Added sections (centuries) to the
Timeline of Russian history. Please, take a look. I would argue, that Ivan IV is a Russian tzar (not Ukranian). Somebody should go and add 16th Century.
Vald 21:41, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Take a look, comment and modify the new
Template:History of Ukraine to be added to the articles of the series! --
Irpen 19:12, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Lera Boroditsky by an anon. Do you feel, she is notable enough (Assistant Professor at Stanford) or I should start an AfD?
abakharev 11:52, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I would ban people for posting crap like this about themselves or their friends :). Vfd.
KNewman 12:13, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have asked the notability question on the talk page, if they would not answer during the weekend, I'd start AfD
abakharev 12:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
An anonym contributed to the
Timeline of Russian history, now it starts with the
Time of Troubles and ends up with
Nikita Khruschev. I have wikified it a little bit. If we will go earlier we will again have problems with the pseudo-Ukrainian crowd, who would cry that we rob the Ukraine out of its history
abakharev 07:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)reply
This Andriy character is a huge dissapointment. It doesn't look right when Imperial Russian or modern Russian architecture is under Architecture of Rus.
KNewman 12:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Double headed eagle, stumbled upon it while reading the Ivan III article. It's not new, but I haven't seen it here.
KNewman 17:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Many families have more or less questionable claims to be Rurikids? So what are the criteria for inclusions? Ever claimed to be a rurikid? Ever was officially recognized as such? Unquestionable claims?
abakharev 13:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I don't see any controversy there. The classical circle of Rurikids have been defined for centuries by the Gosudarev Rodoslovets,
Velvet Book, and the Russian Genealogical Book. I took the liberty to add the Ostrogski to the list, as their
Turovian descent has been well demonstrated in the 20th century. Me and Dima Kudinov once listed the key sources on the subject at
http://rurik.genealogia.ru/istoch.htm. I kind of specialize in Gediminids, however, but any wikicontribution on this subject is impossible due to uncooperative nature of Polish and Belarusian editors, who already turned the
Troubetzkoy into complete mess. --
Ghirlandajo 15:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Gennady Varenik by anon, appears to be an attempt to create a bad hoax - Varennik was a KGB official who also sent information to CIA and was eventually executed in USSR, the original article stated all the things upsied down - that he was a CIA official, working for KGB, executed in the USA. Worth to check other contributuons of the user
abakharev 06:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Prosecutor General of Russia by me. On an external links to the article there is a list with bios of all Prosecutors general of Russia, Soviet Union and General-Prosecutors of Senate since 1722. Might be worth to translate and put into wiki
abakharev 15:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)reply
History of Moscow created by Seabhcan by removing data from the main
Moscow article in order to make room for his images of modern Moscow. --
Ghirlandajo 14:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Can anything be done to save this fine article from being butchered? Is there a way to factor out the
History of Moscow but preserve it's editing history? I started to talk to them nixers :) but couldn't persuade. I'm new... maybe what's happening will be okay after all? -
Introverttalk 03:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Maybe we should move him to Dmitry Mirsky? His Granddaddy was always referred as Dmitry Ivanovich Sviatopolk-Mirskii - thus they should not mix. I do not like this punctuations in the title.
abakharev 23:46, 21 October 2005 (UTC)reply
D. S. Mirsky is better known in the English-speaking world than here in Russia. This is English Wiki, after all, so we should stick to the name used in the West. The articles on Chekhov, Tsvetayeva &c link to D.S. Mirsky and not to Dmitry Mirsky. The current spelling conforms to the wiki usage, cf. articles on
D. H. Lawrence,
E. M. Forster,
H. G. Wells and other contemporaries, all of whom Mirsky knew personally. --
Ghirlandajo 10:13, 22 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Demokratizatsiya by an anon. Long article taken from a copyrighted source, the source is referenced but it is copyvio still
abakharev 08:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have put Fors as a temporary solution. If your neighbour's patronimic happens not to be Dmitrievich, may we should use the patronimics to distinguish them? An Alexandr Petrov/Alexander Petrov as a disambig
abakharev 00:12, 22 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Please take a look at the
Frequentative article, my addition about Russian grammar.
mikka(t) 20:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Interrresting ... I haven't opened a book on Russian grammar in centuries. Do we Russian speakers have a name for that frickintative? --
Barbatus 05:26, 21 October 2005 (UTC)reply
It is translated as глагол, обозначающий многократное действие.
KNewman 19:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)reply
A bit too wordy, isn't it? Not to mention that verbs like сиживать or видывать often have ironic overtones, regardless of their possible original meanings as frequentatives ... --
Barbatus 00:00, 22 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, a pitiful biostub (what a shame!) on a famous Russian surgeon. I'm not strong in medicine, so please feel free to expand it. A good article on this gentleman is a must! Should we move it to
Nikolai Pirogov?
KNewman 19:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Raskol, major expansion (didn't I promise you a big article :)?). Needs revision, chapters, and maybe more pictures.
KNewman 17:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Bella Rosenfeld (wife of Marc Shagal), currently on AfD, she wrote quite a nice autobiographical book and appeared on the most of his paintings. It might be worth to safe her.
abakharev 07:49, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have rewritten the article
abakharev 13:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Moved to
Japanese-Soviet relations, clipping a miniscule
Japanese-Russian relations from it. Hello there! Anyone else does not know the difference betseen Russia and Soviet Union? wikipedian no reader, wikipedian are writer ... And by the way there was
Russian Empire who had reations with Japan, too.
mikka(t) 07:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I would not move it back, but IMHO the distinction between Russian and Soviet is counter-productive. It was the same country with different names - Muscovy-Russian Empire-RSFSR-Soviet Union-Russian Federation. If the Soviet Union was a different country from Russia, then what was the name of its inhabitants? Sovki? If the Lybia has the official name of People's Socialist Jamaheria the relations are still Russian-Lybian, not the Soviet-Jamaherian
abakharev 13:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
It was not (and is not) the same country. And the name of the inhabitants, yes, they were called "Soviet people" or "sovki" or "Soviets", if you wish.
mikka(t) 18:14, 20 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Nikolay Bogachev stub by an anon. I had to halve the article to remove most of the commercial and POV staff out of it.
abakharev 03:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)reply
What do you suggest? Field, Oh My Field :)?
KNewman 15:47, 18 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Google shows more hits on "Polyushko Pole". The title could be also translated with some differences making the search difficult.
Brandmeister 22:07, 18 October 2005 (UTC)reply
It's still a part of the RF. What we could do is to change it to Cities and towns in the Russian Federation to avoid discomfort :).
KNewman 11:14, 18 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Too much effort, anyway Cities and towns in Russia is already too long a name. I am thinking about a subcategory Chechen towns that would be a subcategory of Cities and towns in Russiaabakharev 12:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Somehow these were exact duplicates of the same articles with more common transliteration (e.g., contents of Rizhskaya and Rizhksaja only differed in the intro line transliteration. Please keep watching the Moscow Metro articles for consistency.—
Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 02:21, 19 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Durnovo disambig by me. Now I think we should keep patronimics to the members of the Durnovo family - too many of them.
abakharev 00:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Moved
Sadko to
Sadko (opera), because the article specifically describes the opera. But how do I make the regular Sadko link available again? This mythical hero deserves and article of his own.
KNewman 06:00, 13 October 2005 (UTC)reply
It didn't go anywhere. I replaced the redirect caused by your move by a pity stub +image (just a placeholder). Hope it helps. --
Irpen 06:10, 13 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I think the articles on mythical character and opera should be merged, for it makes redirecting much easier. In the current situation, no articles link to
Sadko (opera). On the other hand, the articles like
Opera,
1896 in music,
Music of Russia,
List of operas, etc link to the article on Sadko the Merchant. --
Ghirlandajo 07:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)reply
An anon started an article on
Lyubov Axelrod but seems to completely mixed her up with
Pavel Axelrod as a result my short article on Lyubov Axelrod. Were the two Axelrods related? BTW in the known to every Soviet schoolchild group Plekhanov-Ignatiev-Zasulich-Dan-Axelrod we are still missing the letter I. Any takers?
abakharev 09:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Shouldn't it be VfD'ed or there is no such policy? --
Irpen 07:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have put the translate template on the top of the article and filled its enter to the list of articles for translation. According to the message generated by the template, if nobody would translate the article in two weeks it would be automatically deleted. AFAIK we cannot discuss the merits of an untraslated article.
abakharev 12:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Raissa Myshetskaya and
Michael Brin stubs by anon. I am not sure that there was such a Prince family as Myshetskies. Both have extremly notable children, but are they notable for themselves?
abakharev 02:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Russian singers -
Elly K,
Briksa,
Vitas - by various users. Notability of the first two needs to be confirmed. --
Ghirlandajo 09:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)reply
All seems to be reasonably notable - quite a number of google hits
abakharev 10:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)reply
The article on
Arkady Raikin passed unnoticed for about a fortnight. It obviously needs a good picture. --
Ghirlandajo 19:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)reply
An anonim significantly edited
Chechnya,
Kavkaz Center and
Priština, I like the edits better but our Chechen and Albanian friends might have a different opion, it is worth to monitor and protect in the case of an edit war
abakharev 08:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)reply
List of notable museums and galleries - 50 most notable museums according to Brittanica, I can not edit Britanica but all three Russian museums are SPb and Tsarskoe Selo.
abakharev 23:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Buben, never expected this from myself :). Please, check cats and insert pix and info on etymology, if possible.
KNewman 03:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Nikolai radishev by
User:Nradischev I have put him on afd - zero google hits, suspicious info, if you think the guy is notable please go forward.
abakharev 13:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Do you believe that the word is applicable to the country which stifled fascism? IMHO it is nonsense, something on the lines of "Israeli Fascism". --
Ghirlandajo 11:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
To the whole country, certainly not, to some movements toying with the National-Socialism ideas and symbols - certainly yes. Neither e.g Barkashev, nor Limonov fought Fascism AFAIK. I am not familar with the Israeli political life, but I would not be surprized if some groups deserve the name Israeli Fascism (e.g. Kach might qualify). Anyway the term Russian Fascism exists and we would need at some stage explain that is all about (even if we will say that the term is misleading and better use something else like National-Bolshevism, Russian Neofascism or Russian Skinheads or whatever)
abakharev 11:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I disagree. The proper title for the "real thing" would be Fascism in Russia. Calling it "Russian Fascism" is inherently POV and simply confusing.
Trapolator 17:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Turkish newcomer
Tommiks started such pages as
Siege of Ochakov and
Battle of Chigirin, pillaging material from the articles on appropriate Russo-Turkish Wars and proclaiming on Mikkalai's talk page that "current text with 10 periods is very baised against Ottomans". His future contributions should be watched closely. --
Ghirlandajo 07:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Skomorokh, needs some info on etymology of the word, reasons for persecution, pix, and probably correct categories. Maybe, it should be phrased "...were medieval Slavic actors"?
KNewman 03:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Arbat Street restarted by me. There are also persistent attacks on
Moscow by obscure users who try to delete some important stuff. --
Ghirlandajo 07:56, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Kazennye by anon, should we use some better title?
abakharev 05:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have a better idea: VfD. False and misleading entry.
mikka(t) 06:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
T-72MP and
Tupolev Tu-119 (wow, Nuclear powered aircraft!) by
User:TNW consists mainly of a large infobox by now. BTW is it Russian or Ukrainian tank?
abakharev 05:33, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Grigory Samuilovich Frid by anon for some reason is written completly in German. Needs translation and wikifying. The German of the article is very easy, even I understand most of it. Maybe just dump the article into German wiki and leave a stub here?
abakharev 08:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Check to see if the Germans have it. Not if, then go right ahead.
Zach(Sound Off) 13:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Is the original article not worthy? I very much appreciate your opinion because I'm no good in German. Just in case anyone would be interested to translate -- the copyvio question came up and someone is currently trying to verify that through the German wikipedia embassy. You can check the status on the
page with the list for required translation. Regards -
Introverttalk 03:26, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I think the subject is notable and desrves a normal article. I probably will not do it myself (have more interesting projects for me projects in preparation), but certainly I somebody would do the article it would be great.
abakharev 05:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Russo-American Treaty stub by anon needs cats, cleanup and probably a better name (I believe there were other treaties beside the 1824 one)
abakharev 07:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Maksim Grek, finally wrote it. Can someone write a few lines about his literary legacy? And should it be Maxim Grek, or Maxim the Greek, or Michael Trivolis, or what? I'm kinda confused.
KNewman 16:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)reply
My suggestion is to go with the most common name and make the other spellings redirects.
Zach(Sound Off) 17:46, 2 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Ramming (Taran) by me some time ago. Needs merge with older
Taran. I think Ramming is better to use for an article name. --
Irpen 07:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Gennady Troshev. Former commander in the Northern Caucasus region, publicly defied Sergei Ivanov in 2002 and was fired by Putin.
Zach(Sound Off) 05:02, 2 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I have moved quite a few articles of the
Moscow Metro project by
User:Camerafiend to the apostroph-less names. Obviously it is created a loss of inconsistensies - the titles are without apostrophes, but in the bodies of the articles and his nice infoboxes the names are with apostrophes. Can somebody help
User:Camerafiend to sort it out? Now we have a few remaining days of school holydays in Australia and I want to spend them with my son in
Great Dividing Rangeabakharev 01:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)reply