Talk:Voltaire Network
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Réseau Voltaire is the french name. Please change as Voltaire Network.
- No reason to translate the name. It is the name of an organisation. Rama 20:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
- Yes it has been translated. You're very backwards. 112.210.67.91 (talk) 23:41, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
npov tag
i added an npov tag because this article seems to greatly distort the reality of this organization. i don't really know what the truth behind this org is, but it seems pretty clear to me that it's quite fringy. this isn't reflected much at all in the text, except for the reference to their conspiracy-theory claims regarding 9/11. if you look at something like [[1]] you can obviously see their fringy nature, e.g. the very first sentence "Freedom House, a propaganda machine created by Roosevelt to prepare the US public opinion for war ..." and bizarre footnotes like "[9] Paul Wolfowitz himself is a Trotskyite". (i would guess from this footnote that voltaire network is communist since no one else goes around accusing people of being "trotskyites", but i really have no idea.) Benwing 07:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- No, in fact they are somehow loosely related to Larouche.
- You win the Understatement of the Day Award for "quite fringy". :) Rama 14:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, the neocon-Trotskyite connection is quite real. Many Trotskyites became neoconservatives later on in life, for example Christopher Hitchens. Coconuteire 00:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- It is more complex than that. The Voltaire Network has changed a lot since its creation, as, for that matter, Thierry Meyssan, who now frequents far-right movements. But the Voltaire Network was originally an anti-fascist, republican organization, which had nothing fringy. Tazmaniacs
- The Voltaire Network is quite fringe. (At the moment, I don't know how it used to be) In fact, whenever I have seen it mentioned in mainstream French media, it was said to be completely discredited. I don't have any citations at the moment. I will try to modify the article at some point in time to reflect that. I think it's a probleme to make it sound like a reasonable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.192.231 (talk) 06:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- Fringe is just a word when people don't realize where these anti-semitic theories promoted by Iran might come from: the department of disinformation at the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (Iran)Redhanker (talk) 04:10, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- After a brief perusal of their website, nutty as a fruitcake comes to mind....but that's just this person's POV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.16 (talk) 11:58, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
No of languages
available in eight languages (French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Italian) -- I am counting seven there. :-) Krankman 22:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Alright, found the 8th one, fixed it. Krankman 22:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
If I am going to the website I can see a german version but no polish. Do I missing something or is the infromation just wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.68.13.233 (talk) 19:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Self promotion - Voltaire Network#Notoriety
This section is independently uncited and as such asserts no notability apart from self promotion links to a couple of its own articles - "in March we wrote in our publication"... sort of content. - are there independent wikipedia reliable citations to support any of these claims to be notable? Off2riorob (talk) 15:38, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
External links modified
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- Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060114184432/http://www.voltairenet.org:80/article16806.html to http://www.voltairenet.org/article16806.html
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Conspirationist news network
When I read this article, I don't see anything about the conspirationist nature of 'Réseau Voltaire', which is a fact widely known in France. This is highly problematic, as unknowing readers of Wikipedia will believe it's only some 'alternative media'. --Minorities observer (talk) 09:37, 13 January 2017 (UTC)