Talk:Boris Yeltsin

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Vladimir Yeltsin. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 3#Vladimir Yeltsin until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  signed, Rosguill talk 17:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Vladimir Yeltsin" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: This article has POV in it. Here is an example of a heavily biased paragraph, "Yelstin succeeded in the unconstitutional, illegal, and contested dissolution of the USSR. The breakup of the Soviet Union could happened earlier in 1991 when, Soviet citizenry voted on this issue. In the only independent referendum in Soviet history, a super majority of people across the nation voted overwhelmingly to remain in the union and preserve its government. This should have stopped the nationalistic and treacherous parties in the union but the victory was only temporary."
Can someone please clean this up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.10.100.224 (talk) 17:51, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This POV needs clean up 

message: Where in that source is Yeltsin described as being aligned with conservatism? The only mention of conservatism it seems is this paragraph:  If anything, it seems to contradict this. Mellk (talk) 23:12, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We have a Reliable Source in the article which explicitly describes Yeltsin as an adherent of "liberal Russian nationalism". Yeltsin favoured free enterprise, a privatised economy, and a move towards something resembling liberal democratic governance. These are all liberal positions, as the term liberalism is understood in an international sense. Confusion arises over the fact that in the U.S. specifically, a country fundamentally built on liberal principles, the word liberal has in recent decades come to be used generically for what otherwise might be better labelled "left-wing", as you note. (Ironically, of course, many self-described U.S. "liberals" now espouse views that, in an international context, are pretty non-liberal, like emphasising state ownership and identity politics over individual liberty). We must not only follow the Reliable Sources, but also avoid imposing very U.S.-centric uses of the word on other parts of the world. Midnightblueowl (talk) 09:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Conservatism" 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :President Yeltsin's and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 8#President Yeltsin's until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  feminist (talk) 13:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "President Yeltsin's" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Hi,
I just tried to save this page to my flash drive so I could read it in full later and also refer back to it, and the download was going to be 850 MB, according to my download manager.  I skimmed the page, found there is at least one video (Boris and Bill Clinton 'share a laugh') and looking at the source code for the page I saw that there are various webm files listed in that section.  When I then ran a count of how many times webm appeared in the source code, it was 61.
Presumably the page's code is written such that it's attempting to supply me with all or a good number of those videos - I don't want them!  (Especially not when I have around 500 MB left before I run out of data allowance.)
Could someone sort out the code or editing (it's beyond me, currently) so that the videos aren't part of the download for the page?  I'm fairly sure OGGs don't download automatically, do they?  Anyway, this is excessive, at 850 MB - I can just imagine school kids running into trouble, too, with their teachers and the admin, if the security settings on their school intranet even allow them to download the page, considering what comes with it.
TIA heaps to the 'rescuer'!
Mathsgirl (talk) 23:27, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, to download a page, I would recommend to click the built-in Download as PDF option on the sidebar (H:PDFD for more details). There is only one video on this page. Regards. Mellk (talk) 22:14, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Download size is ENORMOUS!  850MB!  Please fix! 

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message: At this point in time, every single one of the contributions to this section, are from american / NY sources, including one ex-russian american immigrant.
diverse as usual, WikiP.
How about someone commenting on which money influxed-in, or what kinds of impacts of rapid investment had in both immediate new business terms, as-well-as political self-conceptualization / how successful & unsuccessful it was on ex-USSR citizens' concepts of self, or something else psychological / psycho-political?
or pff... i dunno,.. other stuff, confidence in Moscow, uncertainty out in the country, etc? 120.19.133.148 (talk) 22:46, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diversity of sources needed in Reception and Legacy section. 

message: There is a new photo with high resolution here :File:Boris Yeltsin Kremlin.ru.jpg. I propose to set it as a main image in infobox. FlorianH76 (talk) 01:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New photo for infobox