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The following has been added and removed from the intro a few times. Is some part of this wrong or particularly POV? I can find other links but this is clearly important context in establishing the history of the Tatmadaw.
A revert compared this to the intro forFederal Bureau of Investigation. While the FBI is an important part of the US federal government, the Tatmadaw has run Myanmar for about 50 of the last 60 years, so I don't think we can discount the context here.Ungulates (talk)03:36, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hey! I saw your good faith edits but: 1. The lead section is one short summary, for someone not inside topic about Myanmar it can be confusing, and can move focus from important things 2. There is note about:
"The Tatmadaw has been engaged in a bitter battle with ethnic insurgents and the narco-armies since the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, and has played a central role in Burmese politics since the 1962 coup d'état"( so it says about the most important engagement and also about a central role in politics and since when, and it is linked to corresponding articles).
Here is discussion about your article changes and especially tricky lead change, so if you wanna, focus here, not anywhere other since you open this discussion and I explained you things already.Nubia86 (talk)15:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There is no mention whatsoever of the current military coup and the now-established fact that the Tatmadaw have now turned against the people themselves, as evidenced by the more than 100 people shot dead in the streets yesterday March 27. Someone who knows what they're doing needs to get this covered thoroughly on the Burmese military/Tatmadaw Wikipedia page.2600:1702:21C0:58E0:C1BA:E8F6:34E9:3285 (talk)19:41, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This author at Global Voices makes a passionate plea[1] to stop using 'Tatmadaw' for the military, as he says it glorifies them with the honorable (literal translation) 'Royal Armed Forces'. I'm not familiar enough to propose a name change re-write for the article, but welcome comments.Onanoff (talk)15:42, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Follow-up with more detail: While "Sit-Tat" has risen in popularity a lot in the past few years, I don't think it's theWP:COMMONNAME just yet - "Tatmadaw" is still used more. Maybe the article could be moved toMilitary of Myanmar perWP:NPOVTITLE if "Tatmadaw" is considered to be a non-neutral name glorifying the military? I'm not familiar enough with the topic to say if this satisfies that policy or not, but it could do with more research.HappyWith (talk)16:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
