Talk:John Smith of Jamestown

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"This dropping of historical context and fact dishonours those heroes among the European expedition. It dishonours Pocahontas. And worse, it abuses the modern child's potential for understanding the growing pains of Western Culture and the founding of America."

Uhh...thats very NPOV if I do say so myself. I'm deleting it.

-Mr. Tachyon

I assume something with a copyright date of 1899 is eligible to be included here? Still there's a lot of POV here and not much meat. -- Zoe

The POV-ness is due largely to the fact that the source seems to take Smith's memoirs at face value, whereas they are today believed to biggest source of baloney outside the Italian peninsula. -Smack 06:00 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Anything pre-1923 is in the Public Domain in the U.S. so this qualifies.

Just wanted to point out that in the Pocahontas definition she was 13 when she saved John Smith, and in this definition she was 11.

[edit] birth date

An anonymous IP was curious about Smith's birth date, apparently not noting that the years of birth and death were right after his name. I have removed their ALL CAPS COMMENT from the middle of the article, which is hopefully not a tact they will regularly follow. - DavidWBrooks 20:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merger

I support this, although I don't see a great deal to salvage in John Smith (statesman). The Singing Badger 01:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Smith in film

What's up with this section? For a man who's been a character in American history and lore for nigh 400 years, that's a lot of space spent on a minor Disney film and its direct-to-video sequel. In addition it does not present a NPOV. -Acjelen 03:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Quite correct. I've trimmed it. - DavidWBrooks 11:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)