Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Soviet Union
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[edit] Cyrillic in Wikipedia
Please see the new page at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic), aimed at
- Documenting the use of Cyrillic and its transliteration in Wikipedia
- Discussing potential revision of current practices
[edit] F-34 tank gun nominated for DYK
I've nominated F-34 tank gun for WP:DYK. Feel free to improve the wording of the submission, at template talk:Did you know#January 19. —Michael Z. 2006-01-24 06:38 Z
[edit] T-34 nominated for FA
T-34 is a candidate for featured article. Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/T-34. —Michael Z. 2006-07-05 23:07 Z
[edit] Portal:Soviet Union
Hello, I am the sysop of th german vision of the portal:USSR, maybey the sysop of the english one, when he has build up the portal can connect me.
You can also send mee a message, if you have any ideas of connecting the german portals about the diviedes states of the USSR, like the russian portal, or the portal moscow.
Therefore Please check User Manecke!
With greatings manecke!
[edit] Russian and Soviet military history task force
There is a proposal at the Military History WikiProject to establish a Russian and Soviet military history task force. Interested participants, please have a look at the new project page. —Michael Z. 2006-10-19 19:01 Z
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Thanks. — Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:42, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Original sources lost to obscurity
привет, Y'all. I'm a fairly new Wikipedian, so maybe this is totally off base, but here it is: back in 1967, for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, The New York Times published a series of extensive in-depth background articles on all aspects of Soviet society. Wouldn't it be great to have those articles (which are, basically, lost to the world except for the rare person who might chance upon it in a search of the NYT archives on-line and be willing to pay for it, or somebody who still practices the arcane art of researching history in the stacks of the New York Public Library) accessible to the readers of Wikipedia? I notice that some areas of Wikipedia lack deep background. This may be true of some articles on Soviet culture such as the article on Soviet education. The article has a good deal of information, and plenty of references, but I feel that an encyclopedia ought to give the reader a sense of what it would have been like to go to elementary school in Moscow in 1967, for instance.
Growing up in the US in the '60s, I knew precious little about the "Evil Empire" over there. The New York Times articles helped a lot, humanizing, for the first time in my mind, the people behind the feared institution, similar to how Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS helped erase the propagandistic sterotypes of southerners that I picked up (largely from textbooks used by the NYC school system!).
How much harder is it for people growing up in the post-Soviet era to learn about this important part of history? Have you noticed that people, institutions and events that occurred before the World Wide Web tend to be under-represented? Wikipedia needs to help fight that trend, if we are to be the true inheritor of the mantle once worn by Britannica!
I'll get off my soapbox now. What do y'all think of this? Would it be worthwhile to get material like that? Would it be possible? (I also couldn't figure out who to write to at NYTimes.com about access to those articles.) Bloody Viking (talk) 16:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
