Difference between revisions of "Talk:Libertarianism"
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Removed link to U.S. Libertarian Party to maintain NPOV and to emphasize libertarianism within NationStates, changed link to Wikipedia libertarianism article to a Template:relevant, added descriptions of 3D axes and UN category classifications as used by NationStates with links to UN Categories article, added section for libertarian-oriented regions. --[[User:DissonantCognition|DissonantCognition]] 00:26, 4 July 2006 (GMT) | Removed link to U.S. Libertarian Party to maintain NPOV and to emphasize libertarianism within NationStates, changed link to Wikipedia libertarianism article to a Template:relevant, added descriptions of 3D axes and UN category classifications as used by NationStates with links to UN Categories article, added section for libertarian-oriented regions. --[[User:DissonantCognition|DissonantCognition]] 00:26, 4 July 2006 (GMT) | ||
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I think this article would be much better if instead of having all these case studies, instead simply explained what libertarianism means better and explain a libertarian society. [[User:Lightman|Lightman]] 23:35, 27 August 2006 (GMT) | I think this article would be much better if instead of having all these case studies, instead simply explained what libertarianism means better and explain a libertarian society. [[User:Lightman|Lightman]] 23:35, 27 August 2006 (GMT) | ||
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| + | :I went with the "case study" type format, with heavy emphasis on quantification, in order to try to maintain a [[NPOV|neutral point of view]] as well as to ensure that the contents of the article is specific to NationStates, and [[NSwiki:Policy|not just a reproduction of information available elsewhere that needlessly takes up space on NSWiki]]. Thus, the focus is on trying to understand the way in which NationStates tracks nation statistics and such, while more general information and/or qualitative analysis is made available via a link to Wikipedia at the top of the article. The main issue is that "libertarianism" is a word utilized by ''many'' different ideologies, left-wing ''and'' right-wing. This, in my mind, makes the emphasis on NPOV and quantitative analysis especially important. For example, keeping the discussion focused on objective nation statistics, which operate the same way for ''everyone'', [[Libertarianism#Conclusion_3|allows a comparison between left-wing and right-wing variants]] which hopefully keeps bias and ideological dispute to a minimum. --[[User:DissonantCognition|DissonantCognition]] 01:46, 3 September 2006 (GMT) | ||
Latest revision as of 21:46, 2 September 2006
Removed link to U.S. Libertarian Party to maintain NPOV and to emphasize libertarianism within NationStates, changed link to Wikipedia libertarianism article to a Template:relevant, added descriptions of 3D axes and UN category classifications as used by NationStates with links to UN Categories article, added section for libertarian-oriented regions. --DissonantCognition 00:26, 4 July 2006 (GMT)
Meaning/Definition of Libertarianism
I think this article would be much better if instead of having all these case studies, instead simply explained what libertarianism means better and explain a libertarian society. Lightman 23:35, 27 August 2006 (GMT)
- I went with the "case study" type format, with heavy emphasis on quantification, in order to try to maintain a neutral point of view as well as to ensure that the contents of the article is specific to NationStates, and not just a reproduction of information available elsewhere that needlessly takes up space on NSWiki. Thus, the focus is on trying to understand the way in which NationStates tracks nation statistics and such, while more general information and/or qualitative analysis is made available via a link to Wikipedia at the top of the article. The main issue is that "libertarianism" is a word utilized by many different ideologies, left-wing and right-wing. This, in my mind, makes the emphasis on NPOV and quantitative analysis especially important. For example, keeping the discussion focused on objective nation statistics, which operate the same way for everyone, allows a comparison between left-wing and right-wing variants which hopefully keeps bias and ideological dispute to a minimum. --DissonantCognition 01:46, 3 September 2006 (GMT)
