Talk:Aleksey Arakcheyev

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[edit] Good Article nomination has failed

The Good article nomination for Aleksey Arakcheyev has failed, for the following reason:

An interesting article, but unfortunately some of the writing is not clear - for example His school formation consisted in studying arithmetics under the management of rural d'yachka doesn't really make sense. A good copyedit would do the trick - please renominate once that's done. Worldtraveller 09:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I've removed it from the list again because it has a cleanup tag on it at the moment. Worldtraveller 16:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Nom on hold

• I would expand the lead to at least two paragraph, ideally 3, which should summarize his life. See WP:Lead
• Under Early life: "knowledgeable and scholarized man" - don't think scholarized is really a word.
  • Also it would be nice to know at least some years associated with these events to put it into context.
• Under Paul I's reign, not sure what you mean with this word: "voluntarism" is this what you're intending to imply?
• "He introduced several useful military reforms" what were these reforms and why were they useful?
• Do we know why he made the women have a child a year?
• I marked where inline citations are needed.

Also, you should also cite page numbers for each reference. When citing from a number of different pages, I generally prefer to create a separate "References" section listing the full details of the book and only using short-form citations in the footnotes or Notes section (as here, for example). plange 23:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• As for the inline citations you asked for, they come from the non-inlined citations that were already there before I edited or the citations are the end of the paragraph as it pertains to all the paragraph.
  • I know what you mean by the footnote section/note section but since it is not a policy even though footnotes are recommended, I think the way they look now is very fine ... it's better to have citations than not to have any whatever the format.
• Modified the lead consequently.
• voluntarism as meant by the provided link ... YES.
• can't answer for the reform part ... i'll look into that.
• i didn't see the why for the 1 child a year policy in what I read. Lincher 21:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

  I didn't find more about the guy's reforms. Lincher 21:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

re: tags that's fine. I know I'm anal about them and they're not required for GA (but are for FA). I made a change, adding Notes. Aesthetically it just doesn't look good both grouped together like that... plus later when you're wanting to bring it to FA, your structure will be there. Since the policy on 1 child and reform things would have just been "nice to haves" and you've addressed the others, I'll pass this :-) plange 21:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)