User talk:Ghirlandajo

[edit] Project Ukraine

гуд найт! I saw you wrote some excellent new article about Ukraine! Thanks for that! Would you like to join our project Ukraine (click on advert to learn more). We could really need some new articles about the subjects you wrote your last Ukrainian articles about (there are lots of castles there!)! — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 21:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Medieval emporia: Dierkow and Bardy

I noticed you removed Dierkow and Bardy from the emporia template. I think they should be re-added. *About Dierkow, there is not much known yet, but this does not automatically make it unimportant or tiny (though there is a possiblity).

• Bardy-Swielubie in turn is well researched and was not that tiny.
• Dierkow and Bardy are listed here Sebastian Brather, Archäologie der westlichen Slawen: Siedlung, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Ostmitteleuropa, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3110170612, p.142 along with the other emporia now in the template (Groß Strömkendorf/Reric, Dierkow, Ralswiek, Menzlin, Bardy-Swielubie, Jawno Pomorskie/Truso).
• If you are concerned that each archaeological side at the coast will be added, don't be, there are no more known sites at the present.
• It does not hurt to leave them in.
• "No evidence of non-Slavic presence": This was only true for the early, Carolingian stage of Bardy, as outlined in the next paragraph of the article, the Scandinavians moved in only in the 9th century. I rephrased the article to make that more clear.

If you still think it is a bad idea to put them back in, let me know. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 11:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to readd them! By the way, I don't think we should limit the template's scope to the Baltic Sea as you did. --Ghirla^-трёп- 11:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Awards

Thanks. I didn't know that the Cossacks liked raspberries :) More Lviv substubs will be added as soon as I have free time in the Russian Wikipedia. Best, Ghirla^-трёп- 21:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Question about image

Hi there. I'm doing some work on tagging featured pictures on the English Wikipedia. Coming across this image, I found that you added a {{NoCommons}} tag. This was back in 2006, and the current preference is to put everything on Commons. Do you have a problem with me asking for this image to be deleted from WP or do you still have a pressing reason? Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16_{♣kiss me}^{i'm Irish♣} 04:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd prefer to keep the local image. Shouldn't we respect each others contributions and attribute them properly. Last year I found it on Main Page of the Wikimedia Commons without any information as to who uploaded and nominated the picture. That was rather disheartening. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Very true. I asked you first b/c I respect the intentions of photographers/image uploaders. That said, this image is actually in the public domain (and especially since it's not your work), you really have no say over what happens to it after you upload it. I'm going to have the local copy deleted, but once that occurs, everything will be the same once I reenter the missing data (if you're not aware, Commons images are called to a local Wikipedia and local wikipedia templates can still be added, such as the FP and POTD templates). Sorry for any confusion, but PD images are not needed on Wikipedia; they belong on Commons so every language Wikipedia can access them. Thanks for understanding. ~ ωαdεstεr16_♣T^C♣ 21:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

FWIW, I credited you as the original uploader and included much of the info from the local copy to the Commons copy (the caption of the local copy was more complete). Hopefully this doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it's the right thing to do. ~ ωαdεstεr16_♣T^C♣ 21:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Johann Hermann von Fersen

Interesting move. Do you have a link to attest the German version of his name? I can't seem to find one. Neddyseagoon - talk 10:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

See here, for instance. By the way, the text of the Russian article was taken verbatim from the Russian Biographical Dictionary. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Luigi Pernier

On T:TDYK]] you said there was little information in English. That doesn't really matter. Are their other-language sources to use? - Mgm|^(talk) 12:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Baikoff

Hi, Ghirla! When you get a moment, could you check if this stub is legit? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:08, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

Why, it's a nonsensical joke --Ghirla^-трёп- 14:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thought as much. Will prod it now. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:45, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Vorotynsk

Hi, me again. I've got another question for you, if you don't mind. In the Vorotynsk article, there is a mention of the village of Spas-on-the-Oka. I was unable to find anything about this village. I also did not quite understand the "which now marks the spot" part—currently, the village (selo) of Vorotynsk is located on the location of the ancient town, and there is a larger (and newer) settlement (posyolok) of Vorotynsk not too far away from it. There is (and, to the best of my knowledge, was) no populated place called "Спас-на-Оке" anywhere in the vicinity. Could you, please, clarify? Where exactly is Savior Vorotynsk Monastery located, do you know? Same goes for New and Old Vorotynsk villages—are these in reference to the selo and posyolok? Thanks again!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:34, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

• Check map coords here [1]. Spas is referenced on many similar tourist sites, it has postcode 248903 and appears to be administered by the city of Kaluga [2] [3] although nearby Vorotynsk is in Babyninsky rayon. NVO (talk) 18:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Correction: the P.O. is in Rosva (Росва on Google maps) which is due north from Vorotynsk, east of Spas. NVO (talk) 18:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks, NVO, it helps, although this still does not resolve everything. In addition to Spas in jurisdiction of Kaluga, there is also another Spas in Babyninsky District; both are listed simply as "Spas", not "Spas-na-Oke" (which is why I ignored them when posting the original note) and none of the two is located on the spot where ancient Vorotynsk stood (the selo of Vorotynsk is in that spot now). Any further ideas?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 18:49, March 6, 2009 (UTC)
    • Here's the almighty KLADR [4], see fifth line from the bottom of list. It is деревня Спас, Спасский сельский округ города Калуги. "Na Oke" is omitted in all official data; it is actually inside Oka-Ugra salient. Kaluga police has a vacancy for a local cop [5] - wanna apply? NVO (talk) 19:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
      • Ah yeah, here's the dream job I always wanted, thanks so much :) Regarding Spas, any clues as to when the "-na-Oke" suffix is/was used? Or is it more of a colloquial name that never made it to the official records?
      • Anyway, based on this discussion, is everyone going to be OK with me butchering Vorotynsk a bit? The monastery sentence should be moved to Rosva (based on the coordinates); "Spas-na-Oke" does not seem to do anything with Vorotynsk except being located fairly close (but definitely not on the spot of old Vorotynsk the town), so its mention can be removed; also removed should be the mentions of New and Old Vorotynsk (which are not officially called that). Sounds good so far? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:09, March 6, 2009 (UTC)
      • By the way, my 1859 book on inhabited localities of Peremyshlsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate lists the selo of Spas (near the Ugra and Oka Rivers) as "Spas or Spasskoye", so the "-na-Oke" designation must be relatively recent.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:14, March 6, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for Stroganov Palace

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Thanks for the nom! Royalbroil 04:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] My user space

I had noticed you were returned to us, is one allowed to say welcome back? before fiddling with my Versailles, you should go and take a good look at Winter Palace and make some changes there, I needed you a few month ago writing that - you should have been writing it! - Welcome back :-) Giano (talk) 21:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, my friend, but I still spend most of my time in Russian Wikipedia. My contributions in English are limited to fixing some pesky errors, and I would start an occasional sub-stub every once in a while. --Ghirla^-трёп- 22:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for Luigi Pernier

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--Dravecky (talk) 04:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Order of Glory

Hi there, Andrei! Thanx for fixing the picture of the Order of Glory on my user page! Some dude erased a while back claiming it to be a copyvio or something like that :). How are you these days? Will you ever return to serious editing in English Wikipedia? Drop me a line. KNewman (talk) 08:18, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Beregovaya compressor station

Hi, Ghirla. Could you help with the exact location of the Beregovaya compressor station? Some sources says that it is located in Arkhipo-Osipovka, and most of the sources says that at Dzhubga, e.g. this map of gas pipelines. By my understanding it is located in west from Dzhubga and in east from Arkhipo-Osipovka, and definitely there is only one compressor station, not two. Do you knew any reliable source about the location? Beagel (talk) 07:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

The map is in error. The Beregovaya (literally, "coastal") station, launched in November 2005 as part of the Blue Stream network, is situated in the Drovyanaya Shchel' gorge near Arkhipo-Osipovka, Gelendzhik District at an elevation of 235 meters.[6][7][8] Some pictures are available here. I suspect there will be another compressor station built in Dzhubga as part of the South Stream project. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. It should be the same compressor station (probably expanded) for the South Stream. There is only one incoming pipeline, and it is not logical that the compressor station for the South Stream would be located east from the Blue Stream pipeline. Beagel (talk) 12:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Easter Greetings

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

Воистину воскресе! --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:25, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:Hermitagetheatre.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] File:Kuropatkin.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Istomina

Hi, Ghirla! I almost started to move Avdotia Istomina to "Yevdokiya" when I noticed that it was you who created the article originally (and you normally know what you are doing :)). Could you, please, clarify, why the title says "Avdotia" when her actual name is "Евдокия"? I do not immediately see it. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:48, April 23, 2009 (UTC)

Replied here --Ghirla^-трёп- 12:04, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Not sure why, but I followed-up there as well :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:22, April 29, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli

Привет, я тут случайно написала статью в англовики (со мной такое первый раз, обычно токо правлю). Сделай пожалуйста одолжение, посмотри грамматику, а то у меня с ней всегда оч. плохо было 0_0 --Shakko (talk) 15:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Picture available for Uvs-Nuur

Obsolete due to mistaken image description. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TKN from German wikipedia. --141.76.178.109 (talk) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tolentini

Good image of the church, Andrej. It's a pleasure to see your name at English Wikipedia.--Wetman (talk) 12:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, my friend. I'm pleased to see your name too. Can you help me in identifying this image? --Ghirla^-трёп- 19:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Would it be the spiral staircase scala a chiocciola in a wing of Palazzo Contrari Boncompagni, Vignola , built by conte Ercole Contrari the elder, allegedly to designs by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola?

I was tempted to use it for illustrating the Vignola article, but, since the attribution to him is by no means certain, should we let it rest on commons in relative obsurity? --Ghirla^-трёп- 08:59, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Your inputs to the Shamordino Convent and other articles

Hey Andrei, I've noticed you've been editing some of the Wikipedia articles I earlier uploaded images to. Many of the images have been deleted for no apparent reason. I will upload them again. If you don't like some images you can always move them to a gallery.

Please, move Shamordino Monastery to Shamordino Convent (I tried but couldn't do this). This is a community of nuns. Denghu (talk)

Only a sysop can move this article. You'd better upload your pictures to Wikimedia Commons, so that any wikipedia could use them when needed. --Ghirla^-трёп- 08:53, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

OK. Could you please contact a sysop on that? (I actually don't know who that is :-)) Denghu (talk)

[edit] Hey there!

Nice to see you, Ghirla! Bishonen | talk 07:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC).

Thank you, Bish. It's great to know that you are still around! --Ghirla^-трёп- 08:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for The Death of Procris

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Shubinator (talk) 01:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Philippa of Hainault

Hello Ghirlando. As regards, Philippa of Hainault, I believe that Kuthen of the Kumens's wife was of the Galitzine family. Halicz is just another version of her name as is Galicie. Her first name is a mystery.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

There's some mistake on the part of amateur researchers cited in the article. There is no record of Kotyan's wife, but a medieval Russian chronicle names several of his sons-in-law, including Mstislav Mstislavich, Prince of Halych/Galicia (in connection with the Battle of Kalka in which they both took part). In other words, it's Kotyan's daughter rather than wife who may be described as "N of Galicia". --Ghirla^-трёп- 18:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I believe you may be right, however his wife was most likely of the Halych family as well. Until that can be proved, I'll remove the reference to Kuthen's wife from the Philippa of Hainault article.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 05:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Mission accomplished. It now reads that Elizabeth was the daughter of Kuthen only, no mention of her mother. Thank you for drawing my attention to this error (which was made by me). Hopefully we'll discover who mothered Kuthen's children.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 06:00, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Fine. --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for Borki train disaster

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Jamie^☆S93 18:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Heritage Registers

Please take a look at my inquiry at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Russia#Lost_in_translation_..._Heritage_registers - I'm kinda stuck with reproducing kanzelyarit in English. P.S. Thanks for the dyk nom. NVO (talk) 07:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Puzzled

I'm puzzled by this [9]. Are you under the impression that I'm active on IRC? William M. Connolley (talk) 11:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm under impression that your integrity as a sysop has been steadily eroding for about three years. Why you behave the way you do is not for me to say. --Ghirla^-трёп- 10:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I disagree with your first assertion, of course. But you have not answered my question. You appear to be associating me with IRC, and in this you are incorrect. If you don't care about being wrong, then say so and I won't trouble you any further. If you do care about being wrong (and I would rather hope you did) I'm interested in what you meant William M. Connolley (talk) 12:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Ghirlandajo merely mentioned this editor as an example of the atmosphere of intimidation, which appears to be demonstrated perfectly well right here. The association with IRC is a red herring.--Wetman (talk) 15:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Right on spot, Wetman. --Ghirla^-трёп- 15:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm no wiser about how to interpret your original statement. Whilst clearly demonstrating ill-will towards me, it is otherwise incoherent. However, it is now clear you realise I'm not active on IRC, so some progress has been made William M. Connolley (talk) 18:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo)

Template:Michelangelo appears at the bottom of The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo). It has a link to List of works by Michelangelo at the bottom of it. I've updated the list to include this painting. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Nice --Ghirla^-трёп- 16:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Back to heritage registers

What, in your opinion, should appear in Russian register of cultural register? I put together a draft, please let me know if anything significant is missing. I will definitely expand/clarify on legal fubar story; what else? NVO (talk) 05:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for Gonzaga Cameo

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Jamie^☆S93 08:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Adjectives in Extreme North (Russia)

Hi Ghirlandajo, I'm not overly concerned about this, but I saw your change to Extreme North (Russia), and was wondering if the adjectives are actually particularly useful; they're not exactly quantifiable. Would it not be more useful (and Encyclopedic) to simply detail the aspects which you're attempting to describe via adjectives? And apologies if this mixes up the formatting you have on this page - I'll try to correct it if that happens. Random name (talk) 16:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for Gorgoneion

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Dravecky (talk) 08:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Review/copyedit for Vincenzo Brenna

Andrey, please take a look - you might have better sources on the subject. Most of the article is based on Lanceray's book from 1930s; I don't have specific modern sources but Shvidkovsky provides completely different dates (and frequently different attributions, but it was expected). Regards, NVO (talk) 17:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DYK for House of Lorraine

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Giants27 21:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You have been nominated for membership of the Established Editors Association

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If you wish to be elected, please notify me here. If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them here

Please put all discussion here.Peter Damian (talk) 10:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA Reassessment of Erast Fandorin

I am conducting a reassessment as part of the GA sweeps process. I have found come concerns which need addressing if this article is to keep its GA status, which may be found at Talk:Erast Fandorin/GA1. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Askold and Dir

Fringe theory? What are talking about? The whole Russian history is the fringe theory. Why are parimary chronicles lay the base of Russian history? Book of Veles is being denied by the Russian church. Of course, because that church primary mission to destroy our history, the Slavic history. The primary chronicles were written by that church to come up with the new history. Why is that there are no prior historical records exist until those chronicles? Are we to believe that our ancestors were that stupid that they left us no historical records? Or, maybe, were they eliminated? I believe so. Book of Veles exists and it is the only surviving record of our ancient history. Why do we want to deny it? What would be the reason to come up with what the church believes to be not true? Do not forget what was happening at the times when the Rus was converted into Christianity. All Slavic religion was eradicated. Why? Because they did not know how to believe? :) What a crack! No wonder that the church now wants to get rid of Book of Veles. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 19:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)