Talk:Maria Rasputin

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Good article Maria Rasputin has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
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[edit] Nice Page!

This is a nice page, I congratulate WikiProject Russia on fine work. RideABicycle | Talk | 18:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
  5. It is stable.
  6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
    a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
  7. Overall:
    a Pass/Fail: [[Image:|15px]]
  • 1 (a) and (b) Prose and Structure:
  1. She described how Maria, "a tall girl in a gymnasium frock" came in and was greeted by society ladies calling her by the pet names "Mara" and "Marochka" and extending their hands to her. Possible run-on sentence. There should be a comma after the quote, and a the whole sentence reads kind of weirdly.
  2. She was married at one point to a man named Gregory Bernadsky, whom she married in 1940. This is an odd sentence. Consider rewording it.
  3. Maria told her four grandchildren that their infamous great-grandfather was a "simple man with a big heart and strong spiritual power, who loved Russia, God, and the Tsar," her granddaughter Laurence Huot-Solovieff, the daughter of Maria's daughter Tatyana, recalled in 2005. Again, this is a hard sentence to read.
  4. The majority of the article is a bunch of quotes from a text. While nice, it makes the article somewhat difficult to read, and it suggests poor writing style. Consider integrating the text by rewording the quotes (while still attributing it to the book from whence it came). This might be easier to read. This is a personal preference, and I don't like it. This is why I fail the article on structure.
  • 2 (a) and (b) References:
  1. You should cite her birthdate and birth name. The fact that there are no citations in introduction I find a bit disconcerting.
  2. whom Rasputin called "The Little One." -- Needs a source.
  3. Soloviev and Maria eventually emigrated to Paris, where Soloviev worked in an automobile factory and later died of tuberculosis in 1926. -- This definitely needs a citation.
  4. Remember that there should be no spaces after the punctuation before the citation. Scan the article again and check it out, removing whitespace where appropriate.

Since I can tell that a lot of hard work has gone into the article and I think that my suggestions can be implemented fairly readily, I am going to put the GA on hold for now. Fix it up and post a message here that you have done so. I'll add the article to my watchlist and pass it as soon as the points above are addressed. Thanks and good luck! –King Bee (T • C) 20:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I think I've fixed the items you wanted addressed. Featured Article reviewers have been discouraging use of the citations in the introduction. The intro is supposed to be a summary of the rest of the article. --Bookworm857158367 21:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Really! I'm really surprised by that. Can you send me a link to what you're talking about? That seems really odd to me. I'll take a look at the article and reassess its status, then get back to you. –King Bee (T • C) 21:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
That was the feedback I got during the review process for my Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia article that just passed FA. I'm not sure if it's personal preference or if it's an established guideline.--Bookworm857158367 21:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
That's very interesting. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I see you have updated the article quite a bit, and I like what you've done. I'll pass the article now. Good work! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by King Bee (talk • contribs) 21:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for taking the trouble to review and pass it. --Bookworm857158367 21:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
No trouble at all. It was a pleasure working with you. Thanks for getting everything done so fast! I noticed the article was sitting around on WP:GAC forever, so I thought I'd help you out. Good work again! –King Bee (T • C) 21:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

. Maria Rasputin is siting on the right of the picture (not the center). She's wearing a navy type costume. Her describtion and dress style are both confirmed in the article. Source: I am a grandson of Maria, the son of the Dutch diplomats to Greece mentioned by my cousin, Laurence Huot. HypocampelephantocamelosHypocampelephantocamelos (talk) 16:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)