Wikipedia:Featured article review/Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

 * Article is no longer a featured article

This article is rather inconsistent. Like many articles on the great GM's it skips a lot over their early career successes, also the name of the section itself is "Grandmaster", which is rather erroneous and could be more detailed. Furthermore, there are several inaccuracies in this article, one of which I corrected.

1. The first one was that Anatoly Karpov suffered a mental breakdown in his 1984 WCC match against Kasparov. While it is a fact that he lost 10kg, and suffered a physical collapse, and was subsequently hospitalised as a result, there is no evidence that Anatoly suffered any mental instability.

2. The article states that: "Korchnoi's offering to play under the Jolly Roger flag when he was denied the right to play under Switzerland's." This is false. Raymond Keene suggested to Korchnoi to play under this flag after being refused to play under the Netherlands flag.

3. The article states that: "Karpov's Dr. Zukhar who attempted to hypnotize Korchnoi during the game, to Korchnoi's mirror glasses to ward off the hypnotic stare." This has never been proven that Zukhar tried hypnotizing Korchnoi, and such accusations resulted because of an abberant association between Parapsychology and Zukhar. Korchnoi's reasons for the glasses were actually to ward off Karpov's stare, which had irritated him in their 1974 match. If the article is to mention such controversies, it is better being wrote in an uniequivocal neutral, factual style

Another problem with this article is that there isn't even a picture of the man himself, save a minute thumb of him playing Kasparov, which is a side-on photoshot anyway.--Knucmo2 14:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep for now All of the problems you raised can easily be corrected. Why not just edit the article to make the changes? I'm not convinced that these problems rise to the level of the article being removed. That said, the article needs references. Why not address these issues by editing the article and raising the issues on the article's talk page. If the issues are not addressed in a month or two, then I would vote to remove the article.--Alabamaboy 16:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for now I agree with Alabama. In the specific case of the picture, there originally *was* a picture on it, but was removed due to the recent push to delete images with lack of information on its background.  -- Etaonish  18:39, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Even so, if the changes are made (they are not so 'easily' corrected), I don't believe the article is still near FAC quality. I would suggest as an alternative putting it through a few rounds of peer review.--Knucmo2 14:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Remove. The prose is not encyclopedic (the hyperbole in the intro is telling); the chronology moves backwards and forwards, and there is very little discussion of Karpov's actual chessplaying. It's like one of those bad band articles which gives a titles-only discography, a list of chart positions, and a roster of member changes, but never gets around to whether the band plays country&western, power pop, or death metal. Monicasdude 19:00, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Remove Not deserving of featured status. --Ryan Delaney talk 05:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)