Talk:Copra plantations in New Guinea

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[edit] NPOV

According to the source A prodigy of wastefulness, corruption, ignorance and indolence: the Expropriation Board in New Guinea 1920-1927 as used in the article says; This was disputed in the Australian parliament where a member cited `five returned soldiers who are men of the best type...

To say in the lead described as the "dummying evil" by the Australian government of the time is POV, when the articles other source clearly say otherwise. Gnangarra 09:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Gnangarra. I'll have a citation for the disputed text within 48 hours. Talk soon, Lester 13:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Just had another look at it. It was the Australian Government's Auditor General who made that quote about the "dummying evil", but to make it clearer I added the words "Auditor-General" to the text. The existing reference is from The Age, though the Fiji business magazine (used to reference other text) also carries that information. I don't believe it was a criticism of the soldiers themselves, who were considered good character. I think it was more of a criticism of companies like Carpenter & Co who made most of the money instead of it all going to the Australian soldiers, and probably a criticism of the policies and processes of the time that allowed it all to happen. Best wishes, Lester 15:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References

The major problem with this article is it relies on one source (reference one and two are in fact the same article but labeled differently for whatever reason) with periodic smatterings from a second. More sources, drawn from wider viewpoints, are desperately needed to make this less POV. At the moment the POV is very blatant. Sarah 11:27, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

To help lessen this blatant POV I am going to be WP:BOLD and morph the article into something more encyclopedic. Prester John (talk) 03:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fundamentals...

The article is a tad vague on whether it is talking about the island of New Guinea, or the eastern part of the island that is now the country of Papua New Guinea. I suspect most, if not all, relates to eastern New Guinea (now PNG) --Merbabu (talk) 10:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it. I think. --Merbabu (talk) 13:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)