Talk:Commons (Colombian political party)

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Tate, Winifred, “Chronicle of a Peace Foretold.” NACLA Report on the Americas 48, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 18-21, http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=25&sid=e74a4c07-8e48-45a4-8862-923f67538ff4%40sessionmgr104

Anderson, Jon Lee, “Colombia’s Guerrillas Come out of the Jungle.” The New Yorker, May 1, 2017.

“Humans of New York’s Facebook Page.” Facebook.com. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1686372734770153/?type=3&theater

These sources are helpful to give some background information on the peace process and the response to it. I plan to add notes on the opposition that FARC faces from conservatives and paramilitaries. I think it would also be helpful to use some of the information from the Colombian Peace Process wikipedia page, because it talks about the referendum that the government went against to allow FARC to become a political party after disarming. It would also be helpful to add more about their political plans for the 2018 election, mentioned in the introduction.Krawrght (talk) 19:50, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed Improvement
 This is a very distant topic from people. So I think if you could add more information about it or add one more sections to it, it would be great to give the readers a relatively enriched information of an subject they are not familiar with. Also, the same problem with Jonah, it's better if you have more scholarly resources. Lastly, it would be great if you have pictures for this topic. Martin9964

Notes on proposed improvement
I think that the information you plan to add sounds great! A section on the opposition to FARC from conservatives and paramilitaries would be interesting to cover because it would inform the reader about government opposition to FARC. It could also be interesting to include some information about public opinion on FARC. The information about the referendum and the political plans for 2018 also sound interesting and could be very informative. The only other thing that I can think of is that the sources for this page all seem to be articles from periodicals so it will be really helpful when you add some more scholarly sources. I think that's a good plan, good luck! Jkadens (talk) 00:17, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * What opposition currently exists? I would think most Paramilitaries are happy that they will get a monopoly over the drugtrade soon with the government facilitating the peace plaN? 2A04:AE08:1401:F500:ED17:C457:91AB:ECB2 (talk) 02:27, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Logo of the FARC
Hi everyone. The logo of the FARC cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons because it is copyrighted (all rights reserved, or at the very least with a No Derivatives license which is not acceptable on Commons). It was speedily deleted twice over there and I have started a DR there as well to clarify to future users who try to upload it:

However, it is acceptable to me if we store the logo here locally for fair use reasons. I have uploaded it at File:Logo political party FARC Colombia.png. Feel free to contribute to the fair use rationale listed on that page.

Cheers, seb26 (talk) 15:23, 25 November 2017 (UTC) ´

The translation is horrible !
Hey. Interesting to read about the Peace Process here and elsewhere. But I have to comment on the translation. Common alternative Revolutionary Force? Talk about a mangled sentence. This is not the easiest name to translate but I would say it's something akin to Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Commune (or Society/Collective). Can we get a discussion going on this and then change it? Maybe ask someone at FARC? 2A04:AE08:1401:F500:ED17:C457:91AB:ECB2 (talk) 00:29, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Good call. On their website, they call themselves the “People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force”. I see The Economist used that translation once, but has also used “Common Alternative Revolutionary Force”. Telesur uses “Alternative Revolutionary Force of the Commons”. The Washington Post goes with “Alternative Communal Revolutionary Force” And the New York Times, the Independent, Forbes, and Al Jazeera all prefer “Common Alternative Revolutionary Force”. There doesn't appear to be a consensus among news organizations, but there does seem to be a preference towards "Common".
 * When I run the names through Google, I got the following: 15,000 for "Common", 1,200 for "of the Common", 1,100 for "People's", and 400 for "Communal". “Common Alternative Revolutionary Force” does seem to be the common name, though I personally prefer the FARC's own translation. -- irn (talk) 00:58, 15 December 2017 (UTC)


 * TeleSurs version is the correct one! Commons was the word I was looking for! Commons captures the spirit of the spanish word. "Common" it is certainly not and Peoples...well if they wanted to use that then they could have just used "del Pueblo" which they used in the FARC-EP terminology. I think That FARC themselves doesn't know the word "commons". It's not a word commonly used.

2A04:AE08:1401:F500:ED17:C457:91AB:ECB2 (talk) 01:23, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

File nominated for deletion on commons
The file c:File:Farc Colombia Party logo.svg has been nominated for deletion on Commons Reason: Logos above c:COM:TOO. For Discovery Channel cf. c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:DiscoveryChannel logo.png, c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Discovery-Channel-logo.png, c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Casi discovery hd.JPG and so on. Deletion request: link Message automatically deposited by a robot - -Harideepan (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2018 (UTC).