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Victims of political repression
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Pictures of the Russian Consulate in Leipzig
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Hi Russavia,
on de:Portal:Leipzig/Keine Bilder you asked for some pics of the Russian Consulate in Turmgutstraße 1 in Leipzig. I've taken two pics, you can see on the right-hand side. I hope these will help you.--77.22.250.215 (talk) 14:54, 3 May 2009 (UTC); (visit me at de:Benutzer:Joeb07, commons:User:Joeb07)
Economical advantage of anglophone countries
I'm trying to collect information and sources on this subject: how much economical advantage do English-speaking countries get because of their language? Personally, I suspect the advantage is considerable. For example:
- In all non-English-speaking countries people have to invest about 1-2 years (my rough estimate) of full time work in learning English. Anglophones don't have to, so they can concentrate on other things.
- For anglophone countries it is much easier to attract qualified workers from all over the world, because they will already know the language.
- When interacting with people from other countries, anglophones have a definite advantage because they have native command of the international language.
- For companies in anglophone countries, it is easier to market your products internationally. For example, Wikipedia and Facebook were originally introduced to the local American market only (in the local language). When they gained enough popularity in the American market, international attention came almost automatically. I strongly doubt the same would have happened if the sites had been first introduced to the German market (in the German language.)
- The so-called "international media" is (probably) biased in the favour of anglophone countries (I added some material on this to WP already: Media_bias#Anglophone_bias_in_the_world_media)
This seems like an important subject, but I'm having a very hard time finding any good sources about this, and I can't even find good search terms to use. Do you happen to know any sources which talk about this? Does your local media cover this subject?
I haven't seen this subject being covered in WP too much. It may be a hard subject to work on, especially if there is a lack of good sources, but it doesn't hurt to try. First I'll try to slowly collect more information and sources.
AfD nomination of Pulat Abdullayev
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I notice you !voted speedy keep on this AFD; however, this is not eligible for speedy keep (see
Embassy AfD
thanks for striking out your comment. Whilst we may not always agree I think we can work together to better develop appropriate bilateral and embassy articles. thanks again LibStar (talk) 07:18, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Ride of the day
French, but still runs.
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Ice Hockey World Championships
Will you be interested to join the discussion on topic of Ice Hockey World Championships and whether medal count for Russia/USSR and Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia should be grouped together. The evidence I've provided from a
- My opinion is that Russia/USSR medal counts should be combined. I've often heard the media today use statements such as "Russia won gold in 19xx as the Soviet Union." I'm not sure about the Chechs though. Let's hope Ilya & Co. can beat the damn Canucks today :) Offliner (talk) 18:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
"Neo-Stalinism"
In case you would still be interested in discussing deleting or keeping
Mamonovsky Lane
Been there May 9. Guess what, no external sign of any diplomatic missions. I asked a cop of the Embassy of Jordan where that Abkhazian mission could be - whose mission?!. Anyway, two pics of #4 are at commons:Category:Mamonovsky Lane. As I said, a long block filled with offices. There are no small buildings in the backyard and the small red building is still a fish restaurant.
But I also found this: Посольство Абхазии в Москве разместится в особняке XIX века. The place is also known as John Reed House (the guy had a taste for living, didn't he?), and a pic is at File:Moscow, Gagarinsky 11 Mar 2009 01.jpg. Pity if they "restore" it to Luzhkov's "evroremont" standards. And Russians are now flocking to Sukhum's beaches: Посольство России в Абхазии начало работу на постоянной основе.
P.S. As for your listed buildings inquiry, I started
KnAAPO and Superjet-100
Do you happen to know if
Просьба
Просьба помочь со статьёй о русском языке. Она номинирована в хорошие, однако обнаружились некоторые недостатки, которые необходимо срочно устранить. SkyBonTalk\Contributions 14:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Pulat Abdullayev
Well done rescuing the article. A strict reading of WP:DIPLOMAT rules him out, but who needs strict readings? Fences and windows (talk) 16:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Template for Deletion
Hi, Russavia: just wanted to let you know that you voted keep for the
- Thanks for picking that up, I changed it inline with my comments and my edit summary. But it's funny, a certain nationalist editor took it to be WP:BATTLE [2], instead of a basic error.
Orphaned non-free media (File:Caspian Airlines logo.svg)
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Back to heritage registers
What, in your opinion, should appear in
FAR National Anthem of Russia
I have nominated
Can you follow up on the 2005 <planned? real?> supply of Sukhoy jets to Thailand? I so far found a lot of fuss about the plans, but nothing on the actual deal - did they deliver, at all?
Afd of Bahamas–Russia relations
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Wikidays template
Hi Russavia! How are you doing? I've seen Russian Wikipedians use a special a wikidays template to indicate how long they have been on Wikipedia, but that template doesn't seem to work in the English-language section. Here is an example: {{wikidays 01|02|2006}} Could you help me with that? Thank you in advance! Denghu (talk) 08:23, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
- EDIT: the correct formula is {{userbox wikidays 01|02|2006}} The date and year are random, of course. Denghu (talk) 08:26, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Denghu, all is good here. Been busy with bits and pieces. The template you would like is {{User Wikipedian For|year=XXXX|month=X|day=X}}. Simply replace X with the year, month and date of your editing commencement, and it will work it all out for you, much like I use on my userpage. Hope this helps? If not, feel free to ask me for more help. Cheers, --Dialogue14:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Denghu, all is good here. Been busy with bits and pieces. The template you would like is {{User Wikipedian For|year=XXXX|month=X|day=X}}. Simply replace X with the year, month and date of your editing commencement, and it will work it all out for you, much like I use on my userpage. Hope this helps? If not, feel free to ask me for more help. Cheers, --
Denmark–Mexico relations
I see you have contributed to other bilateral articles, can you peek at Denmark–Mexico relations. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 05:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Years in Abkhazia
Good idea to start that! sephia karta | di mi 14:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Bahamas–Russia relations
Can you peek at
Political groups during Vladimir Putin's presidency
I've made some changes at
Also expanded the
WP:AE
I guess this is something you had wanted to report for a long time:
- Please don't assume that Russavia's faith is bad. Дигвурен ДигвуровичАллё? 17:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Eastern Europe
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Deletion review for Surnames by Country
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Photos of Russian trade representative in Bern
Hi Russavia, you requested on de:Portal:Schweiz/Bilderwünsche some photos of the Russian embassy, the Russian conulate and the Russian trade representative in Berne. Here are two photos of the Russian trade representative:
Unfortunately the street there is very narrow and there is also a high wall opposite to the building, so I couldn’t make a wider picture with the entire building in it. I’ll also make photos of the other two buildings that are a bit more afar where I live. The next one and a half months I’ll be abroad so you’ll have to be patient until then. Best regards,
Hi, are you keeping track of the above FLC? I left comments there. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:01, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
- I was just now informed that you made the fixes. In the future, can you reply on the FLC page itself so I know they were made? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 02:30, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Russian bilateral relations - stub redirects
I will not redirect any more of these stubs since you are working on improving them. In general, I am trying to clean up a mass of stubs created by user:Groubani (under various aliases) which have triggered a huge amount of unproductive argument in AfD lately. Many are unlikely to ever be expanded, but some may well have potential for an article when an editor gets round to doing the research. Copying the small amount of content in these stubs into the "Foreign relations of" articles preserves it, and changing the article to a redirect makes the title unlikely to become a candidate for AfD. Then if an editor does decide to expand on a relationship, they can easily reverse the redirect and expand the stub - as you are doing - without getting flak for recreating an article that was deleted. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Stalking
This is getting out of hand. After I voted "oppose"[3] at an RfA, my friend Biophys immediately responds by voting "support"[4]. Note that Biophys did not post in any other RfA than this. When I posted an SPI report about Muscovite99 (after being told by Tiptoety that I should do this), Martintg immediately responds by launching a personal attack against me: [5] (are we going to suspect all those who critically edit Vladimir Putin, Putinism of being socks of Muscovite99?) What do you think I should do about this?
- Don't assume stalking, I've been watching and/or participating in frozen conflict zone articles for years and have not had the time to participate in the latest article move controversy there. I suspect anyone with an interest in the post-Soviet era is watching all the same articles and related admin pages. If I vote there don't accuse me of jumping on the stalking bandwagon. PētersV TALK 02:12, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Barnstar
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- Thanks Offy, appreciated. Got a lot more stuff to get into mainspace as well of course. --Dialogue07:18, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
NICE interface modification: We need more users!
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DYK for Slava Zaitsev
Hi, Russavia, I left an opinion on your DYK nomination, so please revisit the place for confirmation, thanks.--Caspian blue 03:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi! From examining the history of the article, I notice that my rename of it may have stepped on some toes =) Feel free to revert if it's wrong, but it seems to be the most commonly used spelling, whether technically correct or not (see Sergei Rachmaninoff), and even the conductor's homepage romanises it to this spelling. Antienne (talk) 23:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Slava Zaitsev
Chamal talk 10:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Interesting new books
[6][7]. I wish I had access to them.
- They indeed look like good books, I will have a look at different sources to see what I can find. It looks like Tsygankov would be worthy of his own wikiarticle also, don't you think? --Dialogue13:37, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject taggings
I noticed (numerous articles on my watchlist) you've been pursuing your prior organizational activities regarding Russia-related topics. Unfortunately, quite a number of articles you have retagged as
- These are project tags only. Dialogue03:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick note back. I'd suggest then that articles pertaining to the Soviet era be additionally tagged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union (if not already present) as you do the cleanup. Best regards, PētersV TALK 05:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
1RR limit Vacated
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Tunnel
If it is ok with you I am going to rewrite the tunnel section to remove any copyright problems. There may be enough for a stand alone article. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:53, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's fine. I only removed it due to it being a copyvio in its entireity. Cheers, --Dialogue02:43, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Kuwait–Russia relations
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Estonia–India relations
Can you help add references to Estonia–India relations? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 21:36, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
- I'll pass on your request to some other editors interested in Estonia outside of primarily Estonia-Russia relations. VЄСRUМВА ☎ 13:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Close paraphrasing
What's your view on this? Do you think the article really is a copyvio of [8] per
- There is a now a discussion at Offliner (talk) 12:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
- Also, it's a damn CV... Would you sue someone who followed the wording of your public CV too closely? Offliner (talk) 13:22, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Articles for deletion nomination of Benin–Russia relations
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Hi. Any chance you could find some sources in Russian? Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:10, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
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Picture from Oslo
Hi
Will make the tour and take the photo if nobody have done it before I am back from holliday. Flums (talk) 15:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
СпасиБо
Thanks for the heads-up here. Strange, but apparently official. I've adjusted the nomination accordingly. (PS: The name of this section was my best try based on my limited knowledge of the language. ...). Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
RU-MID
The copyright template RU-MID has been deleted: [9]. Do you think the pics could be reuploaded to normal WP under some other license? The main argument in the deletion discussion was Commons images must be allowed for commercial use and deritiative works, and if this isn't allowed for these files, they must go. But I think normal WP does not have this requirement, so reuploading them here would maybe be permitted?
DYK nomination of Konstantin Umansky
- Sorry, just curious, why preved (on the picture above), not privet? I am a native speaker, but don't follow recent Russian jokes. Materialscientist (talk) 10:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- I've responded on the DYK page. In regards to your question, you may want to take a look at Preved to answer that question ;)
Talk:List_of_Ambassadors_of_Russia_to_the_United_States
Hello, I left a message for you on this article's talk page about another name change. Thanks.--
- Responded at talk page. --Dialogue17:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Rollback
Since you are watching over my userpage better even than I can, I hereby bestow upon you a right to use the famous Wikipedia rollback feature, which magically allows a selected group of carefully pre-screened individuals to revert unhelpful changes to pages of very important people. Use it well.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:03, August 3, 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, but I must admit, I almost let that edit stand, just because its you. --Dialogue21:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- Well, should I roll the rollback right back? Because you know, next time I see someone like that staying on my page for over five minutes, I will assume you are not using this new power of yours according to its full potential and wouldn't that be a waste!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:22, August 3, 2009 (UTC)
Hi; after closing this discussion, I have to admit that I am a left with a few questions that were raised by some of the participants there regarding some of the categories in Category:Bilateral relations of Russia. For example, what is the point of this category if it only includes the main article of the same name? Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:50, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- The category is now populated. It was done at a time that I was writing some things which went along with the category (the ambassadors) but it seems I got sidetracked. --Dialogue21:01, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, OK—just a side-tracked issue. FYI, the other one I saw that was empty except a main article was Category:Russia–Senegal relations. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Just noticed that myself. I'll do up a few articles on some of the ambassadors to/from Senegal once I've finished working on my current masterpiece. If you check out my userpage, you'll see the long to-do list of articles which I am currently working on, which went completed (in 2045) will finally give me some pause for rest. --Dialogue21:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Thx; am overall quite impressed with the level of work done on diplomatic relations of Russia/Soviet Union. I've been working on state/intl organizations relations, and this is one area of WP that needs work across all countries. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Just noticed that myself. I'll do up a few articles on some of the ambassadors to/from Senegal once I've finished working on my current masterpiece. If you check out my userpage, you'll see the long to-do list of articles which I am currently working on, which went completed (in 2045) will finally give me some pause for rest. --
- Oh, OK—just a side-tracked issue. FYI, the other one I saw that was empty except a main article was Category:Russia–Senegal relations. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Communist genocide
Hi, don't you think it is a shame there are people wanting to keep this blatant propaganda article? Triplestop x3 00:46, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Russia-Foo bilateral relations
Leaving aside your defensive and dismissive attitude, a better way to categorize this lot would have been to place all of the Russia-Foo relations articles in
- Putting aside the more colourful metaphors, I think Otto has a good point about a good alternative structure for this scheme. Every country really doesn't need a bilateral relations category with Russia just to house the main article and the ambassadors. Exceptions would exist, of course, for those countries that have multiple articles that involve bilateral relations. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:26, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Russia – South Ossetia relations
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And Óðinn, please don't assume bad faith. Shubinator (talk) 01:54, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
- Could you please discuss your edits at the link above? Shubinator (talk) 17:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
- You've made 3 edits to the article in question since my last request. Are you unwilling to discuss the issue? Shubinator (talk) 18:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the expression "не мытьём, так катаньем", but our Estonian friends certainly are. :-)
DYK for Russia – South Ossetia relations
DYK for Russia–Swaziland relations
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