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Section size for Ezra Pound (57 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,309	5,309
Early life and education (1885–1908)	43	11,695
Family background	2,576	2,576
Early education	2,249	2,249
University	5,155	5,155
Teaching	1,672	1,672
London (1908–1914)	25	30,976
A Lume Spento	1,595	1,595
Move to London	3,640	3,640
Meeting Dorothy Shakespear, Personae	4,603	4,603
The Spirit of Romance, Canzoni, the New Age	4,489	4,489
Poetry magazine, Ripostes, Imagism	6,645	6,645
James Joyce, Pound's unpopularity	3,405	3,405
Marriage	1,507	1,507
Des Imagistes, dispute with Amy Lowell	5,067	5,067
World War I and leaving England (1914–1921)	50	14,960
Meeting Eliot, Cathay, translation	4,870	4,870
"Three Cantos", resignation from Poetry	5,298	5,298
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	4,742	4,742
Paris (1921–1924)	24	10,591
Meeting Hemingway, editing The Waste Land	2,883	2,883
Meeting Olga Rudge	775	775
Restarting The Cantos	6,909	6,909
Italy (1924–1939)	24	21,434
Birth of the children	5,447	5,447
The Exile, Dial poetry award	2,813	2,813
Antisemitism, social credit	4,937	4,937
Meeting Mussolini	4,445	4,445
Visit to America	3,768	3,768
World War II and radio broadcasts (1939–1945)	52	12,497
Letter-writing campaign	1,945	1,945
Radio broadcasts	4,782	4,782
Arrest for treason	5,718	5,718
United States (1945–1958)	32	19,095
St. Elizabeths Hospital	4,465	4,465
The Pisan Cantos, Bollingen Prize	4,006	4,006
Diagnosis	1,305	1,305
Mullins and Kasper	4,218	4,218
New Times articles	1,997	1,997
Release	3,072	3,072
Italy (1958–1972)	24	10,313
Depression	4,563	4,563
Meeting Ginsberg, Reck, and Russell	3,171	3,171
Death	2,555	2,555
Critical reception	23	9,485
Rehabilitation efforts, scholarship	5,034	5,034
Legacy	4,428	4,428
Selected works	7,618	7,618
See also	141	141
Explanatory notes	41	41
Citations	32	32
Works cited	34,269	34,269
Further reading	20	5,803
Articles	3,484	3,484
Audio and video	801	801
Books	1,498	1,498
External links	5,399	5,399
Total	199,658	199,658

The important bad things have no citations/sources, while the trivial uncontroversial points do

The early large paragraph about Ezra Pounds support for the nazis has zero citations, sources, or examples in the entire paragraph. The only sourced bit is an innocuous part about "attacking" "finance capitalism." RandomEditor6772314 (talk) 14:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph you seem to be referring to is in the lead section, which is not required to have citations. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:29, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's quite odd that there's no citations of these bizarre criticisms. For instance, it is stated without evidence that doctors viewed Pound as a narcicist. Which doctors? Upon what basis? Where is the evidence? Or that he was unfit for a trial (for what)?

96.59.79.27 (talk) 96.59.79.27 (talk) 16:46, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi OP, as Nikki says, the lead is a summary of the main article body, and as long as the claims are referenced there, the lead doesn't need to do the same. The doctors opinions are explained and cited in the Ezra_Pound#Diagnosis section. Ceoil (talk) 17:54, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]