Vasio

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Wagners first love

Dear Vasio, how charming to find a newcomer to Wikipedia stepping into this controversy - but actually you will note if you read my comments that I have sourced my condemnation of Praeger, so that it is not WP:OR. With best regards - --Smerus (talk) 18:30, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Smerus, most certainly the older sources should be put into the context of Praeger's newer contributions. The way new research challenges older views would, I think, make for a more interesting article. But the old sources still remain WP:V. So instead of having an article deleted, it could have been turned into something even more interesting by showing changing views and improved methods of research.

The way you use the word "charming" to describe my edit on your talk page suggests that your feelings have been hurt. If so, I am sorry. I may have been more blunt than I intended. Clumsy of me. Vasio (talk) 21:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Not at all, no offence taken or even assumed by me. And my hide has become thick as an elehpant's thanks to Wikipedia. The 'old sources' were essentially false, and discredited Wikipedia; if there was any direct source, someone would have supplied it, the story would have been acceptable and the whole issue would not have arisen. In the absence of primary sources it remains a fairy tale. Best regards --Smerus (talk) 14:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)