User talk:Altenmann
"Troika"
[edit]Was going by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/world/europe/navalny-prison-russia.html]. Brycehughes (talk) 02:25, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Brycehughes:. I cannot have an opinion now. Please copy me the quote: the article is behind the paywall. But I still find it dubious: it is well-known that it is called "Yamskaya troika", not simply "troika".
--Altenmann >talk 02:30, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- "But what made the prison, known as IK-3 or the Troika, dreaded even by Russia’s hardened inmates was the exceptional psychological pressure and loneliness, they said. It was a system devised to break the human spirit, by making survival depend on total and unconditional obedience to the will of guards." Brycehughes (talk) 02:33, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Brycehughes: I see. Uneducated statement. Anything identified by number "3" is colloquially known as "troika", i.e., it is not proper name, just as a group of tree objects is called "triplet". E.g., Yakovlev Yak-3 is also colloquially called "troika" by the pilots, etc. As I said, the proper name is "Yamskaya Troika". By the way, it is not a prison, corroborating the ignorance of the author in the subject. --Altenmann >talk 02:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- Alright – I'll defer to you. By the way, what do you mean "it is not a prison"? What is it then? Brycehughes (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Brycehughes: I see. Uneducated statement. Anything identified by number "3" is colloquially known as "troika", i.e., it is not proper name, just as a group of tree objects is called "triplet". E.g., Yakovlev Yak-3 is also colloquially called "troika" by the pilots, etc. As I said, the proper name is "Yamskaya Troika". By the way, it is not a prison, corroborating the ignorance of the author in the subject. --Altenmann >talk 02:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- "But what made the prison, known as IK-3 or the Troika, dreaded even by Russia’s hardened inmates was the exceptional psychological pressure and loneliness, they said. It was a system devised to break the human spirit, by making survival depend on total and unconditional obedience to the will of guards." Brycehughes (talk) 02:33, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
@Brycehughes: "ИК-3" means Исправительная колония 3, "corrective colony number 3". There are many of them "ИК-3", only this one is notable enough due to Navalny. --Altenmann >talk 03:09, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- Ah ok. In this case they're using "prison" in the general sense in the article, where "corrective colony" would be a subtype of prison. Regardless, I can see why it would probably not be helpful to list everything that could colloquially be called "3" on the troika page. Thanks, Brycehughes (talk) 03:14, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
"Anorectal" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Anorectal has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 19 § Anorectal until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:43, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
The page was originally a redirect, and was converted into an article by Europe's Last Hope, a confirmed LTA sock. If you look at the edit history, all the accounts who have attempted to add content to that article were all blocked as sockpuppets. WP:BANREVERT applies. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 01:38, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Moskal-Charivnyk edit
[edit]Hey Altenmann, hope you're doing well! :) Saw your recent edit on Moskal-Charivnyk where you removed the Russian language name from the lead with the edit summary russian translation irrelevant: this is English-language wikipedia
. While there are many pages where there probably doesn't need to have/shouldn't have the Russian translation/transliteration in the lead, this is determined by WP:RS and the weight that the bulk of sources lend to particular names. Many Ukrainian movies from Soviet times were more known and recorded in WP:RS in Russian so having the Russian language title is proper. There's no WP-policy based restriction on non-English names; sources and their coverage of the topic have precedence with that. Thought I'd let you know to help out and many thanks for your overall great contributions! Feel free to ping with questions tho, especially for Ukrainian topics. Cheers, Dan the Animator 19:28, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 4 § Roller coasters that closed in 1910
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Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 4 § Roller coasters that closed in 1910 on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 14:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
AIV report on 90.6.235.128
[edit]I have blocked them for three months, but in the future don't request indefinite blocks on IPs as we generally do not make them. Daniel Case (talk) 20:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
C2F
[edit]I deleted the one you tagged for speedy instead of CFD, but for Category:Capitalist realism I'm less comfortable doing that since you listed it for CFD — but if you were to withdraw the CFD and retag it for speedy instead I'd be more willing, Bearcat (talk) 21:10, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
"Navo (disamiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Navo (disamiguation) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 5 § Navo (disamiguation) until a consensus is reached. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 11:10, 5 September 2025 (UTC)