Talk:Felix Kulov
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[edit] Expansion?
Simply to have the {{expand}} tag on this article seems a bit pointless, without any notion of how it should be expanded. Any article, surely, can have more added, and this one doesn't seem to me to be particularly lacking compared with similar people (for example, Shavkat Mirziyoyev). I've tried to remove the tag once or twice, only to be reverted. If it's marked as a stub, why does it also need this template? --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 13:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- OK, checked again and it's not actually down as a stub. Nevertheless, my argument holds. Any article can be expanded - why should this one particularly be marked for expansion? --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 13:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- Perhaps because he is the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, and there is no mention of his policies nor is there significant analysis of his political ties and background. When you wish to see why an expand template is on a page, go to the Requests for Expansion page, search for the month in which the template was added, and you can see the rationale. KazakhPol 18:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- I had checked that page. All it says is "Prime Minister of Kazakhstan", which I knew anyway. All I really wanted was what you've given above - some sense of what you thought was missing and still needed to be added. I just don't like to see Wikipedia under-selling itself. This isn't a great article, but having that great ugly template right up at the top straight away says to the world, "Wikipedia isn't good", whereas we all know that this is still a whole lot more than any other encyclopedia would say about Kulov. I guess it's not really this article I have a problem with, but the concept of the {{expand}} template in itself, and I should take that elsewhere. I won't try to take the template off again without more info being added. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 10:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Perhaps because he is the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, and there is no mention of his policies nor is there significant analysis of his political ties and background. When you wish to see why an expand template is on a page, go to the Requests for Expansion page, search for the month in which the template was added, and you can see the rationale. KazakhPol 18:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
KazakhPol is reverting my attempts to improve the references by including author names and dates. I am a bit confused by this. It isn't a matter of "style"; those are simply pieces of information necessary for proper referencing of the articles we're using. Everyking 22:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- I just clicked to see his contribs and found this edit, in which he reverts someone who was trying to make an article conform to standard style by not including the place of birth in the intro. I think it's important that you respect Wikipedia conventions about these things, which exist for a reason, and let other people make these changes if they wish. Everyking 22:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- Are you joking? I fail to see how your second comment has anything to do with this article, other than you feel a need to criticize me. You changed the references style. I see no point in doing this. I prefer to keep it simple. That is not exactly controversial. In the second instance, which has nothing to do with this page, a user moved the birthdate out of the introduction. This is not according to Wikipedia conventions. KazakhPol 22:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
