# Talk:Autocracy

Thebiguglyalien reverted my addition of Patriarchy to the See also list, commenting that patriarchy is not a form of government. I'm not going to fight this right now, but wanted to at least go on the record that this is a made-up limit on the See also section, which can include any page which is relevant enough. (And of course patriarchy is highly relevant to autocracy.) John_Abbe (talk) 17:05, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

There are thousands of things relevant to autocracy, and I'd hardly consider patriarchy to be in the top one hundred, let alone prominent enough to be in the article's "see also" section. The section should be reserved for the most pertinent links. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 17:14, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

To quote from the first sentence: "Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power..."

This article centres on "absolute power" - who holds it and how they wield it. The article does not provide a definition of what absolute power is. Wikipedia itself has an entry for Absolute power, however this is a disambiguation page, which then directs us back to this article (plus some others). The term "absolute power" needs to be defined in this article; it is unclear how this article earned a GA quality status without getting this critical term clarified. 14.2.192.197 (talk) 08:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

The reason I made this edit is because the article on dictatorship defines that term as "a form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold absolute or near-absolute political power".  It is my understanding that rule by "a group of leaders" is what constitutes an oligarchy.  Therefore, the statement that autocracy includes "all forms of dictatorship" partially contradicts the given definition of dictatorship.  My edit was to rectify that contradiction.  Do I have permission to restore my edit? ZFT (talk) 01:10, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello ZFT,
I will modify the lede section on the article Dictatorship by removing the phrase altogether. You are right that "dictatorship" usually refers to one man rule. I will link the "Autocracy" article with in the first sentence of the dictatorship article. UPDATE: Here is the editPlasticwonder (talk) 00:59, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

The redirect Undemocratic has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 November 15 § Undemocratic until a consensus is reached.  Thepharoah17 (talk) 05:01, 15 November 2025 (UTC)