User talk:Ilya Voyager

If you wish to contact me, you definitely need to use my Russian Wikipedia talkpage (see ru:User talk:Ilya Voyager) instead of this page. I check this page very irregularly. You can also use other means of communications, listed in ru:User:Ilya Voyager. English is OK. Thank you.

Welcome!

Hello, Ilya Voyager, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Edcolins 23:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Edcolins! :) Actually, I'm not a newbie in the wiki :) Ilya Voyager 20:49, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

question[edit]

Mr, Schurov, since you have disabled my account at Russian wiki and did not answer me ther, I ask it here. May I ask you what is the rightful or logical basis that the editors from the rpeublic of Azerbaijan are allowed to put their alphabet on the Pages on Iranian history and territory, while they insist thatw e are not allowed to put the Iranian_Azeri written versions on their sites? If they say that Azeri language has two alphabets, then they should also accept the same formula regarding their cities and personalities. Why this double standard? They behave chauvinistic and regarding the fact that not many Iranians know Russians, they had their free hand to include factual inaccuracies on the Iranian-related pages there in the Russian wikipedia. This nationalistic unscientific behavior of theirs is very disappointing and bad for the quality of wikipedia. I hope you are able to change this undesriable situation.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 10:34, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Babakexorramdin, I didn't disable your account in Russian Wikipedia. It was blocked by Alex Smotrov, but later he unblocked it. Anyway, it is NOT good idea to communite with me using this enwiki account talkpage, because I check it very irregularly. You can use email or jabber instead. As for your question, sorry, I'm not able to discuss it now, because I'm a little bit busy in ru-wiki arbcom. You have to discuss this issue with other editors of Russian Wikipedia, if you wish to make edits in Russian Wikipedia. And it seems that you need to use Russian Language there, because not all contributors of Russian Wikipedia can speak English. Ilya Voyager (talk) 02:45, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

of course I will use Russian language ther. Which editor should I approach? The edit wars of editors from republic of Azerbaijan are on the rise. They are disregarding all rules of wikipedia regarding naming conventions. The admin Divot is on their side. Please tell me whom should I approach?--Babakexorramdin (talk) 16:03, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that you definitely need to become more familiar with Russian Wikipedia to work in such a complicated area as Armenia and Azerbaijan. User:Divot is not an admin. You should discuss your edits with those editors who revert your edits, due to WP:Consensus rule. (If you wish to make an edit and this edit is reverted, you have to start a discussion instead of making this edit again.) You can use talk pages of articles you edit. Ilya Voyager (talk) 00:04, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do all you said but due to the number of nationalist there they have an overweight and they revert again. The rules are on my side. Wiki rules say that names should be native names and Persons according to the historical context, funnily they think that it is an alphabet invented in the 1990s!, which more than the half of Azeris do not use. It is simple, th Latin Alphabet of the republic of Azerbaijan has no status in Iran. Azeri is written in a version of Perso-Arabic alphabet in Iran. I think it is logical that adding Chinese, Korean etc... is not logical. So is adding an alien Latin alphabet--Babakexorramdin (talk) 00:55, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing. I did NOT touch articles on the republic of Azerbaijan or Armenia in the Russian wiki. I only corrected the chauvinist nationalist encroachments of some editors from the republic of Azerbaijan on IRANIAN articles.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 00:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You definitely need to discuss the issue with your opponents, not with me :) I'm not sure there's a RuWikipedia rule about names and languages in this context (I don't know such a rule, you can try to find it). You can also bring attention of neutral editors and/or admins in ru-wiki (see ru:ВП:ВУ and ru:ВП:ЗКА resp.), but you need to make your statements in neutral terms, without naming other editors or edits "chauvinist nationalist" or something like that. Ilya Voyager (talk) 01:01, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

pencil sketch[edit]

Just to be sure: there is a notice «Artist Daphne Dobson. No copyright claimed» on the description page of the image, and below there is {{PD-user-w|en|wikipedia|R.christie}} template, which claims that the author is R.christie (you). As far as I understand, the artist (Daphne Dobson) is author of the image. Does «No copyright claimed» means that you have explicit permission for releasing this image to the public domain from the author? Ilya Voyager (talk) 14:29, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[moved from Ilya Voyager]

Daphne Dobson gave me the pencil sketch of Andres Segovia in 1994. It is my property. The scan was made by me. No copyright has ever been asserted. Hope that helps. RichardJ Christie (talk) 22:23, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it is not enough. «No copyright has ever been asserted» does not mean that there's no copyright: according to Berne convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in force upon their creation without being asserted or declared. Therefore, we must have explicit permission to use this work for any purposes (including commercially), to make modifications, and so on. Otherwise, it's not free and it is not in PD. The ownership of the copy of this work does not transfer you the copyright. Your scan is a derivative work of the original, so you are unable to publish it as PD, unless you have explicit permission from the author to do so. I like this sketch very much, but unfortunately our rules are rather strict on copyright-related issues, and unless valid permission from the author will be received (see Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission for details), it seems that we'll have to delete this image from the Commons. Ilya Voyager (talk) 10:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doubtess self-appointed police such as you will do as you please, making the world a happier place, and so shall I do as I please. The sketch is on an old piece of newsprint, I own it and I think I might just go and burn it. RichardJ Christie (talk) 04:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC) - Drop me your address and I'll post you the ashes.[reply]

RfD nomination of Εugenios Eugenidis[edit]

Source file for .png image[edit]

Unfortunately, the drawing exists only as the .png file you see on the page. It's just an image-file like a jpg. Thus it is a bit blurry, not as crisp as a vector graphic (I have not found a good inexpensive vector graphics program). As it really is just an image file perhaps it could be manipulated with something like Adobe Photoshop Elements. I created it with a program called Autodesk SketchbookPro, probably the 2010 version. At the time, the program had no option for text, so I had to create the text in Excel (Arial font, and Arial MS Unicode font) then cut and paste it into the Sketchbook image. Since then Autodesk has come up with a 2011SP1 version that allows you to type in text to a "text layer". Then you have to move the text and finally merge the layers. Over the years it's become a nice program, although it is mainly for use by graphic artists (about $100 US).

One thought would be, if you discover you can manipulate the image, to use Excel, the "Symbol" insertion command and Arial MS Unicode font. That's where these came from, and how I got them here,: I found the font, used the "Symbol" insertion command, then cut and pasted from Excel: АБГДЕабвгд. I'm not sure, but I thought there was a way to download images from wikipedia. If not, let me know and I'll try to find the image and attach it to an email. Anyway, I hope this helps. If you need more help, let me know. BillWvbailey (talk) 14:46, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Stories Project[edit]

Привет!

Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хронику вдохновляющие истории общины Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и от читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой, чтобы убедить людей, чтобы поддержать дело, и мы знаем, обширная сеть людей, которые делают и используют Википедии так много акций.

Я чистящих страниц пользователей ищет вдохновлять, мотивировать и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедии ли когда-нибудь вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто есть кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы признакам редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Эта кампания имела огромный успех, в результате чего наиболее финансово успешных кампании по сбору средств никогда. Кроме того, было кампании, остался верен духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как ты и я

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще русский язык Википедии редакторов, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию в интервью редакторам.

Если вы или кто-то из ваших знакомых (или слышали о) была положительно сказалось на Wikipedia, или есть что-то интересное, чтобы сказать о Википедии я бы очень хотел бы услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если вы склонны к участию в проекте Википедия истории, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен говорить.

Конечно, если у вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Я приношу извинения за любые плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

__________________________________

Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

I'm scouring user pages looking for inspiring, motivating and interesting stories of how Wikipedia has affected the lives of people. I'm asking questions like "How has Wikipedia changed your life?", "What's the most interesting story you have about Wikipedia?" and "Has Wikipedia ever surprised you?"

Last year, we used the annual fundraiser as a way to show the world who it is who actually writes Wikipedia. We featured editors from Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, India, United States and England. This campaign was a huge success, resulting in the most financially successful fundraising campaign ever. It was also a campaign that stayed true to the spirit of Wikipedia, educating the public that this free top-5 website is created by volunteers like you and I.

This year we want to highlight more Russian-language Wikipedia editors, so I am in the process of planning a trip to Russia to interview editors.

If you or someone you know (or have heard about) has been positively affected by Wikipedia, or have something interesting to say about Wikipedia I'd very much like to hear about it!

Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project, or if you know someone else with whom I should speak.

Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I will answer as soon as I can. I apologize for any poor translation of this letter, I am using Google-translate. I hope it makes you laugh :)

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

216.38.130.166 (talk) 21:28, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

uploads[edit]

Hi. Your all uploads are here . Thx. --Adam majewski (talk) 09:11, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]