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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 15:32, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

The contributions of Sergey Averintsev to the field of sophiology are seminal for our understanding of the concept of Sophia. Averintsev was a member of the special group “Sofia: Idea Russa, idea d'Europa”, organized for the study of Sophia in Italy. His contributions to the field were acknowledged by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He was elected as a member of the Academy. See Averintsev’s obituaries to know more: http://www.pass.va/content/dam/scienzesociali/pdf/actapass10.pdf A.V.S.T. (talk) 16:16, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:34, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

I have absolutely no conflict of interest because I have supplied bibliography only on dead persons, e.g. Sergey Averintsev and Mikhail Gasparov, whose contribution to the field of classical and Russian philology is evident to any serious scholar of these disciplines. Both scholars have received many prizes, including Western European (Averintsev has received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize in Germany and Giovanni Agnelli in Italy. I ask to bring my additions in place. Also I have no idea how the dead persons can be a subject of “advertising”. A.V.S.T. (talk) 15:43, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

• Long lists of published articles, that is not a thing we do here. I do not doubt the person/s is/are notable, but articles and such, that's resume material. And that a person is dead doesn't mean you can't have an interest that possibly prevents you from editing neutrally. Drmies (talk) 21:01, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but it’s precisely what we do here. You can check the Russian version of pages dedicated to Averintsev https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 and Gasparov https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 respectively (both written by other users). You can also check for example the English page on Enstein https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein or Arendt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt. If you delete the long list of articles by Averintsev and quite a small list of articles by Gasparov, you have also to delete a long list of articles by Einstein and Arendt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein You can also check the lists of articles by other scholars, for example this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Madden (not so long as in the case of Averintsev, but much longer than that of Gasparov). If you delete only the lists of articles written by Russian scholars, I would suppose that your approach is nationally biased. A.V.S.T. (talk) 21:41, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

You have also deleted Averintsev’s paper on Oedipus https://www.jstor.org/stable/arion.29.2.0099 that I have added to the bibliography section of the page about Oedipus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus without any explanation. This paper, that was only recently translated in English, is considered to be one of the most important papers on Oedipus published in the last 50 years in Russian scholarship. The original version of this paper is quoted for 167 times according to Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=11239598514568781275&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=ru I suppose that you haven’t even checked Google before making restrictions on my addition. A.V.S.T. (talk) 23:49, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

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