User talk:Un chien fou

A belated welcome!

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Again, welcome! George Ho (talk) 08:54, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful in your edits

I appreciate your energy and your work on the TPP Wikipedia article. That article is extremely important. It has attracted a wide audience so far, and I expect it will continue to receive substantial traffic for some time. You can make valuable contributions to improving that article, I believe. However, you need to do your homework more carefully if you want your edits to be retained, in my opinion.

In particular, I reverted your reinstatement of the NZ Maori party as "right-wing nationalist", because I did not see that point clearly made on the Wikipedia article on the Maori party. If a party like the National Front (France) did something noteworthy, I think it would be reasonable to describe them as "a socially conservative, nationalist political party", because it says that in the Wikipedia article on the National Front (France). For more on this, see my comments on this on the TPP talk page.

I will also revert your recent addition claiming, 'The Electronic Frontier Foundation continues to characterize the TPP as "a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement."' In particular,

the text is no longer secret,
the link you provided carries no date and does not seem to have been updated since the text was released, and
the points you made are already in the article.

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:35, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. Have you tried contacting organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) or Fight for the Future to get updates on their previous comments in this area -- updates that you can then cite? (Documents they produce are more helpful if they cite specific sections in the agreement and are dated. EFF's comments are important, but I hesitate to quote them, because the web page of theirs you cited does not do this. An article by Evan Greer that's cited in the TPP article is much stronger in this regard: A skeptic can do directly to the indicated sections, read the text, and make up their own minds about whose claims see more legitimate. DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:50, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]