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The wiki transcription on the areas of Bellorussia, Ukraine and East Prussia.

These rivers are in Belarus now, hence the main spelling. Old Polish and Ukrainian spellings make sense to be added, since they can draw references from older docs. Since these rivers are very small, hardly there is a really established English spelling IMO. Mikkalai

But Bellorussian spelling is cyrillic. The english transcription is not established. Why don't we try traditional Polish translation, that is the only latin transcription that is well established for such a names? As far as I am concerned, Germans also copy Polish translation. Cautious 13:08, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Moved discussion on Dance music, Dance (music) etc. to Talk:Dance music. --Lexor 03:31, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Digraph

Hello, Mikkalai. Since you recently turned digraph into a disambiguation page, you should now fix all the links that point to the wrong page. And, you should list it at Links to disambiguating pages, so that people know it should be checked for incorrect links in the future. Thanks, Minesweeper 04:15, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re: Dance in mythology and religion

Thanks for moving that "information" from Dance page. As I mentioned on the Talk:Dance page the objection was not only lack of facts and PoV, but also it was ethically and legally questionable to present this plagiarized material on this page, let alone in Wikipedia.

Sfdan 12:19, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I noticed your edits in Subdivisions of Russia -- can you please have a look at the issue I described on its talk page? --Shallot 20:09, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for that, BTW. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for reverting Fredrikj's edit to List of esoteric programming languages. :) -- Schnee 17:28, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I wasn't really after the underscores in those redirects, rather the broken double redirect, but it was trivial to fix them so I did that while I was at it. --Shallot 19:12, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Please see Talk:List_of_esoteric_programming_languages, the matter needs to be cleared up. Fredrik 19:30, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey

I moved your message on my talk to Talk:Communism, hope you don't mind, but I felt it was useful for everyone to hear what you and I had to say. My response is there. Jack 07:00, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your message. As you noticed I am interested in Ruthenia. As you know it is quite dangerous topic, especially becouse of nationalistic sentiments of interested nations. I suppose, you are from Belarus. What do you think about using in English the term of Russia both in the meaning of Rus and Rossiya, and mixing the meanings (for example in the article about Kiyevian Rus. For example for many Ukrainians this is terrible. If you have been in London you could have an opportunity to see a monument of Wladimir the Wise. The script on the monument is: Wladimir the Wise, ruler of Ukraine. It could look ridicoulous, but according to me it is as true as the name of Russia in the same place. I think that the article about Kiyevian Rus is very misleading. In slavic languages the difference between names of Rus and Rossiya is very clear. But for the persons without knowledge of Slavic languages do not. And the point about famous Russian people...

Obviously, in the Middle Ages there were used the terms of Russia, Rossia etc. But it was a transliteration of the name of Rus. The term of Russia in the modern sense has different meaning: Russia as a state and a country, not the historical Rus.

The term of Ruthenia was commonly used for Rus through centuries. I think that using it is much more precise than Russia in the same meaning. I supose that non Slavic readers of the Wikipedia have got the right to get the full and honest picture of the situation without nationalistic mithology.

What do you think about that,


Regards,

Yeti

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Polish-Lithuania If you take into account that today Estonia was created from the Estonia province and norhern part of Livland DorpatTartu, Estonia also inherited some land from the commonwealth. Province of Estonia was claimed by Poland, but I don't know if ever achieved. Cautious 11:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your question on Daniel's page. It looks like you would not be able to upload this text to Wikisource. The website has the following notice:

This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.
Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the document is copyright. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution in print form for educational purposes and personal use. If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source. No permission is granted for commercial use of the Sourcebook.

We can only include text that can be released under the GFDL, so something which disallows commercial use can not be copied here. If you could find the original, that you could use that as it is public domain, but the version from that website can't be used unfortunately. Angela. 22:11, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I answered your question on the Village pump but I should also add that although officially I have quit Wikisource, you can still ask me if you have any questions about it. Angela. 23:43, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've nominated you at Requests for adminship. This doesn't guarantee anything, but if other people agree, and you also agree, you could be a sysop. (Being a sysop wouldn't require you to do anything, and could possibly be useful occasionally. In any case, it can't hurt.)

I don't know if you would want to or if your name is actually Russian, but it's possible in Preferences to set your signature to Мыккалаи (or however it is spelt). Κσυπ Cyp   23:08, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)


Please, have a look on Carpathian Ruthenia page if you can. User Yeti

Indeed. It seems very characteristic of East Slavic culture that the history of the lost Jews of Carpathian Ruthenia had to be removed to a separate ghetto. Don't you realize that they are a part of the history of that place, where genocide was so successful? Instead of suppressing embarassing history, why not set it into a broader context, using your own deep Slavic understanding? Wetman 04:39, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Like what you did to Cube. Solves the issue neatly. Syntax 23:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template for my reply to your question on "sibling group" vs. "subgroup". Yes, they are distinct. -- Jmabel 20:26, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello! I see that you have moved White Guard to White Guard (Finland), which might be a good call for disambiguation. However, a number of links to the Finnish White Guard are now pointing to a disambiguation page instead of its proper article. I trust you plan to follow this up and do the necessary updates. Best regards. -- Mic 09:23, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Anti-Semitism

I have to confess I don't entirely understand your responses to my recent statement on this page. I would prefer it if you wrote your comments outside of mine, or if necessary, copied and pasted my comments within your own. Otherwise it is confusing (if to nobody else than to myself :). I'm honestly interested in what you have to say, and I do understand the content of what you said (for the most part, the "if no:shut up" thing didn't make any sense to me at all) but I don't understand how it applies to what I said. I would enjoy further dialogue on this if it's not upsetting to you, but please try hard to speak simply, and not make any presumptions about my POV or understanding of certain "obvious" factors. Sam Spade 03:37, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

no problem, thanks for the changes. If you want to discuss personal POV, or other subjects not best for the Talk:Anti-Semitism page, contact information for me is here User:Sam Spade/Info. Also, you can use my user page all you like as well. I am always happy for intellegent, polite conversation (which incidentilly, I have consistantly found you more than capable of). :D Sam Spade 06:41, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

KGB

Done. In my opinion Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB all ought to be redirected to an article called Soviet political police which deals with the whole history from 1917 to 1991. I might have a go at it some time. Adam 11:31, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Plrease explain usage of "́" in KGB. Kenny sh

This is the accent mark. Since Russian words are unusually long compared with English, it is usually difficult to figure out which syllable is stressed, therefore Russian lexicons and textbooks for verys small children use accent marks to show proper pronunciation. Mikkalai 15:35, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sysop

You are now a sysop. I recommend adding your name to Wikipedia:Administrators. Congrats. Tuf-Kat 19:26, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm, it's normal for people to accept sysop nominations before being turned into a sysop. Κσυπ Cyp   11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Oh well, unless you specifically don't want to be a sysop, and reject the offer at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, I guess you are one anyway... Κσυπ Cyp   11:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying what that puzzling comment meant in War Communism... I had no idea what the comment was trying to say, now that you clarified it I see why it isn't necessarily wise to delete it.--Nelson 01:34, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)

Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик

I've replied to your post at Wikipedia:Village pump#Transliterations from Russian. I've posted a proposal there and created a place for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. as a place to discuss all this. -- BCorr ? Брайен 03:17, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

mdash; or #8212;

I've been told that the mdash is inferior to the #8212 dash. I've noticed you'ver replaced the latter with the former. I have been using the 8212 dashs for almost a year having been encouraged to do so by many other sysops. What is your opinion on this issue? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 03:58, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about the typo, but in the future the #8212 is definitely the way to go as it is a more universally translated character than the mdash. — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk]

afrikaans

Don't blame me. I can't read Africaans so don't expect me to find where the actual link is. Keeping a misleading link is more destructive than I am. The new link looks like Great Britain. --Jiang 22:18, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

At least you managed to find the proper word, didn't you? So would any other person who would want to find a link into afrikaans. You destroyed even this feeble connection. Mikkalai 22:51, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
But it's a link to the wrong article. that link goes at England, not United Kingdom. It's just plain misleading. The new link you inserted leads to an empty page. That is also unnacceptable. --Jiang 22:54, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The new link leads to place where you can find further links using the "What links here" link. It is more acceptable than no link at all. Mikkalai 22:58, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I cannot agree: wikipedia is full of empty links. Articles will be eventually written after all. Mikkalai 23:00, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
And BTW, I myself have found plenty of information by tracing through empty links and then "what links here". Mikkalai 23:02, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The difference is that interlanguage links are not red. You might want to bring this up at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. The bot operators remove any empty links from the list. --Jiang 23:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Why is color so important in the context of this discussion? The link still provides some connection, possibly indirect, to information otherwise unreachable. Mikkalai 23:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The color alerts people what they're in for. Please propose that the status quo be changed at wikipedia talk:interlanguage links. I am simply following what has been done. In any event, if interlanguage links to the wrong subject should always be removed. --Jiang 00:05, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Appologies on the spiders, thanks for catching that! Mark Richards 21:30, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mikkalai, could you please help me with World War II traitors hunt? I mean it would be usefull to add some info about the treatment of German collaboraters, real or alleged, in Soviet Union just after the war. Cautious 10:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Koopsta Knicca

Your vote to delete Koopsta Knicca was removed after one day. Is your vote no longer "delete" in light of the changes made to the article? Thanks - Texture 19:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

More spiders

Since you seem to be a spider expert, I thought I would draw your attention to my question on Wikipedia:Reference desk, would appreciate your advice, Thank you! Mark Richards 04:30, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, thanks anyway! Mark Richards 17:14, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Apostrophe

I am sorry to always be bugging you about punctuation and special characters but I noticed you replaced the ' with a "& #8217;" (’) I thought that we were being asked not to add these characters for compatability reasons. Has something changed that I have not heard about? — Alex756 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk] 04:38, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • If I did so, it was unintentional, and I don't know how. My keyboard has only ' and `. Could have been cut'n'paste from somewhere. What was the article? (BTW you may spare apologies when talking to me, I'm an easy man.) Mikkalai 08:31, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Heated debate

Mikkalai, I feel we both have let our tempers get the better of us. I appreciate you removal of your complaint against me, and appreciate the gesture of good faith. I still don't understand the reasons for the Polish pages, but I recognise I was probably hasty in my assumptions about what you are doing. I look forward to working together more congenially. Yours, Mark Richards 05:38, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Chernobyl history

Mikkalai, can you please fix the following sentence in Chernobyl history:

Nestor Makhno In the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, it was taken first by the Polish Army and then by the Red Cavalry of the Red Army.

The name 'Nestor Makhno' seems inserted into the beginning of the phrase without any connection to the rest.

--Cantus 21:54, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Good catch on Tupolev. Now I recall his initials were ANT, but still proliferated this silly typo. Pleasure to work with you! --Humus sapiens Talk 01:05, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Typos etc.

No problem. Do you think the new info in Great Purge should be integrated into the rest of the article a little more? Maybe placed after the first paragraph of the main part of the article? Everyking 03:52, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vladimir Vysotsky

The phrase about CDs is plain stupid, but there were several vinyl plates, French and Russian, during his life as well. Dear Mikkalai, while I'm appreciating your help in this matter (I'm definitively no expert on V.S.V.) I do not like the wording... If there were vinyls, French and Russian, why not say so in the article, and maybe list some of them in the discography section. (I'm well aware that CDs were available only later.) --Palapala 10:28, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Apology accepted :) Could you have a look, I found some more titles, no chance to have them confirmed, put them into the text as a comment, needs somebody with knowledge of Russian... --Palapala 20:03, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Talk:Expulsion of Germans after World War II

I would like to invite you to discussion around the article. There is hot dispute over some issues. Thanks in advance! Cautious 12:44, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Molotov

I put some constructive proposal in the talk page. Plaese read and then we can make edits. Cautious 10:13, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Graham scan

Hi. Some time ago, on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, you mentioned factual errors in the article Graham scan. Are you still going to make those corrections? — Thanks! — Timwi 04:08, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Old Finland

Would it maybe be warranted with a Russian (cyrillic) translation?

The term is said to be originally Russian.
--Ruhrjung 03:55, 2004 Mar 26 (UTC)

Sorry, I know nothing in this respect. Mikkalai 22:54, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tsar vs Emperor

Are you intending to change all English references from "Tsar" to "Emperor"?
--Ruhrjung 22:16, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No. As I understand, it is a valid English usage. Mikkalai 22:53, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
So why change it in Peter Carl Fabergé[1]?
--Ruhrjung 23:39, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I merely rolled back your rollback. You called it controversial; I see no controversy. Moreover, formally it is more correct (especially Empress Consort is more exact than Tsarina). If a guy wanted his favorite monarch to call Emperor, fine. As to your question, still no. But starting from Peter the Great, the first declared Russian Emperor, I will object converting Emperor into Tsar. Mikkalai 01:39, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Various subjects

From 65.73.0.137

I see you've deleted my additional information on things like Spongebob Squarepants, Scooby-Doo, and Peter I of Russia. Let's discuss each of these three one by one. Forgive me that this message be long.

As with Spongebob, his popularity has been widespread, and many kids throughout the United States, and probably throughout the world, love him. Also, his funny reputation has received wide appreciation. Who can disagree that Spongebob is #1 on Nickielodeon and with kids as well? Who's bigger in popularity than him? The Simpsons and Family Guy are more popular with adults and South Park may be less popular with teenagers than Spongebob.

Scooby is extremely successful also. Notably, his first movie won over $100,000,000, and his second one released recently became #1 by far on the Billboard charts when it first came out. Who else besides Spongebob is bigger than Scooby when it comes to kids? Dora the Explorer is generally for tots and Yu-Gi-Oh! is for mostly boys and older girls. I think Scooby is even bigger with these age groups.

Now about Peter the Great, as I've seen you imply that since 1721 Russian rulers should be more accurately be called emperors than czars. You went against your own words by deleting my info of Peter being czar from 1682 to 1721. And the list should either be "List of Russian Emperors" from Peter the Great on and "List of Russian Tsars" from the first ruler to Peter the Great, or simply all as "List of Russian Rulers".

Deleting images is one thing. This is an act of vandalism and I regret what Hadal and RickK complained on my page about. But on account of text, it's frankly none of your business, as well as anybody else who claims "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", to tear off reasonable public opinion. And your power of blocking people from editing must be limited also. You might want to add additional information or correct grammar mistakes, but let the public edit public opinion. To tell you the truth, I condemn the editorial atrocities performed by you and others of your type. God forbid you to carry on with being editorial tyrants, socialists, or communists. Citizens like me have unalienable rights and should decide for themselves what's bull@#$% and what's accurate. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to tell the truth of things going on.

First of all, please register and get some name to be taken seriously. On the cartoons: as I commented in one of reverts, statements like "he is #1" are very strong and I am not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00. Please don't forget that wikipedia is read not only in the USA. As for tsars, please stick to things that you really *know*, not just read in next best encyclopedia. FUI: Russian rulers were called both tsars and emperors. It is not like, he was colonel and then became general. Good luck to uncover more of wikipedia conspiracies. Mikkalai 16:13, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Return message from 65.73.0.137

Hi! I get your point for the most part, but there are just two more things I want to clarify with you. First of all, I corrected a grammar error in your last message from "regicter" to "register". Second is my concern about your comment of being "not inclined to believe the words of a 65.975.37.00." You shouldn't judge a person by his/her user name, because I've heard of talk from those that use proper nouns (i.e. "Hadal"), on pages for other cartoon shows, that is nonsense. That's all I'm discussing for this message.

After 2-3 months of editing you'll notice yourself that 80% of anonyms are vandals or random posters. Besides, in many cases IP addresses are not constant. In addition, many people contribute from several computers. Finally, it is not easy distinguish you from, say, 65.73.0.157 While it is true that some names are suspects, still, some names gain themselves a solid reputation. You may well build a reputation for 65.73.0.137, but I bet it will take longer :-) Mikkalai 00:46, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sukhoi

I was considering moving Sukhoi Corporation to Sukhoi as I had just moved PSC Tupolev to Tupolev, but then I noticed that you had just moved it from Sukhoi, which is now a disambiguation page.

I would prefer to have the entry called "Sukhoi" in keeping with standard practice. There could be a redirect from Sukhoi Corporation if needed (which I don't think there is). There is certainly no need for disambiguation for Sukhoi, though. The organization was named after the person, and in that sense both terms are one and the same. -- Paul Richter 06:02, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't know what standard practice you refer to. On one hand, there is Ford Motor Company as the primary title. On the other hand there are Boeing and Messerschmitt. I will not strongly object if you revert to your, aviation way of naming, as long as the names of persons will be clearly referred immediately at the beginning of the articles, as it was done for Boeing and Messerschmitt, but not for Tupolev and Sukhoi Corporation. Mikkalai 15:30, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:Kenneth Alan is a known problem user. Please see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Kenneth Alan and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan Mintguy (T)

Mikkalai, thanks for the question and link. The page in question also has a link to a copyright policy that includes the following:

With as many files as people have sent to us, it's entirely likely that there are copyrighted files in our archives which are not freely distributable.

I would say that if one were being safe they wouldn't copy the information, but use it and restructure it, incorporate it with other text; rewrite it to make sure it wasn't blatant copying (a timeline of someone's life is really mostly public information, unless the timeline author has some special research that they have done, and even then facts are fact and never copyrightable. If you just dump this stuff into Wikipedia and it turns out that the owner finds out and objects, well then this could lead to problems as copying infringing material is usually held to be infringing (if it is not fair use). Is there any other way around this? Probably not. I suggest that without knowing who the author of a work is, it should not be copied onto Wikipedia (of course Wikipedia does not check copyright from contributors, one of the reasons that use of Wikipedia content is problematic for many people. — © Alex756 05:04, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message

There is no "state disibility insurance" page please create one before using all those redirects. thanks. GrazingshipIV 17:53, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher

Hello Mikkalai, on the above named page you deleted:

"In his conversations about art he appears to expressed his true opinions, for example lending Social History of Art by Arnold Hauser, an English Marxist art historian to one of his friends."

giving as a reason "nonsense phrase removed". The phrase may be wrong (and the punctuation isn't quite right), but it clearly isn't nonsense; Arnold Hauser really was an English art historian who really was a Marxist, he really wrote a book called Social History of Art, and it was published (and controversial) just a few months after Fisher/Fischer entered the US - posing as an artist, but pretending not to be a communist. So, far from being nonsense, the claim is eminently plausible and interesting if true. If you have reason to doubt that the statement is true, it would be helpful if you said why, rather than just calling it nonsense. Securiger 04:31, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hello,

I have nothing against Hauser. It is the statement about Fisher that is nonsense. How "true opinions" are related to "lending a book", pray tell me. And by the way what's so important about these "true opinions" to be entered into the context of the article? And how can we be sure they were true? And why an opinion of the person who claims this is important for this article or even credible? Mikkalai 05:01, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If I understand correctly, your objection is not with the claim that Fisher had such conversations or lent such a book, but with a) whether it is important enough to include in the article and b) whether that reflected his "true opinions". Is that correct?
Is the inclusion important? Probably not. But I find it very interesting. Fisher was an experienced, well trained, senior spy operating under a carefully constructed deep cover. Yet he performs (allegedly) these activities which might cause some to question his loyalty, perhaps even bring him to the attention of the FBI. Why? Overconfidence? Needing relief from the strain of maintaining a false persona? Recruitment activities? (And if the latter, what else did he get up to that was never detected?) As I say, interesting.
As for his "true beliefs", the quoted text only referred to his apparent true beliefs - that is, we're not talking about some kind of unknowable insight into the innermost depths of his soul, just the fact that he was actually a Soviet agent, not the semi-retired lumberjack he pretended to be. The implication is that revealing himself to have a book on Marxist interpretation of art history would be very odd for a semi-retired non-communist lumberjack, and might suggest that he may have been a communist. Was he in fact a communist? I would suggest that everything we know about him strongly suggests that he was (at least close enough to fool an NKVD investigation), but this is irrelevant to the question of the book (and accompanying conversations). Even if he wasn't "really" a communist, showing such a book, and having such conversations, risked drawing needless suspicion to him.
Of course, a perfectly valid objection to the inclusion of (a gramatically corrected version of) this text would be that it isn't true; I haven't seen any prior references to this incident! Securiger 06:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for causing you to spend so much time. I finally got your point. The problem is that both the article authour and you failed to assume the point of view of an "innocent" reader (like me).
I would strongly suggest to forget about Fisher at all and read the sentence "as is". The paragraph speaks about arts!!!. What the hell his "true opnions" supposedly about arts (since we are reading about arts at the moment) have to do with giving someone a book. If I were from McCarthy times, I'd guess that there is something wrong that the book is by a communist.
Like I said, now I understand the intentions of the phrase. The easiest remedy would be to (1) pull the sentence out of the "arts" paragraph, and (2) rephrase it more explicitely, e.g., "In his conversations about art he appeared to express his true political opinions...." . I suspect you can do it better than me. Pleasure talking with you, Mikkalai 16:32, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)~

Could you take a look at my rewrites of Korean Workers Party, Communist Party of Cuba and Communist Party of Vietnam?AndyL 04:44, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for all your work on Russian Revolution of 1905 -- fixing my errors, typos etc. TwoOneTwo 15:36, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Come on! In cyrillic, Kazak is spelled with the same letter at each end of the word! Maybe you should write Khazakh!

Dawit

I am afraid that you are confusing Kazakhs (Kazah in Ru:) with cossacks (Kazak in Ru:) Mikkalai 20:10, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)


No... No...!,See this site by my Kazak friend: Kazakstan or Kazakhstan. Kazakh in cyrillic is written:Қазақ. The same letter is written in the front and the back! The reason for Kazakh with and h is because in Russian it is written: Қазах

--Dawit

Now I see. You were speaking about self-name in the native language, not of Russian or English name. There is a point in this, but in English there is a long tradition of transliterating from Russian and kazakh. Turkic-arabic transliterations are Qazaq. I would recommend to refer to the official website of the state for arbitration. An additional argument is avoiding the confusion mentioned above. Mikkalai 20:40, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ok! Yes, the official website of the state does have it different than the official passport! But--to avoid confusion like what you mentioned above, Kazakh is fine!

Muratuli Dawit

Croydon

Many thanks, Mikkalai, for doing the Redirect for Croydon. Appreciated --Dieter Simon 00:24, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Cyrillic

I saw that you have removed the "See also" table from Ya and Yat. Would you like to start a WikiProject on Cyrillic letters (or do everything ourselves)? Then we could use MediaWiki messages for these tables. My initial idea was that each table shows all letters, with letters which belong to the same language bolded. For example, Ya would have MediaWiki:RussianCyrillic, Tje would have MediaWiki:SerbianCyrillic, and so on. We also need to agree on naming (whether Ka (letter), Ka (cyrillic), Ka (cyrillic letter)) and a few more things. I would make articles on Serbian and Macedonian letters, and I could make a program which would create code positions tables. I was talking with Shetsen and he told me he would do Yus. What do you think? Nikola 01:26, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Fascism

Could you please weigh in at Talk:Fascism? WHEELER seems to think I'm the only one against his suggestions. AndyL 07:28, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Browser problems

Please note that your browser is inserting Windows "smartquotes" into articles you edit. See a diff of your most recent edit to Talk:Fascism [2] for an example. Whilst they look fine on your browser, they can be a big problem for other users who do not use the proprietary-standard Windows character set. -- The Anome 22:24, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


My apologies. You are right, you are not to blame for this. The smartquotes were already there: your browser was only converting them to (perfectly valid) HTML numeric entities. At least now we can see the wretched things more easily in the source. -- The Anome 22:45, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
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