User talk:KNewman

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WikiProject Soviet Union

Hi, thanks for joining WPSU, please feel free to add anything to the page and make suggestions if you have any ideas or think any specific articles need special attention :) - FrancisTyers 23:41, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Your move to Moscow

Hi, did you get my e-mail from November, 16? Drop me a line. --Ghirlandajo 18:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Did you get my email from november, 29? You did not answer by emails. I just knew that you moved to Moscow? You said that you did not know when exatly you moving to Moscow and it was the last thing that i heard from you on november, 29. at this time you had had internet. Good luck in Moscow and in life as married man.

--Debora 20:18, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

RfAr

An arbitration request against User:AndriyK has been filed. If you intend to participate/co-sign, please add your name to the "Involved parties" section. This will entitle you for a statement in the case too if you are interested in making one. --Irpen 20:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I created a section for your statement should you be willing to make one at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Statement_by_party_12_.28User:KNewman.29. Regards, --Irpen 02:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

ArbCom accepted

This is the generic message left at several editors' talk pages in relation to the ArbCom case Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Community_vs._User:AndriyK. Since the fourth ArbCom member has recently voted to accept the case, the case is now considered accepted by the ArbCom as per Arbitration Policy. Please make sure your statement for the ArbCom is on the page if you are willing to write one (OTOH, being named as a party does not require you to make a statement, it just gives you a right to write one) and please make sure your statement is proofread if you wrote it earlier. Please, also, make sure your statement is in the appropriate place of the ArbCom page and not interjecting with others' statements. You are welcome to read up on the Wikipedia:Arbitration_policy and the associate pages.

--Irpen 04:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/AndriyK has been accepted. Please place evidence on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/AndriyK/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/AndriyK/Proposed decision. Fred Bauder 02:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Synopsis (Russian literature)

Hello, good work on Synopsis (Russian literature), and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Synopsis (Russian literature)? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 05:58, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Privet iz Londona

Zdravstvuite KNewman. Spasibo za Vash vklad v enciklopediyu. Bilo interesno prochitat' Vashu proshal'nuiu stat'u o tom, kak Vi staraetes' rasskazivat' pravdu o Rossii liudiam zdes', na Zapade. Deistvitel'no, mnogoe dlia zapadnikh liudey ostaetsa nepoznannim. Otchasti vse mi, rabotayushie zdes' Russkie, pitaemsa vospolnit' etot probel. Zhelayu Vam uspekhov na rodine i nadeius', chto Vi eshe vernetes' v Wikipediyu. S uvazheniem. Vladislav Adelkhanov

С Новым Годом!

. --Irpen

Holiday in Russia

Hi, regarding your comment on the closed vote, check this edit before accusing me of closing it too soon. Regarding holiday in Russia, I don't see how is Russia relevant to the topic ? Everywhere can be holiday sometime. --Lysy ^(talk) 20:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

my RfA

Thanks. WikiThanks.

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 09:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back

I hope you'll return to active editing soon. We miss you. --Ghirla | talk 10:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Kirill, let us hope that your connubial duties won't interfere with your participation in this project and that your job will be a wiki-friendly sinecure. We have so many articles to start - concerning the history of Russia in general (e.g., Ilarion of Kiev, Fyodor Shaklovity, Count Lestocq) and the history of Moscow in particular (e.g., Moscow Uprising of 1682, Coat of arms of Moscow). Good luck with your offline life and happy edits, Ghirla | talk 00:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

AndriyK RfAr closed

The AndriyK RfAr has been closed. Until by consensus he has agreed to a suitable and mutually agreed naming convention using the guideline Wikipedia:Naming conflict, AndriyK is prohibited from moving pages, or changing the content of articles which relate to Ukrainian names, especially those of historical interest. AndriyK is banned for one month from Wikipedia for creating irreversible page moves. Andrew Alexander, AndriyK, and MaryMaidan are warned to avoid copyright violations and to cooperate with the efforts of others to remove copyright violations. Ghirlandajo is warned to avoid incivility or personal attacks.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Kelly Martin (talk) 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Advice on AfD

When you nominate an article for deletion, don't forget to go to WP:AFD and add your nomination to the log by clicking on "Add a new entry". Cheers, Ghirla | talk 09:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

By the way, we still lack the article on Lake Pskovskoye. --Ghirla | talk 13:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Vladimir Sukhomlinov, which you recently created, 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.

--Gurubrahma 09:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 21% for major edits and 34% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 14:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Dmitri Shepilov, which you recently created, 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.

--Obli (Talk)^? 17:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Nikolai Bryukhanov

Glad to be of assistance! Bryukhanov achieved a dubious kind of immortality circa 1930 when Stalin doodled a little drawing of him naked and hung by his testicles, which turned out to be more prophetic than most people realized at the time :) I am not sure it's something that we want to include in the article, though. If nothing else, the attribution is still somewhat uncertain. Ahasuerus 15:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, it is great what you've written a lot of articles about Russia. It is very interesting. Thanks. --LenaT 15:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry for erasing your discussion page. I didn't mean it. I am new here and don't know the rules and how to use the "edit" page. THank you for telling me. I really appriciate it. Where do you live? Are you from Russia?

--LenaT 19:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, again,

My real name is Nicol. My husband is Russian and he taught me a little bit Russian. I can speak and read Russian. He involved me in Russian culture, Russian traditions. His favorite parot's name is Lena. She is living with us, so I love her very much, she is very smart, she can talk, she is so sweat so I decided to chose nickname Lena:)))

Why did you move to Moscow? Don't you like it here in America, New York? Are you going to return to the USA???

--LenaT 21:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, again! Yes, sure I can give you my email: olgalawer@yahoo.com. What is your email? --LenaT 15:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Culture of Ancient Rus

When you have time, don't forget to add some reference and remove foolish "cleanup" tag. We don't want good articles balked with tags. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 12:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Easter greetings

Khristos voskrese! --Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Uninhabited inhabited places

No, these are not ghost towns, not officially, anyway. This particular term (with this exact weird wording) comes from the 2002 Census results. As you probably know, all Russian federal subjects maintain some form of a registry that lists all administrative divisions and settlements. These registries are used for many purposes, Census being one of them. One of the Census questions is about the individual's primary residence. Those residences are mapped to the inhabited localities from the federal subjects' registries. Sometimes, it turns out that no one claimed residence in some of the settlements which are listed in those registries. This may be for various reasons—perhaps people in such settlements evaded Census on purpose or missed it accidentally (think of a khutor of five people, all of whom went hunting to taiga during the Census week :)), perhaps the Census methods had been flawed, or it might have been as simple as a data entry error, or perhaps the settlement was indeed abandonded or died out. In any case, there were some settlements that were listed as active in the registries (so, officially they were not ghost towns), but no one claimed primary residence there. Theoretically, these cases are investigated, and, if there indeed is no population, the settlements are abolished and removed from the registry, at which time one can categorize them as ghost towns. In practice, well, you know... it's Russia. Hope this answers your question.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 14:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Here's a cool article on a somewhat related topic: Российское село в демографическом измерении (Rural Russia measured demographically). They report the following statistics:

Census year	1959	1970	1979	1989	2002
Total number of rural settlements in Russia	294059	216845	177047	152922	155289
Of them, with population fewer than 10 persons	41493	25895	23855	30170	47089

By the next census, quite a few of those "fewer-than-10-residents" places will probably record 0 population as well...

In practice, some of those may only have seasonal population: that is, the original farmers have long died, their children live in cities now, but a few houses are still owned as second homes by city people from Moscow or Nizhny Novogorod.

Do you plan to write an article on Matvei Kazakov?

Of course I do. Both this and New Jerusalem have long been on my to-do list. I will not have time for these in the nearest future, as I am half-way through Russo-Swedish Wars now and have also some liabilities in regard to Neo-Renaissance. If you want to check my to-do list, it is available here. The problem with tightened requirements for DYK is that when I'll find time to expand the article started today, it will not be eligible for DYK as started weeks if not months ago. As for надвратная церковь, I used to translate the term as "barbican church" but now I think that "gate church" is better. Happy edits, Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Kremlin stars, which you recently created, 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.

Suprised

I am suprised that an experienced editor like you would do something like that and support Ghirla's petty behaviour.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I am not reffering to the bottom part of your edit (although if you could elaborate on why this site is not trustworthy I'd appreciate it), but to the top part, where you removed the Congress Poland from the list of articles needing attention (see history of the noticeboard, and perhaps you could comment on Ghirlando's removal of sourced info in the CP article).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

All right - this is why I wrote I am suprised. And sorry for jumping to the conclusion it was intentional; Ghirla is making all of us jumpy with his torrent of personal attacks and reverts. I am actually looking for somebody willing to mediate between Ghirla and Polish wikipedians community - if you have any advice whom should I turn to I'd appreciate it.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Both Wprost and PWN Encyklopedia have their own articles were Ghirla could raise any issues with their credibility, or he could've cited the sources declaring them russophobic on the CP talk page. He didn't, and considering that PWN encyklopedia was mostly written during the PRP times it is unlikely it would be russophobic (although the article may have been revised since then). In other words, he is just reverting referenced info without a single shred of evidence to support his claims. Just for contrast, you may look at Warsaw Uprising (1794) page, were when Irpen offered us an obvious (see quotes on talk page...) piece of 100 years old Imperial Russian POV, we did not remove it until we had sufficient, academic sources to prove that it was erroneus on most points. Irpen doesn't seem to be willing to do the mediation, and Halibutt is one of the parties seeking mediation, as he is constantly harassed by Ghirla.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Allow me

For contributing so many Russian related articles to wikipedia, I hereby award you the Hero of the Russian Federation barnstar! Enjoy, abakharev

Tank Corps Article

Hi, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I think your addition to the article is great, and could become the foundation for an article about the development of armour and mechanization in the Red Army. I'll add it into the (to be written) article on Mech Corps as it is. Did some minor copy-editing, have a look and let me know what you think. All the best Andreas 08:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

BTW - started the Mechanized Corps (Soviet) article. Feel free to add! Andreas 12:20, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Treaty of Yazhelbitsy, which you recently created, 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.

Thanks for your efforts. Intersting article. It could use maps or pics though! ++Lar: t/c 15:21, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Spasa-na-Boru

Well, that's a tricky question. The hill was named after the forest, don't you think? The Kremlin Museums website says "Cathedral of the Saviour on the Bor (Forest)" [1], while googling in Book Search for "saviour, church, kremlin" did little to elucidate the issue. Hence, I changed template to "Church of the Saviour". I hope this phrasing is less equivocal. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Can you help me?

Hello, KNewman. The copyright nazis are after an image I uploaded for Aloisio the New. I recollect how we fixed a similar problem with Kazan Cathedral. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, couldn't you take a photo of the structure? I visited it in November but had to camera with me. Thanks for your time, Ghirla ^-трёп- 06:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Good luck with your vacations. In the meantime, I'll think which monuments of Moscow are still sadly underillustrated. The monastery is situated at the intersection of Petrovka and Boulevard Ring, by the way. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 06:37, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Vanity

Dear KNewman, while I completely agree that Polina-Z is a vanity, I disagree with the way you handle the issue. The rule (I think) is to put the article up for deletion, argue (on that article talk page) and remove according to the vote. The disambiguation pages have a supporting role helping the reader navigate through Wikipedia. It is not the place where the vanity issues have to be decided. Surely you don't want to have two tier system where some articles are deemed appropriate for Wikipedia but not for the disambiguation pages. If you agree with my logic, please rv your Zaytsev correction and/or start the deletion process of Polina-Z. Thank you. Mhym 02:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Джымбо

Напиши Ctac'у на мыло (в его профайле на ру:). MaxSem 10:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Проверь почту. Требуется кафе в районе Президент-отеля - ничего подходящего не можешь предложить? MaxSem 13:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• Уппаньки, по ходу, я сегодня вечером смогу:) MaxSem 05:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Zbruch Idol

Hi, you are the author of this article so I would like to inform you that Zbruch Idol is not on display in National Museum in Kraków. Actually it is located in Archaeological Museum in Kraków. I've corrected this mistake. 83.29.16.13 11:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC) (pl:user:Cancre)

Makarov

Hi there! May I ask you why you removed the dates of birth and death in this edit? Were the dates incorrect? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 12:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Aren't you one lazy butt! :) See, this is what happens to people when they move to Moscow—you are becoming one of them!  :)

Anyway, all kidding aside, WP:MOSDAB#People asks to provide the dates of birth/death only when you know them; it does not require all entries to be formatted identically in that regard. The bottom line is that it's OK not to add the dates for new entries, but there is really no reason to remove the ones that are already there. I'll add this dab page to my to-do list (although I can't guarantee that I'll find all the dates), but if there is an easy way for you to add dates when you expand the pages in future, that'd be swell. Cheers, and keep up a good work—I'm really glad others took interest in these dab pages.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 13:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Grigoriev disambiguation page

I'm impressed by all the entries you've added to the Grigoriev page! I'm a fairly new user so when I created this page I just included names that have Wikipedia articles to link to. I didn't think to add in lots of "redlinks". I was going by what I read on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28disambiguation_pages%29 which said:

Redlinks

Links to non-existent articles ("redlinks") may be included only when an editor is confident that an encyclopedia article could be written on the subject.

Adding links to articles not yet written should be done with care. There is no need to brainstorm all occurrences of the page title and create redlinks to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics.

I guess you know this anyway since you're a much more experienced Wikipedian than me, but I was just surprised to see this disambiguation page with such a large proportion of redlinks as it's the first one I've seen with so many. I'd value your comments which I will bear in mind when creating other disambiguation pages. Thanks. Hebrides 10:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

lossky

Hello I was hoping for some more help on N O Lossky's page. Pretty please.. LoveMonkey 04:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sylvester

Hello, could you write something about this gentleman? There's a lot of info about him in Brockhaus: http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/007/093/93627.htm. I would myself, but I have little time for WP these days. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I moved the old article to Sylvester of Kiev. Now we have Sylvester of Moscow to put a new article to. I wish you good luck in your Sunday mission :) It would be nice to have a picture of that quaint cathedral. We also don't have a picture of Pashkov House and Дом советов to the east from the State Duma. Oh, and the Sretensky Monastery too... :)) --Ghirla ^-трёп- 10:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Great news, thank you. Check your e-mail within five minutes. I'm going to watch football tonight and then I'll go to bed, so I won't be able to take care of the pictures until tomorrow. Cheers, Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

email activation

Could you please activate your email? I have a matter I would like to discuss with you in private. Ideogram 20:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Amurensis

Oh, I kind of got tired of it. Why, does the new sig of mine suck that bad? :)—Ëzhiki (Igel Hérrisonovich Ïzhakoff) • (yo?); 17:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

It's me :) See Igel, Hérisson, Ïzhak.—Ëzhiki (Igel Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen

Your have endorsed the summary by Alex Bakharev at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen which misinforms the community. Alex Bakharev wrote about Russian architecture: "There is no discussion on the talk page, no suggestions on improving the article". In fact there was (and still is) a discussion on the talk page and solution has been proposed. (Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Irpen#Comment_to_the_summary_by_Alex_Bakharev_and_others). I suggest you to withdraw your signature under the summary.--AndriyK 08:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Kholuy

According to a lot of websites, the Kholuy school was really founded in 1882 (probably old style) or 1883, by N.N. Kharlamov. See the external link I provided (in which 1882 is mentioned). Errabee 20:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps they mean the second one? Errabee 20:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

PS. You were correct that it was an icon painting school that was founded in 1883. So that now leaves the question: 1932 or 1934? Errabee 20:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah. But see also this. ;) Errabee 21:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I think I solved the case. I changed it into In the 1930s. Close enough :) Errabee 21:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On July 5, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Solomonia Saburova, 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.

--BRIAN0918 04:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

metropolitan Hilarion

Please stop trying to russify a metropolitan of Kiev. I would like to assume that this isn't a delibarate action but that You only copied from some russian sources with out giving much thought to it and comments about about me attempting to "ukranize" him was a silly joke. However if it is in fact part of a political agenda it's very poorly planned as anyone familiar with the topic immidiatley notices the absurdity of a claim about a Russian in the XI century!

This is also addressed to your compatriot, the one that was offended even by the mention of the name in the Ukrainian language, however as seen from his other edits he seem to be suffering from some personality disorder and unlikely to take part in a mature disscussion.

Also I don't think Category:Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kiev and all Rus' should include a seperate list, but it should rather be place in an article similiar to out uk:Митрополити Київські. Either one written from NPOV or several. --217.128.17.17 14:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Messing with the Wrong Article?

You said I'm messing with the wrong article. What does that mean? And that {{fact}} tag should definitely be there; it's a wonder I didn't just remove the whole statement. Wikipedia has a policy against original research, but that statement is a textbook example of such. Perhaps someone can attest to those taxi fares by visiting the airport and attempting to take a taxi, but unless you (or anyone else) can find a reliable source that concurs with it, the statement should not be there. joturner 13:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

disambiguation

дорогой KNewman!

I am impressed with the number of articles on Russia you have written, and I have a small request - I've been disambiguating some topics that have to do with Russia (I don't actually have the patience to write whole articles, but editing is right up my alley...) and I've come accross a bunch of pages that list someone's nationality as Russian and wikify the link. Trouble is, there is no ACTUAL page for "Russian" nor is there likely to be soon (there seems to be a bit of discussion on that...) Anyway, since the link just dumps you into a disambig. page, do you mind using Russian as a code instead, when nationality is concerned? You can leave your answer on my talk page. Thanks, Ani td 20:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Your opinion about a FAC

Hi KNewman,

Can you please take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Aleksandr Vasilevsky and if needed, voice your support :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 19:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Lang-ru

Hi, KNewman! I noticed that you tend to thoroughly avoid the {{lang-ru}} template. May I ask you why? It's not that it's a big deal, but I am simply curious why you don't like it so much. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

"granted town status in 1777"

Hello, Kirill. In your article about Novosil you wrote that it was "granted town status in 1777". As I see this phrase alarmingly often, I ponder: was not Novosil considered a town before that date? Or, perhaps, Catherine II's municipal reform was the first opportunity to officially sort out which settlements were urban and which settlements were rural? I believe we need an article about that reform to decide. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 07:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

But what about Shchyokino

Now we have Schyokino and Shchyokino, both by you! - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Funny, and I was wondering yesterday how all of the interwikis had already been magically set...  :) Anyway, I merged the two.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Creation of Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov

Hello, I noticed that you created a page at Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov to redirect to Gleb Kotelnikov. Thank you for creating this useful redirect. However, in order for a redirect to work properly, the following formatting must be used:

#REDIRECT [[Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov]]

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, and I hope this will be of use to you in the future! --Spring Rubber 19:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

proud to have friends in Boston!

Dear KNewman:

I am very glad that you write many articles about Russia in WIKIpedia. I appreciate your motivation to explain open RUssian History to American People. That's a great job.

I've done some contributions in WIKIpedia. They are mostly photos. I live in Brooklyn, New York. The thing is following: Liveing in x_USSR, me and my parents have friends and axquuinted not only in Odessa where we lived. We had a bunch of relatives in Leningrad, Moscow, Kazvkaz, Vinnitsa, and Belarus. We traveled a lot. We stayed in friends'relatives home. (that's a part of Russian Culture) ... Here, most of our friends are in Brooklyn, just a few in San Francisco, and my e-firend in Toronto. In Boston I can only dream to have friends, the city is wonderful... I am looking for someone who can realy devote a time for me, and act as a tour guide. ... And tell me where to stop....

I'd love to have friends in Boston! GK tramrunner 02:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I hope sometime you will visit Boston, MA

As a piece of Old Memories. ANd please if you wannta takl to me, use my email tramrunner229SOBAKAyahooTOCHKAcom ... understood?

Russian towns

Hi! Yes, I am a big geography fan. I started many geo-stubs from various countries, from Papua New Guinea to Greenland. Also, I have started stubs about every single volcano in the Kuril Islands and most volcanoes in Kamchatka. Russian towns? I would not say they are "minor settlements" :) I am from the Czech Republic, for me, every settlement with more than 5,000 people is a town or city :). Russian towns are very interesting for me, I have always imagined, how it looks in some 30,000 city in the middle of Siberia founded in 1960's. So from time to time I create that stubs. I would add more info to that articles but I can't read azbuka so Ezhiki are always helping me. - Darwinek 10:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

As someone who lived most of my life in a town of 30K residents in the Russian Far East, I can assure you that there are far more exciting experiences in life than that :) Keep those stubs coming, though; both of you. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Upcoming NYC Meetup

You might want to know when the next meetup was being organized in New York City. Plan for Saturday, 9 December 2006. While you're at it... Come help us decide on a restaurant. See: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. Spread the word. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 23:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy theories on Vladimir Putin

If you have time, I'll appreciate your input on the article and other editors knowledgeable about Russia. Earlier today, I converted a new section of the Vladimir Putin aritlce, consisting of a long narrative of conspiracy theories, into a section on Putin's crime policies-- content I think actually helps make the article more encyclopedic. [2] But then I was reverted by editor accusing me of "suppressing documented information." [3] 172 | Talk 02:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Yermak

No I don't know the source of the image, but I would not make a fuzz about it. In the 18th century, painters liked to represent medieval Russians in all sorts of exotic garb. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Later reply

On June 7 (sic), you asked me if I were from Stockholm. Yes - that's correct. And you did some studying at Stockholm yourself? Best regards, Odengatan 20:30, 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 19:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

2007

C наступающим (наступившим)! Детям - Дед Мороз, остальным - Снегурочка :) Троллям и вандалам "кина не будет... Электричество кончилось". Шампанским салют, --Brand спойт 15:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Blanking of Stanovoi

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to Stanovoi. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Schutz 16:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)