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Hi there. I have a declared connection with Vladimir Stolyarenko and would like to request some changes to the article. This consists of removal of irrelevant information from the "Career" section and slight corrections on the English translation in a few sentences including names of the universities and departments contained within the "Early life and education" section. My changes have been outlined in more detail below and I look forward to working together. Thank you!

1. What and why it should be changed: Could the sentences in the "Career" section referencing the focus of JSB Imperial and how Tokobank gained a stake in Ost-West Handelsbank be removed. The information contained within these sentences has nothing to do with Vladimir himself, and two of the references supporting the sentences in question make no mention of him. I have also made some changes for grammar and accuracy in the final paragraph of this preview.

How it would look:

2. What and why it should be changed: Some of the university names and departments within the "Early life and education" section are incorrect translations from the original Russian or out of date. Could the correct names be implemented.

How it would look:

Many thanks again for reviewing my proposed changes! Cebuharks (talk) 15:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I was pinged on my talk page about this as a Russian speaker that reviews COI requests.

First section: overall looks good, I agree that these sources don't even mention him. I'm inclined to keep the sentence "Imperial focused on oil and natural gas supplies to East Germany and later to Germany", cutting the last half of it, to give a little bit of context, but the rest seems like excessive detail. One quibble: "in respect of" is grammatically very weird. I think this entire sentence should be restructured, i've taken a stab at this.

...unfortunately, wrt to the second half of this request, I'm not really sure which version is the better translation. I am inclined towards the new one, because the old seems to have been the product of an unedited direct machine translation, but ideally we'd seen an example of e.g. "факультет «Финансы и кредит»" being translated by a reliable source as "Faculty of Finance and Banking" - proper names like this are sometimes translated more literally vs more idiomatically and it's not always obvious which is correct. That being said, I see no reason to favor the previous translation and yours seems somewhat better, and certainly not problematic from a COI perspective, so I've made the change. Rusalkii (talk) 22:20, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Rusalkii for thoroughly examining my request and implementing the changes. I really appreciate it and I hope you have a great afternoon! Cebuharks (talk) 17:09, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again - I have a further request regarding removing information on the article which appears to breach guidance on WP:BLP which I have detailed below.

1. What and why it should be changed: Could the sentence in the "Personal life" section referencing Vladimir's purchase of an apartment in New York be removed. Both references used to support this sentence appear to be tabloid publications, including one by Gawker, which are unsuitable on a BLP article.

How it would look:

I have also removed the "Notes" section on the main page as it is an empty section.

Thanks again to editors for reviewing my change! Cebuharks (talk) 16:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Since the sentence about his wife used the same source, I've removed that as well, and removed the whole Personal life section. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 22:05, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much @Likeanechointheforest for engaging with my request and removing the poorly referenced "Personal life" section! I see you added a banner concerned about references - this is something I've been planning to address so it would be great to discuss which other references you think require improvement. I have also made another short request on the page if of interest. Thanks again for your help and have a great day! Cebuharks (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi once again. I would like to suggest some further improvements to the article, specifically within the "Legal claims" section which does not accurately represent the information contained within the supporting references. Rusalkii, as a Russian speaking editor who has dealt with interpreting Russian references on a previous request, your input would be greatly appreciated, though I'm open to hearing feedback from all interested editors!

1. What and why it should be changed: Ideally, given that all mention of Stolyarenko was excluded from the case and it has now been terminated, this section should be deleted. If that is not possible, I have recommended some changes to the wording for accuracy.

The definition of фигурант does not clearly convey that Stolyarenko was only named as an "involved person" as part of the criminal case against Kirill Cherkalin. "was involved in the criminal case" could be interpreted as any number of other incorrect things. I have suggested "suspect" as a replacement. I have also removed the reference to Alexander Bondarenko since it's irrelevant information.

Thanks again for reviewing my suggested changes! Cebuharks (talk) 16:29, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. And I suppose, after that the banner about references could be removed, because there will be no more controversial or unreliable sources here. Quick1984 (talk) 14:56, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Quick1984 for taking the time to review the request. I will implement the changes onto the article and close the request. For now, however, I will leave the banner on the article for other editors to decide on its removal. Cebuharks (talk) 19:40, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Quick1984 and I hope you've had a good weekend! Just wanted to check that when you agreed with my suggested changes to the "Legal claims" section, was that in the removal of the entire section or amending of the wording as I have done so already? Cebuharks (talk) 15:39, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
For me, there is no point in mentioning criminal case in an article about a person that, as it turns out, had nothing to do with. But it's not bad as it is. Quick1984 (talk) 19:46, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Quick1984 for clarifying and I agree with removal of the section which I shall now do. Have a very good day! Cebuharks (talk) 09:32, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there again and thank you to the editors who have so far assisted me in changes to the article!

I would like to suggest an addition following the final sentence of the "Career" section in regard to a notable merger Vladimir led in 2003.

How it would look:

Thanks again! Cebuharks (talk) 13:06, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Encoded  Talk 💬 10:58, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Encoded for answering my request and working through the request backlog! Cebuharks (talk) 08:28, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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