Talk:Speak White

message: I understand why the unreferenced tag and my original fact tag were removed, but the additional sources which have been added are not primary sources, and they especially do not allow any generalization about the frequency ("a common insult") with which this phrase was used. I'm willing to be edified on this. The last time I lived in Quebec was 1949, so I'm not exactly well versed on this issue. However, I do know that the frequency with which this phrase was/is used is disputed, so some scholarly reference would be useful. Actually, I'd be satisfied with some statements from users from Quebec about how often they hear or used to hear this phrase (or use or used to use it), but I'm afraid that would constitute original research by Wikipedia's rules. John FitzGerald 17:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I certainly agree that it could use some more notable sources, or a rewording, but to me the citation maybe calls into question whether it happened at all, to someone new to the topic.  I think the large number of offhand references in google hits makes it seem like a known and perhaps common insult, but if you can recommend a more "important" source for me to look in, I'd be more than happy to do the work.  I tried searching for it in some newspapers but had a hard time getting a straight article.  Dan Carkner 17:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the prompt reply. I can't recommend a source, but may actually go and look for one. My particular problem at the moment is with the assertion that it was "common." It would be nice to know exactly how common it was/is supposed to be. As I said, I'll take people's word for it, if they can estomate how often they heard it. Although Wikipedia rules don't approve of that type of evidence, I think this is one of those issues where the Wikipedia rules is a ass, and I could look the other way if I was persuaded. John FitzGerald 17:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact tag 

message: I really disagree with the changes being made here.  This article is about a poem that describes prejudice against french-speaking Québecois in Canada.   It is not about the vietnam war and imperialism (except indirectly)..  Why use an ultra-strict interpretation of citation to erase an important element of someone's history?  I will look it up in Quebec literature books at the library, please don't just make this article about nothing, put a fact tag if you want.   Dan Carkner 00:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the article was basically trimmed down to one mis-attributed fact, I tried for a while to find sources for some of the things that were written before.  Again I don't know what counts as the ultimate citation on here, since we're talking about an extremely impolite slur.  A search on google reveals hundreds of mentions in all sorts of places, at this point I don't think there's any doubt that it *was* said to put down French-speakers in Canada. Dan Carkner 04:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

text: In particular, the source given for the assertion "The expression has fallen out of use and has rarely been heard since the 1960s, although it is not unheard of" is completely inadequate. It's one person's opinion, and it says little about relative frequency. Is the assertion that the expression was once rare and now has vanished, or that it was frequent and now has vanished? John FitzGerald 13:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm open to that last part being taken out.  I was just trying to give some kind of context.  Anyways it's still an improvement over what it was reduced to before.. I didn't write in anywhere how often it was said, also. Dan Carkner 17:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't think it should come out. Thanks to you we are getting somewhere with this. I'll think about it and see if I can come up with anything. I don't want to minimize this but neither do I want the article to leave an exaggerated impression of the frequency with which the phrase was used (not that I'm implying that it does, only that objective evidence that it doesn't would be helpful). John FitzGerald 18:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting 

message: I've rewritten the article to better reflect verifiable claims. The poem, although highly incendiary,  is an important piece of work in Canadian literature. I've also removed some of unverifiable references, replaced some with good references, and asked for new ones where neccessary. I think this article is now neutral. --Soulscanner 07:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, English-Canadians don't speak with any of those poets' accents. John FitzGerald (talk) 00:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal unneccessary 

message: Canadian journalist William Johnson has published an interesting paper The Canadian Myth of “Speak White!” – A Sociological Analysis : http://vision.williamjohnson-quebec.ca/the-canadian-myth-of-speak-white/. It can't be ref'd because it's self-published, but it does provide some interesting insights which I've used to update this article. --Cornellier (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essay about the subject 

message: There is not enough reference-able material out there for this article to be about the poem or the phrase. The article has contained a  since 2007 so I rewrote the lead to make the article about that and removed a lot of WP:SYNTH. If the article is about the film then per WP:COATRACK and WP:NPOV the mentions of Louis Robichaud and Robert Lepage should go. --Cornellier (talk) 11:26, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree here, and have updated the article accordingly.  The primary topic is the poem.  The article can definitely be improved, see fr:Speak White and fr:Speak White (film) for ideas. 162 etc. (talk) 19:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this article about the phrase, the poem, or the film? 

message: Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Exact name of French article; see its history for attribution.
--Sophia.guo30 (talk) 15:18, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation from French and edits