User talk:Pythagorian

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Tecumseh
I have reverted your edits to Tecumseh because Wikipedia has some guidelines for content that I dont believe were met. Wikipedia is not just a random collection of trivia "Tecumseh appeared in this book and this book and this movie and this book and this advertisement..."

We are creating an encyclopedia which attempts to put information into a context. And so we would need a third party - something other than the book itself that talks about "Why Card chose that character?" or "How Card's portrayal of T is similar or different to the historical figure" or "Card's portrayal was hailed or jeered by historians/Native Americans/the religious right" ... something more for our article than "It has Tecumseh."

You may be able to find free online sources in scholar.google.com or books.google.com or news.google.com or googles news archives. And then cite where you found the content

Please leave me a note if you have questions.Active Banana (talk) 03:05, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * On second thought, since i had liked that book, i did a little searching and found a source to add to the article myself. Active Banana (talk) 04:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)