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A fact from Go Set a Watchman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 February 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the manuscript of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman—written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters—was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014?
In the section "Controversy," does anyone think that Jezebel can fairly be termed a mainstream news source? I'm not trying to discredit the legitimacy of the source, I just don't know anyone who would call it MSM. Twinkie eater91 (talk) 02:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That whole section is rather lopsided. It fails to quote Lee herself or mention that she says she's not being exploited. The whole "exploited" thing was created out of thin air; there's never been any evidence to support it. -- 98.171.173.90 (talk) 00:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a npov tag to the article, in hopes of balancing out the article, but the 'controversies' section especially. I 'm not sure that i did it correctly, just got off a nine hour shift, but will do my best to find some non-'conspiracy'-type sources on the 'controversy'. I've read plenty that are critical of the idea that Lee was/is being used or taken advantage of, but can't remember if they were in RSs. Will do some research when i have more time, but i hope we can balance this out a bit. off to sleepyland! Moss Ryder (talk) 06:18, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The men in this article are referred to by their full or last names (Jonathan Mahler, Mahler, Andrew Nurnberg, Wayne Flynt, Flynt, Joe Nocera, Stephen Peck, Peck) but some of the women are sometimes referred to as "Ms" (Ms. Kristiina Drews, Ms. Drews, Ms. Hohoff, Ms. Lee). One man, Edward Burlingame, is referred to once as "Mr. Burlingame," but for the most part it's only women who have a gender-specific honorific. The whole practice is frightfully archaic. Charles Dickens is always referred to as "Dickens," Truman Capote is "Capote," Charlotte Brontë is "Brontë." In academic writing, Harper Lee would be referred to as "Lee." Unless someone can come up with a pretty compelling reason to treat the women in this article differently to the men, I'd suggest omitting the dainty "Ms." Better to be consistent and refer to everyone by their full or last name only (ie. Lee, Drews, Hohoff).Sadiemonster (talk) 12:50, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I started to go through this article a few days ago when I found a very large number of copy violations. I think I caught most of them, though the writing remained very poor, IMO. At the time I thought that someone would come along in a few days and correct some of the obvious major editing problems with this article, but this has not happened. I can only guess that no one has read the book and does not want to wade into it. I think you should go ahead and do what you can do. What do you think we should do about the use of the word "Negro" Gandydancer (talk) 13:15, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
To your last point, I wanted to ask the same thing. Is there an accepted convention in cases like these (i.e, should the word stay since it is used in the book)? To the previous point, I see no reason why honorifics be used at all in this case. Golden122306 (talk) 23:27, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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