Template:Did you know nominations/Tatar Cavalry Regiment

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The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Article, while edited through December 20, has had no new inline source citations added, so it doesn't meet DYK's verifiability criteria, and nominator hasn't edited since. Closing as unsuccessful.

Tatar Cavalry Regiment[edit]

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Сavalrymеn of Tatar (Azerbaijani) regiment in reconnaissance, July 1917

... that the Tatar Cavalry Regiment was one of the regiments of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division of the Imperial Russian Army, formed in 1914 from Tatars (Azerbaijanis) to fight in the World War I?
- ALT1:... that the Tatar Cavalry Regiment was one of the regiments of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, better known as the Savage Division, which was formed from volunteer Muslims of Caucasus and Transcaucasia, who, according to the Russian law of that time, were not subject to conscription for military service?

Created by Baskervill (talk). Nominated by Grandmaster (talk) at 01:13, 15 December 2017 (UTC).

Note: struck ALT1, which at 309 characters is far too long for DYK, where the maximum is 200. (The original hook, at 198 characters, just squeaks by.) BlueMoonset (talk) 04:43, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Size and date check out. However the vast majority of the article is unreferenced (or, at least, lacks inline citations); only 8 of 28 paragraphs even include a single citation, and while foreign-language citations are certainly acceptable none of them provide translations, or even transliterations, of their titles, making them practically impossible to properly verify. This is a very intriguing subject, but the article needs a lot more love. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:42, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

This article is translated from the Russian Wikipedia, and the references are all in Russian, but I agree that the referencing could be improved. Will work on it. Thanks for the advice. Grandmaster 00:54, 17 December 2017 (UTC)