Talk:Roza Shanina/GA1

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Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reviewing this article shortly. From a scan it sounds like a very interesting person. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the issues I found:

"Roza with her fellow girl" fellow girls?
"Roza sometimes returned from her fellow countrymen of Ustya Raion" not sure what is meant here.
Soviet institutes of secondary education sounds like it should be all capitalized, but I could be wrong.
All the paragraphs starting with dates feels repetitive; mix it up a bit.
there are times where use a comma after a year and times you don't (i.e. june 22, 1944 and june 24, 1944,); make it consistent.
"In May, 1944" when it's just the day and month a comma isn't needed.
"Shanina was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd class for actions in the battle for the village Kozyi Gory" for her actions...village of Kozyi
"during that time, from April 6 to April 11," during that time not needed.
"To preserve military secrecy in her diary Shanina termed the killed and wounded "blacks" and "reds", respectively" cite preferred for this
"Shanina was among the first woman snipers" first female snipers sounds better to me here.
"she regretted for having done so little." for not needed
"She is the only person, killed in these places, whose body was not transferred in 1953 to the mass grave of Soviet soldiers" neither comma needed.
"Sergey was also killed, leaving Marat as the only surviving brother." I'd clarify that you post onyl surviving brother from the war; at least I assume that's what you meant. That paragraph should be cited as well.
I would request a copyedit; ask either at WP:GOCE or WP:MILHIST (the latter might be better since goce is a couple weeks backlogged right now) as the prose is quite rough in some spots. It's not so bad that I would fail this, but it's enough to keep me from passing it.

I'll put the article on hold for a week. By then the issues should be fixed and a copyedit requested. I'll pass the article when all that is fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:40, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All issues are fixed now and the request has been made (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Logistics/Copy-editing/Requests). Brandmeister t 14:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I just noticed that that page looks unused, so the WP:GOCE request might be the better route after all (only a couple edits after 2009 on that one) Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Submitted there. Brandmeister t 19:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit completed. Brandmeister t 12:11, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All references should list the original (non-translated) titles/publishers/author(s) unless they are common in English. Then |trans_title= where needed. I did some but got tired mid-way :) — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 15:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good point. That still needs to be wrapped up, though once that is I can pass the article no problem. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 17:26, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I went and fixed those last couple, so this article now passes GA status. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 23:57, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Horny

While the nickname is amusing it seems a little out of character, perhaps a bit demeaning given the subject's life. In any case it might be more proprer -and informative- if the original Russian word in cyrillic and transliterated to Roman/English were used also. I have looked around for more info myself, but I clearly don't have the resources the original author had/has. Bunnyman78 (talk) 00:17, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The source doesn't provide the original Russian version, the nickname was probably given by English-speaking Allies. Brandmeister t 23:40, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is the original Russian version? I tried looking for it, but as far as I see the websites don't have it. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 06:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]