Talk:Nur Muhammad Taraki

message: Wouldn't it be worth noting that, according to Dmitri Volkogonov in 'The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev', that Taraki was strangled by Amin's assassins? Given that most of Volkognov's statements are based on and backed up quotes from the Soviet archives its probably true.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.99.230.147 (talk) 23:48, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: Regarding the recent dispute over the {copyvio} tag: I've deleted the one paragraph (about his early life) that did indeed appear to be copied directly from Encyclopedia Brittanica. It's possible that I missed some other bits - if so, I'd encourage User:Quatloo to remove them point them out specifically. This technique - simply removing or reverting copyright-violating text, in situations where most of the article is legitimate - is generally accepted on Wikipedia. CDC (talk) 06:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have checked the Encyclopedia Britannica and compared it to this article, and the copyright infringement seems to have been successfully purged. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 20:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright issues

message: Reads like a polemic against Nur Muhammed Taraki and the PDPA, so I slapped an NPOV tag on it. Hopefully someone knowledgable on the subject matter can edit in a less biased manner. --Nicky Scarfo 03:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV violation

message: britanica & Vogelsang says that taraki born in 1917. Needed citation for 1913.--Vssun (talk) 12:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: changed to 1917 --Vssun (talk) 10:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth 

message: Hi
In the course of the copyedit a few things came to light which may need attention:
;Lead
*"Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, gave him the go ahead to kill him." - this is not what it says in the body of the article, there it says he said 'it's your choice'.
;Early life and career
*"with the Khalq (), led by Taraki, and Parcham (), led by Karmal, being the largest." (para3) - so the Parcham was the largest? This differs from what was said earlier - if the Khalq was the largest the being the largest statement needs moving further towards the beginning of the sentence.
*"Daoud ordered the arrest of ..., including Taraki and Karmal, while placing others ... under house arrest." - so they were all arrested, should this be something like the first two were arrested and confined in prison/police cells while the rest were (only) under house arrest?
;Other reforms
*"followed an illiteracy program" - a program of illiteracy would be making the people less literate surely? changed to literacy.
;Taraki–Amin break
*"Taraki would be more acceptable than himself as the face of the Afghan communist revolution" - why?
;General notes
*Official titles of office are not generally capitalised: the Deputy Prime Minister = wrong, the deputy prime minister = correct, the Government = wrong.
Chaosdruid (talk) 21:01, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit April 2011 

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message: The following two sources both give July 14, 1917 as his birth date:
Jo1971 (talk) 09:01, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate 

message: The only reference for this comment comes from an author, whose name proper, is Colonel Richard D Camp, Jr and who was, if it is not obvious, a fucking captain, and then a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. An impartial historian, this fucking guy is not. I'd remove it but it'll swiftly be put back in place by one of Jimbo's mates eager to correct history against a neoliberal plastic slide rule. Just noting it here if anyone feels like removing this crap. WobInDisguise (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, source is week and no other source seems to use this phrase. Particularly inappropriate for lead, as does not reflect body. Have removed. BobFromBrockley (talk) 15:43, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Marked by dictator-like" written in POV style as though it's an established fact