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Dark Lady (Shakespeare)
Please don't remove maintenance tags until "the issue has been adequately addressed". The details are at WP:WTRMT. Thanks. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 07:16, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You seem to be missing the point of the "Speculation about the Dark Lady" section of the article: it's listing speculations about the dark lady—not picking out the historical reality from the abundant chaff—so it's not necessary to complain that "in reality" the article isn't proving its points. Indeed, the article's lead paragraph warns that this is a "pointless" exercise. Complaining about article content must be on the article's talk page, not in the article itself: that what the  tag you removed meant.
 * Incidentally, the whole section used to be called "Aline Florio" (after the stupidest of the speculations) until I changed it and added the explanation of how it was derived. Unfortunately, this modern invention seems to have taken off a bit when Burl's book was eagerly reviewed in many newspapers and in some quarters the Dark Lady is "Aline Florio". The WP article needs to be as clear, definitive and authoritative as possible, to counter this.
 * Labelling the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as an doesn't help to resolve the issue and present a coherent article (isn't this our aim?). You are supposed to explain the problem on the article's talk page when you add a tag; without this, it just looks like spiteful "tit for tat".
 * --217.155.32.221 (talk) 08:21, 21 June 2020 (UTC)