Talk:Black gold (politics)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): CaroWesley.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 15:54, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Public disillusionment ?
it is hard to say who has been disillusioned. Xplorer 01:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Improving article bias, references, accurate representation, modernity
There are a few things I've identified as issues within this article.

First, the article contains no references to support its claims. Claims like the below require peer-reviewed open sources to be substantiated:

- "The Kuomintang (KMT) has frequently been criticized in Taiwan for its connections to gangsters and black gold." Where is this criticism seen in Taiwanese media? Perhaps link to examples of this criticism or ideally an impartial news source's article on this issue.

- "The KMT's relationships with such organizations are believed to persist." Where was this information found?

- "As Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1996, former Taipei mayor and KMT Party Chairman Ma Ying-jeou is credited with attempts to fight black gold corruption and bring KMT out of corruption, and his removal from office by the KMT was widely attributed to him being too effective at fighting black gold." This claim requires substantiation, especially because Ma Ying-jeou became KMT party leader and President of Taiwan between 2008-2016.

Secondly, the article needs to be updated to include information past the last-cited date of 2005. Things that could possibly be added to this article include: - Chen Shui-bian's post-Presidency corruption charges in 2008, and his later incarceration on allegations of corruption and abuse of authority. The controversy including Chen's wife's wiring of money to the Cayman Islands could also be outlined.

- The law proposed by the DPP in the Legislative Yuan during the 2000-2008 presidency to recover illegally acquired party assets and to return them to the government may be an important addition to the article.

- The August 2016 establishment of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee by the DPP Government for the purpose of investigating KMT party assets acquired through illegal means should be given as an example of modern action on Taiwan's history with black gold.

Third, the article requires re-structuring for clarity. I suggest that the article include a short introduction section, a historical background section that outlines the history of black gold until 1945, when the KMT fled to Taiwan. The next sections should be divided by political party and should impartially outline any post-1945 allegations against the respective parties with clear sources to substantiate the information. CaroWesley (talk) 15:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Student content
I wanted to post a link to the student's work in case anyone wanted to merge or use any of this content in the live article: User:CaroWesley/sandbox. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:21, 27 August 2018 (UTC)