Portal talk:Ukraine/New article announcements

message: Dear russian friends, you try to keep using russified names of cities in english. USSR was known in whole world as “Russia” and russian language was defacto state-language of  USSR. Names of all soviet cities was spelled from Russian versions. Examples: Chernigov/Chernihiv; Kiev/Kyiv; Kishinev/Chişinău; Kanev/Kaniv; Vitebsk/Vitsebsk; Gomel/Homyel; Grodno/Hrodna (do you need more?). I have take a look at Talk pages of pages of these cities. Interesting picture – russian lobby... Now take a look at the Ukraine’s map published by US National Geographic Society. You will find Chernihiv there. --Gutsul 11:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Gutsul, I know that you were summoned here by AndriyK to advance his cause, but please respect the truth. Uke wiki may be a propaganda machine, just like the Polish wiki is. But in this English wiki, you have to respect its international status. Noone objects that Chernihiv is the spelling preferred by the Uke government now in power. But it doesn;t mean that every mention of the town in the historical articles imported from EB1911 should be changed to tally with the current spelling promoted by the Kievan regime. --Ghirlandajo 11:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I don't say it is the only source. Perhaps you don't know that many articles here are imported from an 1911 edition, just like many Russian wikipedians pillage Brockhaus-Efron. I say it is foolish to change Chernigov in the imported articles to Chernihiv, as if the latter name would be more familiar to English readers. --Ghirlandajo 17:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A comment

message: If one looks at the bigboards with driving directions in Ukraine, as a rule the latin names of cities are brought to correspondence with their Ukrainian spelling/prononciation (not Russian), also international travel agencies operating in Ukraine are officially encouraged to use the standard latin spellings derived from Ukrainian names of cities and places. Since the main purpose of Wikipedia is to provide the up-to-date information, it is much more important to ensure an English speaking traveller can easily look up the data from the names she reads on the big boards, maps, various signs in Ukraine instead of making her jump through the hoops searching for some old-style equivalents. We can hardly expect from an average foreigner to be aware of all sorts of transformations the naming policies underwent over the years. Please, please, please, let's not sacrifice user-friendliness and usability of Wikipedia in favor of undue academism. Let's use the most current and officially accepted names for the Ukrainian geography at least. --ashapochka 15:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for my rudeness, but who you are? Did you come also here from the Uke wiki to make this one remark and disappear? It is always suspicious when one-edit contributors start advising on proper English usage. No offence intended. --Ghirlandajo 17:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  My dear Sir, I beg you to accept my sincere apologies, for not introducing myself properly. You can think about my voice as that of a long-time en:Wikipedia user, who enjoys finding the desired information quickly. Therefore would you please consider my opinion as a sort of user's feedback. In addition, I believe, a reasonable comment has its value by itself even in case it is not backed up by the iron-clad authority of the contributor, isn't it? And yes, I am definitely from Ukraine and this is also why my comment in question is founded on the facts that should certainly be taken into account if we talk about making en:Wikipedia helpful to those users interested in modern Ukraine. Respectfully yours --ashapochka 19:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usefulness of Correct Spelling 

message: Please support my request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#New articles bot. This will save all reporters much time.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New articles bot

message: Thanks for the inspiration: Portal:Colombia/New article announcements Best wishes, Travb (talk) 03:30, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thanks for the inspiration

message: Hi, I am in the trial runs of the User:AlexNewArtBot (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/AlexNewArtBot). The bot analyzes the new articles for a day and puts suspected Ukraine-related articles into User:AlexNewArtBot/UkraineSearchResult, the articles are suppose to be manually put into the portal page and/or removed if irrelevant.
The list of rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Ukraine the first pattern between the slashes on each line is the pattern that should be present in the article to trigger the rule (note the case insensitive match. The other patterns on the same line are suppose to inhibit the rule. E.g. for the Russian board /florida/ inhibits /petersburg/ rule as the article is most probably about the American city. If you are reasonably familiar with the regular expressions and know what you are doing, you can edit the rules straight away, but better ask me. In the Russian board I had to remove some rules: e.g. there are a lot of non-Russians named Vladimir and Chita, so I had to remove the names of the cities or have to much false positive. If you are interested why an article went to the list there is log on the User:AlexNewArtBot/UkraineLog explaining the rule that sent an article to the searchresults (if the log  is cleared try to look into the history of the log).
That is all. Any suggestions are welcome. Alex Bakharev 03:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Very neat.  Will make use of it.  Thank you.--Riurik (discuss) 06:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:AlexNewArtBot]] - New Article Bot 

message: Hello all, I was wondering if you guys would like to support WP:KISS as a policy/guideline.  We need more wikipedians making templates, etc., easier, not harder to do. Where do I do this at? Can I announce this here? Odessaukrain 12:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:KISS]] 

message: I propose for this page to be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ukraine/New articles. It is more of a WikiProject page, and the move won't affect the portal main page much, since this page is listed under "WikiProjects and collaborations". All we have to do is change the link. — Alex(T|C|E) 09:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moving a page, doesn't remove the page from users' watchlists. Just tried it.. —dima/talk/ 19:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: *I believe this topic is never going to end... FC Arsenal Kyiv now has a separate nomination for its own move proposal to FC Arsenal Kiev. —dima/talk/ 02:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is blatant disruption.  Can anything be done to stop this? Ostap 03:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there are a number of things.  See this comment by Irpen, 2nd paragraph on the team's talk page.  Action will be taken soon.--Riurik(discuss) 04:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy of Dynamo Kyiv move announcement 

message: What is the best way that this should be dealt with?  Our options seem to be:
*RfC
*Appeal of admin move
*Request for another move
*...other (please add/comment)--Riurik(discuss) 00:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Requesting another move is, in my opinion, worthless.  I say RfC.  Ostap 02:36, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just found a couple of interesting discussions covering the subject Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Sports teams and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Naming_conventions_and_club_names. Please take a look—dima/talk/ 04:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the "so-called consensus" on Wikipedia:Naming conventions was added by one user... doesn't seem like consensus. to me.. On a side note, I wonder if FC Olimpik Donetsk will be moved to FC Olympic Donetsk and FC Lokomotiv Dvorichna to FC Locomotive Dvorichna... :)) —dima/talk/ 04:19, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And the article FC Zirka Kirovohrad to FC Star Kirovohrad?--Ahonc (Talk)  13:40, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, I know.. I just brought it up as an example.. —dima/talk/  —Preceding comment was added at 05:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so let's go with the idea on the Football Project talk page of starting a discussion on the naming conventions, especially since it was a one-user thing.--Riurik(discuss) 04:51, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Centralized discussion is now located here Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Naming convention for sports teams.--Riurik(discuss) 05:22, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arsenal and Dynamo moves:  the wider issue of clubs and organization KyivStar, etc 

message: Project Oregon has four awards Wikipedia:WikiProject_Oregon/DYK#DYK_service_awards for those who have done DYK. Maybe this is something that we can adapt also, but maybe with lower numbers for the arwards (i.e. instead of 10 DYK for a silver, it would be 5 DYK) Odessaukrain (talk) 13:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Awards for Ukraine DYK?