Talk:Nestor Lakoba

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 9, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?

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Photograh[edit]

I think that this photo is wrong, because he doesn't look like the real Nestor Lakova. You could check it in these photographs: http://www.ogoniok.com/common/archive/2004/4830/03-10-10/03-10-1b.jpg http://www.hrono.info/statii/2004/rukovod.jpg (first left) http://www.hrono.info/statii/2004/lakoba_molod.jpg http://www.kapba.de/Nestor_Lakoba.jpg

This photograph could be of other Lakoba's brother, but not Nestor. --Shliahov (talk) 23:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is hard to tell, his appearance significantly changed with age. My very best wishes (talk) 05:01, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I looked in the book "Beria" by Antonov-Ovseenko. There are so many mistakes and important missing info in this page... One should compare with respective article on ruwiki which is much better. My very best wishes (talk) 05:01, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ibid.[edit]

I used the initial revision to expand all ibid.s. Please see this edit. jonkerz ♠talk 14:45, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: K.e.coffman (talk · contribs) 01:33, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will be reviewing this article; will get to it shortly. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:33, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've requested Kotkin from the library so that I can do some spot checks. I will resume the review in about a week's time. --K.e.coffman (talk) 16:18, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I have this page watched so I'll be looking out for any comments. Though due to my schedule I may not immediately respond, but I will get to it soon as I can. Kaiser matias (talk) 17:12, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kotkin 2017 checks out; I AGF on the rest of the sources. The article is in great shape; no concerns here. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:47, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment against GA criteria: GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Legacy[edit]

I found the last sentence of the "Legacy" section confusing: "The papers were first brought to Batumi, Georgia. Starting in the 1980s they were slowly returned to Abkhazia, with many eventually given to Princeton and Stanford Universities." It just seems weird that they would be returned to Abkhazia and then given to two American universities. Do we have any idea why? AmericanLemming (talk) 00:11, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it was because the political situation in Abkhazia, especially in the late 1980s-early 1990s, meant it was dangerous to keep sensitive documents there (and in fact the Abkhazian archives were destroyed in 1992). I will check to see if there is an explicit reason for why the documents were sent to the US, but I can say that Princeton and Stanford are leading universities for Russian studies, with Stanford in particular having a large collection of archival material from Russia and the Soviet Union housed in its library. Kaiser matias (talk) 21:00, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MOS isueses[edit]

Hello Kaiser matias, great job with this article getting FA even though that's two years ago. Anyway I see there are some MOS issues here.

Per MOS:OSNS we should use both Old and New Styles in Russian-related articles before 14 February 1918. Thus he was born in Russia on 1 May 1893 thus it's unclear which calendar this is.
His born isn't included in the body per MOS:LEAD the most important events should be included in the lead.
"working with them from the autumn of 1911 and officially joining them in September 1912" Per MOS:SEASONS we should avoid using seasons in articles this can be confusing for people in the southern hemisphere or people who only use wet and dry seasons around the equator. This also applies to "In the autumn of 1918".
"The ethnic Abkhaz only constituted roughly 25–30% of the population during the 1920s and 1930s" Per MOS:PERCENT we should use the word percent (or per cent in British English) instead of the symbol.

That's everything. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 15:45, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@CPA-5: Thanks for going through the article and catching those. I'll get through it myself soon as I can. Kaiser matias (talk) 19:02, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]