Talk:General Secretary

Disputed accuracy
This article conflates the office of General Secretary (or offices with similar secretarial titles) with the position of party leader. Not all political parties have leaders (or a single leader), not all of them have General Secretaries, and even for those parties with both a leader and a General Secretary, the General Secretary is not necessarily the leader. Some of the people listed in the article's tables are leaders but not General Secretaries (for example, Sam Webb's title was actually Chairman); others are indeed General Secretaries but form part of a collective leadership. The tables are also split into "current" and "former" parties, which raises the question of where to put parties, like the CPUSA, which are extant but have abolished the position of leader and/or General Secretary.

I'm actually leaning towards removing the lists altogether. In addition to the problems raised above, the lists seem so broad in scope as to be unmaintainable. There have got to be hundreds—maybe thousands—of notable political parties with current or former General Secretaries (or "socialist" and "communist" Parties with current or former leaders). Listing all of them here would be impractical. Discussion? —Psychonaut (talk) 08:08, 4 December 2014 (UTC)