Talk:Mark Taimanov

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[edit] Taimanov's punishment for losing to Fischer

I thought we should mention the part about how Taimanov was "officially" snagged for smuggling in a book by Solzhenitsyn (I can provide a source from his autobiography if anybody requests it), but I'm having a hard time wording it well; can someone help? StaticElectric 07:19, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

• It looks good to me, and it's an excellent addition to the article, thanks. I think there's a discussion of this in Russians v Fischer, which probably takes it from Taimanov's biography. I don't have my copy with me at this moment but I will try to remember to check later. Also, if you have a reference for anything in the article from his autobiography, please add it to the page. We have many fine chess bio articles that have many accurate and sourceable claims but no references actually in the article. Very few chess articles have too many refs. Some facts are too obvious to require a ref, but I think it's a shame to not cite any references at all until each claim is specifically challenged. If you've got a ref, put it in! (I don't have Taimanov's bio, but it's on my wishlist.) Quale 20:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
• Forgot also to mention: I think some people don't bother with refs because they don't want to wrestle with the citation templates (Template:citation and others) or the <ref></ref> tags. Please don't let that stop you. References are important and you don't have to worry about making everything "perfect". Someone will gladly clean it up for you—collaberation is the key wiki principle and some people even enjoy doing that sort of cleanup work. (It does help if you are sourcing a specific claim to give page numbers if you have them.) Quale 20:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)