Talk:Arthur Waldron

uncited sentences

FYI, deleting all the uncited sentences in the article on Waldron — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lostromantic (talk • contribs) 18:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

would like to add more references

This article is about me and I am a bit alarmed by the warning about unsourced material. I can add a certain amount and address concerns, but am a novice and have not even managed to figure out how to put in two more footnotes.Youngsford (talk) 23:55, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

As the creator of the article (and an admirer of your work), I feel compelled to help. If you'd like, you can tell me here which references you'd like to add, and I will insert them with proper formatting. If you would like to do it yourself, click the "Edit source" tab near the top right of the page. References can be added by typing the following code at the end of the relevant sentence or paragraph:

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As a matter of policy, citations only need to appear for material that is challenged or likely to be challenged. Wikipedia standards for verifiability and neutrality are especially exacting for information on living persons, which is something to be thankful for. The template currently at the top of the page warning of uncited material is probably not necessary, but take heart that it is intended to prevent libelous content, not to call into question legitimate details of a person's life. Homunculus (duihua) 22:29, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I've added more references to the article. Something I should have done sooner. I also removed the template from the top of the page, but placed a small 'citation needed' note in the first paragraph under the "Research" heading. Perhaps you could advise on where I might find a citation for that information. If there's anything else I can help with, do let me know. Homunculus (duihua) 22:45, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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Original Research?

In this sentence: "A major source was the papers of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who served as U.S. minister to China in the 1920s until his 1929 resignation against the wishes of President Franklin Roosevelt, who failed to persuade him to resume the post."

Herbert Hoover was the President of the United States as of John Van Antwerp MacMurray's resignation date in November 1929. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the Governor of New York State. MacMurray did work for the Roosevelt Administration, from 1933 to 1944, but as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and. later, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Turkey. There was no indication in the supplied reference that then-Governor Roosevelt expressed any opinion about MacMurray's resignation, and the Wikipedia entry for the Governorship of Franklin D. Roosevelt has no indication that Roosevelt was interested in foreign policy as of 1929.

In addition, the supplied reference only says that MacMurray resigned because "differences of opinion between MacMurray and his superiors"; it does not record any objections from anyone. So it looks like "against the wishes of President Franklin Roosevelt", in addition to being false to fact (see above), is attempted original research because the supplied reference doesn't back it up. Nor does Wikipedia's own material on Franklin Roosevelt.

Did the author of this article lump together MacMurray's 1929 resignation and his 1935 Memorandum? The Memorandum was shelved by the Roosevelt Administration, and MacMurray's writing of it prompted neither resignation nor re-assignment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.11.212 (talk) 15:25, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Without going into the specifics, I note that all this is rather tangential to the topic at hand, which is Waldron's use of MacMurray's papers. The text in question has been removed. _dk (talk) 18:27, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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