User talk:Nurken

Yana Gorskaya

Hi there -- I am Yana Gorskaya and I very purposefully do not use my patronymic. Kindly remove it from my wikipedia page. Thank you!

Request for 2026 election campaign and photo materials

Hi @Nurken, I hope you are doing well! I am currently working on expanding and improving the Wikipedia article for the upcoming 2026 Kazakh legislative election. I am trying to gather high-quality media to illustrate the page. If you are located in Kazakhstan or have access to campaign materials, could you possibly help by taking and uploading some photos to Wikimedia Commons? I am specifically looking for real-world visuals like political party or CEC billboards and outdoor advertisements, street posters or campaign flyers, and campaign events or public rallies, similar to what you've uploaded before. Just please take them from a specific distance and angle as a way to avoid FOP deletion, like you safely did prior.

Best regards, ShadZ01 (talk) 23:18, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I've taken some pics lately but I'll keep an eye out! Nurken (talk) 10:19, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help keeping an eye out.

I've also been thinking about how we can systemically get more licensed photos of Kazakh figures onto Wikipedia to expand our visual illustration. Since I'm not sure how Kazakh editors are organized right now, maybe we could form a coordinated group or use an existing one? We could look into getting someone official "journalist" credentials to attend party congresses and press briefings. From there, we could pool fundraising money to buy professional camera equipment and cover travel trips so one of us can act as a photojournalist.

Alternatively, we could use a fund to try to make commercial agreements with Kazakh press media to purchase full rights to their photos, though buying out those copyrights could possibly cost an exorbitant, unrealistic amount of money. I heard there are active Kazakh editor groups on Telegram and that WikiBilim has been involved in the past.

What do you think about my idea pitch of pooling funds for equipment and photo trips? It's just my own dream and fantasy idea right now. I don't want to act like everyone has time and money, but I am personally willing to share some of my own money to get it started. Maybe together, along with others volunteering or joining a fundraising pool, we could support a trusted person to cover potential trips, hotel stays, and food to make this happen. It's a similar concept to how Wikipedians sometimes pool money to purchase rare books or access archival sources for references, just applied to visual media. ShadZ01 (talk) 19:47, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I've shared this with the active Kazakh Wikipedians in Astana who show up to events so we'll be looking into this. It definitely sounds exciting. I think even submitting a financial support request from the Foundation itself could also be a possibility. I'm already part of the WikiPortraits initiative which gets people the photographer credentials, it's just the equipment that I need. In Austria, I asked Wikimedia Austria which does lend camera equipment but unfortunately there are no such resources in Kazakhstan as of now. Nurken (talk) 11:21, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

I do think we might be bit too late to implement this for the upcoming 2026 legislative election, especially since the major party congresses have already taken place. However, I think it is better to start organizing this as soon as possible, so we aren't caught off guard next time. My goal now is for us to be 100% ready by the time the next presidential election is announced. While it is officially scheduled for 2029, there is always a chance it could happen even earlier. If we start pooling funds, securing equipment, and building a workflow now, we can be completely prepared the moment the cycle starts. Since you are based in Austria, we could potentially look into whether WMAT can provide professional camera gear or travel grants, though I'm not sure how the exact paperwork works perhaps you could apply for an official foreign correspondent pass through the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs), or maybe look into getting accredited as an international election observer, but I'd advise you to look up the local accreditation systems and venue navigation to see what is actually feasible for securing a good spot to get those photos. ShadZ01 (talk) 03:11, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

2026 Kazakh legislative election ITN nomination

Hi @Nurken! I hope you are doing well.

As a fellow editor covering Kazakhstan, I wanted to reach out because I've been trying to nominate the 2026 Kazakh legislative election article for Wikipedia's Main Page "In the News" (ITN) section. Since it's a national election, it is automatically listed under WP:ITNR, but a couple of users prematurely slammed a neutrality tag on it and caused the ITN discussion to get procedurally closed.

Yue and Shane have already pointed out on the talk page that the article is perfectly balanced and well-sourced, but I could really use your support there to help firmly clear up the dispute. If we can get that tag removed, I am going to immediately renominate it and hopefully you can support the article's nomination for ITN.

Could you take a look at the article talk page discussion and add your input? Your perspective and help with ensuring the article stays updated and stable would be hugely appreciated! ShadZ01 (talk) 19:34, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2026 Kazakh legislative election

On 8 September 2026, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2026 Kazakh legislative election, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. ShadZ01 (talk) 23:30, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know and leave my thanks for the help you and the rest of the crew did, whom I assume you requested but I'm not exactly sure of their usernames. I honestly never thought this article had a chance to make it to ITN, as the entry I did the first time ended up being closed. Only on the second attempt, in relation to Oljas Bektenov being reappointed after the election, did I try it just in case, and surprisingly the admins accepted it. Just goes to show an example of not giving up on your hard work! Now that we finally covered this political event, I say the planned goal for all of us is to focus on other minor, less draining routine work as we usually do, like expanding existing Kazakhstan-related articles or translating pages for Kazakh Wikipedia. As for the future, I say it's best to stick to the idea of possibly get in touch with obtaining equipment as soon as possible, a professional camera from Wikimedia Austria, so by the time the presidential election (which will likely be next whether by 2029 or even earlier given history of snap elections) is announced, you're all set and prepared to photo-document it.

I'm thinking about creating an article for the 2026 Kazakh vice presidential confirmation. Since Erlan Karin was just confirmed on August 31 as the first vice president in three decades under the new constitution, it received a lot of international news coverage from outlets like Reuters and Al Jazeera. I'm hoping that makes it notable enough to pass WP:GNG and avoid being deleted, but let me know what you think.

Also, I noticed how there is no Portal:Kazakhstan like other countries have and thought of sharing this lack of a page with you so we could possibly look into making it. ShadZ01 (talk) 23:30, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

It seems to me that portals have largely lost their relevancy on Wikipedia so I'm not sure. It's curious though. My visa situation with Austria is, as of now and likely for some more months, unresolved & ambiguous. I think maybe asking for a grant on camera equipment from the Wikimedia Movement could work? I mean, we do have a living, albeit small, community in Astana that could use it. Nurken (talk) 07:39, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

I totally get it. To be honest, I have no real idea how portals work either I just know they exist out there somewhere on the site, but I've never actually clicked on one or looked into them myself. As for the rest of the logistical stuff, I'm really not familiar with how the Wikimedia Foundation operates or how their grant systems work. I'm definitely more of a private, independent editor who just likes to fly under the radar and focus purely on the actual work of expanding Kazakhstan-related articles in English. That visa situation with Austria sounds like a massive headache, but I really hope it gets sorted out for you soon. I wish you and the Astana crew the absolute best of success with getting that camera equipment grant from the Wikimedia Foundation! It would be awesome to see the local community get that kind of backing for future projects. ShadZ01 (talk) 18:02, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. Good luck! If you're on Instagram, you can check out our page: wikimediakz Nurken (talk) 20:43, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ukrainian LGBTQ people by occupation has been nominated for merging

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October 2026

Hello, I'm Raihanur. An edit that you recently made to Heaven on Earth (workshop) seemed to be generated using a large language model (an "AI chatbot" or other application using such technology). Text produced by these applications is not allowed on Wikipedia, and may contain factually inaccurate statements, fictitious citations, or other problems. You should instead read reliable sources and then summarize those in your own words. Your edit may have been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or ask your questions at the Teahouse, a friendly place for new users. Thanks. — Raihanur (talk) 13:18, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

November 2026

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Nataliya Nikonorova. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 01:41, 2 November 2026 (UTC)

please tell me what exactly was disruptive in my edit. Was it me removing the unnecessary transliteration (which used a largely unused transliteration by the way) or me removing the fact that Donetsk is disputed now (unnecessary info when it comes to a person's birthplace). Writing where a specific location currently is in the birth_place parameter of one's infobox is not an ordinary practice anyway. Saying she was born in the Ukrainian SSR is a pure fact. Nothing controversial in that. Nurken (talk) 04:26, 2 November 2026 (UTC)

New cross-language page link: 1st Kurultai

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