Talk:Positive action

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"Positive liberty refers to having the power and resources to act"

It is commendable that people take positive action toward social equality for women, disabled and ethnic groups. That does not mean that positive action cannot be taken for commendable results in things not even related to that. What I am doing here is almost opposite to making people beleive that positive action is toward social equality for women, disabled and minority ethnics and yet it is a positive action. People need simple education but if you took the word "awareness" and made people beleive it meant teaching your kids to behave and nothing else it would be simple but it would not be good education. "Awareness" is a word with many similar meanings.

Here is a small group of references to "positive action" which are not styled on "Affirmative Action" at all. Hopefully, if someone just looks at a few, it might renew the awareness of what "positive action" is if nothing else.

  ~ R.T.G 08:16, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The article references are not even in English, and that fact shows some of the issue here. It totally enraged me, almost five years ago now, it is not our place here on Wikipedia to reduce a term of broad meaning to a single one unless there is no reasonable ambiguity.  Anything like that is just ridiculous.  I made a total clown of myself (on branched pages) trying to insult people who interfered with my editing of this subject, but their intention was not to improve the quality and depth of information on this topic.  It was to reduce the topic to a single item.  And that has happened.  And that has been sustained for half a decade now.  That is a shame.  Wikipedia is an honourable pursuit, but once you hold a thing to what you consider honourable, it becomes your opinion.  And once you know that, but continue to hold to your design, it becomes your personal little comfort blanket.  I am all for positive actions toward an equal society.  Hijacking the terminology of various other honourable pursuits in the favour of one will not, I promise you, it will not create that equality.  It will stick a plaster on the one and leave the others as open sores for our children and grandchildren to sit looking at and wondering, how in the heck did this get so bad?  And some of them will think, it must have been because of a major event, so we will make a major event out of fixing it, and the circle will complete, and the little things will continue to be ignored though they can, could, and should mean so much, because that is what equality is, duh.  I've come back regularly to see over the years.  Nobody is even interested.  Look at the article.  The lack of interest is infinitely more voluminous.  Almost all of the links above are still active.  If anyone ever tries to fix it, drop me a line on my talk page, if I am around I will try to support you.  This should be a lengthy article about a topic with a history, not a footnote, about an echo, of the title, of a policy, in another place.  It is not about the merit of that policy, in that other place.  ~  R . T . G  11:47, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Choosing what to link to
The point of a disambiguation page is not to link to all articles that might conceivably be related to the title. Per WP:DAB, "Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might use the "Go button", there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead," and admonishes us to "only include related subject articles if the term in question is actually described on the target article." I don't see how this applies to any of the terms listed on the DAB page, except for "Positive Action" (the name of a group which is identical to the title of this article), "Positive Action Group" (the name of a group which includes the title of this article), and "Affirmative action" (the name used in the US for various policies, some of which are referred to as "Positive action" in the UK). As far as I am aware, Gravitropism and Lynchet are never called "positive action," and the term is not used on those pages; the same goes for the other articles. So, I'm removing all but these entries from the page, and would ask editors who add further entries to explain here how those entries fit the criteria specified at WP:DAB.VoluntarySlave (talk) 02:17, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Further to above, I think it makes more sense on a "Positive action" DAB for "Positive action" to be the article linked to in the context of social equality, rather than "Affirmative Action". Ziggysdaydream (talk) 20:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)