Talk:Lorena Hickok

message: The biography jumps all over the place.  Hopefully someone can clean it up with a smooth chronologic flow or some other useful presentation.  As it is, it appears confused. Wjhonson (talk) 22:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flow

message: I think this page may concentrate too much on the nature of the relationship between Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, and not enough on Hickok's wider role in the New Deal. There is lengthy detail about her in David M. Kennedy's 'Freedom from Fear' [see chapters 6 and 7], which are perhaps more relevant than the nature of her relationship with Roosevelt.
Sophie fm (talk) 15:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to get my hands on that soon and expand further. Sorry it took four years for another editor to answer you. =) -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:35, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus of the article 

message: An editor just moved the reported lesbian relationship between Roosevelt and Hickok out of the lead section. Before I revert again, I thought I'd ask here why this happened. This relationship is the subject of exhaustive commentary and study, and the lead to this article is currently only two sentences long and in obvious need of expansion. Why should this not be included? Hick's relationship with ER is by far and away the most notable thing about her. (Her biography, for example, is subtitled "E.R.'s friend".) It seems quite reasonable to mention the debated nature of that relationship in the lead section, no? -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: To give a better idea of where I'm coming from, a quick search "Lorena Hickok" into Google, Google Scholar, and Google News. A cursory glance suggests that a large number of the sources on Hickok prominently discuss the question of whether or not the two were intimate. I don't think it's undue weight to mention it in the lead section as one of the most noted issues about her life, though I'd also like to see this lead section generally expanded beyond its sad two-sentence state. Perhaps the best way to do this would be to flesh out a full paragraph about her reporting, another about her relationship with ER, etc. I'm currently working on sourcing and improving the ER article, so I can use some of those sources to work on this one a bit, too. Let me know what you think! Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:35, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, having gotten no response for a couple of days, I've restored this material to the lead. As discussed above, I've added a fuller version of the lead generally. I'm still hoping to expand (and perhaps reorganize) more of the article in the coming days. Enjoy the weekend, everybody, -- Khazar2 (talk) 04:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affair with Roosevelt 

message: I've done a major expansion and rewrite of this article in the past 24 hours with an eye toward trying to make this a Good Article. Input from other editors on these changes would be great, particularly if you own the Faber biography, to which I don't have access. Thanks everybody, -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Article? 

message: Pegmoody (talk) 16:08, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: What edit are you requesting? 32.218.37.89 (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

text: No edit request included. ,  when you have added an actual request please replace  with  to reopen the request. —  crh 23  (Talk) 20:22, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: New section

message: She enrolled at the University of Minnesota, leaving upon being forced to live in a women's dormitory.
: Curious, unexplained remark. Valetude (talk) 16:40, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elucidate, please 

message: The leading section describes her as a "devoted Friend and Mentor" to Eleanor Roosevelt, which seems a bit like burying the lede 138.88.143.26 (talk) 08:10, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devoted Friend and Mentor?