Talk:Fidel Castro/Archive 10

message: :The largest source of foreign currency for the Cuban economy is, ironically, the dollar remissions sent by Cuban Americans to Cuban relatives and friends.
I would like to see a source for the quote comment. And, does irony belong in an encyclopedia?
--A Sunshade Lust 06:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I denied something? What are you flapping about? I requested a source for a sentence in the article, if it's a fact there has to be a book or source of some kinds that contains this note. It's not because it was intended to be ironic (duh?) that irony belongs in an encyclopedia. --A Sunshade Lust 20:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need source 

message: In the "life as a guerilla" there is "1958 Castro met semi-secretly with Batista General". I'd like to have a link on "semi-direct", where such a form of meeting in the field of warfare diplomacy would be defined. Teemu Ruskeepää 20:06, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please define all the abstract consepts 

message: I changed totalitarian dictator to totalitarian president, but the rest is still quite hopelessly attitude-driven. Btw, I just fixed the whole article in 1 h 50 mins with 25 fixes, and I did not read the opening paragraph when I began. I'm glad I didn't! "Reason conquers ignorance, no matter what"
Correction: IP 69.134.151.43 sabotaged it while I was working on the rest of the article! How does one revert to the older one? What kind of dicplinary actions can be done to 69.134.151.43? . Teemu Ruskeepää 20:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The tone of the opening paragraph 

message: I was surprised to find that I was really close to violating 3RR here - so I need to watch myself. There seems to be a single anonymous editor who continually reinserts the same problematic language - this diff sums it up pretty well. I thought we had come up with "leader" as acceptable terminology a while ago, and now we're back and forth with 800 different words there. I also don't like "ill-planned and disastrous attack", "economy is in shambles", the "ironic" source of much of the Cuban economy (which is uncited), and the rest of the additions, while cited, don't really seem completely encyclopedic. I don't want to be acting unilaterally here... (ESkog)(Talk) 03:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't you just hate when that happens? Some #¤&!&¤&!@£$s do on the web what ever they feel like! Teemu Ruskeepää 10:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV pushing by anon editors 

message: Teemu Ruskeepää, please stop inserting huge blocks of unwikified and uncondensed text without proposing your major changes for other editors to review here on talk. I reverted your edits. Nevertheless, you will be able to continue your plans for a sweeping rewrite of this article. I suggest while you are building a consensus here, you work on your personal draft in a sandbox in your username space. I suggest something like User:Teemu Ruskeepää/Fidel Castro sandbox. 172 | Talk 10:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ignore this critique. It's designed to disrupt the work on this article. If you look deeper, and see for yourself what I modified, you'd see that I inserted no huge blocks of textes. This is probably a counterattack for my critisim of the people who "do what ever they want on the web. There are bitter people against Fidel Castro. I don't know any of them. I'm a young man from Finland. Teemu Ruskeepää 08:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Teemu Ruskeepää

message: It seems too easy to lie about editors, sabotage the text and to submerge the work into all kinds of conflicts. This place needs a neutral authority and a strong enforcements of order. Can you ban the IP that continuously do this kind of thing? Teemu Ruskeepää 09:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No one is sabotaging your work... Major changes should be proposed on the talk page. I recommend copying the article and pasting it into a personal sandbox like User:Teemu Ruskeepää/Fidel Castro sandbox, where you can work on your revisions freely. Then you can build a consensus for your changes here on the article talk page. 172 | Talk 12:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The sabotage attempts and chaos 

message: Why on earth put a link to LGBT rights opposition? I could care less about people's political issues with Cuba, but it seems silly to have a biography of a politician and to put a link to LGBT rights opposition with nothing in the article discussing anything about LGBT people much less his opposition to them. --M Drusus 02:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGBT rights opposition link 

message: One cannot help but notice the activities of the Fabian whitewashers...who delete unfavorable facts on Castro's life. Thank goodness this gets corrected. Castro did read a lot of Hitler's and Mussollini's writing and then took them as his own. El Jigue 4-705
:And let us not forget User:Comandante's whitewashing campaigns: (whole paragraphs),, etc --Constanz - Talk 07:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fabian whitewashering

message: The link in the article to Ramón Castro links to a major league baseball player born in 1976 - some 50+ years after he was born. It's obviously not the same person. Perhaps somebody could create a page for Ramon Castro (Fidel Castro's brother) OR remove the wikilink around the name. I'd remove the wikilink (since I know nothing about Ramon Castro), but the page is locked. takethemud 06:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty Link 

message: If you are an "anonymous" (not logged-in) user trying to edit the page, I have requested semiprotection because everyone else seems to be doing an excellent job of discussing edits here. I presume a single individual is behind the particular wording that we all keep reverting, and I would appreciate some explanation/sourcing/something here - I would also encourage you to get a username so that we have a constant way to communicate with you - your IP is dynamic, which essentially means we have no way to leave messages we can be sure you will receive. (ESkog)(Talk) 20:43, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semiprotection - open note to the anonymous editor 

message: A Short Biography of Fidel Castro Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas Issue 74,  April 7, 2006 
2006-04-08 	
Jaime Suchlicki
Foto: Alexis Gainza Solenzal.
*The following biography is being released since Fidel Castro's health has continued to deteriorate recently.
** biography snipped **--Silverback 05:51, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ANON ONE, the talk pages are no exception to the rule against violation of copyrights.  Is the above text copyrighted?  Or are you the author releasing it to the public domain?--Silverback 12:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The one who posted the article should be the one to obtain the release.  Unless there is documentation online for your claim that it was "widely released to the general public domain"--Silverback 23:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Could you please at least remove the entire article and keep the link and your comments? It is making the talk page longer. Cheers Done! -- Szvest 20:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jaime Suchlicki, A Short Biography of Fidel Castro