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Russia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	9	16	28	33			86
FL	2	4	6	3			15
FM					97		97
A	2	3	14	12			31
GA	25	37	117	249		6	434
B	219	301	537	907		321	2,285
C	381	692	1,429	3,477		1,041	7,020
Start	414	1,505	6,503	15,913	1	3,052	27,388
Stub	13	215	3,980	46,217	3	4,076	54,504
List	70	102	468	3,357	51	320	4,368
Category					24,072		24,072
Disambig					266		266
File					1,199		1,199
Portal					26		26
Project					140		140
Redirect		3	12	677	2,033		2,725
Template					4,482		4,482
NA				5	7		12
Other			1	2	109		112
Assessed	1,135	2,878	13,095	70,852	32,486	8,816	129,262
Unassessed		1	2	66		1,070	1,139
Total	1,135	2,879	13,097	70,918	32,486	9,886	130,401
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 499,510			Ω = 5.45

Echo TV Russia

There is Russian text embedded within the article that has citations. Please fix that. Bearian (talk) 00:51, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:1921 Russian Supreme Soviet election#Requested move 11 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:1921 Russian Supreme Soviet election#Requested move 11 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:45, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:12, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire#Requested move 29 October 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire#Requested move 29 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CNC (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User adding questionable Old Style dates to articles

Crumb Hole (talk · contribs) has been adding Old Style dates to lots of articles without any source for doing so, even for dates that predate the Gregorian Calendar (such as adding Old Style dates to Vladimir the Great because Russia/Ukraine began using the Julian calendar in 988AD [1]). I've reverted those ones, but I'm not sure if the ones he's added to e.g. Catherine the Great are correct either. Would anyone be able to check?--Ermenrich (talk) 01:22, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Andrei Kirilenko

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Andrei Kirilenko#Requested move 11 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Emiya1980 (talk) 04:52, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 14 November 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 14 November 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 12:21, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Altaic (disambiguation)

An editor has requested that Altaic (disambiguation) be moved to Altaic, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. PK2 (talk; contributions) 22:40, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Eurasian Land Bridge

Eurasian Land Bridge has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:35, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of interest at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine

There is a discussion of potential interest to this WikiProject occurring at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine#Infobox link formatting for populated places in Ukraine regarding a formatting question for infoboxes in Ukrainian locality articles. Opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments to the discussion and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. Dan the Animator 22:32, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox chess biography has an RfC

Template:Infobox chess biography, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Khiikiat (talk) 10:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery

Can someone please source this! Unreferenced since 2005, and tagged for notability (which seems ridiculous given the topic). Thanks for any help. Best.4meter4 (talk) 05:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Mstyora miniature

The article Mstyora miniature has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 16 years, but actually unsourced for over 20 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Only 2 brief examples on Google Books, and just lots of drek on the Internet. Nobody would touch it during the Unsourced articles drive. If you can suggest a target for a redirect, please do.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 22:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just added a source to the article. Alaexis_¿question? 08:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

"This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)[reply]

Tatiana Grinberg

Found this article - Tatiana Grinberg - it needs to be cleaned up and sources need to be added. Thanks, RossEvans19 (talk) 17:50, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty clearly either a copy and paste, or a machine translation. I am not sure whether the source is in public domain. Ymblanter (talk) 21:44, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The existing sources don't seem to be independent from the subject of the article btw. Alaexis_¿question? 22:27, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay - This area is not my area of expertise at all so I thought I'd put it in an area where people could properly work on it :) RossEvans19 (talk) 23:01, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did an initial cleanup.--Altenmann >talk 21:32, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of institutions of higher education in Siberia

Redlinks must be handled: there may be mistranslated titles. Wherever possible, I would suggest adding interwikilinks, like I did right now with Altai State Agrarian University [ru].

A true wikignome may also want to convert it into a table "Name/Place/Date/Home page". I suggest a separate column "Home page" to declutter "References" list, which I suggest to reserve for items absent in enwiki and other interwikis. --Altenmann >talk 21:00, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:41, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Privatized companies of Russia

I consider nominating the category dedicated to privatized companies of Russia for deletion. There are categories for country-specific privatization cases; however, the other countries never experienced such a large-scale privatization. This is an unique case that creates a number of issues:

Nearly all organizations created prior to 1992 should be included in the category.
The category mostly includes immovable assets (department stores) rather than companies (despite the name).
The connections between entities that currently exist and the privatized entities may be hard to establish.

Would you rather delete the category or expand it to include every notable privately owned enterprise of Soviet origin? Not a perfectionist (talk) 16:53, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing wrong with the category. Its small content is because wikipedians do not care much. Much of the confusion comes from the fact that in Wikipedia all enterprizes are sloppily called "companies". --Altenmann >talk 19:00, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic

Is this topic notable? It's been unsourced since its creation and been tagged for notability for some time.4meter4 (talk) 01:41, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's briefly covered in the Great Russian Encyclopedia and other academic sources, but I doubt it ever was a significant scientific interest. I guess it's notable, but the article is bound to be short. Not a perfectionist (talk) 07:45, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 12:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Song of the Soviet Army#Requested move 21 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Song of the Soviet Army#Requested move 21 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Communist state#Requested move 23 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:03, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Denis Kapustin (militant) has an RfC

Denis Kapustin (militant) has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Helpful Cat {talk} 07:18, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Svetlana Kuznetsova

Svetlana Kuznetsova has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

Care to join Category:Cultural Russian Orthodox Wikipedians :-) ? --Altenmann >talk 00:35, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 10 January 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 10 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:05, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:Second Cold War

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Second Cold War § Asarlaí's photo insertions. George Ho (talk) 05:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Naming articles on municipalities

How should articles on municipalities (городское/сельское поселение etc.) be named? Currently there aren't many of them, but there is e.g. Sosnovskoye Rural Settlement, Leningrad Oblast. Personally I think calling that one Sosnovo Rural Settlement would make more sense, one reason being that the municipal center is called Sosnovo, not Sosnovskoye. Then again, using the suffixed form is in line with articles on districts, e.g. Priozersky District (as opposed to Priozersk District). -- Kapulakone (talk) 05:14, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]