Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myth of Tito
A bit unsure here. Unlike some others, I think this is a notable topic, clearly -- {{u|WEBDuB}} is right on this. ''However'', the current page is such a POV eyesore (see below) that it is just on the edge of . If the page is to be rescued, I would like to see substantial work in (a) reducing the egregious POV-in-wikivoice on the page, (b) improving the prose which will require a fair amount of work, and (c) dealing with other aspects of the myth of Tito in historiography and elsewhere, such as the spread of the myth to the West as Tito (much like Ceaucescu later with Reagan) managed to portray himself as somehow friendly to capitalistic states, and how this led to the coalescence of the myth of Tito as a man who successfully brought quarrelling peoples together in some paradise state (side note: and that was, at the time was, though now amusingly, used as a model for the proposed One state solution for Israel/Palestine -- not in scope, but this is an aspect of the notability of the myth I would argue -- though perhaps that is the whole Bratsvo Jedinstvo myth more than Tito himself). And, of course, the legacy of that myth, as the state he built fell apart after his death. For examples of the sort of prose that is totally unacceptable on Wikipedia for how POV it is, here is one (which I ''agree'' with, but geez, this is just so unprofessional): {{tquote|In this atmosphere of faultlessness many catastrophic political moves were drawn which slowly but inevitably pushed the all country and its Communist leaders into total catastrophe and disintegration.3 The mythologized Tito and dreamland Yugoslavia never existed.8 }} Also, this {{tquote|Danko Popović emphasized that for half of the century movies and books published in Yugoslavia were used to nurture myth of Tito and distort image of Chetniks.7}} -- Popovic is a "writer and playwright" so he is not even remotely , and in light of that, regardless of intention, this sentence will look to almost any informed Western reader like it was inserted just to rehabilitate the Chetniks. Last example: {{tquote|The Myth of Tito was almost unanimously accepted and parroted by western scholars}} -- no citation, and, well... ahem
— User:Calthinus, 15:49, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:TNT||WP:DUE (Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over)