Talk:History of the Basque people
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[edit] Article's length
Even if just split from another lenghty article (Basque people), this article is alread at the very limit of its recomended size (33 KBs, max. recommended is 32 KBs). We should calmsly start pondering splitting some sections to sub-articles. I suggest to follow the template and/or discuss the general structure of Basque history in en.Wikipedia inside the Basque Wikiproject - that exists for such purposes. --Sugaar 03:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origins: needs scissors
- Just found that there's a separate article on Origin of the Basques. Therefore there's no need for that section to be so lenghty here. Someone, please, cut all the superfluous materials. --Sugaar 05:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Neutrality disputed
"The central state apparatus, including Spanish politicians, the judiciary and Spain's police, army and prisons, have continued to persecute members and sympathisers of the abertzale movement and to obstruct Basques' attempts to construct their own cultural and political structures or to articulate and defend a national sovereignty project." OK, that's not wrong at all, but it should also be cited that some Basque citizens try to construct this sovereignty project by force, promoting violence not only on non-Basque Spaniards, but also on Basques who have a different vision of the path to independence. Archael Tzaraath 16:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- You're surely right. I did not participate at all in the creation of that section and it probably needs a good cleanup and some expansion. A delicate issue naturally.
- Notice that the article has just been split from Basque people, where all these issues were dealt with in separate sections (and have for the most part been moved to Basque Country (historical territory) for reasons of length and separation between ethnology and politics/demography).
- I personally welcome you if you mean to improve that section without enlarging it too much, rather defering the hot issues to specific articles (existing or to be created). --Sugaar 19:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
