The article underestimates the role of the Yeltsin administration in the breakup of the empire. --Ghirla-трёп- 17:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
...and says nothing on American influence on Yeltsin's policies. -- Petri Krohn 18:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
You seem to be into conspiracy theories. The US influence was important but it operated elsewhere. AFAIK the main reason for the collapse was Russia's legitimate desire to eliminate spongers. --Ghirla-трёп- 19:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, I wouldn't consider it the main reason to be. Generally, the nature of the USSR was unstable from the establishment. --Brandспойт 19:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I would say it is notable. It is mentioned in legitimate news sources and was founded by Berezovsky, a notable person. It also has many Google hits. --Ineffable3000 06:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Kovalyov dab page, by me. I'd delete Roman Kovalev in an instant, but this assistant professor published some articles, so I'm sure they won't let me. KNewman 19:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
The article survived AfD. I believe many less distinguished people have articles in Wikipedia. Kovalev is notable, if only for his connection with Thomas Schaub Noonan, who was an outstanding scholar. --Ghirla-трёп- 19:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Kuznetsov, expanded by me. KNewman 18:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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. If someone list me mistakes in signature, it will be perfect. --Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also:ә?Ә!) 16:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
And I also have no idea how to designate fronts, units or something other in the image I'd listed there. I can't find such maps in English --Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also:ә?Ә!) 13:15, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
POV terms like "liberation" are strongly discouraged in articles. They are even less acceptable in their titles. I moved the article to Kazan Rebellion. Hill Bank Land should be englished as Tatarstan Upland or something along these lines. --Ghirla-трёп- 18:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
By the way, could anyone explain in the article on General the military ranks in the imperial and Soviet army? "General en chief" and "Full General of Artillery" may be quite confusing for a foreign reader. Or perhaps we need a separate article, along the lines of Generał? --Ghirla-трёп- 11:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
The reason I decided to not to put her is her Ukrainian ethnicity as stated in the Hero of the Soviet Union certificate. I'm not sure whether her mother is Russian. --Brandспойт 16:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
What matters in whether to announce her here is her relevance to the Russian topics which is unquestionable. By I announced her at UA portal as well. --Irpen 18:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Kadom, horrible geo-stub created by someone back in September. - Darwinek 14:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Arcadiy Severnyj by User:Barsuks, who accompanied the entry with this summary. Please check for notability. If the sources are not reliable, the article may be speedied. --Ghirla-трёп- 14:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Singer, having fan sites 26 years after his death is definitely notable Kmorozov 14:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Anna Politkovskaya assassination. Needless to say, the authors already detected a culprit and exposed his guilt (in the second passage). --Ghirla-трёп- 09:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Kizlyar raid by HanzoHattori: "an operation marked by great cruelty toward hostages and other civilians carried out by hungry, freezing, and drunken soldiers with old, malfunctioning equipment". Unsourced. --Ghirla-трёп- 09:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. It was me who requested it. While expanding it, I discovered Battle of Ergeme, started back in August. --Ghirla-трёп- 07:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I have added a military conflict infobox to the Battle of Ergeme page. --Ineffable3000 20:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
There really is no need to be bitter, Darwinek. There are good points both for and against keeping these templates. As you yourself said below, we won't know overall community preferences unless someone nominates these templates for deletion.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
So what do you recommend? - Darwinek 18:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I would recommend to not make it personal :) As for the templates, I don't see any harm in having them, nor do I see the red links as problems, as long as those red links are valid.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Narodnaya. Hope to trace the subsequent info. --Brandспойт 17:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Gonna need a dab page for this (Mount Narodnaya etc.). KNewman 17:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The templates duplicate contents of eponymous categories and as such are subject to deletion. --Ghirla-трёп- 14:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
So, nominate it for deletion. We'll see what the community has to say on this... - Darwinek 17:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The templates indeed qualify for deletion. I don't know why Ukrainian and some other editors are so enthusiastic about spawning red links. I would never nominate it, though, because I don't care. --Ghirla-трёп- 19:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The outdated Catholic Encyclopaedia treats the Synod as still existing, which is not good. Actually, a stub has been there since 2004 as Holy Synod, but it was recently hijacked towards Byzantium and Greece. --Ghirla-трёп- 07:56, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The pre-1918 edition, on which the e-version is partially based, corresponds with that times, showing some importance. The point is copyediting. --Brandспойт 16:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Template:Polish-Russian Wars by Appleseed. Because it is now being added to multiple articles, make sure you watchlist it because surprises like 1944 Soviet invasion of Poland may be expected to pop up there at some point. --Irpen 22:09, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The Polish translation about the city of Seversk (what is this?) and "the (sic!) Kievan Rus" is no solution. I moved it to Russo-Lithuanian Wars and replaced "Muscovy" with "Russia" but Piotrus promptly reverted my edits. Please add the article to your watchlists and inform Lithuanian editors about attempts to polonize Russian-Lithuanian history. --Ghirla-трёп- 17:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Firstly, the article should be renamed: the town was known as Dorostolon at the time. Secondly, the content is not verified: all we know from primary sources is the vague information that Svyatoslav took eighty towns. All the rest is speculation. --Ghirla-трёп- 21:00, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Timur Zulfikarov I saw this guy on RTR (or maybe Channel 1) and had to look him up, nothing on Wikipedia so I started the article. Apparently he has been considered for the Nobel prize. Stumps 12:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod/NKMZ by me. This Ukrainian company is very large, with a very long client list, most of it in Russia. It was founded in 1934, so for 60 years was part of the USSR. Furthermore, the company's website seems to be in Russian and in English; I cannot find a Ukrainian language NKMZ site. In addition to being placed in Category:Companies of Ukraine, it has been placed in Category:Companies of Russia. Does it belong there? Please help. --McTrixie 12:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Darwinek, do you know how to put coordinates in the top right corner? Seems like it's already a standard, I noticed it in many articles on geographic locations. KNewman 20:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I know how to do that but I think "old way" are coordinates better visible. - Darwinek 20:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
As a matter of fact, I don't see anyone but me adding them "new way". --Ghirla-трёп- 07:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Геноциды у нас как грибы плодятся. After the Kyrgyz and Circassian genocides comes the Massacre of Novgorod, plagued by serious POV problems... What "genocide" will be invented next? --Ghirla-трёп- 17:24, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
That Novgorod thing has been waiting at List of massacres for months. I stopped looking for whom inserted it there at September 16. --Pan Gerwazy 15:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Anatoly Larkin by User:Anatoly larkin. Despite the closeness of the names it is not a vanity. The subject of the article was a notable physicist and died in 2005 Alex Bakharev 06:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
IMHO, an article on Alexei Borodin should be deleted, smells like vanity to me. KNewman 15:48, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't agree. Caltech is a very influential university (sorry, bit of personal pride creeps in; visited Caltech as grad student), and any professor there is likely to be notable. Errabee 23:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Circassian genocide by User:HanzoHattori. Lots of anachronisms (e.g., "in the early 1860s under Catherine the Great") and probably exaggerated numbers of victims.--Kober 14:26, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
1860s and Catherine the Great?? Very credible, indeed. KNewman 15:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Pogost, finally found an opportunity. --Brandспойт 22:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. It was me who requested the article. --Ghirla-трёп- 17:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Kazakov, some expansion by me. Ghirla, Matvei Kazakov is dying for an article about him. Do you have anything written about him? KNewman 21:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Kirill, this dude died a long time ago. I believe he may wait a little longer. I'm stuck in Bjarmaland now :) --Ghirla-трёп- 17:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Valuyevsky Ukaz, strange entry by User:DDima, in which the text of a decree banning Ukrainian language is rendered in Ukrainian. --Ghirla-трёп- 13:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean? KNewman 09:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
...by me, the guy who translated The Internationale implies that you were the guy who did the translation. Sorry, couldn't resist. Move it to the collection of lame jokes then.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Oops, these are two different ladies. How should we disambiguate them? --Ghirla-трёп- 21:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
WP:NCNT apparently says nothing. May be a dab is needed and one should be labeled as a daughter of Nicholas II. --Brandспойт 10:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
What the heck is Krasnoi? I understand the historic name of the battle may be so, but the "location = Krasnoi" in the table and in the text is plain ridiculous. So, what was it: Krasny, Krasnoye, Krasnaya? (I've seen all three versions in non-russian)... Plus, IMO improbable here, but "krasnoi" is also a dialectism for "krasny", just for collection of possibilities. `'mikkanarxi 19:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Per WP:NC, we should stick to historical names. Not Siege of St. Petersburg, but Siege of Leningrad, you know. The established historical name is Krasnoi. So what's the problem? --Ghirla-трёп- 21:15, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The problem is not with the battle, but with the settlement. Siege of Leningrad occurred for the town whose article is named St. Petersburg. `'mikkanarxi 00:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Nikolsky, a dab by me. Should we add the singer from Voskresenie to this list? Forgot his first name... Is it Konstantin? KNewman 15:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Pardon my ignorance, but what is Voskresenie? Is it a band of some sort? I don't think I ever heard of it...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Baryshnikov competed at Montreal, I see. Shouldn't we change his name to "Alexander" before someone changes it into the French "Alexandre"?--Pan Gerwazy 09:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
В небе Ночные ведьмы! I was planning to write this article for a long time but never got to it. Night Witches appears to have been written last March but never announced. --Irpen 07:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Prlwytzkofsky, a stub created by me. Announced here for obvious reasons. Would this violate WP:POINT? I have announced my intention of creating a wiki in this language on the newsgroup nl.taal. --Pan Gerwazy 13:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
As it was me who left red links to this entry in Vasily II and Dmitry Shemyaka, I hastily wrote the article to fill the place. --Ghirla-трёп- 13:56, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot!! Alex Bakharev 14:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, an old a never announced article is largely based on a book written by one former Nazi propagandist. Grafik, this seems like a project for you. Would have listed at Portal:Russia/Hidden Gems but fear too few people will see it there. Is it on YOUR watchlist? --Irpen 05:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I'll see what I can do... -- Grafikm(AutoGRAF) 11:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
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