Talk:Tsar Alexei's campaign of 1654–1655

Tsar Alexei's campaign of 1654–1655 was nominated as a Warfare good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (April 17, 2025, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion not met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

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GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Tsar Alexei's campaign of 1654–1655/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Nihil novi nisi (talk · contribs) 14:10, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 03:19, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as I have just reviewed the nominator's Battle of the Basya River article, I will look at this one as well. Comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 03:19, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Having looked at this in some detail, it suffers similar issues to those identified for the Battle of the Basya River article such that I believe that at least some GA critria are not met.

Criteria 1a and 1b

There are numerous grammar and clarity issues throughout, mostly of a nature similar to those found in the Battle of the Basya River article. It needs a decent CE.

Criteria 2a

The sourcing for this article is a little more diverse than Battle of the Basya River but still heavy reliant on one reference: Bobiatyński. I also note a mixture of citation styles, with sfn used for majority of sources but not for all, e.g. cites 18, 19, 48, 160 to 162

Criteria 3a

There appears to be a lack of context at points, with individuals/events mentioned without explanation. Some examples:

Khmelnitsky got into a state of "dizziness from success,": who was Khmelnitsky?
Now his task was to show Alexis...: Alexis is the Tsar, but the Tsar has already been introduced but without this name. Also, shouldn't it be Alexei, given the name of the article?
made a deal with John Casimir.[note 2] The Cossack Hetman...: who are Casimir and Hetman?
the entire sicha: what is a sicha?

The article lacks a conclusion/aftermath section

This is quite a long way from GA with a lot of work required to bring it up to scratch on the criteria discussed. That should be done outside of the GA process and accordingly I propose to fail this one in a few days. When the remedial work is complete, it can be renominated for GA. Zawed (talk) 09:24, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No response from nominator, who had not edited for 51 days. In light of the lack of response, and state of article, failing this nomination. Zawed (talk) 09:54, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]