British National Party edit

References 7-14 are used for the Fascist tag - those are all peer-reviewed journals/books by established academics who printing in mainstream academic journals of note. Can you please outline what is wrong *specifically* with each of those references? In terms of sourcing for wikipedia, peer reviewed mainstream academic journals are considered the highest level of sourcing. Can you outline why you don't consider those sources to be reputable?

Attempts to removed well sourced content without explaining what the issue with the sources is likely to be seen as vandalism and quickly reverted. --Cameron Scott (talk) 17:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Reply


  • "Academics studying right-wing extremism argue that the organisation is still fascist and has strategically masked its core ideology behind the deployment of ‘moderate’ language" [1]
  • Article describing the party as neo-fascist [2]
  • "The neo-Nazi grimace continues to peer out menacingly from under the party’s telegenic neo-populist mask for anyone who takes the trouble to look closely" [3]
  • The BNP was not the first British fascist party to stand in elections. [4]
  • "Griffin's ideological revamp underpins the party's normalization in the eyes of the thousands of Britons who vote for it, making it even more difficult to pin the 'fascist' or 'Nazi' label on the well-groomed bespoke suits of Britain's latest generation of neo-fascist extremists." [5]
  • "First, there are neo-fascist parties such as Forza Nuova and Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolori in Italy, the German People’s Union (Deutsche Volksunion, DVU) and the British National Party which espouse fascist or neo-fascist ideology." [6]
  • "The threat of neo-fascist political groups such as the British National Party (BNP) or the National Front (NF) marching into Bradford sparked fury" [7]


  1. ^ Wood, C (December 2008). "British National Party representations of Muslims in the month after the London bombings: Homogeneity, threat, and the conspiracy tradition". British Journal of Social Psychology. 47 (4). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/bjsp/2008/00000047/00000004/art00009. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |location= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Hino, Ario (2007-04-01). "The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?". Acta Politica. 42 (1). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/ap/2007/00000042/00000001/art00008: Palgrave Macmillan: 110-114(5). {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ Griffin, Roger (2005). "Changing rooms? Review of Nigel Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the quest for legitimacy". Patterns of Prejudice, (39): 75–77.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. ^ Renton, David (2005-03-01). "'A day to make history'? The 2004 elections and the British National Party". Patterns of Prejudice. 1 (39). http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713722453. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ Copsey, N (2007). "Changing course or changing clothes? Reflections on the ideological evolution of the British National Party 1999-2006". Patterns of Prejudice. 41 (1). {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ^ Zaslove, Andrej (2007-01-03). "Alpine Populism, Padania and Beyond: a Response to Duncan McDonnell". Politics. 27 (1). Blackwell Publishing Ltd. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  7. ^ Yasmin, Hussain (2005). "Citizenship, Ethnicity and Identity". Sociology. 39 (3). http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/3/407: 407–425. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |location= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location (link)

Verfication not truth edit

This should answer some of your questions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources --Cameron Scott (talk) 19:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Reply