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==Shouldn't the title be italicized== ==Shouldn't the title be italicized==
should not the title be italicized, since the page is about a word. Other pages about words (see:You, Faggot (slang), I (pronoun), etc.) have their titles in italics, so shouldn't that be the case here as well? should not the title be italicized, since the page is about a word. Other pages about words (see:You, Faggot (slang), I (pronoun), etc.) have their titles in italics, so shouldn't that be the case here as well?


== Reliability of Sources == == Expanding the term's usage ==

I was purusing through the article and noticed a part that seemed odd. So I looked at the sourcing, Source 10, and the title stood out as a little odd. So I decided to go to the piece in question. It is an opinion piece that has anti-Chinese misinformation in its opening paragraph that then goes on to talk about China. While the piece does have some possible uses, are there not any sources that don't open with the equivalent of blowing their foot off? Or at least something that doesn't have such an extreme bias from out of the gate? ] (]) 07:48, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

:If you're talking about the Diplomat, it's considered reliable per ]. What is the misinformation in the opening paragraph? — ''']''' 08:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

== Unclear origin of usage ==

Under the Definition section it starts with the Prague Spring (1968), but under the Usage section it states the term comes from the UK when referring to the Soviet invasion of Hungary (1956). Should there be an addition in the beginning of the Definition section that starts with the definition from British politics, or is it that the term was popularized/its definition solidified in common lexicon after the Prague Spring? ] (]) 01:36, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


"''Tankie'' is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies" should perhaps include the denial of atrocities, repressions and other such things by tankies. ] (]) 13:36, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
== Neither the article nor the talk page clarifies the term ==


== Left communists are not "anti-authoritarian" ==
After reading both the article and the talk page, I had no idea what "tankie" meant. ] (]) 06:28, 2 September 2023 (UTC)


:"Tankie" means "leftist I personally disagree with," and nothing more. I've seen anarchists and liberals who don't immediately accept NED dispatches at face value smeared with the term. ] (]) 08:29, 7 November 2023 (UTC) They're listed under anti-auth communists who use the term tankie. Arguably only council communists among them can be broadly categorized as such. ] (]) 10:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

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Shouldn't the title be italicized

should not the title be italicized, since the page is about a word. Other pages about words (see:You, Faggot (slang), I (pronoun), etc.) have their titles in italics, so shouldn't that be the case here as well?

Expanding the term's usage

"Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies" should perhaps include the denial of atrocities, repressions and other such things by tankies. Some English Monarch IV (talk) 13:36, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Left communists are not "anti-authoritarian"

They're listed under anti-auth communists who use the term tankie. Arguably only council communists among them can be broadly categorized as such. Covertschreb (talk) 10:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

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