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Coat of arms of George Washington

Your edits to that article contain some interesting information, but it seems to be interlarded with dogmatic personal pontificating, and the overall result is not too useful to Wikipedia in that particular form. Please go to Talk:Coat of arms of George Washington, where the matter can be suitably discussed. AnonMoos (talk) 02:20, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Every word in my edits was taken from the well-sourced book Flag: An American Biography. I even footnoted it. I'll change it a bit, but I'm not sure what you mean by "dogmatic personal pontificating" since no opinions are expressed. Everything is based on facts gleaned from solid historical research. EdBedden (talk) 19:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you say that the author of the book rejects the idea that the coat of arms had an influence on the flag, instead of making Wikipedia speak with the author's voice, to start with? There are also structural problems, when a large chunk of text (much of which only has a tangential relationship with the subject of the article) is introduced without any subsection header or other useful internal organization... AnonMoos (talk) 13:57, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I cut back on some of the text and I believe that it flows from the previous paragraph, which also deals with the idea that the coat of arms somehow inspired the Stars and Stripes.EdBedden (talk) 15:50, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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