Talk:Valentina Matviyenko

message: The article Valentina Matviyenko is very vague, has no references, sounds politically biased towards her ("one of the most prominent and popular female politicians") and does not mention important recent events (e.g. that she is not elected anymore). But Matviyenko occupies a very important position, so the article should certainly be improved as soon as possible. Colchicum 14:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

message: Valentina Matviyenko is NOT a member of United Russia. She has consistently stated that although she broadly supports the party and its policies, she prefers not to join it so as to "represent all the people of Saint Petersburg regardless of their party affiliation". InArm (talk) 19:32, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: United Russia

message: The blurb on the main page is highly misleading. Her new job of a figurehead chairperson has been widely seen as a demotion, not promotion. Colchicum (talk) 23:02, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Colchicum (talk) Interesting, I never heard this supposition. Do you have any sources that say so? I'd really like to read their reasoning.Cosainsé (talk) 01:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

text: The sources say it is the third highest political position in Russia. Your edit on the informal calling was funny by the way, but not true. The "тетя Валя" is a popular and neutral variant (use google for it), just can't find a suitable high quality source, as is always a problem in such cases. GreyHood Talk 23:16, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't need Google here, I am a local and I can tell aunt Valja from Valka the Glass. Anyway, as long as there are no sources this doesn't belong here. Colchicum (talk) 23:26, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Polysemy. GreyHood Talk 09:07, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

text: There is something here; it tells: "Однако наш герой романа Запал, как видно, на красы Валюши (кличка - Полстакана Иль Валька-Красные трусы)." That's how she is known in Russia. However, the link to original text is broken, and all other links from this page are broken. Somehow I am not surprised... Biophys (talk) 03:53, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it is not how she is known in Russia. Except for some circles of Russian intelligentsia, of course ;) These two names are based on baseless allegations in drinking too much (or not not enough too much ;) as half-glass suggests) and the connections with Komsomol in her youth. GreyHood Talk 09:07, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: GreyHood Talk, it does not matter whether drinking allegations are baseless or not. Both nicknames connote a lack of respect for her from the general public. Also, why do you say that she is only known by those names in "intelligentsia circles"? And why "of course"? If she was as good for the city as you claim, there should be no "of course". Cosainsé (talk) 01:08, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the highest political position attained by a woman in the country since the 18th century" 

message: I have done some reorganising and cleanup of the wording.  Also the personal life sections were split apart and the political career section was just a timeline of short sentenses so I gave that bullets.  I have a question about the transliteration.  Sometimes the y variants are used in the article and sometimes not.  Does this matter?  For example in the photo it is 'Matvienko' and I believe that is more correct - like Dostoevsky.  Also her son's name is sometimes Sergei and sometimes Sergey.  Is there a wikipedia guideline about this?  At least it should be consistent within the article.   The description of her political rank seems verified and accurate. Obotlig (talk) 05:05, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you basically doubled the contents of the rest of the article in the overview. While it is normal to double some primary points in the intro, don't think it is good for the body of the article. GreyHood Talk 09:11, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

text: As for the transliteration, there is WP:RUS. GreyHood Talk 09:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't add new material to the article, it had and still has the problem of the introduction having too much (later duplicated) detail.  Thanks for the pointer on transliteration.  Obotlig (talk) 18:21, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring of article and transliteration question 

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message: Matvienko has a lot of nicknames that are used negatively attuned to this person, but people are loyal to her, for example, Viktor Chernomyrdin - Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (1993-1998), Acting President of the Russian Federation (November 5-6, 1996). Аmong them: Valka - red 
underpants, Valka - smelly underpants, Valka - half a glass. All these nicknames are over 30 years old.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.61.40.184 (talk) 12:20, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous nicknames Valentina Matvienko.