Talk:National Day of Mourning (United States protest)

message: The whole article focuses rather too narrowly on this one specific "National Day of Mourning" without reference to the institution of a national day of mourning, or national days of mourning due to other circumstances, e.g. the death of heads of state, or large-scale accidents. Burschik 15:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverage 

message: The National Day of Mourning is an annual protest held on the third Thursday of November (known to many as Thanksgiving) in the United States of America since 1970.
Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of the month.  Is the National Day of Mourning the same day as Thanksgiving, or the third Thursday?  Either way, the above intro should change. --PurpleRain 21:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date confusion 

message: Isn't a national day of mourning when the President of the United States signs a proclamation stating all flags are to be flown at half-staff, businesses are to close early, etc. Like what happened when Ronald Reagan died? Happyme22 17:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Day of Mourning? 

message: Are there sources for anything on this page, other than the first paragraph?  All of the links that say "source" in parenthesis are broken.  Is there a source for this speech that was pasted verbatim into the article?  It seems out of place.  I haven't seen that much text pasted into other articles. Urlass 15:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've looked up each of the obsolete sources via Internet Archive and put in current replacements with identical content. Admittedly not in ideal ref form, but I'm leaving that task to someone else more adept at ref usage.--Goldfndr 01:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I've seen it both ways. --Goldfndr 02:29, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wampsutta or Wamsutta? 

message: The second opening paragraph was full of so much anti-Indian hate that I deleted it.  It added NOTHING to the article but bias.  Whoever wrote the paragraph needs to realize that inherent within the idea of citing sources is CORRECTLY citing sources.  I am a colonial history doctoral student and this paragraph completely misrepresented Diamond and the literature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.180.242.96 (talk) 06:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: I removed the speech at the end of the article.  A full transcript of a speech is not encyclopedic material.  If the speech is to be included, a subsection about the speech should be added, and quotes from the speech should be used, as opposed to the entire thing. Jrkarp (talk) 16:42, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speech 

message: In looking over the 1997 violence section, I realized that essentially the entire section was almost word-for-word copied from one of its sources, namely .  There are two issues here: first, we can't accept verbatim text from another source unless it was posted by the copyright holder of that source or it is otherwise licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.  See Wikipedia:Copyright violation. For this reason, I've removed the text completely.
Obviously the article is poorer without any account of this issue at all.  However, I have a second concern that I would like those restoring the section to consider: relying heavily on sources with a particular point of view (as this section did) is not consistent with the policy Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.  We are obligated to find neutral news sources for statements of fact, or to indicate whose point of view we are presenting if we are presenting a particular viewpoint.  Various points of view should be balanced and cited if at all possible. -- SCZenz (talk) 23:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1997 violence section removed 

message: This article really needs additional, third-party, valid sources.  Obviously the day of protest was started in an era of protest, but academics have studied that time and must have written about this as well, or journalists have, and in a wider sense than just covering a particular day's activities.  There has been much writing about Native American activities and history.  These are the sources that should be used, not just the UAINE organization's own accounts.  What is the perspective of other American Indian tribes?  Do any disagree? How about the ones making good revenue from casinos and other facilities?  Times have changed since 1970 - all evils may not be cured, in terms of the speech at the end, but much has changed.  I would agree that a National Day of Mourning, in the traditional sense, should be explained.--Parkwells (talk) 18:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Context and other sources

message: The Thanksgiving page says the first official Thanksgivings were 1621 and '23, proclaimed by Governor Bradford, and not '37 proclaimed by Winthrop as stated here. Can this be reconciled? 129.215.25.81 (talk) 11:12, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical issues 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: I'm going to look this article over, check and archive sources, attempt to improve the tone and maybe add some pictures (I will carefully review the preceeding discussions above). I will work in my sandbox but please feel free to leave suggestions here. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look-over, source check, tone, etc.