Talk:Orwellian

message: Apparently, we are challenged writers writing to challenged readers. Please clean up the sentence structure in this very important topic. The flow and clarity of this piece is horrid. I'm NOT surprised to find Orwellian forces at work on the front line of truth. Here I witness Truth strangled by naive benevolent ignorance.
We are all fools to allow it. Yes, this is a citation against ourselves. Those offended should feel the full force of the rebellion for peace and liberty. Get off your pedestals and speak the truth clearly, so others may hearken the dark forces of humanity. It takes a tidal wave of spirit to overcome the decades of thought conditioning of young minds, that spirit begins with  responsibility to Truth. We have the Indoctrinated explaining Orwellian, such irony.
Example: He was fascinated by the effect of colonialism on the individual, requiring acceptance of the idea that the colonialist oppressor exists only for the good of the oppressed person and people. 
What? Such crap from the tongue of Big Brother himself. This is an example which supports the shady reputation of public domain. We can do much better. 
Here is responsibility to the truth, signing in seriously against ignorance.QuillShadows (talk) 19:31, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Commentary : Unclear Sentence Structure and Thought Process

message: There were alot of split sentences and formatting errors. I cleaned up as best as I could.
D00d123 (talk) 21:47, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning

message: I'm removing the countries from the See Also section.  Cuba, North Korea, and the United States are all in there.  I fail to see how any of these relate to the article other than that the editor thinks the country is "Orwellian". Mbarbier (talk) 19:25, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countries in See Also 

message: Isn't putting that in the "See Also" section sort of like calling Thatcher a facist? Don't get me wrong, I do think Thatcher was a facist, but I don't think my opinion (or anyone else's) belongs on Wikipedia.TorontoLRT (talk) 00:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it, and redirected the article, which was just a POV essay in any case. Robofish (talk) 00:06, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Thatcher's England

message: Does anyone know who coined the term "Orwellian"? Since this is a page about a word (rather than the author George Orwell) it might help to clarify the distinction by treating the term as an historical phenomenon seperate from the author's own writings.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.198.71.4 (talk) 20:52, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the term

message: I've just been listening to a radio interview with Christopher Hitchens in which he says that there are three distinct uses of the term "Orwellian", but didn't really catch what they were. This page, therefore, seems to be seriously incomplete. Perhaps his book "Why Orwell Matters" would be a good source for this page. Nadiatalent (talk) 17:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed

message: A typical example is a lack of some of the best online references for this Encyclopedia (Greater India, Nigeria, UK etc included for en.), books. Unfortunately they were copyrighted. Even worse, by just one country (although it probably doesn't apply when books are not called books).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.14.248.102 (talk) 00:43, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision of History? 

message: I disagree with MeltBanana & A876.  Isn't that conjecture on someone's part... as oppose to precise information about the term?  Just curious what the Wiki guidelines are.
67.101.212.35 (talk) 20:31, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This would fall under the category of original research, something which is not allowed on Wikipedia... unless there is a scholar or other notable figure who has made this speculation, in which case it should be attributed to that person, not left as is as a statement of "fact". --GentlemanGhost (converse) 20:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "It seems unlikely that Orwell would have approved of many of the uses to which his pseudonym is applied." 

message: My interest in this article was piqued by a recent debate over the use of the term "Orwellian." It seems like this article might benefit from examples of usage, from its earliest utterance to the current time. (I suspect that there have been many.) However, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to do this without seeming to give undue weight to a particular instance or being perceived as pushing a point of view. The recent use of Orwellian I spotted was in this Victor Davis Hanson column and this Wonkette response. I'm leaving it out of the article for now, but I thought I'd link to it here in case someone wants to follow up on it (or provide a better example, for that matter). Thanks, GentlemanGhost (converse) 22:18, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage 

message: Ritual abuse is one of the links below this article. Ritual abuse redirects to "Satanic panic". I'm not sure what Orwell or the adjective 'Orwellian' has to do with this? Is it the implication that Satanic abuse is Orwellian or that the people who prosecuted parents for satanic abuse is Orwellian or that the backlash against these prosecutions is Orwellian? Either clarify or remove. FieldOfWheat (talk) 17:40, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ritual abuse"