Talk:The Crime of Napoleon
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[edit] deletion
someone has marked this for deletion. Even though only Ribbe has published on this topic, I don't think it should be dismissed out of hand because Ribbe is not only a historian-author, he's well respected enough to have been appointed to a human rights position within the french government by the prime minister. In other words, this is notable, it's not some obscure historian in some forgotten musty office that produced this information.
As far as the original research justification for deletion goes, that's silly since Ribbe is the researcher, not any of the wikipedia authors. So, while I don't object to deletion in general, I'll remove the delete tag for now since it's justified as being original research when it clearly isn't.
Qwasty 02:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- I essentially agree; the topic/controversy is clearly notable and it would violate NPOV if we pushed it out of Wikipedia. However, the title of the article itself is conclusatory IMHO, and very original I think. In google, the phrase "Napoleon's Holocaust" comes up exclusively with Wiki-related content. I think this article ought to be moved to The Crime of Napoleon. The book and its claims clearly meet the Wikipedia notabality threshold, we need an article on the book, and unless/until the topic advances into a more general discussion and a term for the topic becomes established either popularly or in the academic community, it's probably premature for Wikipedia to have an article on the topic in addition to an article on the book and related controversy. A minor rewrite would be required if the article is moved. Studerby 07:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Rewrite looks good. Studerby 15:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree, it's really informative now. Qwasty 23:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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Yes this definitely deserves to be on Wikipedia. It was a fairly big deal in France, with the bicentenial for Austerlitz in 2005 and all.UberCryxic 20:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anachronistic accusation
Claude Ribbe accuses the Bonaparte regime for genocide! Is not a dictator enough frightening?! The evil deeds of a dictator are limited by the means he has. (I don’t know about any female dictators, but I have no reason to believe that there is no one or could not be.) I seriously doubt that it was possible to manufacture sulphur dioxide in the necessary amounts. There ought to be a paragraph with criticism like in the other articles with controversial historic claims.
2006-10-30 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.
- It is easy to make enough sulphur dioxode, by burning sulphur, which would be readily available in bulk from volcanoes in the area. Anthony Appleyard 18:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
It might be easy to make sulphur dioxide on a small scale. What I serously doubt is that is was possible to make it in the industrial scale nessesary. After all, the Industrialism had not reached the Carribeans yet.
2007-02-16 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.
