Regretfully, I haven't finished reading Timothy Messer-Kruse's book, but it does seem well-researched. It is also unfortunate that
Paul Avrich, whose book is the standard text on the Haymarket incident, isn't alive to defend himself.
With respect to
WP:V and
WP:UNDUE, I stand by what I wrote, although I might have picked a better example than the color of the sky (which can be easily verified). I'm not in a position to judge whether Avrich or Messer-Kruse is truer to the evidence, and where Messer-Kruse's seems proud to be an iconoclast, Avrich's account is consistent with prior scholarship.
Short of blowing up the encyclopedia (and I know some of you would like to do that), what would you do?
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