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[edit] Tomb of the Unknown Rapist

Hey Ezhiki, happy new year at the start. When you get a chance, can you please take a look at this...Talk:Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)#Tomb_of_the_unknown_rapist and provide some input there. Bakharev has also posted this Wikipedia:Ethnic_and_cultural_conflicts_noticeboard#Pejoratives_for_the_Soviet_War_Memorial_.28Treptower_Park.29. --Russavia ^Dialogue 09:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How would you translate this?

Hey Ezhik, how would you translate the following?

за мужество и отвагу, проявленные при ликвидации незаконных вооруженных формирований в Северо-Кавказском регионе

It is wording from an ukaz, so it is somewhat highly "official" language, and because I am wanting to use the exact translation, it would help me to get it 110% correct.

Can ya help with that pls.

Cheers --Russavia ^Dialogue 15:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

If you want to get it 110% correct, you'd better ask someone else, too. It's been a while since I had to translate this kind of legalese, so I am kind of out of practice. Anyway, here's what I can offer: "for courage and valor shown during the liquidation of the illegal armed formations in the North Caucasus region".

Regarding your other request (immediately above this one), I haven't had a chance to look into that yet (I haven't even seen Wikipedia this year until today :)). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:30, January 5, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. It's word for word with what I came up with, except I used "bravery" instead of "valour". Given the military connotations, I think that "valour" would indeed be the best word to use. I have been working on List of Heroes of the Russian Federation, still got a shitload more to put into the list, but I think ideally each of them should have an article of some kind. You think? Or not? --Russavia ^Dialogue 15:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Of course they should. Does someone question that? Those folks are just as notable as, say, these.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:52, January 5, 2009 (UTC)

No, not that I know of. But you know how many Russian topics are discriminated against, and there is not a whole lot of info on quite a few of these heroes (online anyway), and I would hate for any of them to be AfD'ed if they were created. I have just put into mainspace Mark Yevtyukhin, and in reading neutral scholarly reports on the battle, such as http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/arag/document-listings/caucasus/P38 (warning it is PDF file) (this Academy has a HEAP of very objective Russian publications also) and http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/milreview/English/JulAug01/JulAug01/bobja01.pdf, one would hate to imagine what these guys went thru on that hill. I want to nom this for DYK, can you think of a good hook for this? --Russavia ^Dialogue 16:30, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

...that Mark Yevtyukhin ordered for the artillery to shell his Company's position in order to prevent Chechen insurgents from breaking through?

Or suchlike.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:44, January 5, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotection of 2012

In the 80 minutes or so since you unprotected, it has had 5 vandalism edits by 3 IP editors. If this keeps up (and I note you didn't deal with any of them), I shall reprotect it and take the issue to ANI for review. I must say I'm not happy by your removing the protection entirely rather than suggesting a different time period. This is a magnet for vandals and will get worse. dougweller (talk) 19:36, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Indefinite protection of articles is prohibited by policy (and that's especially true for "preventive protection"); that was the sole reason behind my unprotection action. Seeing the influx of activity you are referring to, I would say that using long-term semi-protection would have been a wiser course of action, but that, of course, would have been impossible to predict when I lifted the protection this morning. Rest assured, it was my intent to watch this article further, but, as you realize, one cannot watch everything full time, so others had to deal with this in the past half day. At any rate, I semi-protected this article for one month due to the reasons you laid out above. If you still disagree, feel free to bring this to ANI. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:35, January 5, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Reposted from userpage

This is the only warning you will receive. Your recent vandalism, as you did to Article, will not be tolerated. Although vandalizing articles on occasions that are days or weeks apart from each other sometimes prevents editors from being blocked, your continued vandalism constitutes a long term pattern of abuse. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.109.246.248 (talk • contribs) (permalink)

Please note previous discussion (archived here); it's all explained there. You are not Malcolm, are you? Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:00, January 5, 2009 (UTC)

For the record.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:06, January 6, 2009 (UTC)

Note, I have undone changes to Makhachkala based upon your discussions with said user previously. --Russavia ^Dialogue 16:26, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Possible favour?

Hey Ezhik, if you have some time, i.e. if you are not too busy vandalising Kumyk-related articles, could you possibly help me with a search. As per the above, I am expanding List of Heroes of the Russian Federation, but I am having some difficulty on finding a source which is an authoritative source for exactly how many HotRF there are, and a complete listing of them. There are sights such as warheroes.ru, but this doesn't have an actual list, and it only includes "war heroes" -- heroes of the RF don't necessarily have had to fought in a war to get the title. If you could do a good search on runet I would be appreciative. Cheers, --Russavia ^Dialogue 16:20, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I can't think of where such a list would be available off the top of my head, but for starters, here is a list of the Decrees bestowing the status on different people (viewable, unfortunately, only in IE). The list seems to be incomplete, but it is perfect for referencing individual entries. The full text of the documents is available during holidays (for some reason, today is not considered a holiday?!? but then the site has been experiencing problems of all sorts lately anyway) and weekends. If you need anything out of that urgently, I can get it for you in about a day. I'll keep trying to find a comprehensive list for you, though. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:52, January 6, 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's the site that I was trying to find, but having seen it again now, I remember that I have had massive problems using it in the past. I haven't yet Russified my OS, and some pages do not encode correctly making it impossible for me to use. The link you have given to me above must "time out" after a while as it didn't show anything. I will use the Kremlin document base as much as possible, and will come back to you in the event I need something, but if you do find a comprehensive list elsewhere that would be great. Oh, and is there any chance you can assess one of my latest masterpieces? I had to laugh at poor Batka - the US don't like him, the EU don't like him, even Russia don't much like him, and even the dog don't hold him in a high regard either..... :) --Russavia ^Dialogue 06:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)