Hello, Ghirlandajo! Though you might be interested in the Russian wikipedians' notice board. Come check it out! KNewman 19:27, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Quite a coup! Congratulations! --Wetman 17:40, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!! See also Rostov and Uglich. I hope to post articles on all the Golden Ring towns shortly. --Ghirlandajo 20:42, 19 Dec 2004

==Mattise's Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya ==

Hi, I just came across this image:Lidia matisse.jpg. I am not familiar with Soviet Union's laws, but I know Matisse lived mainly in France, and his works could be protected by French copyright law in France and other Berne Convention parties. Do you happen to know where the work is first published? Tomos 12:02, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I cannot be sure where the portrait was published, so I changed {sovietpd} to {PD-old-50}. In my jurisdiction (I live in Russia) Matisse's work passed to the public domain on the 50th anniversary of his death. --Ghirlandajo 13:54, 20 Dec 2004 (GMT)

Hi. Thank you for your reply. I came up with another question. It seems that under many copyright laws, author's life + 50 years is calculated in a little tricky way: counting starts from the beginning of the next year of the author's death, and last until 50 year passes. It is, in other words, treat as if the author died at the last second of the last day of a year. Berne Convention's article 7-(5) has that provision, and that is reflected in many copyright laws, I think. In that case, the copyright protection last until the end of 2004. It may be wise to wait just about 10 days to attach that {PD-old-50} tag.

In case you don't mind reading the legal text, the Berne Convention article 7 is here: [1] Tomos 04:42, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please do not revert this article again today. You are at least close to breaking the 3RR and may be blocked if you continue.-gadfium 19:03, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 02:38, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the great old picture additions to the article - wonderful! Leonard G. 00:32, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

your "russophobic hysteria"

What are your objectives at Wikipedia? Are you contributing knowledge or infiltrating Russian imperial propaganda? Try to stay more polite and avoid such statements. --rydel 11:40, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't mind if you correct my language/grammer, or if you move various article parts to better articles. However, simply reverting/deleting changes because *you* think they are not pretty is not a creative action. Wiki goal is not to be a beautiful novel, but an encyclopedia. Nice language is nice, but it is the information part that is essential. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

FYI, I support changes you made to Polish king template. Adding info is good. Removing info is bad. About Wladyslaw - obviously he didn't rule for long, or actually not at all, but he was crowned, wasn't he? You should expand on this - or why is it wrong - instead of deleting stuff, which leads to revert war and banning ppl from editing. We don't want that, do we? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:59, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Dear Piotrus, firstly Wladyslaw wasn't so much as generally accepted as a Russian tsar, let alone crowned. He was a Russian tsar in a sense that Edward III was the king of France. Secondly, the article on him contains a ridiculous statement that he ruled Russia for quarter a century (1610-35). You may check it out yourself. Ghirlandajo 17:11, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I believe your listing of Emax as a vandal is improper. He is really not a vandal but rather someone who pushes his own agenda. That's different from vandalism. You may want to take a look at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution for gudance on how to deal with such problems. If he is really violating the WP:3RR, he will likely loose the case. --Gene s 08:24, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I would agree here that the dispute you have with Emax is not an appropriate one for VIP. Disagreements over content are not vandalism. I am not defending Emax here; I live about as far away from the Polish/Russian border as is possible, and I have no view on the dispute. Follow the dispute resolution procedures.-gadfium 09:16, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I would like to list User:Emax on Wikipedia:Requests for comment for his refusal to use talk pages, generally uncooperative behavior, and personal attacks. I need a second contributor for that. Please contact me if you would like to do that. --Gene s 09:23, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Muscovy#Time of Trouble section split to a new article. --Gene s 08:56, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ghirlandajo,

I've just closed the Featured Pictures nomination for Prokudin-Gorskii's Black Sea in 1915. The concensus was a bit borderline, so I defaulted to not promoting — which is a bit disappointing.

I rather thought the concerns over a slightly sloping horizon were somewhat besides the point. However, since I got the impression that most of the support votes were positive due to its being interesting early colour photography, whilst most of the oppose votes were worried about the horizon, I was wondering whether there was a different Prokudin-Gorskii colour photograph that could be nominated (preferably one with strong colours but no obvious horizon... :) -- Solipsist 12:09, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can you tell me for which Russian places we should use this category? Does it depend on population? If so - tell me border between towns and cities, because in Russia cites and towns are not divided. Thank you. MaxiMaxiMax 07:14, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC) <...>

If you don't answer I will have to revert your category changes, sorry. MaxiMaxiMax 09:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You would return Gzhel and Ust-Izhora in the same category with Moscow and St Petersburg? Good luck to you! I don't think that such changes are good for the Wiki, however. There is so much more important things you can do. I trasfer this discussion from my page to RWNB talk page. Ghirlandajo 09:29, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I hope it will help. MaxiMaxiMax 09:31, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Um, in the article itself, as well as on your user page, you used the 's' form of the first name (which gets google hits), but the article is titled with a 'z' (which gets zero hits). Is there any particular reason the article shouldn't be moved to the 's' form? (I'd get input from my Russian roommate, but she won't be back from work for at least 6-7 hours). Thanks. Niteowlneils 17:55, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) Talk

I found that the same basic article had been added a few weeks ago as Joseph Vladimirovich, Count Gourko. I liked your intro better (it established why he was notable right away), and you had some extra info at the end and an additional cat, so I moved all that to the earlier one, moved it to Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko and made Jozeph Gurko a redir (and updated all the pages that were looking for it there), along with some extra redirs to try and keep it from getting accidentally duplicated again. I even found an article that didn't link to either of them, so now Veliko Turnovo does. Niteowlneils 05:43, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Great additions! Thank you! -- Chris 73 Talk 10:40, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Let's bring an arbitration case against Emax. If you agree to support my move to file charges against him, we should do it tomorrow. --Gene s 15:06, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ß íå âîçðàæàþ, íî íèêîãäà íå ó÷àñòâîâàë â òðåòåéñêèõ ïðîöåäóðàõ ðàíåå. Êàêèì îáðàçîì ýòî ïðîèñõîäèò? --Ghirlandajo 15:12, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

See WP:DR, WP:RFAr. And please do use summary field in your edits, because it's difficult to argue against Emax for his no-summary edits when you often do the same. I am leaving for today now. Bye. --Gene s 15:59, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The guy got banned for 24 hours. Let's see if that is enough. I guess there is no need for further action at this time. --Gene s 05:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Are you actually disputing the article on Anti-Polonism? I'm asking because I can't find any comments from you, neither in the edit history, nor in the talk page. Could you explain what is it that you find NPOV on the talk page? Alternatively we could simply erase the NPOV tag. Halibutt 09:32, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

==Touches of Neoclassicism at the Gatchina==

That's a spectacular illustration you've added. I hope you won't be cross that I shifted it upwards and gave some specific text to show how conservative taste could employ some hints of neoclassical features within a wholly Rococo setting in the 1770s. This is an Orlov interior, so I added it at Gatchina to contrast with Paul's neoclassic gallery. (Old Rinaldi died in 1794.) --Wetman 09:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Надо всё-таки подойти к консенсусу по статье Russification (ответҗте на User talk:Untifler)/ Заранее спасибо. --Untifler 19:11, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Just a note of thanks for your recent edits at Symbolism (arts) and for the Vrubel image as well. Someone does need to do the article about the Russian Symbolist movement; it probably would help a whole lot if the person who created it read Russian. -- Smerdis of Tlön 15:19, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you most kindly. Will have a look. Smerdis of Tlön 04:55, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

== Pic of the day ==

Hi Ghirlandajo,

Just to let you know that your Prokudin-Gorskii picture, Image:Lugano prokudin.jpg, is up for Pic of the Day on the 6th March. You can check and improve the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 6, 2005. -- Solipsist 10:03, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ghirlandajo! Could you please add all of the names of the Russian foreign ministers to your Russian Foreign Ministers template? I'm not sure how to do it. It somehow starts with Ordyn-Naschekin and ommits all of the ministers precedeing him. Or is it on purpose? Thank you! KNewman 18:53, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Ghirlandajo! I am very glad to see you back and very much appreciate your knowledgeable editing over the articles I created/worked on previously as well as over all articles. May I ask you to please be more patient, except of course, when you simply add more info to the article, as you did very well with St. Andrew's Church. For example, I spent some time looking for the info on children of Svyatoslav II and I was kind of sorry to see this just blanked. If you think I made a mistake on who their mother was, sure correct it. Same with Ivan Fyodorov. I didn't erase your version about "annihilation" but raised the objection first, because I agree that there is indeed a controversy going in Lvov regarding the issue. I am sure all the differences can be resolved at relevant article's talk pages. I am just asking you to change what you see as mistakes with little more patience. If we just stick to facts, we will be able to defend the info from being manipulated by all sorts of nationalist, -philes, -phobes, imperialists and (insert any other cliche here).

Some time ago I tried to move forward the History of Christianity in Ukraine article as well as the articles of several Ukrainian churches. I kind of lost the steam but I would appreciate any input there.

Finally, the Ukrainian Wikiportal put together by several users is almost ready to be released. I made a draft based on Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Russia which I helped maintain to a very small degree. Now, improved by several coworkers it is still at my userspace at User:Irpen/uawp and we plan to soon move it to Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Ukraine and link to it prominently in several major UA-related articles like Ukraine, Ukrainian language, etc. If you want to take a look at it and propose changes at its talk pages, or just do them if you don't expect opposition, your help would be most appreciated. Thank you, -Irpen 19:59, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Ghirlandajo! Thanks for your support at talk:Minsk page. I hope the stories with name insertion like the recent ones with Kiev and Minsk articles won't be too common. There are many reasonable people among the Polish editors, although some certainly have issues with sensitive national pride. On my own, I recently compiled the discussions from several talk pages regarding the Kijow in Kiev article and placed the compilation in my userspace. If you want, take a look at it at User talk:Irpen/Kijów in Kiev article. Finally, if this is going to start over, I don't think placing "Varshava" in the Warsaw article and "Belostok" into Bialystok would help. That's exactly a WP:Point position took by several editors that disrupted the Kiev article for the day. Stchastlivo, -Irpen 06:10, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there, Ghirlandajo! I thought you left us for some reason. Haven't seen you in a while. Good to have you back. I don't know if you check Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Russia on a regular basis or not, but I would really appreciate it if you could find and upload some nice pictures of different Russian monasteries. I posted two articles about monasteries under the "Requested images" section. You did a wonderful job on finding images for other monasteries, so I figured you could help us out here. Check the Russian Wikiportal more often! I look forward to working with you on other articles, as well. Cheers! KNewman 12:42, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

I see you are doing art articles, with plenty of pics. I'd suggest you to put images into wikicommons, where they can be accessible from other-language wikipedias as well. mikka (t) 23:22, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why not for a translation of Vladimir, but it is already done ... :fr:Vladimir. Anyway, I am trying to do a new article about a World Heritage site every day (original - like DR Congo or Belgium- or a de/en/nl/ translation), and I will probably translate some other russian ones...

Kind regards,

Vincent

Thanks for tracking down the Imperial Academy of Arts. I knew there should be an article but couldn't find it. Now I hope I'll find the other articles that needed the link as well. Rl 09:21, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ghirlandajo! I would like to repeat all my compliments for the fine work you do on WP. I was really caught off guard by your calling my edit Russophobic, especially because other editors called other edits by me as of the Russian Imperialist. In fact, I think that any nationalism or national phobias are all bad. Please see my entry at talk:Great Russian language and respond there if you would like. I would really like to stay in friendly terms with editors whose work I respect and who contribute to topics in which I am also interested. Regards, -Irpen June 28, 2005 21:27 (UTC)

Hi Ghirlandajo - I've changed the height of these from 85m to 78m as that is the tallest I can find reference to ([2]). Still the tallest tree in Europe by about 15m, if correct. Do you have any details of the 85m report, particularly with documentation of measurement methods? A lot of tall tree measurements are unfortunately very unreliable, unless done with high precision laser equipment with several measurements taken from different angles. - MPF 1 July 2005 10:56 (UTC)

The UNESCO experts state that "the forests include very large specimens, including possibly the largest trees in Europe: specimens of Abies nordmanniana 85m high with a diameter of more than 2m" [3]. See the list of literature at the top of the page. If you don't mind, I'll restore the original phrasing in the article on Western Caucasus. --Ghirlandajo 1 July 2005 11:13 (UTC)

Thanks; I'm happy to let the 85m stay on the basis of that reference, though it would be nice to get more verification including the methods of measurement. - MPF 1 July 2005 14:03 (UTC)

An ooops! - the pic you have added at Western Caucasus is an American Bison! - I'll change it - MPF 1 July 2005 14:05 (UTC)

Hi, why have you removed the Category:Geography of Lithuania Category:Notable places in Lithuania categories from Curonian Spit article ? --wojsyl (talk) 3 July 2005 16:23 (UTC)

There is now a stub template for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related articles in need of expansion. Please add {{orthodoxy-stub}} to articles. You can also go to the Category page for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related stubs and click the "watch this page" link in the sidebar, so that you can see new stub articles as they appear. Spread the word! JHCC (talk) 6 July 2005 14:57 (UTC)

Hello, Ghirlandajo! First of all, let me thank you for your award! It actually means a lot to me, even though this whole barnstar business may seem a bit childish to some people :). It'll keep me going! Secondly, I wanted to write an article on Cerkov' Pokrova na Nerli, but I'm not sure what it's called in English. Do you have any idea? I hope you can help me out with it. Pictures will be of extreme importance, since this church is considered one of the most wonderful examples of the Russian architecture. What are you working on right now and what do you plan to write in the near future? KNewman July 8, 2005 23:32 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your edits, I find them magnificientGnomz007 18:05, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I can't add to your excellent material on the Radziwill nest etc., but you inspire me to note that a program to ensure decent Wikipedia coverage of all 812 (not really so many) World Heritage Sites would make a good project for the grown-ups. --Wetman 04:07, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Amber Room. Have you actually read their book? Noel (talk) 08:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Ghirlandajo! Why do you want to leave for good? High-speed internet connection got too expensive in Yaroslavl? Please, drop me a line. KNewman 21:23, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Despite several disagreements we had on specific issues, I would hate so see you go. I understand the time constraints factor though. I hope you sill still be around as an occasional editor (the mode to which I switch myself often) and will contribute from time to time and correct the mistakes of others. Cheers, --Irpen 20:12, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Irpen. Just make sure you check it out every now and then. Usually, people leave this place only as a result of some revert wars and not because they simply don't have time :). It may be sad, but it is true that a wikifan can always find time for Wikipedia, you know that :). Just choose the right dosage, and you will be fine. See you soon. KNewman 21:40, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

I've put the pucture there because the source was a russian site, because it is part of history, and because the article regarding romanian independence war will be soon be deleted, i can't merge the articles because i don't know how. But if you wish to delete the picture, think again, is your poin of view objective? For people from the balkans russian liberation is equivalent with occupation. I would not put again the picture on the article, it is up to you if you let the picture there or not,was the romanian troops importance signifiant or not? There was a calling for help from russian side. It is fair not to mention that help? It is up to you to decide.

But to edit the article was an interesting task, I've realized how extremist some people are..

• The looses or romanian army were: over 10,000 deads and wounds
• Haveing great looses, the Great Duke Nicolae, the commandant of the front from Balkani, sent to prince Carol the following telegramme: "The turks, useing the greatest troop at Plevna distried us. I bag you to make fusion with us, make demonstration, and if it is possible, pass the Danube with your army, as you will. Between Jiu and Corabia, this demonstration is absolutely necessary to enable my movements".
• Although it didn`t exist a military convention between the two states, Romania accorded military help. The romanians passed the Danube and the Prince Carol the 1st received the command of romanian -russian troops at Plevna.

After hard fights, Plevna was conquered, romanians struggled also in Vidin - Belogradcik zone.

http://erastimes.8m.net/gambit_page3.htm

Hi there, Ghirlandajo! I checked with the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, and it somehow says it was F.M.Volsky in the Kineshma article. Check it out for yourself [4]. Could it be that they are wrong? Cheers. KNewman 17:00, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Zdravstvujte! Vy obnovili tol'ko chto `etu stranicu. No "On the feast day of the..." ne ukazyvet ni na kakuyu konkretnuyu datu. Raz uzh vy napisali i ob `etom sobytii, ne mogli by vy v toj zhe stepeni podrobno napisat' i ob oficial'nom otkrytii mecheti Kul SHarif, kotoroe proizoshlo neskol'kimi nedelyami ran'she i yavlyaetsya stol' zhe vazhnym sobytiem v duhovnoj zhizni goroda (hotya, pohozhe ne vsej strany vcelom) :) --Untifler 13:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ru:Aleksej Nikolaevich

Hi there, Ghirlandajo! I'm a bit confused. Is it Ksnyatin, or Sknyatin, or Sknyatino, or Ksnyatino? Your article is named Ksnyatin, but deals with Sknyatino in it. Were there two names for the town? KNewman 14:09, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

I was really surprised by your unmotivated edit at Olga of Kiev. I suggest that you check with the primary chronicle before making such edits.--Wiglaf 21:07, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't you noticed that Staraya Ladoga is misspelled on the map? Also, I believe that Kiev should be spelled Kaenugard, and Novgorod - Holmsgard, as per Garðaríki article. --Ghirlandajo 09:12, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have, but I did not make the original map. If you can fix the problems, go ahead.--Wiglaf 09:43, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For [5]! I was looking for this image since the day I wrote this article, but I lost the newspaper with the picture data :> It's great to have some non-Polish side pic there. I recently saw another one, but again I lost the newspaper before I wrote down the details - it was sth like 'the last minutes (?) of Tsar Dimitri'. Perhaps you can find it? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 14:33, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes :) Tnx :) If you know of any other pictures we could use for Polish-Russian history articles, do let me know, or just add them where possible. I always say good history is a well-illustrated history :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 11:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How can this image be from 1915 if it's in a (beautiful) full color ? Did you colorized it? And if it's not from 1915 are we sure it's public domain? --Alexandre Van de Sande 23:07, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and the corresponding gallery in Commons for more information. The image that caught your eye is the second Prokudin-Gorskii's image uploaded by me which came to be recognized as featured picture. Prokudin's images are public domain from the Library of Congress website: see here for this one. The date is fixed arbitrarily, as the photos were actually taken in the period from 1905 to 1915. --Ghirlandajo 06:19, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How would you descirbe cultural differences between Slavs, and influence of Mongol culture on some groups in order not ? I don't think that the Mongol control did influence in some ways some Slavic nations is disputed among historians.That is why I provided link to review of such study.I don't want to offend anybody but absolutism, "oriental despotism" are and influence of Mongol culture on this are issues researched by historians. Good day to you and I am waiting for answer.--Molobo 15:31, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, perhaps you could explain to me why the name spells both Stirlitz and von Stierlitz? I also noticed, that you changed Standartenführer to link back to Colonel, was it intentional? Thanks for your answers. -- pt 14:47, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

you apparently think the link looks unsightly, and I'd be happy to stuff it under external links; I do think, however, that any article about an item with a geographic location should ultimately get a machine readable encoding of its coordinates. This ties in with Wikipedia:Semantic Wikipedia, and will ultimately allow to sort Wikipedia articles geographically, search for Wikipedia articles near your present location, that sort of thing. dab (ᛏ) 19:33, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

also, it seems rather bad faith to ask "is the one on Red Square not enough" when you have removed that too. What is it that bothers you about these coordinates? They are perfectly pertinent information. dab (ᛏ) 19:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

incidentially, since you're Russian, could you help us with the "Minusa River" case? See User_talk:FourthAve#Minusa_2. dab (ᛏ) 19:41, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Ghirlandajo. Sorry, I just missed what others did before your edit there and initially I thought you were removing my numbers that were actually well sourced. I did a fast-hand restore without realizing that I was restoring to the false numbers inserted just before that.

I am glad we agreed at talk:Berdiansk. I would be interested to know what you think about my proposal at talk:Kamianets-Podilskyi about the sick trend of games with the names.

Also, you may want to take a look at correct this.

Regards, --Irpen Irpen 05:12, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, you still haven't replied (at Talk:Amber Room). I got my copy of the book back, and added information about the authors, and a direct quote of their conclusions, to the talk: page. I have also added information from a number of reviews of the book. Unless you can show me some good reason not to mention their conclusions in the article, I'm going to put back that text you took out. Noel (talk) 19:09, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can you respond at Talk:Battle of Borodino? The claim you are trying to reinsert is almost certainly false, as I explained in my comments on the talk page. Gdr 15:12:17, 2005-08-15 (UTC)

Thanks for the article. I was planning to create it at some time in the future. Pavel Vozenilek 23:38, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! There have been a number of recent extensive edits to the Kaliningrad Oblast article. The additions look to be in good faith, but I am not terribly familiar with the great amount of Lithuanian history presented now. I also am not sure if that article is the proper place for that content. You might be interested in taking a look at it. Olessi 21:18, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad we also agreed on some things. Poka! --Irpen 23:18, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

See my comments on the Talk page at Gytha of Wessex where I present my evidence for the birthdates of her children. They are not based on pure speculation; there is good reason to believe Izyaslav was born 1077/1078, for instance. Missi

If it is, for some reason, difficult for you to tell different East Slavic languages from each other, you may wish to read a few verses of the chronicle, or, if you prefer, the introduction that accompanies it, to learn what kind of events does the the chronicle describe and where did its author live. Or, you may wish to read about it in some monography, such as the excellent Zapadno-russkie letopisi. Or, you may simply google for Byhovca, or perhaps even Byhovca site:ru, and read what does the top link have to say about it.

I would appreciate it if, in the future, you could apply one of my suggestions before classifying other works of Ruthenian literature. Thank you. -- Naive cynic 21:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for bringing up and working on Koleda. The coordinated action was swifted and decisive. On a different topic, you complained that Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth created by Piotrus is pro-Polish biased. Actually, I already added some alternative views to the article before announcing it. Is it really that bad? Anyway, you're welcome to neutralize it. And while at it, check a closely related discussion at talk:History of Kiev. --Irpen 18:33, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Privet! Stat'ya gotova, no k sozhaleniyu napisana na uzhasnom anglijskom... CHast' russkogo teksta lezhit v obsuzhdenii stat'i. Trebuetsya pomosch' znayuschih anglijskij! --Untifler 12:57, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Koe chto bylo uteryano pri pereformatirovanii: naprimer transkripcii nekotoryh nazvanij. Uteryana takzhe informaciya o "Zilantau" (naibolee veroyatno, chto imenno cherez `etot toponim v russkij i proniklo slovo "ZilaNT"). Hotelos' by takzhe korrektno napisat' na pin'jine slovo CHzhelyan - imenno tak u Gumileva pishetsya nazvanie doliny na Altae. O eio suschestvovanii emu stalo izvestno iz kitajskih istochnikov - bylo by neploho dobavit' ieroglify. Kstati, esli nekotoryh simvolov net v anglijskoj klaviature, tablica rasshirennoj latinicy lezhit pod knopkoj "Sohranit'" (`eto vazhno dlya peredachi nekotoryh zvukov). S uvazheniem, --Untifler 12:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stop removing content, or you will be blocked for vandalism.--Wiglaf 09:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stop shameless POV-pushing, or you will be reported. You may use the Swedish wiki for promoting your nationalism, but this is international encyclopedia, so you should be aware that the NPOV policies apply here. --Ghirlandajo 10:07, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mass deletions of content is not NPOV, it is vandalism.--Wiglaf 10:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Deletions of POV-pushing addition to the long established NPOV article is restoring NPOV. If you add information illustrating one point of view, you should ass as much infomration illustrating the other. Otherwise, your actions will be classified as nationalistic POV-pushing. --Ghirlandajo 10:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would add info on the anti-normanist theory if there was anything to add. Sadly, evidence is strangely lacking.--Wiglaf 10:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You might have noticed that I don't interefere with articles on Swedish history, although I mig ht have cited much unflattering stuff pertaining to your country. So please let the articles on Russian history to the Russians. --Ghirlandajo 10:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ghirlandajo, could you explain why the presence of foreigners in Russian history is unflattering?--Wiglaf 10:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wiglaf, where did I say that the presence of foreigners in Russian history is unflattering? I just said that it is hardly constructive to flood the articles on Russian history with Russophobic interpretations. --Ghirlandajo 10:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is Russophobic in what I have written?--Wiglaf 10:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have you started the article? It currently redirects to Ukrainian language. Let me know. Sashazlv 00:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I redirected it to Ukr. L. and explained at talk. Check history. I plan to address the issue soon. I explained my actions at talk in detail. --Irpen 00:13, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Also, I agree with your recent comment at Russification article. The difference is though that Russification article starts with an acceptable definition, and I actually think your new definition is better. Also the article has some factual info. Even if presented with biased view, removal of factual info to a redirect actually reduces WP. I would welcome an objective broad definiton of Ukrainization as a start for a new article. In fact, I am trying to think of it right now. I am worried about the problem with sources, as I said at talk, but we should be able to handle it with time. --Irpen 06:50, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I encouraged Wiglaf to write on Talk:Early Swedish History instead of engaging in revert stuff. I hope you could take a look at that page too, and post your comments.

Fred-Chess 16:23, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

There are Elizabeth Alexeyevna (Louise of Baden), Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) Arrigo 10:18, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So what? --Ghirlandajo 10:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have you proofread them? How about checking their correctness now? Arrigo 10:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And linking interwiki to pages in Russian WP..Arrigo 10:23, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, are you happy with how their articles are titled? Arrigo 10:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

the reason that Baltoslavic pagans are not mentioned is that until recently, the article was called Persecution of Asatruers, and there is an ongoing debate about the article's scope at Talk:Persecution of Heathens -- I suggest you weigh into that discussion before you start adding warning templates. dab (ᛏ) 14:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, feel free to add the articles Persecution of Romuva, Persecution of Dievturiba and whatever else may be neede. // Liftarn

Dear Ghirlandajo, your addition about the Haithabu connection reminded me that the House of Rurik and the House of Hedeby have something in common - both are said to be of Swedish origin. That is very relevant in the article! Good Job! :D--Wiglaf 15:29, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected your new mistake by pointing out that there had been no "Sweden" and no "Swedish origin" prior to Haithabu. --Ghirlandajo 15:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks it is great to have a real authority on Scandinavian history like you.--Wiglaf 15:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will not revert this time, but you should know that Adam of Bremen is not an authority on matters of mediaeval genealogy at all. I suspect that this long-discarded info comes from one of the much later scholias, which the reputable historians normally discredit. I will be back after checking this point. --Ghirlandajo 15:54, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I might be wrong about this image belonging to Kustodiev, but this image is certainly not a photo. I think it's quite obvious when you look at it, that it is a painting (whatever they say in the Library of congress). Also, on ru:wikipedia it has been attributed to Kustodiev (although I'm not sure about that). If you find out who is the author, please do put in the details, but meanwhile I'll get in touch with the person on ru:wikipedia and see what he says...--Dyadya S`em 20:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

I explained that the image is actually photochrom retrieved from here. I have uploaded many similar images from 1890s on Moscow, Odessa, St Petersburg, etc. --Ghirlandajo 08:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Horosho :) --Dyadya sam 09:55, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Briangotts wrote "I have read the haithabu hypothesis in very few publications, to describe it as consensus of W authorities is going too far"[6]. Don't try to blow up your favourite theory to majority view.--Wiglaf 09:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've rewritten fruit fetishism. Cheers! -- BDAbramson ^talk 19:58, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The article is alright now. I've withdrawn my nomination. --Ghirlandajo 06:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up! I didn't know about that page. Olessi 20:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A long discussion has just ended concerning that article and how to mention the relationship between Germany and USSR in it. Some kind of compromise has been reached. Therefore, please, think carefully before introducing new changes, so that the battle does not start again.Balcer 14:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Remember to mark your edits as minor only when they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). "The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'." --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:52, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Despite your calling me "Russophobe" I don't have anything against Russians. OTOH, I've seen your edits on several Lithuanian articles already before, and was under the impression that you were presenting quite a nationalistic POV, so I was not suprised by your last edits on Russification. I would however like to ask you again to disscuss your controversial edits before actually introducing them. Threatening ("if you want edit war on Lithuanian articles, you'll get it") is not actually what I meant when I asked for discussion and this is not something that will help your case. Cheers, --Wojsyl ^(talk) 21:25, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The only Lithuanian articles I recall having written are those on Galindians, Gedyminas and Svitrigaila, and these haven't been acussed of POV as yet. Anyway, I'm tired of contributing articles on the most glorious persons of Lithuanian history, while ethnic Lithuanians are busy slandering Russians in the articles on modern Russia. Perhaps, instead of obstinately revising Russification you'd better pay more attention to Algirdas? --Ghirlandajo 21:41, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

File:Arkaim.jpg

Sorry, but why are you telling me which articles should I be editing ? And what's wrong with Algirdas ? --Wojsyl ^(talk) 22:36, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

seriously Ghirlandajo, you should stop spamming the Arkaim image to unrelated articles; Andronovo culture, Indo-Iranians, Indo-Aryan migration are all fair enough, but Mandala? At the top of the article, too? I think you are being to enthusiastic about those clearly pseudoscientific/esoteric claims about the site. The settlement was round. The similarity with swastikas and mandalas ends there. dab (ᛏ) 17:04, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If you had looked at the edit histories, you would have noticed that I added this image to all those articles in just one hour several days ago. If you feel that the image is redundant and that unillustrated article is better, just remove it. --Ghirlandajo

Sorry if I were brusque about that article: I had much trouble fighting the Russophobes at Russification that day. I didn't know that the military series were compilations, to boot. You should know that your work is appreciated. And thanks for the award, too ;)) --Ghirlandajo 21:22, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No you were fine. Hell, I was just tired - so I got the info of the History of Russia series. Man, after uploading all those images and stuff you kind of want to get it all done quickly. Molotov (talk) 21:28, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I reverted your addition of Russian architecture to the "History of western architecture" series, because it is a series about the history of architecture rather than the architecture of individual countries. You will notice that the other articles refer to the architecture of a certain period only. Thus, an article on Stalinist architecture, for example, would be a more appropriate addition if that style of architecture were sufficiently influential. Burschik 14:30, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So please explain why Sumerian architecture (which may hardly be termed "western", BTW) and Byzantine architecture made their way to the list? I don't see how medieval Russian architecture was less influential than the Byzantine one. Moreover, the "History of Western architecture" in EB 2004 includes a section on medieval Russian architecture up to ca. 1700. --Ghirlandajo 14:59, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, on the discussion page of the template, I said that I was not sure Sumerian architecture belonged in the series. Feel free to remove it. If you think Byzantine architecture had less influence than Russian architecture (on the Western tradition) please feel free to remove it also. But the main point I wanted to make is that the article on Russian architecture is not an article about a specific period in the history of architecture, unlike the others in the list. You will note that the list does not include German architecture, French architecture or Italian architecture either. Burschik 15:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have nothing against Sumerian architecture, whilst the presence of Byzantine architecture is peremptory. I just want to point out that neither German architecture nor Dutch architecture nof Swedish architecture are truly individual, as they are covered by terms "Gothic", "Romanesque", "Renaissance", etc. The Russian architecture, on the other hand, had been isolated for centuries, so the terms like gothic or renaissance are hardly applicable to it. In other words, removing R.a. from the list makes a void which other entries would not compensate. --Ghirlandajo 15:42, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As for this battle, I saw that it was listed by you at RU-portal for a while now. It's just that it is unlikely that anyone but you or KNewman will get to it soon. Also, check your gmail inbox. I left you a message there. Poka, --Irpen 19:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Category for Supercentenarians is NOT for unverified cases.(I may not believe in registered accounts,but I have studied supercentenarians for years and essentially introduced coverage of them to Wikipedia,besides compiling a widely known standard list).He belongs under Longevity myths only.--Louis Epstein/le@put.com/12.144.5.2 19:08, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Louis, if you are the alt.talk.royalty regular I recall from my Usenet days, you'd better register, for registration makes Wiki-discussion much easier. Although I will not revert anymore, I'm sure Shirali fits into the category for Supercentenarians. Otherwise, we should set up separate categories for Verified Supercentenarians and Unverified Supercentenarians. --Ghirlandajo 19:21, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes,that's me,and I've done well over 3000 Wikipedia edits since 2003 without registering.I never register for websites.I don't see any reason to accord category status to the unverified.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 02:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I noticed that you often let us know about articles created by anonymous users in Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements.

As far as I can judge, many of such articles contain no [[Category]] entries and lack links to everything else.

Do you just happen to come across these articles by chance or is there some other way? Sashazlv 18:19, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Special:Newpages. Cheers, Ghirlandajo 18:38, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for helping me with the Lubeh article. I am going to add more CD covers soon, and maybe a sound sample. Zach (Sound Off) 17:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That is a realy interesting page - Have you ever thought of expanding it? Giano | talk 20:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]