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He is a very important political communist figure and he may be vandalized by anti communist people 37.242.62.78 (talk) 06:01, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Soviet politician

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@Thedarkknightli Please stop persisting. It's not "other stuff exists", it's literally every single article on the entire Wiki. Might as well get rid of the infobox if this article is to get special treatment. Szchalchsz (talk) 13:30, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Thedarkknightli. No extra inforation is conveyed by the addition. Wehwalt (talk) 14:22, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Then bring this up with every single article on English Wikipedia. Every single one. Why are you two exclusively selecting the articles of Soviet leaders? At some point, it stops being "other stuff exists" and it becomes a complete violation of Wikipedia protocol. Szchalchsz (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Huh? If we can omit "an American politician who served as" on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, William McKinley, etc., why can't we do the same to the articles of Soviet leaders? Thedarkknightli (talk) 14:54, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's inconsistency. Stalin has it, Putin has it, and Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton and Reagan also have it. Either they should all include "was an X politician who served as...", or none of them should. I'm at least trying to make them all have it, whereas you're perpetuating inconsistency by not also removing the part from Stalin's article. Szchalchsz (talk) 15:56, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree. Stalin and Reagan are deceased, but the rest politicians you mentioned in the last comment aren't. Also, they both have >1 notable job. Thedarkknightli (talk) 16:21, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko also had more than one job. Brezhnev was a legitimate war hero, Andropov was the head of the KGB for fifteen years, et cetera. I don't see what someone being deceased has to do with anything here. Again, I'm merely asking for consistency, and nothing else. Szchalchsz (talk) 17:40, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
MOS:STYLE says,"Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article and should not be changed without good reason. Edit warring over stylistic choices is unacceptable." If it is not forbidden, it is acceptable, and we only need be consistent within an article. Wehwalt (talk) 16:38, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See also MOS:REDUNDANCY, saying we should avoid redundancy in the first sentence. Even without the phrase, does the reader doubt he was a Soviet politician? Wehwalt (talk) 16:44, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So let's maintain the inconsistency because one person chose to start an edit war? Szchalchsz (talk) 17:40, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I support Szchalchsz's inclusion of the label, as well as their overall changes to the first paragraph of the lead, which was messy and front-loaded. There is a value to immediately framing the topic and consistency, which I think outweighs redundancy here. — Goszei (talk) 20:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]