Talk:Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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[edit] Garbage

I have now actually read the article, the first time I have done so. It is very poorly written, and full of silly conspiracy theories and irrelevant nonsense of various kinds (what on earth has all that garbage about Stalin got to do with Roosevelt's biography?). Are there really no serious American historians at Wikipedia? This article is a disgrace to any pretensions Wikipedia has to call itself a serious encyclopedia. I will make it my project tomorrow to write a new article. Roosevelt deserves better and so does Wikipedia. Adam 12:26, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This article has now been rewritten and relocated to Franklin Roosevelt. Adam 14:55, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry to say, but I thoroughly disagree. Your opinion is highly typical of those who've been brainwashed in US history classes. Please educate yourself. Your ignorance is showing. Stalin has much to do with FDR's decisions during WW2 concerning the European theater. This should be clear to any "serious" historian.

User:Vegalabs

[edit] New version lost too much

This new version, besides being at a name almost never used (Franklin D. Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are both much more commonly used), has lost much info and links compared to the old version. Examples I've found so far are:

And I don't know how many more. I'm going to revert. Discussion should be taken up/publicized on Requested moves before moving again. Niteowlneils 00:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I firmly believe major overhauls of articles, especially ones this size, should be done in-place, a) to help avoid unintentional content deletion, b) so Diff shows what's changed, c) so the History stays together. Also, I think re-naming this article is a bad idea, as [[1]] rules out "Franklin Roosevelt", and "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" and "Franklin D. Roosevelt" seem about equally common, so there's nothing gained by changing to the inital version. Niteowlneils 00:49, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree with statement by User:Niteowlsneils above about reasons to edit the article in place. If someone (Adam Carr) wants to point out specific things which are not accurate in the article, this page would be a good place to discuss. Morris 02:32, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Garner nearly President

How about mentioning that Garner would have become President on March 4th, 1933 (20th amendment), if FDR would have not exscaped asassination, January 1933 in Miami. Mightberight/wrong 16:35, 1 November 2005 (AST).

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