Talk:Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

message: The article seem incomplete; doesn't really address the Dreyfus affair in detail; ends abruptly in 1894; what happened afterward? --FeanorStar7 06:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete

message: As already mentioned, this article definitely is not NPOV and should be rewritten. Unfortunately I have no source material on Esterhazy so I can't do much about it. I'm certain more recent sources then a contemporary edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica can be found.
Note, both the French and German wikipedias only have stubs about Esterhazy.--Caranorn 23:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: The neutrality tag was two years old, and my impression, as a fresh reader, is that the article is now reasonably balanced, so I removed the tag.  I did tag the Post-War section, but only because it lacks citations; otherwise, it's OK.  Also did a little minor cleanup.  About the Revisionist section...though the hypothesis has no academic support, I think it's a fascinating hypothesis, by no means crackpot, and its author is a legitimate scholar. I think the section, including the demurral, should stay.  J M Rice (talk) 09:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated the article. 

message: I intitally tried to accommodate in the main article an addition which argued against the French Wikipedia conclusion that the revisionist argument has not been accepted by other modern authors by reference to a recent Canadian work of detective fiction, set against the backdrop of the Dreyfus Affair, which talks of Esterhazy as an "unwitting" double agent.  However, the entry turned out to come from an unregistered account that is being used for the purpose of vandalism, and I am in any case not sure that a novel really counts in this context.  For anyone who may be interested, however, here is the section after I had edited it:
The novel "A Man in Uniform: A Novel" by the Canadian author  Kate Taylor, first published in Canada in 2010, a fictional detective story set in Paris at the end of the 19th century and based on the Dreyfus Affair, does, nonetheless, contain a reference to Esterhazy as the "unwitting double agent" of a character named Masson. Nandt1 (talk) 12:02, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Revisionism redux

message: Hello.  You have several times deleted material from this article on Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy -- material which has been translated from an article on the Dreyfus Affair in the French version of Wikipedia -- claiming that Wikipedia does not permit copying from one article to another. This is an incorrect understanding of Wikipedia policy. Indeed, Wikipedia fully allows for strengthening articles in one language version with material translated from another. Please see, for example, the article "Wikipedia: Copying within Wikipedia". Please do not continue deleting material in Wikipedia articles based on a misunderstanding of Wikipedia policy. Thank you.  Nandt1 (talk) 21:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: However, text moved must be held to the same standards as original text.  The French Wikipedia article does not cite any sources for its statement, it is unsourced commentary.  Translated unsourced commentary is still unsourced commentary.  Copying from the French Wikipedia to the English Wikipedia is copying from one part of the same project to a different part; not copying between separate works.  Thus, the statement that citing French Wikipedia was circular citing is correct, as the source of the information was Wikipedia, not a reliable source which the French Wikipedia should have cited for its information.  Ian.thomson (talk) 21:35, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Message for User 24.15.121.116

message: Was he born in Hungary or France?  The article says the former; the infobox says the latter. 12.239.145.114 (talk) 00:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: There is a photo used on the German wiki article that I am having problems adding to this English page. Can anyione help please. The image is here  --Mystichumwipe (talk) 12:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help adding photo of when he was younger 

message: Henri Giscard d'Estaing was only a child when the book about the Dreyfus affair was written, so it must be another person with the same name.  We tried to figure out who - there was another person in the family called Henri, who is the right age and was a retired artillery office, so it's very possibly him, but we've no evidence to be sure. That discussion is archived here. I'll change the link in the article to avoid the mixup. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 08:42, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Henri Giscard d'Estaing 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Since he was never found guilty by a court, how can the article claim that he was "actual perpetrator of the act of treason"?
Same way you can claim that O.J. killed his wife. Guilty in fact is not the same as guilty in law. 2A00:23C7:E287:1900:6164:96C7:764C:41AC (talk) 14:36, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guilty?