Talk:Yan Karlovich Berzin

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Kurz gesagt: Ihr habt ja keine Ahnung ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.112.127 (talk) 21:34, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Changed Importance for Latvian History Project to high. Reason: Bersin is the most important exponent of the lativian communist party during the russian civil war. --85.181.117.225 (talk) 11:50, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

No Longer Stub Class

I'm pulling down the "Stub Class" banner, since it's beyond that now. Carrite (talk) 19:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I mad no change. But this article contains a huge error. There are two Jan Berzin. One was a diplomat, the otherone was chief of the GRU and in Spain. You made a single man of two different men.Alain Campiotti (talk) 10:54, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Reverting back 5 years

In relation to the revert which removed 5.5 years of information from the article, it is in relation to this. I hate having had to do it, but to ensure accuracy in our articles it had to be done unfortunately. 77.253.34.14 (talk) 18:32, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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Requested move 2 August 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved, Based on precedent and 'most common name in English sources'. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 14:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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Jānis Bērziņš (politician) → Yan Karlovich Berzin – Even though ethnically a Latvian, he rose to prominence as a Soviet politician, where the de facto language was Russian, thus it makes sense to use the Russified form, which many of the English-language sources do (for example, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Turaids (talk) 04:45, 2 August 2019 (UTC)--Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 13:56, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose understand the rationale, but makes life easier to be consistent. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:15, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

What consistency exactly are you talking about? –Turaids (talk) 00:08, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Support per detailed nomination by a longtime member of Latvian Wikipedia as well as per his subsequent comment which submitted the names of seven additional Stalin-era Soviet Union-based Latvians referenced by their Russian name forms. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:08, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
• Support. Does appear to be his commonest name in the sources. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:39, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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