Talk:Background of the Russo-Georgian War

Compliments and thinking about pipelines
Hello! This page looks great. I was wondering if it might be appropriate to add some information about the BTC pipeline and the proposed Nabucco pipeline as well, as those are definitely part of the West's interest in Georgia, and could be seen to be part of Russia's motivation as well. Katsam (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:03, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Feel free to edit the article as you wish. I just created it to reduce the huge load from the main article which was becoming too long.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 02:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

E Wing edits
Would it not be relevant to say Ossetian residents of S. Ossetia? Obviously if many refugees went south then there were Georgian residents of S. Ossetia. Lihaas (talk) 00:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Possible merge?
Since much of this current conflict has been related to developments between Russia and Georgia tihs year I was thinking that the article 2008 Georgia-Russia crisis could be partially merged with this article or possible completely merged. Possibly with some of the developments included in a timeline of events leading up to the war, particularly events in South Ossetia.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 23:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Dubious Tags
I've placed dubious tags for the following reasons:


 * 1) Is it right to refer to the Osssetians as Iranian ethnicity? That sounds someone controversial, I think it makes more sense to just say that the language they speak is one of the Iranian languages. Ethnically they might have more in common with Russians and North Caucausians than with people in Iran.
 * 2) Regarding the sentence "They came to the Caucasus after being driven out of their homeland in the Mongol invasions of the 13th century." The ancestors of the Ossetians were a nomadic people so that sentence doesn't seem to make sense also, I've seen historical maps that showed a presence in the Caucasus long before the 13 century due to the fact that they were nomads. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 00:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

What is the purpose of this article?
The title for this article is wrong, it's not a background, it starts off giving with a short background then it goes into each countries interests. This article should be renamed "Various Interests of Countries in the 2008 South Ossetia War". Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 00:15, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Replace this with the background material from the main article?
I think the content of this article is pretty weak. The "background" chapter in 2008 South Ossetia war seems to be superior to this in many ways (structure, content, etc.) It contains most of the relevant material from this article as well. I'd like to suggest to simply replace (most of) this article's content with the material from there. After that, we could start shortening the "background" chapter in the main article. Offliner (talk) 22:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree that this article is in a bad state, but copying over the main article section is not the solution. For one, it would be very hard to condense the main article section. Furthermore, this article elaborates on issues that are not elaborated on in the main article (e.g. Kosovo). One question that needs to be asked is whether we need a separate background article at all. Either there is enough interesting material here or not. If yes, we should bring it up to state, if not, we should delete this article. --Xeeron (talk) 17:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I like the suggestion made by pocopocopoco, that we rename the article "various interests..." or whatever. The main article for the war has a background section. No need to copy it over here.IR393 will (talk) 15:14, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

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