Talk:Slavery in Massachusetts

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The links User:Requestion has been removing fit this category and do not fit the "Links normally to be avoided" category at all. For instance, Requestion has been removing from this page a link to Editorial Savoir Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into “Slavery in Massachusetts”, a scholarly article describing in detail how Thoreau transformed the content of his journal into the essay that is the topic of this page. This cannot be justified under any of the guidelines on the Wikipedia External Links policy page. -Moorlock 00:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. However, this article should not contain such large extracts of text from the essay/lecture; it should be an encyclopedia article about the essay. -- Rbellin|Talk 15:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I (Alan Kay) think that Wikipedia is currently at its best when quoting original material. How wonderful to be able to find it so simply! In contrast, a distressingly large number of the articles that are about something I know about, especially from direct experience or expert practice, are full of various kinds of errors. So I would like to plead both for more direct material, and for more careful vetting of claims and authors of commentary.