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Genoese Fortress in Sudak Home · Talk · Email · Contribs · Sandbox Archive 1 ('05—'06) · Archive 2 ('06—'07) · Archive 3 ('07—'09) · Archive 4 ('09—'11) · Archive 5 ('11—'19) Friday 4 May Did You Know...? #11-17 DYK 11 On 15 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Great Lavra Belltower, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. --GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 06:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC) DYK 12 On November 26, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Near Caves (Pechersk Lavra), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC) Did you know 13 On 27 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Church of the Saviour at Berestove, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. --GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 21:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC) DYK! 14 On December 25, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lviv High Castle, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 18:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Did you know? 15 On 27 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. --GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 13:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC) Did you know? 16 Did you know? was updated. On 10 February, 2007, a fact from the article Palanok Castle, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. Did you know? 17 On 20 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vorontsovsky Palace, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. --ALoan (Talk) 17:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC) Kryvyi Rih Metrotram Today I finished the last one of them. Now on 23rd I am off to Abkhazia for three weeks. During this time, I will be gone compleately (and I mean compleately, as it is questionable whether they have computers there let alone internet). If you want to give me a good welcome-back surprise, let me know that the Kryvyi Rih Metrotram has now been selected as an FA. How you are going to do this I do not know, but do take more than one user along, you know which site I upload photos from, its attribution everywhere except those not taken by him, (fair use in that case). Do check every single refernce you can find, and particulary those that i gave, if you get the train wikiproject people to come over then that's even better (in the end I do not really mind if the FA is going there). That's it really, it is a challenge, but even if you do not attain FA, then at least go for everything else, GA, DYK etc. 15-го вернусь...--Kuban Cossack 00:25, 21 August 2006 (UTC) OK, I will try to do what I can... Will try to get it to FA, as well as all the other articles I've expanded: St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kiev, etc. Have a nice trip :))! —dima • talk • sb • 01:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Image:House with Chimaeras.JPG Hi DDima, I am clearing out a backlog at CAT:NC, and noticed that you retagged this image. Is it ok if I delete it now under CSD I9, or will you link it in the article to the new name at Commons which is slightly different? Nice pic by the way, I'll check out the article after I am done with the backlog. DVD+ R/W 22:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC) Yes it is ok. After you'll delete the image, I'll replace it with the one at commons. Thanks, —dima/s-ko/ 22:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC) Kuchima It looked like a pointless list to me, with no hope of being expanded or even linked from any useful article. Add it to Kuchima's article, if you must. Adam Bishop 06:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC) Note on adding full Eastern Orthodox Project to your watchlist This is a note for members of the Eastern Orthodox Project: Since the project's main page has been converted to a portal-style box format, each of the boxes is actually its own page (you can see the page outside its box by clicking the 'Edit' link on any often the section boxes on the project page, which takes you to the edit page for its contents). Because of this, updates to individual box contents will not necessarily show up on editors' watchlists, if you've only got the main project page watched. In order to keep up to date with all updates to the Project and its pages, I'd recommend adding each subpage to your watchlists. These are: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy - The main Project page Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Intro - The introduction to the Project text, in the top box Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Scope - Goals of the project text Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Subsections - Listing of Project sub-areas Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Tasks - Main listing of pages, etc., needing work Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Templates - Listing of Project templates Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Participants - Listing of members Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Related - Listing of areas related to Project Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy/Notes - Notes on Project If you add all of the above pages to your watchlist, you should be informed whenever any part of the WikiProject Eastern Christianity is edited/updated. To discuss this, please see the relavent section of the Project's talk page. —Antonios Aigyptostalk 09:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC) Featured picture nomination Hi, your photo Image:Andriyivskyy Uzviz.jpeg has been nominated to be a Featured Picture. Please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Andriyivskyy Uzviz for discussion. One of the objections, however, is that it's too small. Do you have a larger version (greater than 1000px on at least one side)? Thanks. howcheng {chat} 16:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC) Hi. Actually it is not my image, but see my full responce on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Andriyivskyy Uzviz. Thanks, —dima/s-ko/ 20:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC) Template:Lang-be Right, thanks! Right on the italics issue, too. Yury Tarasievich 11:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks, I don't know exactly why it was changed to italics by someone, but it should stay in regular font. Cheers, —dima/s-ko/ 01:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC) From Kuban... As I have been absent for over three weeks there might have been instances where I could have missed something serious, what is going on with our images on the commons? What other issues were there? --Kuban Cossack 15:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Welcome back! Well there have been some interesting things happening lately. St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is now a featured article, BTW thanks for your help on it then; on commons - there has been a template for deletion (TfD) for the deletion of the {{PD-USSR}} although I see that you already found out about that...; and I have created a Commons:Kiev Metro gallery with all of the station images... —dima/s-ko/ 20:20, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks! Thanks for all your continued help. Most recently on: Template:Odessa I look forward to working with you more. Odessaukrain 01:51, 24 September 2006 (UTC) You are welcome:) I look forward to working with you too. —dima/s-ko/ 02:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Re: Roman Zacharij Surely you can use my images from Kyiv gallery at webshots! All are taken by me. You have full right to use any of them! Roman Roman Zacharij 17:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Ok thanks. There are not very many pictures of Ukraine and Kiev that we can freely use on Wikipedia, so it is a great help. Thanks, —dima/s-ko/ 17:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Image sources Wikipedia policy is to require to show image sources for every image. Source is very different from copyright. Source is a website/book.journal/etc. that the picture was taken from. Copyright is special rights that author has in that picture and is briefly described in image tags such as {{PD-old}}. However, without a source one cannot verify copyright claims. Who made the picture? Who owns it now? Who owns the copyright? What are copyright terms? YellowDot 00:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Concerning this and this. I believe we need to find a free picture of the cathedral. It is the oldest church in Ukraine, after all. --Ghirla -трёп- 10:47, 5 October 2006 (UTC) There are a whole bunch of images of Ukraine, including Chernigov that we can use. The author just asks for attribution. See here for Chernigov. There is an image of the church here... —dima/s-ko/ 20:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC) Have you e-mailed him? Do you have a specific permission to use these images in Wikipedia? --Ghirla -трёп- 16:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Kiev Metro on uk wiki This is wrt to images used. Can you ask the person writing the articles to either upload to commons in case he has permission to copy the images from the site or to delete them as it is a clear copyvio otherwise. BTW do tell the UK-wiki admin to take a serious tone with image lincenses as there are none at present whatsover. --Kuban Cossack 16:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Sorry I did not answer right away, I did not have much time.. I'll ask the admin about the images. Its too bad they (on uk wiki) don't tag the images, because its much harder for us to find out about the image itself. —dima/s-ko/ 17:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC) Thank you Thank you, Dima. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flying Penguin (talk • contribs) No problem :) If you need any help, I will be glad to help out. Cheers, —dima/s-ko/ 17:13, 21 October 2006 (UTC) Template:Ukrainian historical regions I have attempted to fully restyle the template to fully make it conscise both historically and geographically, maybe you can play around with content and format to give it a better appearance. (The old version was PATHETIC in every definition) --Kuban Cossack 18:35, 27 October 2006 (UTC) The old version was not best but I disagree with the new one. Left my comments at talk. --Irpen 18:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC) New FA suggestion I definetely think that it is time to make a good improvement on Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the best way to do this is to make it out of several smaller articles. Here is a nice reading material [1] for one of them. And I am in process of writing a nav template for it. --Kuban Cossack 19:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC) There done Template:Pechersk Lavra. Lot of red links, but in time...--Kuban Cossack 19:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Yes, I think it is time to work on the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. We should have gotten to it long ago... Nice job on the template, but it'll probably take a lot of work to get rid of the red links, but it is definetely possible. I have a book about Kiev which has a lot about the Pechersk Lavra, namely the caverns. I will be busy during the week, but I will start creating articles in the weekend. —dima/s-ko/ 04:01, 8 November 2006 (UTC) Thousands of fair use images at your disposal Look what I found Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Thousands of 1970s images from the 3rd edition that can be uploaded under fair use for anything. Also right now I have the original 1950s 2nd edition of the encyclopedia in 50+ hardbacks with excellend PD images in them. Any requests? --Kuban Cossack 13:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC) That's great! I only have access to Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, but do you have any images on the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, namely the Great Lavra Belltower? BTW, take a look at the article, I have just started on creating articles on the Lavra... Do you have any good DYK suggestions for the article? —dima/s-ko/ 18:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Integrity of wikipedia Do you care that wikipedia should be carefully balanced and well resourced? Do you agree that it should be free of politics and original research. Do you want all of the other language wikis not to have any bias to them. Then you can help by ending a wikicircus called Siberian language wiki. Not only is the language original research, that was synthetically developed by LiveJournal people, but its supporters use it as a political platform [2], [3] or complete disregard to other topics [4] [5]. Even more amazing is that its founder, the same person who invented it, takes no shame in using offensive terminology like "moscals" in reference to other users. I think the message is clear: Meta:Proposals for closing projects/Close Siberian wikipedia. Don't forget to register an account on Meta with iterwiki link to your standard one before you vote. --Kuban Cossack 14:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC) NKMZ Hi, thanks for your interest in NKMZ. NKMZ is a Ukranian company. However, in the case of a company which does a significant amount of business in or with another country, the other country may be named in a category. Viz Rusal/Guinea and BHP Billiton/South Africa. Furthermore, NKMZ was part of the Soviet Union for 60 years, as it was formed in 1934. I wrote a note at Portal:Russia/New article announcements#November 16-30 to this effect on November 16. I would appreciate it if you would read that note, and then decide if NKMZ should be listed under Russia, and if not, to provide a reason why not. And as far as "the Ukraine" vs "Ukraine" is concerned, I would prefer not to get involved in international politics, and have experienced edits when having written "Ukraine" and when having written "the Ukraine". Thanks. --McTrixie 15:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC) Sib-wiki vote I authorise that [6] and [7] votes to support closure of sib-wiki: pedia/source and were cast by me. —dima/s-ko/ 17:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:Salhir River.JPG Thanks for uploading Image:Salhir River.JPG. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Carpatho-Ukraine Nice work implementing the former country infobox in the Carpatho-Ukraine article. It looks like you didn't have all of the syntax infomation available, so I suggest in future that you check here for the full blank syntax. There is more information on how to use this infobox here. Keep up the good work. - 52 Pickup 17:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Yes, thank you for the suggestion. Cheers, —dima/s-ko/ 03:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC) Donetsk Metro А по-русски такую статью не сделаешь? --Butko 07:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC) Near Caves (Pechersk Lavra) Great work!! I'm going to translate it on it.wiki. Adelchi--87.30.6.163 08:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC) Another gift for you How about some 1950s photographs of Kiev... http://interesniy.kiev.ua/old/photo/kiev-54? I think PD-RUSSIA is applicable...barely, as they must have taken prior to the publishing of the album. Otherwise standard Fair-use. There is loads of vintage shots on that site. [8]. The other point is that my Hotel Ukrayina is now about 70% done. I could use a good reference or two, particularly for the Ginzburg house (its going to be a combined article), and some general proofreading. Also did you notice that Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro) was done ages ago? --Kuban Cossack 00:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC) Yes I have seen those photographs, although did not look at all of them, but thanks anyway. Here is a great site containing a lot of information about Kiev and tons of old photographs... Great work on Hotel Ukrayina!! It would be nice to have some interiour shots of the building, too bad I am not in Kiev. Perhaps I can ask my friends to take some shots but can't promise anything. I am sure that if we polish it up and finish it, we can get the article to Featured status :) Nice work on Zoloti Vorota (actually my favourite station)... BTW, take a look at how the Pechersk Lavra articles are turning out. —dima/s-ko/ 02:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC) Our stubs They are considered for deletion, here, obviously vote accordingly, if it gets serious support we need to make it worthwhile keeping, so be prepared to create a load of empty articles for future lines, systems and stations. --Kuban Cossack 23:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC) Voted, see responce there. —dmytro/s-ko/ 19:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Linkspam The reason I deleted those as linkspam was that they were created by someone who had done no edits on Wikipedia but adding linking to this one site, usually several on the same page. For undoubtedly the same reason this site already is on the Spam blacklist, meaning that pages with a link to this site cannot be saved. - Andre Engels 14:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Question Thanks for your welcome note. This might be a very basic question but as I am new to Wikipedia, how do I get to write all those personal information boxes that I see in other users' pages i:e "this user believes in this or that" "this user has visited so many countries", etc... I have looked in the tutorial and can't find the instructions. Kindly direct me.--Healkids 03:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC) It's OK, I found it! thank you --Healkids 16:12, 14 December 2006 (UTC) Merry Christmas Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas! Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 19:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC) Thanks! Merry Christmas (or Wesolych Swiat) and a happy new year to you too! —dmytro/s-ko/ 21:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC) Rusyn historical terretory Lemkovyna (Lemkivshchyna), as well as Carpatho-Ruthenia, allways were parts of Rusyn ethnic terretory, not of the Ukrainian one. Indeed, the idea claiming that people living in these areas are part of ukrainian nation was born in 1930-s in ukrainophile groups (lead by Voloshyn)and were then used by the governement of USSR, in order to annex Carpatho-Ruthenia (or Zakarpattia, if you prefer). Between 1945 and nowdays, rusyn were massivly assimilated, so, nowdays, only a few people of Transcarpathia know about their true origins. Nowdays, the ukrainian state still doesn't recognise rusyns, which is against rights of national minorities... If we are talking about historical terretories, we can't say that these ones are ukrainian: it would be totaly untrue, since before 1946, only a few people claimed there to be ukrainian. Saying that Lemkivshchyna are part of ukrainian historical land is also not neutral, because it supports the ukrainian nationalist point of view, which claims that there aren't any rusyns in the world, but only ukrainians. I think it would be better to restore my edit, in order to make the list of historical territories more neutral...--Rusyn 20:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC) If we restore your edit, then it would not be neural as me other Ukrainians consider Lemkivschyna as Ukrainian historical land... —dima/s-ko/ 20:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Я також написав трохи з цього приводу на своїй сторінці. --Yakudza 20:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC) З наступаючим... З Новим Роком! --Yakudza 16:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC) All the best wishes in this New Year ! --TAG 22:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC) File:1953 S Novym Godom.jpg Happy New Year! (Ukrainian: З Новим Роком!, Russian: С Новым Годом!). I wish you in 2007 to be spared of the real life troubles so that you will continue to care about Wikipedia. We will all make it a better encyclopedia! I also wish things here run smoothly enough to have our involvement in Wikipedia space at minimum, so that we can spend more time at Main. --Irpen Komsomolske (Makhnovka) Village Thank you for providing the correct spelling (and link!) for Kremenchuk Reservoir.--Redaktor 19:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC) You're welcome! BTW, nice article, but don't forget to announce it at Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements, so that other Ukrainian users can see the article. Cheers and Happy New Year! —dima/s-ko/ 19:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Done. BTW could you please add the name in Ukrainian?--Redaktor 23:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Project:Geography of Ukraine Приглашаю поучавствовать ru:Википедия:Проект:География Украины, особенно в английской части. --Yakudza 22:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Yes, thank you. I will try to help with what I can. —dima/s-ko/ 23:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Re: reverted edits You recently left a message at my IP saying you reverted some edits of mine. Could you please elaborate? Thank you. Cossack 03:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC) As per this edit... The edit you made looked like vandalism to me, I mean, two parts were removed from the infobox and something else was written. I didn't know that a plural_slavic thing existed in the infobox and I just noticed what it does... I'll go and revert my edit. Sorry for my misunderstanding and С Новым годом! —dima/s-ko/ 03:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC) Без проблем, с Новым годом! Cossack 03:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks Pryvit. Xrystos razhdayetsia. Thanks for your contributions to my bandura articles. By the way my father was born in Lubny and is also of Cossack background. Bandurist 01:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC) Merry Christmas to you to! You're welcome :) I find many of them interesting and I would us to get some of them to Featured article status. The Bandura article could be featured with some more information and expansion. Also, the Persecuted bandurists article could qualify as a Featured list if we add some pictures, references, and info. Thanks for starting on the articles, there was barely an information about Kobzarstvo before you came. My grandfather's uncle was a Cossack in service during the Russian Empire times... —dima/s-ko/ 01:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC) Image:Andriyivskyi Descent Kiev Day.JPG Thanks for uploading Image:Andriyivskyi Descent Kiev Day.JPG. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please: Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all. Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself. If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈talk 01:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC) Dima, please select the images for this article you think you could best use from: [9][10][11][12][13]. Tag the image the same way you would tag other images from this site (like you did for a Lavra image). --Irpen 02:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC) OK, I'll see what I can upload from the images. —dima/s-ko/ 19:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC) DYK! On January 11, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St. Cyril's Monastery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Metro lines' and stations modernisation articles. Here is what I forsee of this check my new version of Zamoskvoretskaya Line and Kakhovskaya Line. I was wondering could you at least draw the maps for the lines, maybe with the detail that they are on the Moscow maps. Also can you file the official request for a wikiproject to begin... I will be on here for a good time and its all set in stone...BTW how do you do a peer review, because that's what I want for Saint Petersburg Metro... --Kuban Cossack 22:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Looks good! I don't know if I would be any good on drawing the maps (I don't have any good programs, except for MS Paint...) But, I'll see what I can do. For Peer Review, do you want a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Peer review|WikiProject Trains/Peer review] or a regular Wikipedia:Peer review? The instructions for the 2 PR's are basicly the same, just add the {{peerreview}} to talk, start the page with your comments, and add it to list of nominees page... For WikiProject, we need to make a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals and see if the "council" people support our proposal. Do you want to make it Former Soviet Union-specific or Eastern European-specific, in case that there are objections to the scope... —dima/s-ko/ 22:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Well Eastern European people are not going to let us thorough, but with FSU it could be arranged. If we get enough people to show the diversion of the group ... i.e. Kober, Eupator and say Baku87 (provided they do not kill each). Who knows lets give it a go. Now then if anybody starts picking on the name then the defence is usual, if a country is able to call itself Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia then they have to let as Former Soviet in there...---Kuban Cossack 22:23, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Another question, do you want it to be only metro-specific or something else, like rapid transit-specific? —dima/s-ko/ 22:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Well officially all Metrotrams have Metro in them... so just keep it as it is... if necessary we can exapand it. BTW look here...--Kuban Cossack 13:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC) Just a little update, I began actively lobbying people from all over wiki, particularly ru:Проект:Метро... see if you can get a few from uk... If all goes well we will have enough support.--Kuban Cossack 14:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC) Well given the reply we got already, we can give it a go and make it official... I will be in an on/off mode... so my best recommendation is to coordinate with User:Unisouth- founder of the Portal:London Transport on advice; and User:Camerafiend - a very special person - if you like the "father" of the idea (I cannot take that credit), it was him who created the original lines templates (which are becoming increasingly popular even amongst the western Metro systems), and who took off writing individual Moscow Metro stations. So get him to help you, and I will aid in format and actually expanding the articles themselves.--Kuban Cossack 00:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Ok, I have already moved the pages to the Wikipedia namespace... I'll also set up an article rating system, so that the fall into categories like stub-class Metros of FSU articles... but will do that a bit later. I will also be somewhat busy (on weekdays). BTW, check the list of new Kiev Metro articles I have created. —dima/s-ko/ 01:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Ты куда пропал? --Kuban Cossack 18:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Izveni chto ne otvechal, byl zanyat... —dima/s-ko/ 02:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC) CHICOTW I see your user name listed as a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chicago. I do not know if you are aware that we are attempting to revive the CHICOTW. See our results history. We could use additional input in nominating future articles, voting on nominees and editing winning nominees. Should you contribute you will receive weekly notices like the following: Chicago Collaboration of the Week Last week you voted for the Chicago COTW. Thank you! This week Rich Melman has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list. Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago TonyTheTiger 01:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC) Bergthal Colony Good evening, DDima--thanks for wikifying the Bergthal Colony article. I noticed an extra "m" after "colony" but can only access the reference page now. Would you mind taking care of that? Thanks. Mennobreth You're welcome. But I'm not sure what you mean by an extra "m" after "colony"... —dima/s-ko/ 01:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) I finally figured out how to make the change--and I made it, so no need for you to go back. Thanks! Mennobreth You're welcome :) If you need any more help, feel free to ask! Cheers, —dima/s-ko/ 01:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can Portal issue First, congrats with the portal gaining featured status. It seems that a code problem emerged, and since this is not my strong area, I wanted to call you attention to it. It's just a blank yellow screen.--Riurik (discuss) 03:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Thanks and congrats to you too! What web browser do you use? I use Mozilla, but don't see the problem... —dima/s-ko/ 03:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Hmm, I use Firefox, and it never happened before. I guess since its not an issue anymore, and is not recurring, we can forget about it. Best, --Riurik (discuss) 06:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Blue Harbor Resort Please explain the display problems that you were experiencing on the Blue Harbor Resort article. I have used the "ImageStackRight" template for quite a while with no problems before this. I took the images and stacked them. Thanks! Royalbroil T : C 02:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC) While looking at the page, the images overlapped the text a little... so that's why I removed them. Pherhaps its either my browser (Mozilla Firefox) or somethingelse... —dima/s-ko/ 02:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Re: {{TrainsWikiProject}} Done. The appropriate flag is SovMetro=yes, and it will add articles to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Metros of the former Soviet Union articles by quality. Let me know if you'd like to set up categories for unreferenced, imageneeded and mapneeded articles. For comparison, see Category:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation articles; the TWP template sorts articles into the NYPT specific categories for these three pending tasks rather than leaving them in the TWP parent categories. Slambo (Speak) 14:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC) —dima/s-ko/ 00:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Thanks! —dima/s-ko/ 21:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC) DYK Award, congrats!!! I hereby award you the title of the "Hero of Ukraine" with the Order of the State (Орден Держави) for bringing the Ukraine Portal to featured status. --Riurik 12 February 2007 Needless to say, appreciation for your work extends beyond my persona to other wikipedia editors.--Riurik (discuss) 06:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC) Dima, let me be first to congratulate you with this well deserved award. As you may know from the Order's statute, it can be awarded only once :). So, while I am sure you will have many more wikiawards, treasure this one especially! But seriously, allow me to say just one more time that we all appreciate your great work here and the leadership in the Ukrainian topics. Keep up the good work! --Irpen 08:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC) Thanks a lot guys! Any suggestions on what to do for the next award? :))))) —dima/s-ko/ 02:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC) Kiev Metro Уважаемый !!!! Вы чего отменяете мои исправления ? --Miwanya 15:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC) Я отменил ваши исправлении потому, что формат был, так сказать, "поломан", и также разположения фотографии было плохое. Я сейчас вставил фотографию в другое место... Всего хорошего, —dima/s-ko/ 15:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC) History of Christianity in Ukraine I know you do not like politics, but I was wondering whether you would care to comment on the dispute that is going on there. Ты мой и-мейл получил?--Kuban Cossack 00:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC) True that I don't like to get into political matters... but I have been looking at the topic from the side, but have not looked into it too much. I did recieve your e-mail, but sorry that I didn't answer.. I have some urgent things to finish (like translating Vorontsovsky Palace article) but will try to take a look at it and perhaps comment soon... —dima/s-ko/ 01:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC) Dima, take my advise and continue staying away from political articles if this is what you want. Those article won't help you make new friends. --Irpen 01:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC) Map of the Crimea-Area Yes, I can do that for you, but it will take some time, --David Liuzzo 11:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC) vandalism what can be done to stop vandal 65.2.84.218 (talk)? I had to revert his (her) doing at article Jacob Avigdor Thanks--Healkids 19:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC) Well, you would have to warn the user first.. Place {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} to yield a sort-of "first warning". If the vandal stricks again, place {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} for a second warning. Perhaps after the warnings, the anon will stop.. If not, place {{subst:uw-vandalism3}}, and the last time {{subst:uw-vandalism4}}. After his next vandalism after test4, notify the admins at WP:AIV. I hope that helps.. also, see WP:TUSER for more information about the warnings messages.. —dima/s-ko/ 21:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC) Thanks for the information but unfortunately he (she)does not have a user page..(of course!)is there anything else that can be done except of semi protecting the article? --Healkids 23:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC) If the user doen't have a user page, just create it, and you should place the warnings on the talk page of the user. Semi-protection should be done when there is multiple vandals, where blocking each of them would not help. Otherwise, just revert him every time, and notify the admins if s/he doesn't stop after repeated warnings. —dima/s-ko/ 23:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)