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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Fascism. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject on Fascism

[edit] Scope

WikiProject Fascism is a project to coordinate, expand, and generally enlarge Wikipedia's knowledge base regarding fascism from its origins in the early 20th century through its peak during World War II to its continuing influences today.

My primary intention when I started work on this was simply to catalog fascist movements. This has run into two primary problems:

  • Fascism both before and after World War II has seen lots of fragmentation and coalescence; see for example the whole tangle of nationalist, Nazi, and conservative parties which formed the British National Party.
  • The role of leaders and cults of personality in fascism as so great as to demand an expansion into biography.

[edit] Parameters

For purposes of this project, I propose the following criteria:

In the case of a movement which came to power, such a movement shall be called "fascist" if it fulfills all of the following criteria:

  1. exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
  2. stressing loyalty to a single leader.
  3. using propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
  4. engaging in severe economic and social regimentation.
  5. engaging in syndicalist corporatism.
  6. implementing totalitarian systems.

In the more common case that such a movement did not or has not yet come to power, it shall be called "fascist" if it meets six of the following seven criteria:

  1. exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
  2. stressing loyalty to a single leader.
  3. advocating propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
  4. advocating severe economic and social regimentation.
  5. advocating syndicalist corporatism.
  6. advocating totalitarian systems.
  7. declaring itself or holding itself out to be to be a fascist movement.

Obviously there will be many POV arguments, and much debate as to whether a particular person or movement is in fact "fascist" by the correct definition of the word. It should be noted for more specific fields, which are not one and the same as Fascism, such as Nazism has its own separate set of categorys.

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[edit] Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment:

  • Stlemur
  • Morning star 21:34, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
  • DNewhall
  • Hauser
  • Oni Ookami Alfador
  • Curtsurly
  • Lurker 15:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • False Prophet
  • Keresaspa 17:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Ma'ath'a'yü (aka: Proofing) 16:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Deliogul 21:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • MChew 14:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC) - Joining to clean up Japanese portion
  • Jeffpw 23:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
  • NewYork1956 06:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Leopold III 20:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)Leopold III
  • Tristanad 05:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)Tristanad
  • Mcattell 16:54, 7 July 2007 (UTC) - Joining as part of effort to improve articles relating to Germany in the 1930s
  • Lighthead þ 02:35, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • EliasAlucard (talk · contribs) 21:21 30 Oct, 2007 (UTC) - Joined due to an interest in Fascism related topics, as well as being a general contributor
  • Palatinus Regni! 17:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  • vendion (talk) 18:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Dylansmrjones (talk) 23:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC) - Joining mostly due to my historical interests, and Fascism has (and to some extent still does) play a major role in the history of mankind.
  • Sickero (talk) 10:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Gennarous (talk) 08:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC) joining primarily to put articles in their correct category and location, for example Fascism, Nazism and backwards "hate groups" are sometimes lumped into the same category as if they were the same thing, need their own separate cats.

[edit] Guestbook

This is a list of Wikipedians who are not committed to the WikiProject, but who are sympathetic to the cause. Feel free to express your support by signing the list below!:

  • Dschor 13:20, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Durova 05:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Dogville 12:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • MGTom 14:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
  • jfdunphy 04:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Arctic-Editor 18:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Die4Dixie 17:59, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

The goals of WikiProject Fascism are:

  • To substantively classify fascist movements;
  • To provide thorough backgrounds on said movements;
  • To integrate the development of fascism into a coherent historical unit;
  • To find reputable sources among the multitude of disreputable and sensationalist ones;
  • To particularly explore and develop information about non-Nazi non-Mussolini fascism.

[edit] and NOT

  • I would prefer to avoid too much debate over the definition of fascism; the above definition is well-established as drawn from Wikipedia's fascism article.
  • As above, I would prefer to be inclusionary and complete; if you can make an argument that something fulfills the criteria given above, it should be attached to this project even if this leads to counterintuitive conclusions (e.g. the Republicans are fascists, Democrats are fascists, Francisco Franco wasn't a fascist).
  • Also bear in mind that just because someone joined a fascist party that doesn't necessarily mean they were important fascist ideologues or contributors. List of fascists is, in my opinion, overzealous.
  • A big caveat: Not every hate group, not every nationalist group, and not every totalitarian group -- indeed, not every totalitarian nationalist hate group -- is necessarily fascist -- and not every fascist group is, in turn, a racist hate group.
  • Finally, this isn't a project on the Holocaust or the other ethnic, religious, and political persecutions and mass murders undertaken by fascist regimes, except inasmuch as those are consequences of fascist ideology. That said, Holocaust-remembrance groups and other such foundations seem to be good sources for information on fascist movements in both the past and present.

Perhaps the project needs to actively recruit a english-japanese bilingual for this. The ommission of Japan is serious in the long-term and in the short term may shed some light on common factors in fascism given the great historical differences of Japan from Europe

Pacificbiblio 16:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Projects

  1. Imperial Way Faction -- I think this article has the potential, with cleanup and a little more research, to be an FAC. Plenty of source material, significant topic, lot of low-hanging fruit. - Stlemur 23:31, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
It's not just Imperial Way Faction it's pretty much all the pages about Japan during this time period that need work. Almost every link listed at the bottom of the page has a "This article need so be cleaned up..." header and some topics overlap quite a bit. - DNewhall
Perhaps Japan is a bad place for us to start as a group, considering the huge level of dubiousness surrounding Japanese fascism and the anger it tends to incite among various contributors who tend to see the labelling of these movements as fascist as a personal insult! Why don't we start off with a focus on Italy, where it all effectively began? Or perhaps, considering that topic has already been beaten to death, other European fascist movements that are actually regarded as being fascist (e.g. the Iron Guard in Romania, the Ustashe in Croatia, etc).
This is true however the Japanese related articles are already created and they are just really bad. A lot of them have paragraphs that seem to have been translated from some language using an online translator or something and information is repeated along numerous articles. While I understand that focusing on European movements would be less controversial the Japanese one's are the ones that have problems now. - DNewhall

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

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[edit] Stub templates

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 This article is part of WikiProject Fascism, an attempt to better organize and unify articles relating to the fascist ideology, its impact on history and present-day organizations closely linked to both of these (ideology and history). See project page, and discussion.

This article may be listed on an index of fascist movements or people. Such listing may be controversial; feel free to contribute to discussions there. The presence of this Talk page-only template only implies that the subject is of interest to the associated WikiProject.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fascism wants to know if the person or group described in this article can be reasonably described as fascist. WikiProject Fascism defines an entity which came to power as "fascist" if it fulfills all the following criteria:
  1. exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
  2. stressing loyalty to a single leader.
  3. using violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
  4. engaging in severe economic and social regimentation.
  5. engaging in syndicalist corporatism.
  6. implementing totalitarian systems.

Please comment on this entity's status here or leave commentary on the project's talk page.
WikiProject Fascism wants to know if the person or group described in this article can be reasonably described as fascist. WikiProject Fascism defines an entity which has not come to power as "fascist" if it fulfills six of the following criteria:
  1. exalting the nation, (and in some cases the race, culture, or religion) above the individual, with the state apparatus being supreme.
  2. stressing loyalty to a single leader.
  3. advocating violence or using modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.
  4. advocating severe economic and social regimentation.
  5. advocating syndicalist corporatism.
  6. advocating totalitarian systems.
  7. declaring itself or holding itself out to be to be a fascist, national socialist, falangist, etc. movement.

Please comment on this entity's status here or leave commentary on the project's talk page.


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[edit] Votes for deletion

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Fascism-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Fascism.

[edit] Requests

  • Please help improve these two articles:
Thanks. --Behnam 02:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resources

  • Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2003.

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