Bob Rosen, who prepared the entry, has shared with me (the subject) your editorial concerns. I must say that I have some troubling concerns of my own. Take the following paragraph and comments: "Lauter helped circulate the famous manifesto, "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority," which led to the federal indictment of the "Boston Five" (including Spock and Goodman) for conspiracy to aid draft evasion. Later, Lauter served as the executive director of the U.S. Servicemen's Fund (USSF), an organization that established "GI coffeehouses" near military bases to provide off-duty soldiers with a space to organize and access anti-war literature. The USSF also sponsored the F.T.A. Show (often interpreted as "Free The Army" or "F*** The Army"), an anti-war variety show starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.[citation needed]
The US Servicemen's Fund was presented in red, with the meaning that a page about USSF does not exist; but in fact there is such a page, which btw, indicates my role in the organization. The "Boston Five" is in fact annotated in the page on Resist, and also the one about Ben Spock. At the end of the para is a notice: "citation needed." But for what? There are pages for Jane Fonda and Don Sutherland, as well as for the FTA Show. So I'm baffled by what "citation [is] needed". Similarly, elsewhere, there's a "citation needed" for my earning a Ph.D. from Yale. I checked other entries and I did not notice citations for such degrees.
If I were editing this para, I would excise the word "famous" from the first sentence. Otherwise, it's a VERY brief and accurate summary of 'some' of my "Movement" activities. I might be inclined to add that the "Call to Resist" led to the formation of the anti-war organization Resist, in which I played an important role--with Noam Chomsky--as is indicated in the page on Resist. I was the organization's first "director," or whatever we called it then.
My point here is that the lack of care in the comments on this para, and elsewhere, are deeply troubling to me, esp as a long-time very small supporter of Wikipedia. ~2026-13895-45 (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
- So now, a week after I posted the above, I see nothing from the "editor" or others who produced the inaccurate comments on the para I cited. I have to take that as an acknowledgement of the failure of the process. ~2026-13895-45 (talk) 01:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
