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The article National Bank of Ukraine (building) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Wikipedia:Notability this entire article has one source and if that source exists I haven't been able to find it

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On 21 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Super Lemon Haze, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Super Lemon Haze is an award-winning cannabis strain that commonly exhibits limonene, an organic compound also found in lemons? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Super Lemon Haze. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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@Another Believer: Thanks dude! I'll definitely try to participate! There's just so so much knowledge to share, and Wikipedia is sadly lacking in a lot of good, credible content about Cannabis. It's on us to fix that!! Cheers, § DDima 05:35, 24 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Template:Infobox Ukrainian legislative office/1 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:08, 15 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi DDima. I see that Template:Infobox Ukrainian legislative office/1 has been recently nominated for deletion and there is a question of whether it is an old sandbox of yours. If it is, would you like it moved into your user space, or can it be deleted? Your letting us know would help us cut the red tape a bit. Cheers. --Bsherr (talk) 13:47, 15 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi DDima. What is – according to your opinion – the specific neutrality issue with this article? You should add it into the box, so that I can improve the article. --Derim Hunt (talk) 11:25, 29 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Please take a look at the bottom of the page. I see error message in red:

Invalid arguments have been passed to the ((# coordinates:)) function

And the coordinate line at top says:

Coordinates: "N, 37°48'48.607"E 48.019849°N 37.813502°E

This is not normal. This is how normal coordinates look:

Coordinates: 53°54'N 27°34'E

Yours are, like, in deep space, in 4D, too.

I see it in two different browsers, including freshly updated Windows with Microsoft Edge. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:04, 5 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Staszek Lem: Yes, I see that now too. But for me - I can pull up the coordinates and load up a google map image just fine with the coordinates link that I wrote to show up in the title. Dunno about the 4D man.. Let's Just get rid of it altogether! § DDima 04:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, I see, if I click at coorditates, it does load correct map. I guess we need to ask expert. The thing is, I copied coords from wikidata. Their developmrnty is out of sync. Staszek Lem (talk) 06:25, 5 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Template:Saltivska style has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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You seem to have depopulated and deleted Category:Governorates of Ukraine, which included subdivisions of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. What is up with that?  —Michael Z. 13:58, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see the category was depopulated by user:Vladis13, without explanation. —Michael Z. 14:01, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I wrote in the explanation: "renamed and moved to Category:Governorates of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, per C2D, C2C, C2B". It's just that when renaming done by DDima, the explanation was cut off. Thanks. --Vladis13 (talk) 20:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User talk:Vladis13, that doesn’t explain why you did it. These were governorates of both UNR Ukraine and UkrSSR Ukraine: they belong in the previous category. Should be restored. —Michael Z. 21:10, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was in the CSD Category for deletion - I have not been logged in in many months and wanted to resume activity. Regardless, there are no Governorates of "Ukraine," as that is the name of the modern-day state. If you are referring to the UkSSR or UPR (1918), then correct, those did exist, which is why I am assuming that category was moved by the aforementioned user. § DDima 22:30, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Of course there were governorates of Ukraine. Look in a history book and please don’t indulge in that kind of nationalistic pedantry with the pointed quotation marks: it’s unbecoming. The specific country has been known by this name since the fifteenth century, and appeared on maps by this name since the beginning of the seventeenth. The historical country is known by this name now.

• Administrative division of Ukraine (1918)
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1918–1925)
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1925–1932)
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine (including oblasts, established 1932)
• Category:Former administrative divisions of Ukraine, etcetera

 —Michael Z. 22:59, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm simply advocating for the use of the full historic names for former nation-states if we are to use a category such as "Governorates of Ukraine," as that may in some minds might imply that those governorates belong to the modern nation-state, which they do not. If Wikipedia style changed or was interpreted in other ways since 10 years or so ago, then do what you will with that. This was meant to be a non-controversial cleanup action based upon formatting and style, that's all. § DDima 02:38, 25 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay, that’s not a bad principal, but it requires category trees for governorates of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and governorates of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and I believe most or all of these belong in both. What I saw happen was taking “Ukraine,” the country, and turning it into the UkrSSR while wiping out the UNR in one fell swoop. —Michael Z. 03:57, 25 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Something about your talk page prevents the [reply] control from working. This could harm accessibility for many editors. Probably a good idea to track that down and fix it. —Michael Z. 21:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Not sure, there are many changes that occurred to Wikipedia since I last built this page - I am assuming that some sort of code is preventing that. Thanks, § DDima 22:31, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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DDima, can you explain this old image you created showing the city districts of Donetsk?

File:Raions_of_Donetsk_and_Donetsk_City_Municipality.PNG

I'd came across a question I'd asked on the urban districts of Ukraine page years ago about this image and was told you created it. I'm confused about what it is showing in the white parts. Are those areas within the city municipality but outside of any urban district? I guess I'd always just assumed any city which chose to divide itself into urban raions had to include all territory in a district, and perhaps that was not the case. Criticalthinker (talk) 08:29, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Criticalthinker: Hey there - the white spots in the map were supposed to show areas that are not under the legal jurisdiction of Donetsk City (i.e. areas that are under control of the district (raion in Ukrainian).. Alas, the legal and jurisdictional situation in 2024 may not even reflect those boundaries anymore so it can be massively outdated. Hope that helps! § DDima 02:36, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Actually, this is more confusing. The black line enclosing everything was the area under jurisdiction of the city municipality, correct? So then what is the white space and the dots? I thought in a city municipality which chose to divide itself into districts, it had to do so completely. That is to say that every location in a city was also within a city district.--Criticalthinker (talk) 05:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]