Talk:Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)

Article needed?

The topic overlaps with articles on Chin Peng and the CPM. In addition the war seems to be more an intention on the part of the CPM than an actual fully-fledged conflict.--Jack Upland (talk) 02:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

CopyPaste

It seems a large proportion of the article was copied from this PDF http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA505882 - (check) This document is

TITLE: Malaysia’s Experience In War Against Communist Insurgency And Its
Relevance To The Present Situation In Iraq
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF MILITARY STUDIES
AUTHOR: Major Nazar Bin Talib, Malaysian Army
AY 2004-05

by United States Marine Corps,Command and Staff College, Marine Corps, Combat Development,Marine Corps University, 2076 South Street,Quantico,VA,22134-5068 - I therefore conclude that the material is Public Domain.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:35, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I have added to the article's reference to this paper a disclaimer from the front of it, which states that the views are those of the author only and states that references to the document should include that disclaimer. JohnCD (talk) 09:20, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

If that is the case, it is not appropriate fodder for a wp article that speaks in wp's voice. Every statement would have to be treated the same as an op ed -- an opinion piece, reflecting one person's views, rather than an encyclopaedic piece. IMHO.--Epeefleche (talk) 09:45, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Ideas

I have managed to cite most of the material in the article and I have also added several sources including Chin Peng's memoirs, Cheah Boon Kheng's short journal article, and several news articles in the Further reading section. Most of the article is still copied from Nazar Bin Talib's working paper but I'm trying to add in more balance and different perspectives. I've also added details about the Sarawak Communist insurgency. What do you think? Should it have a separate article of its own? There was little contact between the Sarawak and West Malaysian Communist guerillas. Chin Peng doesn't even mention the Sarawak Communist Organization in his memoirs. Feel free to share some ideas. Andykatib 20:11, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Article name

I imagine readers might find the name ambiguous. Is the term "Communist Insurgency War" actually widely understood to refer to the Malaysian conflict, or should the article be renamed to something more specific? --Paul_012 (talk) 10:25, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Move

In light of the above view I'm going to propose renaming this article to Communist Insurgency War (Malaysia). I'm a Malaysian myself, but I've heard the term "Communist insurgency" used in other countries to describe their own conflicts (ie Rhodesia, Ecuador, Peru, etc). I hardly think it's fair to describe this on Wikipedia as The "Communist Insurgency War" - furthermore, it doesn't actually have a widespread standardised name in Malaysia as far as I'm aware (when I talk to relatives who can remember the insurgency, I have to use the general term "emergency" or simply "war against the communists" before I can get them to understand what I'm talking about). Malaysian English-language media generally follows a similar line. --Katangais (talk) 22:48, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Note: I've also pinged the discussion here, for those interested. --Katangais (talk) 04:49, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

• Comment I agree the title is too generic and some sort of disambiguation is needed. The current title might need to be a disambiguation page with a list of all wars referred to as "Communist Insurgency War". Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:42, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Note 2: It has now been proposed we rename this to a more generally accepted term in English literature (I understand this may not be the case for Bahasa sources, but this is English Wikipedia): Second Malayan Emergency. --Katangais (talk) 22:00, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support – I support the idea to change the article title to either Communist Insurgency War (Malaysia), Second Malayan Communist Insurgency (whoops, not before 1963), Malaysian Communist Insurgency or anything else as the present title could be also related to other countries and this may confusing when they see the link unless someone try to read the article. Molecule Extraction (talk) 07:35, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
• Support change to Communist Insurgency War (Malaysia) -- or Malaysian Communist Insurgency if some style guide or guideline or rule recommends that -- the current title is really very confusing and caused puzzlement to me at least. MPS1992 (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

New Title

So the renaming's completed. I decided to go with Communist insurgency in Malaysia because "Malaya" didn't accurately describe the name of the country when it was ongoing and we have already have a precedent set for similar articles in the ASEAN region (Communist insurgency in Thailand, Communist insurgency in Myanmar, and Communist insurgency in the Philippines). However, to differentiate between this conflict and the First Malayan Emergency, I threw in the set of relevant dates at the end, and came up with Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–89), which we also have a precedent for on Wikipedia where separate articles on similar topics may generate confusion (ie Afghan Civil War (1989–92).

This also works well for our Malaysian readership, since there is no widespread specific term in use for this particular conflict and indeed, many Malaysians especially of the older generation do not differentiate between the first emergency and the second one.

FYI, Communist insurgency in Malaysia will now be an disambiguation page. Thanks, --Katangais (talk) 09:05, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the change, but wouldn't it be better if you try to fix all the links of the former name using a bot? As there is a huge number of articles link to the page. Molecule Extraction (talk) 09:46, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Quite so. All the links, save for those in userspaces and on talk pages, have now been fixed. Thanks! --Katangais (talk) 10:45, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

My rationale for the use of the above title stands. "Communist insurgency in Nation X" is the generally accepted article title for communist insurgencies in the ASEAN regions, as noted above. Furthermore, the use of dates in parentheses at the end of the article title is used to differentiate between this particular conflict and the First Malayan Emergency.

Please don't move it to Malaysian Communist Insurgency War, back to Communist Insurgency War, etc without discussing first, considering the significant discussion that has already taken place here on the topic. --Katangais (talk) 07:10, 16 December 2016 (UTC)