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Treaty of Narva

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I've listed this article for peer review because… I am trying to determine which countries military was involved. It already has the Polish Military in WikiProject Military History. I feel the Russian Military and other countries that were involved should be mentioned even though the geography has since changed. Even the assessment would be up for discusion. Any other feedback such as other WikiProject Country Templates, etc would be appreciated.

Thanks, Adamdaley (talk) 23:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Peer review is typically for articles that are looking to go to WP:GAN or WP:FAC. I am not an expert in this history (and must admit although I knew about Augustus the Strong, I had never heard of this treaty). Anyway, here are some suggestions for improvement.

• The lead and article body both metion Augustus the Strong and the Saxon electorate, but neither the infobox nor the categories mention Saxony or the Saxon Electorate. Shouldn't they?
• The next thing I would say is to look at the sources used in the article - what do they say about the treaty and the parties and militaries involved? Follow their lead, since Wikipedia is based on verifiable information from reliable sources
• I would also ask the good people of the Military History WikiProject to take a look at this - there will be people there who know more about this than I do and who can give better specific advice.
• Another idea is to look at a model article as a source of ideas and examples to follow. There is one FA on a treaty - Treaty of Devol - which seems like it owuld be a good model article for this one.
• The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way, but the terms and consequences do not seem to be in the lead. Please see WP:LEAD
• I think that the images of the treaty itself (linked in the article as an EL) are free under US copyright law (as the treaty is old enough to be PD and photos of 2-dimensional PD works are free). Would it be possible to put an image of either the first or perhaps the last page of the treaty in this article?
• Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)