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	[[Image:Barnstar-rotating.gif|right|frame|'''Irpen''' is awarded this barnstar for his particularly fine contributions to Misplaced Pages.		[[Image:Tireless Contributor Barnstar.gif|right|frame|'''Irpen''' is awarded this barnstar for his particularly fine contributions to Misplaced Pages.
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	Irpen !!! Are you ukrainian nazionalist ? {{unsigned|83.22.217.116}}		Irpen !!! Are you ukrainian nazionalist ? <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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	Thank you again for you help today. Next time Bonny comes back, I'll know who to contact! ;) &mdash;] 01:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)		Thank you again for you help today. Next time Bonny comes back, I'll know who to contact! ;) &mdash;] 01:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
	:Don't mention it ({{lang-uk|не варто подяки}}) :)!. But also do ask others as well because those who fight Bonny's socks don't make new friends among more reasonable Romanian contributors who still unfortunately make use of him as a ] because he promotes the right POV despite in the wrong way. I am not generalizing over an entire community and I don't want to call names here as well. In any case, we should spread the duty of guarding WP from bad-faith users somewhat evenly. That said, as I always did, I won't hesitate to do all I can to keep such fellows at bay. It's just that if more people actively get themselves involved, life would have been way easier around here. --] 01:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)		:Don't mention it ({{langx|uk|не варто подяки}}) :)!. But also do ask others as well because those who fight Bonny's socks don't make new friends among more reasonable Romanian contributors who still unfortunately make use of him as a ] because he promotes the right POV despite in the wrong way. I am not generalizing over an entire community and I don't want to call names here as well. In any case, we should spread the duty of guarding WP from bad-faith users somewhat evenly. That said, as I always did, I won't hesitate to do all I can to keep such fellows at bay. It's just that if more people actively get themselves involved, life would have been way easier around here. --] 01:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
	::Yeah, I already asked Ghirla, who else do you think we need help from? --&mdash;] 01:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)		::Yeah, I already asked Ghirla, who else do you think we need help from? --&mdash;] 01:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
	The good place to consider would be regional notice boards, like the urgent announcement sections of ], ] and, yes, a ]. Some Romanian users feel ashamed by such compatriots and may help as well. Cheers, --] 01:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)		The good place to consider would be regional notice boards, like the urgent announcement sections of ], ] and, yes, a ]. Some Romanian users feel ashamed by such compatriots and may help as well. Cheers, --] 01:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
	:Alright, thanks again. --&mdash;] 02:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)		:Alright, thanks again. --&mdash;] 02:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
			==Carpatho-Rusyn==
			OK, I added the Carpatho -Rusyn Society article to the "Ukrainian diaspora" category. Expect some comments from Pittsburgh. Many people there had ancestors who tried to form a Rusyn autonomus province within Czechoslovakia, and they might not want to be considered as Ukrainians at all. It depends on your definition of "Ukrainian". ] (]) 18:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
	==Our discussions==		==Our discussions==
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	Would the images on official site qualify for such a tag? As the company is state owned. If yes that means that I'll be able to do all the stations of the Kiev Metro and then it WILL altogether become a featured article. In the meantime I still would like to upgrade DnieproGES to the FA standard and nominate it. --] ] 13:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		Would the images on official site qualify for such a tag? As the company is state owned. If yes that means that I'll be able to do all the stations of the Kiev Metro and then it WILL altogether become a featured article. In the meantime I still would like to upgrade DnieproGES to the FA standard and nominate it. --] ] 13:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
	:Kazak, any Ukrainian logo qualifies. The law speaks ''inclusively'' of symbols and signs of enterprises, institutions and organizations and does not even say "state only". Reread the tag, item d)--] 18:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		:Kazak, any Ukrainian logo qualifies. The law speaks ''inclusively'' of symbols and signs of enterprises, institutions and organizations and does not even say "state only". Reread the tag, item d)--] 18:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
	::I meant photographs! I could not care less about logos.--] ] 19:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		::I meant photographs! I could not care less about logos.--] ] 19:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
	Sorry, got you wrong. Give me a couple of days to email them with the request for permission, which I don't expect will be a problem. , but I think it is more courteous to write to them in Ukrainian rather than in Russian. So, I will gladly do it for you. --] 19:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		Sorry, got you wrong. Give me a couple of days to email them with the request for permission, which I don't expect will be a problem. , but I think it is more courteous to write to them in Ukrainian rather than in Russian. So, I will gladly do it for you. --] 19:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
	:Actually they had a Russian version which after their update back in late 2005 was purged. I e-mailed them a few times and got no reply whatsover. Given how often they update I cannot promise a reply. But go to the Dnepr station and have a look the photo there is the same as in our wiki. I think that might reply that all of their photos are in public domain...--] ] 19:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		:Actually they had a Russian version which after their update back in late 2005 was purged. I e-mailed them a few times and got no reply whatsover. Given how often they update I cannot promise a reply. But go to the Dnepr station and have a look the photo there is the same as in our wiki. I think that might reply that all of their photos are in public domain...--] ] 19:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
	Still, I will email them again and we'll see. --] 19:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)		Still, I will email them again and we'll see. --] 19:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
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	== Davies WERS ==		== Davies WERS ==
	I have it now next to me. I think I already asked you for a list of terms to check, I am sorry if you gave it to me but I can't find it now - I remember we talked about the list...--] <sup><font color="green">]</font></sup> 20:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)		I have it now next to me. I think I already asked you for a list of terms to check, I am sorry if you gave it to me but I can't find it now - I remember we talked about the list...--] ] 20:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
	:Thanks! First of all, I would like to know the names, Davies uses in the English (original) version of his book for the towns/villages listed in ]. I am almost sure that Wołodarka, Nowochwastów, Wasylkowce and others have to go from en-Wiki to pl-wiki where no one in sane mind would object to them. Check the table for other names (Mironówka anyone?). I would also be very much interested whether he mentions such thing as the ] and, if yes, whether he mentions a "Polish victory" there. If you could hold on to the book for a while, I will come up with more questions. Please keep checking out my talk once in a while. There will be plenty of entries, including by myself, in response to some comments as I have missed replying to several on time due to real life things. I really appreciate that so many people, read my talk and care to comment. I know you are busy with other things than scrutinizing my talk, but just check for responses, if you can. I find it extremely important that the questions and answers are kept at the same page. Regards, --] 21:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)		:Thanks! First of all, I would like to know the names, Davies uses in the English (original) version of his book for the towns/villages listed in ]. I am almost sure that Wołodarka, Nowochwastów, Wasylkowce and others have to go from en-Wiki to pl-wiki where no one in sane mind would object to them. Check the table for other names (Mironówka anyone?). I would also be very much interested whether he mentions such thing as the ] and, if yes, whether he mentions a "Polish victory" there. If you could hold on to the book for a while, I will come up with more questions. Please keep checking out my talk once in a while. There will be plenty of entries, including by myself, in response to some comments as I have missed replying to several on time due to real life things. I really appreciate that so many people, read my talk and care to comment. I know you are busy with other things than scrutinizing my talk, but just check for responses, if you can. I find it extremely important that the questions and answers are kept at the same page. Regards, --] 21:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
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	For your outstanding contributions to Misplaced Pages and for passing the strict criteria of newly created ''']''' rank 1 badge (10,000 edits including 5,000 mainspace edits and two years of service (starting from 3 June 2004 in your case)), you are awarded the Bronze Editor Badge and its Book of Knowledge! Geeze, I'm jealous :)		For your outstanding contributions to Misplaced Pages and for passing the strict criteria of newly created ''']''' rank 1 badge (10,000 edits including 5,000 mainspace edits and two years of service (starting from 3 June 2004 in your case)), you are awarded the Bronze Editor Badge and its Book of Knowledge! Geeze, I'm jealous :)
	Cheers, ] <sup>]</sup> 15:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)		Cheers, ] ] 15:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
	Wow! Thank you very very much! --] 20:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)		Wow! Thank you very very much! --] 20:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
	:Give me a little bit and I will see what I can do about ribbons. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 00:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)		:Give me a little bit and I will see what I can do about ribbons. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 00:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
	== ] ==
	Strange request time: can you make this article into a nice stub at ]? I ask you this since I found the Ukrainian lyrics at and it should give you a head start. ]. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 07:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
	:Hey, Zachs, good to hear from you! Will do when I can but let me know if this is urgent. --] 05:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
	== ] ==		== ] ==
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	] For defending articles with valor and for being wounded in these defensive operations, this PH for you, Irpen :) -- ] <sup>]</sup> 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)]]		] For defending articles with valor and for being wounded in these defensive operations, this PH for you, Irpen :) -- ] ] 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)]]
	Hope you don't mind receiving an American award for that, but sadly, there was no similar award in the USSR... -- ] <sup>]</sup> 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)		Hope you don't mind receiving an American award for that, but sadly, there was no similar award in the USSR... -- ] ] 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
	:I don't mind any award but I don't remember being wounded :). --] 19:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)		:I don't mind any award but I don't remember being wounded :). --] 19:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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	::Good question. Do you know ]? As well as ]. --] 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)		::Good question. Do you know ]? As well as ]. --] 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::So I was right about reverting the Kharkiv Metro station moves, thanks, I'll keep that in mind. --] 01:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)		:::So I was right about reverting the Kharkiv Metro station moves, thanks, I'll keep that in mind. --] 01:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	: If you wanna talk about Google tests, "Kiev" gets about . So you should find better reasons than that. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 23:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)		: If you wanna talk about Google tests, "Kiev" gets about . So you should find better reasons than that. -- ] ] 23:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Actually why not create a bot that will go and change this throughout wikipedia...ie. Kyiv to Kiev... and at the same time other cases like Odesa to Odessa? <!--Personally to КРЫС-> ;) --> --] 23:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)		::Actually why not create a bot that will go and change this throughout wikipedia...ie. Kyiv to Kiev... and at the same time other cases like Odesa to Odessa? <!--Personally to КРЫС-> ;) --> --] 23:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Grafik, it's true that at this point, Kiev spelling is used more widely than Kyiv. The question is: ''Should Kyiv be excluded from each and every page of wikipedia?'' --] 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)		::Grafik, it's true that at this point, Kiev spelling is used more widely than Kyiv. The question is: ''Should Kyiv be excluded from each and every page of wikipedia?'' --] 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	As for comparison of Kyiv with Kharkov, the difference has been explained to you. All the E.L. WW2 literature uses Kharkov. It also uses Rumania and, frequently, Tarnopol. Kyiv is not used by much of the English language books iun any historical context. That's what makes it different from Kharkov and Lwow. --] 06:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)		As for comparison of Kyiv with Kharkov, the difference has been explained to you. All the E.L. WW2 literature uses Kharkov. It also uses Rumania and, frequently, Tarnopol. Kyiv is not used by much of the English language books iun any historical context. That's what makes it different from Kharkov and Lwow. --] 06:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== An uninvolved admin says.... ==		== An uninvolved admin says.... ==
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	So. You think that I am responsible for Ghirla leaving the project, yes? I don't think so. We were doing well in mediation, I was mostly satisfied with his replies and I didn't see any sign he was unsatisfied with mine. So I don't think ''I'' was the reason he left our project. Further, as I wrote before, I would be happy to cosign a request to get him back. He is a valued contributor, and as we have been doing good progress dealing with the incivility issue I see no reason not to want him to come back and continue contributing to this project, avoiding our past problems with the civility parole he himself recognized as acceptable and useful.		So. You think that I am responsible for Ghirla leaving the project, yes? I don't think so. We were doing well in mediation, I was mostly satisfied with his replies and I didn't see any sign he was unsatisfied with mine. So I don't think ''I'' was the reason he left our project. Further, as I wrote before, I would be happy to cosign a request to get him back. He is a valued contributor, and as we have been doing good progress dealing with the incivility issue I see no reason not to want him to come back and continue contributing to this project, avoiding our past problems with the civility parole he himself recognized as acceptable and useful.
	Second. I am offended by your accusations that I try to get my opponents blocked. You should know well I spend a lot of time in discussions, and in my years here even you could find only several examples where I was forced to take this action. Blocking policy exists for a reason, and if an admin finds that a person who disagree with his POV seems also to be violating polices whose violation is blockable, what can that admin do? He cannot block that person himself, obviously - so isn't the only choice (assuming he has tried to talk to that person first but failed to reach a solution) to ask other admins to investigate that matter (again, assuming that that admin thinks the case is relativly simple and violates a policy whose violation is blockable)? Do note that investigation may result in a block but may also in recommendations for DR or just plain 'you are overreacting, let it go'. As I wrote before I don't believe any of my actions were over and beyong what is perfectly normal and to be expected behavior of any user.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 18:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		Second. I am offended by your accusations that I try to get my opponents blocked. You should know well I spend a lot of time in discussions, and in my years here even you could find only several examples where I was forced to take this action. Blocking policy exists for a reason, and if an admin finds that a person who disagree with his POV seems also to be violating polices whose violation is blockable, what can that admin do? He cannot block that person himself, obviously - so isn't the only choice (assuming he has tried to talk to that person first but failed to reach a solution) to ask other admins to investigate that matter (again, assuming that that admin thinks the case is relativly simple and violates a policy whose violation is blockable)? Do note that investigation may result in a block but may also in recommendations for DR or just plain 'you are overreacting, let it go'. As I wrote before I don't believe any of my actions were over and beyong what is perfectly normal and to be expected behavior of any user.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 18:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	:Piotrus, as I said before, I find editing articles with you quite possible. In fact much easier than with Halibutt, who I also hope will stay despite all the problems he gives to me and all his opponents. The fact stands, however, that I don't remember Halibutt submitting reports on his opponents all over the place.		:Piotrus, as I said before, I find editing articles with you quite possible. In fact much easier than with Halibutt, who I also hope will stay despite all the problems he gives to me and all his opponents. The fact stands, however, that I don't remember Halibutt submitting reports on his opponents all over the place.
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	:We will continue to work on the articles here. I hope Ghirla will rejoin. The only thing I must insist on, is that you drop resorting to the boards every time you are unhappy. Happy edits, --] 19:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:We will continue to work on the articles here. I hope Ghirla will rejoin. The only thing I must insist on, is that you drop resorting to the boards every time you are unhappy. Happy edits, --] 19:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	::I guess we differ in our view on our little community. I believe that foul-mouthing and generally personal attacks are not only not helping, but they are damaging the content as they drive editors away. Thus I believe that editors who violate those policies must be forced to change their ways, and in extreme cases, blocked. Just like in real life, a few offensive words can be taken, but when somebody launches a large-scale, long campaign of slander, or does similar actions, he needs to be called to order. One can express all of his POV without being offensive. Those who cannot just have to learn it - sometimes, the hard way.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 20:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		::I guess we differ in our view on our little community. I believe that foul-mouthing and generally personal attacks are not only not helping, but they are damaging the content as they drive editors away. Thus I believe that editors who violate those policies must be forced to change their ways, and in extreme cases, blocked. Just like in real life, a few offensive words can be taken, but when somebody launches a large-scale, long campaign of slander, or does similar actions, he needs to be called to order. One can express all of his POV without being offensive. Those who cannot just have to learn it - sometimes, the hard way.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 20:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	Piotrus, I agree that civility is an asset. I agree that incivility is not helping. All I am saying is that policies should not be used as a weapon in edit or personal conflicts. I never reported Halibutt or Lysy for their abusive language. The price of your actions is a loss of an invaluable editor, while Halibutt is still around. Could be if I was harassing Hali over civility the same way as you were harassing Ghirla, Hali would not have been here as well. And I am not even mentioning the extreme offense about my ethnicity I took from Lysy. I will not sit idly if this practice continues while I will do my best to ensure the improved civility overall. --] 20:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		Piotrus, I agree that civility is an asset. I agree that incivility is not helping. All I am saying is that policies should not be used as a weapon in edit or personal conflicts. I never reported Halibutt or Lysy for their abusive language. The price of your actions is a loss of an invaluable editor, while Halibutt is still around. Could be if I was harassing Hali over civility the same way as you were harassing Ghirla, Hali would not have been here as well. And I am not even mentioning the extreme offense about my ethnicity I took from Lysy. I will not sit idly if this practice continues while I will do my best to ensure the improved civility overall. --] 20:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Halibutt, I am not to spend time comparing who of you two is more incivil. Personally, you offended me much more and with stronger words than anyone except, perhaps one or two of my ultra-nationalist compatriots and one exceptionally insulting remark from Lysy. I just moved on. As I said, I consider civility secondary and content creation primary. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:::Halibutt, I am not to spend time comparing who of you two is more incivil. Personally, you offended me much more and with stronger words than anyone except, perhaps one or two of my ultra-nationalist compatriots and one exceptionally insulting remark from Lysy. I just moved on. As I said, I consider civility secondary and content creation primary. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	:::: I beg your pardon? When did I offend you? And how? ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']]		:::: I beg your pardon? When did I offend you? And how? ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']]
	:::::Well, you said things to me that I would rather not recite. --] 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		:::::Well, you said things to me that I would rather not recite. --] 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	::::::See? It's always easier to accuse others of being incivil that finding a single piece of evidence. This way everyone will know that I'm a bad guy, regardless of whether I really did something wrong or not. That's the very same tactics Renata and others have adopted. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 01:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		::::::See? It's always easier to accuse others of being incivil that finding a single piece of evidence. This way everyone will know that I'm a bad guy, regardless of whether I really did something wrong or not. That's the very same tactics Renata and others have adopted. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 01:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::Right, there is an anti-Halibutt conspiracy. Listen, I just hate to find exact diffs. The first time you offended me was at the time of the infamous Wolodarka dispute. Than you called me a liar. I will rather not elaborate. --] 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		:::::::Right, there is an anti-Halibutt conspiracy. Listen, I just hate to find exact diffs. The first time you offended me was at the time of the infamous Wolodarka dispute. Than you called me a liar. I will rather not elaborate. --] 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	::::::::It was not meant as an offence, it was a mere description of facts. I presented two sources, you tried to convince everyone that I presented only one. If you're offended by the word ''lie'', how about ''you deliberately distorted the reality'' or ''you were untrue''? ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 08:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		::::::::It was not meant as an offence, it was a mere description of facts. I presented two sources, you tried to convince everyone that I presented only one. If you're offended by the word ''lie'', how about ''you deliberately distorted the reality'' or ''you were untrue''? ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 08:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::::Not again! I will not be go over the Volodarka nonsense with you for the N+first time. Sorry, my friend. --] 17:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		:::::::::Not again! I will not be go over the Volodarka nonsense with you for the N+first time. Sorry, my friend. --] 17:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Sorry, but Rydel was just a troll. If I am responsible for the departure of AndriyK, which may or may not be the case, this is not something for me to loose my sleep over. Those fellows brought nothing here but edit wars. At the same time, several Lithuanian editors made it clear that they are living because they can't deal with you anymore. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:::Sorry, but Rydel was just a troll. If I am responsible for the departure of AndriyK, which may or may not be the case, this is not something for me to loose my sleep over. Those fellows brought nothing here but edit wars. At the same time, several Lithuanian editors made it clear that they are living because they can't deal with you anymore. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	::::See? It's all a matter of perspective. For me Ghirlandajo is the same kind of fella. As to the "several Lithuanian editors", I bet you're referring to the outraging piece of slander by Renata, who was back to wikipedia in two weeks and whom I asked repeatedly to post a single piece of evidence for her absurd accusations. To no avail. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']]		::::See? It's all a matter of perspective. For me Ghirlandajo is the same kind of fella. As to the "several Lithuanian editors", I bet you're referring to the outraging piece of slander by Renata, who was back to wikipedia in two weeks and whom I asked repeatedly to post a single piece of evidence for her absurd accusations. To no avail. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']]
	:::::Well, that you call him "the same kind of fella" as Rydel and AndriyK speaks lengths. There is no more to disscuss. As for Lithuanian editors you chased away, Renata is only one of them. Lokyz and EED come to mind. --] 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		:::::Well, that you call him "the same kind of fella" as Rydel and AndriyK speaks lengths. There is no more to disscuss. As for Lithuanian editors you chased away, Renata is only one of them. Lokyz and EED come to mind. --] 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	:::::: Yeah, right, I indeed . For two days. I won't comment on EED, just like I wouldn't like to comment on Zivinbudas and other similarly-minded people. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']]		:::::: Yeah, right, I indeed . For two days. I won't comment on EED, just like I wouldn't like to comment on Zivinbudas and other similarly-minded people. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']]
	:::::::Well, comparing EED to Zvin just does not fly. So, cut it. --] 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		:::::::Well, comparing EED to Zvin just does not fly. So, cut it. --] 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Bullshit. Nothing can be a greater evil for the project than loosing editors who create most of its content. Grow a thicker skin and write articles. Same as I do. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:::Bullshit. Nothing can be a greater evil for the project than loosing editors who create most of its content. Grow a thicker skin and write articles. Same as I do. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	::::Not bullshit. The same tactics was applied in a plethora of articles - and it always worked. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']]		::::Not bullshit. The same tactics was applied in a plethora of articles - and it always worked. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']]
	:: Oh, and I appreciate your declaration that you oppose the harassment I've been taking lately. It's very nice of you. Too bad you did not oppose it when it was Ghirlandajo to start it, but that's another story, isn't it. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 22:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:: Oh, and I appreciate your declaration that you oppose the harassment I've been taking lately. It's very nice of you. Too bad you did not oppose it when it was Ghirlandajo to start it, but that's another story, isn't it. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 22:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	:::Hey, you are not the one to talk about niceness either, my friend. But you may go back to your own RfC and read my statement. I chastised your opponents for making a big deal about your manners and asked them to leave you alone. The problem I have with you is POV pushing and stubbornness, not the names you called me. If you come back fully, so the better. I will do my best to have Ghirla returned as well. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)		:::Hey, you are not the one to talk about niceness either, my friend. But you may go back to your own RfC and read my statement. I chastised your opponents for making a big deal about your manners and asked them to leave you alone. The problem I have with you is POV pushing and stubbornness, not the names you called me. If you come back fully, so the better. I will do my best to have Ghirla returned as well. --] 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
	::::Irpen after reading New day, new hope, and New day, new hope - 2, and all of the comments and recriminations posted here, it looks bleak from my perspective. I would like to take a moment to tell you I intend to follow ] to the letter in the future, and will be expecting the same in return from everyone. By no means will I cease to question or challenge any kind of false information, propaganda, or POV. Hope you will return to the project in full, and can get Ghirla to consider all of the reasons his return is necessary. ] 02:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)		::::Irpen after reading New day, new hope, and New day, new hope - 2, and all of the comments and recriminations posted here, it looks bleak from my perspective. I would like to take a moment to tell you I intend to follow ] to the letter in the future, and will be expecting the same in return from everyone. By no means will I cease to question or challenge any kind of false information, propaganda, or POV. Hope you will return to the project in full, and can get Ghirla to consider all of the reasons his return is necessary. ] 02:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
	== Russian colonialism ==
	You may be didn't know, but for over 2 years I've been fighting tons of bullshit in ] article. I was never successful in deletion of idiotic articles, kind of ], ], etc.) The only thing worked was actually writing a reasonably sensible article myself (], ], etc.), redirecting these pseudomedical neologisms there and keeping bullshit out of them. Applying to your case, you will never delete the title, because the term became fashionable, and you will never reach any reasonable agreement about how thin the term "]" may be stretched. And you will never prove that the life in an oppressed "colony" of Malorossia was way better than, say, in ] (btw, look into it; needs an eye) or in mines and plants of ]. So I would suggest to write a sensible article on the policies of tsarist government on the peripheries and painlessly kill this one. `'] 02:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
	:But that article would have nothing to do with this one. Neither it will have its name. I will prod it then. --] 03:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
	== Ivan Chernyshyov ==		== Ivan Chernyshyov ==
Line 411:		Line 398:
	about the Seven Years' War mentions a "General Ivan Chernichev", while about Sweden mentions "Czernichev" visiting Finland. If you have time, could you investigate and confirm that this is the same individual as ] (which lacks military info)? Cheers, ] 07:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)		about the Seven Years' War mentions a "General Ivan Chernichev", while about Sweden mentions "Czernichev" visiting Finland. If you have time, could you investigate and confirm that this is the same individual as ] (which lacks military info)? Cheers, ] 07:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
			== Trouble with Piotrus ==
	== Ukrainian-German collaboration during World War II ==
			I noticed your comments on the talk page of the RfC for ]. Just wanted to give you a heads-up on the harrassment he is attempting on my own talk page. A user contacted him after the fact of a situation that was handled, and not only did Piotrus attempt to re-warn me on my talk page, he also sent one of his minions after me. I tried to inform him several times, and he continues to persist on my talk page. His actions are so against any admin I have come across. ] 16:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
			==Re:On reporting Piotrus==
	Hi Irpen,
			Hello Irpen! Nice to notice that you have time to write to me. You and Dr. Dan's speak truth, but the process of ] 3RR is under way, and I am not imposition to stop it, and after reading his reply on 3RR board there he trying to escape responsibility once again accusing other contributors of vandalism and bad faith leaves me no space, only to bring this case to the end. But I promise that I will have your words for the future developments.
	Though it was no longer relevant to my RfA I would like to respond to some of the the comments you added to the discussion (and then removed).
			You are experienced contributor and in the light of this event I would like to hear your advice, despite that I am already made the decision about this. Probably you are aware that Piotrus and his ally Lysy trying to remove some information from one article.(the same which P.P. was reported) In the heat of edits, contributor Lysy came to help a bit to our dear Piotrus. And imagine situation, at first Lysy conducted small changes but suddenly out of nowhere appears so called annon vandal from USA, and blanks the page and of course dedicated contributor Lysy "reverts" this so called vandal (please see edit summary ''vandalism by anonymous editor''). Every thing would be fine if not one and big '''but''', after comparison of two version - before so called vandal and after so called restoration, vital information was lost (yes you right the information which is not pleasant to Polish eyes) - . Huge parts of article simple disappear! It is impossible to lost info if you reverting to the previuos version of edit only, which had it, of course if you do not remove it during restoration of version, but Lysy's edit summary is silent about this. Later he tried to update one part of article and to show that he is removing it publicly , you see this is only one part; other vital info was not restored in any attempt. This situation I see as clear sneaky approach to receive upper hand in content dispute. How do you see this situation? ] 11:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
	As to the first three edits of mine you listed as evidence of my POV pushing: all of those were taken from said paper by Yehuda Bauer. Let me just copy and paste what Bauer writes about Ukraine if that's what's necessary:
			:Irpen, I will just note here that indeed, I'd appreciate your input on the attempts to portray the ] as carried by Poles and Russians...--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
			:On : care to elaborate when did I violate any policy against you? Or is it just the usual piece of offence one gets when he doesn't agree with your unsupported beliefs, as was the case of Volodarka? And finally, should I adopt the very same tactics and start accusing you of things you never did just to discredit you and slander your name, the very same way you do? Just let me know, I'll be happy to follow your ways. ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 15:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
	:"It is true even in, say, the Ukraine, where the Germans were originally enthusiastically welcomed by most people, though even there there was an important though unquantifiable pro-Soviet minority as early as 1941. Ukrainians in large numbers participated in the murder of the Jews, volunteered for pro-German police, collaborated with the German administration – but soon deep disenchantment took over. The Germans did not permit any kind of Ukrainian autonomy, treated Ukrainians as lesser beings, and then deported hundreds of thousands of them as forced laborers. The mood changed rapidly. Also, the fact that large numbers of Ukrainians were serving in the Red Army made their relatives under German rule tend more and more towards the Soviets. When the choice was between rule by Germans or by Ukrainian communists, the majority of Ukrainians in the end chose the Soviets. The Red Army was welcomed as liberators, except in Volhynia and parts of Eastern Galicia, where the armed anti-Soviet OUN underground maintained a foothold until about 1950."
			::Halibutt, you 3RRed and not once and I chose to never report you. This is just one example. --] 00:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
			:::Yeah, sure, and you called my mom a cucumber and told me you hate me because I'm a Jew. Yet, I never reported you either. So what? ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 01:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
	Concerning my edit related to German-Ukrainian sexual relations I would like to ask you if you even read my edit summary. I was simply reverting a removal of that questionable content which was reasoned with the claim that the quotations were a copyright violation. I was not the one who added the content, I just feel that removal of content like that should be discussed on the talk page and not done on grounds that are obviously wrong. I would also like to know when I was uncivil as you claim in the RfA. And my calls for you to calm were because you were snapping at somebody just because they were mentioning a fact that you seemingly just didn't want mentioned.
			::::??? --] 01:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
			:::::Did you really call his mother a cucumber? ] 21:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
			::That's the very same thing you do: invent things and then accuse me of them. But no, never in the face, that would be too easy to refute, right? You do it in discussions with other users so that I could not defend myself. And never, I say never post any diffs and links, just throw empty accusations. Perhaps I should start acting likewise? ''<span style="color:#901;">//</span>'']] 10:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
			:Oh, I see. As for the cucumber, I meant the cat of the mother of the wife of your third cousin. You just got it all confused. As for my alleged hatred of you because you are a Jew may I refer you to the conversation with Lysy right below. I never call you any names in secret, btw. Diffs are always there to see when and what I said. You want diffs and links of what? Of ]? of ]? Of driving editors out? I mean, i can put aside some time and find them if you seriously deny that it happened and you really think digging them out is worth my time. Other than that, what is that you want? Note that when you are being hit, like your RfC, I do not join the festivities, unlike you who just can't wait for a new ArbCom on Ghirla to write a new statement. I try to limit my interaction with such fierce opponents like yourself to the article's talk pages and this is why I do not go to your talk too often. If I invoke you as an example talking to, say, Piotrus, I do it openly and you can always find out what I said and when I said it. No secrecy whatsoever. --] 07:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
			== Translation ==
	As I have mentioned dozens of times probably I agree that this article is a mess and that I'm not siding with any socks or trolls as you claim.--] 16:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
			I don't have time for that; there is nothing offensive in those posts and besides 1) they are private messages from Darwinek to me and 2) your knowledge of Polish should be sufficient to understand and translate them if you really think they are important.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			:I can understand only part of that and not fully. Not fully enough to use at the ArbCom page. I do find them relevant to the case. Too bad you don't want to cooperate. --] 06:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			::I find nothing in there which would be relevant for the ArbCom. I don't have time to translate every single message Darwinek has posted in Polish for you to analyze; I am afraid you will have to find somebody else for that. Consider, however, that if nobody has felt offended by those messages before - and thus never complained - digging through the archives looking for some 'dirt' may be somewhat counter-productive. I am sure there are better things you can do with your time (edit articles, etc.).--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::Piotrus, I and to be accused of neglecting the mainspase is rather bemusing. I hate digging diffs. I mostly remember things anyway and when i tell what I remember it is you who always cry bring diffs precisely forcing me to waste my time that I could have spent on articles.
			:::Now, from what I have seen and partially translated, the messages were offensive. Speculations about usefulness for the user to move to the West to experience some civilizing culture, speculations that progress can be achieved only after certain users leave Misplaced Pages, speculations of ABF on behalf of users to a degree that they would be committed to derail the nomination of any Polish article, be it even about Polish kitchen (btw, you repeated these accusations today) and continuing to post in Polish right below the request to cease are the things I am talking about. You think this is all harmless. Too bad. --] 06:58, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	::Carabinieri. before contributing controversial material, especially to the article like this one, one should always familiarize oneself with the subject a little more closely than read a single paper, particularly of the scholar whose main speciality is not the subject of the article. I cannot vouch for or against Bauer scholarly credentials overall but the claims he makes in the citations you provide contradict the basic facts one can find in widely published numbers on how many Ukrainians fought the Nazis in the Red Army, how many evacuated and contributing in the home front, how many were murdered under evacuation, how many villages were burned and how many were taken to slave labour and how many fought the Nazis in the Soviet partisan units. One can have a very clear picture of the extent of the collaboration by comparing these numbers with the numbers of people who volunteered for Polizei, division SS Galizia and even UPA (note too that the latter was ''not'' purely a collaborative force and had a history of both collaboration and military confrontation with the Nazis). I can add countless stories I've heard from witnesses and survivors of that horrific time, my relatives and not, but this is not the place for that. But to anyone familiar with the history in a least bit this quote you were pushing into the article that "most Ukrainians were enthusiastic about the Nazi's except for a small pro-Soviet minority" is an outright nonsense.
			::::I am sorry Irpen. There were times I might have agreed with you. Alas, recently, after witnessing your defence of several very incivil editors, my standards might have lapsed. With limited time, I am afraid you have to pursue your presumed offences; I will concentrate on dealing with what .--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 07:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::::True enough, the Misplaced Pages might have seen some more blunt talk than what I am pointing to here. But it is these entries being repeatedly posted offensively in the foreign language that adds an insult to an injury. Anyway, ArbCom will look at this. Too bad I will have to provide my highly unreliable translation based on my very poor understanding of Polish. ArbCom deserves better than that but there is nothing esle I can do since you refuse to give me any help. --] 07:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			::::::Have you considered asking Darwinek for translation?--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 07:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::::::I did and he ignored my request and posted another entry in Polish right below my request to translate the bevious one: see . --] 18:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			== About the "Żyrandol" nickname ==
	::As for your returning of the disgusting pictures and even more disgusting claims added by a sock that the Ukrainian women were just eager to give Nazis the sexual pleasure, this goes beyond pale, I said all there is to it at the article's talk and I do not care what excuse you used to return that crap. Copyrighted or not, that stuff did not belong there and you knew it full well as well as that there was nothing more to be "discussed on the talk page" on this horrendous slander before removing it. You revert warred on the side of the confirmed socks who created the article purely to troll and grind an axe of ethnic hatred and this is all I was saying.
			Hi, I'm explaining it in your talk since the RFArb is probably not the right place. The nickname is stupid and childish, and should have no place in wikipedia, I fully agree. However there's nothing offensive in it. Probably calling someone a tomato would be more of an offence. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
	::Finally, as to your behavior at AfD, your calls to "calm down" and "be civil" was clearly provoking and unwarranted. Nowhere I made a single uncivil remark and as such your calls were merely condescending and uncalled for. --] 22:17, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
			Seems like a play on the "similarity" of Ghirlandajo and Zhyra'ndol (light fixture) in Polish, if I'm any judge. Not exactly offensive, but certainly somewhat pejorative (was used in context of "between us buddies", right?). ] 09:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
	Thanks for your response.
			:Yes, that's my view as well. Kindergarten level nickname, but not an insult. Or maybe "Ghirlandajo" proved too difficult for some Poles to spell. --]<sup>]</sup> 16:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
	If the information I added to the article is truly wrong, then please excuse my lack of knowledge on this topic. When I first saw this article, I was shocked, it was terrible. I thought the best way to help would be to find one or two reliable sources on the internet (the paper by Bauer and this infoukes website, whose reliability was, however, soon questioned on the talk page, so I stopped using that one) and add information to them to the article, even if it's not much.
			::I said all I have to say about this. Nicknaming other users is pejorative and Darwinek have continuously done so with an obvious intent just to bug another editor since Ghirla made it clear earlier that this deliberate distortion of his username annoys him. Darwinek has this habit of continuing to say or do things he was clearly asked not to, be it bashing others in Polish or play with others' names. The user seems to enjoy just to annoy others for the fun of it. --] 19:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::Please provide diffs proving that he has used it 'continously'. Thank you,--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 16:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			::::You are being inconsistent Pitorus. When I say things you know to be true you tell me to find diffs despite you perfectly remember the incidents thus only forcing me to waste time. When I do dig diffs, you accuse me in digging through dirty laundry. I already showed you some diffs lately and even asked you to translate which you refused. Need diffs for that? --] 17:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::::You conveniently omit the fact that the diffs you occasionally dig are rarely relevant to your accusations...--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 18:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			::::::Huh? Another empty statement, Piotrus. Anyway, I said it all on the subject where I said it. I pointed the offensive statements to you and asked you to translate them. The ball is in your court. --] 18:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::::::And I and others remarked to you there is nothing offensive in them. The ball of yours, Irpen, like usual, was full of hot air, I am afraid.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 19:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			::::::::Why don't you just translate "Myślę, że problemy rusko-polskie uda się załatwić tylko wtedy, kiedy ten użytkownik przestanie edytować." as I asked? --] 19:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			:::::::::Because there is nothing offensive in this statement, and you should be able to translate it yourself - I may correct errors if they are important enough.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 19:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			*'''Note:'' For those interested in an English translation it reads, ''I think that the problems between Russians and Poles (Russian-Polish problems) can be solved (resolved) only when that contributor ceases his editing.'' ] 19:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			== Request ==
	As far as my re-adding of the images goes: the reason for their removal was obviously phony, so I reverted that edit, there is not much more to be said about this.
			Feel free to write how bad I and other Polish editors are on your talk page. Feel free to start a RfC or use other means ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Irpen&action=edit
			Editing User talk:Irpen - Misplaced Pages, the 💕f asking others for input. But don't spam my talk pages with your grudges after I have politely asked you to stop several times. By all means, feel free to reply / repost / do whatever you want on your talk pages.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 04:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:I do not need to repost anything. My goal was to relay to you a certain message. Since you read it, I don't care whether you deleted or not. That you deleted it is not something that concerns me in any way. --] 04:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:;FYI: I stopped reading your messages on my talk page some time ago; repeated PAs - as pointed out by others - are not something I want to spend my time reading.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 05:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:::You can tell that you do not read all you want. But saying that you do not even listen when other editors attempt to talk to you does not make you look constructive. Especially in view of the obvious fact that you ''do'' read of course. --] 05:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			::::If it makes you feel any better, you are the first person on Misplaced Pages I have decided I should stop paying attention to.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 05:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:::::Yeah, right, while you even read my responses to you at my own talk... Anyway, as long as you keep your baseless accusation of myself to our talk pages, I care little since I am used to those. It is your spreading them elsewhere is when they become my concern. --] 05:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:::Ten chlopak z Katowic nie ma szans? :-).] 10:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			::::Was ist das? --] 20:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
			:::::Das ist jezyk polski (Polnischen). Piotrus says that he's leaving, but he can't actually, so I asked if this fella from Katowice has any chance? :-) I always enjoyed talking with Polish nationalists while being in Poland. ] 03:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
			==Soviet invasion of Poland==
	My calls for you to calm down on that AfD discussion were not meant to be condescending at all. Again, if I misinterpreted your comments, I'm sorry, but they seemed pretty rude to me, but I guess that's one of the dangers of communicating over the internet, people can't see each other's facial expressions, hear their tone of voice, etc, so sometimes confusions like this arise.
			I am pleased with the way this article is progressing. I've spent enough time on it now that eventually I would like to see it at FAC. However, I'm only too aware of criticisms re POV from you, Mosin, and Grafikm, and though I have done quite a lot, I think, to increase the information in the article about the Soviet view of things, I would be pleased if you could check it over again. I would rather directly address criticisms from you now than at FAC; and I hope you will have time to edit the article yourself.
	Look Irpen, overall I'm pretty much tired of this discussion. Looking through some of your contributions I really respect the work you've done on Misplaced Pages, let's just get back to that.--] 22:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
			Those elements, like the title, which are well-sourced, cannot be removed (though I have added that the Soviets called it the "liberation campaign" and have made the Soviet view as clear as I can), but there is, of course, room for parallel interpretations of events, if sourced. At the moment I am looking at figures and will be making some edits clarifying the differences between old and newer figures for the deaths and deportations (at the moment the figures are something of an inchoate smattering). Anything you can do to help the article will be appreciated. As you probably know, arguments between Polish and Russian-speaking editors don't interest me: I have a high regard for yourself and Ghirlandajo, as well as for Piotrus and Halibutt, and I would love it if this article could pool all your brains together instead of pulling them apart. ] 21:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I said it all about the image adding, no matter what was the reason for it. and there is an entire set of my contributions to the AfD discussions. Please point a single entry that, as you claim, may seem "rude" with or without "seeing facial expression and hearing the tone of voice". Truth is there is none.
			==ArbCom/Piotrus==
	:In any case, I am happy to accept the olive branch. My most frequent objection to anyone's adminning is lack of interest in the content creation. This clearly does not apply to you and whatever your particular position was in that article, I think you will make a fine admin. Happy edits. --] 00:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
			Case has been started, probably you will be interested:
			] 10:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
	== Trouble with Piotrus ==		==]==
			Hello,
	I noticed your comments on the talk page of the RfC for ]. Just wanted to give you a heads-up on the harrassment he is attempting on my own talk page. A user contacted him after the fact of a situation that was handled, and not only did Piotrus attempt to re-warn me on my talk page, he also sent one of his minions after me. I tried to inform him several times, and he continues to persist on my talk page. His actions are so against any admin I have come across. ] 16:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
			An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
			On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] ] 20:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
			== Your comment ==
	==Re:On reporting Piotrus==
			Whatever was, the ] is not the place to post it. Try the talk pages of the people you think are involved. ] 02:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	Hello Irpen! Nice to notice that you have time to write to me. You and Dr. Dan's speak truth, but the process of ] 3RR is under way, and I am not imposition to stop it, and after reading his reply on 3RR board there he trying to escape responsibility once again accusing other contributors of vandalism and bad faith leaves me no space, only to bring this case to the end. But I promise that I will have your words for the future developments.
			:Thanks, Balcer, but I posted it exactly where I intended. And, no, I did not say ''you'' are involved in any way. No do I think so. --] 02:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			::You accuse a person active on the noticeboard of wrongdoing, without giving any indication of who this might be. Since I participate on that noticeboard, that accusation is also aimed at me. I consider this a personal attack, and a gross misuse of a Misplaced Pages notice board. Incidentally, the accusation is so cryptic, I have no idea what it is about. ] 02:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			All right. I am not going to persist in this silly revert war. It stays in history and will likely be read enough, to be sure. I do not care whether it beautifies the page (and its archives) forever. I hope you will fiercely remove the calls to get a hand in an edit war frequently posted at that board from now on. --] 02:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			:It is back in now, and I am not going to revert an admin. I invite you to remove your own message. If you don't, it stays in your "history", so to speak. Please think about it. Maybe the best approach here is to change your perspective: how would you feel if this message appeared on the Ukrainian and Russian noticeboard, accusing everyone there of (possibly) being indecent, without any explanation or proof. In essence, this message is saying: ''Someone on this board is an indecent bastard, but I am not going to tell you who, and I am not going to tell you why.'' ] 02:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			Balcer, "I am not going to tell you who" only because I don't have a 100% proof of who, but I do have a very strong circumstantial evidence on "what" (a ].) As for the Russian or Ukrainian boards, I am aware of the announcements in support of someone or something (like even ) and, sadly, even calls to oppose something. But I am not aware of any similar campaigns run among the Russian or Ukrainian users behind the scenes. If this happened, I would not hesitate to use the board to find what truly was behind such incident in the Russian or Ukrainian community. --] 02:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	You are experienced contributor and in the light of this event I would like to hear your advice, despite that I am already made the decision about this. Probably you are aware that Piotrus and his ally Lysy trying to remove some information from one article.(the same which P.P. was reported) In the heat of edits, contributor Lysy came to help a bit to our dear Piotrus. And imagine situation, at first Lysy conducted small changes but suddenly out of nowhere appears so called annon vandal from USA, and blanks the page and of course dedicated contributor Lysy "reverts" this so called vandal (please see edit summary ''vandalism by anonymous editor''). Every thing would be fine if not one and big '''but''', after comparison of two version - before so called vandal and after so called restoration, vital information was lost (yes you right the information which is not pleasant to Polish eyes) - . Huge parts of article simple disappear! It is impossible to lost info if you reverting to the previuos version of edit only, which had it, of course if you do not remove it during restoration of version, but Lysy's edit summary is silent about this. Later he tried to update one part of article and to show that he is removing it publicly , you see this is only one part; other vital info was not restored in any attempt. This situation I see as clear sneaky approach to receive upper hand in content dispute. How do you see this situation? ] 11:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
			:If you are not sure, then don't make the accusation. If you have a hunch about specific people involved, take it up on their talk page. If you think that "Polish users" are responsible, that includes me, and everyone on that board. Clearly you must realize how counterproductive and harmful such accusations are.
	:Irpen, I will just note here that indeed, I'd appreciate your input on the attempts to portray the ] as carried by Poles and Russians...--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
			:Enough of this. Sorry to say this, but today you have taken another step towards taking Misplaced Pages to the toilet. Over and out.] 02:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			Please read what I said at the board. What happened is indeed disgusting but my exposing it is aimed at making the repetitions less likely. --] 06:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	:On : care to elaborate when did I violate any policy against you? Or is it just the usual piece of offence one gets when he doesn't agree with your unsupported beliefs, as was the case of Volodarka? And finally, should I adopt the very same tactics and start accusing you of things you never did just to discredit you and slander your name, the very same way you do? Just let me know, I'll be happy to follow your ways. ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 15:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
	::Halibutt, you 3RRed and not once and I chose to never report you. This is just one example. --] 00:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
			== Meltyukhov ==
	:::Yeah, sure, and you called my mom a cucumber and told me you hate me because I'm a Jew. Yet, I never reported you either. So what? ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 01:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
	::::??? --] 01:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
	:::::Did you really call his mother a cucumber? ] 21:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
	::That's the very same thing you do: invent things and then accuse me of them. But no, never in the face, that would be too easy to refute, right? You do it in discussions with other users so that I could not defend myself. And never, I say never post any diffs and links, just throw empty accusations. Perhaps I should start acting likewise? ''<font color="#901">//</font>'']] 10:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
	:Oh, I see. As for the cucumber, I meant the cat of the mother of the wife of your third cousin. You just got it all confused. As for my alleged hatred of you because you are a Jew may I refer you to the conversation with Lysy right below. I never call you any names in secret, btw. Diffs are always there to see when and what I said. You want diffs and links of what? Of ]? of ]? Of driving editors out? I mean, i can put aside some time and find them if you seriously deny that it happened and you really think digging them out is worth my time. Other than that, what is that you want? Note that when you are being hit, like your RfC, I do not join the festivities, unlike you who just can't wait for a new ArbCom on Ghirla to write a new statement. I try to limit my interaction with such fierce opponents like yourself to the article's talk pages and this is why I do not go to your talk too often. If I invoke you as an example talking to, say, Piotrus, I do it openly and you can always find out what I said and when I said it. No secrecy whatsoever. --] 07:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
			Irpen, do you consider Meltyukhov's book a reliable source ? The more I read him the more suspicious I am. --]<sup>]</sup> 09:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	== ] ==
			:I see no reason not too. He is a respected scholar from what I know. --] 09:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
			If he is the one using the "concentration camps" term, this is pretty strong for a respected scholar. Aren't you concerned about this ? You know what I mean, there are different authors, and one can often find some extremal ones, even among the academics. The sources should be carefully selected. I'm usually trying to avoid citing authors who exhibit clear POV pushing in their works (like e.g. not citing Professor Edward Prus about Polish-Ukrainian conflicts, as I know he is biased). --]<sup>]</sup> 09:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
			] is notable. As for his reliability, however, the article only claims he is an employee of ], a red-linked institute that we don't know nothing about. What is important in estabilishing a person's reliability is primarily: what institution creditentials is he backed up with, what venue publishes his works (the one's we cite, particulary) and how are they received (reviewed) by the academic community. Currently we lack all of those crucial pieces of information, the best we can say is that he is a Russian historian with a PhD publishing books/articles/ebooks but with no info on reliablity of publishers (for all we know he can be self-publishing them). As such, he is definetly having problems with ].--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	Thanks for the support :). You needn't worry about such petty behaviour, though. For my part, seeing such as those, I'm just smiling. Let ''him'' make a spectacle of himself. :)
			:Nice, Piotrus, that you dare speak about RS wrt to an academic work after insisting that crackpot theories published in Polish press are acceptable and even trying to change the policy to accommodate your views. This fresh example of using double standards in POV-pushing will be added to your arbcom. --] 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	On the more to-the-business note, would you keep an eye on the ], too? I admit I expected somewhat better of Piotrus, as a presumably intellectually honest person, than to go into sophistics instead of just presenting some good specialist refutations either of the DZ view of the 19th cent. in Belarusian lands, or at least the view of the 19th cent. ''as detailed'' as DZ's ''and'' differing in the key aspect. ''If there actually is one'', of course. ] 10:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
			Irpen, I apologize for bugging your userpage, but I addressed you and not Piotrus. I'm puzzled as to why he responded in your talk page instead of you, and you did not. Do you understand and agree with the point that I was trying to make above ? --]<sup>]</sup> 20:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	Forgot to add, now that I've found even F.K.Dmochowski (see ]), I don't see why anything ''directly relevant'' of my first entry should be twisted like it was. (Some of the text on Academy ''was'' redundant, that's true). What do you think? ] 10:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
			:Lysy, I responded to Piotrus' entry because it seemed asking for response. You don't have to apologize, since I never minded being asked at my talk. Now, I responded to your earlier inquiry and all I can add is to repeat that MM is as good a source as any other academic, a professional historian, researcher (not sensationalist journalist, ask Piotrus about those) and whose work appears in scholarly publications such as books and peer-reviewed journals. His "Stalin lost chance" was received with raving reviews and I don't see the reason to dismiss him except "not liking" what he says, which is not a valid reason anyway. --] 20:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
			::Thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 14:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
	== Polonization ==		== Clarification ==
	The section is still incomplete - we should expand (with modern reliable sources!) on how it ''did'' work, indeed. But it is very relevant to note that the process was counteracted by others, and that much of what supported Polonization in other eras (i.e. Polish state and its support for it) did not exist in that era.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 20:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
	:Please may I suggest discussing changes you want to do to that article first on talk?--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 03:52, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
			Irpen, I am perfectly aware that you a most voiceful opponent of Holocaust Denial, and hence I thought that you would probably be aware of the nature of the ], probably the most infamous and repellent revisionist organisation of them all. This is precisely why I was so shocked by edit, and wanted an explanation from you as to what point you are making. I am glad you have now (rather late) explained what happened. Prompt answers to legitimate questions will help to avoid similar misunderstandings in the future.
	::Piotrus, I am half-way done. Sorry other things sometimes deflect me on and off. But when I hit that save instead of the preview button, nothing can prevent you from correcting me. In the meanwhile, you may want to study sources, I am suing. One is D-Z, the other two are the academic articles (you brought one of them yourself). While I am still editing, you may spend some time reading. Actually, they ''both'' support D-Z despite you presented one of them as countering him. Anyway, let me please finish integrating their material in the text. --] 03:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
	:::I agree that the article is more neutral and expanded now. You did a much better job then Yuri presenting the facts in a more neutral manner (with all due respect for Yuri, he doesn't have neither your experience nor nowledge of English, I am afraid - although I hope he will stick around and get experience). Please update your references per my comment. And please don't remove relevant information: you cannot talk about peace without mentioning war, heat without cold, etc. - and you cannot speak about polonization without mentioning the very significant 'depolonization' countertrends in the 19th and 20th centuries.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 05:16, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
			I still stand by my suggestion that your comment with the link to IHR be stroked out, but the decision is of course yours. ] 20:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
	== Tour book on Kiev from 1900!!! ==
			:No, I was not aware of the IHR at all. Never even heard of them. I have recently explained that after being made aware of them having such reputation I want their opinions to be completely discarded. I take the claim that they are indeed an HD institution at face value. I am not interested even at doing any fact checking here. You say it is HD, this is good enough for me. I made ''several'' talk page entries in connection with that matter:, , . I don't understand how else I can be more clear. --] 20:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
			:: is the correction I was suggesting. I am glad you made it, and now this matter is closed as far as I am concerned. ] 20:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
	I just discovered this book through google books (not sure if you've seen it already), but it's absolutely amazing!!! It's been out of copyright and the entire thing is available in PDF! Published in 1900 it goes over a really old history of Kiev, not to mention the then considered "current events" and places. The book is in old russian and contains some excellent sketches of places (which are all out of copyright as well). . ] 14:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
			== History of Russia FAR ==
	: Ah, just reminded me. From "attic", I've dug out the remains of "Illustrated history of Ukraine" (pub. c.1912-1913, pages after 480 are missing). Lots of interesting illustrations (hetmans, bishops, cossacks), which are of little value to me directly, as I'm more into Belarusian history. If there's a specific interest in some topics, let me know, as I can't just scan everything outright. ] 07:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
			] has been nominated for a ]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to ]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are ]. Reviewers' concerns are ]. ] (]) 21:10, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
			== Disturbed ==
	::Thanks guys! Asmadeus, I bookmarked the book. Will print all of it when I have time. Would not be easy to OCR, I guess.
			Where have you disappeared? Please come back as soon as possible. Misplaced Pages is a bleak place without you. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:49, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
			:Ditto the sentiment. ] ] ] 17:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
			::And third that feeling.--] 09:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
			=== О, мой сынок, мой дорогой, Из дому ты уйдёшь. ===
	::Yuriy, I think you mean the ]'s book {{LCCN|62||057565}}. This is indeed a rarity to have in home library. Some versions are available online. is one of such web-sites. Is it this the book? Thanks a lot for your offer anyway. Even if this is not the one, I can't make you do all the work of scanning the whole book. Please stay in touch. --] 09:05, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
			Where are you when we need your ]? --] 12:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
	::: Yes, this book, only this is its Russian translation, which was published about 1 year later. The illustrations are all with descriptions, too. Like I said, my book looks like it endured some, so no titlepages to go with it, and it "ends" at p.480 (national Renessaince chapter, paragraph 117, portrait of Skovoroda). The quality of illustrations and print is quite outstanding, anyway. Most of the modern books look like ..., compared. ] 10:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
			:Sorry, friend, for not being available when needed. You can figure out the reasons below. I was heartened by your concerns. Cheers, --] 04:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
			=== Gone missing? ===
	:::: If you have no use for it, and decide to put it up on eBay, I'll bid ;) ] 17:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
			Where are you, Irps? ] | ] 23:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC).
	== Kiev Images ==
			: Hmm... Hopefully everything's okay. But then it's summer. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 00:00, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
			] --] | ] 09:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
			Thank you all, dear friends for your concerns. I am OK. Great, actually. You can find why I stopped editing from my today's entries. Sometimes, the climate here makes it just impossible to edit. Hopefully, the situation will improve. All the best to you all as well! --] 04:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
	I am currently planning a trip to Kiev in May (I live in Chicago, USA). I have evolved much as a photographer in the recent years, and plan on making one of the main focuses of my trip photography of Kiev. I will be compiling a list of places that I want to photograph. Leave a note on my page, and let me know if you have any specific requests. (). ] 20:43, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
	:: Added a note to the top of my Kiev album for photos taken back in 2001 giving permission to be used on wikipedia under cc-by-sa tag as you suggested. Thank you for that!
	:: Any reason why not all images are displayed in the Gallery (missing Image: tag) on ]? Are you just waiting to confirm them? For example - I'm positive that ] is in the museum - my tour book shows the same image for the museum. The rest I can't confirm (so far). ]
			: You're back!!! — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
	Yes, the syntax error. I fixed it. There are more images to upload and add to the gallery from the list of sources in the end of the article. I think we should remove those we can't confirm. Cheers, --] 18:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
			::Time will show, but thanks a lot. All of you! --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
			===An apology===
			Irpen, it was never my intent to cause you distress and I am sorry about that - alas, the case is stressful to us all, and I myself have recently been seriously considering a wikiholiday, because every time I check my watchlist I dread "what other attacks on my person I will have to read now". After you declared that you are compiling your own evidence against me, can you blame me for drafting a reply? If you are distressed that it was semi-public, would you prefer I compiled it secretly in a *.doc or similar file as is commonly done - and presumably, in the form your not-yet-public evidence is drafted? If so, you could have just asked me to remove it from the web, and I'd have done so. Further, if this draft of an evidence was so distressing, please consider how do others - like myself - feel when they face similar accusations - coming from your person, too - near constantly, from article's talk pages, through user talk, public fora and DR cases.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 13:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
			:Piotrus, your so called "apology" upsets me because it includes more than one obvious not-so-truths. I would rather not continue this here but have this discussion at the workshop. Thanks for understanding. --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
			=== Few thoughts===
			Hey Irpen. Welcome back. I have read your newest posts on Arbcom. They are quite impassioned and a lot of thought clearly went into them. I am not going to respond in full here, as that would require quite a bit of reflection on my part, and I should let Piotrus speak first. ]
			:Balcer, allow me to interject your statement with my responses. I am looking forward towards your thoughts when you ae ready to post them. In the meanwhile, here are some answers. First of all, however it pleases me that so many people expressed their concern about my non-editing and several more welcomed me back (you among others), it is premature to say that I am back. Now, to your thoughts. --]
			Still, here are a few thoughts of mine, for your consideration.
	==]==
			1. You expressed your opposition to off-wiki communication. Please reconsider. One of the best parts about being a Wikipedian is developing friendships with interesting people, friendships which necessarily need to go off official Misplaced Pages channels for communication. If I want to discuss with Piotrus any non-Misplaced Pages topic of interest to us, obviously we are not going to use Misplaced Pages talk pages. Therefore, I resent your implication that Piotrus' request to me for IM communication was in any way illegitimate or suspicious. ]
	This arbitration case has closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The parties identified in the decision as having acted poorly in the dispute regarding ] are admonished to avoid such behavior in the future. That article is placed on probation, and any editor may be banned from it, or from other reasonably related pages, by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, inciviilty, and original research. The Arbitration Committee reserves the right to appoint one or more mentors at any time, and the right to review the situation in one year, if appropriate. The parties are strongly encouraged to enter into a mediation arrangement regarding any article-content issues that may still be outstanding. If the article is not substantially improved by continued editing, the Arbitration Committee may impose editing restrictions on users whose editing is counterproductive or disruptive. This notice is given by a Clerk on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. ] 23:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
	:Thanks :). A small piece of trivia is that myself and Vecrumba, the parties that were actually arguing were not identified in the list of the users to be admonished and lightly sanctioned were the innocent onlookers who came in to help us. A sadder part is that those users were admonished for not so much out of the way remarks (and I feel this unfair). The discussion was somewhat robust but nowhere near the threshold and a few outbursts were nowhere near the level of general disruption, where NPA and CIV policies should kick in.
			:I am a least bit concerned about your off-wiki discussions with Piotrus on the topics that are unrelated to WP. If you are discussing, politics, cars, stocks, girls, science, money or even Irpen, this is none of my business or interest. Also, I thought I never accused '''you''' in being a part of Piotrus' organized team. Of all editors concerned, I have a high opinion of your honesty overall and I even thought of you being a part of that workgroup that would help solving this conflicts. This is all despite our many editing disagreement of which many were not so sweet. I truly seek a solution that would help rather than to have my POV prevail in the articles as the ultimate goal.
	:Also, disapointing, is that the whole case was merely a giant waste of time that did not solve anything, as I predicted in ]. Hopefully, the article can be changed/split/rewritten/renamed now and if editors spent time on that rather than on the arbitration page, it could have been half-way done, by now. Hopefully this can happen now. Cheers, --] 23:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
			:OTOH, I disagree with your opinion that developing friendships is one of the goals we should seek from Misplaced Pages experiences. While I made some friends, yes, it was never my goal of coming here. I would rather say to the contrary. I think the "friendster" is one of the gravest dangers of Misplaced Pages. A whole bunch of people now, and most of them are admins, developed a whole IRC-centered friendster network which helps anything but making the WP a better place, more comfortable for editors and more interesting to the readers.
	==City template==
	Dear Irpen, as I known you are usually a voice of reason, can I ask you to take a look at the discussion on ] and tell me if I'm being unreasonable? Regards, '''] ('']'')''' 20:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
	: Irpen, thanks for lending your voice. About the Russian names ... am I wrong to see their absence from the template as a flaw? I ain't trying to support "Russian imperialism", but make wiki informative. Surely wiki can't ignore the fact that Russian is the indigenous language of eastern and most of the southern Ukraine, and is used to some extent by most Ukrainians. No? '''] ('']'')''' 17:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
	Calgalus, let's just separate the issues here and discuss the narrow one at hand, which is the addition of the "English name" field to the infobox. It is the existence of the English name (or lack of it) is what we are discussing and not the prevailing name used by the local people. The latter is a valid point to note but name used by the town's residents is nowhere in our naming conventions. And the name used by locals may or may not affect the English name.
			:But in any case, your friendships is none of my business. I see off-wiki communication plain wrong, when it is used to quickly request an extra revert, mobilize voters, organize a block, etc. It is pretty obvious that this was being done and I don't think that you were among those manipulated that way. So, there is no contradiction in my statement that off-wiki communcation harmed the climate here and your opinion that it can be used for harmless purposes. We are actually not arguing here. -]
	I agree that the russophone city in Ukraine would need the Russian name mentioned in the first line of the article but not because this is an "english name" which may or may not be the case. The English name which is a different issue.
			2. Your outrage at the "list of offenses" that Piotrus was compiling seems boundless, but please make an effort to see things from his point of view. In the last months of last year, Piotrus went through a quite involved ], where plenty of evidence was presented against him by his opponents on Misplaced Pages. Obviously, presenting counterarguments on his part must have taken quite a lot of effort. Knowing that since the RfC did not result in any resolution, and that a similar effort was likely to be launched against him again (as indeed it was in the Arbcom), it seems perfectly reasonable for him to build up his side of the case beforehand.
	Unlike Russian and Ukrainian languages which have regulating bodies, the respective branches of the Russian and Ukrainian academies of Science, respectively, there is no single body that determines the single English name of the city and we infer the latter from the current usage. Dictionaries and English encyclopedias do the same thing, btw. I know of no better way to determine the most wide-spread usage than the media analysis. I performed such analysis and described the results at the TAG.Odessa's talk page. I was pleased to see that the usage by Britannica (which also uses "English names" for the article's titles) matches that by the anglophone media. As such, the name of an important city in the eastern Ukraine is Харків (in Ukrainian) and Харьков (in Russian). As for the English name, there are two of them Kharkiv and Kharkov and both are valid and neither is less English than the other. Kharkiv is more common in the modern context but Kharkov is still common enough to be mentioned in the article as an alternative name but not as a "single most common English name" as the field "English_name" in infobox suggests. Also Kharkov is the prevailing name in the WW2 context. No one is trying to rename the ] and all the WW2 literature will likely continue to use it indefinetely. --] 02:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
			I suppose that he regrets now posting this material on a page which he thought was private, but which of course in this day and age where Google is combing all Wikispace day and night, obviously is not. ]
	==Arbitration re: Abu badali==
			:Well, although I agree with your supposition that he regrets that his underground effort was discovered, this is acually not what Piotrus is saying now. He is now trying to to say that his posting of this stuff was done purposefully with the aim of a greater transparency. I don't even need to comment on the incredulity of this nonsense. You don't need to either.
	Hi. I am writing you because you were one of the respondants on ] that was started back in November. There has been no substantive comment there for over a month and ] has never bothered to respond to the RfC. The last comment on the talk page of the RfC was a suggestion to take it to arbitration, which is what I propose we do. Accordingly, I have created a ]. I've listed your new there, preliminarily, as a complaintant. If you are not interested in participating, please remove your name. If you are, please add your comments as we must prepare a 500 word summary of the case. Thanks for your attention - ] 15:31, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
			:As for this being a "defence" in advance being reasonable, sorry, I disagree. There is a whole bunch of pretty vicious people who view me their enemy. I assure you that there is no file on my hard-drive or anywhere where I collect the diffs on that folk to have it handy when needed. I think it is repugnant. Yes, I remember many events but if I need a diff, I need to go dig it.
	== Red Army Atrocities ==
			:One example, Piotrus called me Polonophobic at one time. I later reminded him of that and when he denied and challenged me for the diff, it took me a while to find it. Another example, Lysy, called me worse invoking ethnic sensitivities. I remember that episode vividly but there is no diff anywhere ready (while I would probably be able to find it. I just wouldn't want to, as this would make me read again his horrific slur which I am not looking forward to.) True enough, there is so plenty of evidence on some others, that I would not need to look too much. The bottomline is that I see no excuse for such a sneaky behavior as secretly collecting stuff to use when necessary to destroy your contributors. I find this shadowing your colleagues for disgusting and I can't see any way to justify it.
	Zdorovenki buly. Since you have already looked at this in the past (seeing your name appear on the talk page), perhaps you could have a look at this ] and particularly the last Treuenbrietzen addition? I do not know how good your German or Italian is, however. I know that we normally work on the basis of "two wrongs do not make a right" - but this is going a bit far, I think. Znovy dzhakuyu! --] 10:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
			:You say that Piotrus might have been expecting an Arbcom. I was not expecting this one, truly. Moreover, when it was started, I asked MK to stop this as I saw no solution of this via arbcom. I said so again in my statement posted for arbitrators to the Arbcom page before the case was accepted.
	:Seeing that you are very busy, and since people keep adding new chapters there - let me ewplain that this request for comment was about . And nothing else. Though it is funny that one of the guys in German wiki pushing for the falsification on Ehrenburg (combinng a statement from 1942 with one from 1945 and leaving out "leave the women and children alone" to prove that someone advocates wholesale raping IS a falsification) to be included in the article is someone you and I probably know from other debates ().
			:But back to the subject, you may remember that I never co-signed that Piotrus' RfC which I thought was too broad and ill-concieved. Under similar circumstances, I even supported Halibutt, when he was a subject of a difficult RfC (who I also supported even for Adminship although he still molests me from time to time). Yes, I wanted to post a narrower complaint to Piotrus' RfC but I never got to it.
	:Actually, I think it is not a coincidence. These guys first push their POV in German wikipedia, and when being corrected there, they come to the English wiki, confident that people here will not be so at home with these sources. --] 15:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
			:Now, if Piotrus was compiling a statement and drafting it outside of the ArbCom case (publicly or privately), that would have been OK. I tried to start writing evidence too but never got beyond 2 or 3 sentences simply because this is such an unpleasant business. But fine, Piotrus wants to present some evidence that his opponents are nothing but troublemakers, he goes for it. No problem. What '''is''' a problem is that the page pre-dates the draft of the anti-Irpen evidence statement. It predates the arbcom itself as a whole. It was maintaned for months, way before this ArbCom was started and he was collecting diffs that he thought could be used against me (and others) in case he needs them for whatever purpose.
	Well, this article is such a mess and what it needs is a total cleanup and rewrite, not a correction or two. Luckily, most editors who are here for a while do not expect much from the articles whose title include strong terms like "invasion", "occupation", "massacre" and now "atrocities". While those are all valid topics and the articles on them ''could be written'', Wikilife is such that most of them get created as ax grinding exercises to set the stage to air some political grievances of certain users. So, I mostly stay away from those articles except those where the topic is really something else and they need both the renaming and editing, like several invasion and occupation articles.
			:Also, an interesting twist, there were others posting there with diffs. I recognize one author adding a diff from the Warsaw IP (as well as the diff). The author did not get any onwiki invitations to post. This is the type of IM coordination I meant. How many more users took part in it? I really don't want to know and don't care. And please, lets be serious. If Piotrus wanted to do it openly, he would have done it in his enwiki sandbox and would not have kept it in the <nowiki><!---comment out brackets---> </nowiki> in pl-wiki.
	The point is that if the article is really about an encyclopedic event or a history period, I treat is as such (as if its title is neutral, like ''"History of..."'') and edit its content while, at the same time, trying also to convince my opponents to rename it. If, however, not only the title but the very subject of an article is likely to make it a magnet for POV-pushing, I usually do not edit it at all as this is a fruitless exercise. Sorry for not being of help. --] 19:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
			:Also, an outright hypocrisy is his statement's being designed as if "spontaneous", if you read the overture, while in fact it was so meticulously prepared. But well, let Piotrus now live with his consciousness as well as with what others think of this once it came to light. --]
	== Thank you ==
	For making me spend so much time on ]. If it were not for your edits, I'd have never put enough effort into making this article GA/A class. Keep it up and I am sure we will see it on FAC in the near future :) --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 20:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
	:Piotrus, this is one step too far. You used to avoid needlessly inflaming matters which this post is nothing but. --] 20:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
	::Why, Irpen? I trully find your actions motivate me to work harder on Misplaced Pages. I did not plan to spend any time today editing Soviet invasion, alas, you have made me change my plans, and the article is now even larger, with more refs and pictures. And it is you who motivated me to do so - so I am thanking you for that, even if that wasn't exactly your intention.--<;sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 21:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::I will not feed you anymore. --] 21:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::Irpen, whenever you attempt to disrupt an article pushing your POV, you are ''feeding'' me. I look forward to the day you truly stop.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 21:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
	Disrupt? I would have said "Shame, Piotrus", but I have doubts you have any. Now please stop harassing me. The next harassment entry here will be just reverted. --] 21:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
			3. If you really think Piotrus did something really reprehensible, while at the same time you admit that in many respects he is a great contributor to Misplaced Pages and a decent human being, try to put yourself in his shoes for a moment and try to figure out what induced him to do what he did. Could it be that there is something in what you, Ghirlandajo and others are doing that is in some part responsible for this situation? What part of your behavior could be changed? ]
			:A small note here. Piotrus as a ''human being'' is not a subject of this discussion. Let's stick to the editing issues. I will say it again that he is a very valuable contributor. But at least no less a great contributor is his main opponent who Piotrus was hunting for years with partial success. Your trying to do any finger-pointing at his opponents here is not helping. The problem here is not people but an inadequate system of the conflict resolution that allows to game policies, like WP:CIV, WP:NPA, WP:RS, etc., in order to POV-push. The system that makes block shopping, off-line coordinated rv warring and vote stacking, meatpuppeting, all this being parts of the content disputes' resolution is responsible for this mess. People won't change. They can be replaced but the new ones will be no different. There has already been a sufficient amount of fingerpointing at the ArbCom. I would rather let Arbitrators decide and pass the respecvtife FoF's.
			:Also, I am certain, Piotrus' continual attempts to present this as civility issues is not only wrong but insincere. For one, unlike the editor he chases most vigorously I am not an incivil editor (occasional slips might have happened but no more than with all of us), he still added me to his hit-list. Secondly, the incivil Polish nationalists were used as pet-trolls rather than called to order. As for the editing (mis)behavior which is a true reason of this drama, Piotrus and his friends are as guilty of the double-standard POV-pushing as the other side.
	== Translation ==
	I don't have time for that; there is nothing offensive in those posts and besides 1) they are private messages from Darwinek to me and 2) your knowledge of Polish should be sufficient to understand and translate them if you really think they are important.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	:I can understand only part of that and not fully. Not fully enough to use at the ArbCom page. I do find them relevant to the case. Too bad you don't want to cooperate. --] 06:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	::I find nothing in there which would be relevant for the ArbCom. I don't have time to translate every single message Darwinek has posted in Polish for you to analyze; I am afraid you will have to find somebody else for that. Consider, however, that if nobody has felt offended by those messages before - and thus never complained - digging through the archives looking for some 'dirt' may be somewhat counter-productive. I am sure there are better things you can do with your time (edit articles, etc.).--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::Piotrus, I and to be accused of neglecting the mainspase is rather bemusing. I hate digging diffs. I mostly remember things anyway and when i tell what I remember it is you who always cry bring diffs precisely forcing me to waste my time that I could have spent on articles.
			:But even before your advise above I was trying to think of a solution that would have made the situation for better. BTW, for better in general or to Piotrus' liking? Forcing his opponents out is one option. Ghirla has been forced out for a very long wikibreak. I did not see any improvement in behavior of Ghirla-bashers in his absence, neither in Piotrus. Same shameless POV-pushing, double-standards with sources, taking turns in revert wars coordinated by IM, snowballing the votes, etc. Not one single side is guilty of this and neither people nor their behavior is going to change. What needs to change is the way this is handled. If an efficient way of conflict resoltuion is designed that would make block-shopping not an option in the content DR, that would make attacking/pushing the sources based on their POV rather than reliability impossible, then we may achieve some progress.
	:::Now, from what I have seen and partially translated, the messages were offensive. Speculations about usefulness for the user to move to the West to experience some civilizing culture, speculations that progress can be achieved only after certain users leave Misplaced Pages, speculations of ABF on behalf of users to a degree that they would be committed to derail the nomination of any Polish article, be it even about Polish kitchen (btw, you repeated these accusations today) and continuing to post in Polish right below the request to cease are the things I am talking about. You think this is all harmless. Too bad. --] 06:58, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::I am sorry Irpen. There were times I might have agreed with you. Alas, recently, after witnessing your defence of several very incivil editors, my standards might have lapsed. With limited time, I am afraid you have to pursue your presumed offences; I will concentrate on dealing with what .--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 07:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::True enough, the Misplaced Pages might have seen some more blunt talk than what I am pointing to here. But it is these entries being repeatedly posted offensively in the foreign language that adds an insult to an injury. Anyway, ArbCom will look at this. Too bad I will have to provide my highly unreliable translation based on my very poor understanding of Polish. ArbCom deserves better than that but there is nothing esle I can do since you refuse to give me any help. --] 07:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::::Have you considered asking Darwinek for translation?--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 07:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::I did and he ignored my request and posted another entry in Polish right below my request to translate the bevious one: see . --] 18:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
			4. I join you in my dismay at the rather limited (or even nonexistent) positive role that Arbcom is taking in this situation. They contributed very little, and the rulings under consideration are rather meaningless general pronouncements which display no understanding of what is really going on here (I think we all agree on this at this point). It almost makes me wonder whether this whole issue could not just be resolved among the editors involved. Since Arbcom seems incompetent here, maybe that is the only hope left. ] 09:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
	== About the "Żyrandol" nickname ==
			:Yes. See my original statement I made before the case was even accepted. --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
			== Re: "Proposing a novel solution that may actually work" ==
	Hi, I'm explaining it in your talk since the RFArb is probably not the right place. The nickname is stupid and childish, and should have no place in wikipedia, I fully agree. However there's nothing offensive in it. Probably calling someone a tomato would be more of an offence. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
			Hi Irpen. Welcome back. I am very glad to see you participating again. I have read with interest your remarks , and have responded with some questions . I'd be interested in your response. Anything idea that might help ameliorate the situation should be vigorously pursued. Regards, ] ] 19:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
	Seems like a play on the "similarity" of Ghirlandajo and Zhyra'ndol (light fixture) in Polish, if I'm any judge. Not exactly offensive, but certainly somewhat pejorative (was used in context of "between us buddies", right?). ] 09:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
			:Thank you, Paul. I will post a response without delay. Thanks again, --] 19:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
			== Happy Irpen's Day! ==
	:Yes, that's my view as well. Kindergarten level nickname, but not an insult. Or maybe "Ghirlandajo" proved too difficult for some Poles to spell. --]<sup>]</sup> 16:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
	::I said all I have to say about this. Nicknaming other users is pejorative and Darwinek have continuously done so with an obvious intent just to bug another editor since Ghirla made it clear earlier that this deliberate distortion of his username annoys him. Darwinek has this habit of continuing to say or do things he was clearly asked not to, be it bashing others in Polish or play with others' names. The user seems to enjoy just to annoy others for the fun of it. --] 19:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::Please provide diffs proving that he has used it 'continously'. Thank you,--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 16:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::You are being inconsistent Pitorus. When I say things you know to be true you tell me to find diffs despite you perfectly remember the incidents thus only forcing me to waste time. When I do dig diffs, you accuse me in digging through dirty laundry. I already showed you some diffs lately and even asked you to translate which you refused. Need diffs for that? --] 17:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::You conveniently omit the fact that the diffs you occasionally dig are rarely relevant to your accusations...--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 18:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::::Huh? Another empty statement, Piotrus. Anyway, I said it all on the subject where I said it. I pointed the offensive statements to you and asked you to translate them. The ball is in your court. --] 18:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::And I and others remarked to you there is nothing offensive in them. The ball of yours, Irpen, like usual, was full of hot air, I am afraid.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 19:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::::::Why don't you just translate "Myślę, że problemy rusko-polskie uda się załatwić tylko wtedy, kiedy ten użytkownik przestanie edytować." as I asked? --] 19:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::::Because there is nothing offensive in this statement, and you should be able to translate it yourself - I may correct errors if they are important enough.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 19:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	*'''Note:'' For those interested in an English translation it reads, ''I think that the problems between Russians and Poles (Russian-Polish problems) can be solved (resolved) only when that contributor ceases his editing.'' ] 19:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
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			''']''' has been identified as an '''''Awesome Wikipedian''''',<br>
			and therefore, I've officially declared today as ]!<br>
			For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,<br>
			enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Irpen!
			Love,<br>
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			<small>A record of your Day will always be kept ].</small>
	==Infamous "Death Threat"==
			|}
			:Ehm. Thanks, but why? And have we met? I hope I did do something well to get your attention. Best regards and lots of Wikilove from me as well. --] 03:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
	Regarding the ] that Ghirlandajo is purported to have made against one of the most prolific and bemedalled (sic) members of WP's contributors out of Poland. See talk ]. Do you have any knowledge of this accusation or where it stems from? The accuser himself is not going to provide this information, and although I'm virtually sure it is because it never happened, I'm trying to be fair and get to the bottom of this. Thanks. ] 17:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
			::Do we need a reason to tell a great editor, and an wonderful person how greatly appreciated his work is, or how much we look up to him? I certainly don't, dear Irpen - and that's why, my humble gift is my way of telling you, you are all those things - even tho we haven't met directly until now. For this, you deserve the modest token of my admiration, and I hope you enjoyed your well deserved day. Have a wonderful day, dear Irpen! :) Love, ] - 23:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	:Well, all I can say is that if these accusations against Ghirla were ever made, those are ridiculous and do not merit a response. --] 17:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	::Unfortunately the accusation was made (although no evidence has been provided to substantiate the claim). And this kind of thing cannot remain unchallenged or ignored. Sorry to bother you with it, but I hoped you might have an inkling of what it was all about. Maybe someone else might know. Thanks. ] 17:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::Yes I agree on editors is not acceptable. It should be investigated if such "threat" was ever made. ] 12:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
			Dear Sharon. I am afraid I am not the best model to "look up to", at least I would recommend others to look elsewhere for the model behavior. But I appreciate your award and will try to live up to it. Best regards, --] 00:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
	==]==
	Hello,
			== English translation of the Valuyev Circular ==
	An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
			Hiya. I stumbled through translating the ] into English, at ]. If you have a bit of time, please proof-read it and improve the translation. Thanks.&nbsp;''—]&nbsp;]&nbsp;<small>2007-08-10&nbsp;14:20&nbsp;Z</small>''
	On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] 00:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
			:Will do. --] 19:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
	== Request ==		== Map ==
			:]
	Feel free to write how bad I and other Polish editors are on your talk page. Feel free to start a RfC or use other means ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Irpen&action=edit
			Found a nice map. I linked it to a few places, but you might think of more uses for it. It is quite detailed (11 MB). ]
	Editing User talk:Irpen - Misplaced Pages, the 💕f asking others for input. But don't spam my talk pages with your grudges after I have politely asked you to stop several times. By all means, feel free to reply / repost / do whatever you want on your talk pages.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 04:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I do not need to repost anything. My goal was to relay to you a certain message. Since you read it, I don't care whether you deleted or not. That you deleted it is not something that concerns me in any way. --] 04:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)		:Thanks. Useful indeed. It can be also cropped for regions article. A wonderful map. --] 07:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
	:;FYI: I stopped reading your messages on my talk page some time ago; repeated PAs - as pointed out by others - are not something I want to spend my time reading.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 05:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	:::You can tell that you do not read all you want. But saying that you do not even listen when other editors attempt to talk to you does not make you look constructive. Especially in view of the obvious fact that you ''do'' read of course. --] 05:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	::::If it makes you feel any better, you are the first person on Misplaced Pages I have decided I should stop paying attention to.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 05:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	:::::Yeah, right, while you even read my responses to you at my own talk... Anyway, as long as you keep your baseless accusation of myself to our talk pages, I care little since I am used to those. It is your spreading them elsewhere is when they become my concern. --] 05:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	:::Ten chlopak z Katowic nie ma szans? :-).] 10:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	::::Was ist das? --] 20:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
	:::::Das ist jezyk polski (Polnischen). Piotrus says that he's leaving, but he can't actually, so I asked if this fella from Katowice has any chance? :-) I always enjoyed talking with Polish nationalists while being in Poland. ] 03:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
			==]==
	==Soviet invasion of Poland==
			The above case is closed. A general amnesty for editors involved in Eastern Europe-related articles is extended, with the expectation that further editing will adhere to Misplaced Pages's policies. Future behavior problems may be addressed by the Arbitration Committee on the motion of any Arbitrator or upon acceptance of a request for inquiry by any user who edits in this area. For the Arbitration Committee, ] ] 19:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
			==]==
	I am pleased with the way this article is progressing. I've spent enough time on it now that eventually I would like to see it at FAC. However, I'm only too aware of criticisms re POV from you, Mosin, and Grafikm, and though I have done quite a lot, I think, to increase the information in the article about the Soviet view of things, I would be pleased if you could check it over again. I would rather directly address criticisms from you now than at FAC; and I hope you will have time to edit the article yourself.
			Hello,
			An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
	Those elements, like the title, which are well-sourced, cannot be removed (though I have added that the Soviets called it the "liberation campaign" and have made the Soviet view as clear as I can), but there is, of course, room for parallel interpretations of events, if sourced. At the moment I am looking at figures and will be making some edits clarifying the differences between old and newer figures for the deaths and deportations (at the moment the figures are something of an inchoate smattering). Anything you can do to help the article will be appreciated. As you probably know, arguments between Polish and Russian-speaking editors don't interest me: I have a high regard for yourself and Ghirlandajo, as well as for Piotrus and Halibutt, and I would love it if this article could pool all your brains together instead of pulling them apart. ] 21:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
			On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] 00:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
	== Vlad ==
			==Dino award time==
	Thanks for putting in a word. I appreciate the effort -- I have a hunch he's more likely to listen to you than anything I could say. ;) &ndash; <span style="font-family: Garamond">] (])</span> 06:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
			]
	:I think you are right in this. This is exactly why I am trying to convince this user to cool it a little even though I understand his frustration. --] 06:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
			Bishzilla award little Irpen prestigious '''Tightrope Trophy''' created by puny ] for ]. Image represent amazing ] carrying ] safely across ]. ] '']'' 23:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC).
			==]==
	== Thanks for advice ==
			Since you are interested in that period, could you stub this red link? Thank you.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
			:Thank you. Do you think you can also do ]? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 14:27, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
			==]==
	Thanks Irpen. I know they work in groups in order to win revert wars and stuff. Anyway, that's so irrelevant.
			I don't think there is a need to keep that local copy; it's a free licence picture - it will never be deleted from Commons.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 02:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
			:Thank you for such an attention to my edits. It always amuses and puzzles me what's so interesting you find in my person that whenever I go, no matter how little this is related to Poland, I find you commenting on that. Was it a Chorny article that I left unannounced for the day (but still found you there on the next day) or this image request which has nothing to do with Poland whatsoever. But since you are interested, I will respond to this as well.
			:Commons is a separate project from en-wiki. I neither mind nor have any means to prevent commons from getting copies of the en-wiki's images it wants for itself. Mine or others' images are free to redistribute. However, I am not convinced in Commons' safety and, further, I do not want to have anything to do with it. Images that interest me or the ones that I made or uploaded are not "mine". They belong to anyone who uses them in compliance with a free license that includes copying them to commons. All I ask is that for their safety the local copies iarekept. We cannot be sure what quirks will come next in commons. The ANI discussion ended with the conclusion that there is never a need to require the deletion of the local copy in Wikipedias. --] 03:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
	Could you advise me how to push through my mediation case on Boris Stomakhin. Biophys has eliminated all the sources and has article blocked. Only one mediator approache my case. I need a second one. ] 09:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
	==ArbCom/Piotrus==
			==]==
	Case has been started, probably you will be interested:
			This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Among the principles passed was ] which states that necessary measures must be adopted by the Arbitration Committee in cases where repeated attempts to stop disruptive disputes have failed. As a result of the case, both ] and ] are banned for one year. There has also been a ] to all editors working on topis related to ] and ] to all those who may, in the future, attempt to use Misplaced Pages as a ] that they may be banned when the matter is reported to the Committee. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ''']''' '''<small>]</small>''' 18:28, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
	] 10:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
			== Award ==
	== Irpen, please help me with tendentious editing by Piotrus ==
			{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};"
	I have created a small subsection in ] dedicated to criticism of IPN by russian sources. Piotrus deleted at once that section without any dispute and marked his deletion as follows "16:49, 24 April 2007 Piotrus (Talk | contribs) (10,195 bytes) (rv - per Internet brigades, Russian newspapers are not reliable when describing Polish-Russian relations, this is unnecessary detail)"
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			|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''For Irreproachable Services''' - 3rd degree
			|-
			|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | You are hereby awarded this Ukrainian National Award "For Irreproachable Services - 3rd" for extensive coverage of the ], for ], and for writing a "fair use" rational .--]<sup>]</sup> 04:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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			Truly, thanks for all your work.--]<sup>]</sup> 04:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
	Please note that now Piotrus references to ] articles - completly conspiracy theory and original research article, to justify his tendentious editing. ] 17:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
			] is your image you wanted. I notice a spelling error, but I cannot fix it now. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 19:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
	== Old bad habits ==
			==S.H. sources==
	Old habits die hard. Sorry. ] 18:23, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
			Maybe this , ,, would be any of use to you in future if you decide to work on this article seriously. Personally I find this article ]ed beyond belief. Also this could serve as good start for an artile about great historian . Good luck. Cheers. ] 21:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
	== ] peer review ==
			== 83 IP ==
	Wow, ] is sure not what I expected... Looks like you're the only one who reviewed it. Sigh. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 05:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
			Please show me evidence that that anon is a banned user, and I will apologize to MK and ban the IP myself. Otherwise I tend to ] and the anon seems to have a perfectly reasonable point to make.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 20:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
	:Well, sadly the world does not care much about Ukraine. Either ]'s, or ] or ] are better known worldwide than the OR but imagine how even less would we have been known without those celebrities plus the OR? Anyway, I think we should take an effort in referencing the OR better. I am mostly satisfied by it, that is given its current size. It can be expmanded and be made better that way, but for the size that is now, it is IMO, reasonably neutral and comprehensive. That is withstood the 2+ year time test without major changes after the last expansion by Michael and myself is the proof of that. If we just find more in-line refs, we could push it to the GA status. --] 05:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
			:Anon was harassing MK. MK's response was clear when he removed anon's message. Anon restored it thus demonstrating that aggravating MK was indeed his goal. I removed that repeated post as it was obviously harassment. Your intrusion could only aggravate the situation as it did per MK's own message at your talk. Your assistance to the anon harassing MK was unhelpful. --] 20:08, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
	== Zaporizhian Cossacks ==
	Could you please, if possible, pay attention to the problem of constant erasing of alternate (ukrainian) point of view in the articles ] and]. Or do you think that picture should be one sided? ] 11:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
	:Seriously, review this user's contribs, just look at the propaganda infested statement such as this: . The sources that he uses are also excellent, with feaces like this . --] 22:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
	::Where are you? The user continues his assaults. --] 12:45, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
	Whatever much I would love to have 48 hours from midnight to midnight, I cannot be everywhere, sorry. With the crucial ] article being numbed, a certain editor recruiting help against his content opponents and seeking assistance from the medium we used to criticize together and the usual suspects popping up from there with nonsense statements, I simply had no time for this. With a dozen of sem-finished articles never submitted and continued attempts of vigorous nationalist POV-pushing taking even a new route, I can't now promise how soon I will get to the article you ask me. Sorry, buddy :(. But, I will still be around :) --] 19:10, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
			== ] ==
			This arbitration case has closed and the final decision may be found at the link above. Giano is placed on civility restriction for one year. Should Giano make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, Giano may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling. All parties in this case are strongly cautioned to pursue disputes in a civil manner designed to contribute to resolution and to cause minimal disruption. All the involved editors, both the supporters and detractors of IRC, are asked to avoid edit warring on project space pages even if their status is unclear, and are instructed to use civil discussion to resolve all issues with respect to the "admin" IRC channel. For the Arbitration committee, ] 04:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
			== you were missed ==
			Your editing was greatly missed while you were gone. ] 04:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
	==]==
			:Thank you, Ostap. I am also pleased to see you again. Together, we will continue to make WP a better source of knowledge. Cheers, --] 04:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
	Hello,
			==Your #admins query==
	An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
			I asked FT2 to follow up with you about your concerns. He has access to the logs and played a large role in establishing the new guidelines for the channel. I'll follow up with both of you to see if your concerns are addressed. Take care, ]] 21:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
	On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] ] 20:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
	== Desysop this, desysop that ==		== Allow me ==
			{| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;"
	Always with the de-sysoping, you! I know, I know, when your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails, but c'mon Irpen, there's more to life than tilting at adminmills. There are plenty of avenues of conflict resolution available to people ''who invest the effort''. - ]</small> (]) 22:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
			|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | ]
	:"When your only tool is a hammer...", right! But the hammer here is the block button. And don't you tell me about "investing the effort." Go write some articles, like I do, and we can then discuss investing efforts. It is much more fulfilling but somewhat more difficult than running around telling others what to do, blocking on the whim thus making oneself feel important or plotting another act behind the curtains (yes, you understood me correctly.) Desysopping is an extreme measure but it is an extremely sparse one and I have seen only one undeserved desysopping to this date. Whimsical blocking of established editors occurs much more frequently and by whimsical I mean just those, unilateral, spiteful, vengeful, or just "happy to show who is the boss" blocks. Any user may deserve a block but failure to confer at ANI in advance of the potentially controversial block (note at '''ANI''', not ''there'', you know) has always been disastrous. "Cool-off blocks" have always been disastrous.
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			|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Barnstar of Diligence'''
			|-
			|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I, ], hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for your extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service in maintaining strict standards of quality and accuracy in wikipedia articles. Please keep up your very important work ] (]) 08:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
			|}
			== Piotrus/TigerShark/ZScout incident on AN ==
	:Repeated bad judgment blockers is a huge burden as they harm editors to an unconscionable degree, radicalize them, turn them away or simply make them behave like assholes. The more committed the editor, the more good content s/he brought to the project, the cleaner was his/her block log, the more devastating the effects of such blocks are to them.
			I only noticed this by chance. If something like this happens again will you let me know? (This is regardless of who was actually right or wrong, of course.) Meantime having a look into it, and catching up. Whatever went on, whoever did what, it's worth it. ]&nbsp;<sup><span style="font-style:italic">(]&nbsp;|&nbsp;])</span></sup> 04:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
	:But this was about bad judgment blockers. The wrongly motivated "I am sooo important" blockers is even a bigger problem. Finally, unethical behavior has been the worst of those all. Those are much more grave dangers for the projects than vandals of the worst kind and not because vandals are better people but because this project learned to successfully deal with Vandalism. This project is only starting to successfully deal with the abusers. It's taking much slower, but I see some progress lately. --] 23:37, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
			: Done. ]. ]&nbsp;<sup><span style="font-style:italic">(]&nbsp;|&nbsp;])</span></sup> 09:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
	== AZP ==
			==Award==
	I wonder if you could help me with one thing. I created a page ] and I would need help from a Russian speaker with the abbreviation "AZP". I believe that it stands for "automatic anti-aircraft gun" (автоматическое зенитное ________) Could you help me correct and complement this? Many thanks in advance. --] 18:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
			{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|blue}}}; background-color: {{{color|orange}}};"
	:See article. And you are very welcome. --] 18:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
			|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | ]
	::I owe you one :) --] 07:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			|rowspan="2" |
			|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | <span style="color:#0000f1">'''Ukrainian National Award ‘The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky - 3rd degree’'''</span>
			|-
			|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | <span style="color:#0000f1">I hereby awarded you the Ukrainian National Award ‘The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky - 3rd degree’ for your enthusiasm and dedication to ] topics and helping others Wikipidians! - ] (]) 22:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC) </sup></span>
			|}
			:Thanks! You beat me as I was about to give you an award later today, which will now have to wait :). Wow, I now amazingly have two orders of B. Kh. from different states. This reminds me to update my userpage. Thanks again, Mariah-Yulia! --] 23:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
	== Project endorsements for Errabee ==
			:: Your welcome, remind me not to give this award to ] :). BTW isn't there a Taras Shevchenko-award? ] (]) 23:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
			:::There exists a which is usually awarded for the achievements in the field of arts. There were several controversies about the choice of laureates but that is not unusual. Even ] awarding were controversial, both under the previous and the current president. --] 23:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
			== Trans. request ==
	You may want to modify on Errabee's RfA to clarify or give links to where the votes were held, I went to the Russian History talk page and main page and came up cold. Others may as well. Just a suggestion. I think it quite interesting that projects chose to do this even after Kelly seemed to have stopped asking for it. ++]: ]/] 19:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
	:To start with, I don't care what Kelly does or does not and I do not plan to comment any further on this. Demanding project endorsement is plain nonsense but demanding content writing from admins who want to engage in non-technical tasks, and especially, deal with live editors makes perfect sense. There is no such thing as an official project endorsement. There is such thing as having many members of the project(s) clearly supporting the candidate. This is what is happening here. Finally, I expect the promotion denied no matter what the vote count is by 'crats as per Carnildo's and Danny's precedents. This may be rather devastating from the candidate but, hopefully, not in this case since he seems to be warned and the whimsical denial won't be a surprise for him. Happy edits, --] 20:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
	::I'm a little confused. You stated on the RfA that this candidate has endorsements from projects. I went to try to find them, and failed. All I'm saying is that if there are project endorsements, would you be kind enough to provide a link to them for the benefit of other readers? Or were you saying something else entirely? Perhaps I am confused by your wording. (perhaps also I should have not even added the last sentence in my original comment... please feel free to disregard it) ++]: ]/] 02:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			Sorry to bug thee Irpen. If you have any time, could you translate , and maybe put it in thy userpace? It might be useful for non-Russian speakers on wiki to be able to read that sort of thing. It's especially interesting as it's by a renowned Ukrainian medievalist, and will prolly be useful again and again. All the best, ] (<small>]</small>) 03:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
	If you look at the RfAdm, I the statement after your very first message at my talk. HTH, --] 02:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			:Will do. I posted a brief response to the article's talk and will let you know when I am done translating. It is a good article indeed by a renowned scientist in the field. --] 05:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
	:Ah. I missed that you changed it as your reply here didn't mention that. A few words changed and it is all very clear now... you're saying that the comments of project members at the RfA are themselves the "endorsement"... I didn't get that from your original wording. An entirely novel theory, and perhaps one that will put paid to this quixotic quest for project endorsements... well done. I do disagree with you on the merits of the candidate, the stance on fair use is very concerning to me, but I think that you made an excellent point with that endorsement statement, now that I get it. :) ++]: ]/] 03:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			== Does it have to end like that? ==
	== Velykyy Bychkiv ==
			Irpen, I still remember the days we co-edited peacefully.
			Please, consider: I do not follow your edits; I do not criticize articles you have written for bias based on your ethnicity or such; I do not come out of blue to start threads about you on public forums even if you blip on my watchlist here and there; I do not criticize you on public forums for things you have done now or years ago; I do not demand a review of your behavior; I do not not criticize past ArbCom or other rulings that failed to fulfill all my expectations with regard to your person. And so on. Yet increasingly you are doing all of those things to me.
	Hey Irpen, you have any sources that state the current demographics of ]? For example, how many Jews live there today? <tt class="plainlinks">]]</tt> 04:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
	:I will see what I can find. The ] web-page in Ukrainian is much more complete than the English version. And they are all rather unfriendly to navigate for a novice. Will post in a day or two. Cheers, --] 04:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			Please, Irpen, stop this. I find no pleasure in our disputes, and I don't want to spend a single second collecting diffs with regards to them. Cannot we just agree not to talk about one another? Cannot you just refrain from voicing your opinion on "what Piotrus does"? If you wish, we could try a mediation, perhaps with ] (I found her attempt to mediate between me and Ghirla a year ago rather helpful).
	==Bronze Soldier ==
	Hi there! We need a correct architectural classification. Can you come up with a more appropriate classification than ]. I thought "socialist realism" may sometimes be part of that style, especially since the monuent was erected under Joseph Stalin in 1947. -- ] 09:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
	:IMO ] would fit but we better ask an architectural expert. But it is definitely not Stalinist neo-classicism commonly associated with the the term. --] 09:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
			I hope we will be able to bury this proverbial hatchet and stop confronting one another in that way before we end up in ArbCom (again - do we need to go through ]?). I hope we are wise enough to avoid it.
	Why is it that one Swede and one Finn have to alone defend both the Russian and the ] in this article, againt a horde of agressive and hostile POV pushers from Estonia? Up to now there has been virtually no participation from Russia. -- ] 08:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Shame, I agree. I will see what I can do and thanks a lot for heads up. --] 17:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
			Please, pretty please, consider my words. I have not commented under your latest analysis in AE, even through I could've pointed out the ArbCom rulings and such we all know too well. I have no desire to criticize you and blacken your name, please do not do so to me. Please consider this a gesture of my good will, and if so, please consider removing your post there (the issue does not concern you at all, after all) and please, consider not commenting on me in the future (and I will do my best to not comment on you, and to fulfill any other reasonable requests you may have in the future).
	== Thank you ==
			Please think back to 2 or 3 years ago when we were on more peaceful terms and whether we cannot act like the bad blood between us from was never there. Thanks, --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 01:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
	Hi, I just wanted to leave a personal message that I greatly appreciated your comments in my RfA. It was an unconventional bid, and as such I was prepared that it might not succeed. In fact, I was surprised to see that many people support me. Thanks again, and don't worry about me. ]]] 18:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Actually, we crossed paths as I saw that while previewing the message I was about to leave you. You will see it shortly. --] 18:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
	::How very nice of you, that's really something to cheer people up. That's one of the points in which I should improve: helping others to get out of a rough spot. ]]] 18:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
			:Piotrus, this is a serious message and deserve nothing but a very serious response from me. I divided it into paragraphs (I hope you don't mind) and will give you a detailed reply within two days. --] 09:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
	==Did you see this?==
	] | ] 20:54, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
			::Irpen, I understand how you feel. After I complained about his co-editing with {{user|Molobo}}, he ({{user|Piotrus}}) accused me of devoting my activities to "whitewashing nazi crimes", pretty much the closest you can come to calling someone a nazi without actually saying so out loud. Naturally he provided nothing to back up his slander with. I replied to this attempt at character assasination, not that it is of much use.--] <sup>]</sup> 14:17, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
	== Your comment ==
			::Waiting.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 02:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
	Whatever was, the ] is not the place to post it. Try the talk pages of the people you think are involved. ] 02:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Thanks, Balcer, but I posted it exactly where I intended. And, no, I did not say ''you'' are involved in any way. No do I think so. --] 02:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	::You accuse a person active on the noticeboard of wrongdoing, without giving any indication of who this might be. Since I participate on that noticeboard, that accusation is also aimed at me. I consider this a personal attack, and a gross misuse of a Misplaced Pages notice board. Incidentally, the accusation is so cryptic, I have no idea what it is about. ] 02:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	All right. I am not going to persist in this silly revert war. It stays in history and will likely be read enough, to be sure. I do not care whether it beautifies the page (and its archives) forever. I hope you will fiercely remove the calls to get a hand in an edit war frequently posted at that board from now on. --] 02:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
	:It is back in now, and I am not going to revert an admin. I invite you to remove your own message. If you don't, it stays in your "history", so to speak. Please think about it. Maybe the best approach here is to change your perspective: how would you feel if this message appeared on the Ukrainian and Russian noticeboard, accusing everyone there of (possibly) being indecent, without any explanation or proof. In essence, this message is saying: ''Someone on this board is an indecent bastard, but I am not going to tell you who, and I am not going to tell you why.'' ] 02:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			==#admins channel==
	Balcer, "I am not going to tell you who" only because I don't have a 100% proof of who, but I do have a very strong circumstantial evidence on "what" (a ].) As for the Russian or Ukrainian boards, I am aware of the announcements in support of someone or something (like even ) and, sadly, even calls to oppose something. But I am not aware of any similar campaigns run among the Russian or Ukrainian users behind the scenes. If this happened, I would not hesitate to use the board to find what truly was behind such incident in the Russian or Ukrainian community. --] 02:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			Hi :-) After reading your comment about #admins, yesterday I started a discussion in #admin-chan-ops about some of the issues you raised. Though no specific action was made in response to the discussion, the exchange of information was good and I now think that there is better awareness of some of your concerns. I plan to do it again some time next week. Take care, ]] 20:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
	:If you are not sure, then don't make the accusation. If you have a hunch about specific people involved, take it up on their talk page. If you think that "Polish users" are responsible, that includes me, and everyone on that board. Clearly you must realize how counterproductive and harmful such accusations are.
	:Enough of this. Sorry to say this, but today you have taken another step towards taking Misplaced Pages to the toilet. Over and out.] 02:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			== ] deletion? ==
	Please read what I said at the board. What happened is indeed disgusting but my exposing it is aimed at making the repetitions less likely. --] 06:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
			Should said article be listed for deletion? It's a POV fork and the article is just one massive violation of ], a POV pushing article created by a notorious user under the blatant POV pushing title of “Holodomor genocide denial”. The ] article already discusses the genocide question so what little legitimacy this article has is covered there.--] (]) 14:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
	== Orange Revolution references ==
			== RFA thanks ==
	Hey, about those references... Can you convert all the non-specific references at the bottom into specific ones? (As in, specific references link to sentences they relate to.) I can't help much with that, since I don't know which reference relates to which sentence. Thanks. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 21:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Will try, but as a side project. Little by little. Thanks, --] 01:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	::Just as long as it will get done in about four days. :-) I'm sorry that I can't help. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	Four days may be too tight. --] 04:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	: I'm just worried about the article having failed GA status, that's all... — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	:: I would not worry about labels too much, unless those a FA. GA does not mean anything. There are plenty of crap GA articles, much worse than OR. Also, I am aware of the OR's deficiencies and referencing is the main one since we wrote most of it before the current much higher referencing standards emerged. --] 04:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
			Thanks for your support in my ], that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. <span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:#800080;">] § ]/]</span> 18:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
	== Commons ==
	I completely agree, but I think it is completely outrageous to block me indefinitely. I needed to edit in Commons today as I spotted an error from the bot ], and wanted to bring it to its owner's attention, and was (still am) very much annoyed when I couldn't edit. I solved it by tracking the operator here on en:wiki, but that's besides the point. Still, I'd better handle this alone, or I'd get all of you in trouble as well. And finally:
			== Award ==
	{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};"		{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};"
	|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | ]		|rowspan="2" valign="top" | ]
	|rowspan="2" |		|rowspan="2" |
	|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar'''		|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''Hero of Ukraine''' - Order of the State
	|-		|-
	|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for all those times you've stood by me! ]]] 20:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)		|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Pursuant to the 23 August 1998, Edict #944/98, I hereby award you the title of the ] with the Order of the State (Орден Держави) ''for achievements in labor''. These include over 10,000 article edits, over 200 uploaded images, and over 30,000 total edits. Congratulations!--]<sup>]</sup> 04:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
	|}		|}
			:Wow! Thanks Riurik! And, I never thought I made that many edits. It's nice that someone notices :). Thanks again, --] 05:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
	== Kyiv/Kiev ==
			== Gagarin image ==
	THe ] article has both names, why shouldn't ]? — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 22:43, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	:It may. Let's discuss it at article's talk. --] 22:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
	:: Okay, go ahead and voice your opinion ]. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 22:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
			Someone is trying to get your Gagarin image deleted , thought you might like to comment.--] (]) 03:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
	I don't know why I even bother... — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 23:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
			:Nope. I don't really care. I take no part nor interest in Commons which I see as a failure project of WMF and a ticking bomb. If someone uploads my images there, it is their busyness on maintaining it. I put {{tl|KeepLocal}} on all images I upload to the Misplaced Pages. If the image gets deleted from Commons, I will upload it to Misplaced Pages and will decide on the best license. --] 03:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
			==Polish administrative divisions==
	==C Праздником!==
			Hi, Irpen! Piotrus asked me to comment on the situation around the ] article on ], and since it regards several of your edits, I thought I'd let you know as well. Please feel free to comment and provide any clarifications you feel are necessary. Cheers,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 16:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
	]</center>]]
	==Thanks!==
	Thanks for the award (very unexpected :-) ) and C Днем Перемоги/C Днём Победы! — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 03:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
	== Beatles fab four ==		== Quick note ==
			Irpen, I have hopefully made it utterly clear in my statement that I do not support any further action on Giano, and that he's only listed as involved because he was the fulcrum for which WMC and Geogre's actions should be judged. Giano's making a statement here couldn't hurt, and certainly could help. But I understand the high level of feelings here, and I've disengaged from his page, and unless you wish me to post here again on this issue, from here as well. ] (]) 01:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
	Hi, Irpen.
			:SirFozzie, you know full well what will come out from your submission. You (and I) may not know the final outcome, but I hugely disagree that resolving this through starting an arbcom case was a good idea. Worse, it was the worst idea of all I can think of. I explained why elsewhere. I am not a fan of WMC (who I know for a very long time I will explain more if the case gets accepted) but this will be another round of circus on Giano-matters? Certainly not needed because ArbCom no final decision on this matter ''this'' arbcom can come up with can solve this problem but make it worse.
	You know I'm a new user here and I'm not sure I'm going to be a constant one. Just a toy on holidays. I hope there is some there exists some institute of judges in wiki. You look like one of them.
	Because of that constant cheater DLX I had to slightly change my name. See
	].
	I believe his complaints are mostly out of context. You saw yesterday one example. Look at the original discussion in the BS page.
	You see the topic is highly controversial and maybe I wasn't that cool. But I believe something something should be done with those aggressive user like DLX. Can you express your opinion? ] 19:37, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
	:I am not a judge, LOL, but I will take a look. My advise to you is to stay cool no matter what. --] 20:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
			:I don't remember ever banning anyone from posting at my page. You can post or not post as you like. I will only add one thing. Judging by your overall pattern, I was thinking that you might be running for the ArbCom seat and I was considering that if this happens, I might support you. These events changed at least this thing already. --] 01:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
	I'm still fighting. Take a look. ]
			::Why did I bring up an ArbCom case? because the entire series of behavior involved is stuff that's bright line, no doubt, from up high THOU SHALL NOT stuff.
	LOVE AND PEACE ] 00:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
	: BTW. That Sandstein temporarily blocked M.V.E.i. who expressed his opinion too. MAKE LOVE NOT WAR ] 01:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
			::Rapidly escalating blocks by WMC, making things into a vicious circle? Check
	::::: They try to raise their heads again. Unbelievable. Take a look.
			::Geogre coming in, and not only undoing the block completely (he says he meant to change the duration, but it fell to another administrator to actually reblock), but undoing the page protection which a third, COMPLETELY neutral administrator had placed in an attempt to keep things from flowing over? Check
	].
			::WMC completing the circle by reblocking Giano? Check.
	] 22:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
			::At no point was there an attempt to disengage, or to get more eyes on this, by either Geogre or WMC. The rules are quite clear. DO NOT undo another administrator's action without discussion (either get the other admin's ok, or get consensus at various places). Geogre didn't do that. Worse yet, WMC flagrantly violated the rule against Wheel-warring by reinstating the block.
	== Some thoughts on the Baltics ==
			::There's another administrator who I've been talking to, who's a lot closer to Giano's side on this then anyone else. They're also disappointed that I brought this, not because of the case itself, but because the time frame means that Giano won't see this till the morning his time, and it looks like the case will be accepted in about 23 hours). They were thinking about bringing their own arbcase a few hours from now, and to leave off Giano from the list of involved parties.
	It seems that all articles on the history of the ] are versions of what I call the ]: 50% political bias, 50% half-truths and exaggeration. The situation is not getting any better. The last chapter in this story was the ], achieved by editors who's only previous contributions had been (one sided edits) to the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
			::I'm sorry that I lost your support for the ArbCom run that I'm planning on making in December (If I'm willing to criticize it from afar, I damn well better attempt to fix the things I see), but this is classic behavioral nonos, the very fabric of Misplaced Pages that keeps it an encyclopedia, and not anarchy. Right now, as a result of their behaviors today, neither Geogre nor WMC have my confidence as an administrator. That's why I brought the case. That's why there's four accepts, already. ] (]) 01:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
	Is there anything that can be done about the issue? Should we just publicly announce that Misplaced Pages is a collection of lies, and maybe stop contributing to it?
			:::I know of a far more plausible explanation of why there's four immediate accepts but I expressed it already elsewhere. As for the rest, I see no point arguing it here. I will post to the case when its page gets created. And as a side note, it is a strange pleasure to see my observation on other editors' intentions being on the spot. Shows that I am here for too long. But back to the topic, I simply cannot trust your judgment after seeing that you chose this path to resolve this series of incidents. This is why I changed my mind on your prospective candidacy. --] 01:35, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
	Some options:
	# Set up a project to handle articles with problems caused be ethnic and national disputes. If we could somehow get Asians and Africans to contribute on European disputes and vise versa, we could get a more balanced result. Or, is the English language Misplaced Pages so much influenced by the Anglo-Saxon NATO agenda that it should in fact be called Natopedia?
	# Create two alternate versions of history. I do not really care what the articles are called, as long as they get the story right and acknowledge the existence of an alternate view. We could have ] and ].
			;update: And I am not happy to find the events confirming my suspicions. . --] 07:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
	The first question is however to decide how to discuss “tactics”, without this turning into a shouting match against nationalists. The Baltic noticeboard will not do.
	-- ] 23:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
			== Hi ==
	Petri, this problem is as old as the Misplaced Pages is. There is no single way to solve this once and forever. Forking is certainly not the reasonable option. What is needed is diligence, persistence, and good-faith sourced edits. You know, the usual stuff. I will try to help within the time I have these days. Sorry for being of little help :(. --] 00:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
			You're back, hurray. Some day I would like to make ] into a GA and would appreciate yr help with references - maybe you have access to images?. Best, ] (]) 23:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
	== Babi Yar ==
			== Your RFArb statement ==
	Irpen,
			Hello Irpen. Please could you refactor your statement on the main RfArb page? Statements should be 500 words or less, and yours is currently 1380. Thanks, ''']<sup>See ] or ]</sup>''' 23:27, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
	would you mind terribly taking at look at . The two sources disagree, and the new one is far more reliable, but some verification from a Ukrainian speaker would be good. ] is the original document in Ukrainian (I can see from my broken Russian that neither version is perfect). As far as "zhid," we are talking about German translated into Ukrainian in Kiev in 1941. The translators could have been Kiev natives, Ukrainians from further west, or Germans. My intention is to stick to my guns, I don't like feeling bullied, and I am reasonably certain I have the better version. But if I am completely off, please stop me! Thanks, ] 00:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
			==]==
	:I will look. Please allow me a little time to sort out too much. --] 00:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
			An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
			On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, &mdash;&nbsp;]&nbsp;<sup>]</sup> 22:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
	== Bohdan Khmelnytsky article ==
			== Civility policy issues ==
	There is some controversy over the content of the article, I was wondering if you have an opinion on the subject? Thanks in advance.--] 17:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
	:I am pleased you contacted me on this matter. I will post my thoughts at the article's talk but a general comment is that this one same argument needs to be carried at only one of the two pages (rather the uprising than the bio article, if you ask me) and to avoid forking lots of info should be moved from the bio article to the uprising one. --] 00:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
	:: This was exactly my argument: the same stuff is forked from Uprising into Bio. Besides, there is some doubt in regards to the validity of some of the sources. As a counterbalance I tried to post Subtelny's note on casualties - it gets thrown out because they don't like it. You can read my suggestions at the discussion page. For the time being I am staying away from it all, I have no desire for revert wars. --] 02:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
			FYI, you may wish to read and comment at ]. Regards, ] (]) 03:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
			=== Discussion at ] ===
			Hi there. A follow up to our recent posts. You've been active recently at ]. Would you be interested in commenting at ]? There are several other threads on that talk page that you might be interested in as well, and a proposal to rewrite the policy. For the whole recent story, read downwards from ]. This will need to be advertised more widely to get more balanced input, but for now I'm notifying those I quoted from the RfArb, and a few other editors who have either written essays on this, or have been active on the talk page recently. Apologies if you had this watchlisted anyway. ] (]) 06:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
	==]==
	Hello,
			==]==
	An Arbitration case involving Abu badali has been opened: ]. You have expressed an interest in this before, so please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].
			Irpen, hi, glad to see you back. :) Since you participated in the Tag team discussions at the WG wiki, I wanted to draw your attention to the ] essay. It was started based on our 2008 report, but is still heavily in flux. I'd really love if you could come over and help out with it, to ensure that your opinions are properly reflected in the essay. Or if nothing else, please add it to your watchlist? Thanks, --]]] 23:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
			== Bravo ==
	Thanks, - ] 16:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
			You just made the best edit of the day , Bravo! Unfortunately I wasn't brave enough to do it... ] (]) 21:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
	==]==
	I need your help. --] 14:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
			==Another hand==
	==]==
			{{archive top}}
	I am surpsised you are not there. For once I thought we would be on the proverbial same side of the barricade... --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 16:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
			Irpen, it is not my desire to drag you (or anybody else) through wikipolitics mud throwing contests. Since we didn't have any problematic wiki content disputes in months (if not years) I didn't plan to involve you in any dispute resolution ''unless'' you made yourself involved in it first. I presented evidence against you only ''after'' you've joined the ArbCom and made it clear you'll present your evidence against me. The evidence I've gathered in the past was gathered to use ''to defend myself'' when ArbComs would be launched against me (as they've been in the past), not to attack others (I've never started an ArbCom). Wouldn't it save both of us much time and stress if we would withdraw our mutual fingers pointing at each other from this arbcom and concentrate on improving Misplaced Pages (as we are doing by discussing Jaworski's work, for example)? Do we have to fight? I don't see why we should.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 21:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
			:Piotrus, I like peace. I want to edit in peace. But your post requires a little bit of time to answer and I have to be away from my computer for another several hours (but hopefully not for the day.) I will respond as soon as I am back but I just '''want to be sure you are familiar with ]''' I had with Balcer. It has been at my talk for a while and it would save me a lot of space if I don't have to repeat what was said back then. --] 23:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
	==Evidence phase==
	Hello Irpen. If you intend to ] on the Piotrus RFAR, could you please do so soon? Thank you. ] ] 17:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
	== Template:PD-UA-exempt ==
			Piotrus, I hope you had time to read the ]. Now, a more detailed response.
	Hi there, I noticed you edited the ] awhile back. You are welcome to contribute on a related Rfc page here, ]. Much appreciated, --] 21:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
			I fully share your lack of affection to the ArbCom (particularly ''this'' ArbCom I must add to be fully honest.) I share your desire to avoid arbcom as much as possible. All I want is that all the are able to do it in harmonious environment while the to somehow fulfill their ambitions without interfering with the ability of good editors to work comfortably creating the Misplaced Pages content. Unfortunately it has become impossible to harmoniously edit in EE area where I want to write and this arbcom, as well as previous ones, illustrate just that.
	== Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements ==
			Let me outline again what I see as the most important hurdles, aside from unhelpful intrusions of , and what I think needs to be done on our, and particularly, ''your'' part. If this was done earlier, things would not have reached the arbcom stage. In fact, all the previous arbcoms could have been avoided too. If it can be done now, I would support a request to end this ArbCom and consider the matter resolved. Arbitrators would be just as happy, I am sure.
	:Hey again, can you explain what you meant by ''Please consider moving some (definitely not all though) to Board two but totally up to you.''? Thanks, --] 21:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
	If you look at the top of the page, there is an explanation there about two boards and a rough guideline on how to loosely decide on which one to choose for a particular article. All major league players surely pass a WP:Notability test, so the articles were rightfully created and your work is appreciated. The board, however, serves to prompt interested editors to add articles to their watchlist (at least that's why I created it.) So, if sufficient number of editors who watch the board can be expected to watchlist the article, it is board one. The rest goes by default to board two. The deciding factor on what qualifies for the board one are (IMO) the combination of importance of the topic in general and the degree of its relevance to Ukraine. Here are some examples in terms of sports (below are strictly my personal assessment and your mileage may vary)
			The primary reason why the editing environment in these topics is so plaguy is not just that these are the areas where editors' views are so strong. People with strong views can have amicable discussions about their issues of disagreement. '''The reason why the climate is so poisoned lies in some participants' in these conflicts acting dishonestly'''. The most blatant form of dishonest conduct is employing various secretive means aimed at gaining an upper hand in a conflict.
	Even very important articles unrelated, or almost unrelated, to Ukraine (don't belong to any of these boards) would be for instance the foreign sports club where the Ukrainian player happens to play (again, might depend on the player, you know what I mean.)
			I consider your logging to be just that. In my statement I explained why ]. I don't see how following me around and logging my reaction to Betacommand's trolling me or logging Dorftrottel's trolling at ANI about myself can be used for ''your defense''. I don't see how logging my two-months absence can be used for your defense. And I don't see how selectively logging my other actions and giving them the worst possible spin can be used for defense of your own actions. I also wrote ] that '''the only good use of this log I can see is for an attack'''. And this is exactly how it was used . '''I must insist that you cease this practice'''. I asked you many times but you persisted.
	The article may be loosely related to Ukraine despite the topic's overall importance (board two), like important tournament series where Ukrainian participants consistently do well. Or the article may be fully related to Ukraine but the topic is not likely to interest sufficient number of editors to watch it (relatively little known player from the Ukrainian club.)
			For me '''your log was a ]'''. Before that I ] that your conduct is an ArbCom matter despite many bitter disagreement we had. The understanding on this activity is absolutely crucial and if we cannot reach it by a mutual agreement, I see it critical to get an ArbCom ruling on that. Neither me, nor ArbCom can enforce any ban on your continuing to follow whoever your consider your enemies and meticulously log anything that you can try to spin in a way that would help you push for sanctions of your targets. Thus, ideally it has to be a voluntarily pledge on your part. If you refuse to give it, the only sanction to this effect would be a remedy that would prohibit you from using such surreptitiously collected information. Can we come to an agreement on this?
	Finally important sports people (], ]), clubs, organizations, series, unquestionably go to board 1. I think it is just as well if we keep all of those articles you posted at board 1. I just wanted to prompt your attention to the board two in case you find some of the articles more fitting there. Never mind and thanks again. Any chance we get these two red links blue? --] 08:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			Next, comes off-line canvassing. '''Are you trying to say that you do not contact people off-line asking for a revert''', when you approach a 3RR quota, or for a vote in a survey? Please, let's be serious! This has to stop. Of course, aside from ''#admins'' logs that are absolutely stunning, no direct evidence can exist of your ] and email communication since off-wiki communication by its very nature does not leave trace. Their being untraceable is exactly why off-line communications are used, sometimes for absolutely legitimate but ''sometimes for the illicit purposes''. No ] can possibly exist that you ask for reverts by emails and Gadu Gadu. But I believe the amount of ] (in addition to Molobo's flipping on whether he communicates with you off-line and the Alden Jones affair) seems to me very convincing. I can name a couple of other editors, aside from Molobo, who are also known to be your Gadu Gadu partners and who come in ''all the time'' when you are ]. We can have arbitrators rule based on the circumstantial evidence and whatever came out accidentally on Molobo and Alden Jones. Or I will accept if '''you publicly pledge not to ever ask for an extra revert off-line'''. While I do not do it myself, if you want I will will post a similar public pledge on my page if this would make it easier for you to promise to refrain from such activity and follow up on this promise.
	==Pechersk School International==
	Could you possibly give a better prod reason than obvious--I can think of a few, we want to set a good example. But considering its troubled history, maybe AfD. Up to you. ''']''' 02:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
	:No, it is up to you now since you removed the prod. As for the reasons, I don't know where to start and "obvious" applies exactly. Additionally, it is a recreation as it has been deleted earlier. I wash my hands off it. --] 02:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			As for the IRC incidents I listed, how can you possibly claim that you did nothing wrong going to this rather ''special place'' and badmouthing your opponents behind their backs? And how can you come back to wiki and complain about "incivility" with straight face after what you have said at IRC behind the editors' backs? '''Would you be willing to pledge that no illicit IRC-shopping would ever happen?''' In that case, we won't need an arbcom ruling on that either.
	==Maslov dab==
	Done. Of course, disambiguation should be done by patronymic whenever possible, but for cases when patronymic is hard to find disambiguation by occupation will suffice. Anyway, I moved the racer to ] and redirected ] to ] disambiguation page, to which I added a few more Viktors, including the Dynamo head coach. All we need now is an article about him :)
			As for your adminship, my problem with it lies in that people who behave unethically should not be admins. If we can agree on the ethic rules and you pledge to abide by them we won't need to discuss your admin status. IMO, admin status in its own means very little.
	Let me know if you need anything else or if you have questions. Best,—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 12:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			So, this is my take on things. If you voluntarily pledge to stop maintaining logs on those you consider your enemies, refrain from using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys, refrain from misusing #admins to get an upper hand in POV disputes and generally abandon the practice of solving editing conflicts through achieving your opponents' blocks or sanctions by whatever means possible, I would be just as happy to have it solved without any ArbCom involvement. You cannot seriously deny that such activity is reprehensible while you can continue to deny, of course, that you have done that in the past. Is this what you are trying to say?
	==Guberniya==
	I sure have a lot of interest in sorting this out (it ''is'' somewhat of a mess, as you rightfully noted), but unfortunately what I don't have is the time. As far as ] goes, the article was left at this title as "guberniya" is a loanword, but since it is not really well-known to Anglophones, a well-fitting translation ("Governorate") was used to title the articles on actual guberniyas. All those articles are supposed to have a link to "guberniya" somewhere in the lead, so it is absolutely clear to readers that both terms refer to the same thing. I am not saying this is the best way to handle the situation, but so far it has worked reasonably well. It's fairly easy to fix, though&mdash;we can just redirect "guberniya" to ], where it would be included as a section, or split existing ] into ], ] (to which "guberniya" would redirect), and ] (or whatever a better term for this one would be).
			Also, and if this would have been an ideal world, I would like to see your help in reigning on bad users regardless on their POV. Your staunch and persistent defense of Molobo that ranges from personally unblocking him to arguing against every single block he got, arguing on- and off-wiki, continues to raise my eyebrows. But this is your business. I have no intent to interfere with your private correspondence in general. You can correspond with anyone you want. I have no qualms even about your correspondence with Martintg whose obsession about my person goes beyond understandable
	As for "namestnichestvo", fixing that requires research and time committment which I currently cannot afford. Sorry! Note, however, that even when "namestnichestvo" is pretty much the same as "guberniya", it is a different term, so it would not be incorrect to translate is as "viceroyalty" instead of "governorate".
			. '''There are proper and improper uses of off-line communications. The latter has got to stop.''' And, ironically, the normalcy in our recent discussion of Jaworski's work only became possible because no one arrived ''this'' time out of the blue with reverting my placing doubts on the propriety of the use of this source in the infobox. This just demonstrates what stays in the way of our discussions always taking a constructive route.
			So, if we could agree on this without ArbCom, I would be just as happy. --] 01:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
	Finally, "General Governorship" ({{lang|ru|генерал-губернаторство}}) was a unit that comprised several governorates and/or oblasts. I am, however, not sure what you mean by Little Russia Governorate and Little Russia Governorship General being different&mdash;I don't recall hearing the latter name (but I could just be a bit rusty on that topic :)).
			:Irpen, I always found it sad that we agree on so many general principles and yet disagree on others, mostly minor issues that get blown out of proportions. I found and still find your problem with those minor issues, like my evidence collection, puzzling. Let me address it in few issues:
	Sorry for not being of more help.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 17:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			* wiki disputes resolutions ''require'' one to present evidence; it's collection is not a sign of bad faith but of following the rules
			* if I wanted to be dishonest, the simplest thing I could have done long ago was to pledge I am not doing it and keep doing it (for example on one of other mediawiki sites that I edit, and where it would be completely impossible to trace, or in a word document on my computer). That I have not done so proves that I am not dishonest (I believe my evidence collection is ok - brought up and not criticized by last arbcom, and a clarification request later on - and I see no reason to hide an honest diff collection collected for dispute resolution)
			* I also hope you don't think I am stupid as I'd be if I believed nobody would discover my continuing evidence (which was hidden from google to avoid offending people but not from any reasonably smart wiki editor dedicated to tracing my edits)
			* since it is impossible to prevent an editor from collecting evidence, if I were to cripple myself, it would just mean that others can freely do what I cannot. I do believe that there are editors out there who collect evidence against me. I do believe that they have a right to do so, just as I have the right to do so. For that reason, I cannot declare a one sided ceasefire, just as in real world a country with nuclear weapons would be foolish to declare a one-sided dearmanent. Sad, but it's ''realpolitik''. I hate wikipolitics, but I'll be damned if I allow others to use it against me. Would I trust you if you declared you'll never collect evidence against me? Likely, I respect you that much. But can we trust all the editors out there - including future ones - not to do so?
			* I believe that having a log of diffs is just a technicality; one can spend few days and compile it or one can do it slowly over a period of time. Why single out one way of gathering information? How long one can keep the diffs, or collect them before it turns from acceptable to unacceptable? Few hours? Days? Weeks? What if you want to take a break in your evidence collection, because you are to disguested with it, others, have no time or hope it won't be needed? It's simply strange to specify a time in which one can gather diffs for dispute resolution.
			* I have gathered evidence that I stumbled upon by accident and that I never thought I'd be using, but please forget about what I haven't done and tell me if there is anything I have done (i.e. used evidence on public wiki forum) that you think I shouldn't have, and we can discuss that. But by assuming with bad faith that I planned to use evidence in a way I haven't used it, you're building a straw man.
			* if an editor is highly disruptive and uncivil, I may use the evidence against them in a dispute resolution. There are few editors like that, but I believe it is a ''duty'' of an admin to gather evidence about disruptive editors and bring it to community (a duty I nonetheless find stressful and try to avoid as much as possible - again, consider how much time I spend on initiating dispute resolutions, and how much time I spend on content creation... 1% to 99%?). Evidence against you was not gathered to launch a sudden attack on you, it was gathered in case you decided to launch one on me. I am sorry, Irpen, but I cannot presume you'd never do this, and our relationship has been problematic (with both of us blaming the other one). I can promise you, again, that if you don't do criticize me, I won't criticize you in return. But please, don't criticize others, like Balcer (whatever you say, irrelevant of whether you were right or not, he stated that he left because of you). This is why we should assume good faith and discuss content, not editors. You discussed Balcer and he left. I believe you acted disruptively then, but it was a year ago and we all make mistakes. If you don't do this again, I have no "beef" with you (alas, I believe that - intentionally or not - your criticism of me is similar to what you did with Balcer; stop criticizing me and I'll not be returning the favor by complaining that you're criticizing me :)
			* so to sum the evidence thing up: as there is no way to guarantee evidence will not be gathered about me (as I believe it is), I cannot deprive myself of the right (that every editor has, and many exercise) to gather evidence to defend myself. I can promise not to use it to slander/harass others, as I believe I have never done so in the past, and I can promise not to make it google'able / easily findable (we can discuss technicalities if you want).
			* I have addressed my off wiki communication in my arbcom reply to evidence. I talk to many editors, I don't encourage them to edit war. Yes, some revert - because they decide to do it. That's all there's to it. I'll give you an example: every few days an editor (ex. Tymek) may ask me on GG: "Piotrus, what's interesting on Misplaced Pages?" and I'll answer: "I created article X, user Y article Z, there are discussions on articles M and N". And then he may decide to look on articles X, Z, M, and N, join the discussion, add content, revert... I believe we have the right to talk about Misplaced Pages. But there is no secret forum/channel, on GG or elsewhere, which would be maintained/dedicated to revert requests. We use GG because it's quicker, we often talk about off wiki things (ex. Polish politics, jokes, private life) and we do it in Polish, not because we want to hide inner workings of cabal.
			* IRC: your dislike of this medium is another puzzling thing. But I'll tell you this: recent experience taught me that it is not the right place to ask for intervention against disruptive editors - so I won't do it again. It's pointless - and whether you think it's a good thing, or a bad thing, the end result is the same, isn't it? I've discussed this failing ], I'd be happy to learn your comments on it. At some point, I'll post my own thoughts about admin IRC there, I am sure.
			* Molobo: I believe that's another obsession of yours that goes too far. Show me his disruptive current edits and I'll look into them. Calling him a disruptive user without any diffs is too close to harassment. If he is that much of a problem, present diffs against him in ArbCom and have ArbCom ban him, I won't have a problem with him (I believe he was unfairly banned in a past by a biased sample of not-so-random ANI disputants who disliked his POV - something you of all people should understand as a common error in our system).--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
			=== Another hand (section break) ===
	:I googled a little and those two were untis that existed at different times. --] 18:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			Piotrus, it saddens and hurts me that even in this discussion that seems to be aimed to restore our once cordial relations, you try to use such obvious ''non-truths''. (I use the last word instead of a more obvious choice only because I still have not completely given up on the hope that we can resolve this peaceably.) Above and below I speak to you ''completely truthfully''. I expect the same courtesy in return. Let's agree on this point from now on. OK?
	::Little Russia Governorate existed in 1764&ndash;1781 and in 1796&ndash;1802, but it was called a "guberniya" during both of these periods. Which of these entities (if not both of them) were a part of a larger (Little Russia) General Governorship, I cannot say at this time without checking more sources.—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 19:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			Now, on your ''"disputes resolutions require one to present evidence; it's collection is not a sign of bad faith but of following the rules"'': in ] as well as in the ] I posted a very detail explanation why '''this log does not help dispute resolution. It may only help make disputes worse''' rather than "resolve" them. And this is not just my thought. This is a fact as your series of complaints where you used that log to ], ], ] and, most lately, ] failed to help alleviate the situation. In fact, your complaints made things worse.
	== annexation ==
			If you read what I wrote ] and ] as well as you will see my full explanation why neither "collecting evidence for DR", nor the "defense" claim hold any water. I won't waste any more of your and my time by going over this again. You are not making it any more convincing by merely repeating a claim which I already answered.
	You replaced "annexed" with "gained" more than one time, without any explanation on the talk page. Could you please explaine your reason on the article talk page?--] 18:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Sure. Thanks for asking. --] 18:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
			As for your claim that you did not act, dishonestly the combination and timing of these two diffs prove to the contrary. You can say whatever you want but you do not seriously believe that anyone would buy that you did not make an effort to keep the log secret. You used a <nowiki><!--- comment out syntax---></nowiki> assuming google won't find it (you were simply mistaken about google) and you always logged out before editing it in order to avoid this being discovered in your contributions while you made all other pl-wiki edits while being logged-in. You kept it in pl-wiki, rather than at other mediawiki sites, simply because it was more convenient for you but you took all the reasonable precautions against this page's being found. You simply underestimated google. And I saw it in google without actually looking for your log. I was not even checking pl-wiki. Just pl.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org happen to get searched whet "site:wikipedia.org" is entered in the google string. It was a pure accident as I explained ].
	Your edits on ] were reverted by Philip Baird Shearer. He criticized the phrase ''"In international relations the term annexation is usually applied when the emphasis is placed on the fact that territorial possession is achieved by force and unilaterally rather than through treaties or negotiations."''
	If you think that you are right there, please prove this at ]. Otherwise, "gained" has to be replaced with "annexed" in ].--] 17:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
			So, unless you publicly give a , that you would stop, I would indeed assume that you continue logging based on your persistence with that in the past and your continued defense of this habit. And '''as long other editors have to edit knowing of being monitored for any "evidence" that can be ''spun'' as wrongdoing, we will never have a harmonious climate here'''.
	You reverted ] for second time, without answering Philip Baird Shearer's objections on the talk page.
	Please note, that edit warring is not a legal way to dispute resolution. Please use the talk if you have solid arguments.--] 09:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
	:AndriyK, it's nice to find you concerned about "legal way of dispute resolution" all of a sudden. If genuine, this is a huge step and I am looking forward towards working with reformed AndriyK on the articles. However, the entry above is misplaced/ I used the talk page, I explained myself in edit summaries, and, most importantly, if you have an article specific comment, post them at the article's rather than my talk so that other concerned editors will see the discussion. Best regards, --] 20:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
			And I do not consider you completely dishonest. Otherwise, I would not have asked you to give me your word on anything as the word from a lier is meaningless indeed. '''I believe that if you give a public pledge, you would abide by it'''. And this is why you were so evasive when direct questions about your black book and Gadu Gadu recruitment for reverts were asked in the past . You are simply uncomfortable to give your word on something that you plan to not do. Because, like all of us you do not like to lie. Rather, you tried to sway the matter away and attempted to avoid making a promise that you know you did not plan to hold. So, I request that you make this promise unequivocally and I will believe that you will hold to your word.
	::I posted my comments to the article talk pages and still am waiting for your answer.--] 17:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
	::I remind you once more: I am still waiting for your answer on ] and ].--] 08:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
	I answered at talk:annexation and in the edit summaries. Respond there please. --] 08:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
			On my side, I swear that I do not have any such log and never did. I doubt anyone else has it either, judging from the evidence posted so far. I would assume that if whoever of your opponents had such log on you, s/he would have posted the evidence by now. That no one posted anything that looks log-like ( ), means that it takes your opponents much time to locate whatever they think they need to prove your wrongdoing. So, you can rest assured that you were the only one who had such a log. And if you stop, there would be no one left.
	:You did not answer to ].--] 09:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
			Moreover, if just several editors make a public pledge to follow some basic rules of ethical conduct (rules on logging and on off-line revert war and survey recruiting), there would be an enormous pressure for everyone to join. '''This would be the biggest step towards good editing climate'''.
	== Use of templates ==
	You have warnings to ] with the summary of "improper inflammatory entries, templates are to communicate with newbies". I recall you have expressed such a stance before, but I can't find the diff right now.
			Next, ''"I have gathered evidence that I stumbled upon by accident and that I never thought I'd be using"''. Piotrus, please do not think so badly of my intelligence. "Collecting evidence you did not plan to use" claim does not even need to be discussed. But "stumbled upon by accident" is just as incredulous. You were certainly following my edits and your logging by post to Betacommand's talk , the ridiculous ANI thread and even my absence (!) show that you were regularly clicking on ] to find the material.
	::::Update: the diff is . ] 09:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
			Moreover, I can demonstrate your studying my edits by showing how you got to articles which I ''purposely'' kept unanounced for a couple of days to see who of my shadows would get to them first, or to images I would have an argument about, or to user talk pages and noticeboards after I posted there. If we would have to continue with this ArbCom and you would persist with denying that you meticulously checked my edits, I could write up an evidence section on that. I always said that I find being shadowed puzzling and amusing (and it feels me with pity towards people who have nothing better to do with their lives) but I hope you won't insult anyone's intelligence anymore by your "stumbled by accident" claim.
	My understanding is that warning templates are there mainly to avoid breaches of ], and for that purpose, are worded with particular care on neutral wording. I do not recall the "newbie" clause in the relevant policy, but I might just not have found it.
			Next, you should really stop these repetitious resurrections of the Bacler stuff ''yet again''. Balcer can say what he wants. But he acted grossly unfairly to me. Unlikely in bad faith, everyone makes mistakes, but that was very offensive. You can continue to assign the blame in any way that seems convenient to you and I am not to repeat what I said already having reviewed our discussions with Balcer on more than one occasion .
	Can you direct me at the appropriate policy? ] 03:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Commons sense is your friend here. The goal of such communication is to convince the person in question to do or not do something. This is more likely to be achieved by talking nicely than planting templates. Especially inflammatory is planting the Vandalism templates at the talk page of the users whose edits do not qualify to be called such according to ]. As a rule of thumb, established users never vandalize, that is act with the goal "deliberately to compromise the integrity of Misplaced Pages" which is the very definition of Vandalism. Every vandal should be banned on the spot and what you have here really is the allegation of the ] violation. NPOV is much more subtle policy and should be discussed with care with the strawman V-word not ever invoked. --] 03:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			Now you came up with even more bizarre claim that I am guilty of no less than ''harassment'' towards Biophys, Lysy and Halibutt. Please stop talking nonsense .
	::I agree that the template choice might have been the best possible. I used ]'s "factual errors" option and was somewhat surprised myself that it explicitly considered deliberate introduction of factual errors into vandalism in the manner it did.
	::Still, given that warnings are also a part of official communication protocol, which policy document recommends against their usage and for manually composing warnings to the same effect? ] 03:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			BTW, Ghirla made it plain that he left the en-Wiki because he considers your conduct here a major detriment to the comfortable editing environment . And note that the by amount of content, Ghirla was ''the'' most prolific editor in the EE. So, should I be saying this all the time like you do?
	:::Following the commons sense and a seeming consensus of the community on the issue is a very sound way to go. It would be a big mistake to "manually compose warnings" when you have a conflict with an established users. Instead of warning, seek common ground when you have conflicts. You will be surprised how much more results you would achieve. --] 03:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	::::So ... no ]? ] 05:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:::::] is not a policy, so you are right. No policy, just common sense. Just to add to that, I know a couple of RfAdm failed because users were found to use such tricks. Many times the community made it clear that this is unacceptable at WP:ANI and elsewhere. If you think it will help you make friends or help Misplaced Pages, carry on but I usually remove such entries when I see them as this is clearly baiting that can bring nothing but inflaming the conflicts further. --] 06:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	::::::Another useful reading on the matter is ]. While essay and not a policy, it accurately reflects the community sentiment from what I can tell. Also, see {{tl|templater}}. --] 06:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::"When I see them". Should I ask, how come you saw this particular one almost instantly? ] 07:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	Yes, Petri's page is on why watchlist because we talked in the past. When I saw in my watchlist the edit to his page whose summary included "Warning" and "TW" I thought that this is likely ]. That's how I found it. --] 07:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:You must check your watchlist rather sporadically, then. Somehow, you missed ]'s warning (which you removed along with mine), which had stood on the page for a day and a half. ] 07:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	I don't get what is that you want to say. Anyway, --] 07:59, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	::I pesronaly am a newbie and did not know anything about templating regulars, I figured this to be a standard policy. Id have apreciated a note about this. This however does not excuse you from unilateral removal of other peoples substantiated warnings.--] 10:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			On your off-wiki communication remark above, please, again, do not misrepresent the issue. People are intelligent enough to see what types of communication I mean when I say they are unacceptable. You don't seriously think that in view of how the editing went, I would buy the claim that all there was there was: "Piotrus, what's interesting on Misplaced Pages?" "I created article X, user Y article Z, there are discussions on articles M and N". This is not what was going on. '''There were direct requests "please revert here"'''. You were saying that it can't be proven . I think, it can. When seeing those many cases when the ''fourth'' (or sometimes third) revert came specifically from the editors who you talk to via ] and came almost instantly after ''you'' were reverted and came from the very same editors (Molobo, Tymek, Darwinek, Alden Jones and his socks) I believe that an unbiased observer would see the same thing as I see. It could not have been anything but "Please revert this article" by ]. And, Molobo being a special case aside, I do not even blame these editors. They have less free time for Misplaced Pages and they admire you and they think that by undoing people's edits back to your version that revert to a "better" version because they think very highly of you. I kind of understand ''them''. It is not so much ''their'' fault as it is yours when you ask for a revert. Same goes to surveys. So, you can persist with the denial and we will then have to see what others would say if revert and vote histories are put together (and I would ''hate'' spending time doing that) or '''we can just agree that this stops.'''
	Correction: ''non''-substantiated. Moreover, vandalism accusations in contravention of ] may be considered a ]. --] 14:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			Same as before, I would trust your word. I believe that precisely because you don't like telling non-truths you carefully avoided saying directly: "I did not request reverts by IM or email". So, I want you to give your word that you won't. I will then forget the past and, again if it makes you comfortable, would post a similar pledge to my talk page. It would be easy for me because I do not do it anyway. And of course there should be no tricks to circumvent that, like "please regularly check my edits and you know what to do..." And think again of the pressure such mutual pledge by us would place on everyone to follow through. If all major EE players would pledge to follow the mutually agreeable rules of ethical conduct, I am sure the climate would improve dramatically.
	:It's funny that you would bring up. As you can see from the warning issued by ] concerned personal attacks, made on ]. It doesn't mention vandalism anywhere. ] 15:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	Well, yours does but both were unhelpful. Anyway, what matters is you talk to people in human language if you want to edit articles with them and you use templates if you want to inflame the dispute further. Give it a good thought and move on. --] 15:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			On IRC you again stray this off-topic. I mostly agree with ]. I argued many times against the practice that would scare editors from reporting the 3RR violations. I can't agree with you fully that only WP:3RR needs to be enforced while EDITWAR should not. My view is that these are simply different ballparks. Unlike simple 3RR, blocking someone for general editwarring is a ''discretion block'' which requires seeking more opinions. Crudely, while blocking for 3RR is WP:AN3 matter to be decided by a single admin, blocking for edit warring is a WP:ANI matter. There should not be unilateral blocks for general editwarring based purely on a 3RR complaint. You may want to read, for example ] where I and several other editors you would recognize argue these points. But you, again, swayed the discussion off-topic.
	* I have reverted your removal of these warnings. As can be seen , ] himself does not share your disdain of template-based warnings. ] 12:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
			Your IRC conduct was wrong not because you did not break 3RR while Boody did. It was wrong because it was block shopping at a secret forum. There is no excuse to talk with other admins about Boody's alleged violation in the forum to which he has no access. There are no privacy issues involved. Similarly, there is no excuse of your badmouting Lokyz and M.K. at IRC behind their backs.
	== Little Russia ==
			Anyway, I am effectively repeating what I said ] and we are wasting our time. You need to promise that you will never ever talk about your opponents at #admins simply because this is the very basic rule of decency. '''Talking people down behind their backs is worse than uncivil. It is simply dishonorable.''' Why do I have to spend time explaining such an obvious thing? You can't possibly say that this is acceptable practice. And since, unlike for Gadu Gadu, the logs came out, you cannot even try to deny that either. So, what is the problem to promise to never do it?
	Just wanted to express my compliments on your recent editing efforts at ]. Good work. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Thank you. --] 06:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			On Molobo, he is not my obsession. He is yours. He is a nightmare but you tried to get him out of every block he got because he was useful both as a ] and an extra revert that you can call in by Gadu Gadu. Here are some examples of his hysterionics after he returned from his year-long block. First, is trolling at ] that went as far as even arguing lengths for removing of the Russian History wikiproject tag from its talk (and actually removing it too). Next, was his closing the circle of the wikitravel of the "Treatment of the Polish citizens by the Soviet occupiers" piece whose travels all over Misplaced Pages are a really a story on its own.
	== Any suggestions? ==
			You can refresh your memory as your friend Martin already posted the mention of one chapter of this text's wikitravels in his evidence. To remind you, originally, it was a rather unfortunate section hastily written and added to the ] article. Being out of place there, by ] it was split off (by you (!) ) into a separate article. Then Richardusr did a great job expanding and NPOVing that article which also got renamed in the course of this expansion into a much more neutral title ] at which it peaceably remains to this day. '''This was not good enough for you''' though and you copy/pasted its half word for word into an "article" called much more eloquently ]. (BTW, at the AfD I started because it was a word-for-word fork, you stated that you were going to improve it and rid it of the forkness. Six months later it is still a bit for bit fork.) Good enough for you but not good enough for your friend Molobo who pasted its copy bit for bit back into square one, the ].
	I was wondering about what you thought about it and whether I should report it?
	About this (especially the last sentence in that diff). Any suggestions on the course of action? Thanks--] 19:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:I think these comments are unhelpful. I will comment there to such degree but note that much worse stuff has been said at the similarly disgusting uk-wiki board amusingly called "Ksenofobii - NI!" and no one was admonished. I stopped responding to attacks posted there and now I don't even bother to go there after the incident that you are aware. To your question on course of action my advise is ignore it. But I will try to talk reason to the user. --] 20:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	::: I hope you see the difference between "come and help with article XXX" and "come and help me put user YYY in his right place". I am afraid we are talking about two different things.--] 20:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	No, I understand what you mean. However, the uk-board in question was filled with personal attacks against the users labeled anti-Ukrainian. Lengthy discussions on how bad is this or that user were quite hateful. Or perhaps it was not this board but some other page related to it. Its talk maybe. I won't remember. I would have gone there and shown you the exact page if you have a difficulty to find it, but I gave myself a pledge to not ever go to that wiki anymore to avoid the accumulation of stress as the community seems to be unwilling to adequately address the incidents of grievous abuse. So, you will have to find it yourself. --] 20:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:::: Well, without trying to sound too philosophical, everything happens for a reason. I happen to share your negative view on that message board and even nominated it for delition at the beginning of the year. That motion was soundly defeated and the board stayed, because there is a reason for it, even if you don't share their sentiments. In my view, it is juvinile and amateurish but I understand that's how people in that community express their frustrution and anger for being labelled nationalist and hounded for their political views. If you think you were labelled unjustly anti-Ukrainian, think maybe someone else was unjustly labelled nationalist here, and maybe even by you too. I happen also to share that same frustration that you have with uk-wiki, except my frustration is with this one, which I see inherently anti-Ukrainian. Ukrainian editors with whatever views they have had were virtually driven from this encyclopedia and that board is the childish way to vent their anger and frustration. However juvenile it is, this is the way they express their frustration, at least I am happy no one is recruiting revenge squads against certain users like in the example above. As I understand AndriyK was banned among other things for the very same reason. Somehow, rabid russian nationalists are tolerated way better than Ukrainian ones, even though some of them are just as bad, if not worse. If you think I am wrong, look at Kazak's history of edits in Ukrainian articles. Again, there is a difference between calling someone names and recruiting others to get someone. That is the perceived double standard in this encyclopedia, and mutual animosity and distrust will continue as long as one side will always blame the other one. --] 21:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			Thus is in a way, this piece of text fully ]d the Misplaced Pages. Due to that, the NPOV tag beautifies the History of Poland article to this day and our discussion of this fascinating round-the-wiki travel is ]. To sum it up, Molobo remains just as fascinating as he was but, perhaps he now has a more busy life, we see less of him. He got an indefinite block from which you managed to get him out by intense email lobbying. This is quite a story, Piotrus. But as I said before, no matter how I would love you to start reigning in on trolls even when they push for the right POV, this is not something I am trying to make you promise me.
	First, about trying to recruit outside support in revert wars, it simply does not work. I mean it may work for a day or two, perhaps a week even, but few of the recruited users actually stay and those who do were likely to come here anyway. A relative small minority of Ukrainian (or Russian or Polish or other E. European) public can really contribute to en-wiki as this requires individuals with a huge interest, involvement, good internet access, relative well-being in RL (one is unlikely to be able to commit time to the project when one really struggles to put bread on the table, has to battle health problems and other real life disasters), good English, etc., etc., etc. As you see, this limits the pool of potential contributors to a very small segment and posting calls at internet forums will unlikely affect the number of the users who will stay.
			But other activities outlined above should stop, namely:
	About nationalists, all nationalists have a hard time at Misplaced Pages and most long-term users are those with moderate views. Strongly nationalist editors find themselves in trouble soon enough and I am familiar with several instances of Russian nationalist users ending up banned or having left due to "frustration". Misplaced Pages is a more welcome place to moderate editors, be them Ukraino-, Russo- or Polonophile. Contrary to your assertion, there are several actively working Ukrainian editors right now and they manage to not run into any trouble. And there are also users who manage to get in trouble all the time. Now, to the user in question, I would agree that he is somewhat exceptional in that he may be called a Russian nationalist indeed and he gets in trouble only on the very rare occasions. However, the important distinction is that the user's activity in Misplaced Pages goes by far beyond picking and fighting the nationalist crusades and running endless revert wars. User contributes a whole lot of content to the project and some topics of his interest and giant contributions have no relation to the nationalism whatsoever. There is another thing, though, which makes this user different from his opponents he mentions in the link you provide. In the UA-RU conflicts where the user is involved he does not scatter the general hatred towards the Ukrainians, something that his opponents do ''all the time'' in their talk page entries and edit summaries.
			*logging followed by uploading log's excerpts to boards with the purpose to get the opponents blocked
			*using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys,
			*using private channels, such as #admins or direct mail to other admins to discuss people behind their backs and call for the sanctions.
			If you and I can agree on that, we would make a huge difference when other editors would feel pressured to pledge the same. If you accept it, I would have nothing else to ask from ArbCom.
			Your previous reply to my suggestions was sort of evasive. It was partly a denial, partly an assertion but not of what I asked you to assert. This required me to spend so much time to, basically, say the same thing differently. The ball is in your court. I don't like these conflicts, I want to edit peacefully, I am sure it would happen if we agree on such obvious and basic rules. And I also dislike this ArbCom. But please no more circling around. My offer is very clear and sincere and deserves a clear answer. --] 02:19, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
	I agree that when sides blame each other all the time, mutual animosity and distrust is inevitable. Point is that only a small part of each "side" play this game, and the rest manage to get along without developing the hatred and distrust. --] 22:44, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Well since this discussion began about me, can I just add a few points to dear Hillock. First of all in that comment I never mentioned about Ukrainians in general, nor did I ever say that ''all'' Ukrainians show bad habits, I named those that I ''know'' are a disruption to wikipedia. Secondly, if you are so keen to discuss me, then I must say, from day one when you showed up, I was '''not''' impressed with your approach, and when Ghirla on ru-wiki about the trouble with uk-wiki I simply let the Russian wikipedia know about what is going on in en-wiki. Finally the comment dates ''after'' the article was locked (something I was aware off, as I requested that Bakharev lock the article) so seeing its last sentence as a ''call to arms'' for Russian wikipedians looses all its value. Its intention was for others to join the talk page of the article after my failed attempt to put some sense into you, and as illustrated by the examples your stubborn attitude was what caused the tone of the comment to be the way it is. I cannot be blamed for your personal insecurities on the topic, its your attitude that caused it to be the way it is and it certainly not helped us out of the deadlock in the discussion. You are totally uncompromising and also simply put, подлый (I can't even translate that on top of my head). And yes, I care about wikipedia and its articles, I don't want to see that article locked, but if the dispute is to be solved, one has to be eager to make concessions in favour of consensus, my experience with you clearly show that you are not prepared to make either concessions or even want to have consensus, you want the article to look like you envisioned it and that is it. Unfortunately, wikipedia does not work that way. You can't have everything your way (as Irpen said most leave out of frustration, or get blocked) and you must learn that if you want to have a successful career as a wikipedian.
	:On a personal note, next time, instead of pointing fingers at others have a look in the mirror. Last but not least, I said that before I will say it again, my wife is Ukrainian, western Ukrainian. --] 00:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
			:I'll keep it short as this is growing out of control. We could waste hours mincing words and discussing some past diffs and statements (like re IRC: ''I am not stupid and I know it's logged and leaking, I knew others would hear about my requests...''). Let's do something constructive instead. I'd support creation of a page with pledges ("I will not have attack pages, 'll not stalk others, I'll not canvass offline for reverts) and so on where editors could voluntarily pledge their support and honor. This is similar to administrator's recall, or to ] initiative I support. It would be nice if we could get wide community support for such things, because if only you and me agree to certain things, it will be similar to shooting oneself in the foot. But if we can get enough people to do so, maybe we can reform this project and make it better for everyone. As for your three bulleted points above: I agree that using such means against other, good faithed editors is wrong and should not be done; however gathering evidence against a troll or discussing a troll with other admins is fine. The difficult issue is how to distinguish a good faithed editor from a troll? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 06:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
	== My RfA ==
			=== Another hand (section break 2) ===
	]Hi Irpen. I'd like to thank you for your support of ]. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. ] 22:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			Piotrus, I just want to make sure there is a complete understanding between us. You wrote:
			:''"As for your three bulleted points above: I agree that using such means against other, good faithed editors is wrong and should not be done"''
	== Thanks ==
			My three bulleted points about the '''activities that should stop''' are as follows (emphasis added}:
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			{{quotation|
	|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | ]
			*<u>logging</u> followed by uploading log's excerpts to boards with the purpose to get the opponents blocked
	|rowspan="2" |
			*using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys,
	|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar'''
			*using private channels, such as #admins or direct mail to other admins to discuss people behind their backs and call for the sanctions.
	|-
			}}
	|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For reverting vandalism on my user page. Thanks! :-) — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 23:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
			You said above that you agree that logging ''"should not be done"'', while at the workshop, later on the same day, you again ''defend such activity'' with your : ] proposal. So, which is it?
			Also, you say:
			:''however gathering evidence against a troll or discussing a troll with other admins is fine. The difficult issue is how to distinguish a good faithed editor from a troll?''
			You collected material on the following editors: Dr Dan, M.K., Lokyz, Matthead, Ghirla, myself, M0RD00R, Giano. Are all (or any) of them "difficult to distinguish from a troll"? --] 07:15, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
			::Perhaps ''disruptive editor'' would be more correct (troll is a loaded word I used since it is shorter), and yes, I consider all users listed there disruptive to a certain extent (but for the record I don't consider all of them trolls!). I wouldn't be collecting diffs for dispute resolution if I didn't think an editor is disruptive to this project - and you can judge by how many diffs I have how disruptive I believe an editor is. If you feel offended, well, so am I - since you consider me a disruptive user, after all. However, I have no problems when you or anybody else collects evidence of my perceived wrongdoing. That's the right of every user and a requirement of a dispute resolution procedure on Misplaced Pages. I do however have a problem with editors going around Misplaced Pages and accusing others of wrongdoing, with no diffs but just bad faith. Why can't you understand that? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 22:01, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
			:::So, your answer is no? Let's stop playing with words. You forced me to repeat the same ideas several times by going round and round with words but not giving a straight answer. You came here with what seems like a proposal of peace which is devoid of substance as when I try to get to the issues that stand between peace and the current situation you resort to evasive word games. You are an intelligent person. You know what you are asked above. Would you accept what I am asking you? Yes or no? --] 22:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
			::::Tell me, please, what would you promise in return, if I were to agree to all of your requests? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 01:25, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
			This is not a trading game, Piotrus. I am not asking you for any "favors" beyond normal rules of common decensy. If you want to know what I won't do "in return", I can tell that I won't do any of this either.
			I won't call in reverts by email, IRC, Gadu Gadu or any other way (like you did). Neither I would call in votes to RM or AfD discussions . I won't stack diffs, like you did. I won't stack them on you and your friends on any Misplaced Pages, on my hard drive, anywhere at all. I just don't see elimination of opponents as the method to resolve content disputes. I won't be asking anyone off-line to block or sanction my "enemies" or to unblock my friends, (like you did). It would be very easy for me since I have not done any of that before.
			If this undercarpet games stop, I am sure we would have a decent chance that content disputes would be solved as well by an honest and robust debate. I want you to behave ethically from now on. And I won't do anything unethical either. How does it sound? --] 03:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
			:I have not done the things you accuse me (ex. canvassing for reverts to promote battlegrounds), and other things (ex. gathering diffs or notifying certain foras of relevant discussions) was done as part of a normal wiki procedures. I can promise you I will not "call in reverts" to create battlegrounds, I will not stack votes with otherwise uninterested meatpuppets, I will not seek to block content opponents I cannot deal with via normal dispute resolutions. "It would be very easy for me since I have not done any of that before" - ]. Will you promise not to attack editors who have a POV you disagree with and accuse them falsely of wrongdoings all across the project? Will you apologize to Balcer, Lysy and Halibutt, at the very least? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 17:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
			=== Another hand (section break 3) ===
			I will be happy to try to patch things with Balcer if he wants to discuss the last incident. In my opinion it is he who owes me an apology but I will be happy to discuss our misunderstanding with the Polish editor I respect more than any other (and this is how I saw Balcer) and try to find a solution. I said on several occasions that I miss the times we were editing together with Balcer and I am sorry things went bad between us. We can discuss it if he wants.
			I am not aware of my misconduct towards Lysy and Halibutt. They never said I offended them but if they have anything to say to me, they are free to do it. Particularly about Halibutt, I am on record defending him and speaking of him highly on several occasions.
			Now, back to the issues at hand:
			*'''Are you saying you never called in reverts and votes by email, Gadu Gadu, IRC or any other off-line channel and never will?'''
			*'''Are you saying that you will never seek blocks or sanctions of your content opponents from now on?'''
			*'''Are you saying you will never talk disrespectfully of your opponents behind their backs when they have no chance to see and respond?'''
			Because what you claim above is a little different from what I ask. You added "otherwise uninterested" and "that I cannot deal with via normal dispute resolutions". You keep being evasive, Piotrus.
			And finally
			*'''Do you promise to stop logging?'''
			''"Normal dispute resolutions" is the only proper way to deal with Misplaced Pages disputes''. I request that you restrict yourself to these methods from now on. And my main problem with you so far has been in that you did not. --] 18:10, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
			*Please clarify: '''Are you saying you will stop assuming bad faith where actions of myself and other Polish editors are concerned?''' Or not? --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 18:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
			Piotrus, this is silly. I always assume good faith until there is evidence to the contrary. This is what AGF says, no more, no less.
			There is a clear ] that you repeatedly sought sanctions of your content opponents using every board Misplaced Pages has, as well as off-wiki, that is behind their backs, thus considering elimination of opponents as a method to resolve content disputes.
			There is a clear ] that to do so, you meticulously sifted the edit patterns of people who you see as your enemies in search of anything you can spin to call for their sanctions and blocks.
			Finally, there is rather convincing ] (which is while not ] is still IMO pretty strong) that you used off-line communication to request reverts and votes (my beef is not with off-line communication in itself but only in using it for illicit purposes.)
			So, there is nothing to "assume" here. AGF does not deny common sense. It does not say "wear pink glasses". AGF is not a blank check to behave unethically and then accuse those who cry wolf in ABF.
			'''I am not asking you anything beyond requesting that you follow normal ethical rules of conduct.''' If you think that all the evidence I see is simply made up, you can try to say this at the ArbCom (and I know you would.) I firmly believe that no neutral person would say that what you did was legit.
			'''I am willing to put this behind if you promise that this stops'''. And I will never do any of this stuff. Neither I have done it in the past. So, the ball is in your court. Please tell me ''at last'' in clear and non-evasive terms whether you promise to stop doing all of the things above. I am sure that if you do, things will start changing for better very quickly. And I will be happy to put this behind and assume that you honor your pledge. --] 19:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
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			===Comment===
			Sorry for intervening here. I understand that you both are negotiating about something. Let's assume that you came to an agreement. Do you think that would allow to dismiss the case?] (]) 22:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
			:Biophys, I think your question is now hypothetical :(. My personal position was based on my firm belief that the issues I outlined in my ArbCom statements needed to be resolved at last. Since Piotrus initially expressed his willingness to discuss, I happily tried to resolve the pressing issues that concern both of us in the discussion between him and myself as such discussions are always the most natural way to try to find solutions. I wanted to convince Piotrus that we both take certain steps that might help resolve not just our own quarrels (which are really of secondary importance) but would encourage a more global change. It is not up to me to "dismiss" this arbcom (while I can recommend a dismissal just like you or anyone else, I do not get to vote on the ArbCom decisions, just like you or anyone else) but if I saw problems addressed outside of it, I would have been just as happy.
			:Unfortunately, the differences seem to be too deep. Whoever is to be blamed that we were unable to achieve any amicable solution, the fault game is really less important an issue than being able to address the problems whose existence are impossible to deny. Anyway, I was willing to discuss all the time for as long as I saw any hope in the positive outcome. If Piotrus has any more ideas, I am more than willing to hear them. --] 22:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
			== Update ==
			I had to go on a several days Wikibreak. Now I am trying to catch up on what I have missed.
			Piotrus, I see that you did not respond to my last post above but, when I was away, continued making the accusatory of myself and others statements while admitting to no wrongdoing on your own part whatsoever. I had some hope that we might be able to resolve the most problematic issues in a discussion between us but judging from your lack of response to the above and from your recent posts on the case I see that you think this should be resolved by different means. I am sorry we were unable to achieve a common ground and I hope the solution reached by the ArbCom and the community would be at least somewhat helpful ''this time''.
			To ensure that other users from both sides do not confuse the discussion we had above (which I think fairly illustrates the views from both of us), I archived it. If you change your mind and have any suggestions, please start a new section. --] 22:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
			==Question==
			Re statement here - would you say salting is an abuse of adminstrative powers? It looks as though it takes another admin to undo . And they say this is not a bureaucracy...IMO Byzantium would be impressed.] (]) 20:58, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
			:Such salting can be done my any editor, not necessarily an admin. So, it is abusive editing, yes, but strictly speaking not an administrative abuse. Unsalting of a redirect to move page to a title preferred by an admin requires adminship. That constitutes a direct abuse of administrative powers. But mere salting is only abusive editing in general. It was invented by AndriyK and practiced by many others from Martin to Piotrus, see evidence. --] 21:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
			::Nope, I've never practiced salting, that is just your bad faithed assumption. ] (]) 05:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:::Martin, the "move-blank-restore" series of edits is called "dirty work" or "dirty trick" , when done within a minute, and systematically at more than one page . I am more than happy to assume your best intentions. To help me do that, please avoid making bad edits. --] 17:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:::: Future Perfect at Sunrise is not a neutral admin per their attack on Martintg per my current evidence elsewhere. To practice good faith, accept first and leave diffs contrary to that acceptance aside. I think we're rather tired of all this, are we not? —] (]) 18:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			I think that the best thing for all of us is to practice good conduct. While you preach AGF, you, within the same phrase, accuse FP in the lack of it. Is not it ironic, Vecrumba? The judgment on salting redirects is based not on "assumptions" but on actions. Move-blank-restore within a minute (per Martin) done once is strange in the least. When done more than once, it isn't just "strange" but suggestive. Move+template, when done by Piotrus could have been innocuous. But its being done 1) repeatedly, 2) often in response to a disagreeable to Piotrus move and 3) always with a redirect from non-Polish to a Polish name and never vice-versa, is a pattern of actions that calls for attention.
			I agree with you that "we're rather tired of all this". For example, should I have taken as an example of ABF on your part? I did not think so. You saw me around for a while and while I viewed this comment of yours you made on myself grossly unfair, I saw just that: unfair rather than "bad-assuming". You and I are editing for a long time and if you conclude from my edits that I "had no intent to actually discuss anything on the talk page (as in, await an explanation), merely rendering my verdict (of bad faith)", so be it. You ''assume'' nothing. You ''conclude''.
			Trouble is, Vecrumba, not in "assumptions" but in sneaky conduct. My calls to Piotrus (and everyone) was to accept a straightforward ethics code based on few simple and basic rules such as no off-line canvassing, no off-line coordination in revert wars, no block-shopping (particularly no off-line block-shopping). I have no problem with you sticking to your POV. Neither I have a problem with you (or Martin or Piotrus) corresponding with anyone or each other (or not corresponding). I only have a problem when ], either to "win" content disputes, like in the EE conflicts, or to achieve advances in the ].
			I am a very imperfect wikipedian. For example my POV may be different from yours, my English is not as good as yours (and especially as Horlo's who ridicules my English left and right) and, being human, I say things as I see them (perhaps just as you do and often not in the same light as you do.) But I do not engage in off-line coordination of revert wars. I do not email around asking to block (or unblock) anyone. I do not follow people around and stack all the material I can find aiming at having someone blocked at the opportune time. And, note, I never accused ''you'' in doing that either.
			I would simply like that everyone followed ]. This is the core of my workshop proposal. P.S. And I do not move-blank-restore redirects either. Neither you do, btw. --] 19:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:What is missing in all this was your misleading claim that I made the move "against consensus", when consensus was clearly achieved before the move as confirmed by other admins, not withstanding your colleagues entering the move debate <u>after</u> you reported me to ANI. There was no <u>motive</u> to support your assumption that I had salted the move, therefore it remains an assumption. You seem to be making additional misleading claims here in implying this move was not transparent. I think an important principle here is that misrepresenting the facts and manipulating the situation to support these misrepresented facts is detrimental to the project. ] (]) 20:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			::Martin, we may differ in interpreting consensus. We also seem to differ in interpreting facts. This is all fine and dandy. What's important, the ''facts of the matter'', not their interpretations. You 1) moved; 2) immediately blanked the redirect; 3) restored the exact same one (no cApiTalization changes, or anything you claimed to have been confused about); 4) done this all within one minute; 5) done it more than once. We can misinterpret or interpret the facts differently. But the facts are not in dispute here. Now, this is the old matter that I consider settled. It was you who resurrected that old move in the current arbitration case. I really don't care to discuss it again. We can agree to disagree on our ''interpretations'' of undisputed facts (just like Vecrumba interprets FutPef's actions and comments bad-faithed. The rest of the points raised here by Vecrumba are much more important and I addressed them the best way i could. --] 20:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:::These are also the facts, note the sequence: 1) I proposed a move to a particular title, following WP process; 2) there was extensive discussion with other titles proposed, which you were not involved in; 3) <u>all active</u> participants of the move discussion <u>agreed</u> on a new title, which was different to the original proposal; 4) I moved the article to the agreed new title; 5) you reported me to ANI claiming I made the move because "the move discussion went against me"; 6) other admins agree that consensus <u>was achieved</u> before the move; 7) your known associates come out of the blue sky attempting to reopen the discussion, voting on the original redundant proposal while you claim to ANI the discussion was still "ongoing".; 7) the ANI report was closed without agreement on your interpretation of the facts. Can we agree on this sequence of facts? Unless you can provide further evidence that I have salted other page moves, please refrain from making unfounded allegations that I practice salting. ] (]) 21:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			::::Martin, you miss an important step between 4) and 5) in your sequence of events: 4) you moved (indeed); 4a) you immediately blanked the redirect; 4b) you immediately restored the ''exact same one'' (and ''that'' was reported to ANI.) Also x) you did such move on more than one article. As for FutPerf, being "my associate", this is the first time I hear that. I do not ever recall talking to him. Please ask him for his side of the story if you allege anything on his part. Or should I ask him? (Re Vecrumba below, I will respond to your post later, but I get an impression that you have not read the preceding discussion. Please do. Also, you seem inconsistent a bit (by not applying the same requirement equally to all.) Maybe you can correct that while I am busy with RL things that prevent me from replying to you at once. It could save us both some time.) --] 22:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:::::Please refrain from further egregious misrepresentations, in claiming I "did such move on more than one article". This is a gross assumption of bad faith and personal attack on my character. Nor have I claimed FutPerf is your associate who participated in the move discussion and vote, this is another misrepresentation of what I said. I get the impression that you do not understand that making misleading claims in public forums is considered uncivil and harmful to the project. ] (]) 22:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			::::::Martin, a claim that you "did such move on more than one article" is not an "assumption" or "misrepresentation", but a statement of fact made by an uninvolved admin who had to clean up the mess left after your moves: '''' I have no access to deleted edits. So, you better ask him. I am sorry, I am making that "impression" on you. Unfortunately, you have this impression of myself for a while, judging by your comments made about my person all around the project. So, I have to live with it no matter how I am unhappy about this. Now, please stop wasting our time. You never did the "move+edit" for many months and this is all irrelevant to this ArbCom. Piotrus' moves went on for all these months. You brought up this old story and it just makes this all confusing when discussed in the context of Piotrus' arbitration. If, however, you see this incident as a way to present ''me'' as a bad guy, please do it in a way, that would not confuse this already confusing case. Your coming here repeating your stuff and me replying to it referring to what was already said would unlikely help us resolve these problems. --] 23:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			(''od'') "This" will only work if we accept that...
			* our POVs are our POVs
			* our POVs inform our edits
			* our edits, regardless of our POVs, should faithfully represent the letter and spirit of sources
			* our articles, the sum of our collective edits, should be a cohesive narrative
			I will change your POV no more than you will change mine. But there is one more factor in writing articles, particularly about history, which is...
			* for a narrative to be cohesive and tell a story, it must have a POV by definition
			* and, ergo, there is no such thing as NPOV (i.e., it is an abstraction only)
			So, the question is, how do we create by consensus reputably sourced articles written in a cohesive narrative which will most likely not completely reflect our own POV?
			<br>Just as an example, the online EB article on famine in Ukraine (1932-33) doesn't remotely resemble the narrative or contentions or overall POV of the WP article, which, ''in comparison'', is a work which one would more likely associate with Russian nationalist apologists. That's not my personal viewpoint here, that's just doing an objective A:B comparison. So, in the case of Holodomor, how do we work toward a rich narrative that more closely echoes an acknowledged encyclopedic POV? ''No immediate answer required.'' Given the current atmosphere, this will likely be a rhetorical question for a while more to come. —] (]) 20:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			: P.S. As for Future Perfect, Martintg's question was a simple one. An equally valid response could have been that your presence on the task force is welcomed as a sign that you personally are willing to work to put an end to the divisiveness which you yourself acknowledge having participated in. The accusation heaped on Martintg was totally uncalled for. And so I stand by my interpretation that FP's response was one reflecting bad faith. And when your defenders rush to you with what can be interpreted as accusations in bad faith, it reflects on to you, no fault of your own. The next time someone invokes calumny in your name, consider disavowing it. —] (]) 20:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			:: P.P.S. As for what the what it looks like incident, enough time has passed that perhaps for a moment you could take it as advice from a friend and not an attack on your character. You well know that how something looks is often not as it is, but we've all proven in our own way that that when there isn't a built up reserve of good faith, we take things as they look, ''worst case'', every time. —] (]) 20:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
			== Kostomarov ==
			So, can I move the page or do you disagree with the move? And why is the current title "Nikolay" and not "Nikolai" as it is in the text? Nikolay seems to be the most uncommon of all of them! ] 05:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
			==Giano==
			I haven't said anything to Giano in over a year. ] ] 01:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
			:You mean after ? --] 03:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
			::Yes, since February, 2008. I haven't been nagging him though, or constantly making negative comments. ] ] 07:00, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
			:::Seems like we agree on what does not seem like a good idea to do. --] 05:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
			== Digwuren ==
			I do not appreciate your personal attacks, nor your assumption of bad faith, in . Please avoid such in the future; ] ]<sub>]</sub> 17:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
			: Yeah, yeah, yeah! We hear it from the one who called my correct edits highly "disruptive, not to say disturbing" ;-) ] (]) 17:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
			::Digwuren, I did not make any assumptions since my comments were based on actions that took place, no more no less. You without bothering to ask at the talk page moved a stable article first. After another editor reverted you, you moved it to yet another name. You made other clearly nonsensical edits making a mess out of an obscure article on the subject as innocent as a children song and than block-shopped at AN3 with a misleading complaint . I do not need to assume anything when I see such activity.
			::BTW, Piotrus, it seems from that you view this incident differently. I wonder how you can justify these erratic edits. BTW, FYI, AN3 is long since on my watchlist. --] 05:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
			While I appreciate your , I regretfully note that you have not actually withdrawn the personal attack mentioned above. ]<sub>]</sub> 23:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
			:Sorry, Digwuren, there is no personal attack in stating the obvious. Please edit constructively if you don't want your edits to be criticized. --] 23:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
			==Old maps==
			I have stumbled on a well of old maps from the 1943 reprint of ]'s A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe. The copyright has 1939 on it, so it is not expired quite yet; however, I believe I can scan them and put them up with proper referencing. Please advise. --] (]) 03:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
			:I investigated this a little bit and as far as I see, most of these maps may be usable despite the 1939 date on the book. The 1930s edition you are talking about titled "A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe" (NY, MacMillan) is a revised edition on "Political and Social History of Modern Europe" published by the same author in 1916 (also by MacMillan, NY.) The latter book because of its age is in public domain. It is available in full from google books .
			:Of course the maps that were originally published in 1916 are PD even if they were reproduced in a later edition. The best way to find out for you would be to see in google books if the maps you want to use also appeared in 1916 edition. If they did, they are PD.
			:In addition to comparing the 1930s edition that you have and the 1916 edition available in full online, you can take a look at the review of the 1936 "Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe" book. The review was written by Harry Elmer Barnes and published in '']'' (June 36), Vol. '''1''', Issue 3, p514-516, 3p. This 3-page review outlines in a great detail what changes were implemented between the editions. Archives of ''American Sociological Review'' are available through ] and outher databases that usually require subscription. If you don't have access to subscription, feel free to ask and I will gladly email you this 3-page review. Hope this helps, --] 19:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
			== Hello ==
			Hi Irpen, I just wanted to apologize for calling you a Russian nationalist edit warrior at one point. Well, I still think you're a Russian nationalist, which is OK, nobody is perfect; and you do sometimes go into edit-warring; well who doesn't, I'm working myself on this bad habit. But you're clearly an intelligent person and have shown that you listen to reason, the qualities that are more important than someone's personal biases I think. So I hope there are no hard feelings and feel free to call me any names you like in case an opportunity arises. All the best!--] (]) 06:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
			:Thanks. I was really surprised by that comment of yours since we seemed to always manage to get along just fine but I never make a big deal out of such occasional spats. Anyway, I am really heartened by your going an extra mile here and your post, frankly, made my day. And, just FYI, I cannot ask you to think or not think of myself as "''anything'' nationalist" but it would be very difficult for me to be a Russian nationalist. I am not even Russian (I am a Ukrainian and love my country, its people and culture.) Cheers, --] 06:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
			::my bad again, sometimes it's difficult to sort out all those EE-nationalists you know.:-)--] (]) 07:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
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	I thought we could try to resurrect the spirit of understanding that we seemed to reach there once, and try collaborating on some article. Perhaps ] would be a nice candidate? Together with Bohdan article, it seems to be a topic many editors we know of - including Hillock and Ghirla, both of whom I saw active at them at one point of time - seem to agree on (with rough regards to POV), and edit without stepping on each another toes.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 02:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Developing these articles would be a good idea. First thing, IMO, would be to defork lots of historiography from Khmelnytsky's bio article. Please take a look at ] on the issue. I asked Hillock to move around a lot of useful info he added to BKh article because, as an author, he is in the best position to do it. He did not object but did not express a full agreement either. He just said that this should be looked at later. Maybe now since the uprising's week-long conflicts about casualties seems to be getting resolved is a good time to move on to the next steps. You may want to comment at Hillock's talk to continue that discussion. --] 02:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
	::I believe I have agreed up with you on that at that very section. Somebody just needs to do it... --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 08:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
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	== Meltyukhov ==
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	Irpen, do you consider Meltyukhov's book a reliable source ? The more I read him the more suspicious I am. --]<sup>]</sup> 09:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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	:I see no reason not too. He is a respected scholar from what I know. --] 09:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	If he is the one using the "concentration camps" term, this is pretty strong for a respected scholar. Aren't you concerned about this ? You know what I mean, there are different authors, and one can often find some extremal ones, even among the academics. The sources should be carefully selected. I'm usually trying to avoid citing authors who exhibit clear POV pushing in their works (like e.g. not citing Professor Edward Prus about Polish-Ukrainian conflicts, as I know he is biased). --]<sup>]</sup> 09:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
			==Brezhnev ==
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			This 1936 picture of L Brezhnev: do you know where and in what context it was taken and by whom? ] (]) 18:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
			==Sad :((( ===
	:Nice, Piotrus, that you dare speak about RS wrt to an academic work after insisting that crackpot theories published in Polish press are acceptable and even trying to change the policy to accommodate your views. This fresh example of using double standards in POV-pushing will be added to your arbcom. --] 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
			Hope you will come back soon. Miss your perspective. ] (]) 23:34, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
	Irpen, I apologize for bugging your userpage, but I addressed you and not Piotrus. I'm puzzled as to why he responded in your talk page instead of you, and you did not. Do you understand and agree with the point that I was trying to make above ? --]<sup>]</sup> 20:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Lysy, I responded to Piotrus' entry because it seemed asking for response. You don't have to apologize, since I never minded being asked at my talk. Now, I responded to your earlier inquiry and all I can add is to repeat that MM is as good a source as any other academic, a professional historian, researcher (not sensationalist journalist, ask Piotrus about those) and whose work appears in scholarly publications such as books and peer-reviewed journals. His "Stalin lost chance" was received with raving reviews and I don't see the reason to dismiss him except "not liking" what he says, which is not a valid reason anyway. --] 20:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
	::Thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 14:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
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	:As for the 16-th century map, redrawing it would probably be a bad idea. Its value for te article largely lies in its historicity, so if we can't improve the existing one, leaving it as is would be a better solution than replacing the historic map with the one drawn by a Wikipedian. As for 1918 events map, we do not need to redraw it. We can use it as is for the war aticle and the FU rationale. But it cannot be used as a fairuse in Odessa and Krivoy Rog Soviet republics. So, just drawing these republics' maps using the 1918 map as a source would be helpful. Thanks a lot, --] 20:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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			''']<sup>See ] or ]</sup>''' 10:04, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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	|} <!-- ], ] -->Thanks again Irpen, and hopefully more fruitful multinational collaborations are on the way? ''']''' (]) 02:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
	== Clarification ==		==Commiserations==
			Irpen, I just want to offer you my commiserations. You seem to have left wikipedia ... I hope you are doing well nonetheless. Maybe it is for the best given en.wiki's circumstances if you do join Ghirla or something in ru.wiki, or give wiki up for better things in real life. I can see, with all the users who apparently dislike you, how you might feel it will be impossible to contribute to the encyclopedia without being bullied and ignored now you have these restrictions. It is my fault for launching such a case; I was naive about the quality of the arbitrators and the process, and about how easily the process could be hijacked. Your contributions to Ukrainian topics will be missed if you have indeed decided to leave. Probably because of your support for Giano and your continued appearance on such platforms a large portion of the arbs became badly disposed towards you. Just politics, the nature of the wiki beast. If it means anything I think the vast majority of editors in this area are nice people when their ideological backs are not up. Maybe there is hope in the longer term, if you do decide to return. Probably most e-e users, even the ones you have had some bad times with, would not actually want you to leave. Have a good Christmas! All the best, ] (<small>]</small>) 10:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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	Irpen, I am perfectly aware that you a most voiceful opponent of Holocaust Denial, and hence I thought that you would probably be aware of the nature of the ], probably the most infamous and repellent revisionist organisation of them all. This is precisely why I was so shocked by edit, and wanted an explanation from you as to what point you are making. I am glad you have now (rather late) explained what happened. Prompt answers to legitimate questions will help to avoid similar misunderstandings in the future.
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	I still stand by my suggestion that your comment with the link to IHR be stroked out, but the decision is of course yours. ] 20:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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	:No, I was not aware of the IHR at all. Never even heard of them. I have recently explained that after being made aware of them having such reputation I want their opinions to be completely discarded. I take the claim that they are indeed an HD institution at face value. I am not interested even at doing any fact checking here. You say it is HD, this is good enough for me. I made ''several'' talk page entries in connection with that matter:, , . I don't understand how else I can be more clear. --] 20:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
			== Merry Christmas ==
	:: is the correction I was suggesting. I am glad you made it, and now this matter is closed as far as I am concerned. ] 20:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
			Hi Irpen, here to wish you a very Merry Christmas and I do hope that you have a lovely New Year. I do realise that you and I got off on the wrong foot this year and I do apologise for that; let us start anew :-) Take care, my friend. ]] 16:41, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
	==Lexis-Nexis==
	Hi, Irpen! I hope you don't mind if I ask you for a favor&mdash;could you, please, look up in Lexis-Nexis what spelling is the most common for the President of Tatarstan ]? The variants I'm interested are "Shaymiyev", "Shaymiev", "Shaimiev", and "Şäymiev". This is not urgent. Thanks!—]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 18:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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	Шановий Irpen, прапор УНР було завантажено Вами. Зараз цей прапор змiнено користувачем Alex K. Який з них таки вiрний? --] 18:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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	Looking through the archives, I saw that you had contributed to this page earlier. I would like to hear what you have to say on this topic.
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	::Time will show, but thanks a lot. All of you! --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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	Irpen, it was never my intent to cause you distress and I am sorry about that - alas, the case is stressful to us all, and I myself have recently been seriously considering a wikiholiday, because every time I check my watchlist I dread "what other attacks on my person I will have to read now". After you declared that you are compiling your own evidence against me, can you blame me for drafting a reply? If you are distressed that it was semi-public, would you prefer I compiled it secretly in a *.doc or similar file as is commonly done - and presumably, in the form your not-yet-public evidence is drafted? If so, you could have just asked me to remove it from the web, and I'd have done so. Further, if this draft of an evidence was so distressing, please consider how do others - like myself - feel when they face similar accusations - coming from your person, too - near constantly, from article's talk pages, through user talk, public fora and DR cases.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 13:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
	:Piotrus, your so called "apology" upsets me because it includes more than one obvious not-so-truths. I would rather not continue this here but have this discussion at the workshop. Thanks for understanding. --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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	=== Few thoughts===
	Hey Irpen. Welcome back. I have read your newest posts on Arbcom. They are quite impassioned and a lot of thought clearly went into them. I am not going to respond in full here, as that would require quite a bit of reflection on my part, and I should let Piotrus speak first. ]
	:Balcer, allow me to interject your statement with my responses. I am looking forward towards your thoughts when you ae ready to post them. In the meanwhile, here are some answers. First of all, however it pleases me that so many people expressed their concern about my non-editing and several more welcomed me back (you among others), it is premature to say that I am back. Now, to your thoughts. --]
			== Inzensk ==
	Still, here are a few thoughts of mine, for your consideration.
			Do you happen to know where this city was and what its called now?--] (]) 08:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
	1. You expressed your opposition to off-wiki communication. Please reconsider. One of the best parts about being a Wikipedian is developing friendships with interesting people, friendships which necessarily need to go off official Misplaced Pages channels for communication. If I want to discuss with Piotrus any non-Misplaced Pages topic of interest to us, obviously we are not going to use Misplaced Pages talk pages. Therefore, I resent your implication that Piotrus' request to me for IM communication was in any way illegitimate or suspicious. ]
			== Hey there, you were discussed ==
	:I am a least bit concerned about your off-wiki discussions with Piotrus on the topics that are unrelated to WP. If you are discussing, politics, cars, stocks, girls, science, money or even Irpen, this is none of my business or interest. Also, I thought I never accused '''you''' in being a part of Piotrus' organized team. Of all editors concerned, I have a high opinion of your honesty overall and I even thought of you being a part of that workgroup that would help solving this conflicts. This is all despite our many editing disagreement of which many were not so sweet. I truly seek a solution that would help rather than to have my POV prevail in the articles as the ultimate goal.
			And may want to take a look at the discussion on arbcom noticeboard: . Regards, ] (]) 23:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
	:OTOH, I disagree with your opinion that developing friendships is one of the goals we should seek from Misplaced Pages experiences. While I made some friends, yes, it was never my goal of coming here. I would rather say to the contrary. I think the "friendster" is one of the gravest dangers of Misplaced Pages. A whole bunch of people now, and most of them are admins, developed a whole IRC-centered friendster network which helps anything but making the WP a better place, more comfortable for editors and more interesting to the readers.
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	:But in any case, your friendships is none of my business. I see off-wiki communication plain wrong, when it is used to quickly request an extra revert, mobilize voters, organize a block, etc. It is pretty obvious that this was being done and I don't think that you were among those manipulated that way. So, there is no contradiction in my statement that off-wiki communcation harmed the climate here and your opinion that it can be used for harmless purposes. We are actually not arguing here. -]
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	2. Your outrage at the "list of offenses" that Piotrus was compiling seems boundless, but please make an effort to see things from his point of view. In the last months of last year, Piotrus went through a quite involved ], where plenty of evidence was presented against him by his opponents on Misplaced Pages. Obviously, presenting counterarguments on his part must have taken quite a lot of effort. Knowing that since the RfC did not result in any resolution, and that a similar effort was likely to be launched against him again (as indeed it was in the Arbcom), it seems perfectly reasonable for him to build up his side of the case beforehand.
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	:Well, although I agree with your supposition that he regrets that his underground effort was discovered, this is acually not what Piotrus is saying now. He is now trying to to say that his posting of this stuff was done purposefully with the aim of a greater transparency. I don't even need to comment on the incredulity of this nonsense. You don't need to either.
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	:As for this being a "defence" in advance being reasonable, sorry, I disagree. There is a whole bunch of pretty vicious people who view me their enemy. I assure you that there is no file on my hard-drive or anywhere where I collect the diffs on that folk to have it handy when needed. I think it is repugnant. Yes, I remember many events but if I need a diff, I need to go dig it.
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	:One example, Piotrus called me Polonophobic at one time. I later reminded him of that and when he denied and challenged me for the diff, it took me a while to find it. Another example, Lysy, called me worse invoking ethnic sensitivities. I remember that episode vividly but there is no diff anywhere ready (while I would probably be able to find it. I just wouldn't want to, as this would make me read again his horrific slur which I am not looking forward to.) True enough, there is so plenty of evidence on some others, that I would not need to look too much. The bottomline is that I see no excuse for such a sneaky behavior as secretly collecting stuff to use when necessary to destroy your contributors. I find this shadowing your colleagues for disgusting and I can't see any way to justify it.
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	:You say that Piotrus might have been expecting an Arbcom. I was not expecting this one, truly. Moreover, when it was started, I asked MK to stop this as I saw no solution of this via arbcom. I said so again in my statement posted for arbitrators to the Arbcom page before the case was accepted.
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	:But back to the subject, you may remember that I never co-signed that Piotrus' RfC which I thought was too broad and ill-concieved. Under similar circumstances, I even supported Halibutt, when he was a subject of a difficult RfC (who I also supported even for Adminship although he still molests me from time to time). Yes, I wanted to post a narrower complaint to Piotrus' RfC but I never got to it.
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	:Now, if Piotrus was compiling a statement and drafting it outside of the ArbCom case (publicly or privately), that would have been OK. I tried to start writing evidence too but never got beyond 2 or 3 sentences simply because this is such an unpleasant business. But fine, Piotrus wants to present some evidence that his opponents are nothing but troublemakers, he goes for it. No problem. What '''is''' a problem is that the page pre-dates the draft of the anti-Irpen evidence statement. It predates the arbcom itself as a whole. It was maintaned for months, way before this ArbCom was started and he was collecting diffs that he thought could be used against me (and others) in case he needs them for whatever purpose.
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	:Also, an interesting twist, there were others posting there with diffs. I recognize one author adding a diff from the Warsaw IP (as well as the diff). The author did not get any onwiki invitations to post. This is the type of IM coordination I meant. How many more users took part in it? I really don't want to know and don't care. And please, lets be serious. If Piotrus wanted to do it openly, he would have done it in his enwiki sandbox and would not have kept it in the <nowiki><!---comment out brackets---> </nowiki> in pl-wiki.
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	:Also, an outright hypocrisy is his statement's being designed as if "spontaneous", if you read the overture, while in fact it was so meticulously prepared. But well, let Piotrus now live with his consciousness as well as with what others think of this once it came to light. --]
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	:A small note here. Piotrus as a ''human being'' is not a subject of this discussion. Let's stick to the editing issues. I will say it again that he is a very valuable contributor. But at least no less a great contributor is his main opponent who Piotrus was hunting for years with partial success. Your trying to do any finger-pointing at his opponents here is not helping. The problem here is not people but an inadequate system of the conflict resolution that allows to game policies, like WP:CIV, WP:NPA, WP:RS, etc., in order to POV-push. The system that makes block shopping, off-line coordinated rv warring and vote stacking, meatpuppeting, all this being parts of the content disputes' resolution is responsible for this mess. People won't change. They can be replaced but the new ones will be no different. There has already been a sufficient amount of fingerpointing at the ArbCom. I would rather let Arbitrators decide and pass the respecvtife FoF's.
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	:Also, I am certain, Piotrus' continual attempts to present this as civility issues is not only wrong but insincere. For one, unlike the editor he chases most vigorously I am not an incivil editor (occasional slips might have happened but no more than with all of us), he still added me to his hit-list. Secondly, the incivil Polish nationalists were used as pet-trolls rather than called to order. As for the editing (mis)behavior which is a true reason of this drama, Piotrus and his friends are as guilty of the double-standard POV-pushing as the other side.
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	:But even before your advise above I was trying to think of a solution that would have made the situation for better. BTW, for better in general or to Piotrus' liking? Forcing his opponents out is one option. Ghirla has been forced out for a very long wikibreak. I did not see any improvement in behavior of Ghirla-bashers in his absence, neither in Piotrus. Same shameless POV-pushing, double-standards with sources, taking turns in revert wars coordinated by IM, snowballing the votes, etc. Not one single side is guilty of this and neither people nor their behavior is going to change. What needs to change is the way this is handled. If an efficient way of conflict resoltuion is designed that would make block-shopping not an option in the content DR, that would make attacking/pushing the sources based on their POV rather than reliability impossible, then we may achieve some progress.
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	4. I join you in my dismay at the rather limited (or even nonexistent) positive role that Arbcom is taking in this situation. They contributed very little, and the rulings under consideration are rather meaningless general pronouncements which display no understanding of what is really going on here (I think we all agree on this at this point). It almost makes me wonder whether this whole issue could not just be resolved among the editors involved. Since Arbcom seems incompetent here, maybe that is the only hope left. ] 09:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
	:Yes. See my original statement I made before the case was even accepted. --] 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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	Hey, I've been keeping a lower profile, mostly to concentrate on real-life things, but it's good to see you continuing to edit, and to apply your moderating influence. Cheers.&nbsp;''—]&nbsp;]&nbsp;<small>2007-07-30&nbsp;05:40&nbsp;Z</small>''
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	:Thanks. Some see my influence as not moderating :(. Anyway, good to see you too! --] 07:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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	:Thank you, Paul. I will post a response without delay. Thanks again, --] 19:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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	:Ehm. Thanks, but why? And have we met? I hope I did do something well to get your attention. Best regards and lots of Wikilove from me as well. --] 03:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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	==="Controversy" of having trade relations with Nazis===
	Whatever hypocritical and deplorable the practice to trade with non-human regimes is, in the cynical business of international politics everyone was (and still is) doing this. As every single major country continued to trade with Nazis supplying them with fossil fuels, ore and high-tech (IBM controversy comes to mind), there is nothing notable in Soviet doing what the rest did to single them out. Let's stick to facts that say:
	*Soviets did trade with Nazis
	*Soviets support of anti-fascist movement in Spain was their state policy
	*Soviets were the only major power to oppose the disgraceful Munich deal and offered to intervene militarily.
	These are facts. Whether this constitutes the "controversy", should be left to the reader. As for finding some ref whose author says something and including it into the Encyclopedia, we can go far with such approach. As far as interpretations, not facts go, many personal ''opinions'' may be "referenced". Please, let's stick to facts. --] 20:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
	:And Soviets signed alliance with the Nazis (]). Yes, for most 1930s Soviets were notable opponent of the Nazi regime, but then for nearly 3 years they were their best allies. Those are the facts. There is also the ] article. Of course, you are right that many countries traded with the Nazis - but in the period 39-41, Soviet trade was an important lifeline of the Nazi regime.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 21:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Please distinguish trade and aid. Any trade was an important lifeline of the Nazi regime. So, there is nothing specific about the Soviet trade. Besides, check the dictionary for the difference between trade (exchange of goods) and "aid". Your following my edits into this article which have not received any of your attention is amusing. Now I wonder how dared you accuse others of stalking you. But do as you please. There is nothing new in that. --] 21:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:Look at the threads above. I am expecting an apology.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 22:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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	::Irpen - ] - I'm not saying you're wrong or right - I'm just saying that comments like this - "But do as you please. There is nothing new in that." - aren't necessary and do nothing to help your cause.--<small>]]</span></span></small> 03:04, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Danielsfom, I am more interested in your opinion in the content dispute than in the policy quotes. I am familiar with policies. Piotrus sudden appearance among the article's editors after a 1.5 year break but immediately following my edit is not illegitimate even if he followed my contributions. However, he frequently invokes accusations of stalking and in view of that, this is a rather weird development. Anyway, here is the question. Following the 1939 MR-pact, the Soviets did have the diplomatic and trade relations with Nazi DE while the UK and France were at the state of war with Nazis, initially a ] but still. But trading is not the same as giving an economic aid. I hope you realize the difference. SU was not alone in trading with Nazis. Many European countries continued the economic relations and so did the US. Does not qualify to call this "aid". Let's make this article piece sensible. --] 04:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	:I'm not interested in the content dispute - I'm not involved enough in the article to comment on that - what I am interested in is assuring that policies are followed on talk pages. --<small>]]</span></span></small> 04:47, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	I am sorry you are not interested in content of this article. If all you take interest is that Misplaced Pages policies are followed, please consider that citing them to experienced editors does not help in encouraging the civility climate. But lets carry the policy discussions at the appropriate pages and discuss the article here. Coming back to the article, can anyone explain how come the trade of goods for money or other goods qualifies to be called "aid" in this particular article? --] 04:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	:(for the record - I did cite it - ])--<small>]]</span></span></small> 11:16, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	::You are not helping. Please use the article's talk page to discuss the article and take other issues elsewhere. Thanks, --] 16:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	:::It's hard to discuss content when one side is being ], Irpen. It's as simple as that.--<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 16:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	I will not feed this thread anymore per ]. Please continue it elsewhere. Now, back to the topic and for the umpteenth time, can anyone point out how the trade relations (not uncommon even with the most despotic regime in the cynical business of international politics) turned into the "economic aid" in this article? Is there any evidence that the Soviets gave the goodies to the Nazis for free. Neither they were alone in trading with Nazis. Please stay on topic, ladies and gentlemen. --] 17:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	::::Irpen - I'm trying to explain to you that regardless of who I think it's right, comments like "But do as you please. There is nothing new in that." create a hostile atmosphere. I am merely reminding you to remain ], and frankly your response (which should have been either defending that statement or admitting wrongdoing) of "I don't want to talk about this" doesn't work. You're the only one creating an uncivil atmosphere - and your doing it on this page, so regardless of what you would like, if you repeate then I'll continue to remind you. Now I think you're a fine editor, and god knows I've made many uncivil mistakes, but let's just try and keep it clean for now - and if either of you have to be told to be civil, don't start freaking out.--<small>]]</span></span></small> 19:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Thanks for your complements. However, please understand that your continued lecturing editors about policies at the article's talk pages contributes to the hostile atmosphere a great deal. I am not here to tell you what to do. I am here to develop articles. If you want to tell ''me'' what to do, do it elsewhere or better yet, reconsider. I would appreciate if the further discussion will concentrate on the article's content. In the last few hours Piotrus and myself made several edits that improved it and we are better off spending time continuing this work. I would welcome your joining us in this quest to make this article compliant with new more rigorous FA standards. I hope you will reconsider you stated lack of interest to its content. Moreover, I suggest to remove this discussion of policies and behavior from this page as it adds nothing to article's improvement. Unless Piotrus or yourself object, I will remove it. There are several pages already where Piotrus and myself hammer out our global disagreements. This isn't one of them and, frankly, one more isn't needed. But if you think it is important to preserve this important discussion, feel free to move it to my talk. Now, pretty please, help develop the article. If you need references, I would be happy to recommend you some. --] 20:18, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	:I don't mean to be lecturing you - and frankly you're the first one I told to be civil in a while - usually I do contribute to talk pages and mainspace articles, I'm just saying that (especially since there's a ] arbitration case going on with you guys - you just need to remember to keep cool heads. Irpen - all I'm saying is that you made an uncivil comment - again I think your a great editor, it's just everyone lapses now and then. It was just a reminder, as I expect given that said case tensions are already high between you and Piotrus. It was not meant to be derogatory, and I'm sorry you understood it to be that, but simply put, I saw a comment that was uncivil, and I said try to not make these comments -there's really nothing more to it. I hope this incident has no bearing on any future interactions between us, and who knows, maybe if you're on an article I'm more active in we'll be able to work together.--<small>]]</span></span></small> 20:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
	::And by the way - if you want to say I haven't added references- why don't you look at my contributions - when spotlight started on this article there were 3 citations, we added 130 - myself adding '''at least''' 20 of those - so try to avoid making assumptions. And yeah, I'm fine removing this, however the comment still stands to both of you - especially after that comment - remain civil--<small>]]</span></span></small> 20:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Irpen, first of all the whole point was to remind you and Piotrus (both) to remain civil - and Piotrus was also getting upset by some of your comments (as proved by an email he sent me which gave me the link to the arb case). I don't mean it to be derogatory, I just meant it as a reminder - however you took that reminder and stated that experienced editors shouldn't be told when they're not being civil, and then saying that I only edit to make sure people follow policies on talk pages - both of which are completely untrue and the latter of which is completely out of line.--<small>]]</span></span></small> 20:31, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Daniel, I want to minimize the number of pages where Piotrus and myself develop our WikiLove relationship. But since you persist, I will respond to you. First, I am upset to see from your response that my opponent keeps using the untraceable channels to get others involved in this all. That he prefers to talk behind other people backs where they cannot respond adds the hostile atmosphere a great deal. I hoped that after recent exposures at the Workshop he was going to curtail such behavior. I am only saddened to see that I was mistaken. I would have preferred, actually, to not know even that this practice goes on. I would have been more comfortable living under the illusion that some things have changed for greater transparency and candor.
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	Now, if you insist that I "either defend my statement or admit wrongdoing" I can elaborate on what prompted this new development. Since Piotrus continues off-line communications, chances are that I will have to explain anyway. I have no way to know who and what he is writing next. That he maintained for months an off-wiki dump to collect diffs to present against me at the opportune moment has convinced me that his off-line activity can take many unexpected routes.
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	So, let's split the subjects. If you insist that I "defend or admit" I can elaborate on that. If you disagree that your involvement contributed to deepening the rift rather than healing it, I can elaborate on that. If you think it is all right to work off-line on the issues where no privacy is needed (or even hurts the climate of trust even further), I can elaborate on that either. Finally, please note that in the middle of this all conflict Piotrus and myself expanded the article and whoever of us made a first mistake in this recent incident (his purported stalking or not/my purported incivility or warranted tone/purportedly unwarranted (or warranted) lecturing editors at the article's talk), the article got developed and this is a good thing.
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	Piotrus is a valuable contributor, I never said otherwise, and the article is getting developed in recent hours by both of us despite your good-faith and well-meaning intervention that, unfortunately, was not helpful. I also have no beef with you and whatever you choose, I will try to be as helpful as possible in addressing your concerns. If you choose to let this stop here, fine with me either way. --] 21:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	===Archiving the History of Russia's talk===
	Sorry, I reverted your archiving as the discussion there seemed relevant. I am sure you've done it with best intentions, but those issues are tto recent to be archived yet. As for the off-topic discussion, I moved it to my talk where it can be continued if parties have an interest in that. Regards, --] 20:39, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:The discussions are for the most part old - spotlight left a while ago, and the fact tag template has been resolved on user talk pages - if someone wants to bring it up again they can. And stop calling it the "off-topic" discussion - you made the comment on the talk page, I responded on the talk page, there's nothing off-topic in that. However, the discussion is over - as it was just a reminder that telling an editor essentially that they are stuck up and don't listen to anyone (seriously now - "do as you please. There's nothing new in that"?) isn't needed.--<small>]]</span></span></small> 20:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	I do not object to the second archiving you as you preserved the recent entries, unlike the first time. --] 20:48, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:Will do. --] 19:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
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	I also belive that this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:AntiRussianPoster.jpg has place to be in the section of Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the ] article, nevertheless, just like to you, the user Hillock removes it all the time. I hope you could again support the idea on the talk page of the article. Sorry i couldnt support the idea then when you brought it up in the first place, but i was blocked at that time. ] 21:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
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	==About moving the list to a seperate page==
	I dont mind to it actually, but i think it should be sorted in an ABC way or somthing like that. Anyway, now it looks exellent to. ] 21:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Thank you for your comment on my RfA, which was successful. ]<sup>] </sup> <sub> ] </sub> 00:46, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Found a nice map. I linked it to a few places, but you might think of more uses for it. It is quite detailed (11 MB). ]
	:Thanks. Useful indeed. It can be also cropped for regions article. A wonderful map. --] 07:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Can Hillock NPOV anything he wants? I really dont understand what "neutrality" has to do with an argumant about puting or not puting a picture. And can he put it after by complete majority it was desided that this image should stay? Check his talk page, he was offered "meditation" because he has a similar fight on a different topic. Hope you also remember his fights with Kuban kazak a few month ago? When Kuban kazak added linked importent information, and Hillock added information about Ukrainians and how they co-suffered when Kuban tryed to explain him the article is not about Ukrainians. ] 18:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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	==I didn't make this section==
	? he maid this section, i just chenged "Russian extrimists" to "Pro-Russians", so it would sound more objecive. ] 19:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
	:Edit summary of yours about terrorists? Slow down. Discuss content and not Hillock. --] 19:11, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
	::But how are they radical? They make demostrations yeah, but that's not a crime. Evey political ideology eventualy has demonstrations. And i really belive Timoshebko and Yushinko are extrimists and terrorists. I mean, taking the Rada by force after loosing the election?? But nevertheless, i dont add the name "criminals" and others they desurve into articles. ] 19:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Are you following my edits around? ] 05:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Please check the link in the second-last paragraph of your arbitration request ("complaint by the blocking admin"). I think you may have inadvertently copied the wrong diff there. ] 18:08, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
	:I did indeed. Corrected now, thanks for pointing this out to me. --] 18:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Hope i could get your support here:
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	http://en.wikipedia.org/Template_talk:WW2InfoBox#The_new_image
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	Because i belive that you will agree with me that having the Normandi battle picture in the size of two, and not having a picture of the Stalingrad battle in a world war two image is absurd. ] 11:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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	== president of Ukraine ==
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	About Ukraine, then we should delete the word "President" in the boxes of those three guys' articles...
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	:If we can find were to move this info, yes. Delete, no. Ukraine is too sparcely covered on wiki to delete a valid info. Maybe we need another article. Like ]. Just thinking out loud. I simply don't have time to fix every problem. --] 18:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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	::No, I meant removing ''just the word'' "President". The article already exists: ], I just created it. Regards. --] 18:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
	Good thinking! Thanks! Also, note, that leaders of the ] should be added there too. Cheers, --] 18:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Good team work! Now we have a decent article. --] 18:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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	For what little it is worth, I had another look at your report and I now agree that a block was warranted. I'm still learning the ropes (so to speak) so please drop me a note if you see me messing up somewhere else. I'm very sorry for the time that my duff decision wasted. ] <sup>'']''</sup> 20:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:All right. Thanks for being gracious :). Mistakes happen and making a mistake and ''not to block'' is always better than to ''block by mistake''. So, when in doubt you made a right decision. --] 06:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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			Hey, I've significantly expanded the article on ] over the past few months. Thought (maybe more of "hoped") you might be interested in expanding, correcting it, or editing in general to help bring it to good, or even featured status. :-)<br>--'']]'' 01:54, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
	I moved your comments to ], and responded to both you and the filer. You are correct in noting that, unless everyone involved in the dispute is involved in the mediation, any resolution will not stick and hence the mediation would have been a waste of time. Cheers, ''']''' 03:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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	Hey, wanna resume attempts at getting the ] article the GA/FA status? Maybe even a second attempt at a peer review? :-) — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	:Seems like a good idea. I will go over it one more time. Thanks, --] 04:29, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	:: Wow, you're fast. :-) By the way, I think you should participate in the Kiev mediation. My comments are on the talk page over there. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	I wrote what I have to say on the mediation already. --] 04:32, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	: Well okay, it's up to you, but I feel you'd have a few good points to make if you joined. — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	::I have made my points and will make them again if the new RM procedure starts. Mediation is not part of it and is started as a desperate attempt of a commited ] to try a new way to impose his view on the WP since all he tried before - failed. The article's name will not be non-compliant to the WP:NC and seeking for a new venue to protract this nonsense is not making the proposed name any more complaint. If he wants to change the convention, this would be another matter but it belongs to WP:NCGN talk page. --] 04:40, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	::: Okay. I just felt that I needed to join the mediation because it might turn into participants trying to discredit each other. Anyway, just a suggestion. We'll see what happens. By the way, Happy Independence Day! — ]<sup>(]|]|])</sup> 04:45, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	Oh yeah! Thanks! Forgot to blank my userepage this time with a last-year's greeting. --] 04:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
	== Bettacommand ==
			Sidor Artemievič Kovpak ancestors on the run for assassination
	I see that Bettacommand is trying to regain his admin status. After disgraceful his block of you. and part in blocking me (memory refresher here ) you may,like me, have something to say on the subject. I'm not sure where is the best place t say it though. ] 11:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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			Me and my brother Sibirian Artjom (named after Sydor's father Artjom) we are the youngest of the four Great grand anserters of Sydor Kovpak. We need help and or life is in danger. My father has made for us a social program this program is of social effort and is the fight to rescue Missing children in the Ukraine in or name! For this we survived assassinations and now we are in a situation that needs attention of all who are involved in Sydor’s vision and heroics acts for the Russian and Ukrainian people.
	I should be grateful if you would avoid, as far as possible, interacting with ] in future, and consider the consequences of some of your postings - even if you feel that they are not contentious. Happy editing. ] 21:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
			I ask can you get in contact with us to listen to or story. Or email is 1400heroes@gmail.com and Verrazzo@hotmail.com <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 16:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	:Thank you for your effort in resolving this matter. It is my intention to continue keeping the amount of my interaction with the said user to a bare minimum. Please judge the content of my postings from the postings themselves, not cherry-picked quotes. I gave a diff several times. Also, you must admit the irony of him claiming of wanting to have nothing to do with me and putting the out of context quote by myself on the top of his user page. I said everything there is to it already at ANI. If you want to study the matter in full, I would appreciate your feedback. If you are not interested, it is just as well. --] 03:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
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	I dont agree with your removal of the image of the vandalising of the Russian Culture Centre in Lviv. I returned it because i belive that this image adds to the article. ] 20:13, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:MVEi, please use article's talk for the article-related issues and use meaningful section titles for your messages. "Hello" is not exactly meaningful, is it? --] 20:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
	::Ok yet you ignored what i wrote. This image shows anti Russian actions. And i also think that in the "Radical" pro-russian movements the image of an anti-NATO demonstration is totally, out of theme. There is nothing radical in opposing NATO. I think it's normal. ] 15:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:Ostap, you did not offend me as I don't take offense of most anything onwiki. The only time I remember seeing myself offended was when a sock with an ax to grind against my country produced ] and some clueless users, including several experienced ones, revert-warred and blocked on the sock's side, the affair having ended with this crap still beautifying the WP. I only ensured that the masterpiece is at least tagged accordingly. You can see my messages at the article's talk as well as my exchange somewhere at this very page with Carabineri. So, no, you did not offend me. I just think your userpage was divisive. Your last moderation was ''more than enough''. Thank you very much. --] 03:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
	::Now I see and I am glad you werent offended. I removed the divisive things. And that Ukrainian German collaboration article is worthless trash. ] 03:57, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
	:::Well, we happen to agree on more than one thing already :) I would just add that in addition to being useless, it is also ''offensive'' trash. The way out of this mess is a new article titled with smth like ]. Then whatever is encyclopedic in this pile of garbage can be included and the rest trashed. After that, if there is an interested user with time, the new objective article on collaboration may be branched out of the history article. I thought of starting an article about the War but never got to it. --] 04:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
	::::I looked at the past versions of that article and I am surprised that that filth lasted as long as it did. ] 09:39, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
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	By the way, I have a vague memory that we've been in conflict in the past, although I don't remember what it was about. (Knowing me, it was probably image deletion.) If I'm not confusing you with someone else, then thanks also for responding to my question with respect and humanity. All the best, &ndash; ] <sup>(]) (])</sup> 13:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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	:Thank you for such an attention to my edits. It always amuses and puzzles me what's so interesting you find in my person that whenever I go, no matter how little this is related to Poland, I find you commenting on that. Was it a Chorny article that I left unannounced for the day (but still found you there on the next day) or this image request which has nothing to do with Poland whatsoever. But since you are interested, I will respond to this as well.
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	Sorry Irpen, but you are wrong. First of all, I don't "force my opponents", I "call my fellow editors for reasonable cooperation". Secondly, this is NOT a waste of time. Waste of time is forcing your fellow editors to reread thousands of words of flamewar, which HAVE been read many times, and also addressed several times aswell.
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	Problem is that people are talking and talking and talking. But not listening. They are fighting instead of cooperating.
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	Sir, I am having problems uploading images. You have helped me before, so would you mind uploading this ? It should be public domain, as he died in 1919. Could you also upload one, as he died in 1927, so it should be public domain also. ] 02:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
	:Ostap, I will gladly help you. Right now I am in the middle of an extensive article rewrite. Once I am done, I will upload your images within few hours. Regards, --] 02:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
	==Renaming Kiev/Kyiv==
	Since you have a lot of experience with this issue, could you identify your current thoughts on renaming? As you know I am re-opening the discussion with the express purpose of finding a consensus, whatever that might become. In shutting off discussion yesterday you quoted ], however it would be very helpful to me if you could be more specific as to whether you thought it still applied, which part, and why. For example, under naming conventions, there is a section titled city names, which states "Convention: In general, there are no special naming conventions for cities, unless multiple cities with the same name exist." ] 04:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
	:Thanks for setting up the archive, however the requested move still needs to be advertised on the ] page. ] 21:56, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
	::The move survey was closed as per of closing admin. There is nothing to advertise. --] 22:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
	:::That was a previous move request that was being closed. I re-opened it with reasons the second time. It is still open and will remain open at least until September 15, 2007. It appears that there was one RM three years ago and none that were fully discussed since then. ] 09:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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	==Fedorovych==
	I'd warily suggest you to disambiguate Poland into ] that is more apropriate, for the time of the events. To my knowledge Grand Duchy of Lithuania had nothing to do with Crown's actions there, because of popular feeling that those lands were unjust stolen from Duchy, so they were not eager to help Poles. Crown and Lithuania, despite existing Commonwealth, often did not have common policy on many things.
	Smolensk war, to my knowledge, was fought mostly with Grand Duchy forces, but I'm not absolute sure about this.--] 12:42, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:I did not ask/want for your opinion on leaving. It's between me and him. I could not care less about Fedorovych. ] 19:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
	::Lokyz, I totally agree with you on both counts. It was not me who pushed Lithuania into Fedorovych. I did use ] as a dab for Poland but some two editors kept persisting with the commonwealth. Same later there, where I cite F's universals asking commoners to rise against Poles (no judgments, so he said), some come and substitute it for "Commonwealth", thus not only putting words to F's mouth that he never said, but also completely distorting his meaning. I also agree re Smolensk.
			A case (]) in which you were involved has been modified by {{oldid2|631252824|Motion|motion}} which changed the wording of the ] to clarify that the scope applies to pages, not just articles. For the arbitration committee --]] 15:32, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
	::Renata, sorry, but I left you a very polite message. Some people should be left alone to take pride in their defiant position and enjoy their friends' support. It is best to provide them with environment they want in this case, --] 02:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Ah Commonwealth - a common overgeneralization. I'm too tired to explain these common mistakes originating from 19th century romantic literature, because nobody seems to even listen, they "know" better.--] 22:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
			I've just reported a new user working under the username of Irpen2 to the ] as being intentionally misleading. I found both an IrynaHappy and working on articles in areas we'd be working on. Cheers! --] (]) 02:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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	What is the reason for your deletion of the Euro 2012 logo picture from Modern history? I see only one legitimate reason, that you will substitute it with an image that better illustrates the event in your opinion. Until you do that, revert the change. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 16:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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	Hello, you have been very helpful in the past, so I have a question. I was looking to start the article on the ], from the Ukrainian-Polish War infobox. I am having trouble finding any sources on the Polish/Ukrainian battle in English that refer to it by this name, or spelled Gnila for that matter. Is this battle known by any other names in the English language? ] 04:44, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:Don't hold your hopes too high though. Much of the Misplaced Pages's military history of Ukraine of that time is written by two Polish editors who place too much of their trust into Polish sources. In addition to obvious biases which typical for any national historiography, such sources sometimes tend to divide wars into "battles" quite unconventionally producing "battles" mentioned nowhere else. I mean the events around these places certainly took place but whether they qualify to be called battles is highly questionable. As a result we sometimes get a full-blown "battle" article about a fight over a single house (with the battlebox and other bells and whistles) or an obscure village not mentioned in any major book about the war. Some editors divide wars into battles in such a way as to produce as many as possible battleboxes that would state the result "XXX-country victory". In US electoral politics the artificial division designed to produce as many desirable local outcomes as possible is called ]. In Misplaced Pages this should be ideally addressed by ] this process is rather broken and is easy to derail.
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	Thank you for the response. The article on Гнила Липа transliterated "Hnyla Lypa" redirects to ]. Which is the correct way to transliterate "Hnyla" or "Hnila"? I thought of moving the article but then remembered I should ask. ] 05:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
	:Well, the river is in UA, so this is a no brainer as there cannot be an established English name for such an obscure river. However, you won't be able to move it yourself to ] in this particular case since the target redirect has a history. I suggest you informally mention the need for a name change at the article's talk page and if there are no objections (and I can't imagine any), we may ask an admin to be moved per no contest. In a highly unlikely case that someone would fight over the name, the formal ] request will have to be submitted. But I believe this will be resolved peacefully. --] 05:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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	I've rolled back your recent edits to WP:ANI because you removed a lot of other posts when doing so. If you're going to reply to multiple threads, don't do it all at once and lead to an edit conflict.—] (]) 06:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Of course I plan to add content and not get in arguments. I just wanted to give my position and move on. I am curious as to how you think it should be written? ] 01:52, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Hi, Irpen. Could I please ask you to weigh in over ]? Thanks. ] 14:47, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Irpen, Thank you for removing the sock puppet tag from my page. By the way, I also find you very annoying, but I don't go saying so on your talk page. Thanks, ] 16:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
	:You don't? Hm. Never mind. But in any case I am OK with you saying it so. --] 07:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Hello, would it be alright to add ] to the {{tl|Ukrainian historical regions}} template? I don't see how any one would dispute this, but after looking at the talk page I thought I would ask. Thank you, ] 03:05, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:I think not for the very reasons that you saw at the template's talk page. For the very same reasons, I would oppose adding tl:Russian historic regions to ] and ]. Let's not produce contentious points. IMO, such template was not a very good idea. Categories and main text do the trick just fine. --] 03:35, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::I understand, but it seems that the fact that they tried to form their own state would qualify them as a historical Ukrainian area. I have another question. The spelling of the article on ] does not match the transliteration in the template. Which transliteration is preferred? ] 03:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Since you live in Ukraine, i would like to ask you a question. You can find it :-) Thank you. ] 09:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Somewhere at home I have a "Panorama", onboard magazine of a Ukrainian airline, which has "Kiev" on page 3 where they present themseleves, and Kyiv everywhere else, but all those are addresses (museums, restaurants, shops). Usable, now that even the airways are called to testify? It is a 2007 copy (it has a Georgian warrior dancer on the cover).
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	Now for the worst: I will not be here much in the next few days. My mother is very, very ill in hospital at the seaside. Please watch out for anything "brudno" ... Thanks! --] 12:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:The article in the state you reviewed it is junk and you arranging promoting each other's article over IRC is plain obvious. And please do not tell me that you have not done it. --] 23:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::Don't make me re-read the IRC conversation. Ctrl+F "let's pass each other's articles" isn't picking anything up =/ ''']''' (]) 05:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::I don't know what is Ctrl F but I am glad you confirmed that this was indeed the IRC deal. I will ask for the logs and get back to you with exact details if you insist. --] 05:58, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::::Let's be specific. I stated that mutual promotion of two articles was an IRC deal. H20 seems to confirm. Are you saying this was not done over IRC? --] 06:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::::::I'm not confirming, I'm denying. Ctrl+F is a keyboard shortcut that can be used to find text on a page (or in an IRC conversation) - I was basically saying that we '''never''' agreed to pass each other's articles. In any case, the article meets GA status - who cares if I passed it or if someone else did... ''']''' (]) 06:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::::::At this time, I see no reason to comment further on this issue, other than to reiterate that nothing inappropriate happened in connection with these reviews. ]<sub>]</sub> 06:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::::::H2O, ''"the article meets GA status"''. The article is a piece of junk and I hear Digwuren was told so in no unclear terms over IRC the day before. Unsatisifed by the first "review", you probably were not online at the time, he waited for another day to get you involved into this nonsense. If you keep denying the impropriety of what happened over IRC and insist on this being brought to full light, we can hopefully do it together. --] 07:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::::::::I insist on you bringing all and any accusations you can back up with evidence to full light. ]<sub>]</sub> 16:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::::::::A question. Do I have yours and H2O's permission to post the full IRC log? If yes, we can sort it out quickly. --] 16:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::::::::::I would suggest that you hurry, as less than 3 hours from the original 24 have left. ]<sub>]</sub> 19:12, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Digwuren, you are not ArbCom or Jimbo to set any deadlines to me so I can just tell you bug off. But since you seemed to have been persisting I inquired and obtained the relevant IRC log. I absolutely confirm that what I said was indeed what happened and if you are willing to make it part of the ArbCom, I would welcome that. I would post the log excerpts to the ArbCom and email the full log to arbitrators. So, go ahead and please do not cross post your responses to multiple pages. Keep it at the article's talk. --] 21:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
	: Deadlines? This reminds me of ] and Bonny's clownish "attempts" at mediation. You may want to check the archives to refresh your memory and have a good laugh. Hilarious. --]<sup>]</sup> 07:33, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
			Anyhow, I think it will end up being deleted, unless you provide the source. If you scanned in a postcard, that was in your personal possession, or had been loaned to you, could you say that? I think so.
	::I don't know any of the editors involved, I reached this page through ]'s RfA. It seems clear to me that the above is a serious accusation, and a similarly serious violation of policy if it remains unsubstantiated. Is this discussion proceeding elsewhere? If not, an uninvolved administrator should be contacted to review this situation and consider action. ] 23:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
			Good luck! ] (]) 13:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
	:::Please see ], ], ], ], H2O's RfA and its talk and perhaps some other pages that slipped out of my view. The issue has become a part of the ongoing Digwuren's ArbCom. Nevertheless, you are free to contact anyone you wish, an administrator or not. It is always best to first familiarize yourself with the situation before opining about the "consideration of action". Happy edits. --] 23:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Why is it a false assertion? I was under the imprssion that it was Peter the I who introduced the term Russia in the 1720's. ] 06:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
	:This is one of the myths spread by some nationalist historians. Take a look at the ] as well as the Britannica's article on ] and ]. --] 06:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::I just added a lot of info on the kuban cossacks talk page, and will add census info tonight or tomorrow. I wonder what your thoughts will be...best] 19:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:::Hi...Could you please weight in on the Kuban Cossacks diuscussion in light of the evidence I presented? On this topic Kuban Kazak seems knowledgeable, but is about as objective as an OUN member would be on the behavior of UPA. I value your objectivity and would like to hear what you have to say...] 13:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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	::::I need a little time for reading this all. I won't be editing the article reverting either party until I do. Thanks for the heads up. --] 16:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Irpen, 6 references have been given already in the lead paragraph. I hope you are not going to start disputing this article as well. ] 07:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Hi Irpen,
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	I was thinking that ] could provide a solution to this content dispute. My reading of the above is that it is perfectly legitimate to have two articles covering the same period from different POVs as long as that POV is clearly stated, and it cross reference other articles of alternate view points, for example ] and ] could quite happily coexist, if we clear state that this article A is the POV of B while article C is the viewpoint of D, while not making any explicit judgement. What do you think? ] 00:36, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
	:Yes. It is possible to have such articles but devoted to the discussions of the term and its applicability. Such articles would be categorized in ] rather than Category:History of... If you were paying attention, I was proposing Vecrumba to spin off all the material in support of the Occupation-POV into an ] or better yet, ] articles. However, articles about the historic events themselves, and the articles in disputes are unquestionably such articles, should be titled without POV-terms. I've been proposing this for a very long time. --] 01:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
	::There is nothing in the guidelines that it must be related to term, simply that the article concerns a point of view, we have ]/], ]/] and ]/] are all valid viewpoint articles. ]/] and ]/] would also be valid viewpoint articles. ] 01:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
	:::] is the article that describes the concept of the world-view. It does not claim to describe the world. Similarly, the occupation article should not claim to describe history. The term "occupation" in the sourced form can be used in the history article text with the proper annotation but not slapped into the title or the category where such annotation is impossible, unless the term itself is the subject of the article. --] 01:56, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
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	On Soviet history(no I am not joking, but writing seriously) I would like you to look at this piece of information I consider manipulation:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/Morgenthau_Plan
	''At the Tehran Conference in late 1943, Stalin had proposed that at least 50,000 and perhaps 100,000 German officers should be executed. Roosevelt's son, Elliot, enthusiastically agreed. The President remarked that perhaps 49,000 should be enough When Churchill became enraged at these comments, Stalin quickly assured him that they were joking Roosevelt was presumably joking, but at the Yalta Conference the President said that he was feeling "very much more bloodthirsty towards Germany" than earlier and indicated that he hoped Stalin would again "propose a toast to the execution of 50,000 officers of the German army" ''
	This smells to me of some manipulation, I would suppose they were talking about execution of war criminals, or the event even didn't take place. Could you check that part of the article and its sources or have any info on the event ?
	The whole article is accusatory and POV but this particular sentence seems to me like a very bad piece of propaganda.--] 01:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
	:I seem to have annoyed dear Molobo when correcting his misleading edits in another article. Oh well, cant be helped. For an online source that relates to the event referred to here; you can if you so wish goto page 571 of . Cheers --] <sup>]</sup> 00:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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	Please source it! --] 19:21, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
	: I'm trying to work in steps because of edit conflicts. The longer I take to make an edit, the more work I'll lose. — ] 19:23, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
	::Just let's finish the sourced exit poll data first. And number of seats is not needed yet. There are too early. --] 19:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
	::: Okay. The Ukrainian news sites are slow for me, probably because everybody's checking them. — ] 19:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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	Wanna get an ITN entry for the main page ready? Something along the lines of "According to exit polls, five parties passed the 3% threshold". — ] 19:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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	: There is still the 2% error margin, might give them a chance. I'll hold off on that. — ] 20:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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	:And I thought you would take over updating the preliminary results. CEC web-site is so slow but proUA updates even sooner then CEC itself. --]
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	:: Sorry, can't. I've got school tomorrow, and if I stay up any longer I'll end up sleeping in my classes. I live on the west coast, and it is getting late here. — ] 07:53, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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	::Thanks Gentlemen for your great work updating the election page. Anyway, how come the ''Ukrainskaya Pravda'' is publishing election results before the Central Election Commission? --] 20:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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	I am not the one who put them in the article. I did a small research in the net for that and I didn't find something. I was about to ask for citation. -- ] 19:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
	:Thank you. Let' find the source asap. I left a message at the article's talk. --] 19:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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	Sorry to bother you again, but I have encountered a small problem. The articles on ] and the article on his son, ]. The problem is that in the ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' article "Ostrozky, Kostiantyn" (I know its on the younger one because of the birth date) gives this as his picture. You notice that this same picture is given ''to the father'' on the wikipedia article. Which person is this? I am guessing that it is the son, but I figured you would know. ] 04:40, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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	:Wow! We cross-posted. I will be back with an answer soon. --] 04:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
	::Is that what happened? Thanks for the award! Its quite a wiki-honor. ] 04:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
	Not sure about E of UA image but I made sure articles are illustrated in accordance with http://www.art.lutsk.ua/art/ostrog/index%20grafika.shtml were I found the original one. --] 05:09, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
	:Strange, that gallery seems to have the same image that is in question (towards the bottom), but if I am looking correctly it doesn't actually say which Ostrozky it is. This is quite strange. Thanks for your help, ] 05:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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	In my view (funny expression to use here: "in my view"!), "Freedom of panorama" was a term used by German journalists to avoid the repercussions of copy right on all sorts of things standing outside in the open air, in "public space". They appealed to people's natural feelings for freedom when they are outside state or other control, and won, more or less, the legal argument. Though there may be countries who follow German law to the letter on this, I am sure most countries' judges would never have stood for allowing people to freely use photographs of things of art still under copyright just because they happen to be in a space where everybody is allowed to be. Oh, and this raises the first question concerning Khatyn: "do people have to pay an entrance fee to enter this place?" If yes, you can probably forget about freedom of panorama.
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	Many countries have wrestled with the principle that "people should be allowed to do what they want in public space" versus the other principle "even after being paid, artists remain the holders of an intellectual right to their creation". Now, it is often claimed (and I remember an intervention on a Russian forum here, since when I had a look at the law) that "Belgium has no freedom of panorama" but that is in fact wrong. It is just that Belgian law is restrictive to the extreme: panorama means panorama, as soon as the object under copyright is obviously the subject of the publication (even though something else may be more prominent in the picture), copyright law applies and "freedom of panorama" goes out of the window. Let me try to explain: I take a picture of my wife and kids in front of the ] Atomium. Result: I am allowed to possess this picture, I may even publish it when someone considers my wife's trip to the Atomium worthy of an article. However, if I now put the very same picture on Misplaced Pages to illustrate the Atomium, the Atomium has obviously become the subject of the exercise and I am acting against Belgian copyright law. What if I make a picture of the Brussels landscape, incorporating a lot more than the Atomium in the background? I suppose that if the Atomium were incomplete, it would be OK in an article on Brussels, but not in an article on the Atomium. To complicate matters, although the Atomium is on the territory of Brussels-Capital, the "Brussels landscape with Atomium" photograph can only be taken from Flemish soil, and Brussels-Capital and Flanders now have different copyright law (until the EU intervenes to sort out this beautiful mess, of course).
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	I am sure that any picture taken in Belarus is subject, or at least also subject, to Belarusian law on whatever part of Misplaced Pages it is published. (though extraterritoriality may be a problem - in the case of the Atomium panorama picture I mentioned above, some countries may say that Flemish law applies, some may say that Brussels law applies, some may even say that both apply at the same time and restrictively and they may make it even more complicated by claiming their own extraterritorial right in a case like that)) Now what about Free Use? US Free Use should be no problem as long as "no freedom of panorama" in Belarus means that copyright law applies - there are enough international treaties on copyright now for us to ignore any additional restrictions prevalent in other countries than Belarus.
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	Note that you cannot be sure that Belarus WILL constrain "freedom of panorama" in the copyright sphere. A nice example, from something related: when you take a picture of a panorama, sometimes there are people in it, also doing what they want in public space. Both Belgium and the Netherlands have very strict laws on "portrait right" (the right of people to object when pictures taken of them are used or published inappropriately according to them, Bildnisrecht in German). But whereas in Belgium judges have usually used copy right law to interpret portrait right legislation ("''people possess the copyright to their face''"), in the Netherlands "portrait right" legislation has been defined in the copyright laws since 1912, and portrait right is always specifically named in the laws as an '''exception''' to copy right (=''the copy right of the person taking the picture is diminished'') there is some doubt about international legal consequences. Personally, I think this may possibly have awkward consequences for Misplaced Pages, since one backup server seems to be situated in the Netherlands, but because this sort of legislation is alien to both Anglosaxon common law and the Code Napoleon (have a look at the limited number of languages linked from ) this bomb still keeps ticking away... Basically, the problem could be that if international copyright law does NOT apply, all pictures which are in defiance of Dutch portrait law are illegal on Misplaced Pages, wherever on earth (or moon, of course) they were taken. And even Free Use is impossible, bacause that too falls under copyright.--] 10:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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	::Which suggests that it is always in function of copyright. Since US Free Use is also a copy right thing, we look on safe ground there, unless the Belarusian law were to specifically enumerate which things are off limits, and claim other reasons for that. The article does not counterdict anything I wrote above, BTW. --] 09:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
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Allow me 1

Wow! Thanks :) , I am honored! Actually, I am trying to contribute to Russia-related article too. But, due to a much larger number of great editors there, my contribution to RU remains rather insignificant.

I was already thinking of awarding myself an Орден "Дружбы народов"' (Why can't I award myself if Brezhnev could?) but with this more prestigeous award, my vanity is more than satisfied for a while for now :). Cheers, --Irpen 22:47, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Remember, Brezhnev awarded himself the Order of Victory, but it was taken from him after his death. Many of his honours were revoked, such as the Polish Order of Military Merit. Zach (Sound Off) 04:53, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, you did not revoke Mikkalai's barnstar you awarded to him when he single-handily substituted it by the Hero of the Soviet Union that he chose for himself and still displays it on his page? So, don't try to scare me, I will award myself with something when I feel like doing this. If this gets revoked after my death, well, I will see what I would do then. --Irpen 05:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Mikkalai rejected the Barnstar, and he replaced it with the HSU. I threw my hands up and moved on. Zach (Sound Off) 05:14, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, self-awarding legitimacy, or lack of it, should not be affected by the fact whether or not it is accompanied by a rejection of a different award, should it? Anyway, I am extremely modest, at least as much as you are, as you could see. I only displayed a ribbon at my user page. Please note, that I was awarded an Order of B. Kh. 1st class skipping the lower two classes. As you can read from an article, 1st class is "awarded to front or army commanders for successful direction of combat operations that led to the liberation of a region or town inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy." I hope our enemies would not recover from such heavy casualties and no one will ever challenge from now on that our cabal rules the Misplaced Pages. Ура! --Irpen 05:26, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

While I agree about the cabal, I was not tyring to pick a fight. I was trying to inject some knowledge. Plus, I see that your taking my route on the ribbon bars. :) Zach (Sound Off) 05:29, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Wołodarka

Ok, Irpen, let us end this whole dispute. If you please, just explain on my talk page how is it that the Russians achieved nothing and were defeated yet the Poles did not win. Halibutt 11:34, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I will explain it at the article's talk itself for the one last time. --Irpen 22:50, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I took your above words as a promise. Do you plan to keep it some day? Halibutt 15:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Halibutt, I did respond at that time. Please check dates. To what you wrote later, there is nothing new to add and I view that I said more than enough. Since there are no new questions, there were no new answers for some time. The note about the dispute should stay unless other editors, not just you, views them unwarranted. Not everyohe has to agree, but there has to be an overwhelming majority. So far, to you were rejecting proposals from three (!) editors and insist on your version. I spent to much effort on this to abandon it now. Unless I see that several editors view my position unjustifued, I see no reason to withdraw my objections. --Irpen 19:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Since you do not respond at my talk page and it is quite difficult to monitor talk pages of all the people I leave messages to, I replied in the article's talk page. I hope you'll respond there and not here. Halibutt 22:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok, now that you have the article blocked, could yopu possibly PROVIDE SOURCES to the version you so fiercefully promote? Also, answering my question (only one, really simple question) would be a step in good direction... Halibutt 01:32, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

it is easy to figure percentage of speakers

• http://www.uceps.org/ua/opros/15/?show_q_id=46&idTema=0&m_razdel=101
• http://www.uceps.org/ua/opros/15/?show_q_id=47&idTema=0&m_razdel=101

Ilya K 18:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

I know about the census. But there is a caviat. Please take a look at Ukrainian language#Independence and modern era (last paragraph) as well as talk:Ukrainian language#Percentage of speakers. --Irpen 18:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

You have not understood, follow links. But unfortunately here - http://www.prozorist.org.ua/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=161 different numbers (although more Ukranianistic:):( . But I beleived in surves afer presidental elections Ilya K

I am sorry, internet problems :(. I got it now. The links are indeed useful. I should use them for ua-language article because I only had Kiev numbers at hand when I was writing this section. However, please note that this numbers prove that the statement at ua-L that "Ukrainopohones became a minority in their nation" removed by AndriyK was factually correct. We should return it there then, shouldn't we? Thanks for the useful link and for your participation. I am glad to work together on more article. --Irpen 19:13, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Welcome here - uk:Мовна ситуація в Україні. Ilya K 19:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! These numbers seem sensible. I can't do much more right now. Please keep an eye on Ukrainization because it got totally disrupted. Also, I left some comments to your recent edits at talk. Actually, you may see that I was against this article to be started at this point because it mostly duplicates the section from the history of ua-L. But once it was started I was just trying to see it not going into excesses and moderating it. I hope it can be made encyclpedic. The wholesale delitions by one user will just make it slower and will not accomplish anything. Regards, --Irpen 19:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

http://www.dif.org.ua/publics/doc.php?action=11/us5

Чи доводилось Вам за останні 12 місяців стикатися з випадками дискримінації (утиску прав та інтересів) щодо людей таких національностей?

e1. Чи доводилось Вам за останні 12 місяців стикатися з випадками дискримінації (утиску прав та інтересів) щодо… Українців?

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
1. Так 6.8 7.2 9.2 6.6 9.6 8.5 8.4 12.6 7.1 7.3 6.4 7.2
2. Ні 88.1 92.5 90.4 93.1 89.6 90.4 91.0 87.1 92.6 92.3 93.2 92.7
Не відповіди 5.1 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.9 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2

e2. Чи доводилось Вам за останні 12 місяців стикатися з випадками дискримінації (утиску прав та інтересів) щодо… Росіян?

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
1. Так 8.6 9.5 9.3 7.4 8.8 8.5 5.7 10.4 5.8 5.9 4.4 6.1
2. Ні 85.7 90.0 90.1 92.2 90.2 90.6 93.6 89.1 93.6 93.4 95.2 93.8
Не відповіди 5.7 0.5 0.6 0.4 1.0 0.9 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.2

So nobody's complaining. Ilya K 19:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

more http://www.livejournal.com/community/ukr_nationalism/324195.html Ilya K 20:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the useful links. I will be happy to use them. Could you repair Ukrainization (I have server problems right now and can mostly edit talks only). It is a total mess not just content-wise but broken pieces too. Also, you may want to revise the intro in view of my comments at its talk. If you can't do it, I will do that myself later. However, the broken pieces and pieces of paragraphs have to be fixed asap. --Irpen 20:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Allow me too 2

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		I, User:Alex Bakharev award this Barnstar to Irpen for his heroic work protecting Misplaced Pages from the Bad Faith Edits and Vandalism

I am SO glad you are back! While at it, is there a ribbon for this star? If not, could you make one for me? Thanks! --Irpen 01:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Irpen, take Image:WikiDefender rib.png. Thanks again. Zach 02:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Apology

Hello Irpen, I've been thinking that since the "bad tempered anon bickering" incident, there has been a gap between us. I would like to apologise for having been on the wrong side of WP:CIV and hope you accept this barnstar for patching up. Izehar 23:12, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I, from my side, fully retract my remarks about the possibility of bad faith on your side (that is if I made any, which I don't think I did in relation to you anyway). Thank you for taking an extra care to check for the possibilities of open proxies. Could you show me how to do it? Next time, I will revert any contributions from such IP's on sight. --Irpen 23:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

amusing entry

Irpen !!! Are you ukrainian nazionalist ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.22.217.116 (talk • contribs)

Дуже дякую

Thank you again for you help today. Next time Bonny comes back, I'll know who to contact! ;) —Khoikhoi 01:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't mention it (Ukrainian: не варто подяки) :)!. But also do ask others as well because those who fight Bonny's socks don't make new friends among more reasonable Romanian contributors who still unfortunately make use of him as a battering ram because he promotes the right POV despite in the wrong way. I am not generalizing over an entire community and I don't want to call names here as well. In any case, we should spread the duty of guarding WP from bad-faith users somewhat evenly. That said, as I always did, I won't hesitate to do all I can to keep such fellows at bay. It's just that if more people actively get themselves involved, life would have been way easier around here. --Irpen 01:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I already asked Ghirla, who else do you think we need help from? --—Khoikhoi 01:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

The good place to consider would be regional notice boards, like the urgent announcement sections of Portal:Russia/New article announcements, Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements and, yes, a Misplaced Pages:Romanian Wikipedians' notice board. Some Romanian users feel ashamed by such compatriots and may help as well. Cheers, --Irpen 01:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Alright, thanks again. --—Khoikhoi 02:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Carpatho-Rusyn

OK, I added the Carpatho -Rusyn Society article to the "Ukrainian diaspora" category. Expect some comments from Pittsburgh. Many people there had ancestors who tried to form a Rusyn autonomus province within Czechoslovakia, and they might not want to be considered as Ukrainians at all. It depends on your definition of "Ukrainian". Pustelnik (talk) 18:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Our discussions

I was going to commmend you on your remarkable civility and, as always, amazing dedication to WP. I will alternate my postings, but am generally more interested in improving the state of dance and music articles. I marvel at the combined work of all the Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian members. Sure there will be times to disagree about certain articles, but the manufacture of content from that area is stagerring to be sure.

Thank you for the additional links about language issues. The present system seems ill-suited to stave of our stubborn-headed colleagues (we all have some in our respective communites), and I hope discussions will lead to further reforms. I hope you realize by now that I am not the type that intends to begin any warring, but I am known to back up others when their actions seem sincere. Good luck with KK; he seems like he would make for a good time out with friends :)

Not a big fan of the Ukrainian Canadian dialect. But I would like to tackle Ukrainian Americans at some point.--tufkaa 23:37, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

PD-UA-exempt

Would the images on this official site qualify for such a tag? As the company is state owned. If yes that means that I'll be able to do all the stations of the Kiev Metro and then it WILL altogether become a featured article. In the meantime I still would like to upgrade DnieproGES to the FA standard and nominate it. --Kuban Cossack 13:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Kazak, any Ukrainian logo qualifies. The law speaks inclusively of symbols and signs of enterprises, institutions and organizations and does not even say "state only". Reread the tag, item d)--Irpen 18:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I meant photographs! I could not care less about logos.--Kuban Cossack 19:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, got you wrong. Give me a couple of days to email them with the request for permission, which I don't expect will be a problem. You could email them too, but I think it is more courteous to write to them in Ukrainian rather than in Russian. So, I will gladly do it for you. --Irpen 19:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually they had a Russian version which after their update back in late 2005 was purged. I e-mailed them a few times and got no reply whatsover. Given how often they update I cannot promise a reply. But go to the Dnepr station and have a look the photo there is the same as in our wiki. I think that might reply that all of their photos are in public domain...--Kuban Cossack 19:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Still, I will email them again and we'll see. --Irpen 19:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Prometheism

You keep complaining about this article. But why not just follow the Misplaced Pages practice and edit it, introducing changes which will make it less POV? This is the Misplaced Pages way, after all. Be bold. Sitting on the sidelines and telling others to fix articles is not going to accomplish anything. Balcer 03:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I am not a specialist enough in international politics. The editors who are, and who wrote it, are Poles. So, I chose the best venue. I also asked user:172 to look at it. If he gets interested, the normalcy of the article is them assured. --Irpen 03:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Ukrainization

Would this and this (scroll down to Лингвистический лохотрон) be of any use to you?—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 15:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Davies WERS

I have it now next to me. I think I already asked you for a list of terms to check, I am sorry if you gave it to me but I can't find it now - I remember we talked about the list...--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! First of all, I would like to know the names, Davies uses in the English (original) version of his book for the towns/villages listed in Template:Campaignbox Polish-Soviet War. I am almost sure that Wołodarka, Nowochwastów, Wasylkowce and others have to go from en-Wiki to pl-wiki where no one in sane mind would object to them. Check the table for other names (Mironówka anyone?). I would also be very much interested whether he mentions such thing as the Battle of Wołodarka and, if yes, whether he mentions a "Polish victory" there. If you could hold on to the book for a while, I will come up with more questions. Please keep checking out my talk once in a while. There will be plenty of entries, including by myself, in response to some comments as I have missed replying to several on time due to real life things. I really appreciate that so many people, read my talk and care to comment. I know you are busy with other things than scrutinizing my talk, but just check for responses, if you can. I find it extremely important that the questions and answers are kept at the same page. Regards, --Irpen 21:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

"Quick jumping to blocks"

Irpen,

I just wanted to thank you for this. It was good to read some reasoned thought, both about how our sysop temperment is changing as newer, less-encultured people become sysops, and on the individual cases, how mis-application of and sometimes shear insouciance to the guidance can distort our policies into damaging the encyclopædia. Certainly, it makes a rather nice change from the reactionary stuff that so-often pervades AN. Keep up the good work, etc.. :-)

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:17, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Allow me 3

For your outstanding contributions to Misplaced Pages and for passing the strict criteria of newly created Senior Editor rank 1 badge (10,000 edits including 5,000 mainspace edits and two years of service (starting from 3 June 2004 in your case)), you are awarded the Bronze Editor Badge and its Book of Knowledge! Geeze, I'm jealous :)

Cheers, Grafikm 15:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Thank you very very much! --Irpen 20:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Give me a little bit and I will see what I can do about ribbons. User:Zscout370 00:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Kiev St Andrews night.jpg

Hi Irpen,

Is there any way that you would be willing to consider releasing Image:Kiev St Andrews night.jpg under the CC-by-SA 1.0 license? Thanks. -- Wikitravel Sapphire 07:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sapphire! This is not my image. I contacted the owner of the image (listed at the image page) and asked him, whether we can use his images in WP under GFDL and he said that yes we can. That's all I have. We can contact him again if GFDL is insufficient for you. If you want, I can contact him myself. Regards, --Irpen 05:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd appreciate that, because unfortunately I can only use CC-by-SA 1.0. I could contact him, unless he only speaks Russian or Ukrainian, which, if he does I'd greatly appreciate it if you could ask him. Thank you. -- Wikitravel Sapphire 04:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Political reform in Ukraine

Irpen, I notice you create red links to "Political reform in Ukraine" and "Constitutional reform in Ukraine", but I don't think it requires a separate article. I think it should rather be a section "Constitutional Reform (2004)" in Constitution of Ukraine article. Also, the terminology you are using seems to be disambiguous, as 2004 reform is one of many political (constitutional) reforms in Ukrainian history. --KPbIC 01:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the reform warrants a separate article, because a section in the Constitution article would naturally be devoted mainly to the changes of the constitution themselves and there was much to the process itself that is outside of the Consitutiona article. I think "Political reform" is more correct since it is more widely used. To disambiquate, we can add a year (or years) to the article's title. --Irpen 01:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Allow me...

Image:Purple_heart.jpg For defending articles with valor and for being wounded in these defensive operations, this PH for you, Irpen :) -- Grafikm 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)]]

Hope you don't mind receiving an American award for that, but sadly, there was no similar award in the USSR... -- Grafikm 14:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't mind any award but I don't remember being wounded :). --Irpen 19:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Update. --Irpen 21:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Language tables

Take a look at my quest from Zscout370 for two tables with language break down in Ukraine by students studying in a specific language (secondary school students only). If you object to their future use, let's let Zscout370 know now so that he does not spend his time on making them. The request is located on his talk page @ http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Zscout370#Png_question --Riurik 21:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

History of the Soviet Union (1953-1985)

I have no interest in an edit war but no time either to rewrite the paragraph in question in such a way that it will attain any acceptable level of encyclopedic writing.

Therefore just a few short remarks to show that the paragraph is on the one hand totally out of place and full of errors on the other:

1. The article as such is (like almost all articles concerning "communist" and/or "Soviet" topics in the English WP) so utterly flawed, biased and distorted that it would be but a insignificant cosmetic change if I were to rewrite one paragraph of it.

2. It is absolutely inappropriate to imply that Andropov's "major legacy" to the Soviet Union would have been his "discovery" and "promotion" of so dismal a figure as Gorbachev. Andropov was a highly intellectual and reasonable politician as well as a convinced communist that strove for a thouroughgoing improvement (or "reform", although the word can be tricky !) of socialism in the Soviet Union and beyond. THAT is his major (but due to his early death tragically unfulfilled) legacy !
I don't know whether you are able to read German, but if you do, take a look at the article on Andropov in the German WP (a continuous work in progress !) which has been largely written by myself and also takes the newest Russian secondary literature into consideration. There you could see what a decent and objective discussion and evaluation of Andropov's plans and efforts for an all-round renewal of socialism should look like together with a clear confrontation of this drive to improve with Gorbachev's fury to destroy.

3. If anybody "discovered" Gorbachev, then this dubious honor belongs to either Suslov or Kulakov (or even Shevardnadze) and only in the third or fourth instance to Andropov.
And anyway - Gorbachev, the archetype of a dishonest and sly opportunist, tried hard to maintain friendly personal relations with anybody who could help him in his careerist ambitions - Brezhnev, Andropov and especially the kind but intellectually mediocre Chernenko.

4. Gorbachev was since 1978 CC secretary for agriculture, not "personnel". Rather, Ligachev (whose world views were and still are far more corresponding to Andropov's than Gorbachev's ever did) was nominated CC secretary for personnel questions during Andropov's time in office in late 1983.

5. If Gorbachev is mentioned as a "protegée" of Andropov, then his other (and often much closer) collaborators should also be named - for instance Ryzhkov, Ligachev, Romanov or Aliev to mention but a few.
Many different but agrreing accounts have it that Andropov became more and more critical of Gorbachev and his increasingly obvious incompetency on the one hand and unprincipledness on the other during his time as General Secretary. With this (well founded) assertion I do not wish to present a "hagiographic" picture of Andropov but simply to counteract erroneous historical legends.
It is, of course, true that Gorbachev at the beginning of his glorious reign of happy and unforgettable memory revived some of Andropov's reform schemes. But very quickly he diverted from this path and promoted a very different agenda, the results of which are well known (and felt). And already in 1987 Gorbachev branded so-called "orthodox" adherents of Andropov's original "perestroyka" as "half-breeds" (which was, by the way, also rightly understood as a hidden anti-semitic remark aimed at Andropov's possible Jewish ancestry).

6. It was during Chernenko's (and not Andropov's !) long periods of absence due to his illness in 1984/85 that Gorbachev acted as the "Second Secretary" of the CC and therefore as the "deputy" to the General Secretary. During Andropov's illness no clear "deputy" was chosen.

I hope this makes my line of reasoning a bit clearer, Yours Elsmlie 09:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for such an interesting reply. I am least interested inrv wars as well. From experience, I know that most blanking edits should be avoided ir treated with suspicion. Now that you explained, I would agree if you remove the info again. However, please consider replacing the paragraph you view "incorrect" by a "correct" one. While removing of misleading info is useful, replacing it with the correct info is even more so. Thanks again! --Irpen 04:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Transparency vs. Opacity

or, more explicitly,

"Open Meetings/Records" vs. "Behind Closed Doors"

Dear Irpen:

Thank you, many times thank you, for your recent comments on the need for transparency in admin decisions, as opposed to their being made secretly off-wiki with no record.

What I have seen over and over in real-world governance is the immediate tendency of secrecy to foster corruption. In part this might be the tendency of already existing corruption to seek secrecy as a growth medium; but I think secrecy has also weakened the resistance of the previously honorable with its continual tempting whisper of "no-one will know."

One of the alarming things about the recent WP:AN/I discussion was how open discussion was repeatedly subverted by admins who claimed their actions had support but declined to specify names, citations, or any other detail. (Perhaps "all the lurkers support them in email IRC.")

• An open consensus (no block) had been reached in the original main section, with all participants signing their statements on the open record...

• ... and then a block was enacted anyway, by someone who had said not a word in that discussion, but left an unsigned and undated statement elsewhere.

• That block was openly discussed and disputed in an appended subsection on AN/I...

• ... an admin engaged in the dispute (and made his own accusations) in the bottom entry...

• ... and then that same admin declared the discussion closed — while claiming review and upholding by (likewise unnamed) "uninvolved sysops" — after which no rebuttal or denial of his accusations was possible. (I had been under the impression admins were not supposed to protect pages on which they themselves were engaged in disputes.)

It is all too vivid a reminder of the block-plus-false-accusation-of-"threats" on Commons for which the blocking admin would not give even specifics, let alone cites (and said "other admins" had asked him for the block, though again he gave no names; where did this asking occur?)...

... and of the entire RfA talk page deleted because one person had asked an awkward question. (Interesting question, too. How, right after two previous failed RfAs, did a candidate manage to win unanimously, 25-0, a third RfA for which all previous opposition disappeared — or, as the asker noted, of which previous opponents had not heard? Why would anyone delete an entire page to keep that question from being seen, rather than either answering or ignoring it? It would have been easy enough to reply "You snooze, you lose.")

Open meetings and open records, allowing everyone to see what's really going on, let people learn to trust their administration — if the actions so revealed are worthy of trust.

A cloud of secrecy, from which emerge (even occasionally) lies and injustices, tends to have the opposite result.

Further, making an official habit of dishonesty (e.g. using false accusations to justify admin actions) cannot bode well for an encyclopedia project, which after all should be honest and verifiable.

The Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia community faces a serious problem, even if most of its members simply don't know it yet, even if many will remain blithely unaware. Your recent comments have shown the clearest awareness of this, made the clearest statement of it, that I have seen to date. Again, thank you. – SAJordan _contribs 08:55, 17 Dec 2006 (UTC).

Question on Kyiv spelling

Irpen, Kyiv spelling of the capital of Ukraine is the official spelling, according to the Ukrainian national system of transliteration. It's also one of the well established spellings of the city (Google test: more than 5mln hits). Thus, I would like to ask what is your view on the scope of usage of this spelling in Misplaced Pages? Should it be used, as a reflection that the spelling is a valid spelling, which has its usage? Or, should it be excluded from each and every page? --KPbIC 22:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Well that can be said about the Kharkov and thousands of other Ukrainian cities that have Russian spellings. Considering that all (except western Ukrainian ones) in google give more hits by their Russian translit than Ukrainian one,, should they too be excluded from each and every page ? --Kuban Cossack 23:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Good question. Do you know the answer? As well as this one. --KPbIC 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

So I was right about reverting the Kharkiv Metro station moves, thanks, I'll keep that in mind. --Kuban Cossack 01:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

If you wanna talk about Google tests, "Kiev" gets about 34 million. So you should find better reasons than that. -- Grafikm 23:44, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually why not create a bot that will go and change this throughout wikipedia...ie. Kyiv to Kiev... and at the same time other cases like Odesa to Odessa? --Kuban Cossack 23:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Grafik, it's true that at this point, Kiev spelling is used more widely than Kyiv. The question is: Should Kyiv be excluded from each and every page of wikipedia? --KPbIC 00:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Well based on naming conventions alone, in most cases, YES! Now there are exceptions, particulary those where Kiev actually reffers to a name not to the city. e.g. FC Dynamo Kyiv. In other cases, per name of the article, particulary historical articles.--Kuban Cossack 00:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Not only in the cases of Kyiv being a part of a name, but also as a name of the city. What you are failing to recognize is that Kyiv has its historical usage. This is the current official name of the city used by local authorities, it's the name used by some foreign and international entities, and it's the name used by many people, including some Misplaced Pages contributors. If someone within an article wrote Kyiv in today's context (for example, in the list of recently established Ukrainian postal codes), there is no need to substitute by what you believe the name should be. The name is what it is, what people actually call it. Please, read the example in WP:NCON. You are mistakenly following a prescriptive approach, changing Kyiv to Kiev, and saying that this is what should be. Wrong. Misplaced Pages follows the descriptive approach, in particular, don't "fix" links that aren't broken. --KPbIC 00:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Well in ENGLISH Kiev only has two historical terms, Kiev, Kijow and Kiev for the three different time periods. Now in today's context you have a 34 mln vs 5 mln google hits, and the postal codes actually do not use the term Kyiv, but Киïв as cyrillic, not latin is the alphabet. Now then like it or not, but guidelines are only guidelines, and the redirect passage mostly adresses points like Acidic or Acid. Kiev and Kyiv on the other hand are different points and are ultimately drawn from WP:NC which is a POLICY, not a guideline. And in a conflicting case, as here, the policy has an upper hand. --Kuban Cossack 01:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I was pleased to log in and find out that my page became a field for a productive discussion. Since it was conducted at my page, I assume that all that took part are interested in my opinion. Here goes. First, the general statement. Based on the combination of the current Misplaced Pages policies and the modern prevailing English usage, Kiev should indeed be used throughout Misplaced Pages, except for the proper names where Kyiv is part of such name, such as football clubs, enterprises, organizations, etc. It should also be used in the discussion in the "Kiev or Kyiv" section of the Kiev article and, ideally, in the yet non-writted Name of Capital of Ukraine article, similarly to the existing Name of Ukraine.

That said, I do not make it my priority to hunt for Kyiv all over Misplaced Pages and change it for Kiev because I have other things to do. At the same time, users who do so, act in accordance with the policies and they should not be reverted for frivolous reasons. Personally, I usually only change Kyiv by Kiwv in two cases. One, when I edit the article for other reasons, like expanding it. Two, when someone Kyivizes the spelling that pre-exists. I am not bound to do it that way, as this is my volunteerly soft self-restriction. Kuban kazak may have a different view on how tolerant one should be to non-policy name and he is entitled to act as he sees fit because this is actually what policies prescribe. I do not see Kyiv within current policies.

A separate, and yet related question, is that the usage in articles does not have to coinside with the main article. True enough, the historic names, as found in historic literature written in English may be used. However, Kyiv does not prevail in English usage in any particular context. As such, historicity is not a valid reason for this particular city.

I view the argument Krys frequently brings about the desires of the city residents largely irrelevant. Curiously, I am not even sure that an opinion of the residents of the city is known. Truth is that the population of the city is both overwhelmingly Russophone and overwhelmingly supportive of the Ukrainian independence. How one is to derive the residents' view of the particular question is a mystery to me and however one does it, that's original research. I am not aware of a sociological survey where the city residents were asked the particular question. I must say that this would be extrely interesting to know. --Irpen 04:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Again, one of the facts is that Kyiv provides more than 5mln hits. This is, for example, more than about 2mln hits on Kuban, the home region of User:Kuban kazak. Then, why should the usage of Kyiv be ignored? If there is such usage of Kyiv, then the question is not "Is there any historical context for Kyiv?", but rather "What is the proper context for Kyiv?".

I thought, to find a clear answer, instead of relying "on the combination of the current Misplaced Pages policies and the modern prevailing English usage", it may be reasonable to submit RfC on the issue of clarifying the context for Kyiv usage. Kuban kazak was trying to prove that WP:NC(UE), which is a guidance, should take priority over WP:REDIRECT, which is another guidance. Weak argument, to say at least. It's possible that if there is a clear result out of RfC on this particular case, it could make our life easier. So, would you like to cosign RfC asking community on the context of Kyiv usage (if any) within Misplaced Pages? --KPbIC 23:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

There are plenty of google hits for Warszawa and Munchen as well. There is no usage of the term in Misplaced Pages. Similarly, Kyiv is not "ignored". It is not used in WP except few circumstances. There are only two contexts for the city name: modern and historical. Kyiv does not prevail in either of those.

If you you don't see a clear answer, you are free to spend your time pursuing it. I do see a clear answer and consider this a pure waste of time. Therefore, I do not see a need for RfC and will not help it happen. If it happens, I might comment on it at some point but I view initiation unfavorably not because I like the status quo but because I don't see any merit in your claim.

To summarize, I cannot prevent you from pursuing the issue anywhere you want but I do not want to facilitate another empty discussion which will bring nothing. --Irpen 23:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Warszawa is a name of the city in Polish language, first of all, and only then in German or in English. In addition to Warsaw, the name has been used in English Misplaced Pages as a name of the city (, , , etc, etc), without much of conflict from both sides (afaik).

Kyiv is the name of the city in English, not in Ukrainian. And contrary to other cases, Kyiv is a self-identifying English name. You continue to neglect the role of the government, hoping instead to get "independent surveys", which would show people as you want them to be. Government elections is the most valuable survey you can get. At least since 1990, Kiev was always inclining pro-Ukrainian way. Being yet mostly Russian-speaking city, Kievans not merely support independence, but among other things they do support the transition to the Ukrainian language. Contrary to parents being studied in Russian schools in Soviet time, they want their children to go to Ukrainian schools. Not each and everyone, but the people I know do just that, and they think it's right. The spelling of Kyiv, among other things, is a symbolic element of the transition.

I thought it would be a good case when two opponents bring an RfC together. Too bad, you see it as an empty discussion. The issue cannot disappear by itself, especially if one side is self convinced the truth can only be on their side. --KPbIC 00:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I am not for "independent" surveys as opposed to the government ones. I am against deriving the answers to a question A from the answers to a question B made by a Wikipedian on his own and then invoking the results of such original research to argue his points. The question to the city residents "How would you prefer your city to be called in English?" has never been asked and I would be very curious to see an answer to it no matter who conducts such survey. I see other baseless claims you made above, like "Kievans support" this or that. Not that this is very relevant to the Misplaced Pages naming, but I have no idea where you get this info from. I think the only way to know is to check how people answer questions asked to them. I did not see Kievans answering the questions like "Would you prefer your children to study in the schools with Russian or Ukrainian as the primary language of instructions, provided that both languages are studied comprehensively within the schools curriculum?" Neither I have seen specific Kiev-only answers to the question "Would you prefer Russian to be a second state language in Ukraine?" (I've seen the answers to this latter question asked Ukraine-wide and the answer of the majority of the population of the country is "yes").

This all is, however, beside the point. I commented on that simply because you like to invoke the will of the people baselessly purely on where you want the people's will to be or by deriving it from elsewhere without basis. Moreover, this has only an indirect and remote effect on the English usage as the latter is mainly affected by the English native speakers and those do not live in Ukraine.

"People I know" is not a valid statement as an argument in Misplaced Pages. Besides, I know many people who think otherwise. I am not invoking them because user:Irpen is not an authority to conduct surveys and argue their results. Neither is user:Krys. I can see that you personally want to see the English usage changed. I neither approve nor disapprove your interest in doing so. However, Misplaced Pages cannot be a vehicle to promote your personal preferences on what the English usage is better to advance your political goals. I have repeatedly supported the Ukrainian-based versions of the names within Misplaced Pages where such were warranted by the recent change of the English usage. I not only supported but also initiated the moves of Luhansk and Kharkiv. Unlike Kuban kazak, I consistently use LvIv and CherkaSy not only in main but also at talk pages (while you act more like Kazak by insisting on using Kyiv in talk space, but, hey, this is just talk space and you are both free to deflect from conventions dictated for mainspace to make your point). As soon as (also if) the prevailing English usage would change towards Kyiv, I will support the change of the article's name and will use the name in modern context in the articles I edit.

Re your point about Warsaw, see this. As you can see Polish editors rejected your claim.

You want to start an RfC about something that has been discussed to death and a new RfC will add nothing to it. If this is how you want to be spending your wikitime, go for it. I am not interested in the endless discussions about something where everything has been already said. --Irpen 02:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Few days ago I added to Kiev results of survey by Research & Branding Group. Reading yesterday, an interview with the director of R&B, I really regret mentioning the "sociological company" and their results. The guy is all in politics, and I doubt something is left for true sociology. And I doubt someone can be pleased with the quality of Ukrainian surveys, unless that someone is picking the results (surveys) he likes. That's why I rather put emphasis on elections, and on the actual people’s choice. Kievans do favor Ukrainian schools for thier children. The actual choice brings responsibility. There are no lines for Russian classes, no waiting lists, no oversized classes. They do have choice, and they make their choice. Contrary, surveys lack responsibility. Your answer to "What would you do if you had a million?" is likely to be different from the way you would actually spend the million, if you are in fact is given one. Then what's really relevant?

With respect to Kyiv, I don't have time to respond today, and it looks like your position is stone clear. I do see the benefits of using the same name in all articles, as in Britannica, and other authority encyclopedias, but I see no indication that you see the benefits of allowing Kyiv as well as Kiev, and Kharkov as well as Kharkiv in such open voluntary-based encyclopedias as wikipedia. --KPbIC 06:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I am tired of discussing with you some irrepevant issues. Your assertions about knowing and being able to derive the wishes of the residents are flawed but I already explained why.

As for comparison of Kyiv with Kharkov, the difference has been explained to you. All the E.L. WW2 literature uses Kharkov. It also uses Rumania and, frequently, Tarnopol. Kyiv is not used by much of the English language books iun any historical context. That's what makes it different from Kharkov and Lwow. --Irpen 06:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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An uninvolved admin says....

Now would be a great time to drop it. Please discontinue the argument at WP:RFI or I will drag the warring parties apart while adopting a policy of actively not caring who, if anyone, is right. Same goes for Piotrus. Guy (Help!) 21:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey, did you actually read what I was saying? Shutting it down was what I was actually calling for all along! --Irpen 21:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but Dan's actions merited investigation and the firefight stopped that happening. Sorry to be heavy-handed, but really the meta-arguments were impeding genuine attempts to investigate (and no it certainly was not all your fault, or all anyone's fault) Guy (Help!) 22:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• I can't disagree. Piotrus brings a lot of this on himself. Peter pointed out that the thing I was looking for was WP:NCR, which I think gets a lot closer to what I meant than what I actually said :o) Guy <small>(Help!) 23:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

New day, new hope

Since you tried talking to me, let me repay the good intention, especially as I still think you are a decent person, and we are having a terrible misunderstanding. Plus if I can work things with Ghirla (in mediation), I am sure it should not be more difficult to patch our relations.

So. You think that I am responsible for Ghirla leaving the project, yes? I don't think so. We were doing well in mediation, I was mostly satisfied with his replies and I didn't see any sign he was unsatisfied with mine. So I don't think I was the reason he left our project. Further, as I wrote before, I would be happy to cosign a request to get him back. He is a valued contributor, and as we have been doing good progress dealing with the incivility issue I see no reason not to want him to come back and continue contributing to this project, avoiding our past problems with the civility parole he himself recognized as acceptable and useful.

Second. I am offended by your accusations that I try to get my opponents blocked. You should know well I spend a lot of time in discussions, and in my years here even you could find only several examples where I was forced to take this action. Blocking policy exists for a reason, and if an admin finds that a person who disagree with his POV seems also to be violating polices whose violation is blockable, what can that admin do? He cannot block that person himself, obviously - so isn't the only choice (assuming he has tried to talk to that person first but failed to reach a solution) to ask other admins to investigate that matter (again, assuming that that admin thinks the case is relativly simple and violates a policy whose violation is blockable)? Do note that investigation may result in a block but may also in recommendations for DR or just plain 'you are overreacting, let it go'. As I wrote before I don't believe any of my actions were over and beyong what is perfectly normal and to be expected behavior of any user.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Piotrus, as I said before, I find editing articles with you quite possible. In fact much easier than with Halibutt, who I also hope will stay despite all the problems he gives to me and all his opponents. The fact stands, however, that I don't remember Halibutt submitting reports on his opponents all over the place.

Ghirla left because of overall stress of which his conflict with you was the major part. You were running a campaign against him in every space he was posting. Your invoking his RfC multiple times even at WP:DYK suggestion page goes beyond pale. Placing him on the civility parole would me most fiercely oppose by me. As I said at Halibutt RfC, civility is not a core problem of these conflicts. Halibutt has also been at times incivil. I would oppose any action against Halibutt as well. This is not a manners forum. This is the encyclopedia and we should concentrate on the content writing. Your tendentious edits (you may say Ghirla's or mine tendentious edits, if you think so) and overall editing disagreements is the core of these problems. The recent example is what happened with the Russian Enlightenment article and there are multitudes of similar cases. But in any case, such disagreements should be allowed to be resolved in due course without involvement of the admin powers, be it yours or those you call in.

I have by far less problems editing with you than with many of your friends. It is easier to reach a compromise with you than with, say, Halibutt and, unlike, say, Lysy, you did not make offensive remarks about me (except that single accusation in Polonophobia of which I am not making a big deal). Perhaps things have slipped from my mouth too when things were hot.

We will continue to work on the articles here. I hope Ghirla will rejoin. The only thing I must insist on, is that you drop resorting to the boards every time you are unhappy. Happy edits, --Irpen 19:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I guess we differ in our view on our little community. I believe that foul-mouthing and generally personal attacks are not only not helping, but they are damaging the content as they drive editors away. Thus I believe that editors who violate those policies must be forced to change their ways, and in extreme cases, blocked. Just like in real life, a few offensive words can be taken, but when somebody launches a large-scale, long campaign of slander, or does similar actions, he needs to be called to order. One can express all of his POV without being offensive. Those who cannot just have to learn it - sometimes, the hard way.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Piotrus, I agree that civility is an asset. I agree that incivility is not helping. All I am saying is that policies should not be used as a weapon in edit or personal conflicts. I never reported Halibutt or Lysy for their abusive language. The price of your actions is a loss of an invaluable editor, while Halibutt is still around. Could be if I was harassing Hali over civility the same way as you were harassing Ghirla, Hali would not have been here as well. And I am not even mentioning the extreme offense about my ethnicity I took from Lysy. I will not sit idly if this practice continues while I will do my best to ensure the improved civility overall. --Irpen 20:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Irpen, if I may chime in, it is every editor's right to report others for repeated incivility. You may not wish to do so, but don't expect others to take abuse in silence. As for your promise to "ensure the improved civility overall", I can't say I have high hopes; I was very disappointed by your passionate defense of Ghirlandajo in two clear-cut cases of incivility against me. Appleseed (Talk) 21:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I did not defend his incivility, that's for one. Besides, he was constantly provoked by the campaign that some were running against him. I did talk to him about overal tone of his messages and about not taking the bait. Unfortunately, it had only some effect. If your goal was to eject him, you succeeded now. Happy edits, --Irpen 21:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

New day, new hope - 2

It's hard to respond to your accusations because they are so nebulous. What campaign? Who were these "some" who were waging it? Me? Considering my two unhappy encounters with Ghirlandajo were my only encounters with him, it must have been a very short campaign. What baiting and provocation are you referring to? If you consider this a provocation, or my discussion of two article titles, then I see why we're having trouble understanding each other. Appleseed (Talk) 21:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

By campaign I mean being followed everywhere with links to his a year old RfC, which even included WP:DYK pages, being faced with WP:TE attacks, like in Russian Enlightenment and other whatnots. I repeat that I agree that Ghirla has somewhat a short temper. So does Hali. Piotrus and myself have a thicker skin. I have the thickest one. The crux of the matter is that editors like Ghirla and Hali should not be harassed but protected for the benefit of us all thanks to the enormous amount of material they bring here. They should not be reported to all sorts of boards on every minor instance. --Irpen 21:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Ghirlandajo's "somewhat short temper" is the understatement of the year. You're taking about someone who used an obscenity because I was discussing (not even proposing) a new article title. Everyone knows that he writes a lot of articles, but you're asking too much of your fellow editors if you expect them to give him carte blanche. How many editors does Ghirlandajo have to chase away with his incivility before it becomes clear that they could have accomplished much more than he alone, and in a pleasant atmosphere to boot? Appleseed (Talk) 22:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

He has not chased away a single editor. I can tell you more. My first interaction with him was a long and stubborn argument at the talk of the the Great Russian language article. After two days of arguing over the disagreement, he gave to me my first barnstar that you can see at the top of my page. He can be reasoned with if you do it properly. If, OTOH, one does it like Piotrus and Halibutt was doing, yes, he looses temper and responds inadequately. Still, I am aware of no more valuable contributor to this project and I am willing to tolerate occasional incivility from such editors, similar to how I tolerate Halibutt and oppose any harassment he has been taking lately. --Irpen 22:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

In the course of your discussion, did Ghirlandajo accuse you of somethingcentrism, curse, threaten to report you, or speak to you in a condescending fashion? How many edits such as this do I have to endure before Ghirlandajo gives me a barnstar? I'm afraid I that I'm not interested in learning the "proper" way to reason with Ghirlandajo--I'll stick to common decency, which WP makes explicit in WP:CIV. Appleseed (Talk) 22:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he accused me in Russophobia. I just ignored it and moved on. Since then we became wikifriends and I did not chase him to demand an apology as I do not demand apologies from Piotrus for accusing me in Polonophobia or others here who called me worse. I am proud that Ghirla considers me his friend because, as I said, I know of no other contributor to this project of such quality (perhaps Giano would be the only exception). I am also pleased to see the respect from Piotrus whose contributions are also immense and I only regret that Halibutt does not think of me much. --Irpen 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Since my name was mentioned here I take the liberty to reply. Indeed I'm considering to return to the project, partially because Ghirla is away. I admire Piotrus' patience in dealing with him, I lost all hope in that Ghirla could become a civilized and civil editor a long time ago, around the time he's been chasing my every step, accusing me of a zillion of absurd things and violating almost every policy - usually with the aims of either driving me mad or discrediting me. Finally I got carried away once or twice, which was the reason I decided to leave. Ghirlandajo has been doing for years what I've done once or twice. That's why I believe your if I was harassing Hali over civility the same way as you were harassing Ghirla, Hali would not have been here as well remark is both misleading (intentionally, I'm afraid) and unfair. If you want to compare mine behaviour with that of Ghirlandajo, please be so kind as to compare specific diffs and their reception by the community. Check both RfCs if you like. Otherwise please don't use me as an example of "Ghirla-like, yet unpunished" since I'm not. There is a huge difference between us and it's not nationality I mean here.

Halibutt, I am not to spend time comparing who of you two is more incivil. Personally, you offended me much more and with stronger words than anyone except, perhaps one or two of my ultra-nationalist compatriots and one exceptionally insulting remark from Lysy. I just moved on. As I said, I consider civility secondary and content creation primary. --Irpen 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I beg your pardon? When did I offend you? And how? //Halibutt

Well, you said things to me that I would rather not recite. --Irpen 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

See? It's always easier to accuse others of being incivil that finding a single piece of evidence. This way everyone will know that I'm a bad guy, regardless of whether I really did something wrong or not. That's the very same tactics Renata and others have adopted. //Halibutt 01:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, there is an anti-Halibutt conspiracy. Listen, I just hate to find exact diffs. The first time you offended me was at the time of the infamous Wolodarka dispute. Than you called me a liar. I will rather not elaborate. --Irpen 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

It was not meant as an offence, it was a mere description of facts. I presented two sources, you tried to convince everyone that I presented only one. If you're offended by the word lie, how about you deliberately distorted the reality or you were untrue? //Halibutt 08:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Not again! I will not be go over the Volodarka nonsense with you for the N+first time. Sorry, my friend. --Irpen 17:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

As to chasing away other editors, I was on the verge of being chased away by Ghirla and the like. Ghirla himself admitted a long time ago that he chased away Rydel from Misplaced Pages (the diff should be in Ghirla's RfC if you don't believe me). I don't know if there are more people directly involved, but the fact remains that Ghirla's inability to behave creates an overall bad atmosphere in Misplaced Pages, which is not what this great project deserves. Even if it does not drive anyone out of the project directly, it creates a bad precedent. One could say "look, Ghirlandajo told everyone to fuck off and called them idiots, and so can I" (check the RfC for diffs again). This already happens - and Ghirla had definitely his hand in it.

Sorry, but Rydel was just a troll. If I am responsible for the departure of AndriyK, which may or may not be the case, this is not something for me to loose my sleep over. Those fellows brought nothing here but edit wars. At the same time, several Lithuanian editors made it clear that they are living because they can't deal with you anymore. --Irpen 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

See? It's all a matter of perspective. For me Ghirlandajo is the same kind of fella. As to the "several Lithuanian editors", I bet you're referring to the outraging piece of slander by Renata, who was back to wikipedia in two weeks and whom I asked repeatedly to post a single piece of evidence for her absurd accusations. To no avail. //Halibutt

Well, that you call him "the same kind of fella" as Rydel and AndriyK speaks lengths. There is no more to disscuss. As for Lithuanian editors you chased away, Renata is only one of them. Lokyz and EED come to mind. --Irpen 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, right, I indeed drove Lokyz away. For two days. I won't comment on EED, just like I wouldn't like to comment on Zivinbudas and other similarly-minded people. //Halibutt

Well, comparing EED to Zvin just does not fly. So, cut it. --Irpen 03:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Finally, so far I found only one way to deal with Ghirla's phobias: sources. In cases where a heathen debate starts it usually helps to expand the article with as many sources as possible - then Ghirlandajo suddenly disappears - and starts his usual mumbo-jumbo in another place (check the history of the articles on Warsaw Uprising (1794) or Katyn massacre for examples). However, I believe that the limit of offences one can commit is over for him and I can't say I'm not happy about that. If he learns how to control himself - great. If he doesn't - great as well. The latter would mean that we'll loose a valuable editor, but this would be a lesser evil - at least from my perspective.

Bullshit. Nothing can be a greater evil for the project than loosing editors who create most of its content. Grow a thicker skin and write articles. Same as I do. --Irpen 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Not bullshit. The same tactics was applied in a plethora of articles - and it always worked. //Halibutt

Oh, and I appreciate your declaration that you oppose the harassment I've been taking lately. It's very nice of you. Too bad you did not oppose it when it was Ghirlandajo to start it, but that's another story, isn't it. //Halibutt 22:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey, you are not the one to talk about niceness either, my friend. But you may go back to your own RfC and read my statement. I chastised your opponents for making a big deal about your manners and asked them to leave you alone. The problem I have with you is POV pushing and stubbornness, not the names you called me. If you come back fully, so the better. I will do my best to have Ghirla returned as well. --Irpen 22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Irpen after reading New day, new hope, and New day, new hope - 2, and all of the comments and recriminations posted here, it looks bleak from my perspective. I would like to take a moment to tell you I intend to follow WP:Civil to the letter in the future, and will be expecting the same in return from everyone. By no means will I cease to question or challenge any kind of false information, propaganda, or POV. Hope you will return to the project in full, and can get Ghirla to consider all of the reasons his return is necessary. Dr. Dan 02:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Ivan Chernyshyov

Hello Irpen! A Count (or General) "Czernichev" is listed in Giles MacDonogh's Frederick the Great: A Life in Deeds and Letters as being the advisor to Catherine the Great that suggested to Prince Henry of Prussia that Frederick take Warmia, leading up to the First Partition.

This book about the Seven Years' War mentions a "General Ivan Chernichev", while this book about Sweden mentions "Czernichev" visiting Finland. If you have time, could you investigate and confirm that this is the same individual as Ivan Chernyshyov (which lacks military info)? Cheers, Olessi 07:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Trouble with Piotrus

I noticed your comments on the talk page of the RfC for User:Piotrus. Just wanted to give you a heads-up on the harrassment he is attempting on my own talk page. A user contacted him after the fact of a situation that was handled, and not only did Piotrus attempt to re-warn me on my talk page, he also sent one of his minions after me. I tried to inform him several times, and he continues to persist on my talk page. His actions are so against any admin I have come across. Rarelibra 16:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:On reporting Piotrus

Hello Irpen! Nice to notice that you have time to write to me. You and Dr. Dan's speak truth, but the process of user:Piotrus 3RR is under way, and I am not imposition to stop it, and after reading his reply on 3RR board there he trying to escape responsibility once again accusing other contributors of vandalism and bad faith leaves me no space, only to bring this case to the end. But I promise that I will have your words for the future developments.

You are experienced contributor and in the light of this event I would like to hear your advice, despite that I am already made the decision about this. Probably you are aware that Piotrus and his ally Lysy trying to remove some information from one article.(the same which P.P. was reported) In the heat of edits, contributor Lysy came to help a bit to our dear Piotrus. And imagine situation, at first Lysy conducted small changes but suddenly out of nowhere appears so called annon vandal from USA, and blanks the page and of course dedicated contributor Lysy "reverts" this so called vandal (please see edit summary vandalism by anonymous editor). Every thing would be fine if not one and big but, after comparison of two version - before so called vandal and after so called restoration, vital information was lost (yes you right the information which is not pleasant to Polish eyes) - . Huge parts of article simple disappear! It is impossible to lost info if you reverting to the previuos version of edit only, which had it, of course if you do not remove it during restoration of version, but Lysy's edit summary is silent about this. Later he tried to update one part of article during so called restoration process and to show that he is removing it publicly , you see this is only one part; other vital info was not restored in any attempt. This situation I see as clear sneaky approach to receive upper hand in content dispute. How do you see this situation? M.K. 11:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Irpen, I will just note here that indeed, I'd appreciate your input on the attempts to portray the Ponary massacre as carried by Poles and Russians...-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

On : care to elaborate when did I violate any policy against you? Or is it just the usual piece of offence one gets when he doesn't agree with your unsupported beliefs, as was the case of Volodarka? And finally, should I adopt the very same tactics and start accusing you of things you never did just to discredit you and slander your name, the very same way you do? Just let me know, I'll be happy to follow your ways. //Halibutt 15:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Halibutt, you 3RRed and not once and I chose to never report you. This is just one example. --Irpen 00:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, sure, and you called my mom a cucumber and told me you hate me because I'm a Jew. Yet, I never reported you either. So what? //Halibutt 01:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

??? --Irpen 01:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Did you really call his mother a cucumber? Dr. Dan 21:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

That's the very same thing you do: invent things and then accuse me of them. But no, never in the face, that would be too easy to refute, right? You do it in discussions with other users so that I could not defend myself. And never, I say never post any diffs and links, just throw empty accusations. Perhaps I should start acting likewise? //Halibutt 10:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see. As for the cucumber, I meant the cat of the mother of the wife of your third cousin. You just got it all confused. As for my alleged hatred of you because you are a Jew may I refer you to the conversation with Lysy right below. I never call you any names in secret, btw. Diffs are always there to see when and what I said. You want diffs and links of what? Of WP:POINT? of WP:3RR? Of driving editors out? I mean, i can put aside some time and find them if you seriously deny that it happened and you really think digging them out is worth my time. Other than that, what is that you want? Note that when you are being hit, like your RfC, I do not join the festivities, unlike you who just can't wait for a new ArbCom on Ghirla to write a new statement. I try to limit my interaction with such fierce opponents like yourself to the article's talk pages and this is why I do not go to your talk too often. If I invoke you as an example talking to, say, Piotrus, I do it openly and you can always find out what I said and when I said it. No secrecy whatsoever. --Irpen 07:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Translation

I don't have time for that; there is nothing offensive in those posts and besides 1) they are private messages from Darwinek to me and 2) your knowledge of Polish should be sufficient to understand and translate them if you really think they are important.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  06:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I can understand only part of that and not fully. Not fully enough to use at the ArbCom page. I do find them relevant to the case. Too bad you don't want to cooperate. --Irpen 06:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I find nothing in there which would be relevant for the ArbCom. I don't have time to translate every single message Darwinek has posted in Polish for you to analyze; I am afraid you will have to find somebody else for that. Consider, however, that if nobody has felt offended by those messages before - and thus never complained - digging through the archives looking for some 'dirt' may be somewhat counter-productive. I am sure there are better things you can do with your time (edit articles, etc.).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  06:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Piotrus, I do edit articles and to be accused of neglecting the mainspase is rather bemusing. I hate digging diffs. I mostly remember things anyway and when i tell what I remember it is you who always cry bring diffs precisely forcing me to waste my time that I could have spent on articles.

Now, from what I have seen and partially translated, the messages were offensive. Speculations about usefulness for the user to move to the West to experience some civilizing culture, speculations that progress can be achieved only after certain users leave Misplaced Pages, speculations of ABF on behalf of users to a degree that they would be committed to derail the nomination of any Polish article, be it even about Polish kitchen (btw, you repeated these accusations today) and continuing to post in Polish right below the request to cease are the things I am talking about. You think this is all harmless. Too bad. --Irpen 06:58, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry Irpen. There were times I might have agreed with you. Alas, recently, after witnessing your defence of several very incivil editors, my standards might have lapsed. With limited time, I am afraid you have to pursue your presumed offences; I will concentrate on dealing with what I have to.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  07:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

True enough, the Misplaced Pages might have seen some more blunt talk than what I am pointing to here. But it is these entries being repeatedly posted offensively in the foreign language that adds an insult to an injury. Anyway, ArbCom will look at this. Too bad I will have to provide my highly unreliable translation based on my very poor understanding of Polish. ArbCom deserves better than that but there is nothing esle I can do since you refuse to give me any help. --Irpen 07:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Have you considered asking Darwinek for translation?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  07:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I did and he ignored my request and posted another entry in Polish right below my request to translate the bevious one: see . --Irpen 18:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

About the "Żyrandol" nickname

Hi, I'm explaining it in your talk since the RFArb is probably not the right place. The nickname is stupid and childish, and should have no place in wikipedia, I fully agree. However there's nothing offensive in it. Probably calling someone a tomato would be more of an offence. --Lysy 06:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Seems like a play on the "similarity" of Ghirlandajo and Zhyra'ndol (light fixture) in Polish, if I'm any judge. Not exactly offensive, but certainly somewhat pejorative (was used in context of "between us buddies", right?). Yury Tarasievich 09:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's my view as well. Kindergarten level nickname, but not an insult. Or maybe "Ghirlandajo" proved too difficult for some Poles to spell. --Lysy 16:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I said all I have to say about this. Nicknaming other users is pejorative and Darwinek have continuously done so with an obvious intent just to bug another editor since Ghirla made it clear earlier that this deliberate distortion of his username annoys him. Darwinek has this habit of continuing to say or do things he was clearly asked not to, be it bashing others in Polish or play with others' names. The user seems to enjoy just to annoy others for the fun of it. --Irpen 19:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Please provide diffs proving that he has used it 'continously'. Thank you,-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

You are being inconsistent Pitorus. When I say things you know to be true you tell me to find diffs despite you perfectly remember the incidents thus only forcing me to waste time. When I do dig diffs, you accuse me in digging through dirty laundry. I already showed you some diffs lately and even asked you to translate which you refused. Need diffs for that? --Irpen 17:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

You conveniently omit the fact that the diffs you occasionally dig are rarely relevant to your accusations...-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Huh? Another empty statement, Piotrus. Anyway, I said it all on the subject where I said it. I pointed the offensive statements to you and asked you to translate them. The ball is in your court. --Irpen 18:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

And I and others remarked to you there is nothing offensive in them. The ball of yours, Irpen, like usual, was full of hot air, I am afraid.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Why don't you just translate "Myślę, że problemy rusko-polskie uda się załatwić tylko wtedy, kiedy ten użytkownik przestanie edytować." as I asked? --Irpen 19:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Because there is nothing offensive in this statement, and you should be able to translate it yourself - I may correct errors if they are important enough.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• 'Note: For those interested in an English translation it reads, I think that the problems between Russians and Poles (Russian-Polish problems) can be solved (resolved) only when that contributor ceases his editing. Dr. Dan 19:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Request

Feel free to write how bad I and other Polish editors are on your talk page. Feel free to start a RfC or use other means ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Irpen&action=edit Editing User talk:Irpen - Misplaced Pages, the 💕f asking others for input. But don't spam my talk pages with your grudges after I have politely asked you to stop several times. By all means, feel free to reply / repost / do whatever you want on your talk pages.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  04:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I do not need to repost anything. My goal was to relay to you a certain message. Since you read it, I don't care whether you deleted or not. That you deleted it is not something that concerns me in any way. --Irpen 04:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI

I stopped reading your messages on my talk page some time ago; repeated PAs - as pointed out by others - are not something I want to spend my time reading.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  05:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

You can tell that you do not read all you want. But saying that you do not even listen when other editors attempt to talk to you does not make you look constructive. Especially in view of the obvious fact that you do read of course. --Irpen 05:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

If it makes you feel any better, you are the first person on Misplaced Pages I have decided I should stop paying attention to.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  05:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, right, while you even read my responses to you at my own talk... Anyway, as long as you keep your baseless accusation of myself to our talk pages, I care little since I am used to those. It is your spreading them elsewhere is when they become my concern. --Irpen 05:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Ten chlopak z Katowic nie ma szans? :-).Vlad fedorov 10:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Was ist das? --Irpen 20:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Das ist jezyk polski (Polnischen). Piotrus says that he's leaving, but he can't actually, so I asked if this fella from Katowice has any chance? :-) I always enjoyed talking with Polish nationalists while being in Poland. Vlad fedorov 03:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Soviet invasion of Poland

I am pleased with the way this article is progressing. I've spent enough time on it now that eventually I would like to see it at FAC. However, I'm only too aware of criticisms re POV from you, Mosin, and Grafikm, and though I have done quite a lot, I think, to increase the information in the article about the Soviet view of things, I would be pleased if you could check it over again. I would rather directly address criticisms from you now than at FAC; and I hope you will have time to edit the article yourself.

Those elements, like the title, which are well-sourced, cannot be removed (though I have added that the Soviets called it the "liberation campaign" and have made the Soviet view as clear as I can), but there is, of course, room for parallel interpretations of events, if sourced. At the moment I am looking at figures and will be making some edits clarifying the differences between old and newer figures for the deaths and deportations (at the moment the figures are something of an inchoate smattering). Anything you can do to help the article will be appreciated. As you probably know, arguments between Polish and Russian-speaking editors don't interest me: I have a high regard for yourself and Ghirlandajo, as well as for Piotrus and Halibutt, and I would love it if this article could pool all your brains together instead of pulling them apart. qp10qp 21:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom/Piotrus

Case has been started, probably you will be interested: M.K. 10:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Picaroon (Talk) 20:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Your comment

Whatever this was, the Portal talk:Poland/Poland-related Misplaced Pages notice board is not the place to post it. Try the talk pages of the people you think are involved. Balcer 02:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Balcer, but I posted it exactly where I intended. And, no, I did not say you are involved in any way. No do I think so. --Irpen 02:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

You accuse a person active on the noticeboard of wrongdoing, without giving any indication of who this might be. Since I participate on that noticeboard, that accusation is also aimed at me. I consider this a personal attack, and a gross misuse of a Misplaced Pages notice board. Incidentally, the accusation is so cryptic, I have no idea what it is about. Balcer 02:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

All right. I am not going to persist in this silly revert war. It stays in history and will likely be read enough, to be sure. I do not care whether it beautifies the page (and its archives) forever. I hope you will fiercely remove the calls to get a hand in an edit war frequently posted at that board from now on. --Irpen 02:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

It is back in now, and I am not going to revert an admin. I invite you to remove your own message. If you don't, it stays in your "history", so to speak. Please think about it. Maybe the best approach here is to change your perspective: how would you feel if this message appeared on the Ukrainian and Russian noticeboard, accusing everyone there of (possibly) being indecent, without any explanation or proof. In essence, this message is saying: Someone on this board is an indecent bastard, but I am not going to tell you who, and I am not going to tell you why. Balcer 02:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Balcer, "I am not going to tell you who" only because I don't have a 100% proof of who, but I do have a very strong circumstantial evidence on "what" (a duck test.) As for the Russian or Ukrainian boards, I am aware of the announcements in support of someone or something (like even the one in question) and, sadly, even calls to oppose something. But I am not aware of any similar campaigns run among the Russian or Ukrainian users behind the scenes. If this happened, I would not hesitate to use the board to find what truly was behind such incident in the Russian or Ukrainian community. --Irpen 02:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

If you are not sure, then don't make the accusation. If you have a hunch about specific people involved, take it up on their talk page. If you think that "Polish users" are responsible, that includes me, and everyone on that board. Clearly you must realize how counterproductive and harmful such accusations are.

Enough of this. Sorry to say this, but today you have taken another step towards taking Misplaced Pages to the toilet. Over and out.Balcer 02:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Please read what I said at the board. What happened is indeed disgusting but my exposing it is aimed at making the repetitions less likely. --Irpen 06:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Meltyukhov

Irpen, do you consider Meltyukhov's book a reliable source ? The more I read him the more suspicious I am. --Lysy 09:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I see no reason not too. He is a respected scholar from what I know. --Irpen 09:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

If he is the one using the "concentration camps" term, this is pretty strong for a respected scholar. Aren't you concerned about this ? You know what I mean, there are different authors, and one can often find some extremal ones, even among the academics. The sources should be carefully selected. I'm usually trying to avoid citing authors who exhibit clear POV pushing in their works (like e.g. not citing Professor Edward Prus about Polish-Ukrainian conflicts, as I know he is biased). --Lysy 09:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Mikhail Meltyukhov is notable. As for his reliability, however, the article only claims he is an employee of Russian Institute of Documents and Historical Records Research, a red-linked institute that we don't know nothing about. What is important in estabilishing a person's reliability is primarily: what institution creditentials is he backed up with, what venue publishes his works (the one's we cite, particulary) and how are they received (reviewed) by the academic community. Currently we lack all of those crucial pieces of information, the best we can say is that he is a Russian historian with a PhD publishing books/articles/ebooks but with no info on reliablity of publishers (for all we know he can be self-publishing them). As such, he is definetly having problems with WP:RS.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice, Piotrus, that you dare speak about RS wrt to an academic work after insisting that crackpot theories published in Polish press are acceptable and even trying to change the policy to accommodate your views. This fresh example of using double standards in POV-pushing will be added to your arbcom. --Irpen 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Irpen, I apologize for bugging your userpage, but I addressed you and not Piotrus. I'm puzzled as to why he responded in your talk page instead of you, and you did not. Do you understand and agree with the point that I was trying to make above ? --Lysy 20:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Lysy, I responded to Piotrus' entry because it seemed asking for response. You don't have to apologize, since I never minded being asked at my talk. Now, I responded to your earlier inquiry and all I can add is to repeat that MM is as good a source as any other academic, a professional historian, researcher (not sensationalist journalist, ask Piotrus about those) and whose work appears in scholarly publications such as books and peer-reviewed journals. His "Stalin lost chance" was received with raving reviews and I don't see the reason to dismiss him except "not liking" what he says, which is not a valid reason anyway. --Irpen 20:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. --Lysy 14:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Clarification

Irpen, I am perfectly aware that you a most voiceful opponent of Holocaust Denial, and hence I thought that you would probably be aware of the nature of the Institute for Historical Review, probably the most infamous and repellent revisionist organisation of them all. This is precisely why I was so shocked by this edit, and wanted an explanation from you as to what point you are making. I am glad you have now (rather late) explained what happened. Prompt answers to legitimate questions will help to avoid similar misunderstandings in the future.

I still stand by my suggestion that your comment with the link to IHR be stroked out, but the decision is of course yours. Balcer 20:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

No, I was not aware of the IHR at all. Never even heard of them. I have recently explained that after being made aware of them having such reputation I want their opinions to be completely discarded. I take the claim that they are indeed an HD institution at face value. I am not interested even at doing any fact checking here. You say it is HD, this is good enough for me. I made several talk page entries in connection with that matter:, , . I don't understand how else I can be more clear. --Irpen 20:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

This is the correction I was suggesting. I am glad you made it, and now this matter is closed as far as I am concerned. Balcer 20:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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Disturbed

Where have you disappeared? Please come back as soon as possible. Misplaced Pages is a bleak place without you. --Ghirla 15:49, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Ditto the sentiment. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 17:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

And third that feeling.--Pan Gerwazy 09:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

О, мой сынок, мой дорогой, Из дому ты уйдёшь.

Where are you when we need your knowledge of Ukrainian? --Pan Gerwazy 12:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, friend, for not being available when needed. You can figure out the reasons below. I was heartened by your concerns. Cheers, --Irpen 04:30, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Gone missing?

Where are you, Irps? Bishonen | talk 23:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC).

Hmm... Hopefully everything's okay. But then it's summer. — Alex 00:00, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Where's Irpen? --Mcginnly | Natter 09:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you all, dear friends for your concerns. I am OK. Great, actually. You can find why I stopped editing from my today's entries. Sometimes, the climate here makes it just impossible to edit. Hopefully, the situation will improve. All the best to you all as well! --Irpen 04:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

You're back!!! — Alex 04:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Time will show, but thanks a lot. All of you! --Irpen 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

An apology

Irpen, it was never my intent to cause you distress and I am sorry about that - alas, the case is stressful to us all, and I myself have recently been seriously considering a wikiholiday, because every time I check my watchlist I dread "what other attacks on my person I will have to read now". After you declared that you are compiling your own evidence against me, can you blame me for drafting a reply? If you are distressed that it was semi-public, would you prefer I compiled it secretly in a *.doc or similar file as is commonly done - and presumably, in the form your not-yet-public evidence is drafted? If so, you could have just asked me to remove it from the web, and I'd have done so. Further, if this draft of an evidence was so distressing, please consider how do others - like myself - feel when they face similar accusations - coming from your person, too - near constantly, from article's talk pages, through user talk, public fora and DR cases.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  13:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Piotrus, your so called "apology" upsets me because it includes more than one obvious not-so-truths. I would rather not continue this here but have this discussion at the workshop. Thanks for understanding. --Irpen 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Few thoughts

Hey Irpen. Welcome back. I have read your newest posts on Arbcom. They are quite impassioned and a lot of thought clearly went into them. I am not going to respond in full here, as that would require quite a bit of reflection on my part, and I should let Piotrus speak first. Balcer

Balcer, allow me to interject your statement with my responses. I am looking forward towards your thoughts when you ae ready to post them. In the meanwhile, here are some answers. First of all, however it pleases me that so many people expressed their concern about my non-editing and several more welcomed me back (you among others), it is premature to say that I am back. Now, to your thoughts. --Irpen

Still, here are a few thoughts of mine, for your consideration.

1. You expressed your opposition to off-wiki communication. Please reconsider. One of the best parts about being a Wikipedian is developing friendships with interesting people, friendships which necessarily need to go off official Misplaced Pages channels for communication. If I want to discuss with Piotrus any non-Misplaced Pages topic of interest to us, obviously we are not going to use Misplaced Pages talk pages. Therefore, I resent your implication that Piotrus' request to me for IM communication was in any way illegitimate or suspicious. Balcer

I am a least bit concerned about your off-wiki discussions with Piotrus on the topics that are unrelated to WP. If you are discussing, politics, cars, stocks, girls, science, money or even Irpen, this is none of my business or interest. Also, I thought I never accused you in being a part of Piotrus' organized team. Of all editors concerned, I have a high opinion of your honesty overall and I even thought of you being a part of that workgroup that would help solving this conflicts. This is all despite our many editing disagreement of which many were not so sweet. I truly seek a solution that would help rather than to have my POV prevail in the articles as the ultimate goal.

OTOH, I disagree with your opinion that developing friendships is one of the goals we should seek from Misplaced Pages experiences. While I made some friends, yes, it was never my goal of coming here. I would rather say to the contrary. I think the "friendster" is one of the gravest dangers of Misplaced Pages. A whole bunch of people now, and most of them are admins, developed a whole IRC-centered friendster network which helps anything but making the WP a better place, more comfortable for editors and more interesting to the readers.

But in any case, your friendships is none of my business. I see off-wiki communication plain wrong, when it is used to quickly request an extra revert, mobilize voters, organize a block, etc. It is pretty obvious that this was being done and I don't think that you were among those manipulated that way. So, there is no contradiction in my statement that off-wiki communcation harmed the climate here and your opinion that it can be used for harmless purposes. We are actually not arguing here. -Irpen

2. Your outrage at the "list of offenses" that Piotrus was compiling seems boundless, but please make an effort to see things from his point of view. In the last months of last year, Piotrus went through a quite involved Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Piotrus, where plenty of evidence was presented against him by his opponents on Misplaced Pages. Obviously, presenting counterarguments on his part must have taken quite a lot of effort. Knowing that since the RfC did not result in any resolution, and that a similar effort was likely to be launched against him again (as indeed it was in the Arbcom), it seems perfectly reasonable for him to build up his side of the case beforehand.

I suppose that he regrets now posting this material on a page which he thought was private, but which of course in this day and age where Google is combing all Wikispace day and night, obviously is not. Balcer

Well, although I agree with your supposition that he regrets that his underground effort was discovered, this is acually not what Piotrus is saying now. He is now trying to to say that his posting of this stuff was done purposefully with the aim of a greater transparency. I don't even need to comment on the incredulity of this nonsense. You don't need to either.

As for this being a "defence" in advance being reasonable, sorry, I disagree. There is a whole bunch of pretty vicious people who view me their enemy. I assure you that there is no file on my hard-drive or anywhere where I collect the diffs on that folk to have it handy when needed. I think it is repugnant. Yes, I remember many events but if I need a diff, I need to go dig it.

One example, Piotrus called me Polonophobic at one time. I later reminded him of that and when he denied and challenged me for the diff, it took me a while to find it. Another example, Lysy, called me worse invoking ethnic sensitivities. I remember that episode vividly but there is no diff anywhere ready (while I would probably be able to find it. I just wouldn't want to, as this would make me read again his horrific slur which I am not looking forward to.) True enough, there is so plenty of evidence on some others, that I would not need to look too much. The bottomline is that I see no excuse for such a sneaky behavior as secretly collecting stuff to use when necessary to destroy your contributors. I find this shadowing your colleagues for kompromat disgusting and I can't see any way to justify it.

You say that Piotrus might have been expecting an Arbcom. I was not expecting this one, truly. Moreover, when it was started, I asked MK to stop this as I saw no solution of this via arbcom. I said so again in my statement posted for arbitrators to the Arbcom page before the case was accepted.

But back to the subject, you may remember that I never co-signed that Piotrus' RfC which I thought was too broad and ill-concieved. Under similar circumstances, I even supported Halibutt, when he was a subject of a difficult RfC (who I also supported even for Adminship although he still molests me from time to time). Yes, I wanted to post a narrower complaint to Piotrus' RfC but I never got to it.

Now, if Piotrus was compiling a statement and drafting it outside of the ArbCom case (publicly or privately), that would have been OK. I tried to start writing evidence too but never got beyond 2 or 3 sentences simply because this is such an unpleasant business. But fine, Piotrus wants to present some evidence that his opponents are nothing but troublemakers, he goes for it. No problem. What is a problem is that the page pre-dates the draft of the anti-Irpen evidence statement. It predates the arbcom itself as a whole. It was maintaned for months, way before this ArbCom was started and he was collecting diffs that he thought could be used against me (and others) in case he needs them for whatever purpose.

Also, an interesting twist, there were others posting there with diffs. I recognize one author adding a diff from the Warsaw IP (as well as the diff). The author did not get any onwiki invitations to post. This is the type of IM coordination I meant. How many more users took part in it? I really don't want to know and don't care. And please, lets be serious. If Piotrus wanted to do it openly, he would have done it in his enwiki sandbox and would not have kept it in the <!---comment out brackets---> in pl-wiki.

Also, an outright hypocrisy is his statement's being designed as if "spontaneous", if you read the overture, while in fact it was so meticulously prepared. But well, let Piotrus now live with his consciousness as well as with what others think of this once it came to light. --Irpen

3. If you really think Piotrus did something really reprehensible, while at the same time you admit that in many respects he is a great contributor to Misplaced Pages and a decent human being, try to put yourself in his shoes for a moment and try to figure out what induced him to do what he did. Could it be that there is something in what you, Ghirlandajo and others are doing that is in some part responsible for this situation? What part of your behavior could be changed? Balcer

A small note here. Piotrus as a human being is not a subject of this discussion. Let's stick to the editing issues. I will say it again that he is a very valuable contributor. But at least no less a great contributor is his main opponent who Piotrus was hunting for years with partial success. Your trying to do any finger-pointing at his opponents here is not helping. The problem here is not people but an inadequate system of the conflict resolution that allows to game policies, like WP:CIV, WP:NPA, WP:RS, etc., in order to POV-push. The system that makes block shopping, off-line coordinated rv warring and vote stacking, meatpuppeting, all this being parts of the content disputes' resolution is responsible for this mess. People won't change. They can be replaced but the new ones will be no different. There has already been a sufficient amount of fingerpointing at the ArbCom. I would rather let Arbitrators decide and pass the respecvtife FoF's.

Also, I am certain, Piotrus' continual attempts to present this as civility issues is not only wrong but insincere. For one, unlike the editor he chases most vigorously I am not an incivil editor (occasional slips might have happened but no more than with all of us), he still added me to his hit-list. Secondly, the incivil Polish nationalists were used as pet-trolls rather than called to order. As for the editing (mis)behavior which is a true reason of this drama, Piotrus and his friends are as guilty of the double-standard POV-pushing as the other side.

But even before your advise above I was trying to think of a solution that would have made the situation for better. BTW, for better in general or to Piotrus' liking? Forcing his opponents out is one option. Ghirla has been forced out for a very long wikibreak. I did not see any improvement in behavior of Ghirla-bashers in his absence, neither in Piotrus. Same shameless POV-pushing, double-standards with sources, taking turns in revert wars coordinated by IM, snowballing the votes, etc. Not one single side is guilty of this and neither people nor their behavior is going to change. What needs to change is the way this is handled. If an efficient way of conflict resoltuion is designed that would make block-shopping not an option in the content DR, that would make attacking/pushing the sources based on their POV rather than reliability impossible, then we may achieve some progress.

4. I join you in my dismay at the rather limited (or even nonexistent) positive role that Arbcom is taking in this situation. They contributed very little, and the rulings under consideration are rather meaningless general pronouncements which display no understanding of what is really going on here (I think we all agree on this at this point). It almost makes me wonder whether this whole issue could not just be resolved among the editors involved. Since Arbcom seems incompetent here, maybe that is the only hope left. Balcer 09:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes. See my original statement I made before the case was even accepted. --Irpen 04:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Proposing a novel solution that may actually work"

Hi Irpen. Welcome back. I am very glad to see you participating again. I have read with interest your remarks here, and have responded with some questions here. I'd be interested in your response. Anything idea that might help ameliorate the situation should be vigorously pursued. Regards, Paul August ☎ 19:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Paul. I will post a response without delay. Thanks again, --Irpen 19:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy Irpen's Day!

Irpen has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Irpen's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Irpen! Love, Phaedriel 00:03, 5 August 2007 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

Ehm. Thanks, but why? And have we met? I hope I did do something well to get your attention. Best regards and lots of Wikilove from me as well. --Irpen 03:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Do we need a reason to tell a great editor, and an wonderful person how greatly appreciated his work is, or how much we look up to him? I certainly don't, dear Irpen - and that's why, my humble gift is my way of telling you, you are all those things - even tho we haven't met directly until now. For this, you deserve the modest token of my admiration, and I hope you enjoyed your well deserved day. Have a wonderful day, dear Irpen! :) Love, Phaedriel - 23:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Dear Sharon. I am afraid I am not the best model to "look up to", at least I would recommend others to look elsewhere for the model behavior. But I appreciate your award and will try to live up to it. Best regards, --Irpen 00:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

English translation of the Valuyev Circular

Hiya. I stumbled through translating the Valuyev Circular into English, at s:Valuyev Circular. If you have a bit of time, please proof-read it and improve the translation. Thanks. —Michael Z. 2007-08-10 14:20 Z

Will do. --Irpen 19:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Map

Image:Russian Empire Map 1912.jpg

Found a nice map. I linked it to a few places, but you might think of more uses for it. It is quite detailed (11 MB). Balcer

Thanks. Useful indeed. It can be also cropped for regions article. A wonderful map. --Irpen 07:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus

The above case is closed. A general amnesty for editors involved in Eastern Europe-related articles is extended, with the expectation that further editing will adhere to Misplaced Pages's policies. Future behavior problems may be addressed by the Arbitration Committee on the motion of any Arbitrator or upon acceptance of a request for inquiry by any user who edits in this area. For the Arbitration Committee, Picaroon (t) 19:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ArbComBot 00:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Dino award time

Bishzilla award little Irpen prestigious Tightrope Trophy created by puny 'shonen for SlimVirgin. Image represent amazing Blondin carrying Jimbo Wales safely across Niagara Falls. bishzilla _ROARR!! 23:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC).

Hryhoriy Chorny

Since you are interested in that period, could you stub this red link? Thank you.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Do you think you can also do Timofiy Orendarenko? -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  14:27, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Kiev dnipro.jpg

I don't think there is a need to keep that local copy; it's a free licence picture - it will never be deleted from Commons.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  02:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for such an attention to my edits. It always amuses and puzzles me what's so interesting you find in my person that whenever I go, no matter how little this is related to Poland, I find you commenting on that. Was it a Chorny article that I left unannounced for the day (but still found you there on the next day) or this image request which has nothing to do with Poland whatsoever. But since you are interested, I will respond to this as well.

Commons is a separate project from en-wiki. I neither mind nor have any means to prevent commons from getting copies of the en-wiki's images it wants for itself. Mine or others' images are free to redistribute. However, I am not convinced in Commons' safety and, further, I do not want to have anything to do with it. Images that interest me or the ones that I made or uploaded are not "mine". They belong to anyone who uses them in compliance with a free license that includes copying them to commons. All I ask is that for their safety the local copies iarekept. We cannot be sure what quirks will come next in commons. The ANI discussion ended with the conclusion that there is never a need to require the deletion of the local copy in Wikipedias. --Irpen 03:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Among the principles passed was At wit's end which states that necessary measures must be adopted by the Arbitration Committee in cases where repeated attempts to stop disruptive disputes have failed. As a result of the case, both Digwuren and Petri Krohn are banned for one year. There has also been a general restriction to all editors working on topis related to Eastern Europe and a warning to all those who may, in the future, attempt to use Misplaced Pages as a battleground that they may be banned when the matter is reported to the Committee. On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Cbrown1023 talk 18:28, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Award

		For Irreproachable Services - 3rd degree
		You are hereby awarded this Ukrainian National Award "For Irreproachable Services - 3rd" for extensive coverage of the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007, for Taras Fedorovych, and for writing a "fair use" rational when one is needed.--Riurik 04:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Truly, thanks for all your work.--Riurik 04:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ukraine irreproachable sevice thirdc ribbon.png is your image you wanted. I notice a spelling error, but I cannot fix it now. User:Zscout370 19:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

S.H. sources

Maybe this , ,, would be any of use to you in future if you decide to work on this article seriously. Personally I find this article FUBARed beyond belief. Also this could serve as good start for an artile about great historian . Good luck. Cheers. M0RD00R 21:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

83 IP

Please show me evidence that that anon is a banned user, and I will apologize to MK and ban the IP myself. Otherwise I tend to WP:AGF and the anon seems to have a perfectly reasonable point to make.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Anon was harassing MK. MK's response was clear when he removed anon's message. Anon restored it thus demonstrating that aggravating MK was indeed his goal. I removed that repeated post as it was obviously harassment. Your intrusion could only aggravate the situation as it did per MK's own message at your talk. Your assistance to the anon harassing MK was unhelpful. --Irpen 20:08, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/IRC

This arbitration case has closed and the final decision may be found at the link above. Giano is placed on civility restriction for one year. Should Giano make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, Giano may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling. All parties in this case are strongly cautioned to pursue disputes in a civil manner designed to contribute to resolution and to cause minimal disruption. All the involved editors, both the supporters and detractors of IRC, are asked to avoid edit warring on project space pages even if their status is unclear, and are instructed to use civil discussion to resolve all issues with respect to the "admin" IRC channel. For the Arbitration committee, Thatcher 04:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

you were missed

Your editing was greatly missed while you were gone. Ostap 04:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Ostap. I am also pleased to see you again. Together, we will continue to make WP a better source of knowledge. Cheers, --Irpen 04:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Your #admins query

I asked FT2 to follow up with you about your concerns. He has access to the logs and played a large role in establishing the new guidelines for the channel. I'll follow up with both of you to see if your concerns are addressed. Take care, FloNight♥♥♥ 21:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Allow me

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I, Miyokan, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for your extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service in maintaining strict standards of quality and accuracy in wikipedia articles. Please keep up your very important work Miyokan (talk) 08:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus/TigerShark/ZScout incident on AN

I only noticed this by chance. If something like this happens again will you let me know? (This is regardless of who was actually right or wrong, of course.) Meantime having a look into it, and catching up. Whatever went on, whoever did what, it's worth it. FT2  04:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. link. FT2  09:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Award

		Ukrainian National Award ‘The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky - 3rd degree’
		I hereby awarded you the Ukrainian National Award ‘The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky - 3rd degree’ for your enthusiasm and dedication to Ukrainian topics and helping others Wikipidians! - Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! You beat me as I was about to give you an award later today, which will now have to wait :). Wow, I now amazingly have two orders of B. Kh. from different states. This reminds me to update my userpage. Thanks again, Mariah-Yulia! --Irpen 23:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome, remind me not to give this award to Taras Shevchenko :). BTW isn't there a Taras Shevchenko-award? Mariah-Yulia (talk) 23:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

There exists a Taras Shevchenko State Award which is usually awarded for the achievements in the field of arts. There were several controversies about the choice of laureates but that is not unusual. Even Hero of Ukraine awarding were controversial, both under the previous and the current president. --Irpen 23:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Trans. request

Sorry to bug thee Irpen. If you have any time, could you translate this interview, and maybe put it in thy userpace? It might be useful for non-Russian speakers on wiki to be able to read that sort of thing. It's especially interesting as it's by a renowned Ukrainian medievalist, and will prolly be useful again and again. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 03:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Will do. I posted a brief response to the article's talk and will let you know when I am done translating. It is a good article indeed by a renowned scientist in the field. --Irpen 05:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Does it have to end like that?

Irpen, I still remember the days we co-edited peacefully.

Please, consider: I do not follow your edits; I do not criticize articles you have written for bias based on your ethnicity or such; I do not come out of blue to start threads about you on public forums even if you blip on my watchlist here and there; I do not criticize you on public forums for things you have done now or years ago; I do not demand a review of your behavior; I do not not criticize past ArbCom or other rulings that failed to fulfill all my expectations with regard to your person. And so on. Yet increasingly you are doing all of those things to me.

Please, Irpen, stop this. I find no pleasure in our disputes, and I don't want to spend a single second collecting diffs with regards to them. Cannot we just agree not to talk about one another? Cannot you just refrain from voicing your opinion on "what Piotrus does"? If you wish, we could try a mediation, perhaps with User:Durova (I found her attempt to mediate between me and Ghirla a year ago rather helpful).

I hope we will be able to bury this proverbial hatchet and stop confronting one another in that way before we end up in ArbCom (again - do we need to go through this ordeal again?). I hope we are wise enough to avoid it.

Please, pretty please, consider my words. I have not commented under your latest analysis in AE, even through I could've pointed out the ArbCom rulings and such we all know too well. I have no desire to criticize you and blacken your name, please do not do so to me. Please consider this a gesture of my good will, and if so, please consider removing your post there (the issue does not concern you at all, after all) and please, consider not commenting on me in the future (and I will do my best to not comment on you, and to fulfill any other reasonable requests you may have in the future).

Please think back to 2 or 3 years ago when we were on more peaceful terms and whether we cannot act like the bad blood between us from was never there. Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 01:28, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus, this is a serious message and deserve nothing but a very serious response from me. I divided it into paragraphs (I hope you don't mind) and will give you a detailed reply within two days. --Irpen 09:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Irpen, I understand how you feel. After I complained about his co-editing with Molobo (talk · contribs), he (Piotrus (talk · contribs)) accused me of devoting my activities to "whitewashing nazi crimes", pretty much the closest you can come to calling someone a nazi without actually saying so out loud. Naturally he provided nothing to back up his slander with. I replied to this attempt at character assasination, not that it is of much use.--Stor stark7 14:17, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Waiting.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 02:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

#admins channel

Hi :-) After reading your comment about #admins, yesterday I started a discussion in #admin-chan-ops about some of the issues you raised. Though no specific action was made in response to the discussion, the exchange of information was good and I now think that there is better awareness of some of your concerns. I plan to do it again some time next week. Take care, FloNight♥♥♥ 20:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Holodomor genocide question deletion?

Should said article be listed for deletion? It's a POV fork and the article is just one massive violation of WP:SYNTH, a POV pushing article created by a notorious user under the blatant POV pushing title of “Holodomor genocide denial”. The Holodomor article already discusses the genocide question so what little legitimacy this article has is covered there.--Miyokan (talk) 14:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 18:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Award

		Hero of Ukraine - Order of the State
		Pursuant to the 23 August 1998, Edict #944/98, I hereby award you the title of the Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State (Орден Держави) for achievements in labor. These include over 10,000 article edits, over 200 uploaded images, and over 30,000 total edits. Congratulations!--Riurik 04:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks Riurik! And, I never thought I made that many edits. It's nice that someone notices :). Thanks again, --Irpen 05:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Gagarin image

Someone is trying to get your Gagarin image deleted , thought you might like to comment.--Miyokan (talk) 03:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope. I don't really care. I take no part nor interest in Commons which I see as a failure project of WMF and a ticking bomb. If someone uploads my images there, it is their busyness on maintaining it. I put {{KeepLocal}} on all images I upload to the Misplaced Pages. If the image gets deleted from Commons, I will upload it to Misplaced Pages and will decide on the best license. --Irpen 03:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Polish administrative divisions

Hi, Irpen! Piotrus asked me to comment on the situation around the administrative division of Polish territories after partitions article on my talk page, and since it regards several of your edits, I thought I'd let you know as well. Please feel free to comment and provide any clarifications you feel are necessary. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Quick note

Irpen, I have hopefully made it utterly clear in my statement that I do not support any further action on Giano, and that he's only listed as involved because he was the fulcrum for which WMC and Geogre's actions should be judged. Giano's making a statement here couldn't hurt, and certainly could help. But I understand the high level of feelings here, and I've disengaged from his page, and unless you wish me to post here again on this issue, from here as well. SirFozzie (talk) 01:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

SirFozzie, you know full well what will come out from your submission. You (and I) may not know the final outcome, but I hugely disagree that resolving this through starting an arbcom case was a good idea. Worse, it was the worst idea of all I can think of. I explained why elsewhere. I am not a fan of WMC (who I know for a very long time I will explain more if the case gets accepted) but this will be another round of circus on Giano-matters? Certainly not needed because ArbCom no final decision on this matter this arbcom can come up with can solve this problem but make it worse.

I don't remember ever banning anyone from posting at my page. You can post or not post as you like. I will only add one thing. Judging by your overall pattern, I was thinking that you might be running for the ArbCom seat and I was considering that if this happens, I might support you. These events changed at least this thing already. --Irpen 01:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Why did I bring up an ArbCom case? because the entire series of behavior involved is stuff that's bright line, no doubt, from up high THOU SHALL NOT stuff.

Rapidly escalating blocks by WMC, making things into a vicious circle? Check

Geogre coming in, and not only undoing the block completely (he says he meant to change the duration, but it fell to another administrator to actually reblock), but undoing the page protection which a third, COMPLETELY neutral administrator had placed in an attempt to keep things from flowing over? Check

WMC completing the circle by reblocking Giano? Check.

At no point was there an attempt to disengage, or to get more eyes on this, by either Geogre or WMC. The rules are quite clear. DO NOT undo another administrator's action without discussion (either get the other admin's ok, or get consensus at various places). Geogre didn't do that. Worse yet, WMC flagrantly violated the rule against Wheel-warring by reinstating the block.

There's another administrator who I've been talking to, who's a lot closer to Giano's side on this then anyone else. They're also disappointed that I brought this, not because of the case itself, but because the time frame means that Giano won't see this till the morning his time, and it looks like the case will be accepted in about 23 hours). They were thinking about bringing their own arbcase a few hours from now, and to leave off Giano from the list of involved parties.

I'm sorry that I lost your support for the ArbCom run that I'm planning on making in December (If I'm willing to criticize it from afar, I damn well better attempt to fix the things I see), but this is classic behavioral nonos, the very fabric of Misplaced Pages that keeps it an encyclopedia, and not anarchy. Right now, as a result of their behaviors today, neither Geogre nor WMC have my confidence as an administrator. That's why I brought the case. That's why there's four accepts, already. SirFozzie (talk) 01:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I know of a far more plausible explanation of why there's four immediate accepts but I expressed it already elsewhere. As for the rest, I see no point arguing it here. I will post to the case when its page gets created. And as a side note, it is a strange pleasure to see my observation on other editors' intentions being on the spot. Shows that I am here for too long. But back to the topic, I simply cannot trust your judgment after seeing that you chose this path to resolve this series of incidents. This is why I changed my mind on your prospective candidacy. --Irpen 01:35, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

update

And I am not happy to find the events confirming my suspicions. . --Irpen 07:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi

You're back, hurray. Some day I would like to make Chernozem into a GA and would appreciate yr help with references - maybe you have access to images?. Best, Novickas (talk) 23:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Your RFArb statement

Hello Irpen. Please could you refactor your statement on the main RfArb page? Statements should be 500 words or less, and yours is currently 1380. Thanks, Ryan Postlethwaite 23:27, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus 2

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus 2/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus 2/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, — Coren  22:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Civility policy issues

FYI, you may wish to read and comment at Misplaced Pages:Editing restrictions/Civility restriction RFC. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Civility

Hi there. A follow up to our recent posts. You've been active recently at Misplaced Pages talk:Civility. Would you be interested in commenting at Misplaced Pages talk:Civility#Discussion of civility at recent Request for Arbitration? There are several other threads on that talk page that you might be interested in as well, and a proposal to rewrite the policy. For the whole recent story, read downwards from Misplaced Pages talk:Civility#A Big Question: Does this page make sense?. This will need to be advertised more widely to get more balanced input, but for now I'm notifying those I quoted from the RfArb, and a few other editors who have either written essays on this, or have been active on the talk page recently. Apologies if you had this watchlisted anyway. Carcharoth (talk) 06:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Tag team

Irpen, hi, glad to see you back.  :) Since you participated in the Tag team discussions at the WG wiki, I wanted to draw your attention to the Misplaced Pages:Tag team essay. It was started based on our 2008 report, but is still heavily in flux. I'd really love if you could come over and help out with it, to ensure that your opinions are properly reflected in the essay. Or if nothing else, please add it to your watchlist? Thanks, --Elonka 23:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Bravo

You just made the best edit of the day , Bravo! Unfortunately I wasn't brave enough to do it... Mariah-Yulia (talk) 21:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Another hand

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Irpen, it is not my desire to drag you (or anybody else) through wikipolitics mud throwing contests. Since we didn't have any problematic wiki content disputes in months (if not years) I didn't plan to involve you in any dispute resolution unless you made yourself involved in it first. I presented evidence against you only after you've joined the ArbCom and made it clear you'll present your evidence against me. The evidence I've gathered in the past was gathered to use to defend myself when ArbComs would be launched against me (as they've been in the past), not to attack others (I've never started an ArbCom). Wouldn't it save both of us much time and stress if we would withdraw our mutual fingers pointing at each other from this arbcom and concentrate on improving Misplaced Pages (as we are doing by discussing Jaworski's work, for example)? Do we have to fight? I don't see why we should.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus, I like peace. I want to edit in peace. But your post requires a little bit of time to answer and I have to be away from my computer for another several hours (but hopefully not for the day.) I will respond as soon as I am back but I just want to be sure you are familiar with this discussion I had with Balcer. It has been at my talk for a while and it would save me a lot of space if I don't have to repeat what was said back then. --Irpen 23:38, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus, I hope you had time to read the thread I pointed out above. Now, a more detailed response.

I fully share your lack of affection to the ArbCom (particularly this ArbCom I must add to be fully honest.) I share your desire to avoid arbcom as much as possible. All I want is that all the editors who want to write content are able to do it in harmonious environment while the users who are primarily motivated by the Wiki-careerist goals to somehow fulfill their ambitions without interfering with the ability of good editors to work comfortably creating the Misplaced Pages content. Unfortunately it has become impossible to harmoniously edit in EE area where I want to write and this arbcom, as well as previous ones, illustrate just that.

Let me outline again what I see as the most important hurdles, aside from unhelpful intrusions of self-serving mandarins, and what I think needs to be done on our, and particularly, your part. If this was done earlier, things would not have reached the arbcom stage. In fact, all the previous arbcoms could have been avoided too. If it can be done now, I would support a request to end this ArbCom and consider the matter resolved. Arbitrators would be just as happy, I am sure.

The primary reason why the editing environment in these topics is so plaguy is not just that these are the areas where editors' views are so strong. People with strong views can have amicable discussions about their issues of disagreement. The reason why the climate is so poisoned lies in some participants' in these conflicts acting dishonestly. The most blatant form of dishonest conduct is employing various secretive means aimed at gaining an upper hand in a conflict.

I consider your logging to be just that. In my statement I explained why I do not buy your defense claim. I don't see how following me around and logging my reaction to Betacommand's trolling me or logging Dorftrottel's trolling at ANI about myself can be used for your defense. I don't see how logging my two-months absence can be used for your defense. And I don't see how selectively logging my other actions and giving them the worst possible spin can be used for defense of your own actions. I also wrote here that the only good use of this log I can see is for an attack. And this is exactly how it was used . I must insist that you cease this practice. I asked you many times but you persisted.

For me your log was a tipping point. Before that I publicly expressed doubt that your conduct is an ArbCom matter despite many bitter disagreement we had. The understanding on this activity is absolutely crucial and if we cannot reach it by a mutual agreement, I see it critical to get an ArbCom ruling on that. Neither me, nor ArbCom can enforce any ban on your continuing to follow whoever your consider your enemies and meticulously log anything that you can try to spin in a way that would help you push for sanctions of your targets. Thus, ideally it has to be a voluntarily pledge on your part. If you refuse to give it, the only sanction to this effect would be a remedy that would prohibit you from using such surreptitiously collected information. Can we come to an agreement on this?

Next, comes off-line canvassing. Are you trying to say that you do not contact people off-line asking for a revert, when you approach a 3RR quota, or for a vote in a survey? Please, let's be serious! This has to stop. Of course, aside from #admins logs that are absolutely stunning, no direct evidence can exist of your Gadu Gadu and email communication since off-wiki communication by its very nature does not leave trace. Their being untraceable is exactly why off-line communications are used, sometimes for absolutely legitimate but sometimes for the illicit purposes. No direct evidence can possibly exist that you ask for reverts by emails and Gadu Gadu. But I believe the amount of circumstantial evidence (in addition to Molobo's flipping on whether he communicates with you off-line and the Alden Jones affair) seems to me very convincing. I can name a couple of other editors, aside from Molobo, who are also known to be your Gadu Gadu partners and who come in all the time when you are "out of reverts". We can have arbitrators rule based on the circumstantial evidence and whatever came out accidentally on Molobo and Alden Jones. Or I will accept if you publicly pledge not to ever ask for an extra revert off-line. While I do not do it myself, if you want I will will post a similar public pledge on my page if this would make it easier for you to promise to refrain from such activity and follow up on this promise.

As for the IRC incidents I listed, how can you possibly claim that you did nothing wrong going to this rather special place and badmouthing your opponents behind their backs? And how can you come back to wiki and complain about "incivility" with straight face after what you have said at IRC behind the editors' backs? Would you be willing to pledge that no illicit IRC-shopping would ever happen? In that case, we won't need an arbcom ruling on that either.

As for your adminship, my problem with it lies in that people who behave unethically should not be admins. If we can agree on the ethic rules and you pledge to abide by them we won't need to discuss your admin status. IMO, admin status in its own means very little.

So, this is my take on things. If you voluntarily pledge to stop maintaining logs on those you consider your enemies, refrain from using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys, refrain from misusing #admins to get an upper hand in POV disputes and generally abandon the practice of solving editing conflicts through achieving your opponents' blocks or sanctions by whatever means possible, I would be just as happy to have it solved without any ArbCom involvement. You cannot seriously deny that such activity is reprehensible while you can continue to deny, of course, that you have done that in the past. Is this what you are trying to say?

Also, and if this would have been an ideal world, I would like to see your help in reigning on bad users regardless on their POV. Your staunch and persistent defense of Molobo that ranges from personally unblocking him to arguing against every single block he got, arguing on- and off-wiki, continues to raise my eyebrows. But this is your business. I have no intent to interfere with your private correspondence in general. You can correspond with anyone you want. I have no qualms even about your correspondence with Martintg whose obsession about my person goes beyond understandable . There are proper and improper uses of off-line communications. The latter has got to stop. And, ironically, the normalcy in our recent discussion of Jaworski's work only became possible because no one arrived this time out of the blue with reverting my placing doubts on the propriety of the use of this source in the infobox. This just demonstrates what stays in the way of our discussions always taking a constructive route.

So, if we could agree on this without ArbCom, I would be just as happy. --Irpen 01:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Irpen, I always found it sad that we agree on so many general principles and yet disagree on others, mostly minor issues that get blown out of proportions. I found and still find your problem with those minor issues, like my evidence collection, puzzling. Let me address it in few issues:

• wiki disputes resolutions require one to present evidence; it's collection is not a sign of bad faith but of following the rules
• if I wanted to be dishonest, the simplest thing I could have done long ago was to pledge I am not doing it and keep doing it (for example on one of other mediawiki sites that I edit, and where it would be completely impossible to trace, or in a word document on my computer). That I have not done so proves that I am not dishonest (I believe my evidence collection is ok - brought up and not criticized by last arbcom, and a clarification request later on - and I see no reason to hide an honest diff collection collected for dispute resolution)
• I also hope you don't think I am stupid as I'd be if I believed nobody would discover my continuing evidence (which was hidden from google to avoid offending people but not from any reasonably smart wiki editor dedicated to tracing my edits)
• since it is impossible to prevent an editor from collecting evidence, if I were to cripple myself, it would just mean that others can freely do what I cannot. I do believe that there are editors out there who collect evidence against me. I do believe that they have a right to do so, just as I have the right to do so. For that reason, I cannot declare a one sided ceasefire, just as in real world a country with nuclear weapons would be foolish to declare a one-sided dearmanent. Sad, but it's realpolitik. I hate wikipolitics, but I'll be damned if I allow others to use it against me. Would I trust you if you declared you'll never collect evidence against me? Likely, I respect you that much. But can we trust all the editors out there - including future ones - not to do so?
• I believe that having a log of diffs is just a technicality; one can spend few days and compile it or one can do it slowly over a period of time. Why single out one way of gathering information? How long one can keep the diffs, or collect them before it turns from acceptable to unacceptable? Few hours? Days? Weeks? What if you want to take a break in your evidence collection, because you are to disguested with it, others, have no time or hope it won't be needed? It's simply strange to specify a time in which one can gather diffs for dispute resolution.
• I have gathered evidence that I stumbled upon by accident and that I never thought I'd be using, but please forget about what I haven't done and tell me if there is anything I have done (i.e. used evidence on public wiki forum) that you think I shouldn't have, and we can discuss that. But by assuming with bad faith that I planned to use evidence in a way I haven't used it, you're building a straw man.
• if an editor is highly disruptive and uncivil, I may use the evidence against them in a dispute resolution. There are few editors like that, but I believe it is a duty of an admin to gather evidence about disruptive editors and bring it to community (a duty I nonetheless find stressful and try to avoid as much as possible - again, consider how much time I spend on initiating dispute resolutions, and how much time I spend on content creation... 1% to 99%?). Evidence against you was not gathered to launch a sudden attack on you, it was gathered in case you decided to launch one on me. I am sorry, Irpen, but I cannot presume you'd never do this, and our relationship has been problematic (with both of us blaming the other one). I can promise you, again, that if you don't do criticize me, I won't criticize you in return. But please, don't criticize others, like Balcer (whatever you say, irrelevant of whether you were right or not, he stated that he left because of you). This is why we should assume good faith and discuss content, not editors. You discussed Balcer and he left. I believe you acted disruptively then, but it was a year ago and we all make mistakes. If you don't do this again, I have no "beef" with you (alas, I believe that - intentionally or not - your criticism of me is similar to what you did with Balcer; stop criticizing me and I'll not be returning the favor by complaining that you're criticizing me :)
• so to sum the evidence thing up: as there is no way to guarantee evidence will not be gathered about me (as I believe it is), I cannot deprive myself of the right (that every editor has, and many exercise) to gather evidence to defend myself. I can promise not to use it to slander/harass others, as I believe I have never done so in the past, and I can promise not to make it google'able / easily findable (we can discuss technicalities if you want).
• I have addressed my off wiki communication in my arbcom reply to evidence. I talk to many editors, I don't encourage them to edit war. Yes, some revert - because they decide to do it. That's all there's to it. I'll give you an example: every few days an editor (ex. Tymek) may ask me on GG: "Piotrus, what's interesting on Misplaced Pages?" and I'll answer: "I created article X, user Y article Z, there are discussions on articles M and N". And then he may decide to look on articles X, Z, M, and N, join the discussion, add content, revert... I believe we have the right to talk about Misplaced Pages. But there is no secret forum/channel, on GG or elsewhere, which would be maintained/dedicated to revert requests. We use GG because it's quicker, we often talk about off wiki things (ex. Polish politics, jokes, private life) and we do it in Polish, not because we want to hide inner workings of cabal.
• IRC: your dislike of this medium is another puzzling thing. But I'll tell you this: recent experience taught me that it is not the right place to ask for intervention against disruptive editors - so I won't do it again. It's pointless - and whether you think it's a good thing, or a bad thing, the end result is the same, isn't it? I've discussed this failing here, I'd be happy to learn your comments on it. At some point, I'll post my own thoughts about admin IRC there, I am sure.
• Molobo: I believe that's another obsession of yours that goes too far. Show me his disruptive current edits and I'll look into them. Calling him a disruptive user without any diffs is too close to harassment. If he is that much of a problem, present diffs against him in ArbCom and have ArbCom ban him, I won't have a problem with him (I believe he was unfairly banned in a past by a biased sample of not-so-random ANI disputants who disliked his POV - something you of all people should understand as a common error in our system).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 06:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Another hand (section break)

Piotrus, it saddens and hurts me that even in this discussion that seems to be aimed to restore our once cordial relations, you try to use such obvious non-truths. (I use the last word instead of a more obvious choice only because I still have not completely given up on the hope that we can resolve this peaceably.) Above and below I speak to you completely truthfully. I expect the same courtesy in return. Let's agree on this point from now on. OK?

Now, on your "disputes resolutions require one to present evidence; it's collection is not a sign of bad faith but of following the rules": in this section as well as in the next one I posted a very detail explanation why this log does not help dispute resolution. It may only help make disputes worse rather than "resolve" them. And this is not just my thought. This is a fact as your series of complaints where you used that log to WP:RFI, WP:PAIN, WP:CSN and, most lately, WP:AE failed to help alleviate the situation. In fact, your complaints made things worse.

If you read what I wrote here and here as well as above you will see my full explanation why neither "collecting evidence for DR", nor the "defense" claim hold any water. I won't waste any more of your and my time by going over this again. You are not making it any more convincing by merely repeating a claim which I already answered.

As for your claim that you did not act, dishonestly the combination and timing of these two diffs prove to the contrary. You can say whatever you want but you do not seriously believe that anyone would buy that you did not make an effort to keep the log secret. You used a <!--- comment out syntax---> assuming google won't find it (you were simply mistaken about google) and you always logged out before editing it in order to avoid this being discovered in your contributions while you made all other pl-wiki edits while being logged-in. You kept it in pl-wiki, rather than at other mediawiki sites, simply because it was more convenient for you but you took all the reasonable precautions against this page's being found. You simply underestimated google. And I saw it in google without actually looking for your log. I was not even checking pl-wiki. Just pl.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org happen to get searched whet "site:wikipedia.org" is entered in the google string. It was a pure accident as I explained here.

So, unless you publicly give a word of honor, that you would stop, I would indeed assume that you continue logging based on your persistence with that in the past and your continued defense of this habit. And as long other editors have to edit knowing of being monitored for any "evidence" that can be spun as wrongdoing, we will never have a harmonious climate here.

And I do not consider you completely dishonest. Otherwise, I would not have asked you to give me your word on anything as the word from a lier is meaningless indeed. I believe that if you give a public pledge, you would abide by it. And this is why you were so evasive when direct questions about your black book and Gadu Gadu recruitment for reverts were asked in the past . You are simply uncomfortable to give your word on something that you plan to not do. Because, like all of us you do not like to lie. Rather, you tried to sway the matter away and attempted to avoid making a promise that you know you did not plan to hold. So, I request that you make this promise unequivocally and I will believe that you will hold to your word.

On my side, I swear that I do not have any such log and never did. I doubt anyone else has it either, judging from the evidence posted so far. I would assume that if whoever of your opponents had such log on you, s/he would have posted the evidence by now. That no one posted anything that looks log-like ( ), means that it takes your opponents much time to locate whatever they think they need to prove your wrongdoing. So, you can rest assured that you were the only one who had such a log. And if you stop, there would be no one left.

Moreover, if just several editors make a public pledge to follow some basic rules of ethical conduct (rules on logging and on off-line revert war and survey recruiting), there would be an enormous pressure for everyone to join. This would be the biggest step towards good editing climate.

Next, "I have gathered evidence that I stumbled upon by accident and that I never thought I'd be using". Piotrus, please do not think so badly of my intelligence. "Collecting evidence you did not plan to use" claim does not even need to be discussed. But "stumbled upon by accident" is just as incredulous. You were certainly following my edits and your logging by post to Betacommand's talk , the ridiculous ANI thread and even my absence (!) show that you were regularly clicking on this link to find the material.

Moreover, I can demonstrate your studying my edits by showing how you got to articles which I purposely kept unanounced for a couple of days to see who of my shadows would get to them first, or to images I would have an argument about, or to user talk pages and noticeboards after I posted there. If we would have to continue with this ArbCom and you would persist with denying that you meticulously checked my edits, I could write up an evidence section on that. I always said that I find being shadowed puzzling and amusing (and it feels me with pity towards people who have nothing better to do with their lives) but I hope you won't insult anyone's intelligence anymore by your "stumbled by accident" claim.

Next, you should really stop these repetitious resurrections of the Bacler stuff yet again. Balcer can say what he wants. But he acted grossly unfairly to me. Unlikely in bad faith, everyone makes mistakes, but that was very offensive. You can continue to assign the blame in any way that seems convenient to you and I am not to repeat what I said already having reviewed our discussions with Balcer on more than one occasion .

Now you came up with even more bizarre claim that I am guilty of no less than harassment towards Biophys, Lysy and Halibutt. Please stop talking nonsense .

BTW, Ghirla made it plain that he left the en-Wiki because he considers your conduct here a major detriment to the comfortable editing environment . And note that the by amount of content, Ghirla was the most prolific editor in the EE. So, should I be saying this all the time like you do?

On your off-wiki communication remark above, please, again, do not misrepresent the issue. People are intelligent enough to see what types of communication I mean when I say they are unacceptable. You don't seriously think that in view of how the editing went, I would buy the claim that all there was there was: "Piotrus, what's interesting on Misplaced Pages?" "I created article X, user Y article Z, there are discussions on articles M and N". This is not what was going on. There were direct requests "please revert here". You were saying that it can't be proven . I think, it can. When seeing those many cases when the fourth (or sometimes third) revert came specifically from the editors who you talk to via Gadu Gadu and came almost instantly after you were reverted and came from the very same editors (Molobo, Tymek, Darwinek, Alden Jones and his socks) I believe that an unbiased observer would see the same thing as I see. It could not have been anything but "Please revert this article" by Gadu Gadu. And, Molobo being a special case aside, I do not even blame these editors. They have less free time for Misplaced Pages and they admire you and they think that by undoing people's edits back to your version that revert to a "better" version because they think very highly of you. I kind of understand them. It is not so much their fault as it is yours when you ask for a revert. Same goes to surveys. So, you can persist with the denial and we will then have to see what others would say if revert and vote histories are put together (and I would hate spending time doing that) or we can just agree that this stops.

Same as before, I would trust your word. I believe that precisely because you don't like telling non-truths you carefully avoided saying directly: "I did not request reverts by IM or email". So, I want you to give your word that you won't. I will then forget the past and, again if it makes you comfortable, would post a similar pledge to my talk page. It would be easy for me because I do not do it anyway. And of course there should be no tricks to circumvent that, like "please regularly check my edits and you know what to do..." And think again of the pressure such mutual pledge by us would place on everyone to follow through. If all major EE players would pledge to follow the mutually agreeable rules of ethical conduct, I am sure the climate would improve dramatically.

On IRC you again stray this off-topic. I mostly agree with the part of your essay that you link to. I argued many times against the practice that would scare editors from reporting the 3RR violations. I can't agree with you fully that only WP:3RR needs to be enforced while EDITWAR should not. My view is that these are simply different ballparks. Unlike simple 3RR, blocking someone for general editwarring is a discretion block which requires seeking more opinions. Crudely, while blocking for 3RR is WP:AN3 matter to be decided by a single admin, blocking for edit warring is a WP:ANI matter. There should not be unilateral blocks for general editwarring based purely on a 3RR complaint. You may want to read, for example this thread where I and several other editors you would recognize argue these points. But you, again, swayed the discussion off-topic.

Your IRC conduct was wrong not because you did not break 3RR while Boody did. It was wrong because it was block shopping at a secret forum. There is no excuse to talk with other admins about Boody's alleged violation in the forum to which he has no access. There are no privacy issues involved. Similarly, there is no excuse of your badmouting Lokyz and M.K. at IRC behind their backs.

Anyway, I am effectively repeating what I said here and we are wasting our time. You need to promise that you will never ever talk about your opponents at #admins simply because this is the very basic rule of decency. Talking people down behind their backs is worse than uncivil. It is simply dishonorable. Why do I have to spend time explaining such an obvious thing? You can't possibly say that this is acceptable practice. And since, unlike for Gadu Gadu, the logs came out, you cannot even try to deny that either. So, what is the problem to promise to never do it?

On Molobo, he is not my obsession. He is yours. He is a nightmare but you tried to get him out of every block he got because he was useful both as a battering ram and an extra revert that you can call in by Gadu Gadu. Here are some examples of his hysterionics after he returned from his year-long block. First, is trolling at Talk:Boleslaw's intervention... that went as far as even arguing lengths for removing of the Russian History wikiproject tag from its talk (and actually removing it too). Next, was his closing the circle of the wikitravel of the "Treatment of the Polish citizens by the Soviet occupiers" piece whose travels all over Misplaced Pages are a really a story on its own.

You can refresh your memory as your friend Martin already posted the mention of one chapter of this text's wikitravels in his evidence. To remind you, originally, it was a rather unfortunate section hastily written and added to the History of Poland (1939-1945) article. Being out of place there, by our mutual agreement it was split off (by you (!) ) into a separate article. Then Richardusr did a great job expanding and NPOVing that article which also got renamed in the course of this expansion into a much more neutral title Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) at which it peaceably remains to this day. This was not good enough for you though and you copy/pasted its half word for word into an "article" called much more eloquently Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939-1946). (BTW, at the AfD I started because it was a word-for-word fork, you stated that you were going to improve it and rid it of the forkness. Six months later it is still a bit for bit fork.) Good enough for you but not good enough for your friend Molobo who pasted its copy bit for bit back into square one, the History of Poland (1939-1945).

Thus is in a way, this piece of text fully circumnavigated the Misplaced Pages. Due to that, the NPOV tag beautifies the History of Poland article to this day and our discussion of this fascinating round-the-wiki travel is here. To sum it up, Molobo remains just as fascinating as he was but, perhaps he now has a more busy life, we see less of him. He got an indefinite block from which you managed to get him out by intense email lobbying. This is quite a story, Piotrus. But as I said before, no matter how I would love you to start reigning in on trolls even when they push for the right POV, this is not something I am trying to make you promise me.

But other activities outlined above should stop, namely:

• logging followed by uploading log's excerpts to boards with the purpose to get the opponents blocked
• using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys,
• using private channels, such as #admins or direct mail to other admins to discuss people behind their backs and call for the sanctions.

If you and I can agree on that, we would make a huge difference when other editors would feel pressured to pledge the same. If you accept it, I would have nothing else to ask from ArbCom.

Your previous reply to my suggestions was sort of evasive. It was partly a denial, partly an assertion but not of what I asked you to assert. This required me to spend so much time to, basically, say the same thing differently. The ball is in your court. I don't like these conflicts, I want to edit peacefully, I am sure it would happen if we agree on such obvious and basic rules. And I also dislike this ArbCom. But please no more circling around. My offer is very clear and sincere and deserves a clear answer. --Irpen 02:19, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep it short as this is growing out of control. We could waste hours mincing words and discussing some past diffs and statements (like re IRC: I am not stupid and I know it's logged and leaking, I knew others would hear about my requests...). Let's do something constructive instead. I'd support creation of a page with pledges ("I will not have attack pages, 'll not stalk others, I'll not canvass offline for reverts) and so on where editors could voluntarily pledge their support and honor. This is similar to administrator's recall, or to this real life politician pledge initiative I support. It would be nice if we could get wide community support for such things, because if only you and me agree to certain things, it will be similar to shooting oneself in the foot. But if we can get enough people to do so, maybe we can reform this project and make it better for everyone. As for your three bulleted points above: I agree that using such means against other, good faithed editors is wrong and should not be done; however gathering evidence against a troll or discussing a troll with other admins is fine. The difficult issue is how to distinguish a good faithed editor from a troll? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 06:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Another hand (section break 2)

Piotrus, I just want to make sure there is a complete understanding between us. You wrote:

"As for your three bulleted points above: I agree that using such means against other, good faithed editors is wrong and should not be done"

My three bulleted points about the activities that should stop are as follows (emphasis added}:

• logging followed by uploading log's excerpts to boards with the purpose to get the opponents blocked
• using off-line channels to recruit help in revert wars or to stack votes in surveys,
• using private channels, such as #admins or direct mail to other admins to discuss people behind their backs and call for the sanctions.

You said above that you agree that logging "should not be done", while at the workshop, later on the same day, you again defend such activity with your : "Piotrus evidence collection was within norms of the community" proposal. So, which is it?

Also, you say:

however gathering evidence against a troll or discussing a troll with other admins is fine. The difficult issue is how to distinguish a good faithed editor from a troll?

You collected material on the following editors: Dr Dan, M.K., Lokyz, Matthead, Ghirla, myself, M0RD00R, Giano. Are all (or any) of them "difficult to distinguish from a troll"? --Irpen 07:15, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps disruptive editor would be more correct (troll is a loaded word I used since it is shorter), and yes, I consider all users listed there disruptive to a certain extent (but for the record I don't consider all of them trolls!). I wouldn't be collecting diffs for dispute resolution if I didn't think an editor is disruptive to this project - and you can judge by how many diffs I have how disruptive I believe an editor is. If you feel offended, well, so am I - since you consider me a disruptive user, after all. However, I have no problems when you or anybody else collects evidence of my perceived wrongdoing. That's the right of every user and a requirement of a dispute resolution procedure on Misplaced Pages. I do however have a problem with editors going around Misplaced Pages and accusing others of wrongdoing, with no diffs but just bad faith. Why can't you understand that? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:01, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

So, your answer is no? Let's stop playing with words. You forced me to repeat the same ideas several times by going round and round with words but not giving a straight answer. You came here with what seems like a proposal of peace which is devoid of substance as when I try to get to the issues that stand between peace and the current situation you resort to evasive word games. You are an intelligent person. You know what you are asked above. Would you accept what I am asking you? Yes or no? --Irpen 22:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Tell me, please, what would you promise in return, if I were to agree to all of your requests? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 01:25, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

This is not a trading game, Piotrus. I am not asking you for any "favors" beyond normal rules of common decensy. If you want to know what I won't do "in return", I can tell that I won't do any of this either.

I won't call in reverts by email, IRC, Gadu Gadu or any other way (like you did). Neither I would call in votes to RM or AfD discussions . I won't stack diffs, like you did. I won't stack them on you and your friends on any Misplaced Pages, on my hard drive, anywhere at all. I just don't see elimination of opponents as the method to resolve content disputes. I won't be asking anyone off-line to block or sanction my "enemies" or to unblock my friends, (like you did). It would be very easy for me since I have not done any of that before.

If this undercarpet games stop, I am sure we would have a decent chance that content disputes would be solved as well by an honest and robust debate. I want you to behave ethically from now on. And I won't do anything unethical either. How does it sound? --Irpen 03:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I have not done the things you accuse me (ex. canvassing for reverts to promote battlegrounds), and other things (ex. gathering diffs or notifying certain foras of relevant discussions) was done as part of a normal wiki procedures. I can promise you I will not "call in reverts" to create battlegrounds, I will not stack votes with otherwise uninterested meatpuppets, I will not seek to block content opponents I cannot deal with via normal dispute resolutions. "It would be very easy for me since I have not done any of that before" - ditto. Will you promise not to attack editors who have a POV you disagree with and accuse them falsely of wrongdoings all across the project? Will you apologize to Balcer, Lysy and Halibutt, at the very least? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Another hand (section break 3)

I will be happy to try to patch things with Balcer if he wants to discuss the last incident. In my opinion it is he who owes me an apology but I will be happy to discuss our misunderstanding with the Polish editor I respect more than any other (and this is how I saw Balcer) and try to find a solution. I said on several occasions that I miss the times we were editing together with Balcer and I am sorry things went bad between us. We can discuss it if he wants.

I am not aware of my misconduct towards Lysy and Halibutt. They never said I offended them but if they have anything to say to me, they are free to do it. Particularly about Halibutt, I am on record defending him and speaking of him highly on several occasions.

Now, back to the issues at hand:

• Are you saying you never called in reverts and votes by email, Gadu Gadu, IRC or any other off-line channel and never will?
• Are you saying that you will never seek blocks or sanctions of your content opponents from now on?
• Are you saying you will never talk disrespectfully of your opponents behind their backs when they have no chance to see and respond?

Because what you claim above is a little different from what I ask. You added "otherwise uninterested" and "that I cannot deal with via normal dispute resolutions". You keep being evasive, Piotrus. And finally

• Do you promise to stop logging?

"Normal dispute resolutions" is the only proper way to deal with Misplaced Pages disputes. I request that you restrict yourself to these methods from now on. And my main problem with you so far has been in that you did not. --Irpen 18:10, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

• Please clarify: Are you saying you will stop assuming bad faith where actions of myself and other Polish editors are concerned? Or not? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Piotrus, this is silly. I always assume good faith until there is evidence to the contrary. This is what AGF says, no more, no less.

There is a clear direct evidence that you repeatedly sought sanctions of your content opponents using every board Misplaced Pages has, as well as off-wiki, that is behind their backs, thus considering elimination of opponents as a method to resolve content disputes.

There is a clear direct evidence that to do so, you meticulously sifted the edit patterns of people who you see as your enemies in search of anything you can spin to call for their sanctions and blocks.

Finally, there is rather convincing circumstantial evidence (which is while not direct is still IMO pretty strong) that you used off-line communication to request reverts and votes (my beef is not with off-line communication in itself but only in using it for illicit purposes.)

So, there is nothing to "assume" here. AGF does not deny common sense. It does not say "wear pink glasses". AGF is not a blank check to behave unethically and then accuse those who cry wolf in ABF.

I am not asking you anything beyond requesting that you follow normal ethical rules of conduct. If you think that all the evidence I see is simply made up, you can try to say this at the ArbCom (and I know you would.) I firmly believe that no neutral person would say that what you did was legit.

I am willing to put this behind if you promise that this stops. And I will never do any of this stuff. Neither I have done it in the past. So, the ball is in your court. Please tell me at last in clear and non-evasive terms whether you promise to stop doing all of the things above. I am sure that if you do, things will start changing for better very quickly. And I will be happy to put this behind and assume that you honor your pledge. --Irpen 19:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Comment

Sorry for intervening here. I understand that you both are negotiating about something. Let's assume that you came to an agreement. Do you think that would allow to dismiss the case?Biophys (talk) 22:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Biophys, I think your question is now hypothetical :(. My personal position was based on my firm belief that the issues I outlined in my ArbCom statements needed to be resolved at last. Since Piotrus initially expressed his willingness to discuss, I happily tried to resolve the pressing issues that concern both of us in the discussion between him and myself as such discussions are always the most natural way to try to find solutions. I wanted to convince Piotrus that we both take certain steps that might help resolve not just our own quarrels (which are really of secondary importance) but would encourage a more global change. It is not up to me to "dismiss" this arbcom (while I can recommend a dismissal just like you or anyone else, I do not get to vote on the ArbCom decisions, just like you or anyone else) but if I saw problems addressed outside of it, I would have been just as happy.

Unfortunately, the differences seem to be too deep. Whoever is to be blamed that we were unable to achieve any amicable solution, the fault game is really less important an issue than being able to address the problems whose existence are impossible to deny. Anyway, I was willing to discuss all the time for as long as I saw any hope in the positive outcome. If Piotrus has any more ideas, I am more than willing to hear them. --Irpen 22:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Update

I had to go on a several days Wikibreak. Now I am trying to catch up on what I have missed.

Piotrus, I see that you did not respond to my last post above but, when I was away, continued making the accusatory of myself and others statements while admitting to no wrongdoing on your own part whatsoever. I had some hope that we might be able to resolve the most problematic issues in a discussion between us but judging from your lack of response to the above and from your recent posts on the case I see that you think this should be resolved by different means. I am sorry we were unable to achieve a common ground and I hope the solution reached by the ArbCom and the community would be at least somewhat helpful this time.

To ensure that other users from both sides do not confuse the discussion we had above (which I think fairly illustrates the views from both of us), I archived it. If you change your mind and have any suggestions, please start a new section. --Irpen 22:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

Re statement here - would you say salting is an abuse of adminstrative powers? It looks as though it takes another admin to undo . And they say this is not a bureaucracy...IMO Byzantium would be impressed.Novickas (talk) 20:58, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Such salting can be done my any editor, not necessarily an admin. So, it is abusive editing, yes, but strictly speaking not an administrative abuse. Unsalting of a redirect to move page to a title preferred by an admin requires adminship. That constitutes a direct abuse of administrative powers. But mere salting is only abusive editing in general. It was invented by AndriyK and practiced by many others from Martin to Piotrus, see evidence. --Irpen 21:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Nope, I've never practiced salting, that is just your bad faithed assumption. Martintg (talk) 05:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Martin, the "move-blank-restore" series of edits is called "dirty work" or "dirty trick" , when done within a minute, and systematically at more than one page . I am more than happy to assume your best intentions. To help me do that, please avoid making bad edits. --Irpen 17:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Future Perfect at Sunrise is not a neutral admin per their attack on Martintg per my current evidence elsewhere. To practice good faith, accept first and leave diffs contrary to that acceptance aside. I think we're rather tired of all this, are we not? —PētersV (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I think that the best thing for all of us is to practice good conduct. While you preach AGF, you, within the same phrase, accuse FP in the lack of it. Is not it ironic, Vecrumba? The judgment on salting redirects is based not on "assumptions" but on actions. Move-blank-restore within a minute (per Martin) done once is strange in the least. When done more than once, it isn't just "strange" but suggestive. Move+template, when done by Piotrus could have been innocuous. But its being done 1) repeatedly, 2) often in response to a disagreeable to Piotrus move and 3) always with a redirect from non-Polish to a Polish name and never vice-versa, is a pattern of actions that calls for attention.

I agree with you that "we're rather tired of all this". For example, should I have taken this as an example of ABF on your part? I did not think so. You saw me around for a while and while I viewed this comment of yours you made on myself grossly unfair, I saw just that: unfair rather than "bad-assuming". You and I are editing for a long time and if you conclude from my edits that I "had no intent to actually discuss anything on the talk page (as in, await an explanation), merely rendering my verdict (of bad faith)", so be it. You assume nothing. You conclude.

Trouble is, Vecrumba, not in "assumptions" but in sneaky conduct. My calls to Piotrus (and everyone) was to accept a straightforward ethics code based on few simple and basic rules such as no off-line canvassing, no off-line coordination in revert wars, no block-shopping (particularly no off-line block-shopping). I have no problem with you sticking to your POV. Neither I have a problem with you (or Martin or Piotrus) corresponding with anyone or each other (or not corresponding). I only have a problem when Misplaced Pages matters are handled non-transparently and unethically, either to "win" content disputes, like in the EE conflicts, or to achieve advances in the alternative to real life careers on Misplaced Pages.

I am a very imperfect wikipedian. For example my POV may be different from yours, my English is not as good as yours (and especially as Horlo's who ridicules my English left and right) and, being human, I say things as I see them (perhaps just as you do and often not in the same light as you do.) But I do not engage in off-line coordination of revert wars. I do not email around asking to block (or unblock) anyone. I do not follow people around and stack all the material I can find aiming at having someone blocked at the opportune time. And, note, I never accused you in doing that either.

I would simply like that everyone followed these simple rules. This is the core of my workshop proposal. P.S. And I do not move-blank-restore redirects either. Neither you do, btw. --Irpen 19:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

What is missing in all this was your misleading claim that I made the move "against consensus", when consensus was clearly achieved before the move as confirmed by other admins, not withstanding your colleagues entering the move debate after you reported me to ANI. There was no motive to support your assumption that I had salted the move, therefore it remains an assumption. You seem to be making additional misleading claims here in implying this move was not transparent. I think an important principle here is that misrepresenting the facts and manipulating the situation to support these misrepresented facts is detrimental to the project. Martintg (talk) 20:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Martin, we may differ in interpreting consensus. We also seem to differ in interpreting facts. This is all fine and dandy. What's important, the facts of the matter, not their interpretations. You 1) moved; 2) immediately blanked the redirect; 3) restored the exact same one (no cApiTalization changes, or anything you claimed to have been confused about); 4) done this all within one minute; 5) done it more than once. We can misinterpret or interpret the facts differently. But the facts are not in dispute here. Now, this is the old matter that I consider settled. It was you who resurrected that old move in the current arbitration case. I really don't care to discuss it again. We can agree to disagree on our interpretations of undisputed facts (just like Vecrumba interprets FutPef's actions and comments bad-faithed. The rest of the points raised here by Vecrumba are much more important and I addressed them the best way i could. --Irpen 20:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

These are also the facts, note the sequence: 1) I proposed a move to a particular title, following WP process; 2) there was extensive discussion with other titles proposed, which you were not involved in; 3) all active participants of the move discussion agreed on a new title, which was different to the original proposal; 4) I moved the article to the agreed new title; 5) you reported me to ANI claiming I made the move because "the move discussion went against me"; 6) other admins agree that consensus was achieved before the move; 7) your known associates come out of the blue sky attempting to reopen the discussion, voting on the original redundant proposal while you claim to ANI the discussion was still "ongoing".; 7) the ANI report was closed without agreement on your interpretation of the facts. Can we agree on this sequence of facts? Unless you can provide further evidence that I have salted other page moves, please refrain from making unfounded allegations that I practice salting. Martintg (talk) 21:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Martin, you miss an important step between 4) and 5) in your sequence of events: 4) you moved (indeed); 4a) you immediately blanked the redirect; 4b) you immediately restored the exact same one (and that was reported to ANI.) Also x) you did such move on more than one article. As for FutPerf, being "my associate", this is the first time I hear that. I do not ever recall talking to him. Please ask him for his side of the story if you allege anything on his part. Or should I ask him? (Re Vecrumba below, I will respond to your post later, but I get an impression that you have not read the preceding discussion. Please do. Also, you seem inconsistent a bit (by not applying the same requirement equally to all.) Maybe you can correct that while I am busy with RL things that prevent me from replying to you at once. It could save us both some time.) --Irpen 22:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from further egregious misrepresentations, in claiming I "did such move on more than one article". This is a gross assumption of bad faith and personal attack on my character. Nor have I claimed FutPerf is your associate who participated in the move discussion and vote, this is another misrepresentation of what I said. I get the impression that you do not understand that making misleading claims in public forums is considered uncivil and harmful to the project. Martintg (talk) 22:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Martin, a claim that you "did such move on more than one article" is not an "assumption" or "misrepresentation", but a statement of fact made by an uninvolved admin who had to clean up the mess left after your moves: "Just for the record, Martintg moved, blanked the redirect, and recreated precisely the same, all within one minute after moving, and he did the same thing, systematically, on two separate moved pages. That does look like he knew very well what he was doing, and it certainly had nothing to do with the confusion about capitalisation." I have no access to deleted edits. So, you better ask him. I am sorry, I am making that "impression" on you. Unfortunately, you have this impression of myself for a while, judging by your comments made about my person all around the project. So, I have to live with it no matter how I am unhappy about this. Now, please stop wasting our time. You never did the "move+edit" for many months and this is all irrelevant to this ArbCom. Piotrus' moves went on for all these months. You brought up this old story and it just makes this all confusing when discussed in the context of Piotrus' arbitration. If, however, you see this incident as a way to present me as a bad guy, please do it in a way, that would not confuse this already confusing case. Your coming here repeating your stuff and me replying to it referring to what was already said would unlikely help us resolve these problems. --Irpen 23:03, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

(od) "This" will only work if we accept that...

• our POVs are our POVs
• our POVs inform our edits
• our edits, regardless of our POVs, should faithfully represent the letter and spirit of sources
• our articles, the sum of our collective edits, should be a cohesive narrative

I will change your POV no more than you will change mine. But there is one more factor in writing articles, particularly about history, which is...

• for a narrative to be cohesive and tell a story, it must have a POV by definition
• and, ergo, there is no such thing as NPOV (i.e., it is an abstraction only)

So, the question is, how do we create by consensus reputably sourced articles written in a cohesive narrative which will most likely not completely reflect our own POV?
Just as an example, the online EB article on famine in Ukraine (1932-33) doesn't remotely resemble the narrative or contentions or overall POV of the WP article, which, in comparison, is a work which one would more likely associate with Russian nationalist apologists. That's not my personal viewpoint here, that's just doing an objective A:B comparison. So, in the case of Holodomor, how do we work toward a rich narrative that more closely echoes an acknowledged encyclopedic POV? No immediate answer required. Given the current atmosphere, this will likely be a rhetorical question for a while more to come. —PētersV (talk) 20:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S. As for Future Perfect, Martintg's question was a simple one. An equally valid response could have been that your presence on the task force is welcomed as a sign that you personally are willing to work to put an end to the divisiveness which you yourself acknowledge having participated in. The accusation heaped on Martintg was totally uncalled for. And so I stand by my interpretation that FP's response was one reflecting bad faith. And when your defenders rush to you with what can be interpreted as accusations in bad faith, it reflects on to you, no fault of your own. The next time someone invokes calumny in your name, consider disavowing it. —PētersV (talk) 20:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

P.P.S. As for what the what it looks like incident, enough time has passed that perhaps for a moment you could take it as advice from a friend and not an attack on your character. You well know that how something looks is often not as it is, but we've all proven in our own way that that when there isn't a built up reserve of good faith, we take things as they look, worst case, every time. —PētersV (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Kostomarov

So, can I move the page or do you disagree with the move? And why is the current title "Nikolay" and not "Nikolai" as it is in the text? Nikolay seems to be the most uncommon of all of them! Ostap 05:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Giano

I haven't said anything to Giano in over a year. Fred Talk 01:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You mean after this? --Irpen 03:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, since February, 2008. I haven't been nagging him though, or constantly making negative comments. Fred Talk 07:00, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Seems like we agree on what does not seem like a good idea to do. --Irpen 05:17, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Digwuren

I do not appreciate your personal attacks, nor your assumption of bad faith, in . Please avoid such in the future; Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Piotrus 2/Workshop#There are no 'get out of jail free' cards on Misplaced Pages. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 17:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah, yeah! We hear it from the one who called my correct edits highly "disruptive, not to say disturbing"  ;-) Beatle Fab Four (talk) 17:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Digwuren, I did not make any assumptions since my comments were based on actions that took place, no more no less. You without bothering to ask at the talk page moved a stable article first. After another editor reverted you, you moved it to yet another name. You made other clearly nonsensical edits making a mess out of an obscure article on the subject as innocent as a children song and than block-shopped at AN3 with a misleading complaint misrepresenting a group of consecutive edits painting a series of consecutive edits as separate reverts. I do not need to assume anything when I see such activity.

BTW, Piotrus, it seems from this that you view this incident differently. I wonder how you can justify these erratic edits. BTW, FYI, AN3 is long since on my watchlist. --Irpen 05:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

While I appreciate your effort in promoting civility, I regretfully note that you have not actually withdrawn the personal attack mentioned above. Διγουρεν_{Εμπρος!} 23:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, Digwuren, there is no personal attack in stating the obvious. Please edit constructively if you don't want your edits to be criticized. --Irpen 23:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Old maps

I have stumbled on a well of old maps from the 1943 reprint of Carlton Hayes's A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe. The copyright has 1939 on it, so it is not expired quite yet; however, I believe I can scan them and put them up with proper referencing. Please advise. --Ivan2007 (По-балакаемo?) 03:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I investigated this a little bit and as far as I see, most of these maps may be usable despite the 1939 date on the book. The 1930s edition you are talking about titled "A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe" (NY, MacMillan) is a revised edition on "Political and Social History of Modern Europe" published by the same author in 1916 (also by MacMillan, NY.) The latter book because of its age is in public domain. It is available in full from google books here.

Of course the maps that were originally published in 1916 are PD even if they were reproduced in a later edition. The best way to find out for you would be to see in google books if the maps you want to use also appeared in 1916 edition. If they did, they are PD.

In addition to comparing the 1930s edition that you have and the 1916 edition available in full online, you can take a look at the review of the 1936 "Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe" book. The review was written by Harry Elmer Barnes and published in American Sociological Review (June 36), Vol. 1, Issue 3, p514-516, 3p. This 3-page review outlines in a great detail what changes were implemented between the editions. Archives of American Sociological Review are available through JSTOR and outher databases that usually require subscription. If you don't have access to subscription, feel free to ask and I will gladly email you this 3-page review. Hope this helps, --Irpen 19:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Irpen, I just wanted to apologize for calling you a Russian nationalist edit warrior at one point. Well, I still think you're a Russian nationalist, which is OK, nobody is perfect; and you do sometimes go into edit-warring; well who doesn't, I'm working myself on this bad habit. But you're clearly an intelligent person and have shown that you listen to reason, the qualities that are more important than someone's personal biases I think. So I hope there are no hard feelings and feel free to call me any names you like in case an opportunity arises. All the best!--Termer (talk) 06:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I was really surprised by that comment of yours since we seemed to always manage to get along just fine but I never make a big deal out of such occasional spats. Anyway, I am really heartened by your going an extra mile here and your post, frankly, made my day. And, just FYI, I cannot ask you to think or not think of myself as "anything nationalist" but it would be very difficult for me to be a Russian nationalist. I am not even Russian (I am a Ukrainian and love my country, its people and culture.) Cheers, --Irpen 06:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

my bad again, sometimes it's difficult to sort out all those EE-nationalists you know.:-)--Termer (talk) 07:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in my RfA, which recently passed with 126 in support, 22 in opposition and 6 neutral votes. Thanks for your oppose in my rfa. I agree that I need to try to move more towards the article writing side of things. I don't think that a 5 month gap in between two rfa's is small gap causing the RFAs to be in too short a time. I will try to act on all other issues raised. • If you want to reply to this message please use my talk page as watch listing about 150 pages is a bit messy • ·Add§hore· /Cont 23:43, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

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Brezhnev

File:Brezhnev1936.jpg This 1936 picture of L Brezhnev: do you know where and in what context it was taken and by whom? Marktunstill (talk) 18:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Sad :((( =

Hope you will come back soon. Miss your perspective. Novickas (talk) 23:34, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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Commiserations

Irpen, I just want to offer you my commiserations. You seem to have left wikipedia ... I hope you are doing well nonetheless. Maybe it is for the best given en.wiki's circumstances if you do join Ghirla or something in ru.wiki, or give wiki up for better things in real life. I can see, with all the users who apparently dislike you, how you might feel it will be impossible to contribute to the encyclopedia without being bullied and ignored now you have these restrictions. It is my fault for launching such a case; I was naive about the quality of the arbitrators and the process, and about how easily the process could be hijacked. Your contributions to Ukrainian topics will be missed if you have indeed decided to leave. Probably because of your support for Giano and your continued appearance on such platforms a large portion of the arbs became badly disposed towards you. Just politics, the nature of the wiki beast. If it means anything I think the vast majority of editors in this area are nice people when their ideological backs are not up. Maybe there is hope in the longer term, if you do decide to return. Probably most e-e users, even the ones you have had some bad times with, would not actually want you to leave. Have a good Christmas! All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 10:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Hi Irpen, here to wish you a very Merry Christmas and I do hope that you have a lovely New Year. I do realise that you and I got off on the wrong foot this year and I do apologise for that; let us start anew :-) Take care, my friend. Scarian 16:41, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

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Happy holidays

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Easter Greetings

Христос воскрес! Хрыстос уваскрос! Alleluia, Christ is risen! Kristus is uppeston!--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 09:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

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Inzensk

Do you happen to know where this city was and what its called now?--58.168.119.43 (talk) 08:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey there, you were discussed

And may want to take a look at the discussion on arbcom noticeboard: . Regards, FeelSunny (talk) 23:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

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GA reassessment of Russia

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Nomination for deletion of Template:KeepLocal

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Leontovych

Hey, I've significantly expanded the article on Mykola Leontovych over the past few months. Thought (maybe more of "hoped") you might be interested in expanding, correcting it, or editing in general to help bring it to good, or even featured status. :-)
--BoguslavM 01:54, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

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Sidor Artemievič Kovpak ancestors on the run for assassination

Me and my brother Sibirian Artjom (named after Sydor's father Artjom) we are the youngest of the four Great grand anserters of Sydor Kovpak. We need help and or life is in danger. My father has made for us a social program this program is of social effort and is the fight to rescue Missing children in the Ukraine in or name! For this we survived assassinations and now we are in a situation that needs attention of all who are involved in Sydor’s vision and heroics acts for the Russian and Ukrainian people. I ask can you get in contact with us to listen to or story. Or email is 1400heroes@gmail.com and Verrazzo@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.61.202.149 (talk) 16:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment

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Clarification motion

A case (Eastern Europe) in which you were involved has been modified by motion which changed the wording of the discretionary sanctions section to clarify that the scope applies to pages, not just articles. For the arbitration committee --S Philbrick(Talk) 15:32, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

A heads up

I've just reported a new user working under the username of Irpen2 to the WP:UAA as being intentionally misleading. I found both an IrynaHappy and the Irpen2 user working on articles in areas we'd be working on. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

User:Irpen2

So sorry to bother you. I blocked this user name. Iryna Harpy reported this and another suspicious user name at the username board. If it is yours, you may have created a sockpuppet account in technical violation of the rules. If it was not yours, then somebody was trying to trick a moron in a hurry into thinking that you did so. In such case, you might want to start a sockpuppet investigation, or you might choose go to report this incident to the admin community. Again, sorry for bearing this bad news. Bearian (talk) 13:14, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

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A heads-up

I am sorry to inform you that another contributor, Fastily, listed File:8march landysh.jpg for deletion. If I am not mistaken, policy required him or her to inform you. I can't explain why they didn't.

Anyhow, I think it will end up being deleted, unless you provide the source. If you scanned in a postcard, that was in your personal possession, or had been loaned to you, could you say that? I think so.

Good luck! Geo Swan (talk) 13:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Image-PL-president

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Nomination for deletion of Template:POV heading

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

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