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First of all, please see [[Talk:Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union#Lead]]. Second of all, while you may be quite familiar with the history of the Soviet Union, we are not writing for ''you'' we are writing for our readers. Third of all, the opening lead sentence, "In the Soviet Union, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place" is not acceptable prose for a GA-class article, and at this point the article should probably be delisted because you are not open to cleaning it up. It is not "needless" to add "In the twentieth century", and I cleaned up the prose by writing, "In the twentieth century, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place in the Soviet Union", which is an acceptable opening sentence that explains when and where the subject took place for our readers. Would you like the community to reassess this article or would you like to help fix the terrible prose? [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 12:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC) |
First of all, please see [[Talk:Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union#Lead]]. Second of all, while you may be quite familiar with the history of the Soviet Union, we are not writing for ''you'' we are writing for our readers. Third of all, the opening lead sentence, "In the Soviet Union, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place" is not acceptable prose for a GA-class article, and at this point the article should probably be delisted because you are not open to cleaning it up. It is not "needless" to add "In the twentieth century", and I cleaned up the prose by writing, "In the twentieth century, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place in the Soviet Union", which is an acceptable opening sentence that explains when and where the subject took place for our readers. Would you like the community to reassess this article or would you like to help fix the terrible prose? [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 12:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC) |
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That book is not that far from a GA, if you'd feel like polishing this up. Just a thought. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]|[[User talk:Piotrus|<font style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> reply here</font>]]</sub> 05:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 05:13, 29 May 2013
Re: Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
First of all, please see Talk:Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union#Lead. Second of all, while you may be quite familiar with the history of the Soviet Union, we are not writing for you we are writing for our readers. Third of all, the opening lead sentence, "In the Soviet Union, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place" is not acceptable prose for a GA-class article, and at this point the article should probably be delisted because you are not open to cleaning it up. It is not "needless" to add "In the twentieth century", and I cleaned up the prose by writing, "In the twentieth century, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place in the Soviet Union", which is an acceptable opening sentence that explains when and where the subject took place for our readers. Would you like the community to reassess this article or would you like to help fix the terrible prose? Viriditas (talk) 12:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
That book is not that far from a GA, if you'd feel like polishing this up. Just a thought. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC)