Oleksiy.stasevych

Hello, I'm Ezhiki. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2014; 14:24 (UTC)

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You have shown interest in Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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--Ymblanter (talk) 15:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I see that all of your contribution at least since 2014, possibly even earlier, is destructive. If I see more I will make sure your account is blocked for an indefinite duration. We have policies which you apparently are not interested to comply with.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:57, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Dear sir. Thanks for your message. I do not understand your pretensions. Would you be so kind to provide the facts but not your subjective judgements? Let me add that my contributions are connected with following the legal changes which are happening in Ukraine and our society. If you are disagree with them you may place them under the discussion. Oleksa Stasevych (talk) 06:40, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not hosted in Ukraine, therefore Ukrainian legal changes have zero standing on Wikipedia. This is not at all a valid argument. Concerning specifically Odessa, we choose the most common English name. We had many discussions about this, and the current consensus is that the most common name is Odessa NOT Odesa.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Dear Ymblanter! Thanks for your comments. In my opinion you should respect the opinion of Ukrainians when discarding the changes provided by Ukrainians. Odesa, Kyiv, Kirovohrad and Luhansk are correct names of the Ukrainian toponymics with their further derivatives according to the traditional spelling in Ukrainian and the transliteration in other Latin-based languages. The other spelling inherits the Soviet era (Russian language predominantly), which is highly rethought by Ukrainians, in particular in the cultural, historical and cultural heritage. The most common English name relates to the OdeSSa located in the US, but not the one located in Ukraine. For me as a citizen it looks like not respectful. Here are the references which may help you to find answer: http://thephotodays.org/en/intrntnl-open-call-2020/, https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ukraine/odesa and https://wikitravel.org/en/Odesa. If you need additional information, I will be glad to help with that.

You are welcome to propose the policy change. Before this change happened, please stick to the current policy.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:29, 8 October 2021 (UTC)