Talk:Transformismo

This article seems to be about two different subjects. I'm not sure how it could be spilt up. --Brad101 22:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. There is too much here that it about the general socio-economic regional problems facing post-unification Italy, (which ought to be a separate article: perhaps there is one?), and not enough about how trasformismo operated a. Also, it seems to have an excessively moralistic tone. That’s understandable, from what little I have read of the depressing politics of the period, but not quite what is wanted in an encyclopaedia. —Ian Spackman 07:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The article you're looking for is History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars. --Alvestrand 06:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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I was about to suggest moving this to Trasformismo, as being a preferred spelling. But I see we already have an article there. I’ve suggested merging into that. —Ian Spackman 07:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Since neither article cites sources, I'm hesitant until I can get an authority on how to spell it. The ever-popular "google test" gives 137K for "trasformismo" and 101K for "transformismo". But our dear competitor EB seems to want "trasformismo" . --Alvestrand 05:58, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Trasformismo is certainly the correct form in Italian: in addition to EB, see any Italian dictionary (Collins-Sansoni Italian-English is the one I just checked), or the article on the Italian Wikipedia it:Trasformismo. (it:Transformismo doesn’t exist, even as a redirect from a mis-spelling.) I would guess that a lot of the google hits for transformismo are pages in Spanish: there’s an article at es:transformismo which seems to be about drag-queens. An alternative would be to use the translation Transformism, as does Denis Mack Smith in his Modern Italy: A political history. However, for an encyclopedia article title I feel that Trasformismo is preferable (even though we generally prefer English) as the term is commonly used in English writing on Italian politics and we would probably have to dismbiguate an English title to something like Transformism (Italian politics). —Ian Spackman 14:03, 15 November 2006 (UTC)