Talk:Guinea–Soviet Union relations

Requested move 17 March 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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USSR–Guinea relations → Guinea–USSR relations [Place rationale here (then remove this text)] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edward-Woodrow (talk • contribs) 15:39, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

To editor Edward-Woodrow: you must give a rationale, a reason to rename this article. Without a rationale this request will have to be disapproved and closed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 03:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

I wasn't the one that proposed the move. This template was originally incorrectly placed in the article @Wikiuser007700:, and I moved it onto the talk page.

Edward-Woodrow (talk) 12:14, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Mybad, so sorry editor Edward-Woodrow. Editor Wikiuser007700 must then give a rationale very soon or I shall have to procedurally close this request. And I have changed the hyphen to an endash. Thank you for your edits! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 12:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

I left a message on Wikiuser007700's talk page. Edward-Woodrow (talk) 19:52, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

• Presumably the rationale is that for all of the Category:Bilateral relations by country, the format is alphabetical order, whichever of the two countries coming first alphabetically being the first in the title. As seen for Guinea at Category:Bilateral relations of Guinea - Germany–Guinea relations but Guinea–Turkey relations. That said, using USSR over Soviet Union still breaks the conventional format in use, see Category:Bilateral relations of the Soviet Union, with examples Austria–Soviet Union relations and Soviet Union–United States relations. With that in mind, the article should be moved to Guinea–Soviet Union relations. Spokoyni (talk) 09:58, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Gerasimov/Mikoyan

I've tagged these statements: "Soviet leader Valery Gerasimov met with President Touré to discuss economic and cultural ties in addition to Soviet aid" and "Soon after, Moscow appointed its First Deputy Premier, Anastas Mikoyan to Guinea in January 1962." as needing clarification. The first wikilinked to Valery Gerasimov, a Russian general who would have been about 5 years old at this time. However I'm not aware of another Valery Gerasimov who could be called a 'Soviet leader' of this period. Is the name wrong, or the description? Can it be clarified what position this Soviet official actually held? As to Mikoyan, the preceding sentence is about Solod's dismissal, so it is perhaps implied that Mikoyan was the new ambassador, except he wasn't. Mikoyan was active in diplomacy at this time though, so what was he actually appointed to Guinea to do? Spokoyni (talk) 12:46, 24 March 2023 (UTC)