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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)

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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

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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)

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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).

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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)

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)

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Pyotr Krasnov

Hi, ISasha. You added a sentence to this article that I do not believe translates very well. What do you mean when you say, "a workgroup for rehabilitation of Pyotr Krasnov"? --Veritas (talk) 14:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Veritas! In Russian this sounds as 'рабочая группа по реабилитации'. Please feel free to modify as you like. I believe in general that means that a workgroup consisting of deputies of Russian State Duma will be created to tackle the issue.

ISasha (talk) 15:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the response :). I guess my question was about the "rehabilitation" part. Does this mean that they intend to commemorate him? --Veritas (talk) 15:19, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. I guess Mr. Vodolatsky (former Rostov Oblast vice-governor) is trying to represent Pyotr Krasnov as a victim of the Soviet regime. So, "rehabilitation" here means some sort of "vindication" I think. Commemorating a Nazi in a country like Russia would definitely be a failure. By the way, this attempt has created a wave of protest and there are many publications regarding the case. You think including some hyperlinks in the "References" section would be inappropriate? ISasha (talk) 09:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I think including links would be fine. I find this topic pretty interesting. --Veritas (talk) 16:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Greetings

Hi Alexander, what brings you to our humble Wikipedia these days? 82.131.108.234 (talk) 22:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Anonymous User, how are you? ISasha (talk) 03:52, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Is it true, that you are Dyukov? 82.131.109.131 (talk) 13:52, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No :-))) Why? Alexander is a popular name in Russia :-)) ISasha (talk) 14:21, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Advise

Sasha, you need to reconsider your behavior. You cannot call any disagreeable to you edit as "vandalism" unless WP:VAND clearly applies. Also, you need to cut down on reverts significantly. 3RR is not an entitlement and frequent reverting never helps to bring the article to your desired shape. If your point is valid, chances are other users will notice it. If this does not happen, it may be time to back off and let it go. You may be wrong as well. Aside of that, you may wish to consider editing less contentious articles for a change. Regards, --Irpen 07:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Irpen, the article you are talking about must be the controversial film "The Soviet Story". When anonymous users delete the whole section ignoring the talk page and everything - is this vandalism or not? ISasha (talk) 09:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

No, it is not. The user may be opinionated and wrong but he clearly thinks that this information does not belong to the article and this is why he deletes it. Vandalism, is deleting the information to with the goal to make Wikipedia worse. The user thinks that the text does not belong to this article. He may be mistaken but being wrong is not the same as being a vandal. --Irpen 17:44, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh really? I'm sorry! I am not a Wikipedia guru to teach you what is right and what is wrong, but persistent deleting of an article's section (by anonymous users) without discussing this in the talk page is just annoying! ISasha (talk) 18:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree it may be annoying, especially when done by an anonymous user who refuses to log in in order to add nuisance. All I am saying is that it is not vandalism. --Irpen 18:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

So what is your suggestion? Please let me know. Am I authorized too to delete parts of articles in Wikipedia without any discussion? ISasha (talk) 18:44, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

If you read my first post again, you will see my suggestions. The first one to not call edits like these "vandalism". The second one, to cut down on reverts. The third one, is to alternate editing contentious topics with non-controversial ones. --Irpen 18:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you an official Wikipedia moderator? I will follow your suggestion, but only after the anonymous vandals reconsider their "behavior". You did not respond to my question: Am I authorized too to persistently delete parts of articles in Wikipedia without any discussion? Please let me know. ISasha (talk) 19:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I am not an official moderator. I am giving you an advise for your own benefit. You are not authorized to delete parts of articles without discussions. Neither is an anon. I think, the anon is annoying but you are plainly taking the anon's bait. --Irpen 19:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

No, I am always open for discussion. Anytime, so I am not taking the bait. :-) ISasha (talk) 19:49, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Amalie Adlerberg

Hi ISasha, may I ask from what sources you created the first revision of this article? Regards, --Flominator (talk) 13:07, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Flominator, It's all in the "External links and references". I'm sorry but it's all in Russian. ISasha (talk) 18:53, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. If these are your sources, that it's ok. I will try to translate your article. Regards, --Flominator (talk) 13:31, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

416th Rifle Division

Hi ISasha, thankyou for your new article at Taganrog during World War II. You may know already there is an article for the 416th in the Russian wikipedia, at ru:416-я стрелковая дивизия. Please feel free to translate it - it's pretty short - it would add to the Taganrog article. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:29, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. Just gonna take some time...Very Merry Christmas and happy New Year! ISasha (talk) 07:54, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for letting me know :) Unfortunately there was a "war" regarding the Dyukov and the "Soviet Story" movie - the image was deleted and reverted back many times. I really don't care much if it is deleted.ISasha (talk) 19:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

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	thanks for your contribution on boosting Russian-realted Wikipedia articles,I looking forward to see more contributions from you best regars. La.ph (talk) 19:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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Search for information about Nikolai Adlerberg and the reception of his book

Hi, sorry to bother you.I was currently writing a wikipedia article on En Orient:impressions et réminiscences, written by Nikolai Adlerberg. There are very little information about Adlerberg except the article you wrote and nothing about the reception of the book. I was wondering if you had found anything about it and if you might help me. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Jimsally (talk) 16:30, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hep about Nikolai Adlerberg and book reception

Hi, sorry to bother you. I am currently writing a Wikipedia article on En Orient:impressions et réminiscences, written by Nikolai Adlerberg. There is very little information about Adlerberg except for the article you wrote and nothing about the reception of the book. I was wondering if you had found anything aboutit and if you might help me. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Jimsally (talk) 16:31, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi! It's been YEARS since I wrote the article. I stopped editing Wikipedia about 10 years ago. As for Adlerberg's book – I have it in Russian language and I think it was also published in French sometime in the XIX century... ISasha (talk) 19:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Minor and not-so-minor edits

Hello, I'm BlackcurrantTea. I clicked on your contributions out of curiosity, and I noticed you're marking almost all of your edits as minor, yet several that I looked at aren't actually minor. Examples: 1 2 3 4 5

It's an understandable mistake, and one I've made myself. The Wikipedia definition of minor is different to what most of us expect. I've reviewed Help:Minor edit many times, trying to decide if the changes I was making were minor. It helped me to think of a minor edit as a change that a reader is not that likely to notice (unless it's reverting obvious vandalism: this also counts as minor). Maybe it fixes a typo, or corrects the format of a reference without adding any new information. It doesn't change or add anything very noticeable to the page, and other editors are unlikely to dispute it.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, you can reply to me here; I'll keep your talk page on my watchlist for a bit. Happy editing! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:10, 22 August 2019 (UTC) Ok! These looked like minor edits to me! I will keep it in mind, thanks for bringing that up! ISasha (talk) 09:33, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

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