My nickname is a Cyrillic projection of a Greek: Βικιδημοςportmanteau, something along the lines of Greek: Νικόδημος ("victorious people", cf. Nicodemus). It is intended to mean "[of] wikipeople". If you have hard time finding Cyrillics on your keyboard, feel free to address me as Wikidemus or even Wikidim.
I have been writing articles for Wikipedia in multiple languages since either 2005 or 2006, starting too long ago to pinpoint an exact date, and switched mostly to Russian in 2007. Historically I have used multiple accounts, originally to separate my contributions by languages[1] and later by subjects. These were and are used strictly within WP:SOCKLEGIT, with no restrictions applied ever to any one of them, except for this account (and even in this case never even remotely related to the article content). I am currently under no restrictions anywhere in the Wikimedia projects. In an unlikely case a legitimate question will arise, I have no problem discussing my alternate accounts with the local powers that be.
That ship has sailed
The editing of Wikipedia in Russian became tiresome for me in 2021 due to an extensive off-wiki coordination of a few colleagues who effectively changed the conflict resolution process very much not to my liking.[2] "Fighting" is not my middle name here,[3] so after some attempts to establish a modus vivendi with the highly cohesive group, I have decided to take a well-deserved indefinite-length wiki-sabbatical at Russian Wikipedia and switched back to other languages, primarily to enwiki,[4] guided by "this too shall pass" principle. As an illustration of the truly Orwellian level of discourse in the modern Russian Wikipedia:[5]
The Arbitration Committee of Russian Wikipedia (then - and now - totally controlled by the faction) literally prohibited mentioning in discussions of the membership in the off-wiki chat used for the group's coordination: Decision in AK:1189, see item 7.
In practice, this decision is used to prohibit the mentions of the very existence of this chat. For example, in February 2023 I was blocked for literally just using the term "unmentionable group" (Russian: неназываемой группы) on a discussion page, where my whole message was on the subject of "we can all get along if we stop coercing the editors into making the purely political statements". For the curious ones that want to dive into the depth of the Russian soul, the message from the blocking sysop is here, it points as a reason to my original (IMHO, extremely mild) post here
Notes:
^This was the only choice prior to the arrival of the unified login.
^For the avoidance of doubt, I rarely if ever edit articles on the "hot" political topics.
^I have a reasonably-sized real life where I get a fair share of meaningful conflicts that I have to deal with.
^For the avoidance of doubt, this is not a complaint, as this situation amuses me by laying bare the human behavior worthy of "1984" or "The Trial"; the outlook is much grimmer for the harassed editors that due to poor English are unable to find a refuge here
The end justifies the means, "Exitus acta probat" (Ovid), even "All's well that ends well"? Surprisingl dearth of linguistic/ethical sources (aside from consequentialism, perhaps a section there?). Oxford Dictionary: [30]. Also [31]
Carpe diem, links in 10.4236/jss.2022.107026, [33], 10.17507/tpls.1305.08 , : 10.17507/tpls.1003.04 - weak studies of carpe itself. A book on carpe in poetry: [34] (relation to Seikilos epitaph!)
Lead glass - see todos, need to haul my behind to a physical library. While there, request also Monod, Théodore. 1955. ‘Sur la forme de la théière maure traditionelle’. Notes Africaines 67: 71–72 and Monod, Théodore. 1963. ‘À propos de l’origine de la théière maure’. Notes Africaines 97: 26–27 to finally produce the North African teapot / Moroccan teapot / Mauritanian teapot
(pending the arrival of the book in some major library within reach) Cheval glass or psyche - a separate article based on Gloag, Britannica, the monograph "The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History" and "Psyche: Mirror and Mind in Vanity Fair"
Asch Grossbardt «Sophisticated color combinations have been a signature design element», etc., but its provenance is unclear). Lawrence (Larry) Asch / Jerome (Jerry) Grossbardt (1923—2012). Before founding Ash Grossbardt Ltd., Jerome Grossbardt and Stanley Schechter co-founded Honora Pearls company. Incorporated in 1947, the company was named after Jerome’s wife, Honora. Jerome’s son, Eric, joined the business in 1986 and became the sole owner of Asch Grossbardt Inc., after the death of his father in 2012. Obits: [81], [82]. In May of 2001. Eric Grossbardt became the sole owner of Asch/Grossbardt Inc. when the cofounder, Larry Asch retired after more than 50 years in the jewelry industry. ([83]) Obviously not enough. Any pointers will be highly appreciated.
Hess Persson Estates a.k.a. Hess Collection - a quite famous winery does not have an article. There is also a truly surprising in this case dearth of RS. See, however, in addition to the winery's own materials, information in multiple guidebooks.
Cabaret table, see [92]. This is a "genre", and the Overbed table is in the same genre. Note that the modern cabaret table does not seem to be in this genre.
International Lindy Hop Championships[94] p. 44, [95], [96] p. 38 (predecessor with the same name), "LaTasha Barnes Contains Multitudes" (co-owner), [97] pp. 44, 63, "Les mondes du Lindy Hop - Appropriation culturelle"
I Didn't Like It the First Time - even more amazing dearth of sources. [109] (food as metaphor common to Julia Lee), some think the "spinach" is a reefer ([110], [111], [112]), although the lyrics clearly suggests sex ([113], [114] and [115] agree), double entendre ([116], even triple[117], p. 37: "I Didn't Like It The First Time" a.k.a. "The Spinach Song" can be considered a rare example of triple entendre, since spinach conveyed a reference to opium as well as sex )
POI, PCC, POS for interconnections (most likely, a single article - Grid connection? Power plant connection?). See [122] , [123], [124], [125], "is an electrical tie", "is the first link of electric energy transport", "a connection between a real property and the distribution grid" (last link?), "the physical connection of a RES-E power plant or a number of RES-E power plants (eg a wind farm) to the nearest connection point", "a connection of a system to the said grid", "a connection between a generating station and a transmission system or distribution system", "a process in which a steam turbine generator unit is connected to an electric grid after it reaches its running rotation"
Audiotext services (LaRose, R., & Atkin, D. (1992). Audiotext and the re-invention of the telephone as a mass medium. Journalism Quarterly, 69(2), 413—421)
