User talk:Cpred 06
February 2011
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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Mon Louis Island. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles nor are such pages a forum.
In addition to not using article pages as talk pages, please also note that the article never stated that Creole people were mixed, the link within the article (see Creole) explains the distinctions very well. Putting an explanation on what and what is not a Creole is beyond the scope of the Mon Louis Island article, which was written by me, a native of Mobile County. Thank you. Altairisfar 17:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
Just because you are a native of Mobile doesn't mean that you have any knowledge that Creole is not originally "a mix" of races. Many native Mobilians like the Chestangs, Laurendines even some of the Eslava's whose families are made of mixed races (nearly 100 years after Nicholas Baudin)will and do claim to their death that Creole, always means a person of slave, white and Indian (Native American) mixed race, which in the Colonial days was a Mulatto not a Creole. The origins were not of a mix but those born in a new land i.e. those from France and Spain having off-springs born in the Americas. I do thank you for changing the wording from "a mix" to several, however it is still written to indicate that Creole is a specific ethnicity and it is not when used in the context of Creole of the 17th and 18th century, which the article is about.