User talk:Altenmann

"Troika"

Was going by https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/world/europe/navalny-prison-russia.html]. Brycehughes (talk) 02:25, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@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)[reply]

"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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"Anorectal" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Pajeet

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)[reply]

Moskal-Charivnyk 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)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 4 § Roller coasters that closed in 1910

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AIV report on 90.6.235.128

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)[reply]

C2F

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)[reply]

"Navo (disamiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Rural councils of Belarus

Moved to Rural councils of Belarus. --Altenmann >talk 19:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Criticalthinker:. Thank you for your interest. Please keep in mind that user talk pages are primarily for user-related issues. Article content must be discussed in article talk pages, where other people may join the discussion. That said, I wrote this artiice very quickly, simply to fill the gap. --Altenmann >talk 19:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted edit

Hello, my edit to Dmytro Dontsov was not vandalism though I can see why you might have thought I was whitewashing Dontsov's views. The source that I was citing said this: The sections on race science, however, remained, suggesting that Dontsov never abandoned Günther’s teachings.

I was concerned that "his racist characterisations of Russians remained" was Wikivoice and decided to more directly represent the source. I originally wrote this sentence and pretty much the whole article under a series of UK IP addresses. The ones that preceded this edit should be based in Spain since I was on holiday. 2A00:23C5:11E:F901:881C:46A3:47D8:FA1E (talk) 17:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025

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Rostislav and Rotislav

I just added a comment on the talk page of this article, and I see you edited it a fair amount recently, so I will repeat here. Is "Rotislav" simply a variant of "Rostislav"? If so, the page should probably have Rotislavs as well. It seems pretty obvious, but I'm not a Slavic speaker at all so I don't want to make a mistake. If you end up adding Rotislavs to the page yourself, add Russian composer and writer Feofil Tolstoy as well, since he used "Rotislav" as a pseudonym. Regards, Brianyoumans (talk) 18:45, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Brianyoumans: It is typo. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Fixed surprizingly large numbr of pages in wp. Feel free to ask about any suspicious Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian, Yiddish, and Hebrew subjects. All other Slavic languages OK as well, but not so sure. --Altenmann >talk 22:16, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response! Yes, I may have questions once in a while, as I have been slowly populating the "(year) in Russia" list articles with births/deaths/events.Brianyoumans (talk) 01:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Slavic cuisine has been nominated for deletion

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add pronounciation to dittfach

lets talk on dittfach article 88.227.95.109 (talk) 15:44, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haredi dialect

Saw on a user tp you wanted to create a Haredi dialect article. Replied but forgot to tag you. Isnt that essentially Yeshivish? Or strongly related? Also, Yinglish. Very interested regardless. Metallurgist (talk) 22:28, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Metallurgist: Here you go: initial seed. Your interest was a straw to overcome my laziness :-) --Altenmann >talk 04:10, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! Haredi dialect of Yiddish. I thought you meant the Haredi dialect of English. xD Metallurgist (talk) 19:54, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion on source

Hi! I saw we made edits on the same article. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bastiano_Ferrari&action=history I made similar edits and assume you agree with me on the sources.

I have been working with an editor on some music related articles, and want a second opinion on the Rolling Stone. I think this article cannot be used for sourcing to establish notability. It has a note it is a third party branded content. https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/culture/bastiano-ferrari-the-art-of-diversification-its-not-for-everybody-46533/

There is this section about the Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone (Culture Council)

WP:ROLLINGSTONECON

The article I shared is self-published by the third party, it has a note it is a branded- which means "paid" content. Do you agree it should be removed as well?

WestwoodHights573 (talk) 17:22, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WestwoodHights573: I agree that this article is an ENORMOUS piece of puffery I have never seen in my wikilife and must be removed from references. When removing, put WP:ROLLINGSTONECON into edit summary. --Altenmann >talk 17:56, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I had the same reaction. Not often that I see something like this. I put WP:ROLLINGSTONECON in the edit summary. WestwoodHights573 (talk) 18:09, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@WestwoodHights573: Next time type [[WP:ROLLINGSTONECON]] i.e., in double square brackets (and other similar shortcuts), to make it a wikilink oter editors may click. --Altenmann >talk 18:14, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it! Thanks! WestwoodHights573 (talk) 18:18, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merging articles: Galperina

In future, please add merged-from and merged-to notices to the respective talk pages of the articles for the edit histories. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:50, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Clarityfiend: Sorry, disagreed: Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., i.e., there is no Wikipedia copyright on mere lists. If I am mistaken, please point me to the corresponding rule. Usually I do put merge-from-to in four places. --Altenmann >talk 20:29, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has nothing to do with copyrights. See WP:MERGETEXT. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Clarityfiend: Yes it has: Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, and putting the notices is a requirement of the attribution/copyright. --Altenmann >talk 20:44, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for October 3

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Concerning the edit of closed cities

Hi there! I saw that you removed the word “strictly” from Mecca, and I just wanted to make sure that Mecca is strictly closed for non-Muslims since they’re banned from visiting Mecca. Only Muslims are allowed there, for your information! Thank you for understanding! 😉 217.208.243.139 (talk) 12:27, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Verification of added reference...

The reference that you reverted does contain information about the station and the archive-url links to the .xlsx sheet source. Is there a problem with the data in that sheet? sn‾uǝɹɹɐʍɯ (talk) 23:59, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mwarren us: My edit summary said "You have to verify the refs you are adding". Now, please cite which information from the xlsx supports which info in wikipedia article. --Altenmann >talk 04:38, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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