User talk:Gr8white

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[edit] Moscow

You are a member of WikiProject Russia. I wanted to let you know the article Moscow is in Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Moscow list now. --Hirakawacho 10:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed move of man-powered flight

Yes. I object. The official (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) description of this subject is manpowered flight. See [1] JMcC 17:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Your reference refers to manpowered aircraft but I can't find any reference to man-powered flight, which is the title of this article. In fact, ALL the external references in this article refer to human-powered flight, not man-powered. So I don't see that as a valid reason. Gr8white 19:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1961 alye parusa.jpg

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Dear Gr8white,

Thank you very much for correcting my grammar in White Nights Festival. Also thank you for the right image. This image is a VHS and DVD cover in Russia, and also a book cover and a promotional poster in Russia. This image has been distributed in millions of flyers and promo posters given to school graduates in Leningrad, and other parts of Russia over decades. I remember having it given to me and to others by our teachers at the end of every school year. It's meaning was similar to "School's out for Summer!" and "Your dreams are coming true!" This promo image is now part of the Soviet history, it should qualify under fair use. Steveshelokhonov 07:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Who Put the Bomp (song). Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. Make sure if you are going to talk about angels' rectums, you get a solid reference for this. Tanthalas39 (talk) 02:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah. I still think that really needs to be referenced, but I'll leave it up to you. Tanthalas39 (talk) 02:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Piekha

Hi, Gr8white,

You are right. There was no written biography of Piekha until 2007. The only one titled "Edita" was written and published in 2007 upon her request.[2] This article illustrates problems with any written/published biographical material about Edita Piekha.[3] A musicologist from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, named Aleksey Lopatin, was chosen by Piekha to write her biography, because she read and liked his publications. However, when the book was published and presented to Piekha on her 70th anniversary, she became very, very upset while reading her own biography, and threatened with legal action. Her lawyer, Irina Tulubyeva, insists that Lopatin did not have approval from Piekha, but the publisher, "Eksmo," has a record that Piekha recommended him. The book was recalled from book stores, but many copies were already sold, making Piekha even more upset. She was displeased with some parts of her biography having allusions to such popular characters as Cinderella, Galatea, and Penelope. Her lawyer mentioned that she is on the hunt buying the book trying to destroy all copies out there, but its too late. As for her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory, was it a transfer, or something different; she took singing classes there in 1956/57 while still a university student, so formally she was taking classes at both schools for about a year. However, she continued sporadic studies at Conservatory after she formally dropped out of the Leningrad University Dept. of Philosophy on her 3rd year. Not sure if she ever graduated from conservatory, but her 1st ex, Aleksandr Bronevitsky, graduated in 1955, (During the 80s I played piano for his band (Ensemble) "Druzhba" at nights and on several tours, when I took vacations from my day job, medical) Piekha joined the band in 1955, when Aleksandr Bronevitsky together with his brother, Eugeny Bronevisky, and their classmates formed the "Ensemble Druzhba" (aka... "Friendship") where Piekha was invited to sing some songs in French and Polish. She became and instant celebrity in the USSR after her 1955/56 New Year's Eve TV performance, then she was made the leading star of the 1957 Festival in Moscow. Her career file was kept separately from all other files on actors at the State Concert Company "Lenkonzert" in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, because she was a foreign-born suspect. Her 2nd husband, Gennady Shestakov, was a KGB colonel. Her 3rd husband, was Vladimir Polyakov (b. 1938), a political analyst who worked for president Yeltsin's administration; they met in 1992 at a private function party where she was invited to sing, they married in 1994 and divorced in 2006. She never really moved to his house in Moscow, but he visited her in St. Petersburg.[4] The last time I saw her in person was at the 1988 funeral of her 1st husband, Bronevitsky, in Leningrad. Her Russian article has a list of her best hits, mostly imitations of the 50s American twist, rock'n roll, and ballads, but softened and adapted to pass the Soviet censorship. You can use this to edit the article the way you like. Regards, Steveshelokhonov 04:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message and corrections. This is only a tip of the hidden blpd personality[5] otherwise just an older version of P. Hltn in a different cultural setting. Steveshelokhonov 07:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edita Pyekha

I created a redirect page Edita Pyekha erroneously. It showed up as a regular page with "1. REDIRECT Edita Piekha". I corrected the error (someone else apparently did so also) and when I save the page it shows correctly as a redirect. But following the link takes me to the original erroneous page. Please help (I have some ideas but don't want to muck things up further). Gr8white (talk) 00:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, it's working now - if someone fixed this, thanks. Gr8white (talk) 00:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Movable/Moveable

English spelling is full of irrationalities, and one of the worst (and worst explained to learners) is the spelling of "long" and "short" vowels. In our sister languages Dutch and German, the rule is quite regular: divide syllables after a vowel and before a single consonant, or between two consonants; then the vowel in a closed syllable is short, while the vowel in an open syllable is long. The "silent e" at the end of many English words therefore serves only to create a "virtual" (but before the year 1400, real) syllable; e.g., <rate> comprises two syllables <ra> and <te>, and so the <a> is "long", while <rat> is a single syllable and the <a> is "short". Therefore, rationally if not historically, all final "silent e"'s must be dropped when a suffix is added, if they neither make a syllable nor are needed to "soften" a preceding consonant. (Example of the latter is <change> + <able> yields <changeable>, but <change> + <ing> yields <changing>.) Hence, the spelling <moveable> (as well as a host of others, such as <mileage> and <microwaveable>) should be spelled without the intrusive letter <e>.

[edit] Emmylou Harris

Thanks for your work on the Emmylou Harris article. I did an extensive copyedit and rewrite several months ago, but there have been a number of large, sloppy additions since then, and I just couldn't seem to get around to going over it again. Nice job. I think there are still some problems with the Grammy years. Elite Hotel was definitely '76, not '77, for example. Unless you get to it first, I will check these one by one, but it's slow going for me since I'm on dial-up. Rivertorch (talk) 04:48, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:RentonHSLogo.png

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