Talk:Portrayal of black people in comic books

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[edit] Good initial entry!

Hi, Maple Leaf — always glad to help. Overall, I think you did a very solid job that mostly avoided POV and contained good footnoting. Bravo!

I made a quick and by no means comprehensive pass. Most of my edits were technical in nature: Footnotes ref-tags have no spaces before them; image captions don't have forced line breaks; individual years aren't wikilinked; numerical decades don't have apostrophe-s — boring stuff like that. I also broke up some long paragraphs; streamlined some sentences; and for topics that have their own articles, such as Dell Comics' Lobo, all we need to do is give a basic paragraph or so to identify them, and use the "main article" template.

I removed one or two sentences of claims not supported by footnotes, which seems like original-research conclusions / POV, but really, not much. I excised a reference to sidekicks since one of the examples was the Black Panther being in the Avengers; that's not being a sidekick, but a team-member.

And again, these are small, mostly technical things. In my humble opinion, this is a very, very solid start. Congrats. --Tenebrae (talk) 03:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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