Talk:Anti-austerity movement

Krugman
"Some economists, like Nobel Prize winning Princeton economist Paul Krugman, who argue that austerity measures tend to be counterproductive when applied to the populations and programs they are usually applied to."

This is not a sentence. It is a clause. Either the author cut off the statement amid stream or did not intend to use the word "who." I do not know which. With regard to the article in general, it doesn't really tell me what they "anti-austerity" is FOR, or specifically, what it is against. I'm pretty sure it's against the bankers, and against aggressive repayment of loans. Yet, it does not come out and say what should not be sacrificed in order to pay those loans. As a libertarian, I find myself in agreement with the distrust of banks, but not in agreement that loans should be unpaid with socialistic excuses. I believe something has to give. 174.16.157.37 (talk) 20:00, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Rationale
I discuss why this article is 1) needed and 2) able to stand on its own merits, within the article itself. If anyone has an objection as to the fundamental need for a separate article for this phenomenon, please do not speedily delete it, and please do not make a proposal for short-term deletion, without extensive discussion here first. Thank you!! Kikodawgzzz (talk) 17:24, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This is a decent start to an article, but it could do with a little long-term perspective. It is hardly the case that 'anti-austerity protests' never happened before 2010. Or perhaps a rename to '2010-11 anti-austerity protests' would be appropriate? Robofish (talk) 02:04, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think a better solution would be to add a large section to the article detailing pre-2010/11 organised anti-austerity protests. I absolutely agree with you that it is unreasonable to imply-via-omission that meaningful anti-austerity protests didn't take place before the current financial crisis started, but at the same time, I can't be personally responsible for adding the historical stuff that would give a more complete picture — not the least of which reason is that I don't really know of any truly notable actions before the onset of this crisis and it would be a real pain in the rear for me to go rooting around for them. ;) ... In any case, you're welcome to try to add that stuff of course — I'd just appreciate it if you not break up the current flow and tone of the article as a "present-day-oriented" thing, and the way to avoid breaking it up and making it into a barely-readable hodgepodge of history-and-present-day, would be to have a committed, self-contained and well-constructed History section within the article. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 03:40, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

The article needs a date in the title to give it some context. Protests are events and events happen at a certain time, described by some date. If the date is not in the title, then a second option would be to make heavy use of dates in section titles - description of protest events come first. -161
 * I disagree with that. I don't think this article needs to be broken up into date-based stuff nor do I believe section titles need to be given dates. Opposition to austerity is such a huge and fluid movement, sort of like the Arab Spring (or at least wanting to be it, according to the people I talk to), that to break this stuff up by dates would make it an absolute mess. If anyone's going to insist on a dates-based structure for this article, I pre-emptively insist that we put any such thing to a vote. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 10:48, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Neutrality
This artical is terribly in favour of anti-austerity protests, i.e., it doesn't have a NPOV. Just so you know. 94.4.177.255 (talk) 18:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Then Be Bold and make a Criticism section using reliable sources. 74.132.249.206 (talk) 10:40, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 26 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: RM closed as move already made Mike Cline (talk) 13:17, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Anti-austerity protests → Anti-austerity movement – Matches the title in the opening sentence as well as Template:Anti-austerity movement in the European Union. – 86.45.76.100 (talk) 16:12, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). EdJohnston (talk) 23:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment: See . The titles of these articles do not all follow the same pattern: sometimes 'protests', sometimes 'movement', sometimes other things. In my opinion this is not an uncontroversial move; it should have a discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 23:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I agree that the name change should have been discussed first. The way I see the question is as follows. Is it a series of protests, or a movement of many people believing the same thing, and how do the sources treat it? In this case I think it is a movement, especially if you consider parties coming to power on an anti-austerity platform, as in Greece.Jonpatterns (talk) 10:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


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