Talk:Hideki Tojo succeeds as party leader and Prime Minister

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[edit] Cleanup & Merging

This article has a large amount of material that can be moved to other places or otherwise must be radically restructured. The content is valid, but either fusing it into Hideki_Tojo or shifting the content to an article like "Tojo Cabinet" to examine the politics, rise and fall, and impact of the Tojo-headed government. It is about a very important person and time in history, but the content reads like a high-school history paper, and as such lacks the concise and objective style that makes Wikipedia succesful. Donbas 11:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Much of it seems to have come from Hideki Tojo. But not all of it, though it is clearly the same author. No hits on Google but I have to wonder if they might both be plagerising a common source. EiE 19:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Part is copyvio: maybe the rest. See Wikipedia:Cleanup#November 23, 2005 for the saga of this text. Tearlach 04:32, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
And there's more. The sections "Elated by these early successes ... Bushido stubbornness" and "On 5 November Prime Minister Tojo ... could not be breached" come verbatim from here, and most of the "Downfall of Tojo Cabinet(1944)" section comes from this book. Tearlach 04:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
A lot of this material could go into Imperial Way Faction as well. - Stlemur 05:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Which was where it was originally. However, read the sources I cited above: do you agree it's a copyvio? If so, it should be radically rephrased or binned. Tearlach 13:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] POV & Content

Also there are some POV issues (yes he was a war criminal), with loaded phrases like "Chinese meal" being a good example of a problem with the tone. Donbas 11:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

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