Talk:ACT UP

message: Kimiko, you recently edited the page so that all "ACT UP"s read "ACT-UP", which I've seen to be the most common spelling (in the news and such), but the ACT UP/New York site does not use this spelling. What do we do?-Hyacinth 20:35, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: I think the following paragraph should just be deleted, because it's obvious and to the extent that it's not obvious it's unencyclopedic. Please reinsert with explanation if you disagree.
:: Actions
::Because ACT UP and its affinity groups organized so many diverse actions in a relatively short period of time, it is difficult and perhaps counter-productive to classify them in any particular way. As such, the actions are presented chronologically with no particular weight given. Accounts of the actions are drawn from Douglas Crimp's history of ACT UP as well as the ACT UP Oral History Project.
Aroundthewayboy 15:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Actions introduction

message: The criticism section mentions ACT-UP saying something about some protest with a wafer, yet none is mentioned.
72.93.215.79 (talk) 02:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Critisism

message: I don't think Lifesitenews qualifies as a reliable source, and I can find no other source for the claim that activists threw used condoms at the altar. Plus, it's a throw-away line in an unrelated article almost twenty years later, so I’ve taken that out and replaced it. -- Irn (talk) 04:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life site news 

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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from a wikipedia perspective the Treatment Action Group should have an online link to treatmentactiongroup.org  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.223.120.163 (talk) 21:50, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  longevity drugs as part of treatment 

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message: I've redirected the Stop the Church article here for now.  This isn't meant to be a vote against having it, just that it's not big enough at the moment to be worth bothering.  The version I redirected, and some previous versions, have a few minor bits in them that are unsourced but perhaps worth looking into at some point, but for now I think it's more productive just to look for new sources directly. Wnt (talk) 16:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Stop the Church" 

message: I just removed the following sourced text, added by another editor:
:Eric Pollard, founder of the Washington D.C. branch of ACT UP, asserted that "some of us" in ACT UP used Adolph Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf as a "working model" for their protests and direct actions.Satinover, Jeffrey (1999). Neither Scientific nor Democractic The Linacre Quarterly, Vol 60, May 1999, p. 87; citing Pollard's op-ed "Time to Give Up Fascist Tactics" in the Washington Blade, 31 January 1991, p. 39
It was not on-topic in the section "Structure of ACT-UP".  I'm also skeptical about including a citation like this: why source to what seems to be essentially an attack piece rather than to the original Blade op-ed (which unfortunately I can't find online)?  Also, does anyone happen to know if Linacre Quarterly is a WP:RS?  (I've not heard of it before, and I was curious whether it's been discussed anywhere.)  --JBL (talk) 21:03, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed some sourced text 

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message: In a paragraph, it is said that ACTUP was "organized as a leaderless and effectively anarchist network." This is not true and it contradicts the next paragraph which says "Leadership changed hands frequently and suddenly", so I have added a citation needed tag. 184.8.99.138 (talk) 09:01, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: And did you read any of the words between those two sentences, which give a detailed description of the leadership structure, including a complete resolution of this contradiction? --JBL (talk) 13:08, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anarchist/leaderless 

message: This edit was really problematic.  It suggests that ACT UP engages in "legislation, medical research, treatment and advocacy, and changing public policies", but this is untrue, since ACT UP does not write legislation, perform medical research, or render treatment.  (The not-wrong terms are also kind of redundant -- "advocacy" is just a catch-all term that adds nothing when one is already explaining in detail the nature of the advocacy.)  I am inclined just to move it back to how it was before, but other suggestions would be good, too.  --JBL (talk) 11:27, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Smoothing" caused problems