Talk:Alina Kabaeva

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reverted back to version by Nv8200p (25 Nov 05) due to unsourced edit.--Dakota ^{t e} 07:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

add sources for positive drug tests and following banns. CheeseLover 09:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tatar?

Is she Tatar? She's in the category of Tatars. I always thought she was Uzbek?

She was born in Tashkent but she's not ethnically Uzbek (I live in Kyrgyzstan so I have at least some authority in Uzbek-spotting ;)). Her page at the Russian Wikipedia doesn't mention her ethnicity. However, a Google search suggests she is indeed Tatar. -- Hux 21:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Now with the present developments (see Vladimir Putin), this is going to be debated: her father is Tatar, her mother is ethnic Russian. Which means that at birth she was probably "marked" as Russian. I was unable to find any self-identification, but she did choose to get elected from Kazan' (though of course, there are a lot of ethnic Russians living there), so I think "Tatar" is acceptable, though "ethnic Russian" also is. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 08:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pravda plagiarism

As I was doing some research I found this English language article from Pravda, which borrows a whole paragraph from this article without any citation. Joshdboz (talk) 18:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Just naughty, if that is what happened. I am afraid it may really be the other way around, since most English articles on Pravda are translations from Russian. The paragraph here may be a copy right violation! Have a look at the end of the article, it says "Translated by Dmitry Sudakov". I went to the Russian side of Pravda, and searched on Kabayeva, but was unable to get the Russian version of that article. Nevertheless, I think we should suppose the worst and start copy-editing that first paragraph... --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 15:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the edits to the article were made by user:CheeseLover in August 2005, whereas the Pravda article is dated with January 2008. The text itself is somewhat poor English and is likely to be a translation from some unknown source. --Illythr (talk) 14:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)