User talk:NuclearVacuum

Re: Apology
I would like to apologize for my continued refusal to accept the rules of the wiki, I didn't understand the rules and didn't bother to read them. So I have decided to say sorry, Happy New Year.

Chilean Regions for Russian America
Hi! Thanks!!! Happy New Year for you too!! :D

No problem about that. I really like the new adminsitrative division for Chile and the chosen names. Yes, Valdivia should become his own region since the beginning. Works good for me.

If I have something to say is that in OTL, currently, a new region is being created:. The bill is still in discussion in the Congress, but is expected to be approved during the next months. If that happen, maybe you will need update the map later xD

Regards! --Katholico (talk) 04:43, January 3, 2017 (UTC)

A Couple of Campaign Logos
Hiya, Nuke!

Yesterday I uploaded two new campaign logos - one for a Jindal 2012 run and one for a Chafee 2016 run - that I had made. When I checked back today, both were deleted. I've uploaded original campaign logos of mine before, such as a Mike Beebe 2016 logo, that weren't removed.

Since I created the logos myself, what was the problem? If you sent me a message about this, I haven't seen it.

Thanks!

AltHistoryVibes (talk) 00:52, January 5, 2017 (UTC)

I uploaded the new logos because they were at a better resolution, and had some changes from the original logos. Ex: the new Jindal 2012 logo has a different color for the "J" and the red lettering is more uniform;  the new Chafee 2016 logo has larger, much sharper red squiggles, and the color of the lettering is also more uniform. (I used screenshots of the text colored in Word instead of trying to color black lettering in an image editor). I tried to replace the old images with the updated versions, but I received a warning about those images having been deleted. Even if the original, rough images are deleted (which would be fine by me),  how would I go about uploading the updated versions? AltHistoryVibes (talk) 01:40, January 5, 2017 (UTC)

Template Repair
If I recall correctly, I didn't create any of the template myself; but copied it directly from Wikipedia, which explains all of the incorrect parameters. It would probably be more beneficial if you fixed the template yourself, since I don't have much experience with templates of this complexity.

 Consul Ioshua   Vae victis!   04:39, January 6, 2017 (UTC)

RE: Seal of the National Assembly of Cygnia
Hi Nuclear. I noticed that you recently deleted a file entitled "Seal of the National Assembly of Cygnia.png" with the reasoning that it was a duplicated file. While it is indeed similar to two other files I uploaded, namely "Seal of the Imperial Congress of Cygnia.png" and "Seal of the Imperial Senate of Cygnia.png", it has a distinct difference, namely that it has the words "National Assembly of the Empire of the United Cygnian States" rather than "Imperial Congress of...etc." and "Imperial Senate of...etc." Therefore, I'd like to request that you undelete this file, as it is not a duplicate.

In the event, however, that I mistakenly uploaded a duplicate of one of the two other files mentioned, I apologise for my error, but kindly request its undeletion anyway so that I may upload the correct file into that name to replace it.

Thank you for your consideration. —  T  I   M  (TSW • AH • MGW • Contribs ) 02:07, January 22, 2017 (UTC)

RE: Over catorgizing
Sorry about that. I will stop. Scotty Gaither (talk) 12:16, January 30, 2017 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, I saw you took the proposal template off of the Buddhism article. :)

Through a year's work and collaboration I am happy to see what was made with your help and suggestions.

I am happy to see this,

Thanks again,

Sincerely,

Stepintime (talk) 02:36, February 5, 2017 (UTC)

I took months to finish it so don't worry, it was perfected,

Though Cossacks is looking nice too, well actually come to think it needs more wiki links

What are you up to?

Stepintime (talk) 02:49, February 5, 2017 (UTC

Sure, taking a break for the real life of course ;) college, jobs commitmments

I imagine the Cossacks carving their own group out, even though many ordinary Slavic people would have ancestoral ties to them, and feel "connections to their heritage".

Sure, I am glad to give input, and clairifcation, what do you want to ask? I like talking about this,

I don't want to make it too big, but I am thinking there may be an addition later, to talk about holy sites, if I could muster the skills I would make a map for this too,

Right now here, I am working on adding to Sea Dragons, but today I focused more on Washington Shot, at Murdering Town, I have made a proposal to adopt the project.

Stepintime (talk) 04:57, February 5, 2017 (UTC)

My reasoning is this for the new varied Buddhism is this,

firstly wherever there were mongols in the russian empire buddhism would spread at least to apoint, after 1770 they were spread across the land and many served in the army on the far flung wars for the empire.

As you know this leads for the community of Mongols towards OTL California and Oreagon. In this brand new world as both similarly subugated people both Mongols and Native Americans interact with each, relations are not always rosey but two groups with more apparant physical simlarties than their Slavic Overlords they would interact. Mongols as you might expect would still prefer rural living and would see native americans

The New School is then forumlated, like this.

Its the 19th century, an age of theological and spirtual experimentation as we know, just as new faiths like Bahai and Mormanisn were formed so could New World Buddhism (while not being as jarring to buddhism as the OTL examples of new religions).

This is also the Americas a free and open country (even in the mountains west coast) with good climate that is not overcrowded like Europe (yet).

Then you have a surge of white colonists some of who would be minorties themsleves, others part of a growing middle class.

From people coming from the most old Eurasian of all words (Mongols) interacting with natives, coming along with the cultural diversification of the 19th century...

and with just a dash of social alientation and creativity from those writiers.. Wham! we have new ideas! Which in part descend from Orientalism and ideas about the "noble savage" when it comes to Indians. Converted settlers beleive their higher purpose is no longer just for their nation, and not for the abrahamic god (also connected to the state in most cases) but is part of purifiying the soul. This is a virgin land for virgin ideas, and with enough experimental intellectuals come around it would be a matter of time before someone like  Fyodor Shckerbatskoy began writing this stuff in their heads. Now I don't so much see a charasmatic leader early on like Jospeh Smith or anything like that, which dominated things but the idea would be in people's head. Whilte middle class, upperclass and likelty some beggers as well would feel their spirtuality going in this direction.

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The chaos of the first half of the 20th century disturbs old ideas and while there is a resurgance in conservatism in the 50's new World Buddhism would now have followers and new organzations to create a group idenitity, this will become increasingly popular after independence as New World Buddhism would be a divorce from Old World=USSR and oppresive Orthodox Clerics (which liberals would never never like). "the Englightenment Church founded in 1955 . =====

As the formation of Alaska would evidently not create enough butterflies to change the cultural convulsions of the late 20th century (given there were still world wars) New World Buddhism would flourish from the 60's through the early 90's, expanding in white membership. Young asian and native Americans might join too to break from the tradition from their forefathers. New World Buddhism would become popular all over the Americas and maybe even Europe as a minority religion.

New World Buddhism again would be inspired by real Indian life, conceptions of the noble savage, the seemingly pure land of North America with the first seed coming from the presence of sub class Mongol expacts looking for anywhere to live a new life and to get a little farther from the Russians (even if that is in a far far away colony of russia)

I realize there is no particular trend to account for this, except that I beleive this ATL is a recepie for new movements unfamilar to us being made.

I hope some of that makes sense, please tell me if you see any problems

Stepintime (talk) 19:09, February 7, 2017 (UTC)

FTBW
Hey Nuke, I noticed early that you removed the Featured Timeline banner from French Trafalgar, British Waterloo (Portal Page). I noticed there was some edits before that, but I wasn't sure what was going on, so I'm wondering why. Thanks Tbguy1992; Talk; Blog 05:09, February 5, 2017 (UTC)

I am also unclear about the motive behind this action. Please explain.

05:10, February 5, 2017 (UTC)

The Rollback on your article
The user who edited your article is a permabanned user who is a plague to the wiki. That's why I rolled it back.               Deadly State of Mind    Leader of the Knights of Scraw.  17:14, February 7, 2017 (UTC)

Cassini Venusian Haven
I have decided to resume work on Cassini for Venusian Haven. I was going to create a map for the Cassini nationialist party claims but could you please send me a SVG version of the map. The map also does not include the location of Ostland. Thanks,

Wow I have a new found appreciation of the detail that goes into this map, all the layers that aren't even used purely for reference. I have been messing around with the map for the past hour.

Accidental Duplication
So for the life of me i could not find a picture so i uploaded the one i needed, only to find an article i needed with the exact picture about an hour after the fact. The Picture is named WW1Montage. Figured it let you know before you let me know haha. Do whatever you need to with it my bad.

Re: You Okay?
Heyyo.

I'm fine, just wanted to clean up my profile after not editing much for a few months. I've actually been spending more time on the Alternate History Discussion Forum for the last few months. College started up a few weeks back as well, so there's that. Mostly just me being on the AHD Forum more often and not having a desire to edit anything. No need to worry.

I think I'll just stick to contributing to Russian America on this site from now on. I've been seeing a lot of cool ideas on the AHD Forum (you should check this one out ), but haven't found a unique topic to start an ATL for on this site.

Apologies for the scare.

Yankee97 (talk) 03:51, February 17, 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your concern.

Indeed I am! I went through a "regionalist" phase again and became interested in the idea of an independent state. I started reading all your notes in regards to in the TL and became even more intrigued by the idea of an independent New England. The sandbox was just a fun activity out of boredom. Now that you bring up again, I'm interested in working on all aspects of the New England Federal Government (i.e. House, Senate, Presidency).

Yankee97 (talk) 19:35, February 17, 2017 (UTC)

Don't worry about it.

Everything seems fine for in 13 Fallen Stars, I'm just interested in expanding on it to degrees similar to what you've done with  (which isn't surprising considering you're a native New Yorker). As a native New Englander, Connecticut to be precise, I'm interested in expanding the New England page.

I never thought of that, but considering the aftermath of the recent election, I could totally see a "Christian Democrat" defeating (albeit narrowly) a "Liberal Republican" in the 2016 election.

I also agree that, despite the GOP's move to the left, they would still have the baggage of being a pro-business party. While I would hope there would be Republicans similar to OTL Jay Rockefeller (utilizing state and business to achieve an end as long as it helps everyone out), the sad truth is the GOP ATL would still be influenced by business.

A real populist could definitely win in 2016. I wouldn't be surprised if the candidate would try to form a new coalition. Hell, it could be a "Second New Deal Coalition." This Second New Deal could be more inclusive towards African-Americans, whom I assume are still disproportionately affected by poverty, because poor people are poor people regardless of the color of their skin. Without the outlandish remarks (a la our current President) and the blatant attempts to appeal to racism and xenophobia, I could this ATL populist Democrat winning comfortably in 2016.

If a real populist runs in 2016, I think we can cast aside the candidacies of a Democratic Rick Santorum and Scott Walker. I could see Walker still being a Republican ATL.

I've seen your list of ATL People and yes, given Bernie and Grayson's ancestry, they would be Alaskans. In terms of the candidate who would win the nomination, I'm opting for ATL Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI). While I think he'd be a good candidate (I would have voted for him), I think he'd run a campaign similar to that of H. Clinton being perceived as boring and uninspiring compared to the populist Democrat. I could see Chafee picking someone like Charlie Crist (who would probably have been elected in the 2010 Florida Senate race) to form a moderate ticket. Despite his optimism for a GOP victory, I could see Crist still running for reelection to his seat in 2016 and given the solid liberal GOP bench in ATL Florida (essentially being an ATL California) Crist would probably be reelected.

That's all I've got so far. I hope these ideas can be a foundation for future ideas in Russian America.

Yankee97 (talk) 23:49, February 24, 2017 (UTC)

NU Stuff
I thought this may interest you http://jbuff.com/c080207.htm

Hi, I believe you are the creator of New Union? If so, I have many questions, but for now, I have 2.

1. In a hypothetical collapse of the New Union, would every republic instantly become independent similar to the events in the Old Union's collapse?

2. Will there be any new republics soon? Ex. Afghanistan, Yiddishland, Latgale, etc.

Thanks, -Firestorm

United Dutch Republic
Hi NuclearVacuum. I was wondering as to why you kept adding a message at the top of my articles based on the UDR. It's happened a couple of times and the main reason is misnamed articles. Could you give me any reasons as to why the articles are misnamed/give me tips for better names?

UDR Dutch Republic ah (talk) 16:17, March 2, 2017 (UTC)UDR Dutch Republic ah

Before 1984
I couldn't help but notice that you deleted a page I'd spent weeks working on, called Before 1984, without warning. Would you mind explaining your motivation for doing this, and is there any way I can retrieve my work?Monkeygoo42 (talk) 23:30, February 28, 2017 (UTC)

EDIT: After seeing your post on my talk page, I understand your reason for deleting the article. However, if timelines based on derivative works are not permitted on this site, you may want to take a look at Rome-Berlin-Tokyo-Moscow Alliance, which is the exact same thing as the timeline that I wrote--it explains how the world of 1984 came about. I would also like to protest the fact that the article was not formally nominated for deletion with the proper template.

I am both Monkeygoo42 and Makefolkslaugh. The former I made years ago to make a post on a different wiki, while the latter was made specifically for my work on Uncyclopedia. I know it's quite confusing.

I appreciate your offer. I don't foresee the possibility of my article being done for quite some time, so I don't think it would be at home in a temporary sandbox. I would, however, like to take you up on your offer to retrieve your work so that I can move it offsite, because I certainly want to continue working on it. Lesson learned--always back up your work. User:Makefolkslaugh/signature 15:03, March 1, 2017 (UTC)

OK. I've discontinued my second account (Monkeygoo42), read the rules thoroughly and moved all my work offsite. I will make sure not to transgress against the rules again to avoid this situation. And may I offer a hearty cпасибо за ваше понимание. User:Makefolkslaugh/signature 15:06, March 2, 2017 (UTC)

Adopting RA's Editorial Guidelines for My Coll. Timelines?
Hey there Nuke, I was looking over your guidelines for editing Russian America, and I found I liked how streamlined and easy to learn they are.

Would you mind if I used your guidelines as a template of sorts to make my own?

Thank! Canuck2012 (talk) 05:30, March 4, 2017 (UTC)Canuck2012

Question about uploading images
So you recently blocked me due to me uploading images. So how do I aviod beening blocked again? Please respond asp.

Scotty Gaither (talk) 00:43, March 6, 2017 (UTC)

If you haven't seen this already
Check this archive out of colored pictures of the Russians Empire

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/index.html

If you want to find some cool ones quickly click here

http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

I enjoy looking at them, I sure you will too, maybe you can use these somewhere,

Stepintime (talk) 06:17, March 10, 2017 (UTC)

DR Congo in Russian America
Hello. Having been fascinated by the Congo's history, I was glad to hear that in your timeline, the Congo becomes a power in Africa. I have a question though. How well does it fare in terms of development? Is it highly developed, on par with China, or, more like Laos

user talk: Warrioroffreedom123 02:54, March 11, 2017 (UTC)Warrioroffreedom123