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I noted your comment/revert on the GDP PPP illustration in Eurasian Economic Union using IMF data. Thanks for highlighting that. What's your recommendation? Use IMF 2013 nominal GDP and factor in OECD PPP data?

But a differnt question: it was an illustration without discreet numbers and was only intendet to put things in perspective. Do you think the age of the IMF PPP data makes such a big difference (for the top ten)? And it wasn't even ordered. --Aeroid (talk) 19:43, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Stop with the disruptive reverts and insulting edit summaries. It's unhelpful. If you have a case to make without insults, do so on the talk page, but if you don't it will just keep being reverted. Zero Serenity ^{(talk - contributions)} 20:00, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"As for Belarus, the sources say nothing about it currently using the ruble." was in the edit summary by another user and that is also what i said, so can revert your edit 81.235.159.105 (talk) 12:55, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I didnt know that. But still i dont see what what was wrong with it: lets see at my complaints: harassment, i invited people that felt harassed or saw it and warned him. I didnt see anyone else i could have invited to talk about him. Over activity, deleting other peoples messages are issues of himself or myself. And as can be seen i didnt invite the other people who got their messages deleted too. So how is my selection biased?

And i find it extremely unfair how the case was closed without me getting the chance to reply to @Sagecandor and the other replies to me. For example the notion that there is nothing wrong with his over-activity, i forgot to ad proven statistics that there is something wrong and its not normal for an average Wikipedian. https://en.wikiscan.org/user/Crossswords https://en.wikiscan.org/utilisateur/Sagecandor

And then i forgot to add various examples where he threatened (or implied to) people to be banned from editing for disagreeing without having this authority, you can scroll up to see what i mean. These types of messages are not only on my profile its part of his style, it should be illegal in this site imo.--Crossswords (talk) 02:35, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Crosswords, and thanks for your interest in the Lenin article, which I brought up to FA status last year. The lede image which you have added is certainly an aesthetically nicer one, but the information provided about it at Commons does not specify when it was first published, only when it was actually taken. That means that the copyright tag appended to it is totally spurious and thus we are prevented from using it on Wikipedia. It's frustrating, I know, but that's how it is. See for instance the discussion here. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:12, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Anti-Katyn is not just propaganada, it's a big lie.

Please learn about POWs in Russia, eg. as Babel, an eyewitness, describes.Xx236 (talk) 05:43, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Xx236 (talk) 06:03, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain your position regarding Doping in Russia. Xx236 (talk) 09:39, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain your position regarding your edits of Doping in Russia. Xx236 (talk) 06:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]