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The list was archived by Crisco 1492 05:07, 21 June 2014 (UTC) [1].

List of heads of government of Russia

Nominator(s): Tomcat (7) 09:16, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A list of heads of government of Russia, from Menshikov to Medvedev. Tomcat (7) 09:16, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - Shame this made it so far down without comment; I've tried to give it a review now though.

"8 (19) February 1726" - I know you do this due to the Julian/Gregorian calendar thing, but it's never mentioned anywhere that you're doing it.

Note sure what to do here. I did not use the {{OldStyleDate}} template since it ridiculously places the "old style" in small case and right next to the "new date", while the Russian version is pretty good, with same letter size and additional tooltip commentary. I could write something like 8 (19) February 1726

It took me a bunch of research to figure out the difference between the head of government and head of state, and that the soviet "leader" was it's own, oddly amorphous thing that was generally synonymous with "General Secretary" of the party, and it would be really nice if this list explained a bit that "the government" and "the state" are separate things, with the definition/structure of "the state" changing in each form of government- right now it just talks about the different forms of "the government" there have been throughout history, but the words are confusing to people in countries where those are colloquially the same thing. Sort of an intro to the intro before you get into details.

The head of state (monarch, general secretary or president) is the highest political person. In pre-revolutionary years it was the monarch who could have absolute (under absolutism) or less control over the state. I am not sure how it was in Soviet era. In contemporary Russia since the ratification of the constitution it is the president, who has such rights as liquidation of the State Duma, removal of deputies from office, control over domestic and foreign policy or being Supreme Commander-in-Chief

The head of government chairs the government, which since the creation of the Committee of Ministers consists of several ministries, such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Culture. He has factually decided the most important duties

Capitalize Count in the "age" sentence, and consider moving it to the end of the last real paragraph before the date thing

Done

Why do you italicize titles? (Duke, Count, etc.)

Done

You say Ivan Andreyevich Veydemeyer is under Paul in the table, but link to Paul I and call him Paul I thereafter

I see it linked, but I found another similar nuance

I'm not sure the colors on the left side make any sense, given that you have the political party colored the same way 4 columns over

It was taken from List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, also repeated colorization was recommended by RexxS

It's a bit weird that you use a different date format in the Cabinets than anywhere else in the list.

Changed

Why does Yeltsin (Russian Federation table) get 2 start dates but 1 end date without explanation?

Changed the dates there and above as is described by most of the sources

More than half the links here are redirecting, generally to alternate spellings or dropping the middle name. Not required to fix, just pointing out.
Consider archiving your online references with a service like archive.org/web or webcitation.org, so that changes/removals of content do not impact your citations

Will do that

Done where it was possible.--Tomcat (7) 12:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

--Pres N 20:12, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

--Tomcat (7) 18:11, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delegate's comment - This nomination has been archived owing to a lack of activity. There will be a delay in the closing of this nomination; please be patient. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:04, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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