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On a leave of absence because I have better things to do.

Just list me under those Wikipedia editors who have had their fill of the arbitrary and capricious behavior of other editors
who use their supposedly superior knowledge of the rules of WP to bully others. All part of the reason that the number of edits have declined by 25% since 2008.

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DYK for Earnest Elmo Calkins

On 7 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Earnest Elmo Calkins, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a corset company's sales increased greatly when a pioneering photo ad (example pictured), created by Earnest Elmo Calkins, appeared on the back cover of a woman's magazine? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Town marshal

"Town marshal" most certainly was a title, used interchangably in 1881 with chief of police. Town marshal was probably more commonly used, but I see both in testimony from the time. Note that marshal is spelled with one l. The name Marshall has two ll's (though of course from the same source).

Do you know of any backup for he odd testimony that Billy Clanton was moved to the doctor's before he died? All testimony I've seen keeps in the house where he was first taken.

Incidentaly, the Harwood House is this house, and it was at the corner of Fremont and 3rd, closest to Tom (which is probably why they took him there). A house identified as the Harwood house sits at that corner NOW, but if it's the original one, it has since been removed and replaced, since it isn't in the 1908 photo. There were two houses west of Fly's in 1881 (two are seen in an 1882 photo, and one Spicer witness mentions two-- I can't say which at the moment), and Billy was shot next to the McDonald assay house, which was the one just West of Fly's. Perhaps not a residence, or a poor one. You can see the one just west in in the 1888 Sanborn map in the article (probably this one), and the Harwood house on the corner (and larger) is missing even then!

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 |text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#7 February 2011|7 February 2011]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Earnest Elmo Calkins]]''''', which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ''... that a corset company's sales increased greatly when a pioneering photo [[advertising|ad]] ''(example pictured)'', created by '''[[Earnest Elmo Calkins]]''', appeared on the back cover of a woman's magazine?'' You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Earnest_Elmo_Calkins quick check])</small> and add it to [[WP:DYKSTATS|DYKSTATS]] if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know? talk page]].
 }}  —[[User:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Teal" face="Tahoma">'''HJ&nbsp;Mitchell'''</font>]] &#124; [[User talk:HJ Mitchell|<font color="Navy" face= "Times New Roman">Penny for your thoughts? </font>]]  18:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
+==Town marshal==
+"Town marshal" most certainly was a title, used interchangably in 1881 with chief of police. Town marshal was probably more commonly used, but I see both in testimony from the time. Note that marshal is spelled with one l. The name Marshall has two ll's (though of course from the same source).
+Do you know of any backup for he odd testimony that Billy Clanton was moved to the doctor's before he died? All testimony I've seen keeps in the house where he was first taken.
+Incidentaly, the Harwood House is this house, and it was at the corner of Fremont and 3rd, closest to Tom (which is probably why they took him there). A house identified as the Harwood house sits at that corner NOW, but if it's the original one, it has since been removed and replaced, since it isn't in the 1908 photo. There were two houses west of Fly's in 1881 (two are seen in an 1882 photo, and one Spicer witness mentions two-- I can't say which at the moment), and Billy was shot next to the McDonald assay house, which was the one just West of Fly's. Perhaps not a residence, or a poor one. You can see the one just west in in the 1888 Sanborn map in the article (probably this one), and the Harwood house on the corner (and larger) is missing even then!