Talk:Valerie Arkell-Smith

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[edit] A terrible waste

The authors of the article doubtlessly worked very hard at their task, but unfortunately they were misleaded by untrustworthy and stupid sources and have in turn produced with this article an untrustworthy source for the readers of the Wikipedia. The article has practically everythig wrong: names, facts, figures; and historical, sociological and literary implications. Even worse, it reduces a colorful personality like the Colonel Barker to a simple crossdresser by leaving out all the information, that puts her in an encyclopedic kontext, namely that she was first a member of Rotha Lintorn Orman's BF (British Fascists) and was later described as the head of the NF (National Fascisti) in London, that in 1927 she was arrested (but not convicted) after a brawl with an other Fascist splinter group, that she claimed and was believed for years (even in courts) to have won the Croix-de-Guerre and the French Legion of Honour, and, and. This mess should serve as a warning as to what happens, when an article relies on the support of the wrong sources. -- Hanno Kuntze 10:19, 28 September 2007 (UTC)