Talk:Pact of Steel

message: I made an attempt to expand this article, so please notify me if you make any major edits: I'd really love to see how this article expands further! EvocativeIntrigue TALK | EMAIL 22:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Major changes

message: I couldn't find a reference to the original language of the Pact: this would be a great addition, so if you find it, please do add it (preferably with a source!). EvocativeIntrigue TALK | EMAIL 22:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikisource Italia for the Italian side. Tridentinus 02:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this may be a copy in English minus the secret verbal protocols of course.
http://users.dickinson.edu/~rhyne/232/PactOfSteel.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AthabascaCree (talk • contribs) 05:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Language

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:GaleazzoCiano01.jpg

message: Someone needs to find a different source because the current one is not working any more.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.129.174.15 (talk) 05:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Someone please correct me if I am doing this wrong, or explain how I should be doing this. But I have book proof of this author's statement.
However, members of the Italian government, including the signatory Ciano, were opposed to the Pact [citation needed].
"The Oxford Companion to World War II" Oxford Companion Press, New York, 1995
Page 242 Ciano di Cortellazzo, Count Galeazzo (1903-44)
"Initially he(Cianno) supported the Rome-Berlin axis but later changed his mind, for he feared German expansionism and was opposed to Italy's throwing in its lot with Hitler. He became conviced that Germany would eventually lose any war it started, that Italy was in no position militarily to support it, and that he must form a Balkan bloc to thwart any German move into the Mediterranean. He therefore opposed the Pact of Steel, signed in May 1939, and, after the Nazis had occupied the rump of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 he exerted his influence to keep his country neutral, but he had no power base of his own, nor a feasible alternative policy to war."
AthabascaCree (talk) 04:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ciano citation 

message: I spend my night improving and expanding this article with the purpose of getting it to GA-status. I have just nominated the article and hope the articles editors will assist me, if there will be the need for it, in the review when it begins. Cheers, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 02:26, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the article as it is now is little more than a stub. Alex2006 (talk) 06:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added three additional sections to expanded the article. It's also worth noticing that there is no length requirements in the GA-criteria, only comprehensiveness requirements. Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 10:52, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the real problem, comprehensiveness. The genesis of the pact, the reasons behind them, cannot be dismissed with a couple of sentences. I know two books which deal with the pact. In De Felice's "Mussolini" there are more than sixty pages devoted to the birth of the Pact. Moreover, Mario Toscano, a key figure in the genesis of the Pact, wrote a whole book ("Le origini diplomatiche del Patto d'acciaio") about it. As it is now, I think that the article clearly misses point 3 of good article's criteria. Alex2006 (talk) 13:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I disagree, but that's just my opinion. Unless the GA-reviewer asks for an expansion of a certain section, I won't be doing it. If you, however, have those two books in question at your disposal and feel like implementing information from them, be my guest. Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 14:59, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Actually expanding this article would be nice (I like this subject, and already wrote a couple of articles about the history of the fascist period), but right now I am moving, my books are lost somewhere in a box...I hope to find them again! :-) Keep the good work, Alex2006 (talk) 05:44, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 March 2015