Talk:Valentin Pavlov

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April 13, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and de facto Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev?

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His name[edit]

Was he known at all as Ivan Pavlov? He is listed at Ivan Pavlov (disambiguation) and I was unsure if he should be deleted from it. Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 08:35, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 16:51, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is clear to me that this article easily meets the standards set by the Good Article Criteria. However, before I pass it officially I would like to make some suggestions for the article:

Done "As Chairman of the State Committee on Prices..." You haven't yet said when he was appointed to this post.
Done The next sentence (the long one) could also do with clarifying.
Done "to be elected" - general election? If not, I think the process needs some clarification for the non-expert on the intricacies of Soviet political life.
Done "Soviet Government, literally the Cabinet of Ministers," - in what sense literally? Also, why did he move it?
Done "an official statement" - what is the important of the "official statement"? What were they looking for it (not) to say? Support, perhaps? I see this is hinted at in the next paragraph, but it remains slightly unclear.
Done "Soyuz was able to increase the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers," - I thought it was a parliamentary faction?
Done "Even if had been able to secure his position, Gorbachev's power within the system was already weakened and the enhanced powers previously given to the Cabinet of Ministers were reversed." - I think this needs a little expansion / clarification. What powers were taken back? The ones Soyuz just gave them? If he was weak how did he take the powers back?
Done "This reform also dealt a crippling blow to Soviet citizens who had saved their money when as many as 15,000–30,000 rubles taken out of circulation." -- Hmm?
Done "The government only managed to withdraw 14 billion rubles from circulation equating to 10.5 percent of the country's money supply against an intended target of 17.1 percent 81.5 billion rubles" -- the numbers don't add up here.
Done revert to post-Gorbachev policies?
Done How does his hypertension fit into the timeline of his being sent to his dacha?

I think these issues, most of them anyway, could really use fixing before the article is officially promoted, even if it's just me being silly :) Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 16:51, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just a few more things:

Done "even though Lira Rozenova, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Prices, was not elected to the post of Chairman of the State Committee for her advocacy of centrally administered price reform, a move which Pavlov supported" - what did Pavlov support? Centrally administered price reform, Rozenova's election, or both?
Done "almost unanimously" - I was going to eliminate this, but before I did, I thought I'd check if you meant that the rest were elected unanimously, or the rest were only just elected.
Done "e.g. the Cabinet of Ministers" - the previous wording, "literally", implied that the Government and the Cabinet were the same thing. Now it's part of the government. I just wanted to check that that was what you intended.
Done "This reform also dealt a crippling blow to Soviet citizens who had saved their money in Soviet banks; as much as 15,000–30,000 rubles were taken out of circulation." Surely those numbers are tiny?

Also, do check my copyedit to make sure I haven't changed the intended sense anywhere. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 08:52, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA pass[edit]

With these changes, I believe the article deserves its place among Wikipedia's "good article" collection. Please also consider reviewing an article yourself. - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 17:29, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]