Talk:Khreshchatyk

Khreschatyk for DYK and FA

Hi everybody. I've suggested Khreschatyk for DYK and going to suggest it for the FA (although never did that before). Please help editing and promoting with whatever you can do and as soon as you can (as you know, DYK can't wait). Remember: UA articles should be promoted whatever it takes, and the street page is a perfect (hopefully conflict-free) candidate for it. Thanks, Ukrained 23:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

All? UA-editors want article to be presented on DYK

BTW, Ghirlandajo has changed my initial introduction on the DYK to, as he states, point specific facts. In my opinion, the result of his change was making the introduction less interesting, boring. Whatever Ghirlandajo's problems with Orange Revolution are, it is the main UA-attraction for the rest of the world now. Let me cite our deep-shit President: Ukraine became fashionable - because of the revolution. It is the mere truth. So I suspect that Ghirlandajo's intention was to revenge that revolution in every possible way (even if the way is to prevent article from DYK). Who do you think he is if I'm right? And what should we do to him in that case?

I'm not going to revert the change - to make a test on the results of it, and on the UA-editing community's ability? to unite for common goals. Ukrained 21:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I do not think your interpretion is correct, do not touch Ghirlandajo, this is not the place to act like that, fix the nom phrase. But I agree with the advertisement value and that we are going to fail the nomination this way. The street for some reason is less prominent than Maidan Nezalezhnosti in the media, probaly this is the DYK factor.–Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 21:43, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey all, please peace here. I BEG you guys. Let's concentrate on this very far from controversial topic to do something for Ukraine coverage on WP.

First, Ukrained and Oleh, thank you for joining to a very small UA team here. We need more people who would write, like you are doing, rather than wage silly wars about Kyiv/Kiev. Second, please don't attack other users unless absolutely necessary. While Ghirla is definitely NOT the most polite Wikipedian, we don't want to alienate him from Ukrainian topics. Check how many Ukraine-related articles he wrote (not just edited) and thank him for that (Pochayiv Lavra is the most recent one). OTOH, DO argue with the user when he seems "wrong" to you of course, but I can assure you that he is not anti-Ukrainian. I had similar suspicions early on, but from my many experiences, this is a wrong impression. Unlike with some other editors, I was able to convince Ghirlandajo to agree on things that he first disagreed.

Now, to the topic. To put this article for DYK, we need a curious piece of Trivia. The street being named to something is not the best IMO. Who cares about why some street in an obscure corner of the earth (that it Ukraine yet for now) was named after something?

OTOH, the entire street being blown up by a retreating army is a notable event that would spark attention. The fact that radio-controlled mines were used there for the first time (if) would spark attention too. Also, its getting its name from Khreschata dolyna through which it now goes AND through which St. Vladimir herded Kievans into the Dnieper during the Baptism of Kiev is also notable. Something like that... Do you see my point?

Finally, thanks guys for the article. I was thinking about writing it myself and now will miss it from the list of article I created at my userpage, but I would certainly not write it as well as DDima, Ukrained and Oleh. "Z Rizdvom" all of you! --Irpen 22:06, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Irpen, buzzwords do the job in marketing and academia, it is imperative that we choose the loudest one –Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 22:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, it was me, not Ghirla, who removed the Orange Revolution from the lead because, IMO, it doesn't belong to the lead of this article. It does belong to the lead of Maidan Nezalezhnosti article, because maidan's itself history is not so prominent as of Khreschatyk. Don't you think that Baptism of Kiev is more of a grand event for the history? I don't like the tend to overload the leads to make something more prominent because we like it seen but sacrificing the article's style. Similarly, I objected putting the info of suppression of Ukrainian language in the lead of the language article because it belongs to the history section and the lead should just place the language in the family map (my view did not prevail there for now). OTOH if "History of UA Lan" separate article is ever created, the suppression would belong to the lead.

If you can trust my word, please do believe that, personally, I very much supported the Orange Revolution. That I haven't put an Orange ribbon on my userpage to make it clear is still costing me when the likes of AndriyK scrutinize me to wage another campaign against their imagined "anti-Ukrainian mafia" of which I am one of the alleged coordinators. Sorry for using this page for, perhaps, not very much related rant.

Regarding "main" vs "best-known", I don't think that the concept of the "main" streat is applicable to the city of the scale of Kiev. I am not a native En-speaker, so I may be wrong. Also, Khreschatyk is rather short and very crowded. I won't call it a thoroughfare either, which would be Prospekt Peremogy or Kharkivske motorway. --Irpen 22:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Orange Revolution is a buzzword - the readers of the front page would like to know more about it than anything else, I agree about the lead, fact is not the primary for the street and mentioned in the article - it is customary for DYK facts to be in the middle, I think "main" street is applicable. –Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 23:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• ... that Khreschatyk, the main street of Kiev, was named after ravines that used to cross the neighbourhood in the Middle Ages?
• ... that the Khreschatyk is the main street of Ukrainian capital Kiev on which Orange Revolution and other historical events mainly took place?

Ok lets discuss - here go the main failings of current proposals: First one IMHO has little apeal to an average reader, the second one is tautological (main street main events even the Orange Revolution which looks like a big demonstration on on main street and the main square :) ), I think we need someone more representative of English-speaking reader to comment–Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 00:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Wow, so many options. I must say that it could use a little more pep than "named after crossing ravines". We could offer a couple of versions of the DYK text on the suggestion page, and let the administrators choose. How about something that features the variety (although maybe this version overdoes it). —Michael Z. 2006-01-9 04:00 Z

• ... that Kiev's historic street Khreschatyk, site of pivotal events during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, may have been the location of Ukraine's first mass baptism in 988, and was blown up by the retreating Soviet Red Army in 1941?

I am working on the article right now. Give me a little time. Please stand by or leave me a message/email. --Irpen 04:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Done, how about this for DYK:

• ... that Kiev's best-known street Khreschatyk, site of pivotal events during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, may owe its name to the events surrounding the mass baptism of Kievans in 988, and was blown up by the retreating Red Army in 1941 in what was the first in history set of explosions controlled over the radio from hundreds of kilometers away?

Please correct my English. Also, if too long, can we submit two? (Baptism and demolishing)? --Irpen 05:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes we can, but be clear in edit summary that it is alternative spellings for older nomination, since there was an attempt to remove it already

• ... that Kiev's main street Khreschatyk, site of pivotal events during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, may owe its name to the events surrounding the mass baptism of Kievans in 988?

• ... that Kiev's main street Khreschatyk, site of pivotal events during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, in 1941 was blown up by the retreating Red Army in what was the first in history set of explosions controlled over the radio from hundreds of kilometers away?

Michael, I am sorry for loading you with another суспiльне доручення (community charge) but you as a many times DYK hitter is the best one for a job. Could you decide on the best variant for DYK and submit it properly? I say, both baptism and demolishing are very worthy. Should we submit a long one with both? Or two shorter ones? replace the old ones? I am out of my wiki time for the day. --Irpen 06:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

No sweat. I'll try to include both and boil it down to the essentials. If there's a little bit left to the imagination, that will encourage click-throughs. —Michael Z. 2006-01-9 07:14 Z

• ... that Kiev's main street Khreschatyk, legendary pathway to the mass baptism of 988 and centre of Ukraine's famous Orange Revolution, had been demolished by the Red Army in 1941 by remote control?

I updated the DYK request page with this version. Must . . . sleep. . . . —Michael Z. 2006-01-9 07:17 Z

Demolition by Red Army

This is too far from FA, but it can be DYKed. For example, according to what I read somewhere, the buildings on the street were blown up by the Soviets through the Radio-controlled mines to inflict damage on the Nazi German military leadership who were supposed to move in them. This was the first known usage of the radio controlled mines. We need to check this story, add it to the article if confirmed, and propose at DYK. We have 72 hours since article's first appearance for that. --Irpen 02:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I knew that Germans were first to use those radio... mines in remotely controlled miniature tanks. --Oleh Petriv 04:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

The legend about the radio-controlled mines is described here. It doesn't say clearly that the goal was to kill Nazis but it makes sense. Buildings aren't bridges or dams, so I am removing the "scortched earth" from the text. I have no time now to do some searching but we need something in this article that can be DYKable. --Irpen 07:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Oleh, you're thinking of the German Goliath remote-controlled tracked land mine [1] (both cable and radio versions; no WP article!). I think Khreshchatyk was demolished with tons of conventional explosives, set off by radio-controlled fuses (Anatoly Kuznetsov wrote about this in Babi Yar, but I'd rather provide an academic reference).

"Scorched earth" means massive destruction of immobile resource (e.g. the landscape) by retreating military occupants, whether the tactic used effectively or senselessly. It implies indiscriminate destruction of things the enemy doesn't even control yet, as opposed to targeting their resources. I think it's a good description of the indiscriminate demolition of a historic city centre, even if we don't have a source attesting to the Soviets' precise intention. —Michael Z. 2006-01-8 07:21 Z

What I meant was that I remember seeing some source about the intention to kill high-ranked nazis who would occupy the most prestigeous area of the city. But I don't remember the source. Will look later. --Irpen 07:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Dear colleagues, let me humbly remind you that we're presenting the page for DYK first. So I think the most important for now is citing the source about such a sensitive issue as demolition of the city by its own army. When and if we reach DYK, let us continue the research regarding attempts on Nazi generals. I think it would be a great attraction for the FA-candidate page (when discussed here and refernced). Please don't forget priorities. Best wishes, Ukrained 20:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Pictures

I'm a newbie still inable to manage images. Even if I start hurriedly learning right now, it would be late for DYK. So let me list the links to the images I found on other pages and Wikicommons.

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• File:Kiev Independence Square.jpg

• uk:Image:Kiev 8.jpg—Poshtamt view
• uk:Image:Kiev 9.jpg—view from Maidan southwards

Take a look at these two. Do you like any of them?--Oleh Petriv 04:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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The two latter seem to be of priority (the others concentrate on Maidan which has its own article).

I think we should between to fit DYK first. I'll provide clear detailed signatures if someone uploads the files. Ukrained 23:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

My mistake:

uk:Image:Kiev 9.jpg (view from Maidan southwards)

Two pictures added. Anything else? I don't know of that legend, Irpen. --Oleh Petriv 04:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

IMHO, this is the best-informative pic of the street. Could we somehow get it from there? (I mean that is a Wiki site too). Ukrained 20:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Ukrained, I agree with your opinion that the pic is the most representative. The copyright message from the site allows the usage provided the attribution to wek.kiev.ua is given. I say, use it at wiki, tag the image GFDL and provide the link like we do with images from sk.vlasenko.com (see for instance Image:Pochaev.jpg) at the site's author request. --Irpen

OK, I loaded the image and added to the article. The other two will also be useful, I think. I will do them later if no one does them by then. Cheers all, --Irpen 09:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

WHich of the old images with the tram is better?

• File:Kreschatik XIXcentury2.gif
• File:Khresch XIXcent.jpg

--Irpen 04:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

How about this variation and isn't the original suppposed to be good old PD-SU rather than GFDL? But anyway I like the first one - it shows the tram prominently, though disapointing resolution–Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 07:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

References

We lack references heavily: most of us visited the street and need no sources. That's wrong for WP readers :(.

And the printed sources seem to be the biggest problem. Any ideas, except this one: Вулиці Києва, Довідник" УЕ, Київ-1995 ? (going to add it right now)

If there are any particular facts that appear to require a reference, place {{fact}} where a citation should go, like so . We can have a look at our books and see if we can find a reference. —Michael Z. 2006-01-8 06:57 Z

Got the online ref about demolition: http://spilka.onestop.net/library/kreschatik.html --Irpen 00:58, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Ethymology

Khreschatyk=cross - is it official version? Or it is just "deduction" which from one hand seems quite obvious, but could be wrong. There is also a plant khreschatyy barvinok that loves groving in valleys.--Oleh Petriv 15:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

My source is the 1986 Kiev encyclopedia listed among the references. --Ghirla | talk 19:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

It is definitely main and best known

A minor question: why trying to avoid the fact that Khreschatyk is the main and best known street of Kyiv? :)) Just curious... Ukrained 20:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I removed it because "Main" doesn't seem right to me, but OTOH, I am not a native speaker. The "main street", IMO could only apply to the much smaller places than Kiev, places that are built around one street. Khreschatyk is a center street, it is certainly a best known one (perhaps Andrew's Descent (Andriivsky Uzviz) rivals it with fame, another red link BTW). Main? Not so sure. Michael, you are the native speaker. I will leave that to you. --Irpen 06:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Transliteration

Is there a reason we are using the transliteration Khreschatyk? In Google it has a very slight edge over Khreshchatyk, with shch for щ, but the latter is our usual way of transliterating Ukrainian. Yes, it's further complicated by the fact that the former version goes by the official Ukrainian system for geographic names, but so far we've only used that for political entities. —Michael Z. 2006-01-9 06:21 Z

Either way is fine with me. or we can wait, I don't care. Under whatever name it goes to DYK, is unimportant IMO. We can always rename the article, it's no biggy. --Irpen 06:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Looking good

Looks pretty fine for a 1-1/2 day old article! DYK should be a shoo-in. Keep up the good work, all. —Michael Z. 2006-01-9 06:47 Z

Khreschatyk is on the main page

This article is now on the Main page in DYK. Thanks everyone who contributed. This was a good group effort. —Michael Z. 2006-01-10 06:21 Z

Yes, I keep doing small changes perhaps some of them useless. It may need another copyedit. I found some known to me blunders in some of the listed sources. So, the facts I used from them may also have an error or two that I didn't know of.

As long as we don't politicize this article too much (that is not going too deep into history) that may spark edit wars, this can be bielt up to WP:FA. The subject is well-studied and there are plenty of books and articles.

Thanks all, and especially the newcomers. What's next for DYK? Andrew's Descent? Whatever we choose, plan carefully because the DYK submission should be made within 72 hours after the article's appearance. Writing a stub that "A. D. is the historic street of Kiev" without being ready to expand it quickly, would disqualify the article from the DYK. Not that DYK is everything of course :). --Irpen 06:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Kiev Philharmonic

I am not sure that it is on Khreshchatyk street.--AndriyK 18:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

You are right, it is "conservatory of music". The Philharmonic is on the European Square across the Ukrainian House (former Lenin museum).

Please do not make drammatic changes and rerevert the intro. Destruction of the entire street is a unique event and belongs there. What's located where is covered in the text. Intro isn't the article itself. Also, why are you rephrasing the events related to Polish invasion? This article is the result of consensus of several editors (most are Ukrainian BTW). Do not impose your view without discussion and, especially, do not revert with persistence. --Irpen 18:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

The leading paragraph

In my opinion, the leading paragraph is a sort of "visiting card" of the article. It should giv the reader a link to what he or she likely knows. This was Maidan Nezalezhnosti what everybody in the West watched every day during two weeks of Orange Revolution on TV. This is likely the most famous part of the street. The article would benefit if Maidan Nezalezhnosti is mentioned in th eleading paragraph.

The fact that the street was heavily destroyed during WWII is important, but it hardly belong to the leading paragraph. It should be considered in the "History" section.

I propose all interested editors to express their opinion about this issue. Let's do not change the paragraph before the consensus is settled.--AndriyK 18:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Then you wait, because the entire article, including the lead was the result of a big cooperation of several editors. It was not jujst "heavily destroyed". It was totally destroyed, and, if you read further, it was a unique event in history. Propose you changes and wait for responces. Besides, list of Ukrainian states is too much for the article about one street. Only what is street related should be emphasized. Don't try to retell history of UA in every article about something Ukrainian. --Irpen 18:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

The link to Maidan and the Orange Revolution is significant, but so is the destruction. The latter also explains the street's modern form; perhaps it can be tied into the architecture: "Khreschatyk features many buildings in the Stalinist architectural style, built after the street's almost total destruction during the Second World War". —Michael Z. 2006-01-11 18:58 Z

Hi, Michael! I have no doubt that the info about the distruction and rebuilt is important and should be considered in the apropriate sections about history and architecture.

But we are talking about the leading paragraph here, a sort of the "visiting card" of the article. I t should be written so that the reader could easily recognize what the article is about. Many streets in european cities were destroyed and rebuilt. But only one goes thrue the Maidan.--AndriyK 10:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The lead is not a "visit card" but a brief summary of the article with the most relevant info from it put together. The rest is explained below. --Irpen 17:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Где у Карла Маркса такое написано? ;)--AndriyK 17:52, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Constructively, I disagree that destruction (totally destroyed is also very relative definition) of Khrescatyk durind WWII is "unique event in history". Remember Warsaw? And what about some German cities? Stalingrad? So I suggest to remove this sentence from the leading paragraph completely. Better to add another 1-2 sentences on ethymology or any kind of "general" info.--Oleh Petriv 22:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

(Moved by me--AndriyK 17:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC))

As to me, the number of buildings at Khrescatyk (derived from the biggest address No.) as well as most important buildings (like City Council House, Central Post Office etc.) is more important than what you are fighting here for. There is NOTHING on it in the leading paragraph. What streets consist of?--Oleh Petriv 21:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The link about the demolishing (in the end of the article) speaks about over 300 buildings being destroyed. Hard to tell how many building are there now. I don't think it matters a great deal. The street is rather short and there are certainly streets with more buildings. --Irpen 21:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure there are. I did not mean to demonstrate that Khrescatyk is "longest and ..." at it is there alredy. But just thinking of main characteristics that lay in basis of concept "street"... Is architecture. And we have FULL ONE SENTENCE of it in introduction. Great. --Oleh Petriv 22:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Explanation of Jan 11, 2006, 19:01 revert

Irpen, I would like to remind you something publicly as you are moderator. If you personally dislike some editors, then express it to them in personal messages (if you find it appropriate). Othervise your tone toward SOME editors in WP (like in the paragraph above) resebmles style of some OTHER editors from this corner of WP. We all know both sides.--Oleh Petriv 22:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Oleh, I am not a moderator. Moreover, sometimes, although not so often I hope, my words could use moderation but I do consider myself a moderate on most hot-button issues. Now, to the topic, I think I showed repeatedly that I separate my treatment of AndriyK's edits from my personal opinion of his past behavior. Not once, I offered him to move on, despite his anti-myself crusade, and not once he bit my hand stretched to him in an offer to put those differences behind (see for instances [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] and much more).

AndriyK pointed out to the obvious factual error in the article and I immediately corrected it. He himself, however, didn't bother to correct the error he saw because Conservatory/Philhramonic confusion is devoid of ideology. Instead he made a significant change in the lead in accordance with his own ideological priorities. Now, let me assure you that I also supported the Orange Revolution, as you could see, for instance, from my edits to the OR article. However, it seemed to me (and I maybe wrong but still) that the article is about the street, not the History of Ukraine. The destruction of an entire street may not be unique in the WW2, but the extent of the Khreschatyk destruction as well as the means how it was destroyed stand out and this is street specific. Take a look at the ru-lang ref in the end of the article.

AndriyK in his edit elaborated on the list of Ukrainian states of the 1917-19 and added the OR to the lead, which is an all-Ukrainian rather than Khreschatyk event. I could see it in the lead of Maidan's article or V.A.Yu's article but not the street article. Now, I may be wrong but note that the lead crystallized after many edits of many editors. Then comes AndriyK and makes these changes without proposing them, at least. Also, as you know, English is not my native language and to write in a way that the article has a reasonable text flow takes much effort from me. And even then I go to Michael's talk, asking him to go over my work. The article got the DYK prominence where it represented our country and I cared about its style too. Now comes an editor and makes several significant alterations single-handily.

I spent time to elaborate in detail on this reversion by me of AndriyK only to make it clear that I had specific article-related reasons and it has nothing to do to my personal sentiments to this editor. You may note that at his arbitration I did not agitate for his ban either ( [9], [10]). I wanted the damage undone (bad-faith-redirects and results of a rigged voting) and a ruling that would prevent that in the future. If he edits, now or in a month, I will consider each of his edits separately from anything that happened in the past. --Irpen 04:52, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Times of revolutionary unrest

Either all armies should be listed, or none.--AndriyK 09:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

No reason to list all armies. This is not history or UA article. Brevity but enoigh info to give a clue. That exact names are unimportant for the street article. --Irpen 15:25, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Then the other armies are also unimportant.--AndriyK 17:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Please elaborate. I don't see your logic. Hetmanate, Directory can be correctly called under one common name "Several short-lived Ukrainian states". What's wrong with that? --Irpen 18:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

First, I find "Several short-lived Ukrainian states" scornful. Second, all sides should be treated equally. Either you list all of them, if you find it important, or you mention none in the opposite case. So this is your edits that are unlogical.--AndriyK 18:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

This is factual and not "scornful". You can't make up a glorious history of Ukrainian independence only because you wish that it existed. They were short-lived and this is one of the most important characteristics of these states. This is not about equality of all sides. This is about informing the reader on who warred at the time that resulted in damaging the street. I am also unhappy that Ukrainian statehood didn't make it to last at the time, but these are true facts and there is nothing we can do about it. --Irpen 18:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

You says that this article is about a street not about history. So you don't find place even to list Ukrainian states. On the other hand you do find place to characterize this states: whether they were long- or short lived. Don't you contradict yourself?--AndriyK 09:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

It's no big deal really. If you really insist on listing rather obscure names, we can have them while I think they are not needed. My goal here is to have a nice article that may be made featured one day and its being about the street made me think that it is possible because we can keep political content low. Then you roam here and first thing you do is politicizing the intro. Now, regarding the post-revolutionary times. We don't need to go into details here but to give a reader a good clue of the fierce fhiting the street saw we list warring parties briefly. "Short-lived" is factual and important because it gives the reader some understanding about volatility of situation in Kiev of the time. OTOH, listing them all by names (Directory, Hetmanate) is excessive IMO and may bore the reader. Of course the reader interested in UA-history who would come to a history article needs to see the names but I don't see their need at Khreschatyk. --Irpen 16:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I see mentioning of the names is "excessive" but characterizing is "factual and important" (and all this are very much related to the article about a street).

Irpen, I have to say you once more: please stop using potentially neutral articles forpolitical purposes.

BTW, Maidan was mentioned in introduction by another user. Then you removed it without any discussion. What I did, just restored the sentence.--AndriyK 19:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Well if you want to make it neutral what is wrong with saying after a time of unrest and various conflicts that took place in the Russian civil War, Khreshcatyk...--Kuban kazak 19:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

What you did was "restore a sentence" that was replaced long before with something directly relevant to the street rather than something related to the Ukrainian history in general. The user:DDima whose sentence I replaced by mine never complained, actually. So did others involved in the article development. That was until you joined the article which caused nothing but hassle except the factual correction (Philharmonic) that you found.However, being uninterested in non-ideological parts you didn't bother to correct it yourself. --Irpen

Merge Proposal

Because Khreshchatik and Maidan were originally designed as a single architectural project I propose they be merged into a single article. Since it is impossible to mention one without the other. --Kuban kazak 13:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose, each of them deserve an article on its own. Maidan article would include much politics besides architecture. Street article, hopefully not. Also, while the fact that Maidan is located on the street deserves to be mentioned in the article (not in the intro perhgaps), it's former name "October Revolutions square" as well as its names before that belong to the Maidan article itself and not to Khreschatyk. --Irpen 16:42, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

  Yes but then Khreschatyk also took part in the political overturn last year. Hmm...maybe a new article describing the post-war reconstruction of Kiev and the architectural designs would be better, since this would obviously be a star feature of that article...--Kuban kazak 19:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Post-war architecture of Kiev would be an encyclopedic topic, I agree. Khreschatyk while being at the center of the Orange Revolution is, nevertheless, not associated with it by the media as much as Maidan. --Irpen 19:30, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Here is something for that from our Metro community: [11] --Kuban kazak 20:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Could we use pics from there at Wiki? The green "M" would be great in Kiev Metro. --Irpen 20:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Well the person is a common sight on our forum. So I will drop him a message there, and his livejournal is there as well. Here is something else that you might be interested in --Kuban kazak 20:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I oppose a merger fiercely. Ukrained 22:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry, there won't be. I already removed the merge template. --Irpen 22:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Protected

This page has been protected until you work out your differences on the talk page. When you think you've come to an agreement, please request unprotection. —BorgHunter ^ubx (talk) 15:25, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The edit conflict there was rather slow going and there were no wild revert wars. As such, there is no need to keep the article locked. That's just my opinion of course. --Irpen 16:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

It would be better to avoid any revert war, even a slow one. I proposed to create Talk:Khreschatyk/Working version and try to find a consensus there.--AndriyK 19:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

No objection. In the meanwhile, the article should be unprotected so that we continue improving its non-political parts and the contentious pieces should be returned to the pre-conflict shape.

In general, I am sorry to see that you manage to disrupt and politicize (well, politicize first and then disrput) even such an apolitical topic as the street article. I was hopeful and all went well with several of us, Ukrainian editors, developing it. That was until you came with your trademark ignore-everyone-else editing style. Anyway, I hope you reconsider and we can work out the differences about the things you seem to have an issue at the "working version" page. --Irpen

Let's look what Oleh Petriv wrote a few days ago. This is you who ignore other user's opinion. Let's switch to the working version. Hopefully you'll learn to accept compromises.--AndriyK 19:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Sigh. -Irpen 19:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

TsUM age

As far as I understood from here, TsUM was built before the war. Wasn't it? Ukrained 21:34, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

A good eye! Looks like you are right. I think in some of the refs already listed in the article, the houses that remain from pre-war are listed. --Irpen 22:12, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, it is my favorite (and mainly the only) shopping place :) Ukrained 22:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

For Irpen

It was explained clearly on this talk what is more logical. Please read carefully and stop Pestering.--AndriyK 09:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

For AndriyK

What's more logical? The entire history of Ukraine doesn't belong to the article about a single street in one Ukrainian city, even the capital, and this was explained above. That the street goes through the city center is more important for the reader interested in the streat than through which squares it goes as well. Andrew Alexander in a Russophobic urge purged Russian names, reverted the rest to AndriyK and called this a "clean up and style imrovement" in the edit summary. I kept his grammar corrections and simply undid the revertion. Where is pestering? Wikipedia:What_is_a_troll#Pestering, as per link you provided is "continual questions with obvious or easy to find answers". The example of pestering is here, but this was not my edit. --Irpen 18:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Please read the talk carefully and you'll find the answer to your questios.

Concerning the link: the relevance of Rusyns to Chernivtsi Oblast is completely unclear. Do you understand the difference between Bukovyna and Zakarpattia? Let's discuss this poin there.--AndriyK 09:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Ukrainian People's Republic

If several people mind "several short-lived Ukrainian states" so much, why not just use "Ukrainian People's Republic forces" instead. I know it does not convey the idea that there was more than one and even more than two (I guess Soviet governments also count as combatants damaging the street's buildings). But well.–Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 07:17, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Can here some personal insults? --Yakudza 21:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I would ask you not to do that and apologize for an ignorant comment.

Most probably I'm being very ignorant, but my ignorance also spans onto why Irpen insists on the phrasing, my guess is what that the link he puts points to the whole list of govenments of Ukraine at the time, Hetmanate included. I did not see that explained before so I asked, I beg to excuse my phrasing.

You would see none of my meddling in the matter if my comments are that bad.–Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 22:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I've got a message from Yakudza, I see that I misconstrued his comment.

I think that the "short-lived" is indeed unpleasant and unneccessary, there must be another way to phrase that. –Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 00:48, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

What's unpleasant and unnecessary? We always tell each other "Just stick with facts!" Well, "short-lived" is a fact. It is not humiliating in any way except for those who like to pretend being offended in order to advance their POV ("Kiev" for Kyiv is a good example of an offensive word for them). This is not the History of Ukraine article for details about all these names and we cannot possibly retell the history of Ukraine in every article about something Ukrainian, like an article about one street in one city. "Short-lived" gives to the reader an understanding about the chaos of the time that brought the damage to the street. If the time is of "short-lived states", be sure to expect no stability and ruins. This is factual and brief. I see no reason to give in to blackmailing of people who pretend being offended purely for the POV reasons. --Irpen 04:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Gnomz007 revert

It seems there are two versions and the sides ignore the other completely. When the differences grow, everyone will have progressively more problems so lets take it slow and get the diagreeable places fixed. I have chosen version of Irpen because it includes most of the stuff. –Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 07:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry, but before reverting those 3RR team members I always make sure to include the useful edits they made. So, not everyone is deserving your "compeltely ignore the other side" comment. As for the rest, please read the talk above. I would welcome more contributions from uninvolved editors. --Irpen 08:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)