Talk:Georgios Karatzaferis

message: Do you have any reference for this?
Until you provide any real hard fact reference for this statement, the "nationalist/radical right-wing populist party" will be deleted.
Polemos (talk) 19:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationalist/radical right-wing populist party???? 

message: No, the inquiry is not embarassing it is just the least important inquiry you could had possibly chosen to put in here!... And not only that but as I stated above, in a year or two this issue will be at least irrelevant and by that not we won't be of any service to the people who visit Wikipedia asking for a coherent and comprehensive profile of politician. Mind you that this is an internet encyclopedia and as such the people you use it want something short and coherent. If you go to any encyclopedia and look up 'Karl Marx' you will find two pages at the most, NOT a full detailed biography. People want an outline, not an online book, because they will simply not read it! 
Also, if I start writing down the really important inquires he made (out of the more than 500 he made in the 1,5 years he is there) the text will be huge, boring and dealing MORE with LA.O.S's positions and activities and LESS with the man himself. Don't forget that he is not there only as a person. He is there representing a political party and he is also the vice-president of the European party he is member of (IN/DEM). There are decisions taken inside the party according to which he acts. So where do we draw the line between the PERSON and the political party he leads? Are we talking about in this article? His party's positions or the man himself? They are not quite the same, u know...   
This inquiry made headlines for itself in the Greek press and media. That makes it notable enough to be included in here, whether you like it or not. Porfyrios 13:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My point... 

message: To begin with, in his official site you can see the part of the article that referes to Karatzaferis SCANNED!...unsigned
The article scanned only mentions Karatzaferis being prolific in the number of questions in the Europarliament, and does not mention anything about being "selected among the four best MPs" and the rest of your blurb. If that is your source, I am deleting the "selection" as there is no mention of it therein. Porfyrios 13:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A brief answer to some ironic comments.... 

message: About the Ha'aretz and Yedioth Ahronot articles. Yes I know what the burden of proof is. But what I'm saying is not that he did not make that statement. What I am saying is that you should not swear on your soul that these articles were not written since the newspapers' web-sites have no archive section at all and therefore (even statistically) there could indeed be a possibility that such articles actually exist. Unless, of course, you have other sources that can support your certainty, in which case you should share it with us!... Do you have any understanding of the benefit of a doubt notion? Did you check those archives? Didn't think so... My advise is "don't put all your money there, kid, until you see those archives yourself".  
Finally, you write "The newspaper citation suffices". If that is the case, then what you are telling us is that 'if somebody else has written about it, it's ok'... Oh, really? No, son!... We cannot accept the citation of the citation of the broadcast of somebody else's citation and so on! Can you point to the SOURCE? Can you point one that knows nothing about this to something more solid than a... broadcast??? A simple date means NOTHING! It cannot lead anyone anywhere. Anyone could do that. One could even write that this politician once said: "I like f***ing babies" (24/07/02).  Is that a valid quotation??? Can ANYONE double-check it??? Just a single date??? Sorry mate! U have got to try more than that!! ;) And if that is the case, then my quotation about the "The European League" should be accepted as well! What the hell... It's so much more than just a date!... So Billy-Boy, if no REAL citation is provided, I am deleting that material. Because what YOU are doing is vandalism and you are OBVIOUSLY biased against this person! We are not trying to purify nor destroy ANYONE in Wikipedia! Got that???  Mahann 20:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's get somethings straight.... 

message: Since Karatzaferis was a model in his early years it should be mentioned here, or at least make a category for this. Don't mistake me for ironic or something. I am an inclusionist and that's my motivation. Pictureuploader 21:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Modelling career

message: The citation cannot be acceptable because it is just a date with nothing more to move on to! Anyone could write anything, put any date next to it and call it a "valid" quote! Dream on, boy...
** Not quite. You seem to have forgot the link to the print newspaper which reproduced these statements. That being the whole point of a citation and all? :-D Porfyrios 21:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  U need 2 B more carefull.... 

message: If we actually accept newspapers and articles that cannot be reached from the internet (like your 'broadcasted' citations...)
** Again, you blunder. It can be accessed from the internet. It was posted both on the newspaper's internet site and the print edition. Porfyrios 22:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is that good enough?... 

message: Are you really stupid or you just pretend that you are stupid??? The citation I gave was his personal web-site, where one could find the scanned picture of the actual article itself. The edition of the newspaper I refer to has the whole article where you can read about the rest of the MPs chosen by "THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE" as well. We are not talking about the same newspaper. We are talking about a web-site and a newspaper. So nothing was hidden "in another part of that newspaper"... Anyway,it is really silly trying to convince biased people about something. What I am really worried about is the way we 'inform' the people who visit of Wikipedia, something that you don't seem to care about that much at all. Taking statements out of context, citating biased journalists, cutting & pasting infomation as you like... I know, I know! You will say that I do the same thing... Not quite, son. You refer to 1% or even 5% of a man's work. All that there is to blame him about, you wrote it. But are you willing to give to the public the remaining 95%? You don't have to answer... You will have the whole article itself as soon as I get it. I am not sure who can help me with this, but you will have it. Not for any other reason, but simply because one must at least try to keep some balance in wikipedia, in the extend he/she can be of some use to it. And since you are so obviously taking one side, I choose to defend somebody I'm not even sure I ever want to meet... For your information, I am not even Greek. I donnot even vote in Greece either. I just live in this blessed country for the past 35 or so years... So don't ever try to throw that "your leader"-shit to me again, boy... Your's truly Mahann 22:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  .... 

message: Did I break you? Because this is what I get from your reaction... I don't remember calling you any names or using the F word... Offensive?? If you say so.... I guess I shouldn't expect anything better from you... I will have to apologize, but I do not intent to follow you down to your level. Maybe my expectations about a decent dialogue were too high. I should had known better. In any case, at least you are decent enough not to deny the fact that indeed you are taking sides... Not caring about objectivity and leaving me...to write the rest. It's ok. You just prove me right, giving basis to my worries and my decision to take the 'other side' for the sake of balance... Someone has to do that after all. 
As for the underlined phrase, you are just proving again that you just cannot get it. We could upload a shitload of info about anyone. All I have been saying is that we must make wikipedia a useful tool for the public, with useful info. I am not saying that he did not make these statements. What I am saying is that we need decent citations so that the user can go and double-check the info we provide him with. Whether he likes what he reads or not, he/she must be given the right to make up his/her mind about any subject. To read a statement inside its context. The 'ios' group you so eagerly quote, for example, cannot claim objectivity to be among its virtues.... So where does that leave the user? I just seriously doubt that the info provided is taking the article towards an objective direction. Mahann 23:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temper, temper.... 

message: At least we agree at something. There is no point in pursuing this discussion any more... You are not adding anything new to what you are saying. You are still being provocative... An you still cannot get it. Thankfully my job has made me able to tell when certain techniques are being used. If using in an article cerefully picked words and expressions that can create the most negative image for a person is your sense of objectivity then I just rest my case... It's all right. No point in going on. 
One last thing, though. In the 'history' section you have the comment:  (better get used to the fact you won't be able to turn this entry into a hagiography of your leader.)  I am forced by this to state yet again that: 
1) I do not even have the right to vote in Greece, so 'my leader'?... I do not think so...
2) If you have anything to say, use the main disscusion section were everybody can read it. Do not hide comments especially when they are provocative. 
3) We are not trying to purify nor destroy ANYONE in Wikipedia.
4) Last but not least, you have the same rights in here that I have...  Mahann 10:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No point in going on. U R right... 

message: I'm not sure that the caracterization "extreme right" is correct for Karatzaferis. He may be affiliates with other extreme right parties in Europe, but his own ideological background isn't the background of an extreme-right politician. According to my opinion, he seems more like a populist politician and his party has certain similarities with the populist party of Portugal. I think we must distinguish between the far-right and the populist movement and I think that Karatzaferis and LAOS represent the ideological movement of populism and not of far-right.--Yannismarou 10:03, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extreme right politician? 

message: according to this page http://www.karatzaferis.gr/biography.htm karatzaferis is the auton of 5 and not 6 books which are the following "Το Μοντέλο της Δημοκρατίας", "Η Γυναίκα Σήμερα", "Η Λιάνη στηρίζει την Αλλαγή" και "Αγώνες και Αγωνίες της δεκαετίας 1990-2000" & "ΒΙΟΙ ΑΓΙΩΝ".
Tbere 11:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: books

message: this page is flagrantly biased i jsut fact tagged and edited the controversy section, someone should review the entire article.(Lihaas (talk) 14:41, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Needs more of his perspective, this is an uncyclopaedia, not a book of quotesLihaas (talk) 12:52, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: This article currently says that Karatzaferis has been accused of antisemitism, which is a serious allegation, but the only source supporting it is behind a paywall. Per WP:BLP, serious negative allegations like that one need better sources - if they can be found, they must be added to the article, and if they can't those statements should be removed. Robofish (talk) 23:47, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources needed 

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