Template:Did you know nominations/Golos Armenii

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:40, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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Golos Armenii[edit]

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  • ... that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?

Created by Soman (talk). Self nominated at 18:56, 5 June 2014 (UTC).

  • Done with QPQ, did inline citations, fair content, and has an interesting hook. I just want to clarify if Golos Armenii is opposed towards Soviet Armenian's Kommunist or Kommunist was the former name of Golos Armenii. Thanks! 001Jrm (talk) 06:33, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
'Kommunist' is the former name of 'Golos Armenii'. --Soman (talk) 15:06, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
  • I think the above comment was possibly written in good faith as a review, but because the nom has not been promoted, I'll do another one to get it moving. New enough (for 5 June) and long enough. QPQ done. No problems with access to external links. The hook is acceptable and short enough, and is referenced to offline citations #11 and #12, accepted AGF. The text is objective and written in neutral style, and is fully cited. The image in the article is fair-use, but see issue 2 below. No copyvio or close paraphrasing found. Issues: (1) "Communist Party of Armenia" is a disambig link. (2) I think you may have problems with the large size of the fair use image in the article, and the fact that the rationale for the licence is minimal. Two of the rationale sections have not been filled in - it just says n.a. To prevent delays in this nom, I suggest that you halve the size of the filepage image, reduce the size of the image in the article, and expand the licence rationale. When issues 1 and 2 are resolved, this nom should be OK. --Storye book (talk) 16:45, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
  • The source (footnote 8) confirms the name change, but there's nothing in the article or sources about Golos Armenii being the opposition paper. Yoninah (talk) 19:43, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
  • See sentence "It was strongly opposed to the presidency of Levon Ter-Petrossyan" --Soman (talk) 20:21, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
  • I'm sorry, I don't understand the connection. The paper was opposed to someone's presidency. How does that make it the "opposition paper" to the Kommunist? I think you need to add some more words/sourcing to the article to make this explicit. Yoninah (talk) 21:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
  • In the UK, an opposition newspaper is always one which opposes the government, and never a paper which disagrees with another paper. I am guessing that you are in the US, so maybe that usage is unfamiliar to you? I understand that a number of other countries including Armenia have opposition newspapers, especially where there is political dissension. I have split the text to create a third paragraph, so that you can see where that happened. In paragraphs 1 and 2, the newspaper has allegiance to the Soviet government, and that is why it is called Kommunist at that time. In paragraph 3, the government is now Armenian, the paper is independent of the new government and has changed its name, and the new president (if you read the president's article) is unpopular and accused of corruption, so the paper opposes the new government - and that is why the paper is soon shut down. That is quite clear to me, and it should be quite clear to anyone who is aware that there tends to be vocal dissension in countries suffering sudden and drastic changes of government. I hope that helps.--Storye book (talk)
  • Yes, thanks for the explanation. Yoninah (talk) 22:59, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
  • This nom was interrupted due to a misunderstanding. Still good to go. --Storye book (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
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