Talk:Golos Truda/GA1

GA Review

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Hi, I am reviewing this article for GA. It is an interesting article. My difficulty with it is that it is very dense reading for someone that does not know much about the subject mattert, such as the various subsets of anarchism, nor the history of anarchism in the Soviet Union. For example, two very interesting bits of information are given in the picture captions and are not independently in the the text of the article. There are people (I am one of them) that only looks at the pictures after reading the article.

Comments (these are examples)

• I suggest the article would benefit from a small expansion of the context in which the paper operated. This would help explain the role of the paper and why it had the impact it did, resulting in being expunged and banned.
• I would integrate the info in the captions into the article, and possibly expand it a bit.
• There is a "page number needed" tag in the references.
• Could you explain more about Volin's role/influence in the body of the article, since you have his picture there?
• "Volin described the almost six month gap between the February Revolution and the launch of the paper in Russia as "a long and irreparable delay" ..." - what does this mean?
• "citing as examples "a series of articles on the role of the factory committees; articles on the tasks of the Soviets, and others on how to resolve the agrarian problem, on the new organization of production, and on exchange". ..." Can you enlarge a little on the message of these articles?
• Since it was anarcho-syndicalist in political philosophy, can you explain a little what this means?
• Also, do you think that there will eventually be articles for all those redlinks?

Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 17:56, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Ciao, Matisse, thanks again for the review and I apologize for the "long and irreparable delay" in getting back to you. I've begun to address your chief concern – the denseness and lack of context of the article – by adding background information on the Russian language media in New York City, the basics of anarcho-syndicalist history and philosophy, and the state of Russian politics at the time of the paper's move to Petrograd. Aside from what is already in the article and what Volin has written here, the online English reliable sources about the paper have been exhausted – I'll try to integrate more of Volin's commentary, context beyond the paper itself and if possible offline resources in the coming days as the other issues are addressed. Mahalo,  Skomorokh  19:20, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): Well written b (MoS): Follows relevant MoS

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): Well referenced b (citations to reliable sources): Sources are reliable c (OR): No OR

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): Covers major aspects b (focused): Remains focused on topic

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias: Neutral

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.: Stable

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: Pass

Nice job. Congratulations!

—Mattisse (Talk) 00:15, 14 July 2009 (UTC)