Talk:Nina Popova (official)

Nina Popova (official) is currently a Politics and government good article nominee. Nominated by SusunW (talk) at 14:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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Short description: Russian civil servant (1908–1994)

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Photos[edit]

Photo discussion is here. SusunW (talk) 22:03, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Nina Popova (official)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: SusunW (talk · contribs) 14:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Kusma (talk · contribs) 16:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will review this one. Review to follow over the next few days. —Kusma (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Content and prose review[edit]

Early life and education[edit]

I do not think the family details should be stated in wikivoice. Talaver 2023 attributes them to Borisova and does not mention the names or the relation to the archbishop, or the details of what they ate to avoid starvation (some of this might be family legends).
I am pretty sure the "elevator" is a grain elevator, compare s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Elets.
Did the mother die during the 1921/22 famine, or soon after the father's 1920 death? In the lead she seems to die in 1920.
Borisoglebsk: mention where it is? (350km/over 200 miles ESE from Yelets?)
Do we know anything about the background and the patronymic of Andrey Shamshin? (the article Renita Grigoryeva states "Andrei Semyonovich Shamshin (1903–1972), a scientist-agronomist")
She did not really study at Moscow State University, but at ru:Московский институт философии, литературы и истории, which as far as I can tell was independent at the time.
My inner language nerd would prefer to see the Renita initialism explained in Cyrillic, but that is certainly not in the GA criteria.

Career: Early period[edit]

"Moscow Marxist–Leninist University for Science, Technology, and Engineering Workers" can't find it under this name. The source (Prominent personalities) notes it is the "Timiryazevo Branch"; Borisova says "Нине поручают организацию Тимирязевского филиала Московского университета марксизма-ленинизма". I am wondering if this is related to Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. It certainly sounds like it is in Timiryazevsky District.
Golovchanskaya is also a slightly odd source.
The unfaithful husband fathering a child is only in Borisova?
"When World War II broke out, Popova became responsible for functioning and security in the Krasnopresnensky District." can you say that more precisely? In 1939, the war was the Soviet Union attacking Poland and Ukraine (see Soviet Union in World War II), and there was little need for camouflage. Operation Barbarossa started mid-1941. What is "functioning"?
Your transliteration of Russian is a bit inconsistent.

Lead[edit]

Check later.

Source spotchecks[edit]

Not so sure Borisova should be treated as fully reliable; with the dialogue form, it seems closer to a primary than a secondary source to me.

General comments and GA criteria[edit]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

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