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but by the latter half of the decade she had repudiated Soviet Union-style expressing solidarity with Leon Trotsky after the Moscow Trials,

Does this clause mean anything? And if so, what? I shall be recasting to my best guess as to the intended meaning.

It looks like this is the product of a random deletion back in March. The line originally read:
"but by the latter half of the decade she had repudiated Soviet Union-style Communism, expressing solidarity with Leon Trotsky after the Moscow Trials[...]"
Your edit appears to return it to the original intent. ~CS 21:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I've changed this to "Soviet-Style Communism." This was my original intent, since the term encapsulates both the Russian "Soviet" and such movements in America. User:SAWIT 9:44, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was no consensus. —Nightstallion (?) 08:48, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Mary McCarthy (author) → Mary McCarthy … Rationale: The author is the historically significant person. The former CIA analyst is already out of the news and will be a footnote to history in another two weeks. ~ trialsanderrors 08:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
  • "'Support'"--Mary Therese McCarthy (author) will likely remain the primary object of interest. It it worth noting that the author has already indured a number of such identity trials including conflation with a Hollywood screenwriter.
  • Weak oppose -- As long as a proper dab page exists, there's no problem with this article having its new, "qualified" title. Atlant 11:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I don't see any real reason to get rid of the dab page, while there's still an ambiguous article here. If/when the other Mary McCarthy is deleted, that'd be the time to address the issue. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 20:57, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong suppport Primary usage. Dab header, of ocurse. Septentrionalis 02:54, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Support as the requester. With only two entries under Mary McCarthy, there is no need for a dab page, as long as there is a dab header in each article. ~ trialsanderrors 04:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Comment: It should be noted that, contrary to the information provided in the header for this straw poll, the McCarthy from the CIA is not out of the news. In fact, there was a large article about her in the Washington Post just yesterday. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 13:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Yeah I linked to this Saturday night. It was, of course, the first article of note in about three weeks, and I've been monitoring the situation fairly closely. ~ trialsanderrors 17:26, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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Sigh...the author is clearly the primary usage. But I suppose the previous poll was too recent. If someone refers to "Mary McCarthy" without any context, it's going to be the author, not some minor figure from the news. john k 13:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hellman lawsuit

It isn't true that the lawsuit against McCarthy kept on until both women's deaths. Someone has "documented" this with a reference to Kiernan's biography, p. 702, but in fact there is no reference to this happening in that biography. In fact, on p. 701, Kiernan documents that Hellman's estate ended the suit in August, only a little over a month after Hellman died.