Talk:Maria Nikiforova

She is Russian

Maria is Russian. I do not have any links to it, if someone has them - I'll be glad to receive. But her name is Russian - that's for sure. About her involvement in Ukrainian War of Independence: she has participated in Civil War, but it was not her motive, she was a social anarchist, she collaborated with the Bolsheviks, as well as with the Ukrainian nationalists. The Independece was not her goal--zas2000 (talk) 10:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Sources currently listed in the references section indicate she was a Ukrainian, born in the Ukraine. The origin of her name is irrelevant. I was hoping you had your own conflicting source. If you don't, now I know your contention is false. Further, her participation in a war of a particular name does not indicate she fought for a particular agenda. She participated in a war known as the "Ukrainian War of Independence"; that does not mean she fought for the Ukrainian national government. She also briefly allied with the Bolsheviks, but that does not mean she fought as a Bolshevik. Indeed she was an anarchist, a terrorist, and a Ukrainian. I'll continue to revert any edits you make to this article to the contrary until you can provide sources stating she did not participate in a war she is famous for being part of, or for being born in another country. --Cast (talk) 15:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I would like to mention that you did not provide any reference also

Yes, she was born in Ukraine (to be accurate - LittleRussia), but it does not mean she is Ukrainian. Even at present time 30% of the Ukraine population are Russians. She participated in war known as Civil War of Russia. She collaborated with Bolshevicks and Mokhno. Nestor Mokhno was also social anarchist and this was their grounds for the collaboration. She never had not any common grounds with Petlura or Getman Pavlo Skoropadsky, prominent Ukrainian nationalists. Could you pointed out which article references support your statements, please?

These are the references for you (in Russian, published in Independent Ukraine):

• 1. Чоп В.М. «Маруся Никифорова». — Запорожье: РА “Тандем-У”, 1998. — 68 с.

Александровская федерация анархистов вновь организовалась в июне 1917 г. и приобрела традиционную для города анархо-коммунистическую окраску. [[1]]

• 2. "Террористка Маруся Никифорова" Кость БОНДАРЕНКО, кандидат исторических наук

Профиль, №19 (38), 24.05.2008, [[2]] Марусю воспринимали как признанного лидера анархистского движения юга Украины.

• 3. Ярослав ЛЕОНТЬЕВ "ЧЕРНАЯ ТЕНЬ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ. АТАМАНША МАРУСЯ НИКИФОРОВА

[[3]]

In Ukrainian

• 4."Марія Никифорова - людина та отаманша: факти та міфи"

Постолатiй Віталій, доцент КДПУ ім. В.К. Винниченка [[4]]

• 5. В.А. Савченко, Нестор Махно, Харькiв 2005, 415c., ISBN 966-0З-з05з, [[5]]

Маруся звинувачивала Нестора в iгноруванi iдей анархiзму... Вона закликала до кривавоii боротьби проти эксплуататорiв, до боротьби з украiнскiм нацiоналiзмом, Page 30.

My Translation: Maroussia accused Nestor of ignoring anarchist ideas .. She called for a bloody struggle against the exploiters and Ukrainian nationalism , page 30.

And your statement like "I'll continue to revert any edits you make to this article" is not acceptable in WIKI. So I am waiting from some reasonable explanations --zas2000 (talk) 01:16, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Rework

I have just expanded this article. Much of the previous incarnation was uncited, but was clearly drawing from Archibald 2007, so I added detail and expanded on the existing material based on that. Unfortunately this citation is the only one that focuses specifically on Maria Nikiforova, with the others mostly only mentioning her in passing, so it is the dominant one used in this article. If anyone knows of any more citations that can be used, then let me know, or feel free to add them yourself. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:32, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Women in Green 20-Minute Article Assessment

Hello again Grnrchst and thanks for updating this article about a person who makes me feel I haven't done much at all in my own life by comparison! The article is quite complicated so most of the 20 mins was taken up just with reading.

WELL-WRITTEN

Prose is generally GA standard, a few things I noticed:

• Start with Nikiforova not Maria
• not keen on the one word paragraphs, especially in lead, I'd suggest combining into other paragraphs
• "she was not known to write her views in letters, essays, or articles" seemingly conflicts with "published articles in their Russian language newspapers"
• " Although the actual identity of the assassin", "But when Nikiforova spoke", "But after a dispute between the two", " But as Nikiforova's Black Guards", most likely don't need but/although at the start of a sentence and also generally there are a lot of "but"s in the article

IMAGES

• all the ones used are relevant and appropriately licensed, I wondered perhaps about a pic of Makhno?

VERIFIABLE

• Peters is listed in bibliography but not used
• There's a lot of Archibald, if there aren't other sources there's not a huge amount you can do.

STABLE

Yup

NEUTRAL

Yup

BROADNESS

Wow it's a complicated history which is covered well; I wonder if by contextualising some bits you could reduce the reliance on Archibald, especially since there's a further reading section to draw on Mujinga (talk) 11:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Think I've addressed everything here. I'll have a look into the further reading and see what I can pull out of it before submitting for GA review. Unfortunately, Archibald is the only English language source specifically about Nikiforova, so some degree of reliance on him is going to be inevitable. -- Grnrchst (talk) 11:44, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Intersex?

Found this page while looking through the category intersex women. This is not mentioned in the article at all and is only viewable through the page tags. The tags "Intersex woman" and "Intersex military personal" were added on the 27th of july 2022 with no source, is there any evidence for this claim? Wolfgang likes bugs (talk) 03:16, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

This is sourced within the article to Archibald 2007, pp. 8–9 and Velychenko 2011, p. 288. Velychenko also mentions her undergoing medical intervention. -- Grnrchst (talk) 08:36, 30 August 2023 (UTC)