Talk:Land reform in Zimbabwe
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Talk:Problems of land distribution in Zimbabwe/Archive 1
- I apologize if you interperted by previous message as giving you credit for "rambling drivel" that presently exists. Your condescending and harsh tone is uncalled for. I have no idea who you are, but I would be extremely careful before I ever called anyone else's thoughts "ethnocentric". Furthermore, this is an article that is very valid provided it is not given the present Marxist, or any other, POV. --Hcheney 20:03, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Regardless of the current squabbles over this webpage. I will continue deleting out the racist language put in by some misguided person. Whether this person is a black nationalist or marxist looking for social wedges I have not the clue. Eitherway the previous language which praised racial land redistribution simply will not be tolerated and I will be on on everyday changing it if nessesary.
- User:65.57.138.139:
- Welcome to Wikipedia! To better collaborate with other users, please log on and get a user ID. At Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers you'll find information on becoming a registered user. BTW, here are some friendly words of advice. You're "editorializing," so to speak, in the article, which is a major violation of policy. In order to be an effective contributor, you'll have to play by the rules of the game. (This is why I have to revert your two recent changes for now.) For now, these indiscretions are understandable, given that you are a new user who hasn't been briefed on Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. So, please take a look at these pages and join the community. Otherwise, anonymous IP addresses can be blocked by one of roughly 150 admins (including myself) if the user comes across as willfully skirting policy guidelines (which is often called "vandalism"). 172 02:51, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Actually, you can stop editorializing" or "vandalizing" on the page shmuck. as far as you trying to stop my revisions go ahead and try. Everyone knows your version of events or shall I say the racist one is utterly ridiculous and helping thousands of men women and children starve to death eveyday in zimbabwe. So if you really beleive in a free encyclopedia perhaps you should stop being a crypto-fascist and let others who actually know what they are talking about contribute.
- Shmuck? I don't get to hear Yiddish too often these days. Perhaps you'd like to build up our Yiddish-language related articles? BTW, I didn't write this article. I just like the idea of one existing, and keep offering to provide users with sources from academic journals. Relay your concerns to a more appropriate party. Search for the ZANU-PF website and send them a message. 172 05:09, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I am protecting this page as a response to weeks of vandalism by an anon with a shifting, proxy IP range. This is the same anon who also trolls User:Hcheney, User:172, and other Zimbabwe-related articles. If this page protection is as an inconvenience, I'll remove it as soon as possible upon request (so long as you're not the vandal, of course). 172 11:02, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I am fine with page protection, 172, but I don't think it was appropriate to remove my conversation with the vandal that dealt with the issues in question. Everyking 13:56, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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- Kind of a pity to lose that conversation, Everyking. ;) I particularly enjoyed the bit where he called 172 a hard-right National Socialist Marxist. One supposes that our friend 172 also edits the Socialist Worker, dabbles with insider trading, hugs trees, votes Republican, eats babies, and farts in the bathtub. (Assuming that he washes, of course. One can never be too sure with hard-right National Socialist Marxists.) Tannin
- You can restore it. I guess since everyone now knows that I'm a Communist Jewish Nazi, hiding the vandal's insights are pointless. Since everything's out in the open, I also have nothing to lose by admiting the fact that I'm the leader of a breakaway faction of the Workers World Party that supports Bush in '04. 172 14:23, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Kind of a pity to lose that conversation, Everyking. ;) I particularly enjoyed the bit where he called 172 a hard-right National Socialist Marxist. One supposes that our friend 172 also edits the Socialist Worker, dabbles with insider trading, hugs trees, votes Republican, eats babies, and farts in the bathtub. (Assuming that he washes, of course. One can never be too sure with hard-right National Socialist Marxists.) Tannin
- Thanks. This troll has been semi-lucidly ranting and raving on Talk:Daniel Wright. As soon as I suggested s/he get a user account, they immediately started vandalizing my user page. --Hcheney 14:38, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This article POV problems i think. things like "landed gentry" are a bit out of place.
[edit] Hunzvi
Surely "hitler" Hunzvi should get a mention in this article? (actually, i know he does. i will put him in at some point) My last year at school was disrupted occasionally by this atrocity committed by Mugabe. I was lucky. I was not a farmer. Many had their farms forcibly confiscated with no prospect of compensation. There is a human aspect to this event that is missing from this article.
Besides, how can the govt seize land from one citizen to give it to another? Even the title is a load of tosh. Land Reform? Mugabe used Hunzvi and his army of "war veterans" (most of them about 3 years old when the zimbabwean bush war was occuring) as a political tool: to suppress the whites and the opposition (one and the same thing since there was and is only one party in opposition to Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF).
[edit] Timothy Stamps
The article contains the statement :
... but Timothy Stamp, Zimbabwe's finance minister, says £17m).
Stamps was the Minister of Health from 1986 to 2002. I do not believe that his portfolio ever included Finance. See [1]. Bob BScar23625 13:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
