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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 06:26, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Dezinformatsia (book)

Roy Godson

• ... that the book Dezinformatsia by Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson (pictured) explains Communist propaganda used by the Soviet Union? Source: Charters, David (1985), "Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson, Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy", Conflict Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Studies, 5 (4): 79. Quote: "The third chapter consists of a content and context analysis of overt Soviet propaganda themes directed against specified western audiences"
  • ALT1:... that the book Dezinformatsia by Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson (pictured) describes tactics of Soviet military deception? Source: Charters, David (1985), "Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson, Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy", Conflict Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Studies, 5 (4): 79. Quote: "marks one of a number of aktivnyye meropriatia, active measures, those covert and overt techniques — up to and including some military actions short of actual war — thought to be employed by Soviet diplomatic and intelligence services to deceive and manipulate international opponents."

• Reviewed: Ayikoi Otoo
• Comment: Promoted to GA on 16 June 2017. Article is over 8,000 characters.

Improved to Good Article status by Sagecandor ( talk). Self-nominated at 18:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC).

New enough, long enough. Hook number one is fine, although there should be a reference to the cited article after the second sentence of the second paragraph in the section "Contents summary" to make it waterproof, citation-wise. The second hook I have more issues with since the book manifestly deals with Soviet and not Russian propaganda. Russia at the time didn't exist and although the Russian military of today probably still use the same tactics, that isn't outright mentioned anywhere in the article. So either something could be added about this connection (if, as I assume, there is one) or the hook could perhaps be rephrased. The picture also doesn't appear in the article, which I believe is a requirement, so you'll have to either add it in the article or go DYK without the pic. Everything else checks out, it's written within policy and QPQ is done. An interesting read, I must say. Yakikaki ( talk) 16:08, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

@ Yakikaki:Added citations. Added the picture. Russian military deception was already sourced and linked in text, just piped link. Removed the piped link and now sourced to in-line citations. Everything else checks out, as you said. QPQ done. Thank you for your compliment about the article and the hooks. Sagecandor ( talk) 17:43, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm still a little bit hesitant at the use of "Russian military deception" as contrasted with "Soviet military deception" but I gather from the article on the subject that it's a generally accepted term to describe both Soviet and Russian military doctrine. It could be made a bit clearer, I think, but I won't keep it from ticking this article as good to go for DYK, it's a semantics thing basically. Good job! Yakikaki ( talk) 18:05, 18 June 2017 (UTC)