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A slow-motion edit war is in progress over the choice of Infobox image. This should be resolved here, in the talk page. The use of the older (2015) image was the outcome of a discussion that is now in Talk:Garry Kasparov/Archive_2#Infobox image.
Informally, I think the older image is a bit better-looking, but the newer (2023) image is not bad, and, after all, it is newer. I know that other considerations, such as photo quality, which I am not necessarily competent to judge, also sometimes come into play. Bruce leverett (talk) 03:53, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
The "country" parameter in the Infobox should NOT mention Croatia. We are going with WP:CONTEXTBIO here. The most recent earlier discussion of this is at #Russian_v._Azerbaijani. Bruce leverett (talk) 20:52, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
"Kasparov was ranked world no. 1 for a record 255 months overall". I can't find a source for this. Actually the Wikipedia page it links to says 243 months. I didn't edit it because I don't know which one is correct. Bramentent (talk) 12:35, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
It's not normal for a caption to be comprised of a sentence. Hence, all are now clauses only. Any tweaks should retain that feature for consistency throughout the article Billsmith60 (talk) 11:07, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
This doesn't prohibit or even discourage complete sentences. That guidance also says that captions should be "succinct", and this encourages captions that are just sentence fragments; but modifying a sentence to make it a non-sentence, e.g. by replacing "wore" with "wearing", doesn't make it more succinct.Most captions are not complete sentences but merely sentence fragments which should not end with a period. However, if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period.
"Kasparov's favourite opening systems were the Queen's Indian with White and variations of the Sicilian Defence with Black."
What is the claim his favorite opening system was the QID as White supposed to mean? It's utter nonsense. The claim that his favorite opening as Black is the Sicilian has much better foundation, but if I was White in a thousand games with Kasparov he wouldn't play his favorite opening as Black a single time and chess players will understand why. We must be better than this.
Not only are the claims bad, the sourcing is terrible. The article has https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/1791/ which I must read in Google translation because I can't read Russian, but I don't see anything in that article supporting any claims about Kasparov's favorite openings. Can anyone explain how that link supports the claims? The other citation is https://www.365chess.com/players/Garry_Kasparov. Ugh, a database link. I have a problem with using games databases searches to make claims in articles and I think this is generally not OK. In this case the page says that Kasparov has 37 games as White in the QID. So the support we have for the nonsensical claim that the QID was Kasparov's favorite opening as White is that he played it 37 times out of 2533 total games. I didn't take the time to determine precisely how many of those 2533 games were as White, but we won't be too far off by assuming 50%. That suggests that Kasparov faced the QID in a little less than 3% of his games as White.
The issue here is that the 365Chess database is reporting based on ECO codes. That isn't very helpful here since as most chess players know ECO codes aren't of equal "girth". The Sicilian is divided into 80 ECO codes while the QID has only 8 codes. That illustrates how the issue is especially acute as the more generally popular openings are split into more ECO codes and thus appear less popular than they are when used in a dumb games database counting way as we do in this article. We might be able to support a claim that Kasparov played more games as White using ECO code 12 than any other ECO, but that would tell the chess cognoscenti little and the general Wikipedia reader less than nothing. Quale (talk) 00:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)