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[edit] Russian Ground Forces

Following peer review and much improvement, I'd like to self-nominate this article for A-class review. I'd also be interested in people's opinions of whether the 'dispositions' section should be via a table, as it's presented now, or by bullet points, as it was prior to a few revisions ago. Thanks very much Buckshot06 09:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support'. Beautiful. I look at every armed forces article and wonder why it can't be more like this. You've included not only the basic stuff, like history and organization, but a decent sized section on crime and corruption. I love the navbox of different Russian/Soviet armies throughout history. And I do, personally, think that dispositions (though I have no idea why they're called that) look better in a table. In far too many articles, the bullet point list gets way out of hand, and ends up greatly exceeding the text of the article (in length on the page). Thanks for your hard work. LordAmeth 07:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Well written and soursed and a good read. Could use a few more images though, there's only 2 and a flag and im not as sure about the table as much as LordAmeth but ill let it pass as bullets look a lot worse. Nice article Hossen27 08:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

  Quick note. The other possible option for the units, which I'm leaning toward, is on the bottom of the talk page. What do people think? Buckshot06 09:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Support Spetsnaz and Siberian units could be linked and a bit more overall info (equipment, structure, training, women in the armed forces, recruitment campaigns, etc.) or links. Sourcing is OK. Wandalstouring 16:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose This is certainly a good and very interesting article, but I don't think that it's A-class. My main concern is that the article is written as a commentary on the Russian Ground Forces rather than in an encycopedic style (for instance: "Reports such as these continue, and mean that the much increased funding allocated to the armed forces is going to waste: when a constant-readiness motor rifle regiment's tanks run out of fuel on the firing ranges, because petrol is being diverted to local businesses,[52] how can observers be convinced the extra funding is going to produce improvements?"). The article would also benefit from the addition of a table listing the major weapons holdings of the ground forces (number of tanks, helicopters, etc) and more photos would be nice. --Nick Dowling 00:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

  Response. I've examined the places Nick nominated for changes/cites and I think I've better represented the issues, as well as adding Spetsnaz units. There is information on women in the Armed Forces at Armed Forces of the Russian Federation; I've seen no recent info specifically on women in the Ground Forces; equipment has expanded at bit. Buckshot06 12:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)