User talk:Werchovsky

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User talk:Werchovsky/Archive 1

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand GA
I recently reviewed the article Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria for possible GA status and placed the article on hold. I know you were not the nominator, but the nominator is not a regular contributor to the page, so I would appreciate your input (but you certainly have no obligation to respond). My (substantial) comments are here. Thanks, Nikkimaria (talk) 03:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The version you pointed out is probably a bit closer to GA class, but still has substantial problems that would preclude it passing GAN. Some of my concerns with the version I reviewed should also apply to this version; I encourage you to see what you can do to fix up the article and then possibly renominate. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * As a general point for this type of article, in addition to the usual quotes, stats, etc, any controversial statements or statements that historians disagree about, should be footnoted. Also, to maintain neutrality it's important to avoid terms of opinion or, in most cases, emotion. You should also avoid indirect editorializing wherever possible. Good luck! Nikkimaria (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * What I mean is for that sort of statement, as long as it's cited to a reliable source (and your wording doesn't imply something other than what the source says), then it's fine to use those sorts of words where they are supported by context and fact. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Franz Ferdinand
feel free to change it round. the way it was before didn't make sense as there was no explanation of how things were connected and it jumped around timewise, to simplify:

"In June 1910 Žerajić attempted to kill Verešanin. Žerajić was a Serb from Herzegovina. 12 days before the attempt on Verešanin, Žerajić had made an attempt on Joseph.  Verešanin went on to crush the last Bosnian peasant uprising in the second half of 1910. The bullets Žerajić fired at Verešanin made Žerajić an inspiration to future Serbian assassins..."

It starts of saying Zerajic attempted to kill V, then goes back in time to say he had attempted to kill Franz Joseph, then goes forward in time to say V crushed an uprising the second half of 1910, then goes back in time again to June 2010 to talk about the bullets fired at V.

some of the sentences don't really connect, it's just a sequence of sentences which are standalone facts. Tom B (talk) 19:32, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Re
You wrote "Removed vague, outside-the-scope, misplaced, unencyclopedic, uncited edit": i reinsert the passage in the "Protests and compensations" section (so it is no longer "misplaced", "vague" and "outside-the-scope") and i quote my sources (so it is no more "uncited" and "unencyclopedic"). --AndreaFox2 (talk) 15:47, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

"I am not sure why you are citing the original Italian...": it's because i'm Italian. What i have written isn't really disputed in Italy and it is widely acknoledge that our politicians at the time were enraged because Austria violated an agreement made in 1887 and confirmed in 1891 and 1912 (i exactly wrote those three dates in the article) and that this fact contributes to the decline of our political relationship with Austria, a fact which eventually lead to Italy joining UK and France. I have never heard about this whole university issue and i'm quite informed about world war I's history. I cited Albertini, but i could have cited other works. --AndreaFox2 (talk) 17:30, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I cited the original treaties: go check them instead of accusing me of being "ignorant of the Italian University" issue and of poorly editing. Go check them and see what Italy and Austria had agreed upon. Or do you really believe that the Italian University issue was really the problem back then? I do not care if you think that "territorial transfer from Austria to Italy were not at all realistic expectations during this crisis", as long has the two states had agreed upon this in that same treaties. "Austria-Hungary was not occupying new lands, rather, it was giving up one piece of land and annexing another that it already occupied under a long standing mandate": Austria was occupying a territory which legally (altough nominally) belonged to another empire, thus by annexing it Austria legally occupyed a new land ("On February 20, Austria-Hungary settled the matter and received Ottoman acquiescence to the annexation in return for ₤2.2 million"). --AndreaFox2 (talk) 12:57, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I recognize I didn't understand some of your English. It's because of this that I delete the "a bit too rude" comment: by giving it a second thought, I realised that I may not have understand you clearly. I cited other sources: they're in Italian, but maybe you can find some translations for them on the web. If I have made grammar errors, maybe it's better you correct them, as I don't realise I made it, even if you told me so. Thanks. See you. --AndreaFox2 (talk) 21:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

P.S. Regarding this comment ("But the object of my edit will not be to justify Italy attacking Austria-Hungary in 1915") I hope you didn't think I could have been political biased about the article. I didn't feel the need to "justify Italy", nor I think anyone would need to justify a war happened so long ago against a state (Austria-Hungary) that doesn't exist anymore. War is simply war: you can try to justify it, but it is never a right choice. What i wrote is simply what i studied at school and what i read on hystorical books. Maybe i wrote it in bad grammar, but i assure you what i wrote is 100 % true. Hope you can find English translations of the books I cited, so you will have a simplier confirmation. See you. --AndreaFox2 (talk) 22:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
The article Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria for things which need to be addressed.


 * Please ignore the comment about seven days: that is added by the template that I'm using. If it is fixed by late Monday / early Tuesday I will pass it. If it is not fixed by then I will review it on 28th or 29th October and make a decision then. Pyrotec (talk) 20:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

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