Talk:Ivan Sidorenko

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A fact from Ivan Sidorenko appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 April 2008, and was viewed approximately 14,136 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/April.

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This article needs better sources than a forum and the notoriously vandalised/suspect/incorrect snipercentral site. Without them, it would almost certainly fail an AfD nomination Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 20:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you can speak Russian, it would be greatly appreciated; there were a lot of sites that turned up on Google in Russian. · AndonicO ^Talk 20:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Ethnicity

We cannot ascribe any particular ethnicity to Sidorenko based solely on his last name and a questionable source (forebears.io or ancestry.com) that states that most people with this surname are Ukrainian. We will need a particular reliable source that specifically states that Ivan Sidorenko was, or at least claimed to be, Ukrainian. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:48, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If he really was a Russian or affiliated himself with Russia, then he would not have the name Sidorenko. For instance, Konstantin Rokossowski was purely Polish. However, he was loyal to the Soviet Union and thus russified his last name, so that is why we know him as Konstantin "Rokossovsky" not Rokossowski. WikipolicePolizei (talk) 18:04, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, if you go to any translator and type in the word "Sidorenko", it will be detected as Ukrainian. WikipolicePolizei (talk) 18:19, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@WikipolicePolizei: All of these "hints" you're giving at Sidorenko's ethnicity are what Wikipedians call synthesis: creating new facts based on other facts. I will grant that the name Sidorenko may well be considered typically Ukrainian, but that doesn't guarantee that any particular person with that name either was, or identified as, Ukrainian. Unless you can provide a reliable source that explicitly states that Ivan Sidorenko was, or identified as, Ukrainian, we cannot state that fact based on the sources you've provided. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:10, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Curious Side Note

There is a program called, "The Ghost Inside My Child" (Season 1, "The Perfect Aim," Nov 1, 2014, LMN Network,) a self-described documentary, that purports to present the story of a young man, Evan Michael (last name not given), of Springfield MO, who grew up having memories of a past life that aligned with Ivan Mikhaylovich Sidorenko. 2603:7080:8C03:B9CA:FDE1:4DAF:D1CE:5D2A (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]