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[edit]My recent text on this page was quickly reverted with small amount of description of why it was done. Couple of questions: 1. There was a claim for OR. Could someone explain how many citations are expected per paragraph to keep my text ? 2. Also a claim for poor language. I thought Wikipedians should help each other if some parts of the text is poor. I doubt that Wikipedia articles arise from perfectly phrased paragraphs right at the start. Wikipedia was built to allow cooperation. Can you explain what language level expectation is required to participate on this Wikipedia page?
I would happily adjust my text according to the advices of the moderators of this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iley.power (talk • contribs) 07:16, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there. Sorry, I was a bit over-the-top in reverting your additions. I apologise. I mainly removed it because most of it was unsourced; You did include some sources, but they mainly addressed specific events such as the 2017 police strike, not democratic transitions as a whole. You could find some reputable academic sources that talk about democratic transition, and include those. TeraTIX 07:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- I changed quite a bit of bad wording in the "Mobility" section. A few run-on sentences, bad pluralization in the first sentence, and bad grammar and wording throughout. It didn't really make a whole lot of sense to the reader. I did not change any of the fundamental claims in the that section. Just the grammar and a couple of unnecessary words. Nihilianth (talk) 13:22, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- The Economic factors - Main Heading
- Economic development and modernization theory - Subheading
- The subhead section "Economic development and modernization theory" is a mess. A lot of grammar problems and run on sentences throughout. It's such a mess, that I don't even know where to begin in editing this properly without having to change a lot of stuff around. I dont have the sources or research to properly rewrite it.
- Is there a moderator who is paying attention and has this page flagged that might know someone who could rewrite it properly? Nihilianth (talk) 15:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Judicial independence in Poland
[edit]See discussion at Talk:Judiciary of Poland#Judicial independence in Poland. Whizz40 (talk) 09:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 19:16, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Suggested added paragraph to Economic development and modernization theory (however self-cite)
[edit]Liberalization in autocracies was more likely to succeed in countries that had the advantage of a better starting point concerning political institutions, GDP, and education. These more privileged countries could also carry out key reforms more rapidly, and were able to do so even in areas in which they had no initial advantage. This indicates the presence of a "Matthew effect" in political science: to countries that already have, more is given.[1][2][3] PzychoPat (talk) 16:00, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
References
- ↑ Lindenfors, Patrik; Wilson, Matthew; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2020-09-25). "The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 7 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00596-7. ISSN 2662-9992.
- ↑ Edgell, Amanda B.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindenfors, Patrik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021). "The Institutional Order of Liberalization". British Journal of Political Science. 52 (3): 1465–1471. doi:10.1017/S000712342100020X. ISSN 0007-1234.
- ↑ Wilson, Matthew C.; Medzihorsky, Juraj; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindenfors, Patrik; Edgell, Amanda B.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2022). "Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization". Political Science Research and Methods: 1–20. doi:10.1017/psrm.2022.11. ISSN 2049-8470.
Democratisation of this article ;)
[edit]It's impressive to see the evolution of this article since its first version of 20:52, 29 September 2003 by an editor who made three edits on that day and then disappeared. What survived back then for seven months without even a single source URL (three academics' names were mentioned) now has 137 watchers, any unsourced statements are unlikely to survive for more than a few minutes, and overall the article is well structured and well sourced, even if improvements are possible. Ironically, a lot of the sources are closed access (secret sources of knowledge are contrary to the whole idea of democracy), but quite a few are open access; my prediction is that in 2043, chances are that most of the sources will be open access (the 10th anniversary of Aaron Swartz's decease comes up in a few days' time). Congratulations to everybody working on the article. :) Boud (talk) 12:22, 1 January 2023 (UTC)