Talk:Daughters of the American Revolution

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: About a third of this article concerns race, much of the content over-written, some of it over-emotive, and (significantly) not represented in the lede. These sections could usefully be edited-down to a fraction of their present length, with appropriate hyperlinks to the relevant topics. Valetude (talk) 10:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I know very little about the topic, but having tried to gain said knowledge by reading this article, agreed. It has very detailed sections that might not be suitable in an encyclopedic entry that's supposed to briefly cover the most important parts of an organisation. This information can be kept but condensed. /Julle (talk) 01:56, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no on had argued against this having too much focus on details since April, I went ahead and trimmed it. My ambition was to keep focus on the actions policies of the organisation. I hope this helps readers getting an understanding of racial discrimination in the DAR, instead of getting lost in details of individual cases. /Julle (talk) 16:16, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe there's room for this somewhere else – an individual article on the topic? – but I think it's counterproductive to have three paragraphs about individual events in the 30s – it risks pushing away readers, rather than teaching them. /Julle (talk) 16:19, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: While there may have been room for some trimming, the massive cut underplays the import of the DAR's long history of racism (including the involvement of two first ladies in the issues, stories worth telling.) Their exclusion of African Americans for most of the history of their organization and enforcement of segregation is now buried deep in the article, easy to miss, far away from all the other discussion of their history and mentioned not at all in the introduction. There may be a need for a separate article on the issue, but even that wouldn't excuse the deep burial in this article. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:47, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Nat Gertler: The problem is that as I genuinely wanted to read up on the subject, I found it more difficult to get an understanding of the subject than I'd expect from an enccylopedia. Individual cases could take up three paragraphs. My argument is that the old text was ineffective at explaining it, since it was easy to get lost in the details rather than the big picture; I fear we get worse, not better, at explaining it, as it was. But as always, I could be mistaken, of course. /Julle (talk) 16:58, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: (I'm very happy for someone who knows more than I do about the subject to try their hand at trimming the article, if we agree it needs to be done (do we?). I only did it since no one had reacted here since April.) /Julle (talk) 17:05, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
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message: Daughter of American revolution 2600:1702:D70:3990:88A3:1F7:3159:FBD6 (talk) 15:54, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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message: I am a daughter of the first Revolution. 2600:4040:3041:F100:7137:8732:538E:164D (talk) 22:49, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a question for Wikipedia. I would suggest taking a look at their website. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 14:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do I register?