Talk:Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope

Citations and POV slant
Page had citation links to commercial websites - removed. Improved citations with links to Prof. Lodge Book, Double checked Cape Parliament minutes, Harding, Theale and even Eybers - nothing about inflation...- did a search on google, only this wikipedia page came up :) - anyway: added reqd citations to Inflation fiction and the rest of the slanted POV. Did not add neutrality tags to header or start RfC, seems the POV will be from singular editor? Did add citation tags to header. Will try to find time to add required citations to improve this page if nobody else does so before me. Zarpboer (talk) 07:52, 24 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Your points on the citations are good so I'll leave most of your tags there. My problem is that I needed to write the article using only a few books that I only had in hard-copy (those by Lewsen, Harrington, Molteno and McCracken). No good online information existed and I did not know how to do multiple citations to different pages of the same book, in teh same article. That's my ineptitude with the wikipedia platform; HOWEVER, the subject matter is a different question entirely. The article's written to strike a balance between the extreme airy idealism expressed by some of the early cape governments (with an explicit non-racialism that was very unusual for that era) and the messy oppressive descent into restriction, Union and Apartheid that followed. Trying to tilt the article so as to obscure one or the other side would constitute the slanted POV that you refer to, so please don't remove either. You made a good point about inflation - the actual sentiment expressed was that an increase in absolute income in the general population would render the qualification meaningless in the long term. The word "inflation" does mean the same thing, but is misleading, so I removed it. Abu Shawka (talk) 14:20, 7 October 2014 (UTC)