Talk:How To Beat The Draft Board

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Brilliant idea. Any attempt to show how to avoid fighting America's oil wars is a very good cause. Xania ^talk 21:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

"Wikipedia is not a place to publish your own thoughts and analyses or to publish new information not previously published." - from the article "What Wikipedia is not."

This quote form the opening page of the article "How To Beat The Draft Board" is in violation of the above: "This guide was written several months ago, based on my official training for becoming a member of a local draft board."

Also from the article "What Wikipedia is not:"

"Personal essays that state your particular feelings about a topic (rather than the consensus of experts). Wikipedia is supposed to compile human knowledge. It is not a vehicle to make personal opinions become part of human knowledge."

The last paragraph from the opening page of "How To Beat The Draft Board" is, again in violation of the above: "Unfortunately, in this country, the draft boards are often stacked with pro-war, pro-military types who see it as their duty not to evaluate cases, but to send as many people as possible to the front lines."

Based on the above reasons, this article should be deleted immediately.

[edit] Opposition to the war is a world-wide belief not a personal belief

In response to the above comment. This is a text book and one with many uses although I don't understand why the USA has a draft board - surely they only exist if a country has conscription?? And anyway the last line of the paragraph you quoted is fact. --ЗAНИA ^talk 18:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)