Talk:Anna Balmer Myers

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The problem of unreferenced articles[edit]

This article was created in 2007, but 14 years later, in 2021, I found that it had no references. I started researching and rewrote the article, eliminating everything I couldn't properly reference. I deleted this sentence:

Myers' work is frequently viewed as a gentle corrective to the harsh misrepresentations of another novelist, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, also from Lancaster County, whose stories about the Pennsylvania Dutch of Lancaster County, particularly her Tillie: a Mennonite Maid, provoked cries of misrepresentation from those who resented her depictions.

I tried to find a reference for this statement. I found the sentence copied and pasted into at least three websites, but the only published reference I could find was in the book Life of the Amish, printed by PediaPress -- a publisher that assembles printed books from Wikipedia articles, including the formally unreferenced Anna Balmer Myers article. Myers' novels may have been "frequently viewed as a gentle corrective" to another author's novels, or it may have been one person's opinion that has been published as a fact in a non-fiction book.

If you want to add something to any Wikipedia article list the reference where you found the information. Don't just add something that you think you know, for you may be wrong. Karenthewriter (talk) 15:09, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]