Talk:Michael Blake (author)

Works
Michael Blake has written more than provided, however I could not find dates for these. If somebody could find them, it might help. D Hill 19:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Is Blake a historian, or is he a novelist?
I included the following two quotations from Blake’s Indian Yell (2006) in an edit last year to wiki Battle of the Washita:

Author Michael Blake pointed out: "Unofficially, General Sheridan deemphasized the taking of [woman and children] prisoners"[64] and the regiment had "implied orders to kill everyone [during the attack]".[65]

At all events, "it was standard procedure during an attack to kill any male over 12 years of age, whether resisting or not."[72]

65. Blake, Michael. Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency. Northland Publishing (2006). p. 77 72. Blake, Michael. Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency. Northland Publishing (2006). p. 81

From Discussion page from Battle of the Washita, an editor rationalized removing any and all material from Blake as follows:

“I have removed [sources derived from] Michael Blake. Blake [fails to meet] WP:RS in this case - he is a novelist and screenwriter, and the quotations from him are wildly speculative and would be barely acceptable were they made by an actual historian. PBS is PBS - televised entertainment and not serious scholarship. A college term paper using these as sources would fail. In the ABC-CLIO/PBS sourcing as to "massacre," I have preserved the content but substituted a peer-reviewed major work by a major academic publisher. Blake I simply removed: those controversial points need to be substantiated by someone with the credentials to indicate that they might know what they were talking about.” Sensei48 (talk) 16:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC) WP:RS

What is your take on this? Is Blake an author of fiction, or is he a historian? Does Blake "know what he's talking about"?

Any experience with accessing the application of WP:RS? 36hourblock (talk) 18:16, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I can only find one historian's review of the book in a quick search of the scholarly literature. That was by Nichols, R.L., in the New Mexico Historical Review Vol. 83, #2, pp. 256-257; and I don't have access to the NMHR. What did Nichols have to say? -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  18:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Newspaper reviewers were not very favorable, and definitely dismissed it as more propaganda than objective history; here are a couple of links:  -- Orange Mike   &#x007C;   Talk  18:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

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