Talk:Leon Trotsky

Was Leon free to marry Natalia?

In the article, Leon B. segues from being married to Aleksandra in 1899 to a 1903 marriage to Natalia with no mention of a divorce or death in between.

How does this happen? LarryWiki115 (talk) 20:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Well, his first wife lived into the 1930s. They may have divorced in 1902, but I can't find a clear source for this. Maybe they just divorced by mutual agreement without official recognition. PatGallacher (talk) 01:19, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Infobox image choice

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  Option A
  Trotsky c. 1918
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  Option B
  Trotsky in 1918
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  Option C
  Trotsky in the 1920s
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  Option D
  Trotsky in the 1930s

There has been a slow-motion edit war over the infobox image going on for the last several months, so it should be discussed. The gallery above contains the main images that I have seen cycled through; others can be proposed below. — Goszei (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Option A. Trotsky looks the most natural here, and the picture is from the height of his prominence. Option B has a weird expression and a transparent background, Option C has him in his military-style uniform and thus puts emphasis on his Red Army leadership (important, but just one part of his revolutionary and ideological career), and Option D depicts him after he was relegated to exile, which is not ideal. — Goszei (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@Goszei Option A I had a change of mind. Partly due to copyright issues with the Option D. I think we should go with your choice per reasons. WikiUser4020 (talk) 08:51, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Option C. I like A but unless the full portrait is shown it's a little low-resolution. C is period appropriate, high quality, and I don't think the military uniform is too uncouth. PequodOnStationAtLZ (talk) 20:40, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

I have come around to agreeing with this after trying and failing to find a higher-resolution version of A. — Goszei (talk) 06:31, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Option C because it seems to be a higher-quality portrait and, as noted by others, depicts Trotsky in the prime of his main political activity. -Darouet (talk) 17:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

None of them. 2606:9400:939F:4A00:21C8:5D67:2BDF:C4BF (talk) 22:32, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Year Trotsky married his first wife

I've been making a few edits to the article on Aleksandra Sokolovskaya and noticed an inconsistency regarding when the couple married. In Trotsky's article in states that the two married in 1899, but on Sokolovskaya's it gives the year as 1900.

As I don't possess any sources that I can use to factcheck this, I thought I'd bring the issue up here in the hopes that somebody can confirm which year is correct. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 11:24, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

@Earle Bartibus Huxley From The Prophet it says summer 1900 S4011988 (talk) 10:04, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

ENGVAR

@Keeper of Albion, much appreciated, though it's worth a reminder here of what MOS:ENGVAR says exactly—not to favour what variety of English presently predominates, but what the first one used in the article was. According to the first revision of this article from 2001, that would appear to be American English. Remsense 🌈 论 18:29, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

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