User talk:*ptrs4all*

Hello, please can you advise me (step-by-step ideally) on the best way to proceed with the following. I would like to add some information to the article 'Duncan Barrett' & also to request a source (verification) for a statement made in the article. However, I have a COI (see articles 'The Reluctant Tommy' & 'John Ronald Skirth'. This is the paragraph & my additional information is in bold. The statement that I want to challenge is in italics. (I was very aware of the criticism made at the time & do not recall any made in regard to Skirth's supposed pacifism).

Duncan Barrett

Work as writer and editor[edit] Barrett was the editor of Ronald Skirth's pacifist First World War memoir The Reluctant Tommy, published by Macmillan in 2010.[4] In it he wrote that, having come across Skirth's memoir through his mother's research, he felt determined that it should be read by a wide audience.[8] The book was favourably reviewed by Richard Holmes in the Evening Standard[9] and Jonathan Gibbs in the Financial Times,[10] as well as receiving coverage in the Daily Mail,[11] Socialist Worker[12] and the Sunday Express.[13] '''However, Phil Tomaselli’s review in the BBC’s Whodoyouthinkyouare? Magazine was mostly negative and in a Sunday Times article (2011) the Imperial War Museum “…admitted that [Skirth’s papers] are mostly fictional.”' The book also came under attack from critics who objected to its pacifist politics'' and questioned its accuracy. In a revised introduction to the paperback edition (2011), Barrett defended the memoir, encouraging people to ‘read the book for yourself and make up your own mind who to believe'.[14] '''An article by Ruth Ward in the Canadian Army Journal (17.3) summarized the main findings of her study in which she investigated the authenticity of Skirth’s original memoir. (The study was accepted into the Imperial War Museum’s Access Library in 2014). The article concluded that Skirth had satirized his WW1 military service to implicitly ridicule British Army failings affecting his war service and in particular his battery’s omission from the Order of Battle in the Official History, Italy.''' Thank you &#42;ptrs4all* (talk) 17:50, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I have added a citation needed tag to the questionable sentence. My advice would be to propose the other changes on the article's talk page at Talk:Duncan Barrett. You can add the code (including the curly brackets) to your proposal to raise awareness. We'll need more precise sources than, for example, "a Sunday Times article (2011)", though. Are our readers expected to read a year's worth of Sunday Times to find the source? Does Ward explicitly discuss Barrett's work? If not, then her study is irrelevant for the Wikipedia article on Barrett. Huon (talk) 21:27, 12 November 2018 (UTC)