Talk:Badayev warehouses

Some issues in this article
I stumbled across this article by accident but have no personal knowledge of the topic nor of broader Russian issues. I have done a little editing on it but I feel that it needs help from an expert, or even just someone closer to the topic and language than I am - they should find it much easier to research, I hope. The article is the only contribution by a 2011 editor (notified, just in case) who never returned under that name; it has been unreferenced ever since, and edited little. It has been tagged for being unsourced and an orphan for five+ years, and I have just added a tag for its general language and structure problems. In addition to those tags, here are a few things I was wondering about:

The topic
On a quick Google it certainly seems to be a real topic referenced by other works. I found it quite interesting but did wonder if it is really notable enough to be here.

I wondered about AfDing it but this seemed a bit extreme coming from me with my lack of topic knowledge. I do feel that it would really need improving if it were to stay, though.

Facts
No refs so not much fact checking. I couldn't find their claimed builder Igor Rasteryaev, perhaps because he is obscured by references to a more recent singer of that name. Is he real? Also we say he was a merchant of the 1st Guild but we do not explain what that is.

There are gaps in the story of what it was used for and when. The account of the building work that is/was planned is fuzzy and may well be out of date. The logic about the famine (it was not a real contributor to the famine because they only lost 3 days' worth of food in the fire) goes round in a bit of a circle.

I wondered if the 1 ton of burnt flour that was processed was correct or meant to be 1000 or some other figure? Also, some of this may be verging on the trivial ... or not, I wasn't there!

Wikiprojects
It is marked up for Food & Drink but nothing Russian, political, wartime etc. Should it not be? Seems odd to be so unadopted, if it has any value. I have mentioned it - but you probably know this already! - at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia.

So, if anyone with a bit more knowledge felt able to have a go at this, it would be very welcome. I had a little try but I have quickly reached the limit of what I can usefully do.

Thanks and best wishes to all, DBaK (talk) 08:59, 15 November 2016 (UTC)