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This review is transcluded from Talk:Yoga in Russia/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 22:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs)

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

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Prose

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Lede

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  • lede is quite short. Culture of Health isn't mentioned, nor any mentions of the infighting mentioned at the bottom of the article. I'd also like some examples practiced in the lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 14:53, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Extended, with the points you mention among others.
  • Why was it banned? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 14:53, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's always a difficult question as it means inferring motives of lawmakers. The practice of yoga was banned, alongside other activities such as religion, even including the Russian Orthodox Church. We can readily guess that yoga was seen as dangerously close to Hinduism and a non-Soviet ideology but it's not easy to find a reliable source for that. Cogozzo 1991 (cited in the article) records that yoga books were confiscated and burnt and that teaching yoga was illegal; it also records that the USSR was unpredictable, as a thing was forbidden one day, permitted the next. Not sure that gives us anything extra in the text, though.
That's a real shame, but nothing we can do. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 15:11, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

General

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  • We have a massive article for Stanislavski's system, surely there is more we can add on that? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 14:59, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Most of his system was not about yoga as such. The section in this article is at least as long as the neighbouring sections already, and I think it makes the key points.
  • The see also section is a bit long, could we maybe have a navbox template for these? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 14:59, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • They are already in the 'Yoga as exercise' navbar. However mobile users don't see navbars so it seemed helpful to them to provide an alternate means of navigating to national yoga articles.

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