Talk:Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

message: What's the point in having his genealogy up there?  It's not detailed and is, essentially, not really that important to the article overall.
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thread_title: Genealogy

message: After all the back and forth and the endless revertings, we should put in some "neutrality" without oppressing the oppositional viewpoints. As a quite trustable source the AI Article should be a good starting point. Tom m 08:31, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition and Neutrality 

message: Anybody got a CC licensed pic ? 05:00, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Loads of this page is lacking . The guy may/or may not  be a dictator but unsourced ranting innuendo does not help anyone understand anything. I feel I know less about the guy after reading the article. --Alchemist Jack (talk) 23:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This needs more {{FACT}} 

message: I have suggested that A Man for All Islands be merged here as the book is not notable enough for a Wikipedia article on its own. -- Mikeblas (talk) 17:52, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: There was a sentence I changed as it did not make sense: There were 4 people at a ballot but 27 voted.?
Furthermore, as his presidency is over I changed some parts in the criticism paragraph into past tense. I am however not sure whether the information that the media was under his control is still true.?
It may be worthwhile considering whether this article was influenced by editors with a conflict of interest. The PR firm Hill & Knowlton - best known internationally for spreading the lie about Kuwaiti babies thrown out of incubators in order to sell the Gulf war to the US public - was hired by the notorious former Madivian government of Gayoom in order to improve its reputation and was found to manipulate wikipedia articles as reported here:    . As this edit reveals, the IP 194.242.55.7 that edited the article Politics of the Maldives as well as the one about Ahmed Shafeeq Ibrahim Moosa  is still in use by Niallcook, according to his user page "worldwide director of marketing technology for communications firm Hill & Knowlton". Using the wiki-tool of a whois search, one can find that all IPs in the range of 194.242.55.0 - 194.242.55.255 belong to Hill & Knowlton. Although none of the IPs used for this article are in that range, there may be accounts that were used to influence this article or related ones. Knopffabrik (talk) 11:19, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballot, past tense & beware of PR professionals 

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"Anti-government riots broke out in the country in September 2003 following a prison shooting incident. Opposition to the president came in the form of the Maldivian Democratic Party. Political prisoners are often banished to remote atolls. Gayoom was also the defense minister and finance minister of Maldives for a long time, but gave up these positions on September 1, 2004." Any references for this? Knopffabrik (talk) 20:20, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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message: This is one of those expressions whose meaning is far from obvious. If it simply means he's married and has children, is such information even worth stating? Most people in the world do - big deal. If it means he devotes an exceptional amount of time and energy to his family, again so what? To me it sounds as if it's meant to make readers feel good about him (and so distract attention from his clearly less endearing sides), like saying he's "a good husband and father" - something no-one can, frankly, judge. It surely has no place in a Wikipedia article.188.230.240.75 (talk) 12:04, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "is a family man" 

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