Talk:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

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FMLN

[edit] Reworked FMLN entry

I have done some work to fix the many problems with this page. I have fixed (and in some cases removed) much of the grammar and unclear English. I have added some information. I have removed things that were obviously not from a NPOV. There is still more work I'd like to do on this page, but I think that I have done enough to warrant removing the NPOV warning at the top as well as the 'copyediting needed' notice at the top. Who can make that decision? Can I just do it myself? --Takealeft 6/6/2006

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I am going to remove the NPOV warning and the 'copyediting needed' notice at the top of this entry. I think I have done enough work on it to have resolved those issues. If someone disagrees, please discuss here. Thanks. --Takealeft 6/7/2006

[edit] Edits: Grammatical, etc.

Removed: "a group that headed a single handed pro cuban insurrectionist leftist movement within the country as early as the 1960's" because it was poorly written, grammatically incorrect (capitalization?), because this article is not about the Sandinistas, and because while the Sandinistas were supported by and ideologically aligned with the Cuban revolution, their raison d'être was the liberation of Nicaragua rather than support of the Cuban revolution. By that logic, the French Revolution was pro-American. Also, please sign edits. Durito 22:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Edited: "Unity of the various formations was not immediate nor a natural result within the battle for the alleged ¨equality¨ that the radical socialists waged", due to lack of clarity and failure to adhere to NPOV and encyclopedic standards. For example, "radical" in this context is a perjorative term rather than a technical one clarifying a particular subset of socialism. Furthermore, the paragraph seemed to be arguing that the FMLN was primarily a Cuban conspiracy, rather than a Salvadoreno movement. --Durito 22:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Added copyedit and POV-check templates. I did some clean-up, but haven't finished. Most of the mess seems to be the result of poor editing done to the original article by an anonymous user. Durito 22:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll be happy to copyedit here too: it's a well-done article and deserves to be presented / heard / discussed etc., controversial or not. But the NPOV elements are too glaring, and I hesitate qua mere copyeditor to eliminate them: for instance,

"they went into exile due to the unlawful military administration governments activities..."

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"Other opinions within the country clearly express hope within the actions of FMLN as their campaign is focused on the socialist aspects of assisting the repressed populations affected by extreme poverty and the ever decreasing natural resources within El Salvador..."

-- both of which read like a political platform / propaganda, 1970s MaosLittleRedBook stuff, very dated sloganeering -- not needed, here, to make the FMLF point, and simply enraging to the opposition. So if someone else pls would get rid of these two statements and others like them, mere copyeditors like me then can help with the rest: leave that stuff in, tho, and this entire very good article will die for being non-NPOV -- which would be a loss both for its writers and for the Wikipedia.

--Kessler 23:34, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I removed the fascist tag as it was clearly a silly mistake [Akimiv]