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The lead on this article is shocking. Anyone else would have the phrase "notorious antisemite" in the first sentence. It would be fine to say he regretted it later in life, but to sweep decades of vitriolic antisemitism under the rug is a shocking case of revisionism. 2605:8D80:5823:5C9E:FC36:9FD0:5167:E6FB (talk) 02:20, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Paragraph three has two points relating to his anti-Semitism, but you have to remember that we don't have an article on Pound because of his anti-Semitism: we have an article largely because of his writings He was an otherwise complex individual who had a great many thoughts and opinions and the lead does a fairly good job of covering as wide a range of them as it can in summary form. The body contains much more information about the whole range of his thoughts and opinions in more depth where it's possible to add further context. - SchroCat (talk) 06:26, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article includes the interesting quote "Let her try Rothschild and some of the bastards who are murdering 10 million anglo saxons in England". Would it be possible to add some context for the quote in a footnote? In particular, the reference to "murdering 10 million anglo saxons" completely escapes me. Is that supposed to be an estimate of the size of the English working class, for example, who are being punished by "usury", or something else? Cheers, Suriname0 (talk) 04:18, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should there be a mention of CasaPound in the legacy section? They cite both his poems _and_ his pro-fascist activities as inspiration (being an Italian neo-fascist group that named itself after him). It has also caused controversy since Pound’s daughter criticized the group for distorting his legacy. 173.27.3.111 (talk) 11:34, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"whose doctors viewed Pound as a narcissist and a psychopath, but otherwise completely sane".
These are both extremely serious disorders, according to their wiki pages.
Isn't that equivalent to saying he has smallpox and rabies, but otherwise he's a picture of health? 92.60.12.169 (talk) 12:13, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I supposed the key word is "otherwise". But that doesn't sound like a usual diagnostic statement by a medical professional. Is it a paraphrase? But why does it even appear (unsourced) in the lead section? It doesn't seem to appear, or have any attribution, in the main body. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:30, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Small style consideration: I added a wikilink to Joan of Arc in the sentence Hitler was "a Jeanne d'Arc ... Like many martyrs, he held extreme views"., but it was reverted by User:Gerda Arendt. Obviously, not a big deal, but I wanted to flag for further discussion: this is a direct conflict between the guideline at MOS:NOLINKQUOTE and the guideline to link to "proper names that are likely to be unfamiliar to readers". Especially as this is the French rendition of her name, I assert without evidence that >25% of readers may not immediately recognize the referent in the quote, and so we should wikilink it. If they're not in the top 100 people I would expect English-language-educated children to recognize, I support wikilinking. Other thoughts are welcome. Suriname0 (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a problem here under MOS:NOLINKQUOTE: that guideline has Be conservative when linking within quotations; link only to targets that correspond to the meaning clearly intended by the quote's author. Where possible, link from text outside of the quotation instead – either before it or soon after. The point is to make sure that (for example) if the person is talking about "Athens", you don't link to the one in Greece if there's a chance they were talking about the one in Georgia. Similarly, there's no good way to link from texst outside the quotation, since that name is a vital part of it; it's also unmistakeable that Pound means Joan of Arc, so the MoS raises no objection to the link. UndercoverClassicistT·C17:24, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any particular reason why a small cluster of editors are so vehemently opposed to introducing an infobox to this article, or, indeed, that of almost every other 20th- or 19th-century artistic figure? Keeper of Albion (talk) 18:27, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see any history of you proposing an infobox for this article, at least not recently. Were you perhaps editing under a different account? MilesVorkosigan (talk) 21:38, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Never said I did. Take a look at the archives here or Talk:Noël Coward or the talk pages of numerous similar articles to see what I mean. Innumerable editors ardently opposed even to the most basic infobox. Keeper of Albion (talk) 21:49, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Then the people who oppose adding an infobox to this article might not even exist, and any general discussion of them should probably be at the infobox talk page.
If you think an infobox should be added and think people may not agree to it, it's completely fine to host a discussion here about it!
Please do keep in mind that anyone who opposes to infoboxes (whether here or in other cases) probably mean well and you do not need to call out anyone you think is opposing infoboxes in various articles, even if you're not revealing their identity (be it their username, name, etc.) in any direct way. If you know who these editors are, it would make more sense to just discuss your disagreements to their views with them, whether in their respective personal talk pages or the talk pages of the infobox-less articles in particular you've seen them disagree in!
I’m not thinking of any editors in particular; it’s just something I’ve come across in the articles I frequent. I don’t see why it should be decided on an article-by-article basis. Keeper of Albion (talk) 22:55, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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