User talk:Grandmaster

Copyright of the Shostakovich portrait Image:Shostakovichportrait.jpg.

Why do you think, the portrait is PD? According to the Tair Salakhov article the portrait is painted in 1976, three years after the 1973 needed for sovietpd. Maybe the date is wrong (Shostakovich died in 1975)? Otherwise we have to delete the Shostakovich portrait and find something exponated before 1973. abakharev 23:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr. Bakharev,

As far as I know this image is a public domain and you can see it all over the internet (at least Russian and CIS websites) without any reference to a copyright holder. As for the date of the portrait, it was completed after Shostakovich died, in 1976, as the great composer was fatally ill when he posed for the portrait. So the date is correct. If you speak Russian, you can also check this article for more details on this subject:

http://www.kultura-portal.ru/tree/cultpaper/article.jsp?number=492&crubric_id=100445&rubric_id=200&pub_id=479779

If you think that this image cannot be used due to copyright issues, then we can replace it with some other Salahov’s work, e.g. portrait of Kara Karayev (completed before 1973). But I think Shostakovich’s portrait is one of the best Salahov’s portraits and well illustrates his style of painting, so I would prefer to keep it. Thank you. Grandmaster 06:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I like the portrait as well (actually do not rember any other Salakhov's painting). Maybe we should email Salakhov himself and ask for his permissions? abakharev 08:14, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Shostakovichportrait.jpg has been listed as a possible copyright violation

An image that you uploaded, Image:Shostakovichportrait.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

I think it is better to delete this image and replace it with the one made before 1973. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to contact the author to obtain his permission. I will upload something else later. Grandmaster 12:23, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That would be nice, but I don’t know Salakhov’s email, and I’m not sure if he actually uses email. If you think this image would cause a problem, we can use portrait of Kara Karayev (created in 1960), which is also exhibited in Tretyakov Gallery. Grandmaster 09:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects for Salakhov

Once an article is created in Wikipedia, you have to have administrative rights to delete it. Neither me nor you have such rights, thus, we have to go through voting on AfD page - that is reasonably cumbersome and lengthy. Thus, I would not recommend to delete an entry (unless it is somehow offensive, harmful, etc.), just make it a redirect to an article with the right name. See Help:Redirect. Usually redirect does not harm - they a take negligeble amount memory, but simplify search. Even the redirects with an orphographic errors might be helpfull, if you made such an error been our expert on Salakhov, then quite possible that an American schoolboy or whoever would look up the wikipedia would make the same mistake - so the more redirects the merrier.

Thus, the strategy would be decide the right name for the main article. Move the article there by pressing the move button on the top and entering the right name. It would create a redirect on the place of the right name. Check that all the other redirects points to the main article, so that there will be no double redirects, if necessary, edit the redirects. That's all.

Last few words, for the Russian-related articles we decided to avoid using patronimics in the titles of the main articles - they look foreign for the English-speakers, to long to type, introduce additional errors (what is right: Ivanovich, Ivanovitch or Iwanowitch?), etc. So we decided to use them only to distinguish among equally notable people - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy vs. Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, etc. It is in theory, but in reality many people are still using patronimics in the titles. I am not sure if it is relevant to the Azerbajani form of patronimics with ogly/kyzy. abakharev 13:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Redirect

Thanks for the useful info. Patronymics are used in Azeri mostly in official documents, and not used at all in colloquial speech, so I agree with your policy on using patronymics. They only make search more complicated. I suggest applying the same policy to Azeri names, patronymics can be detailed in the text of the article, but not in its name. The name of the article about a person should consist only of the person’s name and surname. Grandmaster 14:22, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nagorno-Karabakh

Hi, do you have a reference for your change of number, I've reverted it for now as this is referenced from the LOC. - FrancisTyers 17:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do. The official death toll for the events in Sumgait is 32, of them 26 Armenians, and 6 Azeris. This information can be found on Gorbachev Fund website: [1] Sorry, it’s in Russian. This figure is also given in the book “Black Garden” by Thomas de Waal (see chapter 2). That book is actually a good source of information about the history of conflict. It’s written in English, but only Russian version is available online. Grandmaster 19:43, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

my RfA

Hi, we worked together on Tahir Salahov article. Maybe you want to have a look on my Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev? abakharev 08:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 10:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. I hope next time you'll succeed. Grandmaster 10:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

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