Talk:Edi Rama/Archive 1

Archive 1

Early talk

It must be the person featured on this site:

http://www2.ronchiato.it/AlbaniaToday/Eng/rama.htm

Them we know his birth time and place. Before 1998 he worked in Paris. --Andres

I am not sure if it is the same person. In fact, I am almost positive that it is not. Dori 15:57, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Meanwhile I did some research. Look at

http://www.palais-jalta.de/geschichte.htm

There you can see the familiar face. His exposition at Palais Jalta is mentioned on the page I cited above. His age fits as well.

Rama was active during the anti-Communist revolution, the Academy of Arts being a political centre. Rama got disappointed in the Democrat Party because of its corruptedness. He criticized Berisha's regime a lot abroad. In 1997 the security agents beat Rama almost dead. After long recovery he emigrated to Paris. When he went to his father funeral in 1998, Fatos Nano called him into his government. --Andres

I am surprised, but I guess it is the same person. Do you want to add the additional info? Dori 00:55, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

OK, I am going to do this.

One more thing. The Academy of Arts of Tirana (formerly Higher Institute of Arts of Tirana) is not part of the University of Tirana (you do not mention it too) and I think never has been. Andres

Yes, that's probably right. Dori 13:31, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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I have added three news articles about him, but I don't know if that is too much, especially considering that the article should be in NPOV and those articles have more praises than criticisms for Edi Rama. Dori 16:07, Oct 25, 2003 (UTC)

I think that's OK. But perhaps we should look whether the articles add something new, and add that to text, and then the articles would be redundant.

For instance, the first article told me nothing new except that his father used to be an official sculptor. Besides, there are other details that add colourite but are not easy to be included to the main text, as surrounding himself with young, beautiful, but clever women etc. And that was familiar from earlier articles.

As to the NPOV, I am more concerned about that the reports of his beating and his assassination attempt are his own interpretation, and his attitude towards Berisha was carried over to this article. Even if we share this attitude that probably isn't NPOV. However, perhaps it's better to let this alone until someone comes and disputes that.

That he was beaten by Berisha's secret police is not confirmed, it is his own opinion, though it sounds plausible, and this is why I included this to the article. But as to the assassination attempt, I found the story too obscure, and this is why I didn't include it to my first edit. Andres 04:42, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I think the shooting at his home did happen, but it is not known who or why they did it. Dori

Yes. It is not sure it was an assassination attempt. Andres 23:44, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

If there are no articles criticizing Rama, this is no reason for leaving these articles out. I read them, and they are not redundant though different articles tend to say the same. However I think the best would be to include to the Wikipedia article as much information as possible. Andres 04:57, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

None of the articles mention corruption though. In Tirana there are only a few construction companies (sort of an oligopoly) and nothing happens without the government officials' approval. In exchange they get kickbacks. I have heard of constructors having to give up an entire floor of their building to officials (as personal property). Edi Rama as the mayor would surely be involved, yet none of the articles mention this. I couldn't find any info to back up these allegations though. I agree that the articles mostly repeated information, but they each had one or two things that the other ones did not have. Dori 14:01, Oct 27, 2003 (UTC)

You mean you only have oral information about corruption? What about his political opponents, and Albanian media? Are there any specific cases? Indeed it is difficult to write more that there are corruption allegations. This is what I read somewhere in the Internet but don't remember where. OK, I'll try to do some research and make the article more specific. Andres 23:44, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

POV sentance?

I removed the following sentance, "He has tried many radical ideas to improve the city and is a person who is not afraid to speak his mind which has led to some heated debates with other city officials and citizens." from first paragraph of the article. It seemed sort of POV; assuming he is known for this, maybe a more NPOV version would be "He has tried many radical ideas to improve the city and is well known for his frankness, which has led to some heated debates with other city officials and citizens." Or is another word better? Feel free to reinsert the sentance if you don't think it's POV. JesseW 01:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Assasination attempt

I have to say, that i was in Albania at the time when this happened, and due to the V.I.P. status of Mr. Rama this made news during that night and the following days. However i remember quite well what was said (not word by word) that night on TV's and on newspapers tomorrow. Mr. Rama that night in an interview said "The candy's of the doctor (a reference to prof. doc. Sali Berisha) can't harm me" with the candy's he meant bullets/guns. It was revealed that same night that there was any shooting with real guns, but only 2 unknown persons who had apparently used some toys to throw in the windows of mr. Rama's house some plastic balls, and officially the police declared this as a joke, not an assasination attempt. But this didn't stop the left media to accuse the opposition for an attempt to assasinate mr. Rama. Orges 20:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation

The text below, which I've removed from the article per WP:C, had been copied direct from http://www.worldmayor.com/worldmayor_2004/rama_winner04.html. Even if the editor can confirm they were the original author of the article, or have permission to copy it, it still needs severe copyediting to meet WP standards. Smalljim 13:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Removed. If it is a copyvio let's not have it obvious like that. Dpmuk (talk) 17:41, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

The "penisgate" scandal

The language of this paragraph was not neutral. This especially goes considering the currents of albanian politics. Ive made some changes. -jns (85.103.64.225 16:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC))

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Basic info missing

This is probably the result of some removals, but right now the article doesnt tell one most basic information, which year he WAS ELECTED Mayor of Tirana. The first thing we learn is that he REMAINED Mayor in 2004, which makes little sense not knowing when and how he was elected (ok, here in the censored part in the discussion page i see it was 2000). 1904.CC (talk) 21:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Uncited claims

I've flagged the statement to the effect that in Rama's authorization of demolitions in Tirana, "The owners of such properties have neither been given compensation for this, nor has permission been requested from them" as needing a citation. Could someone provide one? If not, I'm going to remove that statement. This being election season in Albania, it's especially important to keep this article NPOV. --Kenji Yamada (talk) 14:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

A green communist or a green socialist?

Well, we know that he's green (because he added a lot of plants to the city streets). But is he a communist or a socialist? Which category we should add? And why do I have a feeling that he is a Hoxhaist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.196.176.156 (talk) 21:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 08:33, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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Edvin Kristaq Rama → Edi Rama —His real name is Edi Rama.--Olsi Hysa (talk) 17:23, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

• Support. See [1], [2], [3]. --Olsi Hysa (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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Reference for religion

I translated the text in the source on Google translate and found nothing about Rama's religion in it. --Local hero ^talk 17:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Here is another source, that proves that. How on earth did you found that Rama is an "atheist"? That is totally unsourced. The article below writes that four prime ministers in the last 20 years were Orthodos: Aleksander Meksi, Fatos Nano, Pandeli Majko and Edi Rama: http://botasot.info/shqiperia/259936/popull-mysliman-20-vite-kryeministra-te-krishtere-meksi-majko-nano-rama/ So please add it to the article asap.Balkanian`s word (talk) 14:27, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I actually deleted that too since there was no reference. This new source you've got does state he's Orthodox and it seems to be reliable, though I don't know for sure. I won't object if you add it back with this reference, unless someone else finds fault with it. --Local hero ^talk 14:42, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Well it's been a long time since this was actually discussed on the talkpage instead of passive-aggressive edit wars, but for the record he has explicitly stated that he's (a) baptised Catholic, (b) not Orthodox, (c) doesn't "practice any faith other than that to the people" and doesn't think the existence of the divine is something that can be resolved (textbook definition of agnosticism). I've fixed the page, but we should probably note that the uses of words describing "faith" in Albanian work differently than in English. In Albanian you can say someone is Catholic/Orthodox/Muslim/etc and it doesn't imply they practice or even believe it, but rather that their ancestors were affiliated with that religion in Ottoman or at least pre-communist times. Hence there are Albanians who say "I'm half Orthodox, half Muslim", a sentence that is utterly ridiculous in English (the only vaguely similar phenomenon occurs with "Jewish" in English, but even that may refer to ethnicity, not "ancestral religion" directly). --Yalens (talk) 22:50, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

I can confirm that. Religious identity in Albania is actually tribal and not really religious in actual sense. Also Rama said only said that he had a Catholic baptism and not that he was a actual Catholic. Still this is a complicated issue in Albania since most politicians don't talk about religion at all and society itself is grappling with identity. Vargmali (talk) 22:11, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

The IPA

@Iaof2017: Hello. Your transcription was incomplete. Do you know their stress? LoveVanPersie (talk) 18:09, 17 February 2018 (UTC)