Talk:Lester Rodney

message: What specifically is wrong with this article?  It is documented and verifiable.
: I wrote this entry with the help of Lester Rodney himself.  I spent 2 years researching Lester and the Daily/Sunday Worker for my master's thesis, and have done subsequent research on the topic, including many conversations with Lester and his late wife, Clare.  If there is something more that the moderators would like to see, please give me some explicit directions and I will see what I can do.  I have not only read everything there is published about Lester, I have his ear, so to speak - I am able to call him or email him whenever I want, so he and I can work on whatever will make this article better.  I am committed to making the world knowledgeable about Lester Rodney and his contribution to the desegregation of major league baseball, so whatever Wikipedia wants, I will do that.  And given the recent controversy concerning credentials, my master's thesis is in the library at Clemson University and is easily findable in the Library of Congress online catalog.  I also have other publications concerning Lester Rodney and the Daily/Sunday Worker I can cite for you if you want, including publications with Chris Lamb, professor of Communications at the College of Charleston, with whom we compare the Communist newspaper coverage of baseball with the black news coverage.  So whatever will get this "starter" tag changed, I will do it, just let me know.  I have had a Wikipedia account for a while, so email me or leave a comment here, I check this page every so often for comments.  This is the only entry I have on here, so I need a little help in doing things like this.  Kelly E. Rusinack Kelelain 16:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is an 'Or" template?  And how do I go about that?  Thanks for the info! Kelelain 05:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have referenced the article to Irwin Silber's biography, Press Box Red, so I think the above discussion of "original research" is now moot. Dwalls 04:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, after reviewing your references, they were mostly wrong. For one, I wrote the exact wording that is in this article, AND I attached my name to the first appearance of the article, which was then erased.  I fought to get Lester's bio put back on here, and it was put back with Wiki edits, but still MY words, not Mr. Silber's. My thesis came out in 1995 -- it was researched from 1993-1994.  NO ONE, including Mr. Silber, except Mark Naison and I was doing this research.  So you need to research the earliest mentions of this information, not to mention, the person who actually wrote the article expressly for Wikipedia. In fact, I will find my thesis and grab MY page citations to both my own works and Dr. Naison's, because that is more relevant here.  Though, I will add, 99% of this article was written by me and Lester together, by email, on 24 April 2005, with minor edits on 28 and 30 April 2005.  I would appreciate it if, in the future, I am contacted, considering that I started the "discussion" on this page and made it clear that it is MY original work. If Mr. Silber is cited, then so should everyone else who used my thesis as a reference, it's considered to be the definitive work on the Worker's campaign (see Henry D. Fetter, "The Party Line and the Color Line...," Journal of Sports History 3:28 Fall 2001, p. 398, fn. 38).Kelelain 00:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Referenced article

message: This article neglects to mention Hoover's obsession with the subject. Pity since it's somewhat fascinating and now documented.
https://sports.vice.com/article/j-edgar-hoover-was-a-massive-ass
(Feel free to read that is, hey, I don't want to write this, someone else should though.)
72.201.250.152 (talk) 17:44, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: FBI

message: His New York Times obituary calls him the sports editor of the Daily Worker. 68.193.85.175 (talk) 06:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I rectified that - like I said, I've taken a largely hands-off approach to this article for years now, but some of the more recent edits contained non-factual information and poor grammar. The fact that Rodney was the editor from the day he took the job was missed, also. I added that back in. Kelelain (talk) 23:20, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should he be described at some point as an editor?