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Richard Carrier

You asked for more information on Carrier. I left a reply because I have been doing some research on him recently for my own book on the unscholarly methods used by CMT proponents. Unfortunately it got reverted as Jeppiz apparently thought I was René Salm. I'm not, and I wasn't flattered by the comparison, but it did have the mildly amusing side-effect of getting Salm blocked for a further two weeks by an administrator when for once he had done nothing wrong (ironic, when you look at his history and see how much he's got away with in the past). However, in case it is of any use, I reproduce my comment below:

With regard to Carrier: what I am about to say is original research for a forthcoming book of my own so it obviously cannot be used in the article (before anyone asks, the book is probably several years from publication so can't be used here either). However, I thought it might come in handy for the discussion. There are reviews of Carrier's first book Proving History, but not in academic journals because it is so awesomely bad (Carrier claimed it survived peer review, which would be surprising for several reasons, but for the moment we'll take his word for it and assume the reviewers were having a bad day). The only quasi-academic critiques I know of are in Maurice Casey's book, and a series of reviews on R. Joseph Hoffman's blog, which although by scholars normally fails WP:RS. His treatment of Bayes Theorem was also effectually demolished in another field, cosmology, by physicist Luke Barnes, but that is again on a blog and not an RS as WP defines the term. I do know however of one academic review of his second book, but as it's by fellow self-published dogmatic mythicist Raphael Lataster, it doesn't exactly enhance Carrier's credibility to any great degree.

The problem in this particular case appears to be that Carrier is not trained in the proper application of Bayes Theorem (challenged on this point for details on where and when he received his training, he simply asserts he has it and anyone who expresses doubts about this will be sued for libel). In fact, the likeliest explanation is that he received a basic, low-level training in it while in the US Coastguard, where it is used by sonar operators to calculate what it is they have found. He was, however, in need of some way to justify his historical theories (which have always, on any subject, tended to be either fringe theories or so tendentiously put that they might as well be fiction novels) and this is what he came up with. He also tends to claim vast expertise in areas where he has no training and limited technical expertise (e.g. mathematics, German, archaeology, medieval palaeography). As a result, he's not taken terribly seriously in pretty much any field he's looked at and it's rather telling that the only piece of work he has ever written that has undoubtedly survived sustained critical examination, his doctoral thesis, has never been published. Bart Ehrman's smackdown of him veered from the slightly patronising to the extremely funny, and that is how most professional scholars see him.

That leaves a dilemma with regard to putting him in. If the article is to be about those proponents of the CMT with scholarly credentials, he belongs there. If it is about those works which are mainstream and taken seriously by actual scholars and have clear impact, he may not. However, that is a judgement call and that in itself raises questions.

Hope that is useful.109.156.158.20 (talk) 13:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Amber Room

Hey there mate. I have re-added the image you removed from the article because: that part of the article describes a great deal about the Battle of Konigsberg and events related to Königsberg, so having a picture like that is not irrelevant. If you still disagree, I suggest we take to the talk page and get in the input of a neutral, third party. Regards, Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 15:06, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

The GA-review has begun so I'm just gonna drop the issue totally for the sake of the article. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 21:34, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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Galloping off

Altenmann, saw your RM for gallop. Curious if you have a sandbox going or not. I have long thought about doing some work on the multiple articles surrounding the canter and gallop in the horse. Saw your tags at canter, tossed most of them because one biggie at the top should cover it. There is some argument made that the canter (also called a lope) and gallop are slightly different gaits due to the 3- and 4-beats that distinguish them, but at any rate, if you have the motivation to work on this, I'd be interested in a collaboration. I threw up my hands years ago after dealing with a tendentious (and now blocked) editor, but there are spinoffs that should be consolidated and so on. Anyhow, you have my interest and it would be GREAT to do an article improvement drive on these. Montanabw^(talk) 05:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

If interested, here is everything related that I know of:

1. Horse_gait#Canter_and_gallop
2. Canter (FWIW, we also have trot and jumping (horse) as well as ambling )
3. Lead (leg) (may be sufficiently complex to keep separate, not sure)

"Original research"

Seeing as you revert that edit, I would like to see a thorough explanation of how there was one bit of original research in my heavily-sourced edits. Zozs (talk) 15:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't have time right now. The key is your statement "The term Marxist-Leninist state is appropriate to describe a USSR-style state.". The rest is your WP:SYNTH to substantiate this theory. "Communist state", while a misnomer (communism is defined as stateless society), is a long established term based on the definition "state ruled by communist party". -M.Altenmann >t 16:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Source about Marxism-Leninist state referring to USSR-style state: The Poverty of Communism. Nicholas Eberstadt. Page 2. Sources about the USSR being a Marxist-Leninist state: Historical Dictionary of Socialism. James C. Docherty, Peter Lamb. Page 85., Ideology, Interests, and Identity. Stephen H. Hanson. Page 14. The Fine Line between the Enforcement of Human Rights Agreements and the Violation of National Sovereignity: The Case of Soviet Dissidents]. Jennifer Noe Pahre. Page 336. Pages 336, 348., Leninist National Policy: Solution to the "National Question"?. Walker Connor. Page 31..

Nothing dealing with the term "Communist state" is removed. Where is SYNTH? Zozs (talk) 17:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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Mikka, this, that, whatevs; but I should note this is not the Polish Wikipedia where everyone knows how to spell Polish names (I, for one, have no idea). Pretty sure most of our readers have no clue either. Don't you have something that could pass as a source for this? The source I used does, by the way, state that the Ukrainian and Belarusian "Adamovych" is identical to Polish (whatever that's supposed to mean); I didn't include that bit largely because I had no source for the actual Polish spelling.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 13, 2015; 12:20 (UTC)

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Tailor

Do you have any suggestions for a new template name consisting of cloth making and textile related occupational surnames? --Kiwi (talk) 15:25, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tanet: Please read the 'Rationale' section in the {{tailor-surname}} documentation carefully. If you want a template with multiple, different occupations, then you probably better start thinking about writing an article Cloth-making in occupational surnames, if you can find good sources. -M.Altenmann >t 15:37, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

@Tanet: BTW I forgot to thank you for joining this templating effort I started some time ago. -M.Altenmann >t 04:22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Kievan Rus'

I noticed the revert in Kievan Rus'. Could you please check this conversation. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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1867 Russian Empire and 1945 Soviet Union

That orthographic depiction of mine for Greater Russia and Eurasianism is accurate. Check out the wiki on the Russian Empire, which shows the territories under its sphere of influence. That includes Mongolia.

Territorially I just combined the maximum territories and near abroad of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, minus Alaska. The near abroad is a combination of the former's sphere of influence and the Warsaw Pact (plus Mongolia of the People's Republic era). Kjk2.1 (talk) 01:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Vaenga

Thanks again for your recent help with the above on the WikiProject Russia talk page; I wonder if I might pester you with a question, as I can't read Russian? While attempting to update the history section of the Severomorsk article, I found The historical information of the Severomorsk city which says that "April, 18, 1951 the working settlement Vaenga has received the new status and a new name city of Severomorsk. There were many opinions concerning the name: КKrasnoflotsk, Safonovsk, Krasnogvardeisk. Became deciding P.Zadorozhnogo's offer: the defenders of Murmansk region within Great Domestic war named themselves with 'Severomorci'." Is there any meaningful way of translating 'Severomorci' into English? Alansplodge (talk) 20:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

@Alansplodge: First of all, I have to warn you that this page is a machine translation of this Russian text, so if you want to use something from there, you should (A) use the latter one as a footnote and (B) let me know so that I double-check the Runglish. For example, "Great Domestic war" is the Great Patriotic War, and many funny things more. Now, Severomortsy (североморцы); literally this means "northern-seamen" and was an informal reference for personnel of the Northern Fleet (not only seamen/Navy, but also aviators, etc.) -M.Altenmann >t 03:14, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that, it makes sense now. I was thinking of a brief "Toponomy" section - Vaenga being derived from Sami etc. I had recognised the machine translation and was fairly certain that I had deduced the correct meaning, but would be very grateful if you could double check my work. Alansplodge (talk) 12:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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два Крым

Любовница Путина разговаривает с подругой: — Я попросила крем, а он услышал Крым. Не смею попросить коляску… I'm only asking for an allowance for two views, not два Крым! Scott P. (talk) 19:27, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

PS I don't speak Russian but my Google Translate program does...Scott P. (talk) 19:27, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

@Scottperry: I don't speak idiomatic English, so I fail to grasp your comment. Since you dont' speak Russian, but have Googe, I guess you got the pun крем/Крым, but probably коляску=wheelchair/pram was unclear: In Russian коляска rhymes with Aляска = Alyaska. Now, can you return me a favor and explain your joke? -M.Altenmann >t 19:38, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

(See NPOV:Talk. Scott P. (talk) 19:34, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

OK. I tried. Here is my explanation.... So Putin mistook Crimea for cream. I didn't ask for anything so big as the conquering of a province, I only asked for an allowance of a second opinion. I guess my Google/ Russian isn't as funny as I thought..... sorry. Scott P. (talk) 19:46, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

I see. Your joke was lost on me, because you delivered it in two pieces, apart in time. I was answering only seeing the first one. Now that I saw both, I got it. -M.Altenmann >t 19:54, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Next time I will stick with English. Scott P. (talk) 19:48, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

No, no. Your Russian is OK. Just try to save your messages only in a final form. -M.Altenmann >t 19:54, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

I did think that joke about Putin translated pretty good into English though...Scott P. (talk) 19:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

@Scottperry:Huh? What about the second part, where Google translated коляску=wheelchair? Or there is another English pun I am not aware of? -M.Altenmann >t 19:54, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

My version of Google Translate (on my iPad) did a slightly better job, it translated коляску to the word "carriage", which I assumed meant "car", no? Obviously "wheelchair", would have been a bit more of a "stretch". : ) Scott P. (talk) 20:40, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) LMAO! I now know where Russo-Ukrainian relations keep going wrong! They have babies translating and texting each other.
Uk-"You wanna make a big deal of this?". Ru-"Yeah!". Uk-"Yeah? Meet you on the border in an hour ("через годину")." Ru-"We'll be there in a year ("через год") waiting for you, if you need to take that long to get your arses together!"... Uk-"You didn't show! Bloody typical Russian cheats and liars!".
Moral of the story: Have pram: will make trouble. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:57, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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NKVD Camps

Hello, I plan to go to the New York Public Library to view InIstrumentalisierung, Verdrängung, Aufarbeitung: die sowjetischen Speziallager in der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung 1945 bis heute Let me know if you have any questions--Woogie10w (talk) 11:47, 10 June 2015 (UTC) @Woogie10w: i see this book is about soviet camps. since you are a wikipedian, i believe you know what to do. today it is not that interesting to simply repeat that the soviets were schlimm und boshaft und schlecht, they oppressed, repressed, killed, etc. we know that already. it us more useful to know what and how specifically they did.

west zones had their own internment camps for nazis. but they did quick denazification and mostly shut them down in a couple of years. (btw this info is missing or not easy to find in wikipedia, so i'd suggest to look for info and leads in this direction) so the comparison with soviet ones would be useful. e.g. i suspect nkvd camps were more populous, and simply source of free labor. -M.Altenmann >t 15:36, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Ok I will report back after I see the book.--Woogie10w (talk) 15:42, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Re [1]. I must admit I was hesitant to remove the template, because [ideally] 100% of all content should be referenced and the first sentence looks very much like content. However, WP:D3 actually says "Disambiguation pages are not articles – they are navigation aids! ... Don't include references or external links."

How I understand this is that DABs should only list "obvious" information from the main articles where the content should be referenced. But since there's no entry for the first sentence, there's no "obvious" page to copy the content from. Maybe we could create an entry on Wiktionary and use that? WP:IAR until there is such page? Change WP:D3? Thought? Cheers, 83.226.255.86 (talk) 14:32, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

@83.226.255.86:. In fact, I was not reading the article text carefully (tl;dr :-) I hope I fixed it for good now. -M.Altenmann >t 15:08, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

...and I did not see the Kalpak page. Thank you for taking care of this, the DAB looks much better now :) 83.226.255.86 (talk) 15:13, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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"Vatnik"

Can you please stop "protecting" the article? It is getting utterly frustrating to want to edit anything at all with the likes of your contributions around. I do not know how long you have been in WP, but just a friendly reminder: it takes less than a minute to actually vandalize an article, and more than an hour to carefully rewrite parts of it. Articles like Vatnik (slang) cannot always be backed up by sources. Nobody will specifically define the meanings, moreover, no article exists on the word "bydlo", which is important to understand where "vatnik" comes from. I'm both compelled to laugh and to cry when I see a page on WP trying to make sense while encyclopedias like ED and Lurkmore actually explain the term better, without all Ukrainian sources somewhat being "okay" over what you outrageously proclaim "OR". TY --Whydoesitfeelsogood (talk) 15:03, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

@Whydoesitfeelsogood: Wikipedia has rules and these rules are protected. Please learn them and then we shall talk. -M.Altenmann >t 15:07, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't know why I'm here. Every time I quit, because of stupid interwiki I keep coming back =) --Whydoesitfeelsogood (talk) 15:10, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Please keep in mind that different language wikipedias have different policies. -M.Altenmann >t 15:14, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

By the way, it is entirely possible to write a really decent article about 'vatnik' using good references. It is that I don't have time. -M.Altenmann >t 15:16, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

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English: Coat of arms of the Kievan Rus 10th-11th c. Русский: Эмблема Киевской Руси 10-11 ст. Українська: Емблема Київської Русі 10-11 ст.

As you can see in the link, the image that was added as well as its description were all referenced by simply clicking on the image itself. This image is the appropriate image for the article Kievan Rus', was fully referenced, and did not need to be deleted.

In addition, you also made some changes which re-order Russia to appear before Ukraine in multiple places in the article. This would be strange to users, as Kiev is in Ukraine and not Russia. Although Muscovy subsequently renamed itself to Russia in the 18th century in order to adopt the history of Kievan Rus', and Ukraine in the 20th century renamed itself from Ruthenia ("Rus" in Ukrainian) to Ukraine, Russia should not appear before Ukraine simply because the current name of Muscovy is similar to Rus', especially given the circumstances of the name change.

• @93.74.143.63:
• (1)This not the coat of the arms of Kievan Rus. This is modern drawing, as you may find out "by simply clicking on the image itself"
• (2) Wikipedia is not a pissing contest. The countries are ordered alphabetically. Belarus is listed first not because it is the most favorite descendant of Kievan Rus. -M.Altenmann >t 15:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Unexplained Reverts on Mat Article

Please explain your reverts of my edits on the Mat article. I was the translator of the original Russian verses. If you have a problem with the translation, please advise here or on my talk page. --Harald Forkbeard (talk) 23:13, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

You are confusing me with the references to 'original research'. I have duly reviewed the policy and see nothing wrong with my statement that I, and I alone, have translated the verse on this page, from the original Russian into English.

What else can be stated and what 'references' are you looking for? --Harald Forkbeard (talk) 02:58, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Are you questioning the quality of my translation? If so, what are your qualifications in Russian / English translation?--Harald Forkbeard (talk) 03:00, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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Rzhev

Please reconsider your revert here. There was only one Germany in 1942-43 and absolutely everyone knows it was run by Hitler & the Nazis. But there was never a country officially styled "Nazi Germany," and that designation looks odd in the context of a purely military-history article.

The same could be said if the corresponding section heading were written as "Communist USSR," since everybody knows ... etc., etc. (Disclaimer: This user has no sympathy whatever for the Nazis, Nazism, etc.) Sca (talk) 15:13, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

@Sca:Nobody writes "Communist USSR" because it is redundant: USSR was always communist. Whereas Germany was "Nazi" for a short time, and one has to be clear which Germany was in the battle. "Nazi Germany" is a standard appellation, and wikipedia even has Category:Nazi Germany named so to properly pinpoint the time period. -M.Altenmann >t 15:28, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

As for "absolutely everyone", you will be sadly surprised if you go out in the U.S. streets and start asking such kind of quiz. in fact in one such quiz carried out in 1970s, 30% answered that USA fought against USSR in WWII. -M.Altenmann >t 15:31, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Altenmann, I understand your logic but you haven't convinced me.

I acknowledge widespread ignorance among certain strata about basic facts of modern history, but given the huge volume of popular-history coverage accorded the Third Reich, Holocaust, etc., I very much doubt that many even halfway literate English speakers don't know it was Nazi Germany that started WWII. (Certainly, very few readers of a relatively obscure article such as Battles of Rzhev would be unaware of it.)

Thus, in the context of WWII, Nazi Germany is just as redundant as Communist USSR would be. (And I wasn't suggesting use of that term – just drawing an analogy.)

Having said that, I appreciate your How Wikipedia Works graphic. Thank you for this helpful schematic. Sca (talk) 17:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

@Sca: it was late night and i was not thinking clearly: the proper approach is to look how it is done in other similar wikipedia wwii articles and proceed from there. so i checked and saw that your approach is used. on the other hand i did find a page in which "German" forces were battling "Red" ones. :-) so your "communist ussr" is not so absurd (for some) as you thought :-) -M.Altenmann >t 02:21, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Altenmann, thanks – спасибо? – for making the change. Not very important in the grand scale, but it was good to have this exchange of ideas.

I happened to look up Rzhev because I was re-reading an old Paul Carrell book that describes it and was amazed at the casualty estimates he cites. I realize Carrell is not an unimpeachable source, so I wanted to check another one. Such a ferocious war! Sca (talk) 13:49, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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Sorry, you were wrong. I don't know how I missed that. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:31, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

I know I am sometimes wrong. But I have no idea what you have in mind. -M.Altenmann >t 14:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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hello. as i see you dont know Georgian. I have questen: if u dont know georgian, why u make correction of stalins surname? his surname was ჯუღაშვილი, please see romanization of georgian. dzh not ჯ, of course. please dont make more correction about this case. u dont know This issue.--Gaga.vaa (talk) 09:53, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I would like to inform that I made several efforts to make sure to come up with something that actually makes with respect to Wikipedia's guidelines. However, I also understand there must be definitely something important that I am missing out, which results in article not being approved. I am effort to get my article approved on Wikipedia, I would like you to please help me with references. Hariskhan12345 (talk) 12:02, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@Hariskhan12345: Sorry, I cannot help you with references. It is your job to find them. What exactly you don't understand in reviewers' comments? Did you read WP:NCORP? Also, if you are associated with the company, you are strongly doscouraged to write about it, per WP:COI. - üser:Altenmann >t 03:55, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

@Altenmann: Thanks for your response, I would like to inform that I have made several changes to the article:

• Removing products & services: I think its not encyclopedic content for readers
• Removing unnecessary points
• Removing weak references
• Improve sentence structure for better understanding
• Made sure to maintain only relevant and exact information with strong references.

I hope the article will now make sense to moderators and get approved as a source of information for Bangladeshi people. Hariskhan12345 (talk) 13:12, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

@Altenmann: Just resubmitted article for Kaymu Bangladesh after fixing the tone and further removing references (although strong but not projecting Kaymu). I hope this will make sense, however, I would like to have your feedback if there are further updates required. Also, thanks for your contribution to the article.Hariskhan12345 (talk) 09:06, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

@Altenmann: I would like to inform that I have further worked on article by removing unnecessary material and making sure to only provide strongest references. I hope this will now make complete sense with respect to Wikipedia guidelines. Hariskhan12345 (talk) 11:59, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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Please correctly add merge discussions

Don't add them back until you learn how. Thanks. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:20, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

You will see that I explained the removal. Wikipedia:Merging explains the process. Thanks. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:23, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, you were acting as a police officer, not as a colleague wikipedian. Many find this trend greatly disturbing. - Nevertheless it becomes prevalent on wikipedia, if judging by edit count. In the future, if you revert something, please cite policy clearly in the edit summary. Otherwise your curt comment in edit summary looks quite frivolous. üser:Altenmann >t 15:01, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry. I did explain why I reverted. Your sarcasm is violent commentary borders on ignorant. I elected to remove it from my talk page as a result. The fact that you show inexperience about Wikipedia is now evident to me.

• You created an article over a redirect using copy-and-paste
• You incorrectly created a moves request against guidelines (no talk created)
• You tagged my talk page indicating that I need to cite policies or guidelines when reverting when all that is required is an edit summary because editors are supposed to WP:ASSUMECLUE
• Not clearly differentiating between pillars, policies, guidelines and consensus.

There and a few other, minor points as well.

I have had my say at the merge discussion. I'm sorry your inexperience has caused this disagreement. I will try to keep communication with you both short and professional in the future. However, unless you are able to avoid vitriol in responding to me, don't do it on my talk page. See WP:OWNTALK. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:32, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

I apologized for my impulsive behavior in your talk page, which was responded with:

10:02 (cur | prev) . . (-1,053)‎ . . Walter Görlitz (talk | contribs) (Reverted 4 edits by Altenmann (talk): Stay off my talk page. (TW))

IMO this greatly depreciates your post here. - üser:Altenmann >t 17:07, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

There's an edit notice on my talk page that clearly requests edits to be kept in one place. You don't seem to be reading that since you have tried to carry on a conversation in two places. On a separate note, there is a place that indicates if an editor asks you not to post to their talk page that you respect that. That's what I've done. You can leave comments here and either use {{talkback}} or {{ping}}. The former is left on my page requesting that I come talk to here here. I delete it and come talk here. The latter places a notice in my notifications area. I see it and come find who's talking about me and where. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:49, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for not making myself clear: You accused me of policy/guideline violation (you wrote ""You created an article over a redirect using copy-and-paste"). I don't understand what kind of violation it is. Please explain yourself. - üser:Altenmann >t 23:41, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Generally, there's a reason why a redirect is made. It should be addressed before turning it into an article. The talk page definitely needs to be fixed. The bigger issue is explained at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Sorry. Should have pointed you to it. Again, I'm assuming you have an understanding of how Wikipedia works or at least can search to find content. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:49, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Trump

LOL.[2]. I cite myself for that one!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 03:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

convex hull algorithms

Dear Altenmann,

I would appreciate your input at Talk:Convex hull algorithms#Other convex hull algorithms.

Thank you. --DavidCary (talk) 17:51, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tree traversal

Dear Altenmann, you reverted my new section in "Tree traversal" because "primary source nonnotable. (TW)". What do you mean by that: Is the reference to Ben Pfaff defective? What about the other pseudocode examples which do not carry any reference at all? And have a {{unreferenced section|date=June 2013}} since June 2013 and are still in the article? Pls answer in your user talk page. Best regards, --Nomen4Omen (talk) 08:07, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Dear Altenmann, you reverted several edits and again the section "Nonrecursive tree traversal by iteration" in Tree traversal because "Rv unreferened original research". You certainly know that it is NOT original research − see the mentioned sources Pfaff and Sedgewick, although Sedgewick is not completely explicit. But there is also http://code.google.com/p/badvpn/source/browse/trunk/structure/BAVL.h#685. Would it help you adding this one? Best regards, --Nomen4Omen (talk) 08:01, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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Russian Sailor's Dance

I reverted the seven links you added on drum & bugle corps articles for Glière's "Russian Sailor's Dance." In case you failed to notice, NO TUNES ARE LINKED on those pages... GWFrog (talk) 22:07, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

From the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking : "An overlinked article contains an excessive number of links, making it difficult to identify links likely to aid the reader's understanding significantly." Linking every tune as well as the composers is exceedingly excessive, thus was the decision made some years ago to limit the links to just the composers... GWFrog (talk)

@GWFrog:There is nothing excessive when linking in lists. Overlinking is relevant to plain text, which indeed becomes unreadable. As an extreme example, there is no overlinking in e.g., List of theoretical physicists, or in [[List of albums by XXXX] etc. - üser:Altenmann >t 17:53, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I think that a 67-item list is impossible to read, much less search. --NaBUru38 (talk) 23:50, 17 October 2015 (UTC) @NaBUru38: Nobody reads such liats. And 'Schwartz' is not the only one that large (not even the largest). Good or not, alphabetic sorting is accepted for such pages. If you have a better idea, you have to apply it to all surname pages; we prefer to handle things uniformly in wikipedia. But to apply a different format everywhere, you have to discuss it with community first. I suggest you start discussion in WikiProject Antroponymy, with a notification at WikiProject Disambiguation. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:38, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Facts

What right do you have to hide the facts? My statements are non biased, unlike the majority of this article on President Putin. This is your warning. Do not hide facts which are unbiased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedawgbelongmem (talk • contribs) 07:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with "hiding facts". In wikipedia you must prove facts. In your case, your footnotes do not support the statement about putin;s rating " both inside and outside Russia's hemisphere of influence" . - üser:Altenmann >t 07:30, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Evidnece

What back up do I have for my statement? I live there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedawgbelongmem (talk • contribs) 07:29, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying the regulations of Wikipedia. I apologise if I wasn't aware of the full conditions, which obviously are dictated by those who would rather support the "correct" and "educated" beliefs. It would appear that my statements, supported by reputable references, are counterproductive in some way to the purpose of Wikipedia. What is it's purpose? Is it not to share facts supported by evidence? Have you no common sense? You claim the statements I make could cause drama by being biased. Define "biased". Because what is biased? An article stating a truthful comment from world class journalists, or a page full of facts that fail to show the other side? The scales only lean toward mainstream media propaganda. Who is the aggressive one hear? The one sharing a fact, or the one demanding that the other side of an argument cannot be even whispered? Again, do you have no common sense? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedawgbelongmem (talk • contribs) 08:03, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

It is a very responsible thing to share any information, particularly on Wikipedia. With all sources, I verify every detail in a source before it is shared. If you cannot accept any facts outside the dogmatic views of western media and their puppets, you have the problem, not I. I have said it before. Do you have no common sense? You remove written statements, not based on false information, but based on your ideology of an American exceptionlist world. I present all facts, but you cannot remove nor hide evidence. As a great man once said, a bad marriage will fail, no matter how good the first night of marriage is. I urge you, as a colleague and fellow writer, to consider all facts and stop presenting everything under the light of commercial and imperialist "facts", who only go to war where their business interests run. All our lives, the only truth we've ever known is this: ceaseless war. Do you think, for the love of humanity and its rights, it is too much to ask that you take a stand for sharing truth, and just maybe, we can end this nightmare which should never be called reality? Your conscience and morals will decide. I pray I'm not the only one who respects humanity over American business interests. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedawgbelongmem (talk • contribs) 06:55, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

@Thedawgbelongmem: this is not about "dogmatic views of western media" This is about you distorting information coming even from Russian sources. - üser:Altenmann >t 02:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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You note what I already knew, in wikipedia we have a policy of WP:COI: let others write about you.

In response to you I just want to say two things. First, in a WP article entitled Critical approaches to Hamlet, at the very bottom of the page, you find a paragraph inserted by the author of the book being talked about in the paragraph. The book is "Hamlet Made Simple and Other Essays." The book is published, in fact, and has an actual ISBN number and so forth. But it is the author himself who is writing in that entry about his own book-- and writing about himself, the author. Does he comply with WP:COI?

Second, this is kind of futile, but you had said that the Theories of Humor article sucks. I know there's not much we can do about this, but it's not the article that sucks, it's the theories IN it because they're all either false or trivial. The article itself and its form and presentation is not very bad.Cdg1072 (talk) 00:04, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Roll call and rare fruit

Rare fruit is different from a superfruit. The latter is a marketing term (of dubious validity). A rare fruit, by contrast, is a fruit that isn't yet under widespread cultivation but has some properties that may make it commercially valuable some day or are sought after by collectors, horticulturists, farmers, etc.. Adam Gollner wrote a book about it: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession (which later became adapted as a documentary: The Fruit Hunters) - it's all about how different fruit varieties/cultivars are discovered. Modern Farmer has a review: see here.

As for roll call, thanks for drawing my attention to ad hoc and the "blown-up disambig" type of page. I may try tomorrow or later this week to remodel the roll call page along those lines (the ad hoc page is decent because it has clear delineations in meanings/section headers and does not duplicate content already on other pages; the roll call article will benefit from more clarity and a significant pruning).

Best regards --Neutrality^talk 06:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

@Neutrality: - I was rather thinking about 'killing' ad hoc just as roll call. Otherwise an "improvement" magnet will remain and tumor will regrow. - üser:Altenmann >t 06:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

As dor superfruit, all of them in a way are 'rare fruits' outside its native area, eg gojiberry, which exotics serves well for marketing hype. exotic fruit -:-) ? - üser:Altenmann >t 06:31, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Killing in the sense of redirecting both? That would be fine with me; ad hoc could go to List of Latin phrases (A) and roll call could go to roll-call vote (with hat-note on top for secondary/alt meanings). Neutrality^talk 06:35, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

@Neutrality: Actually ad hoc (disambiguation), and "List of..." as a merge target. As for latin phrases, this is a golden mine; you can comb Category:Latin words and phrases for kill target ad infinitum and ad nauseam. :-) But probably for massive changes one better start a discussion somewhere. Do you have any idea of an appropriate forum? - üser:Altenmann >t

There's Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin, although it is only semi-active. Neutrality^talk 07:02, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

P.S.: I just saw California Rare Fruit Growers Association and pomology, which are somewhat interesting. Rare fruit could conceivably be a subset of pomology. Neutrality^talk 06:35, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

And again, "Exotic fruits are that which are not native and that are cultivated outside, available at their place of origin" ; also [here. I say, has a wikipotential of bluelink, if you interested. - üser:Altenmann >t 06:48, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

A good link, and definitely has article potential. I will put this on my to-do list (probably for 2016). Neutrality^talk 07:02, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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Attractive fixed set

Hi, you created redirect Attractive fixed set, but the target article does not describe the term. Can you fix this? - üser:Altenmann >t 16:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Done. -- Beland (talk) 21:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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I've seen your name in the edit history of a couple pieces on the economic history of early Soviet Russia and thought I would say hello. I spotted in particular your Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1922–24, which seems like it could be expanded as a sequel to my Hyperinflation in early Soviet Russia. I sort of ran out of gas on that one but will return to it one of these days. I'm currently working on the Grain Crisis of 1928. Best regards, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR (USA) /// ShoeHutch@gmail.com /// Carrite (talk) 19:00, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

@Carrite: Sorry, I can be of no help. Recently I simply cannot force my brain to write longer articles. BTW, I noticed Nikolai Mezhlauk in your plans. I never heard of. There are two more brothers Mezhlauks, but they don't seem notable per wikipedia standards. - üser:Altenmann >t 16:43, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I know what you mean about needing to force one's brain, I'm going very slowly on my current one, although big topics are harder to write about than are biographies. As for Mezhlauk, I started the page on Valery Mezhlauk but somehow turned him into Nikolay Mezhlauk on my user page. Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it. Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 19:06, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi there. I was just wondering if there's any justification for using the rather marginal term "wonder tale" instead of "fairy tale", given the book hasn't even been translated into English afaik. Uanfala (talk) 21:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Because that's how the "волшебной сказки" was translated. And there is nothing marginal. The book was not translated, but the title was. - üser:Altenmann >t 03:40, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Now I see. Thanks! Uanfala (talk) 09:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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On dewiki, the (translation of) your very old article The First Tractor showed up on the deletion discussion because it lacks sources. You do not, by chance, remember the sources you used for that article or at least where to find them or where the image was taken from? --PaterMcFly talk ^contribs 07:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

@PaterMcFly: It was written 12 years ago when the idea of sources and references was vague, so it was completely out of my head. I don't know about dewiki, but here in enwiki it may survive as a disambiguation page (done). Meanwhile I will keep looking; may be someone got inspired by a wikipedia article. :-) Первый трактор тунам урем дене эрталын! :-) - üser:Altenmann >t 08:03, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I know sourcing wasn't a big deal back then, and so this isn't exactly the answer I hoped for :-( Also, I don't speak russian, so searching could be difficult. Thanks anyway. --PaterMcFly talk ^contribs 08:37, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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Honestly I'm not sure what you expect me to do. The reference says "a granddaughter of James Simon, with whom she was particularly close". And that's it. There is zero information on who that person was. No indication if he was notable and if so for what. Tassedethe (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

@Tassedethe: do research. or do nothing. or do something where you know what to do. - i could have given you a better advice, but i am afraid you will take it for insult. üser:Altenmann >t 20:20, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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@JIP: Please notice that this article has a Finnish samba picture. And it is quite spectacular, too: samba in the rain; it is something juicy, diversity. The other two are quite mundane. No, I would not have removed samba festival even in Gvarv, if it were something special. You can have the whole gallery downtext, titled "Brazilian Samba around the world". That would be encyclopedic. But having over half pictures from Finland about Brazilian dance without particular reason is WP:UNDUE. - üser:Altenmann >t 05:26, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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What do you mean "Not done so"? (Think back to when you undid my Roland Bautista edit) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyborg the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 22:24, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

@Cyborg the Wikipedian: Sorry for my English. It meand We don't do this, according to wikipedia's style of bio articles. - üser:Altenmann >t 00:11, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

@Altenmann: Well, certain month articles (August, April and February) have a section talking about how their start days and end days match other months. Why can't the December article (or the remaining month articles) have a section explain their start days and end days corresponding with other months?

Because the text was without references. - üser:Altenmann >t 03:18, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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The article is biased and you defend the bias, it's not exactly Wikipedia is about.Xx236 (talk) 06:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Many Poles run away or were expelled to Poland, some killed by the NKVD or deported to Siberia. - there are thousands books on the subject. Xx236 (talk) 06:46, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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  • Stretch factor is also related. I recently began a major rewrite of glossary of graph theory to make it look more like a glossary (compare e.g. glossary of set theory) and less like a rambling rewrite of the main graph theory article. Unfortunately, some topics that were covered in the old version of the glossary got lost by the wayside, and graph spanners are one of them. They deserve a proper article but since I think the main survey in this area is still my paper "Spanning trees and spanners" I may have too much of a conflict-of-interest to write it myself. In the meantime, the distance article is not a good choice for the redirect because it doesn't mention spanners. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:07, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
    • @David Eppstein: I don't think there will be any COI threats over a mathematical subject. If we run into an idiot, the problem is easily avoidable via a "draft"-"review"-"copy into mainspace" trick happily employed by various paid editors. - üser:Altenmann >t 06:14, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
      • The quicker temporary solution would be to add an entry on spanners to the glossary and change the redirect to Glossary of graph theory#S (or maybe even a more closely targeted redirect handle if someone knows how to do those). —David Eppstein (talk) 06:17, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
        • There is a device called "anchor" for redirects, but I run into some wikipedians who claim it does not work well for all browsers, so they replace it whenever see it. - üser:Altenmann >t 06:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
          • Turns out that for the format I'm using, {{anchor}} is redundant: you can already link to any individual term. Anyway, I added "spanner" and changed the redirect to match. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:11, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
            • @David Eppstein: I don't have expertise here, but it looks good, thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Белоруссия значит белую Россию в английском почему обратнй редактированйе ? 5.56.31.175 (talk) 08:27, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination of InformIT (publisher) for deletion

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"Heraldic family" nominated for deletion

Your article "Heraldic family" was nominated on 9 August 2016 by camdan for deletion.

Regards, Nihil novi (talk) 06:59, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Greetings. I nominated article "Heraldic" family for delation and suggested renaming to "Heraldic Clan" adding reliable sources to that. I see that You removed the tag that supported further discussion. There is no term "Heraldic family", never heared of that, it have never been used in any publicaiton and its not correct. Regards, camdan (talk) 09:47, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

I invite You to discussion about question raised on Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry camdan (talk) 14:40, 10 August 2016 (CEST)

Soviet national anthem and decommunisation laws in Baltic States

I'm not familiar with Wikipedia editing, perhaps I did something wrong, but I did not quite understand the undo of the edit (as far as I can tell the edit improved the accuracy of the article - the laws of at least some of the Baltic States are verifiable from source). Can you elaborate what was wrong with the edit so I can do better in the future? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hundisilm (talk • contribs) 20:12, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Just don't edit things you don't know for sure. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:25, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Polish heraldry and Heraldic clan

Hello. Im working on art "Polish heraldry baecause it had no sources or citations, goal is to reach GA quality art. Its in many cases linked to the art. "Heraldic clan" and it would be good to improve both. I would appreciate Your input on further improvement and also discuss matter when to use "Heraldic family", as I refered to that expression in the art. "Polish heraldry" so its same in both art. Best regards, camdan (talk) 04:32, 28 August 2016 (CEST)

Please see Talk:Dmitry Gudkov

Request for clarification. Please help me understand, and see Talk:Dmitry Gudkov (regards non-system opposition too). 69.58.42.90 (talk) 20:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the pointer. How about this at Talk:Dmitry Gudkov ? 69.58.42.90 (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination of BESM (disambiguation) for deletion

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See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/BESM (disambiguation) for further information regarding this nomination. Thanks, — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 03:49, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Dab vs. patronyms

Hello.

Please don't move Russian people articles to patronymic versions. The patronym should generally not be used as an disambiguator, because it's almost never part of the WP:COMMONNAME. Additionally, with the patronym in the article name, readers who search for a person will be required to know the person's patronym, something that is rarely the case. (Indeed, they might even want to know the person's patronym, which causes a catch 22 situation: you must know the patronym in order to find out the patronym.)

For instance, readers are more likely to know that Nikolay Korolyov is a boxer, than they are to know that his patronym is Fyodorovich.

Thanks.

HandsomeFella (talk) 11:00, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

well, a yet another demonstration of anglo-saxon disregard and disrespect of other cultures. whatever. this is english wikipedia, i will not contest. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:26, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

I assure you, no disrespect is intended, it's only that in the English-speaking world, people are usually known by their firstname and lastname, and only rarely firstname, father's name and lastname. It's just being realistic.

Thanks for your understanding.

HandsomeFella (talk) 16:09, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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