Talk:Siberian natural resources

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I have tried to finish the wikification of this article but it needs a lot of work for the following reasons:
 * 1) Poor English
 * 2) It seems rather out of date as it constantly refers to the USSR
 * 3) The final section looks like a POV rant (although the English is to bad to be sure)
 * 4) Are all the areas referred to only in Siberia?

--NHSavage 14:13, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

English was almost certainly not the original editor's native language. I've done what I could to clean this up, but the sentence constructions make that very difficult, particularly the changes in tense (past, present, future). It's hard to tell what time period is being discussed. The overall feeling I get is that the data presented in the article are historical, as the latest year mentioned is in the 1940s. This needs attention from someone with, at the very least, a good grasp of 20th Century Russian history and the geography of the region, neither of which I have.--Pastafarian Nights 21:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

More tidying up of text (though lots still to do), and latest data was c1940. Added new para 2 with % of USSR outputs, with reference which is later but still only 1977 or c25y old! Hugo999 (talk) 13:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Wow. You're not kidding. Maybe someone used an online translation program. I found one glaring inaccuracy, which may relate to dated information: The article says that the Soviet Union is second behind South Africa in gold production. That's flatly wrong today. China is number one, followed by South Africa. Tmangray (talk) 20:49, 1 May 2013 (UTC)