Talk:Russia–Serbia relations

Orphaned references in Russia–Serbia relations

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Russia–Serbia relations's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "news.bbc.co.uk":

• From Sergey Lavrov: Profile: Putin's foreign minister Lavrov
• From Kosovo War: "Nato air strikes - the world reacts". BBC News. 1999-03-25.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:46, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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Extensive un-sourced or single-sourced statements, many controversial.

In attempting to read this article for information, I've discovered most of it (from the lede to Section 1.4, which is as far as I got), is made up of un-sourced or single-sourced statements, many quite significant and/or controversial -- including very strong assertions about various entities' motives, actions and impact on events leading to World War I.

A cursory overview of the whole article appears to indicate that way too much of this article -- even for some VERY important assertions with widespread regional and international impact -- is sourced from only one source (or less) per statement, and/or chiefly or solely from non-English (e.g.: Russian or Serbian) sources.

Consequently, I've added and tags throughout most of that initial text (up to Section 1.4), and it appears that similar action is needed throughout much of the article.

In keeping with Wikipedia's key principles of neutrality and reliable sources, comparatively neutral independent sources are needed — preferably from parties outside the Serbian and Russian cultural, media and political community, for improved neutrality. Ideally this should involve curated, independent academic and media sources unrelated to those countries.

This may be one of the many Wikipedia articles targeted by highly-biased, pro-Russian editing (arguably some by state actors), and may need some controls to prevent subjugation of this article to vested interests and political objectives.

~ Penlite (talk) 10:10, 2 October 2023 (UTC)