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Russia articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 9 16 28 33 86 FL 2 4 6 3 15 FM 98 98 A 2 3 14 12 31 GA 25 37 116 249 7 434 B 220 301 540 914 323 2,298 C 381 692 1,429 3,503 1,052 7,057 Start 413 1,505 6,508 15,979 1 3,068 27,474 Stub 13 212 3,976 46,346 3 4,089 54,639 List 70 102 468 3,355 51 324 4,370 Category 24,161 24,161 Disambig 269 269 File 1,197 1,197 Portal 26 26 Project 140 140 Redirect 3 13 680 2,035 2,731 Template 4,482 4,482 NA 5 8 13 Other 1 2 112 115 Assessed 1,135 2,875 13,099 71,081 32,583 8,863 129,636 Unassessed 2 72 1,223 1,297 Total 1,135 2,875 13,101 71,153 32,583 10,086 130,933 WikiWork factors (?) ω =500,940 Ω = 5.45

Eurasian Land Bridge has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)17:35, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion of potential interest to this WikiProject occurring atWikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine#Infobox link formatting for populated places in Ukraine regarding a formatting question for infoboxes in Ukrainian locality articles. Opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments to the discussion and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). Thank you.DantheAnimator22:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox chess biography, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments onthe discussion page. Thank you.Khiikiat (talk)10:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone please source this! Unreferenced since 2005, and tagged for notability (which seems ridiculous given the topic). Thanks for any help. Best.4meter4 (talk)05:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The articleMstyora miniature has beenproposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 16 years, but actually unsourced for over 20 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Only 2 brief examples on Google Books, and just lots of drek on the Internet. Nobody would touch it during the Unsourced articles drive. If you can suggest a target for a redirect, please do.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the{{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in youredit summary or onthe article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing{{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop theproposed deletion process, but otherdeletion processes exist. In particular,articles for deletion allows discussion to reachconsensus for deletion based onestablished criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you mayrequest undeletion of the article at any time.Bearian (talk)22:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just added a source to the article.Alaexis_¿question?08:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Found this article -Tatiana Grinberg - it needs to be cleaned up and sources need to be added. Thanks,RossEvans19 (talk)17:50, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty clearly either a copy and paste, or a machine translation. I am not sure whether the source is in public domain.Ymblanter (talk)21:44, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The existing sources don't seem to be independent from the subject of the article btw.Alaexis_¿question?22:27, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay - This area is not my area of expertise at all so I thought I'd put it in an area where people could properly work on it :)RossEvans19 (talk)23:01, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did an initial cleanup.--Altenmann>talk21:32, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks must be handled: there may be mistranslated titles. Wherever possible, I would suggest adding interwikilinks, like I did right now withAltai State Agrarian University [ru].

A true wikignome may also want to convert it into a table "Name/Place/Date/Home page". I suggest a separate column "Home page" to declutter "References" list, which I suggest to reserve for items absent in enwiki and other interwikis. --Altenmann>talk21:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)02:41, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I consider nominating the category dedicated toprivatized companies of Russia for deletion. There are categories forcountry-specific privatization cases; however, the other countries never experienced such a large-scale privatization. This is an unique case that creates a number of issues:

• Nearly all organizations created prior to 1992 should be included in the category.
• The category mostly includesimmovable assets (department stores) rather than companies (despite the name).
• The connections between entities that currently exist and the privatized entities may be hard to establish.

Would you rather delete the category or expand it to include every notable privately owned enterprise of Soviet origin?Not a perfectionist (talk)16:53, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Nothing wrong with the category. Its small content is because wikipedians do not care much. Much of the confusion comes from the fact that in Wikipedia all enterprizes are sloppily called "companies". --Altenmann>talk19:00, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is this topic notable? It's been unsourced since its creation and been tagged for notability for some time.4meter4 (talk)01:41, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's briefly covered in theGreat Russian Encyclopedia and other academic sources, but I doubt it ever was a significant scientific interest. I guess it's notable, but the article is bound to be short.Not a perfectionist (talk)07:45, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵)12:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:Song of the Soviet Army#Requested move 21 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.Vestrian24Bio04:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.Vestrian24Bio04:03, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Denis Kapustin (militant) has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments onthe discussion page. Thank you.Helpful Cat {talk}07:18, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Svetlana Kuznetsova has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)22:52, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Care to joinCategory:Cultural Russian Orthodox Wikipedians :-) ? --Altenmann>talk00:35, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 10 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.Vestrian24Bio04:05, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion atTalk:Second Cold War § Asarlaí's photo insertions.George Ho (talk)05:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How should articles on municipalities (городское/сельское поселение etc.) be named? Currently there aren't many of them, but there is e.g.Sosnovskoye Rural Settlement, Leningrad Oblast. Personally I think calling that oneSosnovo Rural Settlement would make more sense, one reason being that the municipal center is calledSosnovo, not Sosnovskoye. Then again, using the suffixed form is in line with articles on districts, e.g.Priozersky District (as opposed toPriozersk District). --Kapulakone (talk)05:14, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There are three red links that lead to Russian Wikipedia articles:State Academy of Slavic Culture [ru],7 Days (ru), andKitchen. War for the Hotel [ru]. I need an editor who knows more about Russian culture than me just so my newly created Wikipedia page about actress Olga Kuzmina doesn't have these three red links.Yoshiman6464^♫🥚02:22, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is nothing wrong with an article having red links. --Altenmann>talk04:02, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Altenmann: Thanks. But I still need some assistance. Right now, I am at least creating an article forSquared Zebra since it received an English dub, and that Kuzmina voiced the titular character.

Russian submarine Sankt Peterburg has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)04:00, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Georgi Kinkladze has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)04:09, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to thereassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Z1720 (talk)04:13, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

IsConditions (Russia) a hoax article? It was created way back in 2008 and has been tagged since 2012.@Bearian: tagged it with{{hoax}} and a claim that the article is "nonsense". I know bupkis about Russian history, so I'm taking it here.Ten Pound Hammer •^{(What did I screw up now?)}16:19, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to have grains of truth mixed in with nonsense, possibly from either a poor translation from Russian, or LLM-generated text. It reads likeLady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera) on LSD.Bearian (talk)17:08, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not hoax and I removed the tag. YOu may easily see the interwikis. I will take a look. BTW in the history itis clearly stated it is translation from ru. (unfortunately the autroruser:Jeremydas is inactive now. --Altenmann>talk20:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Yes the English of Jeremydas could be better ("You contrary avoid the reasoning concerning the wikipedia rules and are going on to insist on the same text each occasions"). --Altenmann>talk20:47, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P.P.S. <sigh>Nuked. --Altenmann>talk20:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.@Bearian: I am curious what you think is wrong withLady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera). Maybe I can ty and fix a bit. At the first glance, its mediocre quality is not uncommon in neglected corners of wikipedia. --Altenmann>talk --Altenmann>talk20:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing is wrong with the opera article. Do you know what happens at the end?Bearian (talk)20:49, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

-) --Altenmann>talk20:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:Temryuk Idar#Requested move 24 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.TarnishedPath^talk01:01, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has requested thatControversy in Russia regarding the legitimacy of eastward NATO expansion be moved to another page, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate inthe move discussion.— An anonymous username,not my real name05:52, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Never done one of these before so please bear with me.

The "Cold War" section of the "History" section of theIntercontinental ballistic missile has a lot of detail on American ICBMs, and not a lot of detail on Soviet ICBMs. I personally don't know a lot about these (at least not enough detail on specific models/development history to edit the section) So consider this an open request for some subject matter expert to come and assist. Thanks for your time -Flipkick25.Flipkick25 (talk)15:18, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion atTalk:Roxelana#Requested move 8 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.TarnishedPath^talk07:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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