File talk:Map of the ethnic groups living in the Soviet Union.jpg

Hi, Pinkerton ! OK, I will do it (making myself derivative maps), because historic facts cited by scholar sources aren't my "own preferences". You seem to think I'm a silly person ; I was't considered as such when I taught at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Sorbonne University, and the Larousse editions take my remarks into account without taking them for unfounded personal opinions. --Claude Zygiel (talk) 16:56, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Your supposed credentials are irrelevant. You cannot alter existing files. You should certainly not be altering scans of paper maps: altering photography to change history is a truly Soviet practice! GPinkerton (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Fully agreed with GPinkerton on this matter, manipulating maps is an atrocity equal to burning books. I now removed the following template: --Enyavar (talk) 10:59, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of this map or the file name is disputed. Reason: Map containing some inaccuracies (Russians of continental southern Ukraine missing, Jews are semitic, the peoples of Daghestan aren't not all Caucasians, etc - see the source Le Million geographic encyclopedia, La Grange Batelière Publ., 1970, art. "URSS", vol.5, p.249) but it isn't possible to fix this, because since rules, it would be a manipulation.

There are equally wrong maps from the 1680s about the Roman Empire - but while we can judge these historic cartographers on how much they got wrong, we can only produce our own and more correct maps of today. --Enyavar (talk) 10:59, 9 August 2022 (UTC)