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In the article, Leon B. segues from being married to Aleksandra in 1899 to a 1903 marriage to Natalia with no mention of a divorce or death in between.
Well, his first wife lived into the 1930s. They may have divorced in 1902, but I can't find a clear source for this. Maybe they just divorced by mutual agreement without official recognition. PatGallacher (talk) 01:19, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There has been a slow-motion edit war over the infobox image going on for the last several months, so it should be discussed. The gallery above contains the main images that I have seen cycled through; others can be proposed below. — Goszei (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Option A. Trotsky looks the most natural here, and the picture is from the height of his prominence. Option B has a weird expression and a transparent background, Option C has him in his military-style uniform and thus puts emphasis on his Red Army leadership (important, but just one part of his revolutionary and ideological career), and Option D depicts him after he was relegated to exile, which is not ideal. — Goszei (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Option C. I like A but unless the full portrait is shown it's a little low-resolution. C is period appropriate, high quality, and I don't think the military uniform is too uncouth. PequodOnStationAtLZ (talk) 20:40, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings, all. The article has been tagged as "too long." I strongly disagree. Its size is quite adequate for a subject of such primary political and ideological importance. Small trimmings and/or improvements can always be made. But IMO it's not too long.
I would say that about 15,000 words (as opposed to the current size of ~18,400) is a good target. There are a lot of unneeded block quotes, and a lack of cohesion in some parts of the body. That said, I am not a supporter of tagging such articles. — Goszei (talk) 21:58, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Goszei. I have no reference point for the "proper" size beyond the WP:SIZERULEguideline, which suggests that, above 15,000 words, the text "almost certainly should be divided or trimmed." That said, I believe we should take into account relative size of related articles of equal importance as our subject. The Lenin article's word count is approximately 20,800 words; the Stalin one 21,500 words; the article on Marx 21,100; and Mao's 23,600. Which is why I believe the 18,000 word count here is acceptable. -The Gnome (talk) 14:37, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Where did you get those numbers from? According to the Prosesize gadget, the readable prose sizes of those pages are 15,000 for Lenin, 13,900 for Stalin, 11,600 for Marx, and 13,600 for Mao. — Goszei (talk) 15:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In my country (part of former Soviet Union) he is more notorious than Lenin or Stalin. He was the chief machinator of mass killings (including simple workingmen) during one of the most bloodiest times of RSFSR (before Stalin purge). Have you read the works of Igor Bunich?
In general it feels like Adolf Hitler's article written by a facist. Wikipedia should not accept far-right or far-left bias, but the latter seems to have an important role... It seems that (English) Wikipedia is in fact censored, criticism of Marxist figures is nonexistent or limited to Marxist critique. 2A02:6EA0:5700:1:0:0:0:D001 (talk) 10:41, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please cite policy instead of your feelings. Experienced editors can act on your grievances if they know what changes you want to see and why, based on Wikipedia's policies on neutrality. They cannot act on your personal anecdotes about your experiences. Yue💌21:14, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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