Talk:Great power/GA3

GA Review
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Reviewer: Retrolord (talk · contribs) 11:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

I will review.  ★ ★KING RETROLORD★ ★  11:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Review
There are several historical conferences and treaties which display this pattern, such as the Congress of Vienna, the Congress of Berlin, the discussions of the Treaty of Versailles which redrew the map of Europe, and the Treaty of Westphalia." Ref please  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) "Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength and diplomatic and soft power influence which may cause small powers to consider the opinions of great powers before taking actions of their own" Run on sentence, doesn't flow very well, please rewrite?  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) "However, this approach has the disadvantage of subjectivity. As a result, there have been attempts to derive some common criteria and to treat these as essential elements of great power status." Ref?  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) "As noted above, for many, power capabilities were the sole criterion. However, even under the more expansive tests, power retains a vital place." Remove this sentance please.  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) "written in 1833" rm,  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 5) "Other important criteria throughout history are that great powers should have enough influence to be included in discussions of political and diplomatic questions of the day, and have influence on the final outcome and resolution. Historically, when major political questions were addressed, several great powers met to discuss them. Before the era of groups like the United Nations, participants of such meetings were not officially named, but were decided based on their great power status. These were conferences which settled important questions based on major historical events. This might mean deciding the political resolution of various geographical and nationalist claims following a major conflict, or other contexts.
 * 1) "Other powers, such as Spain, Portugal, and Sweden were consulted on certain specific issues, but they were not full participants. Hanover, Bavaria, and Württemberg were also consulted on issues relating to Germany." Ref please  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) "only France and the United Kingdom have maintained that status continuously to the present day" Ref please?  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) "The victorious great powers also gained an acknowledgement of their status through permanent seats at the League of Nations Council, where they acted as a type of executive body directing the Assembly of the League. However, the Council began with only four permanent members—Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan—because the United States, meant to be the fifth permanent member, left because the US Senate voted on 19 March 1920 against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, thus preventing American participation in the League." Ref please  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) "The end of World War II saw the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union emerge as the primary victors. The importance of the Republic of China and France was acknowledged by their inclusion, along with the other three, in the group of countries allotted permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 5) "and according to him, there were three superpowers: the British Empire, the United States, and the Soviet Union. But by the mid-1950s the British Empire lost its superpower status, leaving the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's superpowers.[nb 2] The term middle power has emerged for those nations which exercise a degree of global influence, but are insufficient to be decisive on international affairs. Regional powers are those whose influence is generally confined to their region of the world." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 6) "China, with the world's largest population, has slowly risen to great power status, with large growth in economic and military power in the post-war period. After 1949, the Republic of China began to lose its recognition as the sole legitimate government of China by the other great powers, in favour of the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, in 1971, it lost its permanent seat at the UN Security Council to the People's Republic of China." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 7) "These five nations are the only states to have permanent seats with veto power on the UN Security Council. They are also the recognized "Nuclear Weapons States" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and have the five largest military expenditures in the world." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 8) "After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its UN Security Council permanent seat was transferred to the Russian Federation in 1991, as its successor state. The newly formed Russian Federation emerged on the level of a great power, leaving the United States as the only remaining global superpower[nb 3] (although some support a multipolar world view)." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 9) "Permanent membership of the UN Security Council is widely regarded as being a central tenet of great power status in the modern world; Brazil, Germany, India and Japan form the G4 nations which support one another (and have varying degrees of support from the existing permanent members) in becoming permanent members. There are however few signs that reform of the Security Council will happen in the near future." Ref  ★ ★King•Retrolord★ ★  13:22, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

New reviewer needed
Retrolord has been indefinitely blocked, so this article will need a new reviewer. I'm closing this review so that this nomination will return to its spot in the queue. Though this will show up in the article history as a "fail", the close is purely on procedural grounds and not a judgement on the state of the article. Thanks for your work on it! Sorry for this delay in your review, but at least RL's comments above will give you points to consider in the meantime. -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:19, 28 July 2013 (UTC)