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Review: December 31, 2018. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Mikhail Borodin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 January 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen referred to Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin as his "Lafayette"?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 00:07, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I will do this one, comments to follow over next few days. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 00:07, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Early life

"By October, he had arrived in London,..."; it is obvious, but for avoidance of doubt, I think it should be stated that he chose exile.

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"...signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.[10][8]"; please reorder refs.

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

China

"...25% rent reduction instead.[28][27]"; as above

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"...revolutionary figures.[51][50][52]"; as above

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Later life

"Borodin, on the other hand was protected by him,..."; I think it should be explicit that "him" is Stalin.

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Influence

I'm not sure about this section, it is quite short. Perhaps combine with the family section and rename it? Family and legacy?

I can combine the sections, but it feels like that would be an unnatural merging, as the two things are not directly related. The "influence" section was inherited from an earlier version of the article. I'm reluctant to label it as "legacy", as that would seemingly refer to the after-effects of his actions in China, and so on. RGloucester — ☎ 17:16, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other stuff

Image tags look OK
No dab links
External links check out OK
Dupe links: revolutionary government (both pipelinked to nationalist government)

Done. RGloucester — ☎ 17:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox: two aliases are listed but not explicitly cited; when did he start using Borodin?

That also interested me. Unfortunately, no reliable sources (that I can find) can provide an indication of when he started to use the "Borodin" name. I have looked through many books on this subject, and all are silent on this matter. I presume records do not exist. I know that he used a different alias, "Kiril", at the Tampere conference, and other aliases at different times, but nothing more. RGloucester — ☎ 17:13, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I made a few minor edits (at least I think minor) as I went through this, please check that these are OK. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 06:34, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your copyediting. RGloucester — ☎ 17:13, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Having reviewed the changes to the article, I am satisfied that it meets the GA criteria and am passing as such. Zawed (talk) 04:08, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]