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I did a quick once-over for the blatant wikification problems/issues. IMHO the majority of the article should be deleted - especially the "about the film-makers" sections, need to be on bio articles, not really here. I also added the NPOV tag because of the numerous weasel words throughout. SkierRMH 05:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
response - I have edited the article and removed the biogs for the film-makers, the rest of the article is 100% relevant to the film, could you further explain why you feel that neutrality is questionable, and being new to wikipedia could you let me know what "weasel" words are? Thanks
The opening paragraph is suspect though I have not edited it:
[quote]'The War on Democracy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger. Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States's attempt to bring democracy to foreign countries and its war on terrorism. The film was first released in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2007.'[/quote]
The film does not “rebuke” America’s attempt to bring democracy to other countries, it rebukes America’s intrusion into other countries already established democracy, because they set up puppet dictators who agree to let America buy out privatised companies, thus draining finance from the county’s coffers and distributing it only to the already rich! The whole point of the documentary is that America is NOT even trying to bring democracy to these countries!
The opening paragraph seems written with the intention of prejudicing people against the film before they even have seen it.
-Mat Cobb 12th July 2007.
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Surely the link to the video of the entire film is a breach of copyright? 89.243.232.183 13:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Howard Hunt, when he mentions "harmless bombing" in this movie, has for the last few sentences explained a disinformation campaign dropping leaflets. The movie then cuts to a clip of actual bombing, insinuating that either Hunt was lying outright, or that leaflets were soon followed by explosives. - Rgrant ( talk) 22:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Why has the multi-paragraph synopsis that used to be present in this article been removed? Here is an earlier version that included it: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_War_on_Democracy&diff=268219664&oldid=265081670. Okay, if the synopsis needed cleaning up - but why remove it completely?
Also, didn't the Reception section used to be longer? 185.55.60.122 ( talk) 17:26, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
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I did a quick once-over for the blatant wikification problems/issues. IMHO the majority of the article should be deleted - especially the "about the film-makers" sections, need to be on bio articles, not really here. I also added the NPOV tag because of the numerous weasel words throughout. SkierRMH 05:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
response - I have edited the article and removed the biogs for the film-makers, the rest of the article is 100% relevant to the film, could you further explain why you feel that neutrality is questionable, and being new to wikipedia could you let me know what "weasel" words are? Thanks
The opening paragraph is suspect though I have not edited it:
[quote]'The War on Democracy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Christopher Martin and John Pilger. Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States's attempt to bring democracy to foreign countries and its war on terrorism. The film was first released in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2007.'[/quote]
The film does not “rebuke” America’s attempt to bring democracy to other countries, it rebukes America’s intrusion into other countries already established democracy, because they set up puppet dictators who agree to let America buy out privatised companies, thus draining finance from the county’s coffers and distributing it only to the already rich! The whole point of the documentary is that America is NOT even trying to bring democracy to these countries!
The opening paragraph seems written with the intention of prejudicing people against the film before they even have seen it.
-Mat Cobb 12th July 2007.
Image:War-on-democracy.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
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BetacommandBot 11:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Surely the link to the video of the entire film is a breach of copyright? 89.243.232.183 13:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Howard Hunt, when he mentions "harmless bombing" in this movie, has for the last few sentences explained a disinformation campaign dropping leaflets. The movie then cuts to a clip of actual bombing, insinuating that either Hunt was lying outright, or that leaflets were soon followed by explosives. - Rgrant ( talk) 22:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Why has the multi-paragraph synopsis that used to be present in this article been removed? Here is an earlier version that included it: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_War_on_Democracy&diff=268219664&oldid=265081670. Okay, if the synopsis needed cleaning up - but why remove it completely?
Also, didn't the Reception section used to be longer? 185.55.60.122 ( talk) 17:26, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
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