Talk:Clean Government Political Assembly

Name of this entity

A web search on Google shown except Wikipedia, nobody used the names of this group here, namely Clean Government Political Assembly or Komei Political Assembly. The New Komeito website uses Komei Political League, but Google search only gave 2 results. Given the resultant parts are known as Komeito and New Komeito, I wonder if we should move this article to Komei-something. Samuel Curtis 02:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

To be blunt about it, this article is mostly crap. It was created by an anonymous author, and has been little changed since then. The stuff about theocracy is entirely false. The stuff about support from most religious Buddhists is false, unless one argues that most relgious Buddhists at that time were Soka Gakkai members. My understanding is that the clergy of other sects usually saw the Soka Gakkai as a threat. The stuff about Soka Gakkai priests is also rubbish because there are none and never have been. For a long time the Soka Gakkai relied on the priesthood of Nichiren Shoshu for all the priestly stuff (e.g. printing of mandalas and weddings), but it is very clear that the Nichiren Shoshu clergy generally despised the Soka Gakkai and its members and would have been most unlikely to feel enthusiastic about this kind of activity. The stuff about being left wing is arguable, but definitely POV and therefore needs sources. And so on.

Yes. This article is crap. Komeito (Former) exists and, even though it has a lot of the same kind of nonsense in it, it has some useful material and it does have a name you will find over and over again in Google. This article should be deleted unless someone can verify that Komeito actually did once use this name, in which case it should be completely rewritten Ireneshusband 09:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

On second thoughts I will remove the malicious nonsense, which will basically just leave part of the first sentence. If the name really was used by a forerunner of the Komeito then I think this page should be turned into a redirect because we are really talking about the same organisation (but separate articles are warranted for Komeito (Former) and New Komeito Party, although in that case it might be better to apply the name Komeito directly to the Komeito (Former) article instead of having it redirect to New Komeito---Oy oy oy! what a mess that anonymous author left!). If the name of this article is bogus then just delete it. Ireneshusband 10:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)