Talk:George Polk

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A few notes:

-Perhaps some Greek wikipedia contributor can review the literature in his own language and paint in some of the details of the official Greek investigation and critical literature.

-Please, when adding whodunnit theories, make sure to add known literature sources and make it clear exactly how controversial the theory is. Make sure to add every theory you know of, and add more detail to those that are already mentioned. Take care that when going into really far-fetched theories you say so.

Rewrite?

I'm not familiar with this story but it seems to me that this article could use some rewrite to remove POV and to add firm cites. -- Writtenonsand 17:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV

This article is poorly written and the author obviously had an axe to grind, so I am adding an NPOV tag. I will work on the page, but probably not in the next couple of weeks. Steve Casburn 09:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

March update. Refer to an article by Richard B Frank "The Thin Line Between Truth & Lies" Page8 in media Guardian March 12 2007 for further discussion.BM March14 2007

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Removed Military History tag as victim was 1) a Civilian and 2) did not die in an actual recognized military conlict. --dashiellx (talk) 11:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

British funding of Greek govenment during WW II

The article should note that the "Greek government" which had been funded by the British during WW II was in fact the Greek government-in-exile, which while recognized by the Allies and many neutral nations during the war as the de jure government of Greece, had little-to-no authority within the territory of Greece itself, which was under the control of an Axis occupation government for most of the war. The Greek government-in-exile also had little effective control over Resistance fighters and other partisans, which as the article properly notes were what formed much of the core of what became the Communist army in the Greek civil war, and were mostly led by Communist and Communist-influenced officers during their active resistance military operations. 2600:1004:B161:E230:603E:86DD:15B0:D32A (talk) 20:38, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Semantics question

Did Polk actually "enlist" in the Seabees and then subsequently receive a commission as an officer or was he directly commissioned as an ensign due to his educational attainment? This is a fairly important distinction in a biography. 2600:1004:B161:E230:603E:86DD:15B0:D32A (talk) 21:11, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]