Talk:Henry Steele Commager
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[edit] Suppression of Viewpoints Violates Site Rules
To anonymous user 148.87.1.171
If you plan to revert the criticism of this historian by the respected historian Leon F. Litwack, please submit it to Wikipedia arbitration. It is not acceptable to remove valid text that you personally disagree with and for which you provide no citation or reasoning. Skywriter 04:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
To Wwoods:
It is astounding that there is an edit war ongoing on here, and on the co-author Morison's page over a serious criticism of a textbook that was widely used in schools all over the United States for so many years. Are these pages now candidates for POV and fact tags? Anyone who wishes to remove commentary by a respected scholar is doing so based on subjective opinion of one who was not likely the object of the verbal assault contained for three decades in this required textbook. Why in the world would anyone insist on deleting specific criticism from a noted historian of a famous textbook wherein the textbook was criticized by others, yet it took 30 years for the authors to modify their repugnant viewpoint?
This is viewpoint suppression of the worst kind.
Are the people who have repeatedly removed Litwack's criticism (and earlier wanted to remove all comments concerning the authors' racial views) not aware of the hurtful nature of these lines in a required textbook?
Is there a rule on Wikipedia that racism will not be discussed, or it is to be tamped down? If so, please be so kind as to point to the policy or rule.
Or, is this political correctness in play? Skywriter 02:53, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is this all there is?
Taking no position one way or the other on the criticism of Commager and Morison's textbook, but is this really all there is to say about a scholar who lived 95 years and "wrote (or edited) over forty books and over 700 journalistic essays and reviews"? Dodiad 07:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
You are welcome to add what you believe is appropriate. Skywriter 13:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] vandalism by radicals will not be tolerated here
you have a minor point which you blow up to be the domininating factor. Like Bush you are finished.
The above unsigned comment was added 00:22, November 10, 2006 (edit) by Longsun (Talk | contribs)
[edit] Verification
In the summary of her recent edit, ClerksGirl513 says: I added personal information that I knew as I know his wife Mary; she is my aunt.
It's probably true, but can the information she added actually be verified? SteveRamone 00:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
