Talk:Brezhnev (disambiguation)

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The following entries fail WP:DABRL as of June 2009 and have been removed:

M/S Leonid Brezhnev, a cruiseferry formerly known as M/S Karelya
Brezhnev (band), Amsterdam-based hardcore punkrock band

—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:30, June 22, 2009 (UTC)

Brezhnev sentence[edit]

This page says "Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) was a Soviet politician." I believe it should state "Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) was a Soviet dictator." Because he was the unequivocal sole leader of a one party state. The Wikipedia entry on Dictator has written "A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power and wields it in an oppressive or abusive manner". What are your thoughts and opinions? --2001:8003:4B56:F700:BC3C:44E7:39D:C2D8 (talk) 02:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here's how it works. This here is a disambiguation page, so the description comes straight out of the first paragraph ("lede") of the article being linked. The lead of the article being linked summarizes the contents of that article, and the contents of the article must be supported by reliable sources. If those sources overwhelmingly used "dictator" to describe Brezhnev, then this description would have made it to the lede and then ultimately here. However, since the most common description for Brezhnev is indeed "Soviet politician", then that's what we end up using. Other Wikipedia articles cannot be used as sources, and your specific analysis is in fact a textbook example of original research—something that Wikipedians are not supposed to be doing. Hope this helps!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 28, 2017; 14:38 (UTC)