Talk:History of the American Legion

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Citations Broken[edit]

Whoever broke this out of the American Legion article didn't bother to make sure that the short-citation scheme in that article was brought over to this article. It's left a huge number of citations such as "Heale 1990, p. 82" which no longer link to anything anyone can identify as a source. (In the original article, clicking on the short citation took you to the full citation; short citations are valuable because each can give a different page number in the source without having to repeate the complete citation.) Cleaning it up is more work than I care to engage in at the moment, but it needs to be done since large sections of the article are now effectively unsourced. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:38, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not comprehensive enough[edit]

The article does not mention the American legion's opposition against Harold Rugg's social studies textbooks at all(cf.[1]), which is imperative because it reflected the Legion's educational philosophy.--RekishiEJ (talk) 10:59, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Centralia Massacre[edit]

The section about the Centralia Massacre is highly biased toward the IWW and contains information that is not proven to be true and contradicts Wikipedia's own page about the event. The entire section uses a single source written by a biased author as its only citation. It uses the weasel words "according to some witnesses," to state that Parade Marshal Adrian Cormier gave a signal to attack the IWW hall, omitting who these witnesses were. 2601:14F:4501:8340:C1AD:6BE2:2310:B628 (talk) 23:20, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]