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The article was obviously not written by a native speaker of English. Needs editing for style and idiomatic usage.
This is because article undergoing major expansion, then I will have all text i will seek for copy/edit. M.K.11:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Religion Section
The Catholic Encyclopedia says "while in Lithuania, where Calvinism was particularly prevalent, there were 320 Reformed churches. As many as 2000 families of the nobility had abandoned the Faith. But the Protestants, although a very considerable portion of the population, were rendered incapable of successful effort by endless dissensions, while the Catholics, led by Hosius, Bishop of Ermland (see ERMLAND), sought to strengthen their position more and more." in its . This would have been about the year 1595. No mention of Protestantism, Lutheran or Calvinist, is made on this page. 66.108.192.18313:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
infobox (one form or another) will be introduce in fully cleaned article. Mistakes in previous ver. are oblivious. M.K.19:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Because every "fact" there is disputed and to make it NPOV you will have to put tons of footnotes and comments and explanations. Infobox is good only when info is not disputed and contested. Renata19:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Renata's edit precluded me from correcting pro-Polish POV in the infobox. The correct version is to the right. --Ghirla19:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Just to show how many problems there are in this "infobox":
Title: Вялі́кае Кня́ства Літо́ўскае - WTF?
Image: to put modern Lithuanian COA on a banner and to image that was GDL banner is simply ridicilous.
Official language - WTF? There was no official language. Show me a decrete saying "xxxx language is going to be official in GDL"
Established church - WTF? Again, show me a decrete.
Independence - 11th century? WTF? Earliest version I know is 1180's, then choose among these dates: 1236, 1253, 1316. Also don't forget the version that Kreva Act started the union with Poland. Renata19:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
We should not forget about Algirdas title Basileus too. M.K.20:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC) BTW, Ghirlandajo, maybe you have some nice pictures of Smolensk walls? It will be handy in article.
No, need to rush, Saga of Smolensk is not started, yet. M.K.22:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)p.s. but give a note when you have it in wiki.
Well, I'd still like to see the infobox with some information, as it is recommended by MoS, but I'll leave it up to editors working on the article to decide when and what information is needed. Eventually we will have to have it, there is no doubt about it.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 06:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Claims of lineage
The information removed here is not totally nonsense, although it was not well-put. I am not sure about the claims of Poland, but claims that GDL was a progenitor of Belarus exist and were made by some quite prominent historians (see eg. Dovnar-Zapolsky). Also, that the GDL was also called to a degree "Russian" is not a rare hypothesis, see eg. Kostomarov. I am not sure the way it was put is the best, but we've got to incorporate this info in some form. --Irpen18:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Failed GA
Since it had been on the list for a while, I took it upon myself to review this one. A lot of work obviously went into it. Unfortunately I must fail it.
The main reason, as noted above, is the rough edges on the translation, in the form of missing articles: "State lapsed into years of internal fights"; "Union with Kingdom of Poland did not prevent territorial losses of the state ...". But I also see lots of stubby paragraphs, sloppy layout (the quote boxes create a lot of whitespace) and some departures from standard Misplaced Pages practices (have we ever had a huge timeline box at the beginning of an article?). The intro is far too long, and as far as length goes (and in this article, it goes a lot), I think the history section at least could be spun off (it takes up most of an article that's supposed to be about a country). It was a whole bunch of these things that led to this result.
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