Talk:Dear America

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[edit] Blantant POV and a lack of citations

The controversy section needs to be cleaned up really badly. There are a lot of very strong statements and claims made, yet none of it is backed up with a single reference. On top of that, there is no information with regard to why the author did this. Without it, this goes against a lot of what the Wikipedia policy on neutral point of view stands for, where everything is balanced. If this section isn't cited and cleaned up within the week, I will go through and clean it up myself. --pIrish 15:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. After going through the edit history, the entire section was recently added in one fell swoop by an, obviously, livid anonymous editor. I have cleaned the section up and made it comply with NPOV as well as back it up with a citation (which, ironically, the editor included in the external links, but did not use as a reference). --pIrish 16:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] scott pendleton

The list mentions The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 by Walter Dean Myers (1999), and I'd like to point out that this is a My Name Is America book, not a Dear America book. On the Scholastic website, I can only find 36 books mentioned, so I am removing Scott Pendleton from the list and changing the count to 36.

I just wanted to give a heads-up on what I'm doing, and if there are any concerns, please voice them! Justi521 19:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)