User talk:KNewman
Hi, Kirill!!! Thank you very much for giving me this site.I'm glad that I have this opportunity. I'm really into this. Thanks a lot.
Hi!!!+ Sorry for deliting all messages in your mailbox. I didn't know that I have to write after all messages. Veronika
Hi. Rather than having an article with no text other than "See (some other article)", redirect to that article. Just put "#REDIRECT (name of other article in brackets)". See Wikipedia:Redirect for more info. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 21:28, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Umbrella repairer
Hi - I deleted this article because it said almost nothing, except that an umbrella repairer repairs umbrellas, which is obvious - just a dictionary definition, not an encyclopedia article. And it really isn't a topic for an encyclopedia article, is it? Unless there is something significant about this title, as compared to any other kind of repairman, we don't need an article.
If, perhaps, there was some famous umbrella repairman in history or fiction, or if umbrella repairing was involving in a big legal fight over work rules, or something like that - then it could use an article! - DavidWBrooks 14:37, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Muscovite princes
Was it you who compiled the list of the Muscovite princes? Where? (please always provide links to pages in question). Anyway... No I am not. Fell free to fix what is to be fixed. For now, I'd suggest to remove the word "muscovite", and gradually comment each name with proper princedoms (in some cases they will be miltiple, I guess). I am not a historian, BTW, so my advice in history is mostly useless to seek. Mikkalai 02:03, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Iskra/Pravda
Привет Kirill,
please see my recent comments posted on the Talk:Pravda, maybe you could refactor them into smth useful either in the Pravda or in the Iskra articles.
Kind regards, BACbKA 00:11, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Grozny as article of the week
Actually, the title "article of the week" is misleading. The article for the week, once chosen, is a stub that people work on for the week and attempt to bring up to featured standard. See Wikipedia:Article of the week and Wikipedia talk:Article of the week (where a discussion is ongoing about renaming the project. The candidates specifically must be stubs or short articles!!! However, usually the subject must be deserving of a good article, as the idea is to fix gaps or failures of Wikipedia. For example, the past week has seen Renaissance go from a short pathetic article to a detailed in-depth one. zoney ███ talk 19:25, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Article of the Week
Hi there - as Zoney has pointed out above, the title of Article of the Week is quite misleading (and there is currently a vote to get it changed - see the talk page). AotW is not a stamp of approval: the idea is to choose a non-existent or stub page and to try to create a featured-standard article in one week from widespread cooperative editing. I'm not sure if that is what you intended with Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet as it looks quite large already - if you want lots of people to help you to finish the article then that is what Article of the Week is for. Hope his helps. -- ALoan (Talk) 00:33, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- First of all, KNewman, let me thank you for all the hard work you've been putting in for Wikipedia! The Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet article that you wrote looks like a very solid addition to the Wikipedia. Like others have said, though, the Article of the Week is for the Wiki community to jointly grow a stub into a lengthy article. What you're looking for, I think, is Wikipedia:Peer review. Please feel free to add the "Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet" article to that page; I (and other Wikipedians, no doubt) would be glad to review and edit it. • Benc • 02:00, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Indeed - apologies if my first message above comes across as a little 'crisp' - I was just concerned that AotW was probably not the place you were looking for! If you can find something that is not as well covered as the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet (thanks to your work) then please add it to WP:AOTW. -- ALoan (Talk) 02:15, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Russian sailing navy
Hi, do you have any sources for earlier Russian naval history? I've seen a few references to a substantial fleet (for instance the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) was timed so that the Russians were still iced in), and the cryptic reference to John Paul Jones as Russian admiral, so I suspect there's a lot more story out there. Stan 05:26, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Translation of Кедр
Hi K - can I draw your attention to the List of false friends to point out that Russian Кедр does not refer to cedar (Cedrus, not found in Russia), but (depending on the exact location) to either Siberian Pine (Pinus sibirica, central Siberia), Korean Pine (Pinus koraiensis, far southeast Russia) or Siberian Dwarf Pine (Pinus pumila, east Siberia) - thanks, MPF 09:42, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'm not posting chick in Aurora article. Yesterday I uploaded correct Aurora pic (as in here). Now Image:Aurora.jpg seem OK to me - maybe try to refresh browser cache?... Pibwl 17:45, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Normanist theory
Thank you, I really appreciate you kind words. Yes, I believe I am the only writer of the Normanist theory and I have written most of the rest too. My wife is Russian and has a mother who is a professor of history at the Academy of Science in Moscow. I just asked her about what you wrote, and she says that she has heard about it. I'll try to see what I can find about this in English. I have the habit of always double checking information (no offense) :).--Wiglaf 06:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Hi KNewman. Yes, I have heard about the mistranslation (sine hus, etc.). The theory makes sense, but I don't think it contradicts the Normanist theory. It rather supports by explaining the odd names Sineus and Truvor.
- In fact, you're very welcome to add the information about the German gentlemen under The Antinormanist theories in the same article.--Wiglaf 07:46, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Double redirects
Hi, I see, you are doing a huge job entering all knyazes. Please keep your eye at double redirects. Vsevolod the Big Nest had quite a few. Mikkalai 22:29, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Rulers of Kievan Rus'
Hi! I've actually been watching the article ever since I asked that, so I see a lot of improvements have been made. Nice work, thanks! Adam Bishop 22:32, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Sergei Ivanov
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for your work on Sergei Ivanov. Nice job! Wmahan. 04:43, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
Statue of Liberty
Sorry, I don't know where the copper came from. No, I didn't write the article. I added a few bits to it here and there. If you click on the "history" tab you'll see that like many Wikipedia articles this is the product of many, many contributors. The best place for you to ask this question would be on the Talk page for the article, i.e. Talk:Statue of Liberty
- Saw your question pop up on Dpbsmith's talk page. I can't find an authoritative source, but several non-authoritative sources say the copper came from the Visnes Copper Mine on the Norwegian island of Karmøy. I'd add it to the article if it seemed to be more than internet hearsay. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:33, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Howdy. Don't worry, I'm not creating a separate article under a different name. There is a special mechanism (Wikipedia:Redirect) allowing us to refer by different names to articles as needed by the context. This way we don't end up with dozens of articles that would gradually fall out of sync (Though there still remains a problem where to put the main article cf. Talk:Kyiv).
By the way, I really appreciate it that You respect the fact that nations whose history is intermingled with Russia might not agree with the official Russian verison of those events.
Thanks for fixing the stub
I don't feel possessive about it. And thanks for leaving me a note. Take care. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 18:19, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Newsletter
Hi, KNewman. I'm a japanese Wikipedian. Looking your name on Translators' list on meta, I come here to ask your help. would you like to join to translation of Quarto, the Wikimedia Foudnation Newsletter? I took part in Japanese edition, and found it was helpful for the community to know about both our activities in entire and activities in each local projects. Now there is no Russina translation and I think Russian Wikipedians will be happy the version in their owh language - and I will be happy if I will be able to read Russian news in the next edition. Or even your glance at our work, Wikimedia:Wikimedia Quarto/1/Ja-1, will be my honor. --Aphaea 07:52, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- If you have no time enough translate whole stuff, would you like to help us with your translation of m:Wikimedia Quarto/Annc? It is five lines' annoucement for the newsletter. Thanks. --Aphaea 14:25, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- mmm, exciting. (-: