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Organisation of articles[edit]

Repost from 2008 South Ossetia war:

Here is a list of articles to better illustrate matters:

Additionally, there are the articles about the earlier wars + subarticles.

As you can see, there are a total of 5 articles all going into the background of the situation in South Ossetia in more or less detail (2008 South Ossetia war, Background of the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgian–Ossetian conflict, 2008 Georgia–Russia crisis, Georgia–Russia relations). On the other side, there is only one, smallish article for Abkhazia (Georgian–Abkhazian conflict). So the problem is really different for the two issues:

For South Ossetia, the main problem is to make all the different articles consistent and find some way of arranging them that makes stuff less confusing. For Abkhazia, the main problem is the opposite, there is hardly overarching connection at all. To mess things up further, Georgia and Russia are involved in both conflicts at the same time, so while being geographically separate, they go through similar stages at the same time.

Imho, all of these need to be tackled at the same time. Some ideas:

  1. Move a lot more of the actual "fighting" (from active stage section) into the 3 Battle/Occupation subarticles to create space in the main article.
  2. Considerably upgrate the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict into an overarching story about that theater.
  3. Either create a new article about the war on the Abkhazian front or considerably upgrade this article with stuff about it
  4. Consolidate 2008 South Ossetia war#Background, 2008 South Ossetia war#Prelude, Background of the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgian–Ossetian conflict, 2008 Georgia–Russia crisis, Georgia–Russia relations:

All that would leave: 2 "Georgian-XX conflict" articles with the big storyline, this article and subarticles with the fighting, the "background ..." article with all the detail we dont want here and "Georgia-Russia relations" with another big storyline from the Russian perspective.--Xeeron (talk) 15:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]