Georgievsk; one more text dump for wikifiction; 16:45, 2 May 2005 by user:Mingitau. Copyvio strongly suspected. Must be eliminated mikka(t) 20:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Mikka, I checked and it is not a copyvio from what I have seen. [1]. Zach(Sound Off) 19:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Siberian natural resources sits here since May. A big one, but in awful shape; probably text dump from somewhere. mikka(t) 07:15, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Russian icons by User:Wesley, separated from Icon, I believe it is a good candidate for the Improvement drive we were talking about. I can be made into a very good article abakharev 00:45, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Russians, please get rid of the apostrophes everywhere in Moscow metro. It is against wikipedia traditions. mikka(t) 16:05, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Antokolski by User:ISasha Desperately needs images. If somebody lives in Saint Petersburg, have a digital camera and able to make a few shots in Hermitage, it would be really great! abakharev 04:29, 27 September 2005 (UTC). See link at talk there. -Irpen[reply]
copyvio by anon. I removed nearly all text. Guys, you watch out when you see so nice language a text! mikka(t) 03:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Stub rewritten and renamed to Aleksei Losev as per common transliteration of his name in the anglophonic literature (I know, I know, don't start that fruitless discussion again :).--Barbatus 20:47, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot, you save the day abakharev 21:24, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Vitali Vitaliev by anon. Needs to be wikified, formated, category added. I suspect self-promotion, but the person seems to be reasonably notable abakharev 07:15, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Yablonoviy Range, still trying to incorporate all articles on Russia from 1911 encyclopedia into Wikipedia :). KNewman 05:10, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Naum Senyavin, was surprised to find out that there is no category for Russian naval commanders (not all of them were admirals). Plan to write more on other Senyavins. KNewman 21:36, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Igor Spassky by me. I will finish the section about Kursk submarine tomorrow. abakharev 16:39, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Finished. It became quite long. Should I propose it for WP:DYK, might be interesting for military history funs. abakharev 13:40, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
His information is very outdated, see the articles on Yegor Stroyev and Vladimir Yegorov. He refers to Stroyev as the current speaker of the Federation Council, for example. --Ghirlandajo 18:01, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I decided to move as we have lots of that kind. Generally I think the "name-surname" sample is better :) Brandmeister 19:26, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
It's one event presented as three different ones. In Russian media, the number of victims is usually put at 66 [2]. --Ghirlandajo 13:16, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
BTW what is the convention for categories for orthodox priests? Should Archbishop Serge Konovalov been on letter S or K? abakharev 04:36, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Should we move them to Ivan Grave and Ivan Kleymenov (or even Ivan Kleymyonov) - I believed, there was an agreement to avoid patronimics in named of articles, unless they help to distinguish equally notable people? abakharev 23:52, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
May be based on their commercial? 60% sound unbelievable, but it probably dpends on definition of luxury. If the manufacturer stands stood behind the article it would not be probably such a pitiful stub abakharev 13:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This guy also added to the category in question a rather anti-Semitic Lev Gumilyov. I guess, if this category is useful, it will survive, Jews or not. --Barbatus 00:59, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I would suggest to delete this category: it is way too broad and POV. Generally those who declared themselves "progressive" placed themselves into "intelligentsia" while depriving "reactionaries" from this right. A category to make sense must be well-defined, or we shall have edit wars here. Every writer, artist, actor, priest, engineer, politician, clerk, could declare himself "inteligent": rephrasing a polish say: "Kompania ne wielka, ale bardzo porządna". mikka(t) 01:23, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Otherwise I'll have to include myself, hee-hee. --Barbatus 01:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Too loaded a term, there's never been any agreement on what/who it covers. There is an article on Intelligentsia (though it sadly lacks any Russian angle) but this can't be a category. Trapolator 03:35, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Let's cfd this category as arbitrary and not too informative. Otherwise, we should list all of Russian journalists, philosophers, etc. Where is Mark Aldanov? Where is Anton Chekhov? Or should we include only the radicals here? The term has been defined differently throughout its history, you know. --Ghirlandajo 07:16, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Page Corps by me. Needs proofreading and stuff. KNewman 20:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This article was completely rewritten by me. --Ghirlandajo 16:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Спасипо!
As discussed, I have created Category:Decembrists. Currently half of the articles on people who were members of clandestine societies, but never went to Senate Square - Pushkin/Griboedov/Ermolov/Chaadaev. Is it normal? abakharev 11:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't been aware that these four were members of any clandestine society... --Ghirlandajo 12:36, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Solvychegodsk, architectural monuments must be mentioned; didn't do it due to having difficulty translating names of churches and cathedrals. KNewman 22:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hastily wrote Russian architecture until ca. 1700 but don't feel strong enough to complete it today. Much proofreading and copyediting needed. --Ghirlandajo 17:36, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Should we start a separate category for Decembrists? The existing cats like Pre-Soviet executions and Russian revolutionaries are not particularly relevant. --Ghirlandajo 19:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
There are only a handful of them. I'd suggest something like category:Russian insurgencies, with revolutionaries as a subcat. Also, I don't think decembrists were particularly notable; their silly feat was blown up out of proportion by Soviet propaganda. mikka(t) 21:23, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree here. Their feat could have been silly, but there was noble challenge in it. Think of the fact that they voluntarily exchanged their high station for the life in Siberia. Their fame benefited from Pushkin's poems, Tolstoy's novel, and Herzen's journal more than from writings of Lenin and his followers. --Ghirlandajo 22:03, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with Ghirlandajo. Trapolator 00:46, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a place for discussion, of course, but I must note that the 'Decembrists' did not voluntarily changed their nothing (but wives of some of them did), for they went to the Senate Square to win, not to loose; that their, however noble, attempt of a coup was ill-conceived and went largely unnoticed (see, for example, the famous short poem by Tutchev); and, finally, that their importance had undoubtedly been overblown by the Soviets. ... All that, however, does not meen that a separate (sub?)category could not be useful. --Barbatus 14:28, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
and there were three more that you missed! (you should use User contributions). I have decided Moscow State Mining University is the correct title and done the redirects. Still needs wikified. -- RHaworth 08:35:35, 2005-09-12 (UTC)
Alexei Krylov by me. Quite a personality. If somebody familiar with Naval Jargon would check the article it would help. How the hell Успокоитель Качки will be in English? abakharev 02:51, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Sparrow Hills. "Церковь Живоначальной Троицы" I've translated as the "Church of the Life-giving Trinity". Brandmeister 17:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Люди Инвалиды by anon - should we out of respect to non-Russian readers avoid Cyrillic in the names of the articles? abakharev 02:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merged or not, it should be spelled correctly, Krivoe Ozero. --Barbatus 19:45, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
User:Kaganer for no apparent reason split the EB1911-imported Gorchakov article into a bunch of small ones. --Ghirlandajo 19:30, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I do not see the point, most cities of Russia are historical in at least some degree. Is Moscow historic? Saint Petersburg? Novorossisk? Komsomolsk-on-Amur? abakharev 03:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This is an official listing, well if anyone wants to do this anyway see this list now I need a translitertor. –Gnomz007(?) 05:59, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Such a Kronstadt mechanic indeed existed (see the reference). I do not understand the phrase about 1980, I think it is typo, so I changed it to 1880. abakharev 12:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just wandering if villages like Bystrzyk or Starościńce still are being called like that. Wouldn't it be better at least to mention their current names, if they are not? --Barbatus 00:31, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
I am second about the questionable notability. I am happy that a Russian student get a prestigious Rhodos Scolarship, it is more or less an equivalent to Lenin Stipendia, should we list all Lenin stipendiats and their mothers too? abakharev 00:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Lev likes to wear sweaters... Utter nonsense. Vfd'em both. KNewman 03:05, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
I have put them on VfD please vote abakharev 08:36, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Pyotr Saltykov, I guess we need a big article of the Saltykovs in general, since there have been too many of them :). KNewman 22:58, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
I'll take care of this later. --Ghirlandajo 23:20, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Nagyka (Nagauyka) looks very suspicious. It seems that it came from these modern pseudo-Russian-historic websites. I love this one.mikka(t) 19:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Plague Riot, finally did this one. KNewman 16:58, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
Quite a coup! Congratulations! --Ghirlandajo 18:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cherny, Chernyi, Chyorny are in reasonable traditional use. mikka(t) 16:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
"Sasha Cherny" - 575 google hits, "Sasha Tchornyi" - 0 hits, "Sasha Chernyi"-344 hits, "Sasha Chyorny" - 70 hits. I have created redirects on Chernyi and Chyorny abakharev 00:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I, of course, would reason that "Chyorny" is better for the sake of consistensy. Не гуглем единым жив человек. You probably know me by now, though :)—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 01:06, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
To use 'yo' for 'ё' means to kill the very idea of compatilibity, since no foreigner knows how to produce 'e' in each particular case. There's no rule to transform 'ё' in 'yo' in any of Russian transliteration standards. Arseni 15:45, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a new issue. "Yo" is recommended for "ё" as per Transliteration of Russian into English article, which is so far the only standard more or less commonly used across the English WP (having one (any) standard is always better than having none, and just because no single accepted system exists does not mean we should abandon enforcing consistency when it is possible and logical—see extensive discussions on the corresponding talk page). Since"ё" and "е" are different letters, they are transliterated differently. As for "compatibility" (I assume by that you mean always using "ye/e")—this is what redirects are for. For names with a "yo", a redirect spelled with "ye/e" is, of course, a must, but accuracy should not be sacrificed just because people cannot produce correct spelling.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 15:39, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
Circle of Tchaikovsky, did major expansion, needs proofreading and possibly chapters. I'm a bit confused about the name... Shouldn't it be the Circle of Tchaikovtsy and not Tchaikovsky? Or maybe just Tchaikovtsy? KNewman 00:10, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Ava K. Molitov by anon (probably herself). Can anybody confirm this person's notability? --Ghirlandajo 15:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No google references except Wikipedia. Vanity. VfD it abakharev 15:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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