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April 15, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
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Section sizes

Section size for Vladimir Putin (49 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	23,351	23,351	530	530
Early life and education	4,485	11,440	174	523
Education	6,955	6,955	349	349
Intelligence career	12,749	12,749	748	748
Political career	3,097	19,691	411	1,036
2024–present: Fifth presidential term	16,594	16,594	625	625
Domestic policies	8,901	51,728	533	2,899
Economic, industrial, and energy policies	9,844	9,844	457	457
Environmental policy	3,940	3,940	210	210
Religious policy	4,338	4,338	258	258
Military development	6,569	6,569	381	381
Human rights policy	5,313	5,313	263	263
The media	4,581	4,581	301	301
Promoting conservatism	6,874	6,874	374	374
International sporting events	1,368	1,368	122	122
Foreign policy	3,518	82,898	251	4,221
Asia	9,707	9,707	400	400
Post-Soviet states	19,816	19,816	1,029	1,029
United States, Western Europe, and NATO	20,912	20,912	1,174	1,174
United Kingdom	1,278	6,257	97	357
Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko	2,677	2,677	166	166
Poisoning of Sergei Skripal	2,302	2,302	94	94
Latin America	2,605	2,605	174	174
Australia and the South Pacific	3,755	3,755	212	212
Middle East and Africa	16,328	16,328	624	624
Public image	60	38,962	0	1,758
Polls and rankings	25,349	25,349	1,281	1,281
Cult of personality	8,778	8,778	292	292
Public recognition in the West	3,470	3,470	98	98
Putinisms	1,305	1,305	87	87
Assessments	17,620	24,988	602	837
After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine	7,368	7,368	235	235
Electoral history	2,395	2,395	77	77
Personal life	20	46,410	0	1,920
Family	14,516	14,516	277	277
Wealth	10,788	10,788	492	492
Residences	19	7,603	0	428
Official government residences	1,525	1,525	77	77
Personal residences	6,059	6,059	351	351
Speculations about mental health	1,008	1,008	73	73
Pets	1,016	1,016	64	64
Religion	2,864	2,864	216	216
Sports	4,516	4,516	174	174
Health	4,079	4,079	196	196
Awards and honours	622	622	42	42
Explanatory notes	43	43	0	0
References	35	652	0	0
Sources	617	617	0	0
External links	6,827	6,827	0	0
Total	322,756	322,756	14,591	14,591

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Template discussion

I've started a discussion about recent changes to Template:Vladimir Putin (which is used in this article) and 2 other templates at Template talk:Russia–United States relations#Recent changes to templates. Please feel free to join the discussion if you're interested! Woodroar (talk) 18:19, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedits

I noticed some editorial and stylistic errors in the article and attempted to address them in addition to several other issues I found. Though I tried to be as thorough as possible, I believe that other stylistic errors remain. I checked multiple times, but I might have made some inadvertent changes that might require a partial revert. If you see any, please feel free to correct them. It would be great to start a discussion on how the article could be improved further along these lines. Thank you. Surfingslovak (talk) 07:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here.No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected, closed by Launchballer talk 18:15, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad, or modern-day St. Petersburg, Russia?
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Created by Reed102 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Reed102 (talk) 16:25, 22 September 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Reed102: sorry, DYK is for new articles, see the Wikipedia:Did you know#Eligibility criteria. Vladimir Putin is not eligible because it has not been created or expanded 5x or promoted to Good Article within the past 7 days. TSventon (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]