Talk:Ivan Silayev/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 21:32, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: none found.

Linkrot: one found and tagged. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:41, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   The election of a Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), literally Premier of the Russian SFSR, was not considered a very important event; the Premier was elected following the election of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, the Supreme Soviet's deputy chairman, and after a debate on Russian agriculture. Who were the electorate?

   The election of a Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), literally Premier of the Russian SFSR, was not considered a very important event; the Premier was elected following the election of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, the Supreme Soviet's deputy chairman, and after a debate on Russian agriculture. This makes no sense. Who did the "seeing"?

   Silayev decided to break with the old Soviet nomenklatura system of electing cabinet members by electing members using an "objective" and "scientific" basis. Very poor prose - what does this mean?

   To accomplish this, Silayev asked professional psychologists to interview candidate cabinet members. Only 14 of the 200 cabinet candidates were recommended for a post in the government cabinet; even so, several of the candidates were given a post in the new government. Who recommended them?

   Silayev's government lacked ideological unity, say who?

   However, some commentators believe Yavlinsky resigned because of frequent conflict between him and other cabinet members. Who were these commentators?

   With the consent of the Supreme Soviet Silayev established a 16-member Presidium for the cabinet. "as the cabinet"?

   Another problem facing Silayev was that the Supreme Soviet was usurping the power of the executive branch by strengthening the legislative branch. To accomplish this the Supreme Soviet established duplicated entities, such as the Committee for Mass Media, which duplicated the functions of the Ministry of Mass Media. Who says that they were "usurping" the power? What is a "duplicated entity"?

   When he first took office, Silayev wanted to reduce the powers of the central government and give more powers to the Soviet Republics. This view changed; he demanded that Yeltsin give back much of the authority of the central government which he had usurped following the August Coup Why did "this view" change"? "he demanded that Yeltsin give back much of the authority of the central government which he had usurped following the August Coup" make it clear which "he" you are referring to.

   Post-Soviet Russia: What has happened since 2007?

   Rather a lot of red-links. Is it likely that articles will be written on these subjects soon?

   Overall, very poorly written, please get this copy-edited and rendered into good plain English.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   One dead link found and tagged.[1]

   Assume good faith for Russian language and off-line sources.

   What makes [2] (www.warheroes.ru) a reliable source?

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   The State Committee for the State of Emergency failed to arrest Silayev or any other high-standing Russian state officials during the August Coup. although wiki-linked, the phase "August coup" needs further explanation.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   Appears to be 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):

   One image used, appears to be correctly licensed.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   This article needs serious copy-editing, a dead link needs addressing, the prose appears to assume an intricate knowledge of late Soviet Union politics, needs to be made more encyclopaedic to render it intelligible to the general reader. On hold for seven days. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

   As no effort has been made to address these issues, even though a notice was left on the nominator's talk page, [3] I shall not be listing this. Please address these issues and re-nominate. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:59, 13 July 2011 (UTC)