Talk:Jerry Rawlings

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[edit] Criticism

"Jailed dissidents who plotted to overthrow regime. " This would happen in any country. How is this 'criticism'?

This article really needs to be cleaned up. It's incoherent in many places and completely disjointed in others. Also, there's repetitions all over. I am unsure of what the person was trying to say in some places so I would suggest someone who knows about the subject clean up the article.

Far too positive about just another dictator, see e.g. "Achievements" vs. "Criticism". The headers alone are interesting, Criticism can be justified or not, is not necessarily objective whereas Achievements are.

Chris

I have edited the - even for me - glaring typo's, weasel words and POV in the 'Criticism'-section. I also have serious doubts if the previous editor has any sources to go with his impromptu expansion of that section, but I don't feel qualified to delete those points. maarten 08:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Did another cleanup. Not much of an improvement in the course of a year, I'll try to add sourced material and remove unsourced claims. maarten 09:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flight Lieutenant

I've edited the initial use of Rawlings rank to its full form as it now does not require the reader to be familiar with air force rank abbreviations. However, it seems questionable as to whether it should be included in the opening line at all. By convention in the RAF, officers who retire in the rank of flight lieutenant cease to be entitled to use the rank as do all officers below the rank of squadron leader. It may be that the Ghana Air Force has not adopted this convention and googling "Jerry Rawlings" reveals that many sites use his rank title. Perhaps someone with authoratitive knowledge of Ghanaian military customs can help. Greenshed 16:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd suggest keeping reference to Flight Lieutenant as Rawlings was known by that title. MLA 14:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

This article seems to be very opinionated.