Talk:Father of the Nation/Archive 1

message: This page was deleted previously and redirected to Pater Patriae, because it had filled up with a lot of dubious claims.  It's easy to find a blog, or even a reputable historian, arguing that person X is the "father of" country Y.  That is not sufficient proof for listing person X on this page, because one person's opinion is not encyclopaedic.  What is needed is the claim that, within a country, person X is widely regarded or officially designated as "father of the nation". In other words, if you were to go to country Y, and ask a few people on the street "Who is 'the father of the nation'?" most of the people would not hesitate to answer person X. 
There might in principle be up to three subsections:
# people popularly/officially called "father of the nation" or similar, recognised in a non-partisan way (e.g. Gandhi, maybe Kenyatta)
# monarchies etc. where "father of the nation" is part of the traditional honorific for whoever the current incumbent is (e.g. maybe Thailand, Cambodia)
# current and past dictators who have called themselves "father of the nation", where the appellation does not have any support outside their regime. (e.g. Mobutu, maybe Arap Moi) 
I don't know, for example, whether modern Russians recognise Peter the Great as "Father of the Nation": the current citation is historic only. jnestorius(talk) 00:14, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
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message: See page 34 of his Correspondances of 26 mars 1815: "...le nom de Pere de la Patria....  Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 05:12, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Napoleon?

message: This Article Clarifies Article 18 (1) of Indian Constitution does not permit any titles except education and military ones and Govt never granted  Father of the nation title to Gandhi --AniVar (talk) 13:34, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Gandhi  

message: Why is Nelson Mandela not listed? He is very widely referred to in South African media as the "father of the nation" meaning the father of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. This accolade became particularly common since his retirement. Together with the English phrase the Xhosa phrase "Tata wethu" (father of the nation) is very widely used in praise poetry and even ordinary speech or text honoring or even simply referring to him. Roger (talk) 21:19, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I've added him. Roger (talk) 21:53, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nelson Mandela? 

message: I know that the "Iron Lady" is revered by many, but who has named her "Mother of the Nation"?
Considering the divisive "love her or hate her"-status of the late Prime Minister, I think her inclusion here really needs an exact source.
: Mojowiha (talk) 17:22, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Indeed, and there's also the fact that she, in no way, shape, or form, was involved in the founding of the United Kingdom... SteelMarinerTalk  08:32, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thatcher??? 

message: Landsfaderen and Landsmoderen are just father and mother of the nation in Norwegian. It's unclear how the Norwegian terms are notable on their own. It makes more sense to include them in the larger article on the term "father of the nation." Tchaliburton (talk) 21:59, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Landsfaderen]] and [[Landsmoderen]]

message: Should Kim be inserted?--2601:586:C201:642A:88BD:D261:E936:ABB9 (talk) 02:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: Yes, Stephen I (populary known as Szent István in Hungary) is credited with founding the first Hungarian state in the Western sense, the Kingdom of Hungary. But he is never mentioned as "Father of the Nation" or "founder of the Hungarian nation". He lived in the early 11th century, the concept of the nation in the modern sense did not even exist at the time. The kingdom he established with the help of the Roman Pope and German Emperor was not a nation kingdom, it was always a multi-ethnic kingdom. The word "nemzetalapító" is never applied to him, at best "országalapító", which means "Founder of the *Country*", which is not the same. The "Father of the Nation" title is mostly given to 19th or 20th century statesmen, who more than anybody else contributed to form a nation, achieved independence or unified their nation into a nation state. This is certainly not what Stephen I of Hungary did.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.182.176.28 (talk) 05:19, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stephen I of Hungary as "Father of the Nation" 

message: Wouldn't David Ben Gurion, Eamon de Valera, and Jawaharlal Nehru be considered "fathers" of the modern State of Israel, the Republic of Ireland, and India respectively?  If we're thinking of someone who was 1) the country's first leader/head of state; 2) very influential in his nation's founding; or 3) both, all three seem to fit the description here.  Foreignshore (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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message: Notes section for India doesn't make sense either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.161.22.180 (talk) 15:24, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nathuram Godse not father of India