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Autonomous Republic of Crimea

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Hi, I'm not sure why you're not allowing me to list the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as an autonomous republic of the Ukraine. Crimea was not a republic of the USSR, it was part of the Ukrainian SSR. It did not have autonomy under the Ukrainian SSR until 1991. It then declared that autonomy while the USSR was collapsing, but before Ukraine declared independence. It was thus autonomous when Ukraine declared independence. While there was a dispute between the central government and the Crimean one over the level of autonomy at first, by 1997 an agreement had been signed clarifying this position. Thus while the exact date of Crimea's autonomy is disputed, it was definitely in the 1990s. For more information, see Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Republics of the Soviet Union. Thanks.SaltySeas (talk) 23:19, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The problem is that it was either a part of the USSR or part of Ukraine and although with some autonomy maybe for some weeks or months, it was never a sovereign state. - SantiLak (talk) 23:26, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not trying to list it as a sovereign state though. I'm listing it as an autonomous area of Ukraine. Every other entry's autonomous areas are all listed, why not Ukraine's Crimea? SaltySeas (talk) 23:27, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Well my apologies, when I looked at the diff I must have thought you were trying to add it as a sovereign state, just a simple mistake. Feel free to re-add it it was all just a big misunderstanding I just thought you were trying to list it as a sovereign state. - SantiLak (talk) 23:34, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I guess I should have clarified that to begin with, so I'm sorry about that. Thanks! SaltySeas (talk) 23:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

No problem. - SantiLak (talk) 23:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Half Barnstar
	Thank you for teaching me something new! I was obviously misinformed about the rules of link piping. I thought redirects were to always be avoided, but I guess not! WikiWinters (talk) 16:20, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Seeking Adoption

Dear SantiLak,

Would you please adopt me? I want to learn copy-editing. :)

Duxwing (talk) 03:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Nevermind! Duxwing (talk) 01:28, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

If you need any help learning I am still available. - SantiLak (talk) 01:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, SantiLak. :) Happy New Year! Duxwing (talk) 00:53, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

U.S. Embassy to Columbia

I do not to see how your revert would constitute an improvement. Simply clicking on the revert button without making any effort to actually contribute anything yourself is counterproductive and offensive. --Webmgr (talk) 22:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

I apologize for not making an edit summary but the addition was very poorly formatted, not cited properly, and seemed to be just a quote from a news article. I have no idea how it could be offensive and its not counterproductive, all you have to do is re-add it properly. - SantiLak (talk) 22:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

State Bar of California

Hello! It's nice that you're a college student and not an employee at the California State Bar. Are you planning on becoming one? If so, I'd like to ask that you be a professional while you are there, many Californians depend on competent assistance from the Bar. That appears to be lacking at times. Did you know that there are foreigners working there now? Perhaps "foreigners" isn't the right term, but non-native Americans may be.

That is nice, but in order to have a fair and impartial review by that entity, it helps to have one who is familiar with national and state difficulties, difficulties that a non-native might not only be unfamiliar with, but entirely oblivious of. Protocols of the law, of course, but the nuances are to be known, also, or a grave error may be made.

Good luck!--2602:306:3600:95B0:84C8:C95A:DF69:9063 (talk) 21:41, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

If you are a sock of 2.17's many accounts then please stay away from my talk page, I have dealt with enough of them over the last few months. - SantiLak (talk) 21:48, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Afghan conflict re-name

Need your help here Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. I made a request for the move and laid out that a majority agrees after a lengthy discussion and based on sources but an editor has come up to oppose the re-naming. EkoGraf (talk) 22:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

The administrator denied the move and requests an official RM. We need to vote now. EkoGraf (talk) 02:25, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, i'll participate in that. - SantiLak (talk) 03:59, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Gun violence in the United States

Talking to myself gets boring. Use the talk page before doing another knee jerk Twinkle revert. 162.119.231.132 (talk) 16:23, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Another thing to do before mindlessly reverting is to read Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun_control. The topic's covered by discretionary sanctions so stupid editing has consequences. 162.119.231.132 (talk) 16:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)