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Good articleMarc Ravalomanana has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Comments[edit]

BBC: "Down to business in Madagascar". A-giau 18:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Benjamin Bratt?[edit]

I removed the comparison to Bratt. Seems irrelevant to his political career (and the article in general) and the comment appeared out of context where it was placed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thee darcy (talk • contribs) 16:18, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PERSONAL RESIDENCE[edit]

His personal residency is actually in Faravohitra not in Andohalo as stated,

AVID RUGBY UNION FAN[edit]

Not true.He attend international match by duty but he is not an avid rugby union.He never attend local competition , even major events.

handling of the current political crisis[edit]

As most of the residents of the capital Antananrivo I am very concerned about how the president (and the Govt. under his command) is performing in order to seek a solution to the current crisis, keeping in mind that the president himself and his way of governing the country is the cause for the crisis. I share the opinion of the majority of the independant media (this means not directly controlled by himself) in the country that he is not showing any willingness for compromise and not accepting any personal responsibility for the deterioration of the situation. I therefore propse the following edit to his page and look forward any comments on this edit. Proof of the accuracy of this edit can be found in the articles of local newspapers (L'Express de Madagascar, Madagascar Tribune, Midi Madagasikara, La Gazette de la Grande Ile) and in the braodcasted news of local TV stations (Ma TV, TV Plus, RTA) and Radio Stations (Radio Antsiva, Radio Don Bosco).

While Ravalomanana let international mediation efforts in February 2009 fail, he prepared the military with the help of foreign mercenaries. Beginning of March, he contributed to escalating the situation. He abolished the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and demonstration by declaring all public places used for demonstrations "off limits". With the help of foreign mercenaries the units of the military loyal to him uses brutal force to prevent demonstrations and selects individual citizens, often no demonstrators, to brutalize them. This course of actions is compared by some of the local media to the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, who terrorizes his people to stay in power. On March 7 officers in the largest military camp near Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo have declared refusing to take any more orders from the president. They claimed to deplore the actions taken by the presidental guard and the froeign mercenaries against the malagsy people which undermine the image of the military. They declared to be loyal only the constitutional oath to protect the citizens, not to fight them.

Ruremich, you have tried several times to add this to the main article. As you concede above, this is your opinion, and thus, without proper cites from respected sources (not blogs) cannot be in the main article. This talk page is only here to improve the main article, and not to discuss Ravalomanana's faults. If you have valid references in the French press, they are acceptable here. For convenience (but not absolutely necessary), a link through google translate might smooth your way. However, any mention of Zimbabwe smacks of POV. Wizzy…☎ 11:21, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Army storms presidency[edit]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7946741.stm

National hero[edit]

The article doesn't mention the fact that Madagascar has not suffered a single case of the Swine Flu pandemic under his tenure. By effectively coordinating containment with health organizations, he managed to shut down the sea port and eliminate the only source of potential infection. 99.232.219.131 (talk) 22:23, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

where lives he now?[edit]

--i'v[[RSI]]>typin=v.v.hard4me!!>contactme thruMSNpl[sven70=alias (talk) 15:13, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Massive removal[edit]

There has been some pro and some con Ravalomanana modifying this page in the past years. I'll try to skim everything that's not NPOV, and copy here everything that I cut from the text in case someone doesn't agree:

  • This is definitely one of his biggest achievements as mayor. It should be included and further developed. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'll let you do the research on this one (unless I stumble on it), because I already did and couldn't find anything (which is why I intially removed this part). importemps (t), 13:26 15 june 2012 (UTC)
A heavy work load will keep me away from this for at least two months, but if you have the chance to run this article thru translate.google.com (assuming you don't read French), you'll have a great source to flesh out this article. The source is reliable - Jeune Afrique is a printed magazine with a wide international distribution. Lemurbaby (talk) 03:28, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Also this book (pp. 451-2) has an interesting discussion about the debate on whether or not Ravalomanana is an andriana (hereditary noble) since his tomb lies outside the town walls where he was born (typically the andriana tombs are inside the town walls). The book explains he used that ambiguity to his advantage when he ran for president in 2001 by simultaneously portraying himself as a man of humble background who did well (it underscores how he got his start selling homemade yogurts off the back of a bicycle), and someone who would "reform" the andriana (to instill ostensibly new values of hard work and enterprise). Lemurbaby (talk) 03:37, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Misplaced -> calling Ravalomanana a dictator, a scoundrel and a thief
  • Not directly related to Ravalomanana -> On March 10, army leaders forced the recently appointed defence secretary to resign (the previous one had decided to resign after the killings by the presidential guard on February 7, 2009). They also announced that they gave the opponents 72 hours to find a solution to the crisis through dialogue before they would take further action. This move came after the leaders of the main military camp had announced a day earlier that they would not execute orders coming from the presidency any more since their duty was to protect the people, and not to oppress them, as had been done over the previous few days.[3][4]
  • This content should probably be integrated into the 2009 Malagasy political crisis article. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It's already in the article you mentioned Mutiny and military leadership change. importemps (t), 13:23 15 june 2012 (UTC)
  • Not related to Ravalomanana -> Rajoelina had already declared himself the new leader a month earlier and has since assumed the role of acting President. He has appointed Monja Roindefo as Prime Minister.[5] Rajoelina announced that elections would be held in two years and that the constitution would be amended.[6]
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ISS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Profile of Marc Ravalomanana, BBC News Online, March 11, 2002.
  3. ^ "Army calls politicians to find solution", (RFI, in French), March 11, 2009.
  4. ^ "Madagascar: Army Threatens to Intervene", ["Allafrica"], March 11, 2009.
  5. ^ "Madagascan opposition takes over prime minister's office". Xinhua. 14 March 2009.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference backs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

I haven't done the "sentencing" and "come back attempts". Importemps, talk, April 4 2012 7:21

  • THanks for all the work you've put into cleaning up this article recently, Importemps. I'd like to help if I can, although I won't have much time until July, and in the meantime I'll be trying to get the main Madagascar article up to FA. One comment for now - the article doesn't get much into Tiko or Magro and the background of how Ravalomanana grew his business or got into politics. No discussion of his educational background, personal life... If you have the time to work on this some more, those would be priority areas to incorporate, most likely right at the beginning in an "early life" section and something like a "Building a business empire" section. Maybe the religious content could be included in a "Personal life" section at the end after tracing his career. Lemurbaby (talk) 09:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Lemurbaby, happy to help once in a while :) I will do some research on Tiko and Magro, and let you know if I'm having a hard finding relevant stuff. importemps (t), 13:18 15 june 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for adding to this! Lemurbaby (talk) 03:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I found this: Settling Madagascar’s vagaries but it's not a positive review of Tiko:
Let us first of make it clear that before ascending to power, Ravalomanana had already enriched himself under the dictatorship of Ratsiraka. He was jailed for corruption in 1988. He was released by Ratsiraka and somehow managed to win the tender for privatisation of the same company for which he had been convicted; this is the cornerstone of the Tiko business empire. Tiko was funded by the World Bank and went on to benefit from all manner of favours, never paying taxes. The government only realised all of this too late. Ratsiraka had hoped that Ravalomanana would serve as his front man, while Ravalomanana himself was after power. He benefited his company through tax exemption, massive duty rebates on raw materials (with maximum duties for his competitors), absolute control over tender calls, delayed payments to peasant producers, ridiculously low purchase prices for public land, annexation of land, monopolistic control of all sectors of the economy, control of the media and the imprisonment of intellectuals and opponents. Added to this, of course, was the tacit approval of donors and foreign powers.
How accurate do you think this is? importemps (t) 19 June 2012 11:43 (UTC)
Hi again Lemurbaby, I've been doing a lot of research, but the results are really skim (and mostly negative)... importemps (t) 19 June 2012 15:01 (UTC)
That's a piece that was written at the height of the political conflict, and clearly this writer was not in favor of Ravalomanana. It's an editorial with no substantiation for its assertions, and we don't have any reason to believe the website does a lot of fact checking before publishing. There are some points here that have been substantiated in more reliable sources, like the ways he has used his position to benefit his company (and vice versa) although not necessarily breaking laws in the process, and the restrictions on freedom of speech in the later part of his administration. But we should get those details from more reliable sources than this. I take it you don't read French? Because that article in Jeune Afrique is really very good and gives a very complete biography of him. IF not, no worries. I appreciate the trouble you've gone to in the interest of improving this... I can get back to it and dig into the French sources in about a month. Lemurbaby (talk) 17:01, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV (neutrality)[edit]

Importemps, I removed the piece you inserted about criticism leveled against Ravalomanana regarding whether he cleaned up the city because as a standalone nugget of information it throws off the neutrality of the article. Of course it makes sense to include criticisms of politicians, but especially when dealing with biographies of living people we have to be careful not to use WP as a forum to amplify the voices of (potentially self-interested) political detractors. The resources I linked above go into detail about what Ravalomanana achieved in cleaning up Tana while he was mayor. Having witnessed Tana's transformation firsthand, I can verify that in this particular case, these criticisms are unfounded and are most likely politically motivated, and that will often be the case concerning politicians. There are many more sources that can confirm what Ravalomanana accomplished as mayor (although they may be in French). So let's hold off on including criticisms until we've done a thorough review of the sources to see how substantiated they are and whether there are reports to the contrary. Lemurbaby (talk) 16:52, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I have too noticed that a lot of the info found on the Web is distorted, which often happens in the case of a political clash. About the piece you removed, I inserted it because it was the only piece of content I could find about Tiko (and no sign of Magro or other Tiko-related brands)... Let's keep digging :) Importemps (t) 18:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Useful refs[edit]

  • Reminder to self: there is much more to take from the Ra8 PDG article.

More refs for his presidency hidden below.

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Diannaa (talk · contribs) 15:22, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please feel free to revert any of my copy edits.

  • Thanks very much for taking the time to edit - it reads really well.
  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose: clear and concise, correct spelling and grammar:
    • There's no need to tell us how old he is if you've already provided us with the year in which an event occurred (no action needed; I already fixed).
    • I know most readers won't do the math to realize he was very much past the appropriate age for his grade, so I made it explicit. I think the age is probably worth including since I don't have the detailed information on what grades he repeated or how old he was when he started first grade (10?)
    • Okay, the unusual circumstances warrant spelling out his age in that one instance. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • ...with 2.5 million adherents, the most important religious association in Madagascar. Most important, or most popular?
    • Both, but I feel it's necessary to stress its importance here - it plays a very active role in politics, as becomes evident later in the article.
    • Supporters among Ravalomanana's high-level Tiko staff established a group to promote his campaign, which he named Tiako Iarivo ("I Love Antananarivo"). It the group named Tiako Iarivo? If so, this should be re-worded to "Supporters among Ravalomanana's high-level Tiko staff established a group, which he named Tiako Iarivo ("I Love Antananarivo"), to promote his campaign."
    • The name of the campaign was Tiako Iarivo, so we can keep this as-is.
    • Serial commas? Yes or No? The answer seems to be no, so some commas were removed. Hopefully I got them all :)
    • Thank you - this is one I'm not good at doing consistently one way or another. :)
    • What does BIANCO stand for? SINPA? SOMACODIS? Are any of these worth spelling out in full?
    • I've added the French names; the way I've explained what they are in the text obviates the need to translate the meaning of the names word for word.
    B. Complies with MoS for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
    • Direct quote needs a citation immediately following ("mixed public interests with his personal interests".)
    • Added
    • Section header "Personality and public image" does not adequately describe the content in this super-short section. Can this material be incorporated elsewhere and the section header eliminated?
    • Okay - I'm hoping to expand it as a separate section before taking this to FA, but for now I've changed "Personal life" to "Other activities" and folded it in there.
    • Linking [[Malagasy people|ethnic group]] is a bit of an Easter egg - the link does not go where people will be expecting it to go. Same with [[Merina Kingdom|most politically prominent]]. There's other examples too: watercress, for example
    • I've changed the link for ethnic group to Ethnic groups of Madagascar and removed the link to cuisine, but I think the Merina Kingdom one is worth keeping. It's logical to me that describing how the Merina are politically prominent would link to the main article about the precolonial kingdom they established that ruled over the whole island.
  2. Sourcing:
    A. Provides references, with in-line citations from reliable sources where necessary:
    • The citations to Marcus, Richard R. (August 2004). "Political Change in Madagascar: populist democracy or neopatrimonialism by another name?" should provide page numbers, as it's a nineteen-page document please.
    • This is just one of six journal articles I'm referencing, and like magazine articles or book chapters (to my knowledge) it's not typically expected that page numbers be cited for these shorter works. I haven't done this for any of my other FA or GA articles, and I organize my articles to cluster only book info under the references section, where this journal info would need to go if I make this requested change. Unless I have unknowingly been breaking some WP rules on this one, I'd prefer to keep the same style for everything I do.
    • The problem was that I was unable to search within the document to find the cited material or check for copy vio. Page numbers are not a GA requirement, so no worries.
    • Please provide the ISBN number for Dubois, Vincent (2012). La Compagnie des Indes Galantes.
    • There doesn't seem to be an ISBN for this book. I pulled the info from Google books here
    • It's not listed at WorldCat, either. -- Diannaa (talk) 16:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • The link to the Washington Post article "Madagascar's president steps down" is irretrievably dead. This is not enough to fail for GA, but you might like to remove this information or find an alternative source if you're going on to FA. The same source is used on several other Wikipedia articles.
    • Thanks for flagging this regarding other articles. As I move through and clean them up (and hopefully get them to GA at least) then I will fix this everywhere it shows up. For this article I've found another source (BBC) that captures the same information.
    B. Contains no copyright violations or too-close paraphrasing:
    • Spot checks revealed no too-close paraphrasing or copy vio.
    C. No original research:
  3. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Main aspects are addressed:
    • You might consider adding more on his style of government if advancing on to FA. The article will need updating if the subject remains in the public eye.
    • Yes, agreed.
    B. Remains focused:
  4. Does it follow the neutral point of view policy?
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
  7. Overall:
    Pass or Fail: - on hold for a week to complete suggested improvements. -- Diannaa (talk) 01:03, 14 December 2013 (UTC) Passed -- Diannaa (talk) 16:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for taking the time to copy edit and review this. I see you've been on WP a long time, like me, but we haven't had a chance to cross paths before. Congrats on all your contributions here! And thanks for helping to slim down the unending backlog on the GA noms page. Looking forward to getting to work together more often. - Lemurbaby (talk) 03:02, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think I've responded to all your points. Thank you again. - Lemurbaby (talk) 04:59, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • All points have been addressed. Thank you for your work on this article and for all you do here on Wikipedia. Passing to GA, -- Diannaa (talk) 16:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Reassessment[edit]

Marc Ravalomanana[edit]

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Result: No consensus. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA from 2013. Might be a stretch but I feel as if the article hasn't been updated well enough. there's only one sentence for his tenure as mayor of Antananarivo and everything related to the post-presidency section seems really small. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A note was left for me regarding this article being re-assessed, because I initially created it, as a stub, slightly over twenty years ago. I would like to put on record I have no opinion about this article. Morwen (talk) 17:10, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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