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New article: List of Soviet tank factories

List of Soviet tank factories. —Michael Z. 2007-02-06 07:59 Z

Pages needing the most work

I thought that we should make a list of pages that need more work than others. What does anyone else think? Eurohistbuff 16:04, 8 March 2007

History of the Soviet Union

Yikes! What the heck happened to History of the Soviet Union? Wikipedia does not have such a thing as "a single article consisting of four pages". I have eliminated the misleading and broken fake TOC on that article. I strongly suggest that someone move this one to History of the Soviet Union up to 1927 and rebuild an actual summary article about the entire history of the Soviet Union (covering at least the years 1922 to 1981). —Michael Z. 2007-07-21 19:16 Z

Re-Assessment of the Cold War article?

Hello...the Cold War article is up for FAC, but there is a critique that the article under the Russian History WikiProject is still showing this article as a B rating, rather than A or GA. I'd like to ask that this article be reassessed, but can't find a link to ask for an assessment. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or make the request? Thanks! Hires an editor (talk) 19:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Russian history

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for overhaul and creation of a single WP:RUSSIA project

Going thru tonnes of Russian articles, I was actually very surprised to find 3 articles that one would probably expect to be featured articles are not; those being Russia, Moscow and Russian language. I was also surprised to find that many articles I expected to exist do not; prime example being many of the Federal government ministries. Then there are other problems such as:

Naming conventions - very little continuity and no real guidelines for Russian names and articles in wikipedia as a whole - an example is here.
Categorisation - naming conventions will help somewhat - following other naming conventions will help too - an example of poor categorisation throughout Russian articles - Category:Russian_people
Article assessment - there are no guidelines for this, and it has resulted in some unusual results. Guidelines are needed.
Article review - there are no guidelines specific to Russian articles and with more than one project, other projects won't necessarily know of review requests. Additionally, because of the number of projects with very little scope in each, wider community views can be missed. For example, Russian language was a featured article until 23 August 2007. It's featured article review, unfortunately it went unannounced on all Russian projects, apart from this corner
Collaboration - there is none to very little collaboration on Russian content between the various projects and unfortunately article quality, and perhaps stability, will suffer for it.
Recruitment/outreach - As we are members of various Russian projects, we took the time to add our name to a list, because we have an interest in a certain (or all) aspect/s of Russia. New members are needed, but how will they find the projects? There needs to be co-ordination to 'recruit' new members; particularly from ru:wiki.
Scope - just what is the scope for the various projects? Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian federal subjects has a very narrow yet defined scope; Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian history has a hazy 'historical' scope; a question being raised here.

What I am suggesting is the following projects be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject_Russia and for it to be co-ordinated much like any other all-encompassing project. The projects I am suggest to be merged are:

Other projects which can be used as guides on how to structure the project could be:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia
Portal:Australia - a featured portal

By merging all projects into a single project, we can then create "work groups" for specific Russian topics, such as:

History
Politics
Places (geography)
Culture (language, music, literature, film, etc)
Biographical
Society
Transport
Economy
etc

Perhaps others have other ideas.

Of course there needs to be concensus from all projects for a merge and structures be discussed, etc, but firstly, there needs to be discussion on the pros and cons of such an idea. I have posted this on the other project talk pages, and have asked that all discussion take place here so that all projects can read off the same page. --Russavia ^{Dialogue Stalk me} 04:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also think this a good idea--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This idea would certainly make it easier to edit and organise Russia related articles. Those wishing to work on specific topics may find it ideal to have these topics as subdivisions under the Russia project, as all Russia related articles would be constituent of a single entity, rather than being of seperate Russia projects. This, I imagine, would establish a more efficient system of editing and organisation. Yggur (talk) 05:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Though I am not a regular contributor, I have watched the Russian history pages over the last couple of years (contributing some) and believe this to be a most sensible plan. Peshkov (talk) 14:39, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]