Talk:United Nations/Assessments/2007-08-09

Problems

This is a difficult topic to write on, since it involves so many parallel facets, unlike eg, a sportsperson or a song or a small military battle, but there are some glaring problems

• Sources - many paragraphs are unsourced and there are many {{cn}} tags as well as a whole lot of sources which do not have their details done properly
• Undue weight/recentism/black holes in content
  • Almost all of the examples of "controversy" are in the last ten years
  • There is no history section. What about Hammarskold being killed in a plane crash and Waldheim being discovered to be a former Nazi. Important things like the massive UN force in the Korean War are not mentioned at all. It just jumps from the start to a list of contemporary things.
  • No section on the Secretary General - how is he elected? What is the politics of the bloc voting and horsetrading between the countries to install a friendly candidate. What power does the SG have?
  • Undue weight in that the model UN, an event for schoolchildren to engage in mock debate, gets as much as the General Assembly, which is on the news across the world on a regular basis. Too much on the fact that smoking is banned inside the building and same-sex policy of its staff. This is not what the UN is known for!
  • The coverage of programs is highly sanitised and it gives the impression that the UN is some apolitical charity and research type organisation. The coverage is excessively skewed towards humanitarian things
  • Need a lot of coverage of the political nature of the UN. How governments try to use it for political gain and so forth
  • Need more on UN security council, how there is factional manoevring to get votes and deals. Countries shielding their allies from criticism using the veto and so forth. What about the planned expansion? Didn't India and Brazil ask for permanent seats and vetoes?
  • "Peace enforcement" is one line section
  • There is nothing there about corruption.

I did not go through the prose issues et, since the major porblem here is a lack of content. I know its really hard writing on such a wide ranging political organistation, but when things like a history section isn't even there then that really sticks out.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree with all the comments of Blnguyen. This article really needs a lot of extra work, especially in the area of history and political organization. I suggest that the "Model United Nations" section be removed. Instead, it suffices to give a link to Model United Nations under "Further reading" or "See also". Regards, Nsk92 12:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Should some information about the United Nations Protection Force be added?63.95.64.222 01:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)