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Mass unreliable edits being made by Wmdarrow

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Mass edits have been made to this article by Wmdarrow but none of the content this user has added is sourced. This is highly problematic. Please read WP:OR. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:36, 4 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

There is also conflict of interest here, as Wmdarrow claims Werner Hegemann is his grandfather [1] Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:38, 4 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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This content added by Wmdarrow is unsourced:

"During the late 1920s Hegemann published two historical books debunking German heroes: Fredericus (published in Germany in 1926 with an English translation in 1929), and Napoleon, or Prostration Before the Hero (published in Germany in 1927 with an English translation in 1931). Both books challenged the popular German perception at the time of Frederick the Great and Napoleon as great leaders, romanticized and celebrated for their military successes and nation building. In his foreword to the English Fredericus, Hegemann denounced Frederick the Great as a "most obnoxious figure," and wrote that "The present book opposes the overpowering and continuously increasing mass of literature in praise of the 'Great King.'" In Napoleon the French emperor is described as a "butcher" whose Napoleonic Wars produced "rivers of blood," "untold human sacrifice," and four million deaths. These volumes and other writings clearly set forth Hegemann's prescient concern about German lauding of strong national leaders."

The first line is probably acceptable, but this like most of the text Wmdarrow has added runs into the problem of WP:OR. What is needed are reliable secondary sources. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:20, 8 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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