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Hi! I have added roughly 2000 words to the article and split it up into more comprehensive sections. I have also added two images, and I think that more information can be added. I'd be interested in trying to work out whether or not the article can be linked more thoroughly to other articles and whether or not we can add an info-box. Jijiathome (talk) 07:58, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! You've definitely made a nice article out of this. I feel it needs a few structural changes before it gets B status. It focuses almost entirely on the Soviet Union despite being more general in the lead. I'd want an origin paragraph and more discussion of other nations. You might take the last paragraph and put it first since it chronologically predates the Soviet Union, and then add a paragraph to the Current Use section that discusses non Soviet/Soviet-successor usage. Did the commissariat system exist widely outside the Soviet Union in the 20th Century? --Neopeius (talk) 04:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not an expert on this topic at all, but noting here that I believe "In Britain, military commissariats were used first in the Crimean War between 1853 and 1856" to be incorrect. The position of Commissary in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces Home and Abroad had existed since at least 1809 when Lieutenant Colonel James Willoughby Gordon was appointed to it. The department was reorganised under one uniform in 1810. In 1814 there were approx. 363 Commissariat officers serving globally.[1]Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:02, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
References
^Burnham, Robert; McGuigan, Ron (2010). The British Army against Napoleon. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books. pp. 12–13. ISBN978-1-84832-562-3.
