Talk:Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 5, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 24, 2006	Good article reassessment	Delisted
June 19, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 2, 2005, February 2, 2006, February 2, 2007, February 2, 2008, February 2, 2009, February 2, 2010, and February 2, 2015.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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Section sizes

Section size for Battle of Stalingrad (34 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	23,930	23,930
Background	8,037	8,037
Prelude	7,984	7,984
Orders of battle	21	978
Red Army	887	887
Axis	70	70
Attack on Stalingrad	25	36,157
Initial attack	13,169	13,169
September city battles	12,394	12,394
Fighting in the industrial district	5,049	5,049
Air attacks	4,324	4,324
Germans reach the Volga	1,196	1,196
Soviet counter-offensives	918	6,004
Weakness on the Axis flanks	1,977	1,977
Operation Uranus	3,109	3,109
Sixth Army surrounded	13,572	13,572
End of the battle	23	17,032
Operation Winter Storm	3,568	3,568
Operation Little Saturn	2,875	2,875
Soviet victory	10,566	10,566
Tactics and battle conditions	25,772	28,511
Medical and food conditions	2,739	2,739
Casualties	17,294	18,342
Luftwaffe losses	1,048	1,048
Aftermath	15,336	15,336
Significance	14,653	17,080
Commemoration	2,427	2,427
In popular culture	3,635	3,635
See also	204	204
Footnotes	43	43
References	33	10,854
Bibliography	10,821	10,821
Further reading	4,118	4,118
External links	3,576	3,576
Total	215,393	215,393

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