Talk:Kazan

missing info

Missing Info

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Unlike most city articles this one is completely missing information about the climate

76.172.244.110 (talk) 09:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)gEM

prominent students at the university

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Who were the other prominent students at the university?

The tourism website has lots of creepy 'mail order bride' advertisements all over it.

Violations of Wikipedia naming conventions

The names of towns in this article violate Wikipedia:Naming_conventions, specifically Yar Çallı, Älmät, Bögelmä and Çístay.

There are not any city in tatarstan with commonly English name..

This is incorrect. See http://www.tatar.ru/english/ for a list of official Tatar city names in English. The rest of the discussion is at Talk:Tatarstan Gene s 07:00, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

(exclude Kazan). So Tatar naming is also useful in English. Russian naming is not origin - it is only transliteration of transliteration from Tatar to Russian.

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I have tidied up the text somewhat including some of the seeming POV statemsnts - but do not know about the names.

Jackiespeel 17:40, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Kazan Kremlin harmoniously combines elements of Eastern Orthodox and Muslim cultures.

This image is obviously heavily doctored, so I've removed it. There are plenty of far better images on commons, but in any case the page probably has enough photos. Palefire 14:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Removal of economy info

Many of User:TY-214's edits are good improvements, but this edit seems to have removed some potentially useful info about companies. Any opinions? Offliner (talk) 18:51, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Citation

I don't know why but can't normally put refs about square, foundation date etc in the Infobox. This is a reliable official source. TY-214 (talk) 23:16, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

This is because the infobox is using the deprecated set of parameters which do not make it immediately obvious how to add citations. Per your request, I added this ref for the area and the foundation date. If you need to reference other fields, please see the infobox documentation for the parameter names (or list them here; I'll be happy to add them for you). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:14, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I've fixed all needed citations.TY-214 (talk) 21:01, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

kazan

this is a wondeful and beutiful city. i spent a month here with my wife who is tatar and recommend it for a vacation to anyone. thanks mike king —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.203.19.237 (talk) 01:40, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree that it's a wonderful place to visit and live. If you'd like, you could contribute some fresh photos from your trip to make this article better-- just go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/ and click on "Upload file", then post here. Or you can make changes to the article if you think it leaves out any important information. Avram (talk) 03:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

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Languages

That section needs to be cleaned up, definitely. Some citations would be nice. What is said there about there being no Tatar-as-medium-of-instruction schools in Kazan is almost certainly not true -- while there weren't any in 1989, now there are most certainly quite a few. "The main building of the university" also makes no sense -- Kazan has over a dozen universities, and so it's not clear which one is being referred to. "The" implies that there is only one university, which is also far from true. It's also not terribly clear which building would be "main" anyway, especially after the recent bout of university mergers in Kazan. Also, very few university courses are taught in Tatar (i.e. with Tatar as the medium of instruction). It is extremely unlikely that any building of any university would hold classes primarily in Tatar. God, what a mess. I'm deleting the whole last half of the section.

Timeline of Kazan

What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 11:18, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

The head of Executive committee changed

For today Alexey Pesochin is not the head of Executive committee of Kazan. Denis Kalinkin is. To prove in you can see http://old.kzn.ru/page21569.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.255.195.56 (talk) 12:03, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

I've made the change. Thanks for pointing this out!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 13, 2015; 12:27 (UTC)

Kazan is the leader in different rankinks

Kazan confidently occupies third place among Russian cities with the best quality of life, according to the Russian Government’s Financial University. The city occupies fourth position in investments in the country, and an authoritative international sports ranking included Kazan in the top 30 cities in terms of sports facilities and the number of hosted major sporting events. According to RBC and the newspaper "Kommersant," the city is in the top 20 best and fastest growing cities in Russia.

In 2014, the international "Fitch Ratings" agency raised the credit rating of Kazan from "B +" to "BB-," confirming it in January 2015 with a positive outlook.

In terms of investing in residential real estate, Kazan takes second place among the most promising cities in Russia and is recognized as one of the most attractive destinations for tourism in Russia.

This is information from http://metshin.ru/en/personal/biography — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.255.195.56 (talk) 08:17, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

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Pure conjecture rather than fact?

Unlike in most Western cities, public bus routes are not municipal, operated by private companies and therefore are very efficient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balbip01 (talk • contribs) 21:03, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

lmao. The idea that private companies are somehow inherently more efficient than government-operated services is utterly laughable. Plus, it's entirely your opinion - it's hilariously hypocritical that you would title this section "pure conjecture rather than fact", when everything you've stated is completely subjective. 1.157.95.133 (talk) 01:17, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

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Deadly shooting May 2021

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-tatarstan-kazan-school-shooting/31249036.html37.99.87.187 (talk) 15:46, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Way too many pictures

There are way too many pictures in this article, and some of them are completely irrelevant. For example, why do we need a photo of two random women? They might not even be from Kazan, so what, exactly, do they have to do with anything? 1.157.95.133 (talk) 01:18, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Where do you see such images of just random women? Mellk (talk) 22:11, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Problems with template

{{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} takes some parameters that are overridden if the wikidata for the article doesn't (or does?) have data for the population. A recent change to that template by @Zackmann08: ends up invoking all of the parameters while testing them for presence to diagnose undefined parameter rules, so the article was generating undefined reference errors for references that weren't actually inserted into the article. As it stands, the population estimate from 2020 isn't used because the templatae overrides it with the 2018 wikidata, anyway. I've commented out the parameters until this issue can be straightened out. -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:00, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Founding

@178.205.92.114: Please explain why it is preferable to use a 400-year old account of the city's founding instead. Mellk (talk) 18:03, 9 October 2024 (UTC)