Talk:Michael of Zahumlje

Former good articleMichael of Zahumlje was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 15, 2011Good article nomineeListed
November 27, 2021Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Religion edit

Serbian Orthodox Christianity in 912.!!?? The split between Catholic and Orthodox church happened in 1054, and Serbian Orthodox Church was established in 1219. Furthermore, Višević participated at Synod in Split in 925 which was summoned by Pope from Rome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ro0103 (talkcontribs) 20:40, 20 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Requested move edit

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:26, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Reply



Mihailo ViševićMichael of Zahumlje — Mihailo Višević has 1.490 google hints (mostly mirrors Wikipedia content) while Michael of Zahumlje has 1.680 google hints. More important Mihailo Višević has 3 google book hints (all non-English), while Michael of Zahumlje has 8 google book hints (all English). Kebeta (talk) 10:49, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Comment. On Google Books, I'm getting many more more results for Mihajlo Višević (with a j) than for Mihailo Višević or Mihailo of Zahumlje, even though many of these are not in English. Because it's difficult to judge from these meagre 'statistics', the advisable thing to do would prolly be to get the best sources of relatively recent date first and make your decision afterwards. Cavila (talk) 15:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes you are right, on Google Books Mihajlo Višević has many more results than Mihailo Višević. Although, most of them are in Croatian language. Still, I think it would be best to move the article per WP:COMMONNAME (using the name which is most commonly used to refer to the subject of the article in English-language reliable sources). Kebeta (talk) 10:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
In favour of Michael of Zachlumia. Regionalization of early medieval Slavic names is best avoided when possible (as in this case). Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 16:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Well, I wouldn't mind to see Zachlumia instead, but the use of Zahumlje seems to be equally if not better established in English-language sources. Cavila (talk) 18:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Support. Although this stuff is well outside my comfort zone, I've just made a stab at rewriting the (previously unreferenced) article. Some English-language sources seem to use 'Mihajlo', but the best and most useful sources I could lay my 'hands' on - well, mostly through Google Books - prefer Michael rather than the Slavic version. Cavila (talk) 16:02, 29 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Support as nominator. Kebeta (talk) 10:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
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GA Review edit

This review is transcluded from Talk:Michael of Zahumlje/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wustefuchs (talk) 05:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

This article is sourced very good, since ther are no many sources for this person. Neutral point of view is very important to the good article status, and this arcile fits to this demand. Ther is also only one red link in the article, wich is good. The fact is that it is very hard to find images (none of them exists) for this person, so we have decent nomber of files in the article. Ther is no a single edit made since 6 January 2011, and ther was no edit wars. This article can pass as good article.--Wustenfuchs (talk) 19:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Wustenfuchs for your GA Review. Regards, Kebeta (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Is this actually a GA? edit

This page was nominated for a GA by User:Wüstenfuchs here, then received exactly one review from User:Wustefuchs (who later was tagged as sockpuppet by the nominator) here, and then was tagged as a GA by them even though the review was never closed properly and no one other than a sockpuppet of the nominator reviewed it.

Recently, a set of unregistered editors have been removing the GA tag on the grounds that the nomination was started by an editor now blocked for socking. While this alone is not a reason to remove it as the block took place 3 years after the nomination, so they were not evading any block at the time, and the IP address is evading a block according to Special:PermanentLink/1053892270#Michael_of_Zahumlje, it looks like this page is not a GA as it never went through a real review and only had activity from a sockpuppet.

Anyone else agrees? If nobody objects, I will remove GA in 7 days or so. Naleksuh (talk) 18:45, 6 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Naleksuh There hasn't been any interest shown in this matter for many years now, or in the last few days mentioned here, and it's a fairly niche medieval topic, so I think you should instead use one of the processes described at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment because they'll list the article in noticeboards which should help gather some more input. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:00, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, let me try to do that now. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:02, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Joy, Naleksuh the article appears to have been nominated by user Kebeta here, not Wüstenfuchs. While the user page of latter indicates they're a sock, no such tag exists for Kebeta.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:24, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Yes, the Wuste(n)fuchs sockpuppetry is less relevant here, but the simple fact that the GAN was approved without any apparent criticism whatsoever merits a review, especially given a lot of other changes in the last ten years. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 23:12, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
I agree the review does not appear very convincing. However neither lack of serious GAN review nor changes made since the review are justified causes for delisting. Theoretically, an editor could nominate an article and a reviewer might reasonably find it GACR compliant, and subsequent changes might be in line with GACR. I do not realistically expect that was what happened in this case. Nonetheless, there should be at least some actionable complaints (taking into consideration current GA criteria) as valid grounds to delist - any one of the significant ones should do (verifiability, relable sources, npov). I'm not saying someone will put their hand up and fix the article within a week, but still.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:36, 15 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Good article reassessment edit

Michael of Zahumlje edit

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · WatchWatch article reassessment pageMost recent review
Result: Delisted (t · c) buidhe 10:29, 27 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Per comment at Talk:Michael of Zahumlje#Is this actually a GA? this could be sketchy. Persistent anonymous edit-warring also seems to be involved, so this topic needs help. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:03, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

This the diff between the version from early 2011 when it was edited by User:Kebeta and today. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:19, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Remove Per my comment at here I don't think this is was ever a valid good article in the first place and should be removed. Naleksuh (talk) 18:11, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Comment Regarding the note on the talk page that the GAN was passed by a nominator's sock, it appears to me this was not so (and I left a note in the relevant secton on article talk with a relevant diff on that). Had it been nominated and passed by the same user/sock, it would have been unreasonable to do anything but to delist it. However...
Without going into details of the article, there should be some effort to point out what's wrong specifically. For GAR, "the aim is not to delist the article, but to fix it". In that respect, I think it would be fair to list what aspects of the article need work in terms of GA criteria before the article is fixed or delisted. The review back in 2011 certainly appears very superficial, so it is very well possible (or likely) there may be justifiable objections. The original GAN nominator appears inactive since 2013, but hey, there may be takers... or even if there are not any this week, a future editor will have something to work with.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:46, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
On a further examination (looking for edit warring in article history), I'm wondering if the original complainant at the article talk - Naleksuh was a bit hasty. It appears they thought the nominator promoted the GAN alone per this edit summary. Naleksuh could you please specify which GA criteria you feel are not met by the article and why/how? It would be very helpful for potential fixes to the article.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Tomobe03: Pretty simple. GA nomination. GA tag. By the same person. Both have similar usernames and one is a sock of the other by CheckUser evidence. Plus this is nowhere close to a complete GA review. Naleksuh (talk) 18:33, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Naleksuh I think you're mistaken. What you linked as the "GA nomination" diff is actually diff of GA review page creation and there's nothing unusual there. The diff with the GAN nomination is this by user Kebeta while GA was taken up by Wustefuchs (sock, apparently unrelated to the nominator - at least no sock tag is linked to the nominator) diff and the review page Talk:Michael of Zahumlje/GA1 was made by Wustefuchs. I agree that the review was very superficial, but it would be equally incorrect to assume the nomination was in bad faith or not in compliance with GA criteria when it was not reviewed - then or now because two wrongs don't make a right. If the article is non-compliant with major aspects of the WP:WIAGA it should be simple to list such non-compliances.--Tomobe03 (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Let's use the opportunity to just look at that diff from the last 10 years... I skimmed it and noticed the sentence "Zahumlje belongs to the oldest Serbian principality." that just doesn't strike me as something that would be referenced to John V. A. Fine. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 23:19, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Excellent point. I have looked up Fine and it does not appear to support the claim. I have tagged appropriate references with the failed verification tag. This clearly makes the article non-compliant with the WIAGA criterion #2.--Tomobe03 (talk) 23:39, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

In view of above non-compliance with the verifiability criteria and apparent lack of volunteers who might fix this article, I think it would be appropriate to downgrade its quality rating to C or start-class.--Tomobe03 (talk) 13:03, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Struck C since at least criteria 2 (verifiability), likely 4 (neutrality), and 1 (prose) are not quite there.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:12, 24 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

this is good article since its inception edit

but the code for it, does not show up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.64.238.114 (talk) 14:42, 11 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

It was delisted through a standard process. Please read the talk page section directly above. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC)Reply