Comandante Gomez

Your edits so far have been extreme point-of-view pushing and vandalism. If you keep it up you'll be blocked from editing. Everyking 04:14, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

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Please note that Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Your edits summaries are offensive, please cease from characterizations and adhere to WP:CIV. Thanks. El_C 04:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

If you're going to do nothing but engage in extreme POV pushing, you may find yourself unwelcome here. If you can't be neutral about Cuban politics you should find something else to work on. Everyking 04:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Castro

I am sickened by your current edits..I can't believe someone such as yourself would even think Castro's regime respects Human rights. My father was murdered by the Castro regime because he spoke out against it, I myself spent several years in the Cuban prison because I also spoke out (before fleeing to the United States). Trust me EL_C Castro doesn't respect human rights.--Comandante Gomez 04:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but we can't approach an historical overview based on —and driven by— one person's personal experience. It's too anectodal (even if it could be varified). Are you interested in contributing to the encyclopedia ( I am), or only in promoting an anti-Castro agenda? Your edits seem to almost entirely consist of demonizing Raul and Fidel. But I am interested in an internationally-representative academic consensus, not just the views of the Castro's enemies. You have not addressed my changes (WHO source, for example) aside from very vaguely and moralistically polemicizing. That's and your ¡CUBANOS DE LA ATENCIÓN! is highly problematic, I find, and does not contribute to friendly and collegial editing. Please review more closely and adhere to Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Thanks for reading. El_C 04:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Your Che Guevara picture tells me you’re not exactly neutral yourself, (but I’ll ignore that for the time being), I know for fact that yes literacy has increased (I haven’t been to Cuba since the Mariel boatlift, and normally don't like to admit the fact that literacy has increased). All I ask of you is to at least say Castro has been responsible for human rights violations.--Comandante Gomez 04:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The thing is that you are hardly neutral yourself, and that isn't even the point. I barely added any content to the article, anyway. Again, your contributions are rather revealing, in that sense. I, for one, aim for authoritative sources, like WHO. Any alleged violations of human rights need to be depicted in an internationally balanced and fair way, not one-sidedly. Meaning, not just U.S. Dept. of State, et. al. sources, but also ones from Canadian, Swedish, Spanish, whomever, etc., universities and institutes, studies and report, as well as from international bodies. El_C 04:42, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Part 2

I know I have been demonizing Raul and Fidel Castro, that's my goal I seek to overthow the Cuban government and replace it with a government that repects freedom and human rights.--Comandante Gomez 04:36, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

That goal is incompatible with Wikipedia What Wikipedia is not policy, and counts as disruption, which you may be blocked for. Please be reasonable about your approach to editing Wikipedia. You simply cannot continue to carry on in this way indefinitely. Thanks again. El_C 04:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure there are sources that aren't American that prove my point that the current regime in Cuba has and is engaging in human rights violations and I'm hoping you reviewed it. (also I know for fact the EU has had problems with Cuba recently because the Cuba govt. has arrested dissidents)--Comandante Gomez 04:47, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, and I'm pretty sure there are those who disprove it, too. NPOV is designed to provide an intellectually honest and represntative balance, and a one-sided, expressedly political agenda works against that. I, again, urge to review and adhere to Wikipedia policy. Thanks. El_C 04:52, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Part 3

I hope your not insulted if I come on too strong..but I honestly view Castro as a dictator I know this violates NPOV but seriously could you say the same about Hitler that he was not a Dictator? Also by the way I know quite a few Leftists such as yourself that dislike Castro.--Comandante Gomez 06:55, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

It's okay, I'm used to it. Just imagine, though, what would happen if someone were to go and write Hasta La Victoria Siempre and Oppose the U.S. embargo on those article talk pages and elsewhere ala your CUBANOS DE LA ATENCIÓN! on those pages — they'd be banned very quickly. You have been allowed to engage in explicit propaganda because it's anti-Castro propaganda and Wikipedia isn't actually NPOV when it comes to those issues. We all know who is in power in the world right now: not the bottom 2.5 billion people, but the 250 billionaires who own as much wealth as the bottom 2.5 billion people on this planet. But I digress. Anyway, I'm not sure who came up with the principle of not using the word dictator, that happned before I joined Wikipedia, I believe, and I didn't learn about it until fairly recently. El_C 07:13, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikiproject:Cuba

Hola Comandante Gomez: How are you? Im AntonioMartin. I have an idea to start a wikiproject about Cuba, to write articles where we enhance your beautiful country's history and peoples. I myself have written many articles related to Cuba (Kid Gavilan, Ana Maria Polo, Cachita, Emilio Estefan, for example). We would need a list of articles related to Cuba to begin writing about. A Puerto Rican, Im already a member of wikiproject:Argentina and wikiproject:Mexican-American and Im going to push towards making other wikiprojects related to Hispanics, such as one for Uruguay and one for Puerto Rico, in the near future...what do you think? Let me know if you want to join in wikiproject:Cuba.

Sincerely yours, Antonio Unidad Latina Martin