User talk:Zivan56
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First, thank you for our contributions and work on Josip Broz Tito article. I can imagine how much vandalism occurs on this page.
I was born in the old country but grew up in US. I was always curious about Tito and his amazing journey from simple beginings to one of the greatest leaders of XX century. His success and achievements are inspiring. To satisfy my curiosity I have been reading archived articles in American press on Tito starting from WWII. Based on this reading I have added fair amount of referenced content.
Not disrespecting your input we have three disagreements:
1. Birthdate: having two birthdates without further explanation weakens the credibility of the article. A reader can't help looking at this and wondering why are there two birthdates and which one is accurate. Encyclopedia Britannica uses his true birthdate, 7th only. His addopted birthdate, 25th is not mentioned. I think there is benefit to keeping both but I think 25th can be mentioned later in the article along with the story of the second date.
2. President for life title was given to Tito in his 80s and was more of an honorary title then self imposed dictatorship that your leadership link implies. I think this title can be left for later in the article. Chief architect is more inclusive of all the different roles he held, president for life being just last of them.
3. Omitting term "second" and saying just Yugoslavia is not accurate. Yugoslavia was founded in 1918. Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavia was founded in 1943 and has changed names number of times. All of that is known as Second Yugoslavia. This is accepted term and I don't understand why are you opposing its inclusion.
Goran
