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Add official portret

File:Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2023 portret.jpg Zacharpolis (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quibble….quite reasonable though

Quibble on matter of transliteration I have to quibble with the wiki hive-mind on the matter of the appropriate transliteration into English of the surnames. Zelenskyy himself I guess we can reasonably transliterate his first name and surname in the Ukrainian style, given his being the president of Ukraine and I suppose Ukrainian being the (hoped for) dominant language. But his parents? They were Russian speakers. So that’s ’Zelensky’. I posted this before but it got memory-holed. But I think it is a very reasonable observation. — 90.241.80.42 (talk) 20:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Odd language

The introduction paragraph is written in an odd order, saying he is a “legendary defender of Freedom” before any further information. This is odd, as the introduction paragraph on any official Wikipedia page is for appointed titles, current/past/confirmed future positions, yadda yadda. This would be best fitting in a following paragraph.

For reference to whom is concerned, look at the Wikipedia pages for other political freedom fighters. It’s not wrong to be in the page, it is wrong to be in the spot it is located at. 2600:1009:B100:78AB:7D4C:52CE:F6D:4838 (talk) 02:39, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2600:1009:B100:78AB:7D4C:52CE:F6D:4838 it looks like that was just added about 40 minutes ago, I've reverted it as you're right that it shouldn't be there, and we can't add our own subjective assessments to the article (although we can add notable instances of how others have described him if there are reliable sources for this). Helpful Cat (talk) 03:15, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. President . I am from srilanka . I llike join with your army . But i cant get visa . Please help me to join with your army @ 2402:4000:23E0:FA9:54D:B714:8A37:C5D8 (talk) 10:46, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Portrait

It makes more sense to me to have the infobox image reflect his typical dress during his wartime presidency, i.e. olive military clothes. Not sure when it was changed from this, but as I see it has already been reverted once, starting a discussion here. @Loytra @GreatLeader1945 Jr8825 • Talk 10:01, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I support. As I said in my edit summary, the photo of Zelenskyy in his military garb "is a more "natural and appropriate representation" of Zelenskyy rather than a photo of him wearing traditional Ukrainian dress" (per MOS:LEADIMAGE). Loytra (talk) 05:59, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I don't know why we have him wearing traditional attire. Most people recognize him and Ukraine right now because of the war. Get a better picture—maybe one of the casual outfits he always seems to wear. Jjbomb (talk) 05:01, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]