Talk:History of Paraguay

message: This article has been wholly copied from http://www.historyofnations.net/southamerica/paraguay.html.  The External Link is not the proper way to cite the source.  Furthermore, the original article at the site above carries copyright notice, but perhaps the authors are one and the same.
:I went to that website and it seems the articles there are taken directly from the US State Department, so it's public domain. The problem, however, lies with this article being basically the history of a country as written by the government of a foreign country, and that can't be accepted on Wikipedia. Red Star
:Morever this article is missing any reference to what happened after its independence and before the 20th century, in particular the war with other Latin American states in 1860s(Under the wikipedia entry War_of_the_Triple_Alliance). I will keep note of this page and slowly add to it. Laforet 00:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: That I know Guaraní was not originally spoken in Paraguay, it was brought there by Jesuits. Can anyone check?
Guarani was not a language brought by the Jesuits. It was a language spoken by the native indigenous population for hundreds of years before the spanish arrived. Currently, more than 90% of the population speaks Guarani and Spanish. - Mariscal8
The Jesuits learned Guarani, the lingua franca of an important number of native tribes across the region, in order to facilitate their missionary efforts. Thus Guarani became a protected language, and this move contributed in no small degree to its survival until today. Aldo L (talk) 20:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guaraní 

message: cant ANYONE do some anthropological research, geez! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.222.51.67 (talk) 07:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: The "communisme" article in the French "Dictionnaire Encyclopedique" (Larousse-Bordas, 2000) talks, in his "History" part, about the application of the communist principles in Paraguay by the Jesuits between 1612 and 1767. Can someone point me to some further reading on the subject? 
I'm really puzzled, I never thought the Jesuits could be in some way attached to common property principles. Dpotop 17:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesuit-organized communist "republic"? 

message: This article is riddled with points of view, hardly any of which are substantiated. Independent citations are needed to justify the many claims made, and it needs a complete rewrite from top to bottom.  Approximately 90 per cent of the article is uncited, and any editor would be quite justified in removing those parts, leaving just a few lines from the last section remaining.  Skinsmoke (talk) 03:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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The War of the Seven Reductions article mentions that the war started when the Jesuit obeyed the King - and that it's the Indians that didn't obeye the order to move away. Is "jesuit-inspired" the right word then ? Is it actually correct to say that a war can be "inspired" ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farialima (talk • contribs) 08:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Jesuit-inspired'' War of the Seven Reductions ? 

message: There ought to be a section about the Franciscan reductions. Since the franciscans were never kicked out, they probably had more long term influence than the jesuits. The Bradt guidebook to Paraguay has a lot of information about this, I'll try and take some notes next time I've got my hands on a copy  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dardanelle (talk • contribs) 23:42, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: Section 5.1 on Francia (and possibly other sections as well) seems to have some problems with neutrality. Sweeping generalizations and biased statements are presented as plain facts without any citations or references to scholarly sources.
Just to give a few examples of statements that are clearly biased (these were all presented without any citations):
"Frugal, honest, competent, and diligent, Francia was popular with the lower classes of Creoles and native peoples." 
"In contrast to other states in the region, Paraguay was efficiently and honestly administered, stable, and secure"
"An extremely frugal and honest man, Francia left the state treasury with at least twice as much money in it as when he took office" 
"All of Paraguay's accomplishments during this period, including its existence as a nation, were attributed almost entirely to Francia." (by whom??)
The section also has a general problem with lack of references, as nearly all concrete statements are unsourced. While most of them are probably true and written with good will, extra caution should probably be applied given the already existing problems with lack of neutral tone.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.247.180.132 (talk) 10:09, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
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