User talk:ISasha

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Contents 1 Russia portal 2 DYK 3 Image:Parnakh picasso.jpg 4 DYK 5 Please vote 6 Request for edit summary 7 DYK 8 Antokolski Peter the Great Image 9 Biography Newsletter September 2006 10 Welcome! 11 Nicolaas Witsen 12 Pavel of Taganrog 13 Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies 14 Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

[edit] Russia portal

Hi, thanks for great articles on Russian art. Please check the Russia portal and, especially Portal:Russia/New article announcements where you couild announce your articles. If you happen to be interested also in Ukraine, check Ukraine portal while you are at it. Thanks again! --Irpen 04:44, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Check: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev

Take a look. It seems there that the raging russophobia of some is the only reason of the attempts to derail the candidacy of one of the most worthy people for the job. His unquestionably high ethics and decensy are so clear even from how he handles the criticism and shameless attacks at his own RfAdm even for those who don't know him his contributions to Wikipedia. The voting is almost over. If you want to vote on the issue, please vote now, --Irpen 22:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Anatoly Durov, 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.

[edit] Image:Parnakh picasso.jpg

Can you prove that the image was published in the SU? Picasso's work is not copyfree. --Ghirla | talk 12:46, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it was published in the Soviet Union, the book's name is "Introduction into Dance", Moscow, 1925 You may see the book cover here: http://taganrogcity.com/parnakh.html - it says "the author's portrait by Pablo Picasso", the portrait comes from that book. I know the image is pretty small, but if there are any doubts, I will upload a larger file to commons.wikipedia.org iSasha

[edit] DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Leonid Gobyato, 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 17:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please vote

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that User:Alex Bakharev is running for admin for the second time. The voting page can be found at at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev 2. --Khoikhoi 03:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 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 23% for major edits and 65% 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 15:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Siege of Taganrog (1855), 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.

[edit] Antokolski Peter the Great Image

I have Antokolski Peter the Great.jpg in better resolution. How I can change this image in Wiki? (I upload it in Wikicommons, You can see in My contributions).

IPAAT 21:24, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Ipaat

[edit] Biography Newsletter September 2006

The September 2006 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. plange 00:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Nicolaas Witsen

Hi. Just letting you know that the article Nicolaas Witsen, which you submitted on October 12, was recently deleted from Wikipedia because it appeared to be copied from The Nicolaas Witsen Foundation's web site, and appears to be under copyright. Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can reenter the content at Nicolaas Witsen, after describing the release on the talk page. You might also be interested in this discussion, which gives some context on the situation. Thanks! -- Vary | Talk 16:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

What??? That's nonsense, I've never submitted that article to Wikipedia...! ISasha 08:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, as it's deleted now, you can only see the history if you're a sysop, but I can assure you that the first three edits in the article were submitted by your account. -- Vary | Talk 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pavel of Taganrog

Could you clarify the case of Pavel of Taganrog? The text matches that found on the official website of the city of Taganrog Haukur 14:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

There is no problem using the text or pictures. See http://www.taganrogcity.com/copyright.html for details. ISasha 20:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

When you incorporate text from a public domain website you need to clearly indicate in the article that that's what you're doing - with text such as that in Template:1911. However, I'm not at all convinced that those copyright terms are enough to allow us to use the text. They say "The City of Taganrog makes no warranty that materials contained herein are free of copyright claims or other restrictions or limitations on fair use or display". Haukur 20:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Even worse: "The authorized use of this data is limited to informational and educational purposes only, and NOT for operational or commercial purposes." This clearly disqualifies the text for Wikipedia purposes, I'm afraid we'll have to delete the article. Do you know of any similar contributions you've made? Haukur 20:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Why this disqualifies the text for Wikipedia? The Taganrog local government considers publications in any encyclopedia, be it a paper edition or electionic one informational and educational purpose. You can contact the Foreign Relations Office or Arts & Culture Council for more information (http://www.taganrogcity.com/contactus.html). There is no problem for using this. I actually work at the Taganrog local government, so I know. If you need special permission for WIkipedia, I will try to arrange a special clause in the Copyrights page. Thank you. ISasha 07:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia can only directly incorporate text that is in the public domain or licenced under the GFDL. Text which allows only non-commercial educational use is not acceptable. This is because Wikipedia's content can be reused by anyone in the world, including people who'll want to use it for commercial purposes. Haukur 08:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Let me reiterate - all texts on the web site taganrogcity.com have been in the public domain. And all texts that are published at wikipedia.org are no longer the same, as they are edited, extended, in some parts removed etc. So I thought that would be enough. I have checked the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission , and I guess you are right, so the question is what can we do? Should we consider making the texts on our web site completely free to use? ISasha 06:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps. I can't really advise you, I'm not in your situation. But if you don't I'm afraid the material from your website will have to be removed. Reusers of Wikipedia are already putting the content to commercial use [1] Haukur 16:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, we changed the copyright & use policies - http://taganrogcity.com/copyright.html . It is now available for any use (unless otherwise stated, as in case with copyrighted photographs given courtesy of various photographers for use only on our web site). All texts are in the public domain. ISasha 06:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:26, 28 February 2007 (UTC)