is that database getting on :-) ?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I, too, am not convinced this is an "advert". Surely one can't cover a notable lawyer without listing his cases, and it's not like this article has "call me at this number now and get a 25% discount" messages plastered all over it! Thanks for taking care of this. Me, doing fine, more or less; thanks for asking. Lots of crap going on in real life, but what else is new. The database is getting better with every passing day :) Don't know if you've noticed, but I'm on to urban-type settlements now, plus doing additions to the district articles in preparation to the next stage (selsoviets and such). It's slow but steady.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 16:42 (UTC)

Excellent work! Do you think at some point we'll at least have articles on all of the selsoviets? Obviously some of the larger cities and towns in Russia might be high priority but it would be great to have decent coverage across Russia. These days I'm not so much into every village being covered regardless of quality, but eventually I do stick by the notion of having a decent article on any place on the planet, and I think it's what we should be striving for ultimately. In the near future I think it might be a good thing to get a Russian city up to GA status. Can you think of a couple which would be worth it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:58, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. We will absolutely have articles about all selsoviets; no question about it. It is when we have them that's the issue :) I did run a few test cases, and it seems that unless we want to make a complete mess out of it, we absolutely must sort out and organize the selsoviet articles titles first (meaning dabs, set indices, hats, lists, and whatnot will need to be created; in parallel the same will need to be done for the low-level municipalities). There's a lot of preliminary tedious work to be done, but this didn't stop me in the past, so no reason why it should stop me now :) In the end, if we could have something like this for each selsoviet, I'd be a very happy camper indeed. It is so much easier to add actual encyclopedic information to articles which already have stable structure. Sometimes editors genuinely want to cover something, only to get bogged in all those formatting/organizational details. Having a solid carcass in place really, truly helps.

As for GAs, any city article would be worth it. It's not like Russia doesn't have an ample supply of those! There's something there for anybody—whether you are into improving an article about a big, important city like Nizhny Novgorod, or into smaller places with somewhat obscure, but still interesting histories, like Tsimlyansk.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 17:10 (UTC)

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Hi Ezhiki, thanks for sorting out the little thing on my user page. The vandal is someone who has for a long time been vandalising a large number of football team articles by adding ridiculous kits in the infobox. Looks like he has started on my page as well now! Could you protect my page for a couple of weeks just so it is one less thing I have to deal with please. Cheers. Fenix down (talk) 23:56, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing. Semi'd for two weeks. Holler if you decide you want to lift it before it expires (or if you need to up it to full protection). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 00:35 (UTC)

Cheers buddy! Fenix down (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your replies, and for correcting my grammar; I'm glad about the occasion to learn. My Russian is really rusty, so I had to take out my old textbook and reconstruct my memory. My onerous chain of thought was that (a) "for" corresponds to "для", (2) для demanded the genitive, and (c) that would be "губерний"; where was the wrong step? — Sebastian 16:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the confusion! There really was nothing wrong with your line of thinking. If you translate the "for other" part to Russian, then "губерний" is indeed the correct form you'll have to use (but it shouldn't have been capitalized, although that's a minor point). My onerous line of thinking was that when one uses a Russian word in the English text, it should always be in nominative (plural nominative in this case). And since yours was also capitalized, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that you simply copy-pasted it from somewhere, so I might as well make it flow better. Had I known that you actually can speak some Russian and were trying to use the correct case on purpose, I would have never made that correction! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 16:13 (UTC)

Actually, I did copy-paste the stem (since I currently don't have Cyrilic KB installed), and forgot about the initial. :-)
So, do you speak some German? The "Igel" in your name makes me think so. — Sebastian 16:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, not really. I did study some German years ago, but was never good at it. I can ask for directions in broken German with a hilarious accent, or even order something in a restaurant (although I wouldn't feel comfortable unless I back it up with a finger jab at the appropriate line on the menu), but I'd never claim I know German. That, and, as it was politely pointed out to me by a native speaker of German a while ago, "Igels" in my signature makes no sense whatever, but by that time I felt it was too late to change it to "Igel" :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 17:05 (UTC)

Just like my Russian! Too bad someone pointed out the plural thing already, it would have added so nicely to the symmetry in this section. :-) — Sebastian 17:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yeah. And while I have you here, does "Igels" in my signature look truly weird and awkward to a native German eye? Like, if someone had a similar signature with a Russian noun in, say, dative for no apparent reason, that would have really grated my eye—is it how my signature looks to you? Because if it does, I might correct it after all!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 18:06 (UTC)

I don't mind; I'm used to the letter "s" coming and going between German and Russian; it disturbs me less than when I first noticed the missing "s" in "Санкт-Петербург". It took me a while to notice that your sig contained German. We are a real melting pot of cultures here, so I don't expect to find pure specimens of language in people's names. And signatures are even more of a place for individualism and creativity. (To wit: The marriage of French and Russian in one word in your signature.) Personally, I'm of the school that simplifies, rather than embellishes signatures, so I don't normally pay much attention to those of others. I just see it as playful. But many Wikipedia editors have a keen eye for spelling details and may not enjoy the playfulness in others' signatures, so yes, for them it's probably grating to their eyes to see the genitive form here. But before you change it, I should say that the hedgehog itself isn't necessarily all positive in German. The term "sich einigeln" ("заёживаться"?) refers to people who retreat from others, forming a prickly ball. (As a boy, one disturbed my sleep: I was sleeping on the ground in autumn, when I woke up from a shuffling and sniffing noise, and noticed a hedgehog that seemed to wanted to sidle up to me because of my body warmth. I was so afraid of his spikes that I woke up from every moving maple leaf for the rest of the night!) I don't think any German would name their child "Igel". Maybe you could go all the way with the joke by making a fake

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Care to restore? I suspect he's notable.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:39, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

He might be. However, the deleted article contains nothing but one sentence that he is a "Swiss painter", unsourced date of his birth, a link to the personal website, and a dead link to a Zürcher Unterländer article. I can restore this to your userspace, if you'd like, but not in the mainspace, since it would make it an unsourced BLP. Let me know.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 9, 2015; 13:20 (UTC)

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Hi Ezhiki, Any chance we could delay creating this until Monday, some stuff has come up this week and I don't think I will be able to dedicate the required time before then. Fenix down (talk) 09:50, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem. Monday it is.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 11, 2015; 12:56 (UTC)

thanks a lot, that should give me time to prep some answers to the initial pro forma questions and I should be able to spare an hour a day in the evening to deal with any follow ups. Fenix down (talk) 13:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Yo, where are you getting these from? Is there a list you can share, please? Fenix down (talk) 16:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are you asking about Taymylyr? The Sakha name had already been added to the lede by someone else; I simply copied it to the infobox. On other occasions, I was taking them from the Sakha (and occasionally Russian) Wikipedia. I don't have an actual list, though. Sorry!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 17, 2015; 16:04 (UTC)

That's a good point I should check ru WP for them. Fenix down (talk) 16:27, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've never understood the rationale for using those ital-loaded templates when mentioning previous historical names in other languages, be they German, Polish or whatever. Some techies dreamed up the template format, not people versed in history or in expository writing and editing, IMO.

I've been fighting a twilight battle against it for years. Sca (talk) 16:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, with proper design, templates like that could be quite useful. This particular one, however, was created for one purpose (and by a non-techie, by the way, which is likely why it's not as functional as it should be) and is usable only under a certain set of circumstances, which are not satisfied in that article. Hence all the problems. Anyway, there's a more generic {{audio}} template, which seems to be somewhat more flexible. Perhaps we could use that one. I myself have always found having audio pronunciation of foreign names useful, but there are, of course, multiple ways of including it. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 19, 2015; 16:26 (UTC)

Please go ahead and substitute the more generic audio template. Спасибо. Sca (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, done. Please let me know if you see any issues.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 19, 2015; 17:11 (UTC)

16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Any chance you or Ymblanter could add an infobox and some details to this? Spotted it on my world map :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's on my to-do list, along with other urban-type settlements. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 14:38 (UTC)

Ezhiki, can you confirm to me whether this is what I think it is, namely 2010 census data broken down by village? Fenix down (talk) 18:10, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you double-check the URL, please? I get a "file not found" error when I follow the link above.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 24, 2015; 18:27 (UTC)

Is this any better? Fenix down (talk) 14:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that one works. This is indeed the results of the 2010 Census, by individual localities (according to what the footer says). A great find! May I ask which page of the Sakhastat website this file is linked from?

They also have this file, which only lists the same entities as what's on the municipal compilation of the main 2010 Census results, but it also has 2014 estimates added, which may come in handy as well.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 14:27 (UTC)

I saw that one too, that site looks pretty detailed, do all sub-national divisions at that level have similar gks.ru sites? Unfortunately, I am not sure what page it came from. It was an xls file linked directly in one of the ruWiki articles. Looking at the site, the links you would think might hold it seem only to have more recent data files. Fenix down (talk) 15:34, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they all have similar gks.ru sites; although the accessible data collections are rather inconsistent (plus you never know what good stuff they have accessible deep within but not linked properly from anywhere; like this file).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 16:01 (UTC)

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Hi Ezhiki, I was wondering whether you knew to what municipal district Ebelyakh belonged? The infobox for Anabarsky District says administratively that it belongs to it, but there are only two rural settlements from a municipal basis. Is it part of Ebelyakhsky Rural Okrug for administrative purposes but subordinated to another (Saskylakhsky?) rural okrug for municipal purposes? As it is on the border with Olenyoksky District, I wondered if it might be municipally subordinated to that district (kind of like how Billings is subordinated to different districts depending on how you look at it) but that doesn't tie with the stats given in the Olenyoksky District infobox. I'm confused, or is this just a typo in the Anabarsky infobox? Fenix down (talk) 12:17, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's one of those uncommon (in the Sakha Republic) cases where the administrative and municipal divisions do not match. There is no overlap on the district level, however. Ebelyakh is administratively a part of its own (Ebelyakhsky) rural okrug, but municipally, Ebelyakhsky and Saskylakhsky Rural Okrugs are incorporated as Saskylakhskoye Rural Settlement. This is why the infobox in Anabarsky District shows three rural okrugs but only two rural settlements. I've edited the Ebelyakh article (and also corrected the coordinates, which were slightly off). Let me know if you need anything further. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 5, 2015; 17:13 (UTC)

Anyone doing this is almost always someone, or a small group of editors, from Rio de Janeiro adding terms from the video game Europa Universalis. There are other government related labels they add, but I note that this is one you reverted recently.

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Thanks for the heads-up; this certainly puts those edits into a new perspective. I'll keep that article on my watchlist for a while longer. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 9, 2015; 12:29 (UTC)

Thanks. They are editing from a couple of IP ranges. They use various other terms. Any Rio IP is suspect, to be honest. Also occasional copyvio.

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Posted this to another editor: For several years socks from Rio de Janeiro have been trying to add various terms from this videogame to articles, often (like the last few weeks) changing "autonomous republic" to "administrative republic". See [54] - now I'm not accusing you of being one of those, obviously, but you did add the wiki for Europa Universalis III to

Administrative republic, which until mid February was Autonomous republic

until a brand new editor came along and changed it. Since then a number of IP socks have been editing it. I'm not happy with that. It still contains a couple of country names which use 'autonomous' and not 'administrative', and although for Yugoslavia 'administrative' is sourced, most sources call them 'autonomous'.

I generally don't like undiscussed name changed, and this one was immediately jumped on by obvious socks. I'm tempted to revert, any comments?

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I moved it back. Such moves change the scope and should be discussed.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:48, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Chapaevka, Kamchatka Oblast (Holm, 87th Motor Rifle Division, 2015.) The Chapaevka vehicle/equipment stores were located at 53 03 19N, 158 49 35E. There does not appear to be any disambig stub for Chapaevka en generale, which may be an oversight considering it seems like it might be a relatively common Russian name. Would you mind taking a look? Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 22:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the proper spelling is Chapayevka--Ymblanter (talk) 08:17, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Over a thousand miles away from my home territory, but OK, close enough :) I've created Chapayevka, Russia, but please note that the place in Kamchatka Krai is currently a microdistrict of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (which is confusingly called a "settlement" of Chapayevka) and seems to have been merged into it at some point before 2001 (I couldn't find an exact date). Also seems that it was established in Yelizovsky District around 1959. Hope this helps.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 27, 2015; 15:10 (UTC)

Thankyou very much Ezhiki, and apologies for not saying so earlier. Now I've just located a picture of Stab DVO - closer to home, Kharbarovsk ;) - on the DVO page on Ruwiki. Could you remind me who the expert was on moving Ruwiki pictures to Commons? Buckshot06 (talk) 04:53, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can easily move a file.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, and no thanking is expected :) I quite enjoy digging these up. As for the images, Yaroslav should be able to help you. I haven't been following what's going on on the Commons for a while, and it seems all of my contacts there are wikidead.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 4, 2015; 13:12 (UTC)

The file in question for moving is http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дальневосточный_военный_округ#/media/File:Штаб_ДВО.JPG ; moving all the pictures on the DVVO page would also be helpful. Ymblanter (talk · contribs), thankyou for your help with these!! Buckshot06 (talk) 05:18, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:Штаб ДВО.JPG is actually on Commons since 2012, will have a look at other files now.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:07, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I transferred File:Штаб 5-й армии, Уссурийск.JPG and File:Хабаровск, 301-й окружной военный госпиталь.jpg. Everything else either was already on Commons, or is non-transferrable because of the freedom of panorama limitations.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:17, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Very many thanks Ymblanter. I appreciate this a great deal. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Ezhiki, maybe you can help me with this? (I see you have made occasional edits to the Voronezh page) Is this piece really as grotesque as I make it (I am by no means fluent in Russian)? What's the deal with this Polyakova woman (I found her here posing with the Book of Veles)? Surely she isn't an actual historian? The Indo-European "water-deity" stuff goes back to this edit which added much to the confusion, and I have a hard time figuring out what is actually in the sources cited, what is contorted by journalism, and what is made-up for Wikipedia. I get the vibe that there is some local thing going on here with people trying to come up with a mysterious past, but I am confused. here, "Тайна имени Воронежъ" is listed as a novel, so perhaps this is innocent historical fantasy, and it was just some on-wiki foul-up that made this into an etymological study invoking Varanasi and Brian the Blessed?

Btw, woman from Voronezh once told me there is a local joke or fake etymology translating the name as "Ворон + Ёж". I thought based on your username maybe you know something about this? --

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The piece from Polyakova is fringe and based on the Book of Veles which is a proven hoax. Polyakova seems to take it seriously and derive smth from it. There is absolutely no fucking way there was a Russian settlement in the area in the 12th century.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:01, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I fully concur with Yaroslav. I also added a couple comments on Talk:Voronezh#Name and early history. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 4, 2015; 13:33 (UTC)

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Hi Ezhiki,

I noticed that your signature inserts the date/time stamp in a non-standard format, using a <span> tag around the date followed by a semicolon before the time, e.g.:

Wikicode	<span class="nowrap">May 20, 2015</span>; 18:33 (UTC)
Produces this	May 20, 2015; 18:33 (UTC)

You may not realise that doing this breaks the Comments in Local Time gadget (enabled in Preferences), the Unclutter gadget (which customises the appearance of signatures) and customised style sheets, as they cannot recognise the Wikicode as a signature.

For example, signatures may appear to a user using these features as follows:

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<small>—'''[[User:sroc|sroc]]''' [[User talk:sroc|💬]]</small> 16:11, 16 May 2015 (UTC) --[[User:EncycloPetey|EncycloPetey]] ([[User talk:EncycloPetey|talk]]) 02:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC) --[[User:T.seppelt|T.seppelt]] ([[User talk:T.seppelt#top|talk]]) 13:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC) —[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]] • ([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">May 20, 2015</span>; 14:41 (UTC)

Produces this

— Sroc (talk • contrib • sig) 02:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC+10) — EncycloPetey (talk • contrib • sig) 12:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC+10) — T.seppelt (talk • contrib • sig) 23:14, Yesterday (UTC+10) —Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2015; 14:41 (UTC)

Note how your signature appears differently from the others, the different time zones make it difficult to follow the relative times of each post, and the date isn't shown as "Today" or "Yesterday" where applicable. Note, too, that it is possible to customise the appearance of your signature for those who aren't using these gadgets (see how my name and talk link are formatted) without sacrificing this functionality for users who wish to take advantage of them.

Would you consider amending the formatting of your date/time stamp so that these features will work with your signature? —sroc 💬 20:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sroc! This actually came up before, and my answer is always the same. My philosophy is that if a tool does not work properly, the proper course of action is fixing the tool, not asking users to change their preferences (and a choice of a date format is a very personal preference). My signature, after all, uses a pretty standard date format; it's not like it's an ancient Egyptian calendar using hieroglyphics! Accounting for this programmatically can't possibly be a difficult task, especially considering that I am not the only user with a non-dmy preference in the signature and that my signature hasn't changed in years (and years, and years).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2015; 20:19 (UTC)

Well, apparently it is very difficult because of the way the wikicode works. You could always set your preferences to MDY format and then everyone's dates will appear like that, unless they've hard-coded their date stamps in some other format the way you have, of course. —sroc 💬 04:24, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I had my preferences set to mdy format since the day that option became available :) It affects how system messages are displayed and the date formats on dynamically generated pages such as Recent Changes and Watchlist, but it has nothing to do with how the timestamps in user signatures are displayed (nor should it). Yours, for example, shows up exactly the same way it does in the edit window.

Regarding it being "very difficult" to fix the gadgets and such, I'm not buying that for a moment. Humanity can send a probe to land on a comet, but detecting a string of text containing a date in mdy format is beyond the 21st century technology? :) Pardon me for being skeptical, especially in light of the fact that !vote-processing bots never have a problem with accounting for my entries, and while the page-archiving bots did run into a few snags years ago when they stumbled upon my signature, the problem has long since been resolved.

All in all, the gadgets are just toys which some users find helpful (I myself have half a dozen enabled). With that perspective in mind, it is not acceptable at all to bug other users to change their preferences just to keep one's favorite toy running the way one likes it. If fixing the gadget is not an option, let me make you a counter-proposal of equal value—you can go to your Preferences, and turn the gadget off. This way all dates will consistently show up the way their owners intended and the problem will go away.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 13:21 (UTC)

The Comments in Local Time gadget would allow you to have the times and dates in signatures appear to you according to your preferences—which is, after all, the point of having preferences—but it would not work when reading signatures such as yours which are not recognised. Since I don't have NASA under my command to work on this issue, I thought I would politely bring this to your attention in case you were unaware of the impact of your customisation. I don't find your suggestion to simply turn the gadgets off at all helpful as it presents no advantage over the current state of affairs. —sroc 💬 14:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problem with the times and dates in signatures of other users showing up the way the owners of those signatures intended and simply ask that other users respect my preference in return.

The gadget code was not written by NASA; it's simply JavaScript (or maybe Lua?) code wrapped up as a gadget so it can conveniently be turned on and off from one's Preferences instead of having to insert it manually to one's common (vector, monobook...).js file. Whoever wrote the code should also be able to fix it for you; alternatively you can add your own code to your .js file to deal with non-dmy timestamps, if they bug you so. And while there is no harm in asking someone politely to do something that benefits you at the expense of the preferences of the person you are asking, it also helps to recognize when the answer is "no".—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 14:41 (UTC)

P.S. It looks like you could use this gadget to solve your custom signatures display problem. It changes all signatures to default format, so any code assuming the signature dates are in dmy format should work flawlessly.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 14:53 (UTC)

That's the Unclutter gadget I mentioned in my first post which, once again, does not work with your signature. Note that there's nothing special in the wikicode to distinguish signatures from the surrounding text other than a predictable format (e.g., they're not wrapped in <sig>...</sig> tags); it's because you don't use the predictable format that these gadgets can't recognise your signature as such. —sroc 💬 15:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure how using mdy format instead of dmy is "unpredictable". We seem to start wandering in circles. All of the problems you mentioned can be fixed with a bit of JavaScript (be it via editing the gadget code or editing your own .js page), and that's how you should proceed. Like I previously said, my signature stayed stable for years, nor do I have any plans to change it any time soon—that makes it quite predictable in my book. And like you said, anything predictable can be accounted for in code.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 15:29 (UTC)

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Ezhiki, Thanks for participating in the CFD discussion. They can be a little jargon-y but it's good to get new opinions. Regardless of my nomination, I don't think Historical city of Russia is well named. If you speak Russian, would Soviet Historic City Heritage Register be a reasonable translation of исторические города и поселения? (BTW, if the category survives, I agree with you that it should be renamed to whatever the new name of the article is.)

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I do speak Russian. The problem with the current title is that it is actually just as ambiguous in original Russian as is its translation in English, which is what the source of all the confusion in the CfD is.

"Soviet Historic City Heritage Register" would not be the best option. While the list (register) was first compiled in the Soviet times, it is currently regulated by a post-Soviet (2002) law. "Russian Historic City Heritage Register" might work, although this will still need to go through an RM in case someone can think of an even better option. Whatever the title ends up to be, the category will need to be re-created (and hopefully it won't be something like "inhabited localities in Russia included into the Russian Historic Cities and Settlements Registry" :)).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 26, 2015; 15:16 (UTC)

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Do you know anyone who might do a basic translation of the vitals of this microraion article? Many thanks Buckshot06 (talk) 23:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Because ru:Койлуото is romanized in English Koyluoto, then why Koiluoto? 85.76.182.75 (talk) 18:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Because most of it belongs to Finland, so Finnish spelling takes priority.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 7, 2015; 19:35 (UTC)

Not because fi:Koiluoto - English: Moth islet, Russian: Моль островок - is a Finnish name? 85.76.144.51 (talk) 22:12, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I see your logic (or understand the question, for that matter).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 10, 2015; 16:50 (UTC)

Like

Virmajärvi is a Finnish name, so not "Koyluoto" or "Virmayarvi". So e. g. Finnish name Лахденпохья - in Russian: Дно залива and in English: Bottom of bay - should be written Lahdenpohja, not "Lakhdenpokhya". 85.76.39.164 (talk) 17:09, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply

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In English, names of places in Russia (or mostly in Russia) are typically transliterated from Russian, following the BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian guidelines, even when those names are borrowed from other languages. Names of places in Finland (or mostly in Finland) are, of course, normally rendered the same way as in the Finnish language.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 13:44 (UTC)

However, Lake Virmajärvi is mostly in Russia: MapSite, National Land Survey of Finland. 2001:999:20:1EF2:471:D2AF:F166:67CE (talk) 20:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out; I've moved the article to an appropriate title.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 21:00 (UTC)

The word lake is not in Finnish "yarvi", but järvi. So, move the article to an appropriate title: Lake Virmajärvi, please. --85.76.23.131 (talk) 09:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article is at the appropriate title now. You yourself pointed out that the lake is mostly in Russia, so the rules of dealing with Russian toponyms apply. What the parts of the toponym mean in any other language has nothing to do with anything, as far as picking an article's title goes. Toponyms are romanized as a whole, not broken down into parts to be dealt separately at one's whim.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 25, 2015; 11:52 (UTC)

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Ezhiki, thanks for the tweak of my edit on the Arkhangelsk page (the population). See if it works now. I was trying to create a full sentence instead of "Population: ..." Foreignshore (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I meant to re-write it into a complete sentence myself, but forgot to return. What you did is better, but the sentence still doesn't really flow. I've tweaked it further to match other articles containing this information; please let me know if you see any problems. And thanks for the reminder! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 13:40 (UTC)

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I'd like to ask you to pay attention to a micro-conflict in this article. A user double-reverted the reverts of two users. The edit in conflict was made by another user who was known for his disruptive editing about names and who has been already permanently banned. Also in the last revert there was made an inappropriate comment that I could only consider as nothing but a pure trolling. I believe my another revert to the original version will not made any good (it might be reverted again with no less "interesting" comments), and I also do not like to interact in a discussion with a user with such an attitude and feeding trolls is not in my plans. I hope for your help. Thanks.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 09:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Lüboslóv! I left the user a comment with a reminder of what constitutes acceptable editing practices and what doesn't, advised them to open a discussion on the talk page, restored the article to its July version, and am putting it on my watchlist for further monitoring. Please note that you will be expected to participate in that discussion if resolving the situation around this article is of interest to you, and I will try to make sure it does not devolve to the level where the only comments are of "interesting" kind. I am, however, not normally around during weekends, so if this flares up in the next couple days, I would advise you to post a comment at

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Your cited source (Pospelov) is incorrect. Stučkas is Genitive case of Stučka. There is no Kraukle river in Latvia. That is why I reverted your edit. Dukurs (talk) 10:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dukurs! Thanks for your message, but regrettably I had to revert your revert. If the source is incorrect, it is up to you to provide additional sources that show that; we can't just take your word for it. Note also that naming places in genitive was a fairly common Soviet tradition (indeed, the Russian name is also in genitive) and that there are two sources (including one which is bilingual) that state that Stučkas is the official name (although, of course, it does not mean it was a commonly used one in real life). I have no opinion about the river, having no further information, but again, stating that the "river does not exist" requires proof. It may very well no longer exist, or be known under a different name, or maybe Mr. Pospelov indeed screwed this up; we will never know unless someone digs up additional sources (a task for which you are much better suited than me, with your knowledge of the language and all).

I'll be open to participating in a talk page discussion, should you wish to pursue this further. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 12:28 (UTC)

Hi! I already started discussion on place name. I am afraid there will be impossible to find source regarding noexisting river.

About Stučkas. I have a suspection why "naming places in genitive was a fairly common Soviet tradition". These were not places but districts or regions (Russian: rayon, Latvian: rajons). If they put the name of the town before name rajons it is in genitive: Aizkraukle District (Latvian: Aizkraukles rajons or in Soviet times: Stučkas rajons). But the town always was Stučka. Look on any map of Latvia from Soviet times. Dukurs (talk) 13:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I must have not worded it well. I am not asking for sources to prove the river does not exist (one cannot prove a negative :)), I'm merely asking for a

reliable source

providing a more thorough analysis of the place name, and if it doesn't mention a river (Kraukle or some other), then oh well. Pospelov literally has one sentence on it, and if it's an error on his part, one that's not supported by any other sources, then of course there is no reason to insist on using his version. But it should not be simply removed altogether without providing a proper replacement.

A Soviet map of Latvia in Latvian (but not in Russian, because it the Latvian spelling that's in question, not the Russian one) would actually be a good source to support the Stučka variant. Still, both spellings should be given in text. The 1978 Latvijas PSR Administratīvi Teritoriālais Iedalījums reference book (a copy of which I actually have on hand) is written in both Russian and Latvian. It shows the names of both the district and the town as "Stučkas" ("Stučkas Rajons" vs. "Stučkas p."), in more than one place. If that's a typo/error, it would take more than a map to disprove it. Makes sense?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 13:26 (UTC)

"Stučkas p." is "Stučkas pilsēta" (town of Stučka) which is not actually correct but was common in Soviet times. You will definitely also see there all the other town and city names in genitive: Rīga- Rīgas p(ilsēta), Jūrmala- Jūrmalas p(ilsēta), etc. Dukurs (talk) 13:42, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, you are right; others are also like that (including Riga)! That's what I deserve, meddling with a language I don't know :) I stand corrected and will self-revert shortly. Thanks for your help getting to the bottom of this! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 13:59 (UTC)

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Здравствуйте, коллега! Не могли бы взглянуть на деятельность участника Gamerprof в статье о башкирах? По-моему участник проталкивает заведомо ложные сведения касательно религиозной принадлежности башкир. Авторитетность и нейтральность источника, представленного участником, вызывает большие сомнения. Прочитайте, пожайлуйста, его описание. Это не статисческий сайт, а скорее миссионерский, в нём фигурируют всевозможные цитаты из Библии. Там нет никаких отсылок к опросам или переписям. По всей видимости, там указана всего лишь сильно завышенная оценка. Тем более вносить информацию на этом сайте может любой желающий, заполнив соответствующую форму (не исключено, что сам участник её туда и добавил). Прошу обратить внимание, что участник является бессрочно заблокированным в русскоязычном разделе. Судя по результатам проверок (1, 2), активно использует виртуалов. Также позволил себе крайне резкие высказывания на моей странице обсуждения. Благодаря деятельности виртуалов участника на русскоязычную версию статьи на днях накладывалась защита. Прошу оценить ситуацию, спасибо! --Rg102 14:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are right on the money about the source—it does not meet the

checkuser request; I can't help you with that. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); October 14, 2015; 15:35 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation. I left request for checking user. After sources searching I'll begin discussion on the talk page. Could you sum up after our discussion? Of course, if Gamerprof will take part in it. --Rg102 08:20, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If I'm available at the time when it's clear the discussion has concluded, sure, why not.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 15, 2015; 13:14 (UTC)

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Здравствуйте ёжики ))
Не могли бы вы (ещё раз) исправить название статьи «

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Sure thing; done. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2015; 20:05 (UTC)

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Hi, Ezhiki, I saw that you created Iglinsky. There are two people on the English Wikipedia with this surname. I think that you have more knowledge about this surname's language than I do, so I would like to ask you, could you please create a page for this surname? - A window cleaner me (talk) 20:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem. Iglinsky is now a last name article (with the district mentioned in the hatnote). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 13:31 (UTC)

Thanks so much, this is precisely what I wanted. - A window cleaner me (talk) 00:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ezhiki, hope you are well. I like what you have been doing adding the demographic infoboxes to articles. I think it is a clear and succinct way of conveying that information. I was wondering though, whether it was possible to increase the width of the boxes to match that of the infoboxes just for the sake of presentation? Fenix down (talk) 13:52, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I started adding these with the intent of developing a standalone demographics box for Russia (or pilfering, and perhaps slightly modifying one from elsewhere), but never got around to this task. The ones I'm adding are basically just the generic {{Infobox}} templates, and yes, you can use the bodystyle/labelstyle parameters to control width. Would you perhaps be interested in developing a dedicated template for this, or modifying a similar template (like {{Historical populations}}) to work for Russia? I can't say when I'd be able to get to this myself, so if you have ideas, by all means please give them a try! Once a more suitable candidate is in place, we can do a bot run to replace all those generic Infoboxes I've added so far. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 14:00 (UTC)

Check out Mokhsogollokh, where I added the custom width.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 15:52 (UTC)

Could we may be just append this to the infobox? For this to look nice, not only the width should be the same, but also the title should go into a separate shell.--Ymblanter (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, it is possible, but would it belong? Right now the demographics box immediately follows the main infobox only because the majority of the articles are so short, so the boxes run into one another. In the long run, however, the demographics box should ideally be a part of the dedicated Demographics section, wouldn't you agree (see Novosibirsk for an example)? Plus, the main infobox is already quite long as it is and I am kind of hesitant to make it even longer. Thoughts?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 27, 2015; 13:15 (UTC)

I do not suggest to add this info into the infobox, just to design a demographics infobox of the same width. If the two happen to be right above each other, it would look nicer; if they do not, we do not lose anything.--Ymblanter (talk) 23:18, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see. Unfortunately, I don't have time now to develop one. If somebody wants to tackle it, it'd be great; otherwise I'll probably do it myself at some point in the future.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 29, 2015; 18:22 (UTC)

Доброе время суток,Ezhiki!
Скажите, а почему "Spas-Zagorye", а не "Spas-Zagorje" ? Потому, что "за горой"?
С уважением,
Frutti-mytti (talk) 20:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Because

WP:RUS :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); October 26, 2015; 20:41 (UTC)

"romanization" - великая весч! Ну, "yo", так "yo"! Cей же час переименую все остальные "je" в статье.

Sincere vestrum,

Frutti-mytti (talk) 20:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 21:01 (UTC)

You are welcome,
Frutti-mytti (talk) 04:42, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

it's not an article, yes?--

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@

тут.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); November 4, 2015; 14:29 (UTC)

Спасибо.--

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Здравствуйте! Можете дополнить статью про российский канал?--

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Переводом с

talk) 15:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply

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У меня, к сожалению, сейчас нет времени этим заняться, sorry. Попробуйте спросить на

WT:RUSSIA; может там найдутся волонтёры.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); November 4, 2015; 15:13 (UTC)

Voronezh

Hi! Yup, complete baloney. Max Müller (царство ему небесное) died in 1900 and his ideas on the topic are completely irrelevant today. Good luck getting it evicted, though -- it's referenced!!! Although I guess you could just point out that the further etymology of ворон is irrelevant, since all that's relevant to the city name is the personal name Voroneg. Good luck! Languagehat (talk) 15:51, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was kind of hoping that you might point this out (on the article's talk page). Your judgement on this matter carries a lot more weight than mine, and I could then invoke my administrative superpowers to keep this nonsense out of the article forever. At any rate, I appreciate the quick reply; thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 5, 2015; 15:55 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized after writing that that I should post something on the talk page, so I just did. Languagehat (talk) 15:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again; much obliged!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 5, 2015; 16:07 (UTC)

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This article gives the stress as Пода́тные, but all my references say that the stress should be penultimate (on the ы). I'm not about to change a Russian stress on Russian Wikipedia, so I thought I'd dump it in your lap to check and (if you agree) change! Languagehat (talk) 14:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are absolutely right. It's a plural of "податно́й" (from "подать"—a tax, a levy), not of "пода́тный"—an obscure dialectal word meaning either deft/adroit or condescending/compliant!). I'll make the change, but if you have sources, you shouldn't be feeling uncomfortable making that change yourself. Also, I've double-checked this term against Pushkarev's Dictionary of Russian Historical Terms from the Eleventh Century to 1917, and it confirms that it's "ы" that should be stressed, as does Alexandrov's 1885 Russian-English dictionary (available in Google Books). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 25, 2015; 15:15 (UTC)

Many thanks! Languagehat (talk) 19:48, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current

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Republic of Crimea again

Hi. Please, judge us again. 1. On 30 Oct I offered to add info about Serbian PMs as a loud visit (like the Berluskoni visit, French PM's visit, etc.) There were no objections and I posted it a week later. After that I got "thank you' from some user. Now, more then a month later, Marek deletes this very logical consecutive information without discussion, withou using Talk and without explaining why he thinks it is inappropriate information in the article. 2. In the first paragraph there is described the information about the way of formation of the Republic of Crimea. The Republic of Crimea is a Russian subject (don't mix with Crimea itself) and its formation should be described in the way of Russian Law. Of cause it should be said that actually internationally Crimea as whole was annexed by Russis and it is mentioned in the next sentence. This information has been existing for a long time because it satisfies everybody. Again except Marek who only now begins to change everything appropriate and inappropriate to "annexed". Could you help? 'Cos I am an ordinary user and can't save the established version of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeoKiev01 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Leo. The first step of any dispute resolution is contacting the user you are in disagreement with. Have you tried asking Marek what the reasons for his edits are?

Also, I don't generally mind sorting out this kind of situations, but I'm going to be busy IRL for the next couple of months and do not feel it would be fair to either of you if I can't give enough attention to either side. You might want to take this to the

dispute resolution noticeboard this time (but do make sure to talk with Marek first, because it is the DRN requirement that users first attempt to resolve their differences on their own).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); December 7, 2015; 14:29 (UTC)

Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

Добрый день, коллега. Посодействуйте в вопросе. В статье о Джебраилове Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov есть о расследовании в русской и английской Википедиях. Там исследовалось много вопросов, которые потом получили освещение в российских СМИ. В частности известное издание Медуза отмечает, что, согласно расследованию в Википедии у Джебраилова в музее представлены награды, которые давались после его смерти: "Награды тоже выглядели сомнительно: один из участников обсуждения лично посетил дом-музей Ахмедия в Шеки и сфотографировал медали. Среди наград оказались медали за участие в Первой мировой войне (хотя Джебраилов не мог в ней участвовать — он еще не родился) и советские медали к 60 и 65-летию Победы, которые вручили уже после смерти Джебраилова". То есть в данном случае эта информация показалась сомнительной не только нам, но и Медузе. Достаточно ли этого, чтобы внести ее в статью? Коллега Интерфейс настаивает, что недостаточно. Не могли бы вы, как знающий язык исходников, выступить посредником? Divot (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Здравстуйте, Divot! Meduza критериям

авторитетных источников удовлетворяет, поэтому и подход к включению из неё информации совершенно такой же, как и с другими авторитетными источниками. Информация о медалях, на мой взгляд, попадает в серую область. Это не то, что абсолютно необходимо иметь в статье, но и не то, что абсолютно необходимо из неё убрать. Такого рода вопроса решаются путём дискуссий и выявления консенсуса на странице обсуждений, а не административно. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); December 7, 2015; 19:35 (UTC)

Там проблема в том, что вся история Джебраилова сфальсифицирована, включая награды, выставляемые в его доме-музее и на фотографиях. Так, на фото у него медаль за Первую мировую войну (Джебраилов ещё не родился!), в музее медали, выдаваемые после смерти (якобы получал сын, но это что-то новое в советской наградной системе, выдавать "юбилейные" медали аж через пять лет после смерти). Излишне говорить, что никаких наградных книжек в музее нет в помине, во всяком случае они не выставлены в музее, а коллега Interfase-у во время посещения музея прямо сказали, что таковых документов нет. То есть в контексте главы о фальсификации официальной биографии это важный момент, отдельно отмечаемый Медузой. С коллегой Interfase я знаком лет пять, никакого компромисса с ним никогда не удается достичь, исключительно через посредников. Поэтому и прошу вас выступить модератором. Просто посмотреть статью о Джебраилове и статью в Медузе, и вынести вердикт, как авторитетный нейтральный участник. Спасибо. Divot (talk) 19:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Вообще-то в советской наградной системе, выдавать юбилейные медали посмертно нормально[73]. Во-вторых, в музее мне сказали, что нет наградных листов французских медалей, а наградные листы советских медалей, по словам директора музея, в музее имеются. А в Медузе этот момент отдельно отметили просто потому, что этот момент отметили участники Википедии, только и всего. На мой взгляд, добавление информации об этих медалях (только лишь потому, что это кому-то из википедистов показалась сомнительным) призвано создать у читателя определённый взгляд о том, что ими его якобы не награждали. --Interfase (talk) 19:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"в музее мне сказали, что нет наградных листов французских медалей, а наградные листы советских медалей, по словам директора музея, в музее имеются" - сейчас проверим. Вот ваша цитата: "На униформе много наград, как советских, так и французских. Но двух французских медалей, одна из которых "Военная медаль" нет. Их у Джебраилова, по словам сына, забрали в Москве, и так и не вернули. Эти медали можно увидеть только на фотографиях, которые также выставлены в музее (на этой обе (крайние), а на этой - Военную медаль (крайняя слева)). Фотографии остальных французских медалей сделал. См. здесь. Отчётливо видны Медаль за военное ранение (англ.)русск., Военный крест, Крест за добровольную военную службу (фр.)русск., Крест добровольца (англ.)русск., Медаль общества добровольцев и Медаль национального признания. Вместе с двумя утерянными медалями - всего 8. Есть ещё одна, девятая, полученная в 1994 году. Наградных листов среди многочисленных документов Джебраилова, не нашёл". Тут вы говорите о всех наградных листках - "как советских, так и французских". Divot (talk) 20:08, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ну да, я не нашёл, будучи в музее. Но это же не значит, что их там нет вообще. Я потом позвонил его сыну и спросил на счёт наградных листов. И он мне сказал, что нет наградных листов французскких медалей, а советских - есть. Я же это писал. Вот цитата: Спросил у сына на счёт медалей. Наградные листы по советским медалям есть. Но они не выставлены и хранятся отдельно. Их я к сожалению не видел. Некоторые награды, по словам сына, получал уже он, сын Джебраилова, после смерти отца (это, к примеру медали 60-летия и 70-летия). Ну вот зачем вы вводите участника Ezhiki в заблуждение? --Interfase (talk) 20:14, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Это все слова, которые ничего не стоят. Как факт, вы все фотографировали в музее, но наградных листков там не нашли. О чем честно написали в обсуждении. А потом сын вам по телефону что-то рассказал. Ну так он и о фантастическом спасении Джебраиловым де Голля от немецкого диверсанта рассказывал. Это неадекватный человек. Divot (talk) 20:36, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Там вообще было очень много документов в десятках стопках. Я их не стал разбирать, с целью найти пару наградных листов. Да и сомнительными мне наличие этих наград не показались и времени так много не было. Я же не говорил, что сфотографировал абсолютно всё, что хранилось в доме-музее. Факт в том, что доказательств того, что этих наградных листов нет, попросту нет. Равно как и нет доказательств того, что посмертное вручение этих медалей - странное. А что кажется участникам Википедии, нас интересовать не должно. --Interfase (talk) 20:45, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Если это была бы единственная странность в биографии Джебраилова, вопросов не возникло бы. Но там вся история из таких сказок состоит. Ну да не суть, пусть коллега Ezhiki на правах посредника посмотрит, как скажет, так и будет. В статье и без этих медалей с "героем" все предельно ясно. Divot (talk) 21:07, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Коллеги, ваша проблема решается предельно просто. В английской Википедии, как и в русской,

оригинальные исследования не приветствуются. Я понимаю, что информация в Медузе опубликована по следам исследований Interfase'а, но это не означает, что неопубликованной информации, которой владеет этот участник, есть место в Википедии (пусть даже она более полная и точная). Мы можем работать только со вторичными источниками, что в данном случае сводится к небольшому абзацу в Медузе. Включать из него информацию в статью или не включать — это ваше решение, но решение это можеть быть сделано только на основе авторитетности данного источника и уместности данной информации в контексте статьи. Что вы видели, слышали, проверяли лично совершенно не имеет значения, также как и выводы, сделанные вами на основе этой информации, какими бы логичными они ни были. Википедия же это всё-таки энциклопедия, а не дайджест современных исторических исследований...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?

); December 8, 2015; 16:03 (UTC)

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing. Legobot (talk) 00:07, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since you fully protected the Republic of Crimea article, including bunch of nonsense in it (I'm not complaining, I know, I know, WP:WRONGVERSION) can you add a POV tag to it since the matter is obviously contentious? Thanks.User:Volunteer Marek 17:57, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since I protected the article, it is, unfortunately, not my place to do so, since it involves passing judgement as to the article's content (I only stepped in to stop the flurry of reverts and hopefully provide an incentive for both sides to talk this out). You can, however, use {{edit fully-protected}} template to make such a request for another admin to consider. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 11, 2015; 18:08 (UTC)

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