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I'm actually finishing a translation from the Russian wiki, but won't have much time over the next week. If you want to start on that, go ahead! Lesgles (talk) 13:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No English references - question accuracy of this article

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How do we know this article is accurate if none of the references are in English? How do we know that it is not an automatically translated article? If a person translated it, how do we know if this person is fluent in both English and Russian? How do we know it is not a copyvio? There is no way to evaluate this article. —Mattisse (Talk) 04:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am translating the article and I read Russian (I guess you have to take me at my word). The translation is not the best, although it is certainly better than a machine translation. I do not claim to have investigated all of the references, although I hope to do so in the future, as well as bring in a couple English sources. In my opinion, however, any encyclopedia based purely on English sources would be a poor one. Lesgles (talk) 21:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

poem

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I am removing Pushkin's poem for now until a good translation can be found or made:

"Epigram to Count F. I. Tolstoy"

В жизни мрачной и презренной
Был он долго погружен,
Долго все концы вселенной
Осквернял развратом он.
Но, исправясь понемногу,
Он загладил свой позор,
И теперь он — слава богу —
Только что картежный вор.

Alexander Pushkin