Talk:Centre Democrats (Netherlands)

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Intangible copy edited the article saying he has removed some weasel words. The most consistent word removed was "extreme right" the CD was an extreme right party if ever there was one in the Netherlands. See Lucardie "Extreme Partijen Doodgravers van de democratie?" in Holsteyn Democratie in Verval p.69 for instance. Extreme right is not a weasel word and the CD is extreme right. --C mon 07:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

"Extreme right" is a pretty vacuous term. What is the reference point for "extreme right"? Better is to describe the party on ideological lines, instead along empiricst political science lines. Intangible 00:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

If we not base our descriptions in an encyclopedia on empirical political science, what should we base it on? An intuition? A personal impression? Because some one feels that something is meaningless? This is an encyclopedia based on WP:NPOV, WP:CITE and WP:NOR, which upholds scientific standards, and does not allow our personal opinions about terms to remove them. -- C mon 08:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)