Talk:Father Goose: His Book

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I have a question about the following section in parentheses, from towards the end of the article:
 * (Yet standards change: within a comic context, Baum and Denslow attempted to portray a broad view of humanity and the American melting pot, with inclusion of Native Americans and African Americans, Italians and Irish and Chinese, instead of the uniformly Anglo-Saxon world of many children's books of their day. What was then a liberal gesture is now seen as stereotyped, racist, and offensive.)

Is that a quotation from the source given? Or is it your own writing? I was about to copyedit it, because if it's your own writing it needs to be cleaned up a bit for the article; if it's from the source, on the other hand, it needs to be put in quotes and either moved into the ref itself or better integrated into the flow of the sentence. &mdash;Politizer talk / contribs 02:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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I replaced my paraphrase of Hearn's passage with a direct quote. Hearn's grammar is not perfect &mdash; "African American" and "Italian" should be plurals &mdash; but it's as printed in The Baum Bugle. Better, or not? Ugajin (talk) 00:17, 21 November 2008 (UTC)