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My name is Michael Z.
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<span style="font-size:1200%; color:#F0F3F6; font-family:serif; position:absolute; left:-17%; top:75%; z-index:-1; letter-spacing:-.2em; ">‘‘</span>a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds<span style="font-size:1200%; color:#F0F3F6; font-family:serif; position:absolute; right:-7%; top:75%; z-index:-1; letter-spacing:-.2em; ">’’</span>
Feel free to refer to me with ''he'' or ''him''.
<cite style="display:block; margin-top:.5em; text-align:right; color:#333; font-size:x-small; font-style:normal; ">—Ralph Waldo Emerson</cite>

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Wikipedia member since June 2004, administrator from July 2005 to 2024.

=== Maintenance ===

There should be no links pointing to the misspellings [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranian Ukranian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranians Ukranians], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranian_language Ukranian language]. Also watch out for the solecism "[http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikipedia.org+%22the+Ukraine%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= ''the'' Ukraine]" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=The_Ukraine links to "the Ukraine"].
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{{User CommonwealthE Canadian}}
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<small style="margin-right:3px;">see [[Wikipedia:Userboxes]]</small>
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My name is Michael Z. Wikipedia member since June, 2004, administrator since July, 2005.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| [[Image:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif|thumb|none|Tireless Contributor Barnstar, [[User_talk:Mzajac/2007#Barnstar|conferred by Sniperz11]]]]
| [[Image:Hero of Ukraine ribbon bar.png|thumb|none|Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State [[User_talk:Mzajac/2005#Order_of_Ukraine|conferred by Irpen]]]]
| [[Image:OrderVictoryRibbon.svg|155px|thumb|none|Order of Victory, [[User_talk:Mzajac/2006#Allow_me|conferred by Abakharev]]]]
| [[Image:Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png|thumb|none|Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, [[User_talk:Mzajac#Kharkivov|conferred by Mariah-Yulia]]]]
|}
Definitely not a member of any [[Wikipedia:List of cabals#Ukrainian Cabal|Ukrainian Cabal]]. Please cease your opposition to the Cabal.


[[Image:Orange ribbon.png|thumb|56px|[[Orange ribbon]]]]

I'm also registered at:
* Ukrainian Wikipedia: [[:uk:користувач:Мзаяць]]
* Ukrainian Wikisource: [[s:uk:користувач:МихайлоЗ]]
* Wiktionary: [[wikt:user:Mzajac]]
* Wikimedia commons: [[commons:user:Mzajac]]
* Meta: [[m:user:Mzajac]]

I participate at:
* [[Portal:Ukraine]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history |WikiProject Military history]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ukrainian subdivisions |WikiProject Ukrainian subdivisions]] (semi-dormant)

== Ramblings ==
* [[User talk:Mzajac/Britannica on Eastern Slavs |1911 Britannica on Eastern Slavs]]—the state of Western scholarship a century ago: Little Russians and craniometry

The following are English words—they need not be italicized, and they are not spelt with any “non-English letters”:

* [[Loan word]]s from Latin: ad hoc, a priori, bona fide, de facto, et cetera, habeas corpus, in camera, in situ, post mortem, status quo, vice versa.
* From French: avant-garde, bourgeois, café, communiqué, coup d'état, debacle, de rigueur, elite, émigré, en masse, en route, esprit de corps, façade, fête, fiancée, mêlée, née, nouveau riche, parvenu, pâté, protégé, raison d'être, vis-à-vis.
* From other languages: apartheid, háček, machismo, pogrom, putsch, realpolitik.

== Wikipedia contribution ==
[[Image:Hero of Ukraine ribbon bar.png|thumb|56px||[[User_talk:Mzajac/2005#Order_of_Ukraine | Conferred by Irpen]]]]

Some of my contributions, in collaboration with many others. '''*''' New articles featured on [[Wikipedia:Did you know |Wikipedia's Did you know?]]. '''†''' [[Wikipedia:Featured articles |Featured article]]s.

'''Alphabetic'''<br />
[[acrophony]] · [[Cyrillic alphabet]] · [[Ukrainian alphabet]] · [[Ukrainian Latin alphabet]] · [[Drahomanivka]] · '''[[scientific transliteration]]*''' · [[romanization of Ukrainian]] · '''[[romanization of Belarusian]]*''' · [[ISO 9]] · [[faux Cyrillic]] · [[Pronunciation respelling for English#International Phonetic Alphabet |"International Phonetic Alphabet" in Pronunciation respelling for English]] · [[apostrophe (mark)]]

'''Ukrainian'''<br />
[[name of Ukraine]] · [[Kiev#Kiev or Kyiv? |Kiev: "Kiev or Kyiv?"]] · [[kobzar]] · [[duma (epic)]] · '''[[Ems Ukaz]]*''' · '''[[Ukraine after the Russian Revolution]]*''' · [[raion]] · '''[[closed city]]*''' · [[Filip Konowal]] · [[Savella Stechishin]] · '''[[Mykola Skrypnyk]]*''' · [[Oleksander Koshetz]] · [[National Space Agency of Ukraine]] · [[HUR]] · [[SZR]] · [[kovbasa]]

'''Canadian'''<br />
'''[[Ukrainian Canadian internment]]*''' · [[Katherine Barber]] · [[Joe Bloggins]] · [[Worthington Trophy]] · [[Fort Garry Brewing Company]] · [[Agassiz Brewing]] · [[Two Rivers Brewing Company]] · [[Northern Region, Manitoba]]

[[Image:Ordervictory rib.png|thumb||[[User_talk:Mzajac#Allow_me | Conferred by Abakharev]]]]

'''Armoured'''<br />
[[armoured]] · [[mechanized force]] · [[tank]] · [[tank classification]] · [[list of Soviet tank factories]] · [[missile tank]] · [[Katyusha]] · '''[[aerosan]]*''' · '''[[T-18 tank]]*''' · [[T-24]] · [[BT tank]] · [[OKMO]] · <strong style="font-size:larger;">[[T-34]]†</strong> · [[T-34 variants]] · '''[[F-34 tank gun]]*''' ·[[Kliment Voroshilov tank]] · '''[[T-43 tank]]*''' · [[Antonov A-40]] · [[T-70]] · [[BA-64]] · [[Iosif Stalin tank]] · '''[[D-10 tank gun]]*''' · '''[[T-44]]*''' · '''[[T-10]]*''' · [[T-55]] · [[M114]] · [[T-80]] · '''[[Lynx reconnaissance vehicle]]*''' · [[T-84]] · [[Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau]] · [[Malyshev Factory]] · [[mine roller]] · '''[[hull-down]]*''' · [[overwatch]] · [[tank desant]] · [[trooper (rank)]] · '''[[F.F. Worthington]]*'''

'''Images'''<br />
[[:image:Winnipeg snowstorm aftermath.jpg]] · [[:image:clamato can.jpg]] · [[:image:Manitoba flag.png]] · [[Commons:early Cyrillic alphabet|early Cyrillic letter images]] · [[commons:Cyrillic alphabet|Slavic Cyrillic letter images]]

'''Wikipedia infrastructure & guidelines'''<br />
{{tl|Cyrillic alphabet}} · {{tl|Cyrillic alphabet navbox}} · {{tl|AFV}} · {{tl|Manitoba}} · {{tl|IPA}} · {{tl|polytonic}} · {{tl|Unicode}} · {{tl|wikicite}} · {{tl|wikiref}} · [[MediaWiki:common.css]] · [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation |disambiguation page]] clean up · [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)]] · [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)]]

'''Other'''<br />
[[Lust for Life (album)|''Lust for Life'' (album)]] · [[Soldier (album)|''Soldier'' (album)]] · [[Party (album)|''Party'' (album)]] · [[shaken, not stirred]] · [[raking fire]] · [[crossing the T]] · [[merguez]] · [[poncelet]]

<gallery>
Image:Filip Konowal grave.jpg | [[Filip Konowal]]'s gravesite at Notre Dame cemetary, Ottawa
Image:Konowal medal set.jpg | Filip Konowal's medals at the Canadian War Museum
Image:BRM-1K.jpg | [[BMP-1 |BRM-1K]] at the Canadian War Museum
Image:BRM-1K front.jpg | BRM-1K (front view)
Image:BRM-1K top.jpg | BRM-1K (overhead view)
Image:Nebelwerfer and Land Mattress.jpg | [[Nebelwerfer]] and [[Land Mattress]] at the Canadian War Museum
Image:Land Mattress plaque.jpg | Registration plaque of the Land Mattress
Image:Cyrillic letter A.png | Letters of the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]
Image:Early Cyrillic letter Azu.png | [[Early Cyrillic]] letters
Image:Cyrillic upright-cursive.png | Cyrillic upright and cursive letters
Image:Hryvnia symbol.png | [[Hryvnia]] symbol
Image:Apostrophe.png | [[Apostrophe]]
Image:Latin alphabet Đđ.png | [[D with stroke]]
</gallery>

== To do ==

* Write the second half of [[Ukrainian National Republic]].
* Resolve the gaps and overlap in [[military unit]] (military organization) and [[formation (military)]], [[army]].
* Check if the licence for [http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/] allows copying of images to WP. They have some great engravings of French WWI tanks.
* Keep working on '''[[Filip Konowal]]''': biography, regimental lineage.
* Some additions to '''[[Cyrillic alphabet]]''' and the respective letters' pages—development at [[User:Mzajac/cyrillic]]
** Many additional alphabet tables.
* List the cities, RMs, towns, villages and First Nations communities in each item at '''[[List of Manitoba regions]]'''.
** Harmonize this with the [[List of communities in Manitoba]].
** Create a location map for each region.
* Books at Dafoe 2nd floor:
** Rudnyc'kyj, Jaroslav B., ''Chuzhomovni transliteratsiï ukraïns'kykh nazv: internatsional'na, anhliis'ka, frantsuz'ka, nimets'ka, espans'ka i portuhal's'ka''
** ''Transliteration of Slavonic: report of the committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to Russian and other Slavonic languages.''
** ''ALA-LC romanization tables: transliteration schemes for non-Roman scripts'' / approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association; tables compiled and edited by Randall K. Barry
** Wellisch, Hans H., ''The conversion of scripts, its nature, history, and utilization''
* Do the dishes.
* Do the freakin&rsquo; dishes!

=== Maintenance ===

There should be no links pointing to the misspellings [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranian Ukranian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranians Ukranians], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Ukranian_language Ukranian language]. Also watch out for the solecism "[http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aen.wikipedia.org+%22the+Ukraine%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= ''the'' Ukraine]" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=The_Ukraine links to "the Ukraine"].

== Links ==
My [[User:Mzajac/sandbox|sandbox]]. [[User:Mzajac/Tanks |Morozov tanks]]. [[User:Mzajac/cyrillic |Cyrillic alphabets]]. [[User:Mzajac/Military of Ukraine |Translating Military of Ukraine]]. [[User:Mzajac/Manitobans |Manitoban Wikipedians]]

* [http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status Wikipedia Status]—You'll need this link when you can't load this page.
* [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Wikipedia Page History Statistics]—Who contributed to the article; very cool.
* [http://pere.slovnyk.org.ua/cgi-bin/pere.cgi English–русский-українська multilingual translator] (useful for ru→uk; not so good with English)
* [http://www.online-translator.com/srvurl.asp?lang=en PROMT] online translator
* [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Mzajac&site=en.wikipedia.org The ugly truth]

== References ==
Easily entered by typing eg, <nowiki>{{subst:User:Mzajac/Magocsi}}</nowiki>

;[[User:Mzajac/Kubijovyc 1]] : {{User:Mzajac/Kubijovyc 1}}
;[[User:Mzajac/Kubijovyc 2]] : {{User:Mzajac/Kubijovyc 2}}
;[[User:Mzajac/Magocsi]] : {{User:Mzajac/Magocsi}}
;[[User:Mzajac/Subtelny]] : {{User:Mzajac/Subtelny}}
;[[User:Mzajac/Zaloga 1984]] : {{User:Mzajac/Zaloga 1984}}

[[Category:Wikipedians in Manitoba|Mzajac]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Canada|Mzajac]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Canada|Mzajac]]

[[uk:Користувач:МЗаяць]]
[[uk:Користувач:МЗаяць]]

Latest revision as of 14:49, 8 May 2024

My name is Michael Z.

Feel free to refer to me with he or him.

Wikipedia member since June 2004, administrator from July 2005 to 2024.

Maintenance

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There should be no links pointing to the misspellings Ukranian, Ukranians, or Ukranian language. Also watch out for the solecism "the Ukraine" and links to "the Ukraine".

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
uk-2Користувач може робити внесок українською мовою на середньому рівні.
fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
CAThis user uses
Canadian English spelling.
Cyrl-3
Д		This user has an advanced understanding of the Cyrillic script.
Cyrs-2
Ѭ		This user has an intermediate understanding of the Early Cyrillic alphabet.
This user participates in
WikiProject Ukraine.

see Wikipedia:Userboxes

Tireless Contributor Barnstar, conferred by Sniperz11
Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State conferred by Irpen
Order of Victory, conferred by Abakharev
Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, conferred by Mariah-Yulia

Definitely not a member of any Ukrainian Cabal. Please cease your opposition to the Cabal.

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