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:I'm putting the dead link checker at the top of the page, as it may be needed often: ] (]) 17:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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==Planned article revert==
Consensus has developed on the ] that the article should be reverted to one of these versions:


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*Featured version, (42 KB readable prose)
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Please discuss and develop consensus here for which of the two versions is the best revert target. ] (]) 17:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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*'''Several questions/clarifications:''' you state ''"consensus has developed"'' ... exactly how was that was achieved, how many people were consulted, and when/where did it take place? I am aware of the fact that 3-4 people ''(1 overtly bias and one who arose out of nowhere)'' had mentioned that they felt the article had contained POV issues, but that was before Matisse and Polaris did extensive cleaning up. Has the article been examined recently? Also under what/whose authority has it been decided that a revert will be the course of action? ] (] TR 19:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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:*Have you read the FAR page linked above? Your questions are answered there. As of now, you are the only editor opposing a revert. ] (]) 20:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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My preference would be for the earlier March 10 version because it is 10 kbs shorter and the writing cleaner. I think the POV has started to set in by the June 19 version. That version ends with the view of Che Guevara as "Jim Morrison with an assault rifle." This is the sort of statement I feel does not belong in the main article, as it represents a narrow global view and is culturally bound to a certain political view and even a particular age group. ] 17:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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:I'll accept either of the two versions, but agree that the brevity of the earlier version provides the cleanest starting place. ] (]) 20:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

:I agree as well.--] (]) 02:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

===Steps to restore===
Several questions were raised on the featured article review. No, reverting doesn't affect the talk page, and no, a sandbox version of the original featured version isn't needed (it's in the article history). Someone may want to save a sandbox version of the , so that anything you later want to retrieve from it can easily be found. I offer to do the initial steps in the revert, including an {{t1|inuse}} tag as needed until I'm finished, once the version is decided. Steps to restoring will include:

*1. Revert to the chosen version. (I offer to complete all of the steps in 1)
**1a. Reinstate infobox from current version
**1b. Reinstate from current version categories, interwikis, nav templates at the bottom of the page, persondata; in short, everything in the current bottom of the article from {{t1|Che Guevara}} down.
**1c. Reinstate sister links from current version
**1d. Review for current ] standards, add ISBNs, do basic ref formatting cleanup to a consistent ref style (thru 1c will take me a few minutes once I start; 1d could take me a full day)
*2. '''Before''' any other changes are made:
**2a. Recheck all hatnote template links at tops of sections
***This step includes making sure any new daughter articles (created since the featured version) are linked somewhere in the article; perhaps begin now to make a list of daughter articles?
**2b. Verify that all external links in sources are still live, some may need to be retrieved from the internet archive (www.archive.org) or from the current version. Restore and update all dead links:
**2c. Verify that all wikilinks are still accurate (this will be time consuming, regular editors may want to divide up the work and go through each section, checking on old links that may have changed or new articles that may have been added and need to be linked). Be aware of ] and ]ing.
*3. Once it is determined that the article is completely restored, further work needed before content changes begin:
**3a. Scan the article and identify any outdated info, such as anything beginning with "as of".
**3b. Review for citations needed
***Note: Zleitzen's version (rightly) used scholarly sources that may not be available online.
**3c. Decide which images to bring forward from current version
*4. Begin content revisions
**4a. Review for POV
**4b. Discourage addition of any new cruft that isn't specifically justified, for example, per ] or content that is already included or should be included in daughter articles.
**4c. Update as needed.
**4d. Review again for current ] standards

I believe those are the steps; please indicate anything I've missed so I can add it in. I also suggest allowing a few days to be certain consensus has formed before beginning this work. Discussion of the article should be on the article talk page; as the FAR moves along, others will be reading that page, and it isn't helpful to fill it up with unnecessary chatter and detail that can be dealt with on the article talk page. The FAR page should be used for determining whether the article meets or not featured standards. ] (]) 17:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

: I don't have much time to help, but I just had a glance at this; it looks reasonable. Should we make a workspace page for sorting out problematic links, or should we just plan on fixing them in place? I would think a workspace page would be useful, because it would allow a complete list of all the links that had issues and then make it clear what has been done about each of them. - ] | ] 20:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
::Welcome to you! If you think a workspace page would be useful, then that is fine with me. I have never been involved in such a major project as this revert, so any advice/help from you is welcome. Polaris999 will be very happy. Your method sounds like a good way of organizing this. ] 21:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

::Hello Jmabel -- It is great to see you here!! -- ] (]) 22:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

:::For the record, I have been involved in several undertakings of this nature (the most difficult, ] remains featured and is a fine article). In one case, because a revert to a much older version was done without advance notice, without cooperation, and without a plan, the article ended up defeatured. If everyone isn't on board, the endeavour will not likely succeed and is not worth attempting. Unless there is concurrence, the article should just remain tagged and be defeatured. Civility and cooperation over the very long haul are key. ] (]) 21:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


== Views in Argentina ==
*Are we settled over who will do what? As I understand it, ] will do Step 1 tomorrow (Thursday). After Sandy is done, ] will handle template problems and such, while ] will have the list of the links on a workpage and check them. I am willing to do the hatnote links. I can check the wikilinks. Then, at Step 3 I believe we should reconnoiter and gain consensus before deciding on images, quality of replacement sources, etc. Is this to your understanding, Sandy? ] 13:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
:* Sounds good. I'm busy most of today (Wednesday), intend to do all of Step 1 tomorrow (Thursday) unless consensus changes, and btw I have jury duty beginning (and hopefully ending) on Friday. I'll leave most of the rest to all of you, and weigh in as needed, mostly watching that MoS is followed, refs are clean, consensus is respeced, and so on. ] (]) 15:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


I travelled extensively in Argentina and the views on Guevara were unanimous; he is rarely mentioned there and is certainly not a source of pride. Many I met described him as a "psychopath" who enjoyed killing people. He apparently told his father that he "enjoyed the smell of cordite and blood" after he had shot someone through the head.
==Work on article==
Not sure if this is worth extra exploration. ] (]) 17:03, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
It seems to me that Step two is fairly uncontroversial and any problems can be brought to the talk page. I am certainly willing to list hatnotes and check wikilinks. I know some of the external links to sources are dead. Polaris999 probably has the off line sources Zleitzen had (I'm guessing), and he probably is best for replacing dead reference links. Also, searches of standard sources such as BBC News will probably due for standard biographical stuff. Polaris999 and I are adamant that only sources meeting ] and ] be used. We can discuss any problems on the talk page. Polaris999 has said he will do the template stuff. As far as citation style, I am used to ] but will use what ever is preferred for the article.


:It definitely isn't, I for one know plenty of Argentinians that are in awe of Guevara. Hearsay is not worth being mentioned on Misplaced Pages. ] (]) 12:45, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
At step three, we will discuss issues of image and vet all citations on the talk page.
::Che was a psychopath who enjoyed killing people. He was also a homophobic and racist who hated black people. This is not hearsay. He publicly executed innocent Cubans by gunshot in front of many witnesses as a warning to anyone who tried to oppose their new government. ] (]) 11:55, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
At step four, of course, we will have to discuss. My view is that Guevara had been dead for over 50 years. Overly detailed descriptions, controversies, and legacy issues can take place in daughter articles. Much of the controversy now about Che has little to do with him as a person, in my opinion, and more with our collective state of mind today. My view is that if we cannot settle on a consensus regarding wording, then leave whatever it is out.
<s>Striking out material from block evader.</s> ] (]) 00:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Grandpallama}} Although I agree that the heresay is irrelevant to our article, I looked at the IP and saw no evidence of block evasion. Is there a link that shows it? If so, it would be helpful if that is mentioned on the IP's talk page in case that editor continues making edits. --] (]) 00:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
::], the editor is unlikely to show up with this particular IP again, as it's not static. That said, it's been pointed out to me that the age of the edit is such that I'm probably causing confusion more than helping (which makes sense); I only noticed today that he'd become active again for a while last year and was clearly overzealous ]. I've reverted my strikethrough. ] (]) 06:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
:::Okay. --] (]) 06:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)


== Che was a mass murderer ==
Hopefully, by concentrating on the task at hand we will quickly develop a good working group so that POV issues can be rationally discussed, allowing for differing view to arrive at compromises. ] 19:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
: I hope there will be an attempt to avoid citing the popular press (BBC for example) when better scholarly or academic sources are available. Also, the featured version did ''not'' use cite templates, I personally hate them since they chunk up the article size and loadtime so badly, and if you intend to use them, you'll have to switch over all of the existing citations, which would be very time consuming. Since ] says not to mix citation styles, and not to switch the original style used (specifically, not to switch to cite templates), I highly recommend sticking to the citation method established by Zleitzen. ] guidelines dictate the same, unless there is consensus to change. ] (]) 20:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
::As I said above, I will use whatever others are using for reference formatting. As far as sources, I only have a few books on Cuba, and none specifically on Che Guevara. I will have to count on Polaris999 then. ] 20:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
:::I myself have almost every book on Che Guevara in print (20 +) and will be willing to look up issues in the ones I have. Also Matisse how much have you ever read or researched about Che Guevara? I ask because I would contend that context and point of view can only truly be judged with an in depth understanding of the subject matter, and would encourage everyone interested in formulating the new article, to first independently research the man in question. It could only enhance the final product. ] (] TR 21:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
::::Actually, upon looking at the references in the version of March 10, I have all the print books Zleitzen uses. ] 16:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
::::: Looking at the , I see some Geocities (personal, non-reliable sources) that will need to be replaced, so maybe you all can begin to look at those now. Also, I'll be putting a simpler and easier footnote style in place. It's not necessary to repeat all of the information on each book source in every footnote when the book date is already listed in References. That method just chunks up the text and makes it harder to edit. So, I will change (for example):
:::::* Anderson, Jon Lee. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, New York: 1997, Grove Press, p. 3
::::: to
:::::* Anderson (1997), p. 3
::::: Cleaner, simpler, easier. I'll do all of that sort of work while I have the article in use tomorrow. ] (]) 16:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


Please add that Che Guevara was a mass murderer in the first sentence of this article. He should be put in the same category as Hitler. the sentence should read as follows:
===Cite.php===
Actually, it was Jmabel and I who introduced the ] system into the CG article. At that time, "Che Guevara's Involvement in the Cuban Revolution" already existed as a separate entity and I did not convert its footnotes. Later when Zleitzen started working on it and expressed frustration about the deplorable state of its footnotes, rather than converting them all manually as I had done in the main CG article, I ran User:Cyde/Ref converter on them, with very satisfactory results. That discussion, and the results of running the converter can be seen . If others are in agreement, I would favor using User:Cyde/Ref converter on whatever footnotes may need to be translated into ] style as a "first pass"; we can then refine the output as necessary. Mattisse, re finding needed citations in books I own, I will certainly be glad to do so, and am pleased to see that Redthoreau also has volunteered. -- ] (]) 22:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


was an Argentine ] Mass Murderer, physician, author, ] leader, diplomat, and ]. ] (]) 04:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
:Hey! I did the same thing for Zleitzen when we were working on the ] article! ] 23:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
::Only I did it by hand -- that was the olden days. Maybe you will shown me your automated way. ] 23:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
:::That's funny! Certainly I will show you. You might start by reading the link under "here" above. Actually, there is not much more to it than that ... -- ] (]) 00:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
::::There is no "here" under "here". Did you mean to leave a link there? ] 00:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
::::: ] (]) 00:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
:::::: And now that I've read that link, I believe Polaris is confused. The CG article already uses the cite.php system, and there is nothing to be converted. No wonder his info confused me, as I also used cyde in the olden days, but we are beyond that. This article does use cite.php, and it already has ref tags. What it doesn't use is cite templates (]), which is a method for formatting citations within the ref tags. I STRONGLY oppose switching styles (unless you all override me) because the cite templates chunk up the text, making it hard to copyedit and hard to read. Please and look at it in edit mode to see the refs it already has; there is no reason to waste time changing them to a clunky citation method. I'll wait til you all catch up to undo the changes I did in the steps above. Having to manually convert perfectly good citations to horrid cite templates will be a huge waste of time, IMO. I can clean up the ref formatting as part of step one, and we can continue with the same citation style used by Zleitzen, which is already in cite.php format. ] (]) 00:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


:When was he convicted of being a mass murderer? ] (]) 05:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
:::::Yes, the Converter says all the footnotes are in the ] style, so no need to do anything except update them as a first step, I guess? Or provide better sources when available? -- ] (]) 00:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
::in Cuba he lined up innocent people against a wall “pared” and executed them without a trial for the public to witness. My Cuban family witnessed these executions and knew people who disappeared. He forced at gunpoint the removal of families from their homes. The only way to enforce socialism is to take away everything the people own by execution and physical violence. No one will willingly give the government their possessions. What I stated are facts. ] (]) 11:51, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
:::Then it shouldn't be hard for you to provide some reliable sources here. Facts aren't hard to find in reliable sources. ] (]) 12:48, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
::::Lots of sources exist, but they're very easy for you to ignore. ] (]) 01:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::If you have sources, ]. ] (]) 00:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::Alvaro Vargas LLosa, ''The Killing Machine; Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand" (Independent Insitiute:July 11, 2005, https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1535)
::::::Guillermina Stutter Schneider. "Che Was a Racist, Homophobe, and Mass Murderer" (Human Progress: December 15, 2017, https://humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/)
::::::Troy J. Sacquety, "Che Guevara: A False Idol for Revolutionaries" (U.S Army Special Forces Command History Office: 2008, https://arsof-history.org/articles/v4n4_false_idol_page_1.html#fn:2)
::::::These three sources support the idea that Che was ruthless, brutal, and guilty of more than enough human rights violations to earn multiple in-depth paragraphs for this article.
::::::] (]) 23:39, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::Your first source is an opinion piece with no citations filled with misleading information. For example, it paints it as if Che was a supporter of the Soviets up until later in his life when in reality, he opposed Castro relying on the Soviets and actively spoke out against him on the matter viewing it as hardly any better than relying on America. The "innocent" people listed that Che killed were people who committed blatant offenses and were very clearly guilty of crimes punishable by death in any army such as Eutimio Guerra who it frames as Che only suspecting his guilt when in reality there was a trial where asked Che to shoot him quickly because he knew he was guilty of betraying them and causing the death of their fellow soldiers and they found an army safe conduct pass with his name on it on his person. It also frames it as if he is responsible for the UMAPs that went in place after he left the country just because he was in charge of a camp that had the primary purpose of being an alternative for soldiers instead of being discharged from the military for misconduct. Not to mention the article is written by a man who is heavily biased by being a staunch libertarian opposed to leftism and is a member of the Independant Institute a conservative think tank making him as biased against Che as possible explaining the lean toward misleading claims.
:::::::Your second source is the most infamous terrible source on the subject that gets frequently cited itself because it makes so many unique claims with no basis that others use it as the basis on top of being only a couple paragraphs long and having no real substance. The author is a member of the Fraser Institute yet another conservative think tank on an opinion piece with no sources making it also absurdly biased and the furthest thing from a reliable source though I'll still play ball and explain the misleading claims to show you just why this is infamous for being the most misinformation filled source out there. For starters I find it especially laughable how you see nothing suspicious about the fact one of the quotes in this second source is attributed to Alvaro Vargas Llosa the author of your first source so you can barely even come up with three sources that don't cite each other on top of the heavy bias present in him already. In regard to him being homophobic he wrote practically nothing on the topic and the only thing he did write in regard to calling a gay man a sexual pervert was in saying that a guy he knew was getting beat up which upset him because despite him being a sexual pervert he liked him. You definitely could say that is homophobic but with that being the extent of what he wrote about the subject it is pretty below average for the attitude at the time. In regard to him sending homosexuals to concentration camps this is outright misinformation because the UMAPs that did this did so when he was literally not in the country any more and held zero power there with the only camp he was in charge of as said earlier being for soldiers as an alternative to being discharged and not a prison civilians were sent to. On top of that the quote "work will make you men" is entirely fabricated and was never used by Che or in Cuba at all. As for him being racist he had a single racist remark he made when he was young after living a sheltered life in Argentina which he then did a complete 180 on after meeting black people and traveling the world to the point he actively spoke out against oppression toward black people in all places and literally went with a band of Afro-Cubans to fight a revolution in the Congo. I don't know about you but most people who are racist don't risk their lives to fight alongside that group of people so it doesn't make much sense to condemn him for beliefs he held when he was young that he then changed entirely and acted to fight oppression against said group. For the claim he was a mass murderer it also falls apart once you realize the people he killed during the revolution were traitors in his own army and enemy combatants while the people after the revolution were members of the Batista regime who killed and tortured his soldiers as well as civilians. The tribunal he was in charge of after the revolution he also never chose the sentence for or committed the executions himself and there were trials still so it wasn't much different than other similar post war trials punishing war criminals such as the Nuremberg trials.
:::::::Your third source yet again is laughably biased to an absurd degree this time with the author formerly working for the literal CIA though I truly must commend you for bothering to give a source with citations this time. It is pretty laughable how the Cubans are framed as savage for defending themselves against the US backed Bay of Pigs invasion and how Che is framed as arrogant for mocking the US over it as well as the US for general imperialism and oppression. Though as a whole I must admit this third source isn't half bad as while it shows its bias very clearly it at the very least doesn't make wildly misleading/misinformative claims. It also doesn't really do much to show how supposedly evil Che is either though beyond the general implication that the practices used to fight a revolution should be condemned inherently as if George Washinton isn't held up as a hero despite being a similar figure while Che is condemned. I do concede though while pretty biased and not doing much to confirm your points it is pretty solid as far as providing information that is backed up with sources.
:::::::So as a whole you have largely just showcased a general lack of ability to do real research with your first two sources being the epitome of unreliable sources and your third not really showcasing what you claim that much to begin with. While you didn't make any claims as absurd as the original person who made this topic claiming Che is in the same category as Hitler your assertion that there is a need for multiple paragraphs about him supposedly being a mass murderer don't have much grounding any more than it would make sense to include in any general's page. To reiterate from before the vast majority of people he killed were those who were demonstrably either deserters/traitors within his own army or enemy combatants who had killed and torture his own men and civilians hardly making any of his killings constitute as murder by any definition. You can believe his use of force was excessive but at the end of the day it is not the place of a Misplaced Pages page to offer our opinions on the matter it is a place to state what occurred and consensus about it without bias which is done on this page. Personally I find him to be a great revolutionary and admire his anti-imperialism while disagreeing with him that socialism is the way forward and can see the clear proof he was terrible at running the economy in an administrative position. There have been a great many pushes by the far right to spread misinformation about him and at the end of the day I oppose misinformation more than anything and believe we should strive to avoid it especially when making changes to Misplaced Pages pages which are often one of the first places people go for information. There is already a good chunk of the article giving the opinions of conservative think tanks from individuals such as Alvaro Vargas Llosa so there is no real need to give these beliefs any special attention when they are already mentioned. If anything it would make more sense to include a section about how misinformation has been widely spread about him though even I admit that is a stretch as that would fit better on the legacy of Che Guevara page than here which is more focused on what he did than his legacy which gets its own page. Misplaced Pages is a place to display the truth in a way as close to unbiased as possible not a place to give our opinions on the nuance of revolutions so I really do urge you to learn to be more skeptical of sources rather than looking explicitly for ones that affirm your already held beliefs. ] (]) 09:22, 12 January 2025 (UTC)


== Semantic Error ==
:::::: Right. Some of the ref formatting in the featured version is inconsistent although complete. During Step 1, I will do the basic kind of ref cleanup I always do, leaving one bibliographic style in place that we can then follow throughout. (Things like, journal names are italicized, newspaper title are in quotes, all authors with last name first, and so on.) ] (]) 00:49, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


<ref></ref>{{Edit semi-protected|Che Guevara|answered=yes}}
:::::::Great. I will wait for you to assign me a specific task. -- ] (]) 06:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Please change "Cause of death Execution by shooting" to
"Cause of death Elimination by shooting"


Che Guevara's capture and immediate execution without a legal trial would be more accurately described as an extrajudicial killing which is considered a form of murder. This differs from a lawful execution which typically involves a formal trial. ] (]) 05:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
::ugh, OK, I will add that step in the list above, which will be a factor that will slow things down. Polaris, are you going to handle that with Cyde? I'll add it in above, and then we'll have to check that all is in order before moving forward. That will change the order of things above. ] (]) 23:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
:{{done}}<!-- Template:ESp --> I replaced it with ] (per what's covered in the article's body). ] (]) 15:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
::Can you also take care of the "Battles/wars" section, where he was labeled to be executed after a conviction. ] (]) 10:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)


== Interview with Tucker Carlson - Ex-CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez on Che Guevara death ==
:::Don't worry, it won't slow anything down -- I can do it myself and it will take about 30 seconds! -- ] (]) 23:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Ex-CIA Agent on Capturing Che Guevara, Who Truly Killed JFK, and Election Predictions
::::Ok. I added that step in above, but we should make sure everything checks out before moving forward from there. That means I'll have to do basic ref cleanup and ISBN additions after you convert. ] (]) 00:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwohQJrJeo8&ab_channel=TuckerCarlson
==Problems with March 10th version to address==
If there is a tidal wave to revert then I may not be able to stop it, and thus will accept it. However from reading the March 10th version I noticed some glaring issues that would have to be addressed, I believe in the new article, (Which I would want to be a part of crafting)


] was executed in 1967 in a remote Bolivian village. One of the last people to speak to him alive was CIA officer ]. Here’s his story.
'''Problems with March 10th version that must be addressed ...'''


Felix Rodriguez worked for the CIA until 1976.
- ''“Revolutionary, politician, and Cuban guerrilla leader.”'' – no mention of him being an author ? He wrote more books during his lifetime than most authors. Also no mention of his contributions as a military tactician or social theorist ? His ideas involve philosophy just as much, if not more, than military theory.


] (]) 16:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- ''“Arbenz’s Social Revolution”'' ? Huh ? That is about the worst way to describe the systematic changes that Arbenz was attempting to implement.


:That's not a reliable source. ] (]) 16:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- ''“Guevara Died at the hands of the Bolivian army”'' ... what kind of wording is that ? Were they cradling his head as he passed away from old age ?
::It is his own testimony!!! ] (]) 16:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
:::That's not how ] works. ] (]) 16:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
::::Edit conflict, "please provide the acronym that supports your logic". LOL. ] (]) 17:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
::::Specifically see points 1 and 2:
::::{{tq|1. The material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim 2. It does not involve claims about third parties;}} ] (]) 17:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
::::::Wow, you know how to make pretty colored text. I am impressed. LOL. Thanks for making my day, ] LOL. ] (]) 17:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


;South Park: Officer Barbrady - There's nothing to see here.
- Inclusion of the fact that Che ''“pawned jewelry”'' when money was tight ? How is this relevant and significant ? Especially when other minute details are considered “overbearing”.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s&ab_channel=MiamiBadBoyBOSS
- ''“Guevara met Fidel”'' – sounds like they attended the same soccer game and bumped into each other. Raul (Castro’s brother and current Cuban President introduced Che to Fidel)


] (]) 18:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- 4 lines on Che’s role in the Play ''“Evita”'' ? There should be 0.


== Lies & propaganda surrounding Che. ==
- The entire criticism section is for lack of a better word ''“crap”'' and certain non credible parts would have to be removed to another article. Also what is with the shout out to Chemart.com ? Are we going to also link the article to Che-lives.com as well and offer discounts on T-shirts? This particular criticism section does not belong in the new article whatsoever and if people desire it, it should be a sister article. Also citing Álvaro Vargas Llosa makes the article laughable. He is a self-identified partisan hack.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/che-guevara-executing-women/
'''With that said''' ... I believe that the March 10th version could be morphed into a good article with the work of several people. I myself would want to take part in the process as I consider my knowledge on the issue considerable, and I have the desire to put in the effort and will cede final decisions on my contributions to Polaris ... whose judgment and objectivity I trust. ] (] TR 21:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


Example number 1: The link listed above where the accusation of him “Killing 2 woman” came out including him being accused of being a mass murderer (which is false, the people executed weren't innocent and were those working with Batista, war criminals etc.
:Red, if the revert is decided upon, will you agree to follow the steps above? That is, will you wait for steps 1 to 3 to be completed before beginning content revisions? If not, the job will be very complicated; everyone will just get in each other's way if content changes begin before the article is fully restored. And no, criticism can't be removed, as that violates POV forking at ] and ]. Will you agree to proceed in an orderly manner so the article can be restored before it is changed? This could take, perhaps (not sure) a few days to at most a week. ] (]) 21:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
:: '''Response''' I understand that a section on Criticism is ‘par for the course’, but not that particular laughable one. Filled with innuendo, hyperbole, unfounded accusation, and product placement. Also the size should be kept to a reasonable length and should not be any longer than any of the other article sections. -------- Moreover, if the revision is decided upon, I would agree to wait the week or so for the article to be ready for edits. Also I would insist that the images in the present article that meet Misplaced Pages standards remain included, along with the post prose book/film references etc – which I believe are much more complete than the March 10 version. Also on matters where people believe I am inserting POV, I will cede to the judgment of Polaris. ] (] TR 21:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
:::It is unlikely that ''all'' of your demands will be met, as almost everyone else disagrees, but each item can be discussed in due course, recognizing consensus. The central question is if you are willing to proceed according to consensus and let the restore work happen before work begins on the items you mention so that we don't get crossed up before the article is restored. ] (]) 21:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
::::I am willing to compromise, cede my wishes when showed actual wiki policy which contradicts it, trust the objectivity evaluation of Polaris, and yes will wait the week or so, for the article to be restored to a state that can be edited. ] (] ] (]) 21:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


Example number 2: The accusation that he was responsible for the UMAP camps/Imprisonment of homosexuals.
::::: I'm glad to hear that, Red. Mattisse just left (today) FAR notifications at all relevant WikiProjects, so I suggest we wait a bit more for consensus to develop. In the meantime, people might want to begin reviewing ahead on the steps, to see what they can work on in Step 2, once I complete Step 1. ] (]) 21:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
in 1965 Che resigned his position as minister of industries and went to the Congo. He wasn't in Cuba during the operations of the camps and nor was he involved, Castro later took accountability for these camps stating how he failed the LGBT community in Cuba. ] (]) 16:40, 9 November 2024 (UTC)


:There is an extra special need to be wary of propaganda surrounding Che as the scope of it by far right think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Independant Institute, and the Fraser Institute in particular. The most commonly spread misinformative article is "Che Was a Racist, Homophobe and Mass Murderer" by someone from the aforementioned Fraser Institute which is responsible for the claim Che sent homosexuals to UMAPs which wasn't physically possible as well as accusing him of being homophobic in general when his only writing about homosexuality was saying someone he called a gay man a sexual pervert and said he still liked him anyway which is hardly enough to be any more of a homophobe than anyone else at the time and there is no instances of him punishing anyone for it. It also spreads the claim he is racist for one remark he made when he was young ignoring the fact that occurred when he grew up in a rich sheltered home and he flipped his views entirely once he explored the world and became a staunch defender of the rights of black people to the point he left Cuba with a band of Afro-Cubans to fight a revolution in the Congo. This article's misinformation is so widespread it gets cited by other articles to claim he was racist and sent homosexuals to concentration camps ignoring the fact these claims are made on an opinion piece by a biased source with not much to actually support them.
::::::Hello Redthoreau -- Thank you very much for your vote of confidence which I truly appreciate, but I had already opted out of POV matters via the following message on the FAR page, i.e.:
:Another prominent figure spreading misinformation is Alvaro Vargas Llosa who while not as egregious as the Fraser Institue works with the Independant Institute to spread misleading claims like framing people Che killed such as Eutimio Guerra as if his guilt was questionable. In reality Eutimio Guerra had betrayed Che's group and sold them out to the Batista regime causing one of Che's men to die and then they found an army safe conduct pass on him and he admitted to doing it alongside having a trial, so it was hardly the unjust killing of a man whose guilt was questionable. His writings about Che are chock full of claims such as this that conveniently ignore context to paint Che as someone just indiscriminately killing people at the drop of a hat.
:Both of these things were cited in this talk page as someone trying to give reliable sources as evidence of just how prevalent this is. He is a very morally gray man to begin with but there is a vast quantity of articles out there that look to ignore any and all nuance or actual context surrounding events to paint Che as unequivocally evil through misleading info and outright misinformation. It really needs to be a major concern for anyone looking to edit anything on this page as there is such an abundance of misinformation and bias that you have to be especially careful of any sources about him. It isn't our job to paint him as a hero or a monster it is our job to give the facts with any opinions one way or another being stated openly as beliefs held about him and not facts such as how it is done in this article where the opinion of Alvaro Vargas Llosa is mentioned with the clear statement that it is his opinion and nothing more. ] (]) 09:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)


== Category:Stalinism ==
:::::::"Hello, Mattisse. I am a bit of a "templater" and would be glad to work with others, or on my own, to update those as needed. It is mainly the POV issues in which I do not wish to participate. -- Polaris999 (talk) 18:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)"


Obviously Che was supportive of Stalin at one point, and maybe throughout his life? I'm not an expert. However I don't think this was a "defining characteristic," as laid out in ]. The article mentions Stalin once but doesn't really make clear Che's connection to Stalinism or why the category is there. I'm removing it. ] (]) 13:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::In any case, all decisions here need to be taken collectively and I have no doubt that working together in a calm, deliberate and respectful manner we will be able to achieve our common objective of creating an excellent article. -- ] (]) 22:30, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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Views in Argentina

I travelled extensively in Argentina and the views on Guevara were unanimous; he is rarely mentioned there and is certainly not a source of pride. Many I met described him as a "psychopath" who enjoyed killing people. He apparently told his father that he "enjoyed the smell of cordite and blood" after he had shot someone through the head. Not sure if this is worth extra exploration. 86.153.86.158 (talk) 17:03, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

It definitely isn't, I for one know plenty of Argentinians that are in awe of Guevara. Hearsay is not worth being mentioned on Misplaced Pages. 2A02:1811:C1F:8200:3564:4278:E78B:F860 (talk) 12:45, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Che was a psychopath who enjoyed killing people. He was also a homophobic and racist who hated black people. This is not hearsay. He publicly executed innocent Cubans by gunshot in front of many witnesses as a warning to anyone who tried to oppose their new government. Hectorgavilla (talk) 11:55, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Striking out material from block evader. Grandpallama (talk) 00:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Grandpallama: Although I agree that the heresay is irrelevant to our article, I looked at the IP and saw no evidence of block evasion. Is there a link that shows it? If so, it would be helpful if that is mentioned on the IP's talk page in case that editor continues making edits. --David Tornheim (talk) 00:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
David Tornheim, the editor is unlikely to show up with this particular IP again, as it's not static. That said, it's been pointed out to me that the age of the edit is such that I'm probably causing confusion more than helping (which makes sense); I only noticed today that he'd become active again for a while last year and was clearly overzealous in wanting to scrub his unproductive contributions. I've reverted my strikethrough. Grandpallama (talk) 06:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Okay. --David Tornheim (talk) 06:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Che was a mass murderer

Please add that Che Guevara was a mass murderer in the first sentence of this article. He should be put in the same category as Hitler. the sentence should read as follows:

was an Argentine Marxist Mass Murderer, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. Hectorgavilla (talk) 04:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

When was he convicted of being a mass murderer? HiLo48 (talk) 05:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
in Cuba he lined up innocent people against a wall “pared” and executed them without a trial for the public to witness. My Cuban family witnessed these executions and knew people who disappeared. He forced at gunpoint the removal of families from their homes. The only way to enforce socialism is to take away everything the people own by execution and physical violence. No one will willingly give the government their possessions. What I stated are facts. Hectorgavilla (talk) 11:51, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Then it shouldn't be hard for you to provide some reliable sources here. Facts aren't hard to find in reliable sources. StephenMacky1 (talk) 12:48, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Lots of sources exist, but they're very easy for you to ignore. 73.100.184.209 (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
If you have sources, WP:PROVEIT. Flounder fillet (talk) 00:46, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Alvaro Vargas LLosa, The Killing Machine; Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand" (Independent Insitiute:July 11, 2005, https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1535)
Guillermina Stutter Schneider. "Che Was a Racist, Homophobe, and Mass Murderer" (Human Progress: December 15, 2017, https://humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/)
Troy J. Sacquety, "Che Guevara: A False Idol for Revolutionaries" (U.S Army Special Forces Command History Office: 2008, https://arsof-history.org/articles/v4n4_false_idol_page_1.html#fn:2)
These three sources support the idea that Che was ruthless, brutal, and guilty of more than enough human rights violations to earn multiple in-depth paragraphs for this article.
Aldrich.Faithful (talk) 23:39, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
Your first source is an opinion piece with no citations filled with misleading information. For example, it paints it as if Che was a supporter of the Soviets up until later in his life when in reality, he opposed Castro relying on the Soviets and actively spoke out against him on the matter viewing it as hardly any better than relying on America. The "innocent" people listed that Che killed were people who committed blatant offenses and were very clearly guilty of crimes punishable by death in any army such as Eutimio Guerra who it frames as Che only suspecting his guilt when in reality there was a trial where asked Che to shoot him quickly because he knew he was guilty of betraying them and causing the death of their fellow soldiers and they found an army safe conduct pass with his name on it on his person. It also frames it as if he is responsible for the UMAPs that went in place after he left the country just because he was in charge of a camp that had the primary purpose of being an alternative for soldiers instead of being discharged from the military for misconduct. Not to mention the article is written by a man who is heavily biased by being a staunch libertarian opposed to leftism and is a member of the Independant Institute a conservative think tank making him as biased against Che as possible explaining the lean toward misleading claims.
Your second source is the most infamous terrible source on the subject that gets frequently cited itself because it makes so many unique claims with no basis that others use it as the basis on top of being only a couple paragraphs long and having no real substance. The author is a member of the Fraser Institute yet another conservative think tank on an opinion piece with no sources making it also absurdly biased and the furthest thing from a reliable source though I'll still play ball and explain the misleading claims to show you just why this is infamous for being the most misinformation filled source out there. For starters I find it especially laughable how you see nothing suspicious about the fact one of the quotes in this second source is attributed to Alvaro Vargas Llosa the author of your first source so you can barely even come up with three sources that don't cite each other on top of the heavy bias present in him already. In regard to him being homophobic he wrote practically nothing on the topic and the only thing he did write in regard to calling a gay man a sexual pervert was in saying that a guy he knew was getting beat up which upset him because despite him being a sexual pervert he liked him. You definitely could say that is homophobic but with that being the extent of what he wrote about the subject it is pretty below average for the attitude at the time. In regard to him sending homosexuals to concentration camps this is outright misinformation because the UMAPs that did this did so when he was literally not in the country any more and held zero power there with the only camp he was in charge of as said earlier being for soldiers as an alternative to being discharged and not a prison civilians were sent to. On top of that the quote "work will make you men" is entirely fabricated and was never used by Che or in Cuba at all. As for him being racist he had a single racist remark he made when he was young after living a sheltered life in Argentina which he then did a complete 180 on after meeting black people and traveling the world to the point he actively spoke out against oppression toward black people in all places and literally went with a band of Afro-Cubans to fight a revolution in the Congo. I don't know about you but most people who are racist don't risk their lives to fight alongside that group of people so it doesn't make much sense to condemn him for beliefs he held when he was young that he then changed entirely and acted to fight oppression against said group. For the claim he was a mass murderer it also falls apart once you realize the people he killed during the revolution were traitors in his own army and enemy combatants while the people after the revolution were members of the Batista regime who killed and tortured his soldiers as well as civilians. The tribunal he was in charge of after the revolution he also never chose the sentence for or committed the executions himself and there were trials still so it wasn't much different than other similar post war trials punishing war criminals such as the Nuremberg trials.
Your third source yet again is laughably biased to an absurd degree this time with the author formerly working for the literal CIA though I truly must commend you for bothering to give a source with citations this time. It is pretty laughable how the Cubans are framed as savage for defending themselves against the US backed Bay of Pigs invasion and how Che is framed as arrogant for mocking the US over it as well as the US for general imperialism and oppression. Though as a whole I must admit this third source isn't half bad as while it shows its bias very clearly it at the very least doesn't make wildly misleading/misinformative claims. It also doesn't really do much to show how supposedly evil Che is either though beyond the general implication that the practices used to fight a revolution should be condemned inherently as if George Washinton isn't held up as a hero despite being a similar figure while Che is condemned. I do concede though while pretty biased and not doing much to confirm your points it is pretty solid as far as providing information that is backed up with sources.
So as a whole you have largely just showcased a general lack of ability to do real research with your first two sources being the epitome of unreliable sources and your third not really showcasing what you claim that much to begin with. While you didn't make any claims as absurd as the original person who made this topic claiming Che is in the same category as Hitler your assertion that there is a need for multiple paragraphs about him supposedly being a mass murderer don't have much grounding any more than it would make sense to include in any general's page. To reiterate from before the vast majority of people he killed were those who were demonstrably either deserters/traitors within his own army or enemy combatants who had killed and torture his own men and civilians hardly making any of his killings constitute as murder by any definition. You can believe his use of force was excessive but at the end of the day it is not the place of a Misplaced Pages page to offer our opinions on the matter it is a place to state what occurred and consensus about it without bias which is done on this page. Personally I find him to be a great revolutionary and admire his anti-imperialism while disagreeing with him that socialism is the way forward and can see the clear proof he was terrible at running the economy in an administrative position. There have been a great many pushes by the far right to spread misinformation about him and at the end of the day I oppose misinformation more than anything and believe we should strive to avoid it especially when making changes to Misplaced Pages pages which are often one of the first places people go for information. There is already a good chunk of the article giving the opinions of conservative think tanks from individuals such as Alvaro Vargas Llosa so there is no real need to give these beliefs any special attention when they are already mentioned. If anything it would make more sense to include a section about how misinformation has been widely spread about him though even I admit that is a stretch as that would fit better on the legacy of Che Guevara page than here which is more focused on what he did than his legacy which gets its own page. Misplaced Pages is a place to display the truth in a way as close to unbiased as possible not a place to give our opinions on the nuance of revolutions so I really do urge you to learn to be more skeptical of sources rather than looking explicitly for ones that affirm your already held beliefs. Plugshirt (talk) 09:22, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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Please change "Cause of death Execution by shooting" to "Cause of death Elimination by shooting"

Che Guevara's capture and immediate execution without a legal trial would be more accurately described as an extrajudicial killing which is considered a form of murder. This differs from a lawful execution which typically involves a formal trial. Thirdfemalelead (talk) 05:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I replaced it with extrajudicial killing (per what's covered in the article's body). M.Bitton (talk) 15:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Can you also take care of the "Battles/wars" section, where he was labeled to be executed after a conviction. LackOfInspiration1 (talk) 10:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Interview with Tucker Carlson - Ex-CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez on Che Guevara death

Ex-CIA Agent on Capturing Che Guevara, Who Truly Killed JFK, and Election Predictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwohQJrJeo8&ab_channel=TuckerCarlson

Che Guevara was executed in 1967 in a remote Bolivian village. One of the last people to speak to him alive was CIA officer Felix Rodriguez (former CIA agent). Here’s his story.

Felix Rodriguez worked for the CIA until 1976.

Ironcurtain2 (talk) 16:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

That's not a reliable source. Simonm223 (talk) 16:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
It is his own testimony!!! Ironcurtain2 (talk) 16:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
That's not how WP:ABOUTSELF works. Simonm223 (talk) 16:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Edit conflict, "please provide the acronym that supports your logic". LOL. Ironcurtain2 (talk) 17:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Specifically see points 1 and 2:
1. The material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim 2. It does not involve claims about third parties; Simonm223 (talk) 17:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Wow, you know how to make pretty colored text. I am impressed. LOL. Thanks for making my day, User:Simonm223 LOL. Ironcurtain2 (talk) 17:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
South Park
Officer Barbrady - There's nothing to see here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s&ab_channel=MiamiBadBoyBOSS

Ironcurtain2 (talk) 18:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Lies & propaganda surrounding Che.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/che-guevara-executing-women/

Example number 1: The link listed above where the accusation of him “Killing 2 woman” came out including him being accused of being a mass murderer (which is false, the people executed weren't innocent and were those working with Batista, war criminals etc.

Example number 2: The accusation that he was responsible for the UMAP camps/Imprisonment of homosexuals. in 1965 Che resigned his position as minister of industries and went to the Congo. He wasn't in Cuba during the operations of the camps and nor was he involved, Castro later took accountability for these camps stating how he failed the LGBT community in Cuba. Sproogli (talk) 16:40, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

There is an extra special need to be wary of propaganda surrounding Che as the scope of it by far right think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Independant Institute, and the Fraser Institute in particular. The most commonly spread misinformative article is "Che Was a Racist, Homophobe and Mass Murderer" by someone from the aforementioned Fraser Institute which is responsible for the claim Che sent homosexuals to UMAPs which wasn't physically possible as well as accusing him of being homophobic in general when his only writing about homosexuality was saying someone he called a gay man a sexual pervert and said he still liked him anyway which is hardly enough to be any more of a homophobe than anyone else at the time and there is no instances of him punishing anyone for it. It also spreads the claim he is racist for one remark he made when he was young ignoring the fact that occurred when he grew up in a rich sheltered home and he flipped his views entirely once he explored the world and became a staunch defender of the rights of black people to the point he left Cuba with a band of Afro-Cubans to fight a revolution in the Congo. This article's misinformation is so widespread it gets cited by other articles to claim he was racist and sent homosexuals to concentration camps ignoring the fact these claims are made on an opinion piece by a biased source with not much to actually support them.
Another prominent figure spreading misinformation is Alvaro Vargas Llosa who while not as egregious as the Fraser Institue works with the Independant Institute to spread misleading claims like framing people Che killed such as Eutimio Guerra as if his guilt was questionable. In reality Eutimio Guerra had betrayed Che's group and sold them out to the Batista regime causing one of Che's men to die and then they found an army safe conduct pass on him and he admitted to doing it alongside having a trial, so it was hardly the unjust killing of a man whose guilt was questionable. His writings about Che are chock full of claims such as this that conveniently ignore context to paint Che as someone just indiscriminately killing people at the drop of a hat.
Both of these things were cited in this talk page as someone trying to give reliable sources as evidence of just how prevalent this is. He is a very morally gray man to begin with but there is a vast quantity of articles out there that look to ignore any and all nuance or actual context surrounding events to paint Che as unequivocally evil through misleading info and outright misinformation. It really needs to be a major concern for anyone looking to edit anything on this page as there is such an abundance of misinformation and bias that you have to be especially careful of any sources about him. It isn't our job to paint him as a hero or a monster it is our job to give the facts with any opinions one way or another being stated openly as beliefs held about him and not facts such as how it is done in this article where the opinion of Alvaro Vargas Llosa is mentioned with the clear statement that it is his opinion and nothing more. Plugshirt (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:Stalinism

Obviously Che was supportive of Stalin at one point, and maybe throughout his life? I'm not an expert. However I don't think this was a "defining characteristic," as laid out in Misplaced Pages:CATDEF. The article mentions Stalin once but doesn't really make clear Che's connection to Stalinism or why the category is there. I'm removing it. Prezbo (talk) 13:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

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