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Recent edits to list of British battlecruisers

Conversions are only done once for each number, so I've rolled back those that you added for the Courageous and Admiral-class ships as 15 inches had already been converted for the Renowns.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC) But the Admiral-class ships and the Renowns on different pages.--Inctructor (talk) 16:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Recent edits to 6"/53 caliber gun

I question the wisdom of your recent edit of significant figures. When it comes to describing the same weapon in different units, I doubt there is any practical benefit to providing more than two decimal places. It is difficult to differentiate a 6-inch projectile from a 15-cm projectile without sophisticated measuring devices and relatively detailed information about the gun firing it. United States Navy practice specified bourrelet diameter at 0.38 mm less than nominal bore diameter with a minus manufacturing tolerance such that the average maximum diameter of a 6-inch projectile (neglecting the malleable copper rotating band) was expected to be 152 mm. Rotating band diameter was greater than the groove-to-groove diameter of rifling depth typically up to one percent of caliber, and might have been as great as 155 mm. Bore diameters were measured land-to-land with positive manufacturing tolerances. Erosion was expected to increase that diameter over the life of the gun; but no effect on dispersion was anticipated until bore diameter exceeded 153 mm. Given the thermal expansion coefficient of steel, 3-digit figures would be accurate over a temperature range of 60 Celsius degrees -- perhaps high for measurements made at temperatures below -10 degrees and low for measurements made at temperatures over 50 degrees.

Temperature variation of the propellant charge caused differences in reaction rate and consequent projectile velocity and range. Range comparisons in yards and meters often imply an unrealistic precision ignoring salvo spreads and shot to shot variability of hundreds of metres over the useful life of the gun.Thewellman (talk) 17:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

• I disagree with You--Inctructor (talk) 17:55, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The authoritative sources of 6 inches of the 152 mm-no more and no less. Sorry for the bad English.--Inctructor (talk) 18:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Your English is fully adequate, but my Russian is not so good as your English. I value your contributions to English Wikipedia despite our disagreement. I encourage you to review my recent English Wikipedia article on ALSIB. Military secrecy during the Great Patriotic War and subsequent Cold War prevented publication of accurate information; and I have been unable to find comprehensive references in English.

I have a similar concern about my recent article Arctic naval operations of World War II. I cannot find enough information about Soviet summer convoys westbound along the Arctic coast from the Bering Strait. These convoys might be worthy of a separate article including their importance to aircraft fuel supplies at the ALSIB airfields. I would appreciate your review of these articles for accuracy and completeness with respect to Russian references you may find.Thewellman (talk) 19:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I will look. But with references I hardly will help.--Inctructor (talk) 20:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

At us consider that the United States and the Soviet Union weren't going to undertake cold war. Other option was possible.--Inctructor (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Conversion roundings

You've been adding "-2" to the template for a number of British warships' shaft horsepower figures. This generally isn't affecting how the numbers display as they're automatically rounded off, so you might want to redirect your time and effort into something more productive. There's plenty of material published on Russian ships and guns that you might consider using to expand the articles on those things.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:31, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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Alina Zagitova

Why [1]? The official language of her country is Russian. Is it because of her father's etnicity? There's no evidence Tatar is her native language, or that she speaks it at all. (By the way, she wasn't even born in Tatarstan, therefore she obviously didn't study the language at school either.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 06:17, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

• Статья 26

1. Каждый вправе определять и указывать свою национальную принадлежность. Никто не может быть принужден к определению и указанию своей национальной принадлежности. 2. Каждый имеет право на пользование родным языком, на свободный выбор языка общения, воспитания, обучения и творчества. --Inctructor (talk) 12:34, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

• ?! What does this quote from the Russian Constitution have to do with anything? --Moscow Connection (talk) 13:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Прямое, если речь идет о человеке то определяющие значение имеет национальность и национальный язык и если это не так, то это нарушение Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Если речь идёт о представителе государства по главное государственный язык.

Как пример: Чемпионат Европы - спортсмены представляют страну - соответственно язык в скобочках указывает на принадлежность к стране, Олимпийские игры в Корее - спортсмены едут сами по себе и здесь важнее национальная принадлежность.--Inctructor (talk) 17:32, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

• I can't see any valid reasoning here. Do you mean that at the Olympic games Russians will represent not their country but their ethnic groups? Should we create pages like "Tatars at the 2018 Winter Olympics Games"? --Moscow Connection (talk) 19:01, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Они представляют не страну, а себя. На олимпиаде не будет россиян, а будут спортсмены и спортсменки из России, у которых, представьте себе, есть национальность и иногда она не русская и это должно быть отражено. Русский ≠ Российский. --Inctructor (talk) 19:41, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
    • Her ethnicity isn't crucial and isn't more important than her nationality. There is no violation of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. I think we should stop the discussion here. You can start a new thread on the discussion boards. --Moscow Connection (talk) 21:31, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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Stop with the anti-CrimeanTatar propaganda

It's getting really old. In a very literal sense. Do you need me to get out some crayons and draw some Countryball to explain this to you? The animosity, Tatarophobia, and slander is disproportionate, obviously political, unwarranted, undeserved, and undue. I hope one day you stop hating brothers and see the light. And your obsession with keeping anti-Tatar content on Wikipedia honestly worries me. I hope you are not affiliated with the rather fringe elements of Russian politics that have similar obsessions. Putin has repeatedly made it clear that the universal collaboration charge was wrong. Mikoyan thought the same. It is time to stop spamming the wikis with 1940's racism that do nothing but obstruct the brotherhood of fellow secular nations.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 17:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

• And what about Putin? And what about racism? Russians and Tatars of the same race - there are no racial differences between them. Mikoyan spoke about Chechens and Ingush. And what about the Crimean Tatars? What are you talking about?--Inctructor (talk) 22:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

You know very well what edits I am talking about. The anti-CrimeanTatar sentiments you post on Russian Wikipedia are rather worrying. What do you hope to accomplish with those edits? What is the end goal? Victors claiming to be victims of the vanquished/deported is a very dark path. My remark was that even Putin thinks that (the issue you insist on having an article for) is beating a dead horse - anti Putin isn't exactly Yuri Osmanov!--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 00:35, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

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