User talk:LaGringaSPS

Hi - I just read your message on my talk page. My advice to you is to go ahead and correct any basic factual errors (such as where Juan Pablo II Boulevard is located, which is hardly an ideologically contested issue...it's just a mistaken statement). The "Wikibattle" about whether it's a coup or not has been fought ever since the initial events of the crisis, so going in and saying you disagree that it's a coup will probably not help matters, as the same battle will just reoccur, and end as the others have ended.

I've been trying not to focus on the "is it or isn't it a coup" argument and instead have focused my efforts on showing that Mel Zelaya's actions could reasonably be considered unconstitutional in their own right. (I concede that the Micheletti government has done several unconstitutional things of their own in this crisis, I'm just doubtful that Zelaya can be let off the hook for what he's done, which it seems to me clearly violated Honduran law.)

Another bit of advice - though this makes little sense, most actual Honduran sources are disregarded by a group of editors on the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis page because they are assumed to be either in the hip pocket of Micheletti or heavily censored (without evidence seeming to be necessary to establish this). I have little doubt that those same editors, if they found a pro-Zelaya Honduran newspaper, would immediately cite anything from that source, but even the mildest criticism of Zelaya indicates that a newspaper is "in with the coup plotters". My suggestion is to focus on sources outside of Honduras to make your point, as they will be trusted more by the editors working on this page. That's unfair to Hondurans, to be sure, but if you want to establish your point, probably that's what you'll have to do.

Hope this helps.

As far as editing the page, the process is the same as you just used to edit my talk page. Let me know if you have any difficulties, but you should be able to do to any Wikipedia page what you did to edit my page.Zachary Klaas (talk) 03:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)