Talk:Nursultan Nazarbayev

message: This article reads like it was written by his propaganda staff. There is frequent reference to him as democratically elected despite the fact that most human rights organizations see him as a moderately repressive dictator. See for example, http://humanrightsfoundation.org/uploads/Open_letter_to_US_leaders_about_Nazarbayev_10:17:2012.pdf.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.179.162 (talk) 01:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Neutrality

message: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3115546.ece hmm, interesting... --212.247.27.172 14:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting article

message: I hear that in Kazakhstan it is illegal to ctritice Nazarbayev's height or Toupee? Is this true and can anyone give a citable source so I can add it to the article.--Dr who1975 03:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages 213.239.210.120 13:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: short & toupee

message: I'm going to go request that this article be semi-protected to keep out all these anonymous friends of Borat who like to post nonsense here!! K. Lastochka 16:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Borat vandalism

message: Not sure about the validity of the description of political opposition belonging here. Would an article on George Bush include that during his presidency Howard Dean became head of the Democratic Party? Or predictions of who will become the next President? I think any section on criticism should include concrete, referenced statements of critique. My 2 cents.--KZblog 05:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Predictions on the next president certainly have a place here. Bush has little to no real control over who becomes the next US president, but Nazarbayev is certain to hand-pick the next leader of Kazakhstan (unless a coup occurs, of course). I didn't really see any mention of predictions in the article, though. Otebig 22:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Opposition

message: "Transparency International ranked Kazakhstan 124th in its list of countries by corruption in 2004 with a score of 2.2 (on a scale of 0-10 with 0 indicating a "highly corrupt" state)."
When I read that I thought "only 124th in the corruption league" - that's good isn't it, there are 123 worse.  It's only when I read the report I understand that actually being low down the list is bad.  I know you mention the 0-10 scale with 0 being bad, but I couldn't square that with, in my view, being "only" in 124th position.  Perhaps you could make that clearer?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.98.155 (talk) 00:17, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corruption 

message: I think that the statement that Mashkevich "controls one-fourth of Kazakhstan's economy" is wrong and misleading. Despite the three footnote links to this statement, only one contains this claim, and it is an unsubstantiated statement from an online newsletter. Mashkevich's net worth, according to Forbes, is around $ 1 billion, and his ENRC - of which the Kazakhstani government is a part-owner - has annual revenues of about $ 4 billion. Kazakhstan's annual GDP is about $168 billion, so the figures don't add up. Nazabayev and his family do have strong personal links to Kazakhstani businessmen, and themselves control large swathes of the Kazakhstani economy, but let's please not imply that Nazarbayev is some sort of puppet to Jewish oligarchs. That sounds too much like Zhirinovsky.Konchevnik81 (talk) 04:24, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mashkevich 

message: I would like to see more family background on Mr. Nazarbayev. Most importantly, to which Juz does he belong?  Steve120 (talk) 09:28, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Such an ignorant comment!  Juz is an ancestor branch occupying specific territories, nothing to do with Jews. Cosainsé (talk) 17:18, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Family Background  

message: I deleted this line: "This is the first case in history since the discovery of nuclear arms that a nation has willingly done so." It is not true. South Africa dismantled its nuclear arsenal in 1989.209.235.2.8 (talk) 18:23, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, that section appears to have been created by a PR firm hired by the Kazakh government. See the  template above. --BDD (talk) 19:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Preventing Global Nuclear Threats

message: According to the Kazakh Constitution no one can have more passport apart from his kazakh one!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.78.32.22 (talk) 03:52, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unrelated off-topic comment

message: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hero-worship-kazakhstan-leaders-hits-height-17854624#.ULoQPI7ffe4
Might be of use to the article.HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:24, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The link doesn't seem to work. Cosainsé (talk) 18:25, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting news article on holiday in his honor 

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message: Nazarbayev is saying himself here https://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=fPYwr6RLbq8 that he is atheist promoting Din-i Ilahi. --YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII (talk) 17:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
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message: 197.234.221.148 (talk) 00:37, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. AntiCedros (talk) 03:20, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2019 

message: I have deleted two sentences which seem to be gratuitous in a section which is about the personal life of the article subject, Nazarbayev:
* "Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Nazarbayev, was named in the Panama Papers". Firstly, this is singularly uninformative.  So were relatives of Margaret Thatcher, Kofi Annan, but that is rightly not mentioned in their articles. Panama Papers has only a similar brief mention; in the absence of an article on Aliyev, the more expanded description currently in his mother's article, alongside her own involvement, seems more appropriate; there is no mention of this in the article on Aliyev's father.
* "In September 2013, the American rapper Kanye West ..... US$3 million for his performance." This doesn't belong in this article, but should be in Kanye West (it is) and perhaps Human rights in Kazakhstan (it isn't). Davidships (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

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message: An editor is changing "Nazarbayev ruled a dictatorship in Kazakhstan" into "Some say he ruled a dictatorship". That is not acceptable. There is no dispute whatsoever in RS that NN ruled a dictatorship. By presenting it as a contested active dispute, we'd be misleading readers. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 13:27, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all if you want me to participate you should Ping me. Secondly, for every op-ed Washington post article written by a newborn PHD recipient who conflates a dictatorship and authoritarian autocratic regime, there is a dozen research papers which are much more nuanced and dont characterise the regime as a dictatorship. For example: Legitimation and the Party of Power in Kazakhstan The Soft Authoritarian Tool Kit: Agenda-Setting Power in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan F.Alexsandr (talk) 15:29, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no distinction between a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime. They are one and the same. If you want to say he ruled an authoritarian regime, I have nothing against that. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:33, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no dispute in RS that he ruled a dictatorship 

message: Since the elections were not free and fair, why are we delineating that they took place and he won them? Snooganssnoogans (talk) 21:08, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the lead listing all the elections he "won"? 

message: There's no indication that he's no more the honorary chairman. Could you please fix this , can't do because of 3RR. Thanks in advance. Beshogur (talk) 15:23, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not going to get involved in content editing here, because I don't know enough about the subject. But he is referred to as the honorary chairman in multiple places, including both of the sources cited in the text. You will need considerable evidence if you want to claim otherwise. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:49, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hello again, I'm actually saying that someone did put an end date. So I'm trying to say that there's no indication that he's no longer the honorary chairman. Beshogur (talk) 18:15, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see. You are referring to the end date in the infobox. I can't help you with that, but you could start a discussion here, ping the editor(s) who added the end date, and ask them what they base it on. -- MelanieN (talk) 18:21, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

text: P.S. I notice that the article Organization of Turkic States still lists him as the honorary chairman (and Erdogan as the chairman). Does that organization have a website or anything, where this could be confirmed? -- MelanieN (talk) 18:23, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  here it says its life time. He does actually have kind of authority in the council, so it's not much symbolic. But there's no confirmation that he's no more a chairman, thus I don't think the end term is something we can confirm. Beshogur (talk) 18:53, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That's evidence enough for me to change the userbox to "to present" and use this as a reference. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:10, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honorary Chairman of the Organization of Turkic States 

message: Why does the same name appear as both "Ábish" and "Äbish" in the "Early life and career" section of this article? Please choose one or the other (the one that is most proper). 173.88.246.138 (talk) 21:43, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please fix spelling 

message: Article from Meduza based on reporting from Orda. Her name is Asel Isabayeva, she was a former Miss Kazakhstan and he married her during a religious ceremony and had two sons. Not sure how to add this, any help would be appreciated. Baeleef (talk) 21:56, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memoir reveals he has a second wife