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CS1 error on Serhiy Leshchenko

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Serhiy Leshchenko, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "generic title" error. References show this error when they have a generic placeholder title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 17:52, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done ColTip (talk) 13:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Serhiy Leshchenko

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Serhiy Leshchenko, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "generic title" error. References show this error when they have a generic placeholder title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done ColTip (talk) 13:23, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Common English usage & for consistency within this article + others + the Wikipedia article on Ukrainian cities

Thanks for your contributions on Wkikipedia. But I noticed that in your edit here you did not use the common English names of Ukrainian cities that should be used throughout English Wikipedia for consistency within articles, for consistency with others Wikipedia articles and for consistency with the Wikipedia article on the cities themselves. You seemed to have used the names of the cities how you prefer them. That is fine in your private live, but that is not how it works on an encyclopedia as Wikipedia that should have the same names throughout its pages. I don't know if you ever came across a church that distributed literature in which "Jesus" was sometimes spelled as "Gezus" and then in another pamphlet as "Jesush". Please stick to well tested Wikipedia conventions that work. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 19:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

I already fixed the error. I am also puzzled why in your edit I mention above you seem to prefer to use on English Wikipedia "Uzhgorod" over "Uzhhorod"... But that could be a bias blind spot of me.... "Uzhhorod" sounds to me less like the language that the people use that are bombing innocent Ukrainians to death daily (a.k.a. russian army and so-called russian government) (the russian language has no equivalent to the Latin letter "H"). — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 19:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Yulia Romero: Hello, thank you for the tips you mentioned about the compatibility of names in wrong links. I'm interested in Ukraine and its people and I try to get your advice on common and compatible names. ColTip (talk) 09:18, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I always use the name of the city on how it is spelled in the Wikipedia article about the place. If you look at Talk:Kadiivka you can see that there it has been discussed and decided what the place name should be on English Wikipedia. As I mentioned before this name then should be used throughout English Wikipedia for consistency. There will be some places that now have a "Soviet" name that should be renamed due to the law On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy, but fortunatly those are few and most common English names of Ukrainian cities have now been firmly established. Also because of all the (unfortunate, some good news aside) attention Ukraine has been getting the last 20 years. But, you can read here, soemtimes for events of the past "old Soviet names" are better to use. Hence we state in Yulia_Tymoshenko#Early_life_and_career that she was born in 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk because that was then the official name of the city. Dnipropetrovsk was renamed to Dnipro in 2016. So a future Prime Minister of Ukraine born in the same city as Miss Tymoshenko but born in 2017 will state that she/he/other (Ukraine has become more LGHBT friendly because of the russian invasion (see the change of heart of MP Andriy Kozhemiakin as an example)) was born in Dnipro. I am (also) sometimes not sure if I should use the "soviet/russian empire" name of a city or the current common English names of Ukrainian cities, but I think it is safer to mostley use the current common English name. But, as you might have noticed, I am a strong faultfinder of the soviet union/russian empire/current russia; that might be clouding my judgment; but that aside going with the current common English name is never wrong since I believe that is best for the consistency within English Wikipedia.

As for getting to know Ukraine and its people better I advise finding one are more pen-pal(s) from Ukraine. I am not from Ukraine, but getting a pen-pal from Kyiv did help me to understand Ukraine better. I also met and befriended a couple of Ukrainians whille being a volunteer in a few Ukrainian cities. But that was long before 2022, and I am not advising you to get into a country at war. (I can not remember the name of the website for pen-pals (it has been years since I went there), but https://www.conversationexchange.com is a legit website that I trust, but it is for finding people who you can practise a language with and I don't know if you want to speak to Ukrainians to help them to improve their English. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 17:31, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Yury Yuriyovich Shikula moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Yury Yuriyovich Shikula. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 (talk) 18:14, 29 September 2024 (UTC)