Talk:Catherine the Great
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Opinion, lack of citation / sources
editThis entry is riddled with opinion and large sections of it have no underlying source material. Needs to be flagged as problematic and re-written 193.119.103.214 (talk) 00:20, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Lots of political slant here
editThis appears to be written by UK IQ ? Time to ground the narrative to documentary source material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.243.106.82 (talk) 04:02, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Confusing sentence
editI do not understand this sentence:
The global trade by Russian natural resources and Russian grain provoked famines, starvation and fear of famines in Russia.
Is this merely an error of preposition (e.g. by->of) or is there something missing (say, “The global trade by Catherine’s Trade Ministry of Russian natural resources” &c.)? 136.56.21.109 (talk) 23:30, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Serfdom Section is Poorly written
editThe section on Catherine's policy toward Serfs reads like a bad high school history essay, or something translated by Google from another language. Its repetitive, overly wordy and yet somehow still unclear. Three consecutive sentences begin with the word "however." Its unclear what the passage means when it discusses the serfs wanting to replace Catherine with the "true" empress, and contradictory in that it begins saying that serfs viewed her positively then ends by saying she was viewed negatively. 2603:7000:8303:E89B:9925:C36B:90A6:FD64 (talk) 03:31, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Ballet in Arts and Culture
editThis sentence (citation 86) is poorly written: It entered into a contract with the Italian teacher-choreographer Filippo Becari, who must was “the most capable of dancing” children to learn “to dance with all possible precision and to show themselves publicly in all pantomime ballets”. 89.240.42.140 (talk) 22:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Lead
edit@Walter Tau made a series of clearly deleterious changes to article lead in the past year, including splitting out stub paragraphs, adding an inappropriate level of detail for the lead, and removing serial commas purely on the basis of their personal opinions. I've undone them. I do not have the energy to fight with them about their changes if they're going to act similarly to our previous interactions, so I'm posting this here so others can see it and maybe talk to them. Please consult the linked policies. Remsense ‥ 论 19:20, 26 October 2024 (UTC)