Talk:Hidden welfare state

Whoa, Gordian knot here
After taking 5 minutes to figure out what the first paragraph is trying to get at (I have a college education, but no economics background), I decided to reformat it to try to clarify the primary distinction between direct and tax-relief 'welfare'. The opening remains too long, dense and 'buzzwordy' and could greatly benefit from editing by someone with some compassion. Twang (talk) 05:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Template added today and later blanked.
I blanked the template recently added to this page because it seemed to me to be potentially highly contentious. There should be a good reason for adding this kind of template because there are already categories and related links as a way of getting further information.

I'd be grateful if editors would take a look at the template as it was before I delted it and also at the discussion I started at the template's talk page and provide some feedback.

I just have a sense that visuality of the template and some of the subcategories could have had a politically unbalanced presentation not in the spirit of Wikipedia. For instance the linking with articles about the negative side of the welfare state (fraud, dependency, etc.) without equal linking to articles on the positive side (alleviation of stress, social cohesion, etc.). Also some of the articles where the template was placed seem to me to have very little to do with the welfare state per se. --Hauskalainen (talk) 18:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)--Hauskalainen (talk) 18:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 10:06, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Hidden Welfare State → Hidden welfare state –

Downcased in many sources, including by the author himself. And here, although curiously once it's rendered as hidden Welfare State.

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  02:28, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. Common term, not a proper noun. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 19:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. WP:MOSCAPS and WP:TITLE. - chris_j_wood (talk) 13:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
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