Talk:Posadas Hospital Trial

Chronology
As a reader, I tend to get confused and frustrated by articles written like this that appear to be a direct translations from the article written in another Wikipedia language, including the layout and structure. If I wanted that, I might as well go read the article in another language using a machine translation. Well, I don't, hence I am dissatisfied by this article but initially struggled to say exactly why. The main issue I have is with the causality expressed in the article. Many Wikipedia articles progress from earliest events first to later events last. It is a general rule in biographies that events are ordered from birth to death, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. In other articles about events there is usually a background section early in the article that provides a background context for the events the article is about. Other articles are similar, often providing a history of the topic in question. Currently, this article does not do that. It immediately launches into the trial hearings, without explaining the historical situation or even providing a summary of facts of what the trial is about. I don't know if this is merely a fault with the article being translated or whether something has been lost in translation because Spanish or Argentine Wikipedia culture have a different concept of time that focuses on the effects rather than the causes, so write their chronology from latest to earliest. Articles that are translations should convey the concepts of the translated article in terms that readers can understand. This may mean that a better translation is not an exact translation, but one that follows the English Wikipedia guidelines better. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 22:28, 5 April 2024 (UTC)