Talk:List of titles used by dictators

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Piłsudski's title "Naczelnik Państwa" should be cancelled from this list. The term "Naczelnik Państwa" was a legal term used only in 1918-1922, when Piłsudski was not a dictator and the term had nothing in common with dictatorship (it referred loosely to Kosciuszko insurection 1794, not to fascism). When Piłsudski become de facto dictator in 1926, he formally was not a head of state, and didn't use the title "Naczelnik Panstwa" any more, as the term was obsolete. Piłsudski 1926-1935 was referred to with many titles (Marszałek = Marshall was probably the most common, but this didn't refer to his position within the state, but simply to his military rank). None of them was official or semi-official like fuehrer, duce or caudillo etc. Pilsudski wasn't formally even a head of state then. This may be checked in any elementary textbook on Polish history, or in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naczelnik_Pa%C5%84stwa or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski. And the subtitle refers to the titles used by dictators during the 40's and 50's, and Piłsudski died in 1935. I tried to correct these obvious factual errors, but somebody reverted the correction. Pomimo (talk) 09:14, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion anyone?

It seems we can list the alternative titles for dictators, but not have list of dictators in our encyclopedia. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dictators (no consensus), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of dictators (incorrectly closed as delete), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern day dictators (keep or no consensus), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern dictators (delete). How do we decide who to include in this list if we are not allowed to have the other one? jni (talk) 09:38, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]