I have gained some new insight into the problems with Eastern European subjects. It seems to me that there exist an almost limitless amount of sources for what I would call hate speech. On the other hand Wikipedia is not censored and all material that can be sourced with " reliable sources" can be included. The problems arise when editors want to include their favorite part of this hateful material in Wikipedia. I do not think all, or in fact any, of this material should be included in Wikipedia. If we allow it, we will just fight each other to death, or be all banned from Wikipedia.
I did something dangerously bold today. I created a new template {{ Hate}} for marking content that may contain hate speech or that may be seen as offensive to some nationality or ethnic group. The intent is to invite less involved editors to review the text and search for neutral expressions without loosing the factual content. The first article marked is Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park). All the marked article are now in the hidden category Category:All articles with possible hate speech. At present this is just a bold experiment, the technical details are still missing. -- Petri Krohn ( talk) 06:37, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Alex, given that Petri Krohn runs a blog site (use Google translate) that publishes what many consider to be archetypical hate speech that is offensive to a particular nationality or ethnic group, in this case Estonian, I don't think he is well qualified to judge. This template should be speedy deleted (under either G10 or T2), as it is inflammatory and would constitute a personal attack to label someone's presumably good faith edits as "hate speech" via this tag. Martintg ( talk) 10:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Geez Sasha, when I went to edit your talk page earlier, it said it is almost 300k in size. You probably should do some archiving here ;) You can always have a bot do it, ya know?! -- Russavia Dialogue 09:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Happy editing in the coming New Year! Biophys ( talk) 23:53, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to be here again, but could you have a look at this: Nazi crimes in Estonia. I already took up the issue at User talk:Lucasbfr#Nazi crimes in Estonia, but I know my Wikipedia friends would love to come and chat about it here too. -- Petri Krohn ( talk) 05:48, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks again Alex (Brandtner), YellowMonkey ( bananabucket) 04:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey Sasha, with List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (under development still in my userspace at User:Russavia/Hero), I have created 2 templates to try and get the article size down somewhat. The templates are {{ HeroRussia1}} and {{ HeroRussia2}}. I have substituted these in the list, as they are two of the most used "conferred for"s in the article, but it has only taken like 12kb from the total size (still up around 250kb in total, and the list is only half done). I remember you saying something like "a template for each letter joined by the umbrella list" is a possible solution in order to get the size of the list down somewhat, which would hopefully negate the need to split the list and preventing it from being FL eventually. Can you possibly demonstrate, in userspace I guess how this could be done? Cheers, -- Russavia Dialogue 06:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I have just created a article about a kazak nordic combined skier: Konstantin Sokolenko, and i just wonder if you know something that i don't know that we can expand the article with. The Rolling Camel ( talk) 14:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Alex,
I need your advice. During last few days I experience serious problems with some WP editor, who refuse to accept logical arguments. I'v never been involved in edit wars, I am unwilling to start it and I have no idea how such problems are usually resolved in the WP community. Could you please advise me what my first actions should be?
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Hey Alex I have created a Russian cosmism philosophy tag on profile page. I was wanting to know if you want to have one added to your profile page and or how to make the one I have already better. LoveMonkey ( talk) 20:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Sasha, thanks for digging up some info on Vladimir Glebov. In relation to the addition and changes you made (in particular, there is no longer unsourced BLP), I have withdrawn the nomination, but I also do agree with you in that he still only appears marginally notable. Will see what does or doesn't come up from it in the future, and if it needs to be revisited then, it can be. Cheers, -- Russavia Dialogue 18:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Concerning this change. Alex Bakharev, although in the piece of text you‘ve added in the article there was some link, the linked text doesn't contain this information, so this piece of text remained unreferenced and thus should be removed. Please try not to add this piece of text again before you find an appropriate source for it. Thanks! 戦車 besuch mich 03:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
P.S. besides that adding “the“ to ”1525” is useless. Next time try to examine the subject properly before reverting.
Yevgeny Chichvarkin, good stuff, I had this on my list of articles to create, and saw it in our list of new articles. Is he connected to Mogilevich? Or is that only Nekrasov of Arbat Prestige? I could have sworn I saw something which made a connection with him, but perhaps I was just confused with Nekrasov? -- Russavia Dialogue 20:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
В процессе работы над этой статьёй в ру-вики столкнулся с неприятным фактом; на сайте peoples.ru есть такая статья о о ней, но она представляет из себя чистейший перевод из англо-вики статьи Sondra Locke. При этом скромно указывается имя автора - Алексей Булатов и никаких ссылок на ен-вики. Полагаю, что необходимо связаться с администрацией сайта и указать на нарушение условий лицензии GNU FDL и потребовать убрать авторство указанного лица, оставить, если только в качестве переводчика. Кстати, по истории правок видно, что в ен-вики статья появилась намного раньше, чем на том сайте.-- Torin ( talk) 04:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
-- Alex Bakharev ( talk) 13:29, 6 February 2009 (UTC)