Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/New article announcements/March 2006

March 16-31, 2006

Move to The Prayer of Russians? Brand 13:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Go right ahead. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roslavl by Darwinek. Brand 20:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Muslim Magomayev, by me, upgraded from a stub to a full article. Grandmaster 19:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nikolai Bryukhanov, a biostub by me. KNewman 19:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Unstubbed. Ahasuerus 23:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Varteres Samourgachev by User:General Eisenhower
Soviet playground stub by me. Cmapm 17:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, CTAPT, but this article is притянута за уши and высосана из пальца. I'd vote for its deletion. Unless I see an article on Bulgarian playgrounds or something like that :). And don't forget to take out the Soviet playground reference from the Playground article. KNewman 19:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Please vote. Cmapm 20:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Actually, this article could be a part of a bigger article about Soviet urbanization and city-building policies. A certain number of playgrounds was mandatory for each microdistrict, just as there was supposed to be a certain number of shops/schools/kindergartens, as well as a дом быта, and a palace of culture covering a certain area. While the article just about a playground is viable, it is poorly titled (although I am having trouble coming up with a better title) and badly needs references (which as Cmapm indicated are hard to come by).—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 20:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I admit, that generally it may be not important at all for most of other people, although it's important for me. I am not "the truth in the last instance". Actually, I'd compare it to hypothetic article about Soviet automats of aerated waters. :) But you should refer to community to ask/vote, whether it's important or not, not to me. Cmapm 20:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be an another siege in 1736, but I'm not sure. Brandmeister 02:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Juri Zaharievich and Roman Jurievich Zaharin-Koshkin by User:Tabatha Pavlovna Romanov. Should we move him to Juri Zaharievich Koshkin? abakharev 03:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
All the spellings are weird, as is the data. Probably taken from Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 07:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can you fix it? abakharev 08:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really care about those dudes. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 09:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How about AfDing them? In their present form, the articles are useless.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would support, although it's not very likely that the stubs will be deleted. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin by me.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 23:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is a shameless fork of Repnin. I'll have to make it a redirect and return to original EB1911 version. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 07:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I split the former Repnin article into Nicholas Repnin, Anikita Repnin, and Repnin. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 09:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll assume Ghirla knows the more correct name for the article, I am restoring the referenced information he removed though.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 13:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Andrey Bolshoy by me. Needs cats and proofreading, feels like my English has gotten a little worse :). KNewman 19:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good grief! I nominated the article for WP:DYK. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Stub on Dmitriy of Tver by me. Brand, 18:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Vladimir Chernavin by me. Brand 12:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Zakaznik by User:Nallan maybe merge it with Natural reserves in Russia? abakharev 07:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Andrei Rublev film by User:Derbent 5000
Huh, we've had Andrei Rublev (film) for ages. Please merge. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 07:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. The new version was mostly a cut and paste. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 07:52, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  Thanks. The user should be warned that cut and paste is not acceptable. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:26, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dmitri Zaikin by User:Esradekan
Engineers of the human soul by User:GwydionM
Feliks Gromov by me. Brandmeister 21:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Or Felix? KNewman 13:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - No essential distinction, although Wiki has e.g. Felix Dzerzhinsky. I've made the redirect to Felix Gromov. Brand 20:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Downtown Saint Petersburg and Arbat by User:Fisss. I can't see any rationale for such articles, when we have detailed description of the downtown in Saint Petersburg and a separate article for Arbat Street. The guy needs mentoring, as he daily starts arbitrary cats (e.g., Category:Moscow-City), indulges in cut & paste moves (see here), and uploads non-free copyrighted photographs as {PD-self}. Many of his edits are still frustrating: "Madame Malinovskaya, Pushkin's wife, the non-biological mother of his children", "Greboyedova canal", or "Pavel Noshchokin, one of Pushkin's closest friends". --Ghirla ^-трёп- 19:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Rail terminals in St. Petersburg for future articles, same as those in Moscow. --Kuban Cossack 18:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I fail to see a motivation behind your move of Finland Train Station to Finlyandsky Rail Terminal. If you want to see how such things are ordered in Wikipedia, take a look at Category:Railway stations in London. There is no need to invent the bike, as we say in Russia. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Slantsy, stub by me with a little pic--Smerus 15:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation by User:Smudgeuk.
Stub on Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide. Brandmeister 12:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
RFS Vladimir Monomakh stub by Brandmeister
Stub on Vladimir Kuroyedov. Brandmeister 19:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Shervashidze, an Abkhazian princely dynasty, by me. Kober 19:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why should we use a Georgian name for a family of Abkhazian sovereigns? --Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Georgy Aleksandrov by User:Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus 02:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front by Mikkalai. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian army general in World War I, by me. Grandmaster 12:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
List of districts and neighborhoods of Moscow, by Fisss, old friend. Can someone please explain at last what exactly a "Moscow neighborhood" is? I am horrible at Moscology (or whatever that's called).—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand it, either. The phrase seems to have been taken from Category:Moscow neighborhoods, which was started by KNewman to list suburban localities like Abramtsevo. This guy Fisss seems to be reforming. He started Zamoskvoreche (sic!), Presnya, and Moscow-City (sic!), but the pictures which he tags {PD-self} still look suspiciously like copyvios to me. I would list them among requests for investigation. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 19:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, officially, Moscow has raiony and mikroraiony (the latter are usually numbered, like 7 mikroraion; some have names like Zyablikovo). There are raiony such as Orekhovo-Borisovo, Chertanovo, Medvedkovo, Nikulino etc. I'm just not sure if neighborhood is a correct name for them. KNewman 07:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Those are called administrative units. One can colloquially call them neighborhoods, of course, but the problem with that term is that it's ambiguous. If no one objects, I am going to clean up that category, recategorizing its entries, and delete it before it grows out of control. If you wish to keep this category, please come up with the definition of what exactly it should cover. I think, however, that this is one of those ideas that seemed good at the time :)—19:03, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
    - Sounds like a good idea. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 19:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      - Alright, this cat is gone. Now, a cat with historical areas of Moscow (or whatever other name works better) is what we really need.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 17:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Vasily Zhukovsky was nicely rewritten and expanded by an anon. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 18:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Extensively rewrote, reorganised and un-stubbed Sergei Taneyev and created separate List of compositions by Sergei Taneyev --Smerus 18:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Balchug by myself. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mariinsky Palace by me. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Three Station Square by me. By the way, we still don't have article about Pavel Melnikov. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Operation Polar Star and Operation Spark (1943) - stubs by User:Andreas1968. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 13:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Khatyn by User:Ben-Velvel. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 11:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Orlov (disambiguation) by me Kmorozov 07:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Finally finished off the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line with Kuzminki, Ryazanskiy Prospekt and Vykhino. Could use a post reconstruction photo of the latter.--Kuban Cossack 01:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Natalia Yurchenko, stub by me. Cmapm 23:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fotki by User:Talla, unannounced since February 22. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Stalin Note by User:Wikist. Do you think that the title is proper? --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh yes, that's what this famous document has been known as for many decades. Ahasuerus 21:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Medal For the Victory Over Germany and Medal For the Victory Over Japan - first articles by User:Ilvar. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
More Metros: Baku Metro, Yerevan Metro and Proletarskaya,Volgogradskiy Prospekt, Tekstilshchiki by me. --Kuban Cossack 02:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Russian Basketball Super League - stub by me --Nikai 00:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

March 1-15, 2006

Shouldn't they all be with the -y at the end instead of the -iy? KNewman 14:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does it really matter? I prefer -iy. -y is used for -ый.--Kuban Cossack 16:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Probably should be just -y... Cf. Dolgoprudny, Pavlovsky -- Goudzovski 15:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been nominated for deletion.--Rockero 06:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]