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If you are a Wikipedian needing assistance or have questions on a variety of matters - be it copyright, sourcing, or even just want to get a second opinion on your article draft, please do not hesitate to ask on my meta talkpage email me using the "email this user" function. I am happy to help in any way that I can.

If you have a gmail and are interested in helping find public domain photos of Soviet pilots, politicians, artists, and/or academics for Wikimedia Commons, either email me or post your preffered email account for Wikipedia on my talkpage, and I will add you to my googledoc table that contains a list of famous people we need copies of photos of and calculates the expiration dates for various pictures from known publications.

If you are interested in finding obituaries, graves, or genealogy, please help find the year of death for any of the photographers in this list whose year of death is unknown. Without knowing the year of death for a photographer or artist on the list, we CANNOT calculate the copyright expiration date for their work!

Please help find originals of these photos for use in Commons (or as fair-use)

Some articles that really need to be translated to more languages:

• en:Retinitis pigmentosa - major cause of blindness
• en:Usher Syndrome - major cause of deaf-blindness
• en:Amet-khan Sultan - highly accomplished flying ace and test pilot
• en:Yuri Osmanov - NDKT leader
• en:Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi - martyr of the fight to abolish feudalism
• en:Abdusamat Taymetov - delivered the victory flag, first Uzbek pilot

Testimonials

• "I know User:Planespotter as a strict (too strict, in my view), but fair user." - said by Vysotsky
• History Barnstar on ruwiki from Rartat: "За исследовательскую работу в поиске биографических сведений о Героях Советского Союза"
• Copyright Watcher Barnstar from Iruka "Спасибо за вашу смелость следовать правилам наперекор большинству. Этим вы вселяете уверенность и в других."
• Original Barnstar "For your source note on "Stalin's Falcons" and its errors" from Buckshot06
• Barnstar of Diligence "For your contributions on Heroes of the Soviet Union, especially on the lists of recipients and creation of new articles" from Kges1901
• "I am sure you have one of these already? If not you deserve one! Great work on Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, Antonina Zubkova, Yelena Stempkovskaya and all of the others" - Dumelow
• "Thanks for your contributions relating to aviation. Keep up the good work. Hope you will spot more of these. Thanks," - Greenbörg
• Editor of the Week in 2018 for work on Soviet aviation articles

My allegedly problematic behavior

• Saying that a userbox that glorifies the SS is Nazi glorification and offensive
• Nominating Russian copyrvios for deletion [1]
• Nominating Ukrainian copyvios for deletion
• Supposedly making MOSCOW look bad by publishing an article about the Mubarek zone an Uzbek project (I was not aware that some people consider Sharof Rashidov an honorary Russian)
• "Insulting" other editors by use of the phrase "chauvanistic behaviors" in the context of coverage of an unpopular ethnic minority to explain why I started an RfC about the problem.
• "Threatening" ruwiki by saying in the above-linked RfC that if hypothetically someone on ruwiki nominated the article about Uyghurs for deletion and claimed that Uyghurs aren't a real people I would start an RfC about said unacceptable hypothetical behavior (for context, an editor on ruwiki nominated the article about Yaliboylu people for deletion claiming that Yaliboylu people weren't real/existance was a marginal theory contrary to the many sources provided in the article)
• "Evading" blocks in the form of off-wiki social media activity such as answering questions of new users, sharing interesting newspaper clippings, posting newly-discovered public domain photos. (Since when does Wikipedia have the right to regulate off-wiki social media activity? No matter what, I WILL post as many newspaper clips as I want. If other Wikipedians find my posts interesting, so be it!)