Talk:Donetsk

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Good article Donetsk was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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This page could benefit from translation from the German: de:Donezk Jdavidb 18:14, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I took the important stuff from the German page and added it here. I added in the twin cities based on other Wiki city sites and from other language Wikis. Olessi 02:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] vandalism

On May 5, 2005 at 15: 30 pm page was vandalized by 216.113.225.201

[edit] Yanukovych info pushing

I removed the following (or similar) passage(s) from not only Donets'k, but also from other Donbas pages:

During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, the citizens of Donetsk overwhelmingly supported Viktor Yanukovych instead of his rival Viktor Yushchenko.

The reasons are:

  • In this particular article, the passage was placed in the "Ethnopolitics" section with no evident connection to the section subject. WP rules say "Establish context".
  • I believe such passages are highly irrelevant to any city/oblast page, even if layed down correctly. Firstly, they belong to the elections and politics pages. Secondly, we already have some generalization pages to describe the real subject of them in an academic way. Thirdly, Donbas and its cities have millions of population and two centuries of history. Now who thinks the Yanukovych (and Yushchenko) are the top figures of that history :) ?

Best wishes, Ukrained 19:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 4th largest?

About number and composition population of UKRAINE by All-Ukrainian Population Census'2001 data: Kyiv 2611 Kharkiv 1470 Dnipropetrovs'k 1065 Odesa 1029 Donets'k 1016

Those statistics are cited in the Odessa article which claims, in contrast to this article, that Odessa not Donetsk is the fourth largest Ukrainan city. I will go ahead and edit.--Warfvinge 12:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Passed

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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Tarret 13:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article?

Any info on if this article can become a featured article candidate in the near future? Bogdan 01:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

It would be good to have the article featured, but it still needs a lot of work: more history, sports, referencing, intro.. But it is better than it was when it was passed as Good article. —dima/talk/ 02:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Donetsk rocks!!!

I came from there :-P. M.V.E.i. 09:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA on hold

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed.

  • Bullet-points should be avoided when possible.
  • The "famous person" section should be cited and made into prose.
  • "A famous preserved building", "famous pole vault athlete", "Donetsk is a well-known educational location" - famous and well-known are peacock terms
  • Em dashes should be unspaced.
  • Please provide citations for these statements:
    • "The city also contains a total of 125 slag heaps."
    • "In the beginning of World War II, the population of Stalino consisted of 507,000, and after the war - only 175,000. The Nazi invasion during World War II almost completely destroyed the city"
    • "For every killed Nazi soldier, 100 inhabitants were killed, and for every killed policeman, one inhabitant was killed."
    • "In 1970, Donetsk was recognized by UNESCO as the cleanest industrial town of the world. Donesk was granted the Order of Lenin in 1979."
    • "Residents of the city tend to be more pro-Russian in their political beliefs. This has been massively exploited during 2004 presidential election, in which the city mostly voted for candidate Viktor Yanukovych, which had been announced as the winner of the election by the Central Election Commission. The vote was later proven to have been falsified, with many of the falsified votes coming from the surrounding region."
    • "The largest religious body with the most members is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)."
    • "taxicab service, of which there are 32 in Donetsk."
    • "The whole airport complex was finished in 1973."
    • "Directly under the city lie coal mines, which have recently seen an increase in mining accidents."

I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made and issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GA/R). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAC. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions. Regards, Epbr123 08:19, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

As little progress has been made in the past two weeks, I'm afraid I've had to delist the article. Epbr123 09:52, 2 October 2007 (UTC)