Talk:Miloš Zeman

Nobleman?
Is he a Zeman (nobleman)? СЛУЖБА (talk) 07:09, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * No, it's just a surname, not unusual in the Czech Republic, see Zeman. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 07:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. But does it mean that his ancestors were? Zeman (nobleman) says that on the territory of Slovakia 4.6% of the population belonged to the "Zeman" class. СЛУЖБА (talk) 15:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It is possible, but it wasn't mentioned in association with Miloš Zeman, as far as I can remember. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 15:26, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank You. Seems really strange that this question is not talked about. СЛУЖБА (talk) 03:11, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It's very much the same as with a surname "Mayer" or "Bauer" in German or "Kула́к" in Russian (I may not be using the latter one right) - maybe some of the bearers of this surname had such an ancestor in the 18th century or even further (which, of course, diminishes the importance of that, as that hypothetical ancestor would be responsible for just a tiny fraction - 1/2048 or so - of our new President-Elect's genome) who actually was in that nobility rank (which isn't that impropable - the population share of zemans was pretty much the same in Cisleithania as in Transleithania) or who was at least ironically called by that name.
 * However it is completely without any significance to either article - this or the one about zeman class (which, I see, You should probably revert to a previous version before Your edit). --Richard Sadílek —Preceding undated comment added 21:33, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The differance with "Kула́к" is that "Kула́к" was not official, it was even meant to be derogatory.
 * Yes, 1/2048 of the genome, but probably the same Y-haplogroup and subgroup.
 * Why does Zeman (nobleman) say that "Zeman" is specifically Transleithanian?
 * I disagree with You that it is unsignificant to the articles.
 * You're free to revert my edit, but I don't see what's wrong with it. Maybe it's better to wait for a consensus. СЛУЖБА (talk) 03:24, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You really can't read much about a person from their surname. Most surnames have been untouched and quietly passed down for centuries. He's no more a nobleman than Delia Smith is an ironmonger. - filelake shoe &#xF0F6;  01:22, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Of course, nobility doesn't exist now in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. But since he's so important to Czech history and has such a sounding surname, I think it's very important. Also, it is noteworthy that he would probably have been a nobleman had not his family lost this status in some occasion. СЛУЖБА (talk) 03:31, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Don't read too much into a surname. There are lots of paths that lead from ancient surnames to modern individuals. Many Italians (for example) have surnames denoting noble ranks but often this means a person's ancestor worked for a particular noble's household, rather than being a noble himself. Booker T. Washington chose his surname in honor of George Washington, rather than to show that he was a relation. Besides, the "he would probably have been a nobleman" is a bit too OR: if there is an actual reference point to his noble heritage, then please add it; but otherwise, it's just speculation. Konchevnik81 (talk) 18:37, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I understand Your point. twitter.com/YOMALSIDOROFF (talk) 04:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The lead should mention his original party membership as well, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clesrever (talk • contribs) 22:44, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Zeman was a member of the Communist Party since 1968 to 1970. He was expelled and later persecuted by communists for his opinions. It is mentioned in the article. Mentioning only his former Communist Party membership in the lead section would be biased and POV. I'm well aware that millions of Czechs have no sympathy for Mr Zeman, but we must be fair here. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 07:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

There are many reasons for saying "Religion = None" rather than "Religion = None (atheist)" in Wikipedia infoboxes.
(Please note that nobody has a problem with the use of "Atheist" in the article text. This only concerns infoboxes.)

There are many reasons for saying "Religion = None" rather than "Religion = None (atheist)" in Wikipedia infoboxes. They include:

It goes against our manual of style for infoboxes.


 * Manual of Style/Infoboxes says:


 * "When considering any aspect of infobox design, keep in mind the purpose of an infobox: to summarize key facts that appear in the article. The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose, allowing readers to identify key facts at a glance."


 * I might add that the infobox talk pages have a long history of rejecting the arguments of various editors who insist on trying to cram more and more information into the infoboxes, using the same basic argument: "yes this is well covered in the article, but this VITALLY IMPORTANT detail MUST be in the infobox as well because mumble mumble (waves hands)." Again and again, the overwhelming consensus has been to put only the bare minimum into the infobox and to expect the reader to read the actual article for the fine details and distinctions.

There is no consensus for it.


 * This was discussed at length at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 142. Opinions were mixed, but the two positions with the most support were "Religion = None" or removing the Religion entry entirely.


 * A bit later, it was discussed at Template talk:Infobox person. The result of that discussion in in the closing summary: "The preferred phrase would be 'Religion: None'."


 * More recently, I did a survey and found that hundreds of Wikipedia pages use "Religion: None" in the infobox and only five use "Religion = None (atheist)"

METHODOLOGY:

Before I started this project I searched to find what wording most pages use and found a strong consensus for "Religion: None" across multiple Wikipedia pages. More recently I did a count to see how strong that consensus really is.

First, I did a search on "Religion: None" in article space, grabbed the first 500 results, and deleted everything that wasn't "Religion: None" in the infobox of a BLP (including many pages such as Ysgol Bryn Alyn that use "Religion: None" in the infobox but are not BLPs). This left me with the following 280 pages:
 * Abdurrahman Vazirov
 * Achille Occhetto
 * Adalet Agaoglu
 * Afonso Costa
 * Agata Passent
 * Agnes Kant
 * Ahilya Rangnekar
 * Ahmet Altan
 * Akhil Gogoi
 * Akram Yari
 * Albert Caraco
 * Albert Rivera
 * Aleksandar Vulin
 * Alessandro Gadotti
 * Alfred Charles Hanlon
 * Ali Akbar (writer)
 * Aliheydar Garayev
 * Anders Carlsson (politician)
 * Andrea Pason
 * Andrzej Morozowski
 * Anindya Sinha
 * Anna Grodzka
 * Ante Ciliga
 * Anton Hofreiter
 * Antonio Carluccio
 * Antonio Maccanico
 * Antony Flew
 * Arthur Smith (comedian)
 * Ashraf Dehghani
 * August Spångberg
 * Ayo Sogunro
 * Bahadir Baruter
 * Bart D. Ehrman
 * Benoy Choudhury
 * Bernhard Caesar Einstein
 * Billy Leonard
 * Billy Wharton
 * Bob Ferris (Likely Lads)
 * Bob Scott (politician)
 * Brian Koppelman
 * C. M. Padmanabhan Nair
 * C. N. Jayadevan
 * CJ Werleman
 * Camilo Ballesteros
 * Can Yücel
 * Carlos Martínez Gorriarán
 * Carlos Ominami
 * Carmelo Bene
 * Casey Patrick Tebo
 * Çetin Altan
 * Chadayan Govindan
 * Charuhasan
 * Chingiz Ildyrym
 * Christian Lindner
 * Christopher Hitchens
 * Claudio Bisio
 * Clive Soley, Baron Soley
 * Colin Challen
 * Cordelia Gray
 * Cyril Desbruslais
 * Dan Barker
 * Daniel Dennett
 * Danny Ledonne
 * Dave Cross
 * David Wearing
 * Desiree Schell
 * Donald McLachlan
 * Duncan Scott (director)
 * Edmund McMillen
 * Edoardo Sanguineti
 * Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues
 * Eduards Veidenbaums
 * Edward Roderick Davies
 * Edwin Kagin
 * Ehsan Jami
 * Enrique Ferrarese
 * Ephraim Evron
 * Eric Maisel
 * Eric Wiebes
 * Erik Naggum
 * Eugen Leviné
 * Ewout Irrgang
 * Faiz Ahmad
 * Frank Baude
 * Françoise David
 * Gamca
 * Gilbert Romme
 * Gilles Duceppe
 * Giorgos Kaminis
 * Giovanni Spadolini
 * Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
 * Gopinath Muthukad
 * Gorka Maneiro
 * Greg Pason
 * Greta Christina
 * Grigory Kaminsky
 * Grzegorz Napieralski
 * Gustav Koerner
 * Hanna Bakula
 * Harald Beyer (politician)
 * Hare Krishna Konar
 * Heather Mac Donald
 * Henk Vonhoff
 * Herman Philipse
 * Hugues Gentillon
 * Ian Mearns
 * Ian O'Doherty
 * Ibn al-Rawandi
 * Ilir Hoxha
 * Imam Mustafayev
 * Irena Krzywicka
 * Irene Montalà
 * István Vágó
 * Ivan Macek
 * J. H. Patel
 * James Underdown
 * Jamie Kilstein
 * Jan Hartman (philosopher)
 * Jan Terlouw
 * Jeff Berwick
 * Jenn Forgie
 * Jennifer Michael Hecht
 * Jerzy Urban
 * Jesse Bering
 * Jessica Ahlquist
 * Jimmy LaSalvia
 * Joan Smith
 * John Ball (pioneer)
 * John Beaman
 * John Maxton
 * Jonas Sjöstedt
 * Jonathan Neale
 * Josip Manolic
 * Jovanka Broz
 * Juan José Sebreli
 * Juan Mendez (politician)
 * Julia Scheeres
 * Julian Sanchez (writer)
 * Julie Elliott
 * K. A. Mathiazhagan
 * K. Balakrishnan (CPI-M)
 * Kang We-suck
 * Kazimiera Szczuka
 * Kazimierz Kutz
 * Kimun Ongkosandjojo
 * Kinga Dunin
 * Kingunge Ngombale–Mwiru
 * Kitty Harris
 * Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
 * Koenraad Elst
 * Laci Green
 * Ladislav Hrusovsky
 * Lazar Mojsov
 * Lech Janerka
 * Lee Jung-hee
 * Leo Ford
 * Leonid Gozman
 * Leslie Alexander (businessman)
 * Lewis McDonald
 * Ljubo Cupic
 * Lorenzo the cat
 * Lucía Topolansky
 * Luís Guillermo Peréz
 * M. R. Radha
 * Maarten Boudry
 * Maarten van Rossem
 * Magdalena Sroda
 * Mahmud Aliyev
 * Marcello Pera
 * Marcus Bakker
 * Margaret Downey
 * Maria Peszek
 * Marian Marzynski
 * Mariko Yamada
 * Martin Harty
 * Matt Taibbi
 * Matthew Asinari
 * Maurice Williamson
 * Mehmet Shehu
 * Michael Newdow
 * Michael Nugent
 * Michael O'Riordan
 * Miguel Ángel García Domínguez
 * Mike Hicks (trade unionist)
 * Mikhail Kalinin
 * Milutin Mrkonjic
 * Mir Bashir Gasimov
 * Mir Hasan Vazirov
 * Misir Ali
 * Mookie Tenembaum
 * Moovalur Ramamirtham
 * Multatuli
 * Murat Belge
 * Myrthe Hilkens
 * Naman Ahuja
 * Nanasaheb Kunte
 * Nanduri Prasada Rao
 * Narendra Dabholkar
 * Narendra Nayak
 * Nathalie Arthaud
 * Nathan Phelps
 * Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy
 * Nenad Puhovski
 * Nick Gillespie
 * Nicola Bombacci
 * Nigar Kocharli
 * Nihar Mukherjee
 * Nikolay Gikalo
 * Nikolay Kavkazsky
 * Noemí Rial
 * Oliviero Diliberto
 * Ophelia Benson
 * Orion Metcalf Barber
 * Oronzo Vito Gasparo
 * Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
 * P. Krishna Pillai
 * Pablo Iglesias
 * Patrick Harvie
 * Pedro Sánchez (politician)
 * Pelin Batu
 * Piero Angela
 * Ploutis Servas
 * Provash Ghosh
 * R. J. Hollingdale
 * Radovan Vlajkovic
 * Relus ter Beek
 * Remus Cernea
 * Renata Dancewicz
 * Renske Leijten
 * Rob Burch (politician)
 * Robert Biedron
 * Robert Carroll (Australian politician)
 * Roman Kostrzewski
 * Ron Reagan
 * Rosa Díez
 * Rosie Kane
 * Ruben Rubenov
 * S. E. Cupp
 * S.G. Sardesai
 * Sadanand Dhume
 * Sanal Edamaruku
 * Sarbottam Dangol
 * Sergej Kraigher
 * Shibdas Ghosh
 * Siraj Sikder
 * Slobodan Penezic
 * St Patrick's Purgatory
 * Stanislav Hurenko
 * Steven Whitehurst
 * Susan Jacoby
 * Susheela Gopalan
 * Swaminathan Aiyar
 * Tages
 * Terence Hallinan
 * Theo de Meester
 * Thomas Gore
 * Thomas Megahy
 * Tom Copley
 * Tom Flynn (author)
 * Trifko Grabež
 * Turan Dursun
 * Tyler Curry
 * Ugur Uluocak
 * V. Subbiah
 * Vali Akhundov
 * Vashti McCollum
 * Vicko Krstulovic
 * Victor Stepaniuc
 * Viduthalai Rajendran
 * Vitaly Fedorchuk
 * Vittorio Feltri
 * Vladimir Ivashko
 * Vladimir Polonsky
 * Walid Husayin
 * Walter Schütz
 * Woolf Wess
 * Yan Gamarnik
 * Ye Xiaowen
 * Zbigniew Religa
 * Zhou Tienong

I could probably come up with another hundred or so if I checked more than 500 pages.

To test whether the above might be the results of my own efforts, I spot checked a couple of dozen of those pages and found that the vast majority of those pages have never been edited by me and that most have used "Religion: None" for months or years.

I then did the same search on "Religion: None (atheist)" and "Religion: None (atheism)" in article space and found five pages:


 * Ernie Chambers
 * George Will
 * Johann Hari
 * Vesna Pusic
 * Zoran Milanovic

So far, the local concensus on those five pges is favoring "Religion: None", but the issue is still being discussed so it is too soon to reach a conclusion.


 * This reflects the strong consensus for "Religion: None" across multiple Wikipedia pages.

It attempts to shoehorn too much information into a one-word infobox entry


 * In the article, there is room for nuance and explanation, but in the infobox, we are limited to concise summaries of non-disputed material. Terms such as "atheist", "agnostic", "humanist", "areligious", and "anti-religion" mean different things to different people, but "Religion = None" is perfectly clear to all readers, and they can and should go to the article text to find out which of the subtly different variations of not belonging to a religion applies.

It is highly objectionable to many atheists.


 * Many atheists strongly object to anything that even hints at calling atheism a religion.


 * One of the standard arguments that evangelic christian apologists use in an attempt to refute atheism is "atheism is just another religion. You need faith to believe that there is no God". That's why so many atheists object to any hint that atheism is a religion and why before adding "(atheism)" there must be a reliable reliable source that establishes that the individual is [A] An atheist, and [B] considers atheism to be a religion.


 * In addition, "Religion: None (atheist)" usually fails to tell the whole story. Most atheists do reject theism, but they also reject all nontheistic religions and a wide variety of non-religious beliefs. "Religion = None (atheist)" actually narrows down the meaning of "Religion = None" to the point where in many cases the infobox entry is no longer accurate.

'''It violates the principle of least astonishment.


 * Consider what would happen if Lady Gaga decided to list "Banana" as her birth date. We would document that fact in the main article with a citation to a reliable source (along with other sources that disagree and say she was born on March 28, 1986). We would not put "Birth date = 1986 (banana)" in the infobox, because that would cause some readers to stop and say "wait...what? Banana is not a birth date...". Likewise we should not put anything in an infobox that would cause some readers to stop and say "wait...what? Atheism is not a religion..."

In my opinion, "Religion = None" remains the best choice for representing the data accurately and without bias. I also have no objection to removing the religion entry entirely. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:53, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Request for Comments
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 07:03, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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Infobox image
I've noticed a minor disagreement over the leading image of the article. It looks that there are two pictures of Mr Zeman preferred by two groups of editors. None of the images is particularly controversial or dishonesting, in my opinion. Please, could we determine consensus in a discussion instead of blind reverting? See also more images at commons:Category:Miloš Zeman. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 09:41, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

1) October 2017 image

 * I personally prefer this image. It is more up to date and shows President Zeman with better accuracy as he looks today. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 09:41, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * What Vejvančický said. I'm finding the edit wars about "resting expression" pretty lame. Both photos have neutral enough facial expressions. – filelakeshoe (t / c) &#xF0F6; 11:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * This one seems fine to me as it's more current but I don't have a strong opinion as both are fine. Jdcooper (talk) 23:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

2) May 2013 image

 * This image is much better, the other one is closer to present but in much worse quality of capture. Adolf Hitler wikipedia page also don't have portrait in 1945, but the one taken more professionally. --Mujdeda (talk) 19:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * He will better win with a nicer image :P. Uff. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 20:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Zeman's views on gun control
Regarding this edit by User:Cimmerian praetor, I'm not sure I'm happy with the resulting text. The edit basically removed all political content from the section and left material sourced by Blesk, which is not a reliable source. I agree that the unsourced material should have been removed, but what is left seems to put undue weight on NPOV tabloid gossip, over Zeman's actions when a politician. Unless a source can be found for the rest (which I will look for now) I think the whole lot should go. Jdcooper (talk) 17:55, 12 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Blesk may be tabloid, but in the sourced article he is quoted directly. Therefore it is a good source as far as the quotes go.


 * If you want to search further, I remember him raising the same points during his speech to the general assembly of the Council of Europe. Needless to say, given that concealed carry is banned in most of Europe, his audience was puzzled to say the least. Good luck searching. Cimmerian praetor (talk) 20:02, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah nothing came up, but I'm sure any sources would be in Czech anyway, which I can kinda read but not search for. The same events are mentioned on various other articles though, just without specific mention of Zeman, so I'm sure they are no hoax. Jdcooper (talk) 21:37, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

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Why does this article almost completely omit Miloš Zeman's views on economic issues?
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 * If you have sources and you'd like to improve the article, please do so. I think the reason for this is that such views were more relevant to his time in the Chamber of Deputies than to his time as president, and both this and the cs.wiki article are pretty lacking on details of his career as a deputy and his premiership - which shouldn't be the case either. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 12:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)