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On 10/9/05, actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
I'd be more impressed if you could
get fair representation for anarcho-capitalism on the anarchism page,
Currently seems to have a pretty fair three-paragraph summary, and a link to a full article on the subject.
That is not the point, that is after a long edit war, that you seem to think isn't necessary. It is still not up in the introduction as one of the major branches of anarchism. Review the history.
or if you could get Castro properly labeled as a dictator.
The correct description is apparently "Presidente del Consejo de Estado" or just "Presidente", or alternatively "Comandante en Jefe". Nobody seems to be able to get those titles into the article. Instead we have squabbling over whether to call him a "ruler" or a "dictator". Edit warring does not help this, it makes it worse.
Wrong, it hasn't gotten worse, at least Batista is no longer called a dictator, as he once was. That is how much the clique, did not want Castro labeled a dictator. Note that Batista still has a regime, which has been regarded as POV on other pages. Batista did not shoot people trying to escape Cuba, Castro does. The spanish title and a literal translation probably deserves mention in the english version, although probably not in the intro.
Now the late Shah of Iran has similar problems. Somebody keeps trying to run off with "His Imperial Majesty " and "Aryamehr".
Or how about getting what everybody expects to be called
communism, the communist state, and criticisms of it on the communism page.
I'd expect a description of an ideology, and some general history, under an -ism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
For communist states we have an article with the completely unsurprising title "Communist state".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state
For the Communist International, there's an article called "Comintern".
In the english speaking world the cold war was fought against communism, not a stateless, classless system where all property is held communally. It is anarcho-communism not state communism that should be the subsidiary page.
Do you ever try the hard stuff on a page with a clique suppressing
other POVs?
There is a dispute resolution process for the serious stuff, you know.
We would end up having to abjudicate every edit. -- Silverback