Talk:Diogo Mainardi

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Are we sure that 'articulist' is a word? Monk Bretton 01:27, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Very good question. I´ve just looked on dictionary.com, and, apparently, it is not. How do we call one who writes articles? Doidimais Brasil 04:35, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I will use the word "pundit" instead of articulist, ok?--201.9.46.76 18:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Why not just "article writer"?? baator 02:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

1 NPOV
2 Paske
3 Racional
4 Plus
5 Briso

[edit] NPOV

This article is more a criticism of Diogo Mainardi than a neutral biography. I have removed all references to him being a rightwinger, because this is not the case. Only because you criticise President Lula and his party doesn't mean one his a rightwinger. So this is prejudice and the guy who wrote this in the first place seems to hold a grudge against Mainardi, departing from Wikipedia's policies. --R.Sabbatini 16:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

If he's not a rightwinger, then he is what? A neutral presentation of fact, when dealing with politically active figures, does not preclude stating their political ideologies.

Mainardi isn't a rightwinger, he will slam just about anyone he considers deserving, regardless of political orientation. It just happens that the Brazilian left has more proeminence than the right. --Paraiba 06:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paske

I agree with that.. Diogo Mainardi is some kind of apolitical person.. they have already claimed he opposed to any politician

[edit] Racional

Very insidious indeed. This article made me sick. It is not work of amateurs of but someone with a stake in the current PT government. Anyone with a minimum instruction in rhetoric and knowledge of Mainardis polemical pamphlet will notice the insidious usage of comparison (some think... others think...) in the so called article. The use of the term right-winger also unveils the intention of the author(s). Watch out Mainardi, they are in the web to get you!

[edit] Plus

"here are others who say that his work, relying mostly on pastiche, quotes and a somewhat anti-intellectual stance, is only a limitedly successfull attempt at mimicking American writer Gore Vidal's style as shown in his more satyrical novels, specially Myra Breckinridge and Duluth."

who says this? no links to sources. this should be removed. Doidimais Brasil 03:04, 28 March 2006 (UTC).

Dear Doidimais: Try back issues of _Veja_, for instance, somewhere around the mid-1980s, during Vidal's lecturing tour in Brazil to promote _Duluth_, and you will undoubtely find an article by your idol flauting himself as Mr.Vidal's best friend...That Mainardi's style is a pastiche of Vidal's more "outrageous" novels is obvious to anyone who has read _Duluth_. Unfortunately, since you are reacting in hostile faction to any presentation of actual fact in your hero's biography, I regret to say that eventually this article shall end by presenting something that could be very exquisite in literary terms, but is an utter impossiblily in plain encyclopaedic ones: a hero with _no_ biography at all.

Dear anonymous person: "back issues of _Veja_, for instance, somewhere around the mid-1980s" are in no way a source. A source needs an actual link or reference (so and so issue, page number). "Obvious to anyone who has read Duluth" is also not good enough for Wikipedia, since an encyclopedia pressuposes the user does not know everything on the subject. I don´t think users should be required to read Duluth to read an article about a Brazilian article writer. You should check Wikipedia's "no original research" policy.

You have said I am reacting in a hostile faction. I did not edit the article, but merely asked for sources. It's not reasonable to call this "hostile". Warm regards Doidimais Brasil 02:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)