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"Former countries" infobox added to prehistoric Florida ethnic groups and village sites
[edit]Since you have edited a number of these articles in the past, whats your opinion on adding the infobox for "former countries" to ethnic, tribal and village organizations in the late prehistoric, protohistoric and early historic Florida and southeastern region? Another editor has begun adding the infobox (which I disagree with) to a number of these articles, sometimes removing and replacing other infoboxes in the process. ( see Tacatacuru revision history, Uzita (Florida), Pohoy , Tocobaga) The editor, User:Mangokeylime, seems to have a thing for infoboxes. Per our recent interactions (User:Mangokeylime#Mound Builders box and Talk:Mississippian culture#Mound Builders navbox) I'd rather have some neutral parties knowledgeable of the subjects to weigh in with their opinions rather than me jumping in unilaterally on this issue. Thanks, and kind regards, Heiro 03:16, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
- I totally agree that the infox is inappropriate and plainly inaccurate. Trying to formulate a response. I don't understand the unwillingness to acknowledge there is an entire academic system of classifications and definitions that are well established - trying to equate those ancient peoples as "countries" is so off base.Parkwells (talk) 04:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- I've added discussion of why the "nations infobox" (for simplicity's sake) was removed to the Talk pages of articles about the Uzita, Pohoy, and Tocobaga, as well as to Mangokeylime's Talk page, encouraging more learning about the academic conventions and classifications related to the archeological and historical cultures of indigenous peoples. So now I realize I have a question, after having added "ethnic group" infoboxes to many articles about historic Native American tribes. Are these infoboxes also used for the articles on people classified as chiefdoms, such as the three under discussion above? Can't remember. Such groups were documented in the historic period, and articles sometimes note when they disappeared from the historic record.Parkwells (talk) 16:46, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- I've always seen them used here for tribal groups. I tend to stick to mostly NA stuff, generally the prehistoric stuff but it sometimes bleeds into the historic with groups like the Taensa which was at least a simple chiefdom (defined as such in one of my sources), and the Natchez who were a paramount chiefdom (pretty sure I saw a source for that recently as well). I've never seen one that fits better than the ethnic box and it's used for both. It would probably be appropriate to add them to any of those articles if they do not already have them, if that's what your asking. As per Mangokeylime, he just seems to really really like adding infoboxes (see the quote he added to his userpage after I started these discussions [1]) to articles. That seems to be the vast majority of his recent edits. And discussions with him about it seem to brickwall pretty fast, see User:Mangokeylime#Mound Builders box, lol. After that I decided to give up discussing (arguing? talking around it endlessly while feeling like you are getting nowhere?) it with him one on one and enlist other neutral opinions and get a consensus. And thanks re the props for Taensa. I hadn't meant to be that extensive but sorta got sucked in. Which sucked me into sorting out the Plaquemine culture out a bit, although that one could still use an extensive rewrite and addition of materials. Unfortunately finding material on it is difficult. It's not as well known as Mississippian and most of the material is scattered throughout individual papers and unpublished thesis', etc. As far as I know there is only one book dedicated to the subject, they say so in the introduction, haha (and the main editor and archaeologist happens to live in the same town as me but I've never ran into him. Would love to sit and discuss it with him some time, but alas). And it wasn't published until a few years ago. Maybe I'll get serious about it one day. Heiro 17:45, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Also, re the "nation state" or "state" argument in general in NA archaeo and history. Cahokia, the largest site north of Mexico, huge population, extensive influence over the eastern part of the continent, etc. And it's still a major issue with some professionals wanting to define it as a "state" and others disagreeing that it had reached that level of political structuring. There is no way the professionals would describe a few tiny villages in coastal Florida as a "state' or "country" as we use the term in English. Heiro 17:50, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- I've always seen them used here for tribal groups. I tend to stick to mostly NA stuff, generally the prehistoric stuff but it sometimes bleeds into the historic with groups like the Taensa which was at least a simple chiefdom (defined as such in one of my sources), and the Natchez who were a paramount chiefdom (pretty sure I saw a source for that recently as well). I've never seen one that fits better than the ethnic box and it's used for both. It would probably be appropriate to add them to any of those articles if they do not already have them, if that's what your asking. As per Mangokeylime, he just seems to really really like adding infoboxes (see the quote he added to his userpage after I started these discussions [1]) to articles. That seems to be the vast majority of his recent edits. And discussions with him about it seem to brickwall pretty fast, see User:Mangokeylime#Mound Builders box, lol. After that I decided to give up discussing (arguing? talking around it endlessly while feeling like you are getting nowhere?) it with him one on one and enlist other neutral opinions and get a consensus. And thanks re the props for Taensa. I hadn't meant to be that extensive but sorta got sucked in. Which sucked me into sorting out the Plaquemine culture out a bit, although that one could still use an extensive rewrite and addition of materials. Unfortunately finding material on it is difficult. It's not as well known as Mississippian and most of the material is scattered throughout individual papers and unpublished thesis', etc. As far as I know there is only one book dedicated to the subject, they say so in the introduction, haha (and the main editor and archaeologist happens to live in the same town as me but I've never ran into him. Would love to sit and discuss it with him some time, but alas). And it wasn't published until a few years ago. Maybe I'll get serious about it one day. Heiro 17:45, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- I've added discussion of why the "nations infobox" (for simplicity's sake) was removed to the Talk pages of articles about the Uzita, Pohoy, and Tocobaga, as well as to Mangokeylime's Talk page, encouraging more learning about the academic conventions and classifications related to the archeological and historical cultures of indigenous peoples. So now I realize I have a question, after having added "ethnic group" infoboxes to many articles about historic Native American tribes. Are these infoboxes also used for the articles on people classified as chiefdoms, such as the three under discussion above? Can't remember. Such groups were documented in the historic period, and articles sometimes note when they disappeared from the historic record.Parkwells (talk) 16:46, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
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Taensa
[edit]I may have finally reached the limits of what I can find for this one (Taensa), lol. Cheers, Heiro 19:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
- Great work!Parkwells (talk) 15:58, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Thanks for your excellent edits to Adella Hunt Logan. You are a terrific copy editor, and your additions are spot on. Cheers! Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 00:04, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I second that ! I have been looking at your work over the last couple of days and have really enjoyed the individuals and subject matter you work on. Greatly Appreciated! Gene Wilson (talk) 18:53, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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In a recent edit to this article, you mentioned Proctor(aka Procter)... I know who he is, and you know who he is, but this is the first time Proctor/Procter gets mentioned in the Graves article...so there's no context. Shearonink (talk) 02:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, sharp eyes Shearonink! I had picked up his name from the article on the Raisin River Massacre, decided to add it for context, and forgot to check the whole thing. Good to hear from you and I hope all is well. Parkwells (talk) 14:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi - Apologies for putting this on this page, but I am asking for people knowledgeable about Cherokee citizenship and tribal law to weigh in on a discussion of certain Cherokee categories. I'm not asking you to support my proposal, but just for the discussion to have informed contributions. The discussion is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_March_30#Category:Cherokee_people. Also, I'm not very active on Wki these days and don't know many Native American Wikipedians - would appreciate it if you would be willing to suggest others who might join in the discussion. Vizjim (talk) 10:55, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the invitation. I will definitely comment, as I can see many of the respondents do not have necessary knowledge about the issue. Hope to get to it this afternoon.Parkwells (talk) 14:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi again. I think you could perhaps create a separate article about the Franklin riot. Would you be interested in creating an article about this too please? If there were casualties, they could be added to Template:Lynching in the United States.Zigzig20s (talk) 18:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Can you please look over the draft available for the article on Caillou Pettis and see if it is good to submit for actual publication? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SimplyBatman22 (talk • contribs) 13:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
- Done; not ready for prime time.Parkwells (talk) 13:54, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi there. Thanks for ironing out my language there. I started Draft:YouTuber to collaborate on an article about this subgroup, so if you are interested in the subject, I'd welcome your contributions to this draft as well. Regards SoWhy 07:08, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, but that's not really my field. Someone reverted my changes without explanation, so you may want to take up the issues with them at the article.Parkwells (talk) 13:54, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Please clarify: "The strikers resisted being boxed in and fired on two of the pickets, injuring both." What is a "picket"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:581:8580:2E45:6D36:863D:270:604F (talk) 11:26, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
- The term usually refers to people guarding a group - especially of soldiers, or other people in a meeting.Parkwells (talk) 13:54, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Hello. Just wondering if you've read the JSTOR article about the 1967 Nashville riot yet. There are many articles on Newspapers.com. Please reply here and ping me when you do. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 05:08, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, I've started reading that, but am in the middle of my own large project. I am supporting the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, by adding content about lynchings in each of the five counties in each state with the highest # of lynchings, per Lynching in America (2017 supplement, 3rd edition) by the Equal Justice Initiative. I am going to finish that first.Parkwells (talk) 14:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Nice. By the way, if you are able to retrieve the names of all the lynching victims in Middle Tennessee from them, I could try to create more articles about specific lynchings there.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- The EJI published a Supplement: Lynching by County (this can be found online), which I'm using. It only identifies totals. So I have also conducted Google searches of lynchings by named county, and finding other documentation of names and incidents. In some cases, contemporary newspaper accounts are online, but scholarly sources are better. I have not listed all of the victims by name in these articles, because in the worst states, the list is much too long. There are many other sources which you will find by searching. Especially since the publication of the EJI first report in 2015, some states or other jurisdictions, and major newspapers in those states have published their own reports by name. Here is one that documented lynchings of the 1940s: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/segregation/text2/lynchingcrime.pdf. This includes: June 22, 1940: At Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee. Elbert Williams, Negro. Charge, attempting to qualify to vote - “Interest in Negro affairs.” Murdered and body thrown into the Hatchie River."Parkwells (talk) 15:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- I wish they would add the names on their website. In Middle Tennessee, I have created a few: Lynching of David Jones, Lynching of Amos Miller, Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard, Lynching of Samuel Smith. Someone else created Lynching of Samuel Bierfield a while back. But there must be more--if we know the names, I can retrieve more RS on Newspapers.com to create new articles.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- You may pick up names by reading the full EJI report, which sometimes goes into details. The TN Encyclopedia online has a lengthy article on lynchings, and there are a variety of other sources. It would be better not to rely only on newspapers. Also, the website for the National Memorial for Peace and Justice may list the names. The memorial is made up of structural elements on which are engraved the names of victims by county, when known- a separate hanging steel piece for each county.Parkwells (talk) 16:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- EJI reported a total of five lynchings in Williamson Co, TN, so you could search by county. That's where Samuel SMith was from.Parkwells (talk) 18:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- I've created Lynching of Jo Reed--the suspension bridge was probably the same as the one used for the Lynching of David Jones, but we would need an RS.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry I meant the same bridge was Grizzard. But we don't know for sure.Zigzig20s (talk) 22:42, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
- EJI reported a total of five lynchings in Williamson Co, TN, so you could search by county. That's where Samuel SMith was from.Parkwells (talk) 18:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- You may pick up names by reading the full EJI report, which sometimes goes into details. The TN Encyclopedia online has a lengthy article on lynchings, and there are a variety of other sources. It would be better not to rely only on newspapers. Also, the website for the National Memorial for Peace and Justice may list the names. The memorial is made up of structural elements on which are engraved the names of victims by county, when known- a separate hanging steel piece for each county.Parkwells (talk) 16:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- I wish they would add the names on their website. In Middle Tennessee, I have created a few: Lynching of David Jones, Lynching of Amos Miller, Lynching of Ephraim Grizzard, Lynching of Samuel Smith. Someone else created Lynching of Samuel Bierfield a while back. But there must be more--if we know the names, I can retrieve more RS on Newspapers.com to create new articles.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- The EJI published a Supplement: Lynching by County (this can be found online), which I'm using. It only identifies totals. So I have also conducted Google searches of lynchings by named county, and finding other documentation of names and incidents. In some cases, contemporary newspaper accounts are online, but scholarly sources are better. I have not listed all of the victims by name in these articles, because in the worst states, the list is much too long. There are many other sources which you will find by searching. Especially since the publication of the EJI first report in 2015, some states or other jurisdictions, and major newspapers in those states have published their own reports by name. Here is one that documented lynchings of the 1940s: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/segregation/text2/lynchingcrime.pdf. This includes: June 22, 1940: At Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee. Elbert Williams, Negro. Charge, attempting to qualify to vote - “Interest in Negro affairs.” Murdered and body thrown into the Hatchie River."Parkwells (talk) 15:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Nice. By the way, if you are able to retrieve the names of all the lynching victims in Middle Tennessee from them, I could try to create more articles about specific lynchings there.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:20, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
What do you think of this please?Zigzig20s (talk) 00:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, I've added more content and documentation about the lynching, as well as adding the lynching to the Crenshaw County page. It does not need to be in the Lead. Parkwells (talk) 14:41, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe not, but "the friendliest city in the South" in the lede is a bit odd. They are friendly until they lynch us--great!Zigzig20s (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- That's true but the total history also has to be considered in the Lead. Parkwells (talk) 16:16, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe not, but "the friendliest city in the South" in the lede is a bit odd. They are friendly until they lynch us--great!Zigzig20s (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
May I suggest that you apply for a free account? It is a very useful resource.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:27, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I thought they charged for it. Is it one that is covered by Wikipedia's Library? I have other accounts through them.Parkwells (talk) 23:36, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Yes it is.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:39, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Applied and accepted through WP, waiting for access.Parkwells (talk) 17:22, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- Yes it is.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:39, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hello. I already reverted it once with three reasons but it happened again. I don't think PR from magazines is encyclopedic. Could you please take a look?Zigzig20s (talk) 16:17, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the heads-up. I agree that too much PR is too much. Have edited it to make more neutral in tone, reorganize to put some of that content in the body, and noted that every award needs cites. If the editor can't bother to do that, I'm ready to delete the material. Added notes to the article Talk page. See what you think.Parkwells (talk) 15:49, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
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Could you please help me with the issue I raised at Talk:Joseph Samuel Clark?Zigzig20s (talk) 21:38, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
- You might be interested in his son, Felton Grandison Clark.Zigzig20s (talk) 00:07, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- I've nominated Joseph Samuel Clark for DYK. Could you please add a few more in-line references for your expansions?Zigzig20s (talk) 01:49, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- The page is aboout expelld pOles, not Germans.
- The number of 15 milllion of expelled Germans belongs to German nationalistic propaganda. Xx236 (talk) 07:36, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- Page two says 12 million of Germans. Xx236 (talk) 07:48, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- IF you want to discuss go there Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans.Xx236 (talk) 09:22, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello again. Are you able to find where he earned his BA and PhD please?Zigzig20s (talk) 22:56, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 18:47, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]On 13 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Samuel Clark, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Joseph Samuel Clark turned down Herbert Hoover's offer to serve as the United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1931 to remain the president of Southern University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Samuel Clark. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Samuel Clark), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Grace who?
[edit]Grace who? If it helps a bit, later in section Ossian_Sweet#Trial there is
- Several days before that, on October 6, Gladys Sweet was released on bail provided by friends of her parents.
Now I can understand your confusion, since that isn't mentioned when the comment about "the men" is made. Even more confusing to me is mentions of eleven people and eight people and so forth. How many people were arrested and how many on trial at each trial. I can't tell from the article. Shenme (talk) 04:01, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for your comments. I added the date when Gladys Sweet was released on bail and have tried to clarify other sections. The sources are confusing. There were eight people to be tried in the second trial. It appears that charges were dropped against three people, of the eleven arrested, before the first trial. Have been traveling, but still trying to figure it out.Parkwells (talk) 18:29, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
"The chapter “Justice for Sam Faulkner” might have been ripped from today’s headlines. It tells the story of the 1927 murder of an innocent 20-year-old African-American man in his sister’s home near Central Avenue at the hands of two rogue officers of the LAPD.". Perhaps we could create Shooting of Sam Faulkner?Zigzig20s (talk) 14:51, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe, will have to see what else I can find. The book has pages blocked out online. The two officers who shot him were black, by the way, among the first African Americans hired by the LAPD, so it's a complex story. Parkwells (talk) 14:13, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
- Not sure if you want to copy-edit this, and more recently there was yet another one. There are lots of RS that could be used. Things never seem to change though. The complacency with the culture of violence is depressing.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:45, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe, will have to see what else I can find. The book has pages blocked out online. The two officers who shot him were black, by the way, among the first African Americans hired by the LAPD, so it's a complex story. Parkwells (talk) 14:13, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]The history of high school football in this small town is really remarkable. And it was at least in part, documented. I'm sorry I cannot remember the year, but in the late 80's/early 90's, I was a volunteer firefighter in nearby Vicksburg. On one of the trips to Pontiac for the state championship, literately everyone in town went to the game. We came down and covered the firehouse so the firefighters could go. They won, and we took the pumper out to the county line, the team got on it, and we had an impromptu parade when they came back. This was covered on television by channel 41 out of Battle Creek and written up in the Kalamazoo Gazette, The Battle Creek Enquirer, and I believe the South Bend, Indiana paper. Thanks for writing about this. I really gotta get around to doing an article on the school. However, I am now far far away from the libraries in that area. John from Idegon (talk) 16:03, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Thanks for your work!
Will you resolve the inconsistency introduced on 3 February 2017 between the dates of Washington's collaboration with Julius Rosenthal (beginning in the 1920s) and Washington's death (1915)?
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- Hi, thanks for catching that. I've edited both related sections of the article so they are consistent; they collaborated on the first six schools and the Rosenwald Foundation provided matching funds for thousands of schools after Washington's death. Parkwells (talk) 16:35, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]Regarding your addition of Olivia Davidson under notable people from Gallipolis, Ohio, is there a specific mention of her spending a significant portion of her life in Gallipolis? Or is she connected to the area only in passing? It would be good if she had some substantial connection or contribution to the area. I ask since I do not have access to the source you have cited. N. Jain (talk to me) 15:18, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
- She lived with her sister and brother-in-law for a time and attended some high school there, getting certified to teach. Her family had moved to the free state of Ohio from Virginia in order to escape racial discrimination against free blacks. Gallipolis had a historic African-American community at this time, made up of both free and refugee blacks.Parkwells (talk) 17:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
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- Hi, thanks for catching that. This article had many informal notes within the cites, which I was not used to. I decided just to make these two separate cites rather than try to keep their combined form. It should be ok now.Parkwells (talk) 03:27, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]please clearly describe your edits, i noticed you removed some citation needed tags and reworded some other parts without mentioning this. do you believe the current references are appropriate and provide clear support for the statements made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.198.45.217 (talk) 01:09, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, sorry, need to get back to this. I had done extensive reading in the sources before, but will review. Thanks for your comments.Parkwells (talk) 15:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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The article List of people of self-identified Cherokee ancestry has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
List which can never be complete, does not discuss a defining feature, self-identification is often disputed and can rarely, if ever, be satisfactorily proven or disproven - this renders us having to deal with nuanced, inconclusive literary arguments in a listicle format.
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[edit]Are very good. Thanks and Merry Christmas! Jacona (talk) 18:45, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
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You might be interested in Harmon Wray. Merry Christmas!Zigzig20s (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- The chronology is interesting. He advocated for that in the 1970s, prior to the rise of privatization in the 1980s.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:16, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I noticed that, too. It was also before the drug war and "war on crime" that sent so many people to prison. Parkwells (talk) 19:54, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
- So maybe "Dismayed by decades of rising rates of incarceration" does not work? It happened before those decades. His article in Southern Changes is quite interesting.Zigzig20s (talk) 20:11, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I noticed that, too. It was also before the drug war and "war on crime" that sent so many people to prison. Parkwells (talk) 19:54, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
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Sumner County, Tennessee
[edit]Hello! I apologize for the long message—this is my first time talking to another editor, and I want to make sure that I communicate my suggested edit well.
I recently read the Sumner County, Tennessee article, and I noticed it said that Sumner County is the second oldest county in the state. I have looked at the editing history for this article, and it appears that you added this information on December 27, 2018. Based on my research, it appears that Sumner County is the fifth or sixth oldest county in the state after the following: Washington Co. (1777); Sullivan Co. (1779); Greene Co. (1783); Davidson Co. (1783); and possibly Hawkins (1787).
Since there is some murkiness concerning whether it is the fifth or sixth oldest, I would like to delete this part of the sentence.
Aeriallibrarian (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for all your work. I agree with deleting that assertion about "second oldest". I had simply taken the assertion from the article on Gallatin, the county seat. Now I see that the cite in the Gallatin, Tennessee article was weak (this was not something I had researched). How about adding your cites for the date? Thanks and best of luck in your Wikipedia work, and keep those eagle eyes!Parkwells (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your feedback! I will work on incorporating these cites into the references.Aeriallibrarian (talk) 22:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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- Thanks, Pete! She's an interesting woman and I was glad to come across her article. Quite a life!Parkwells (talk) 14:14, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
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Coleman Manufacturing
[edit]I appreciate your improvements to this article and the one about the building. With all the duplication, it seems like there should just be one article. What do you think?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:01, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- Okay, I see you've stated your opinion. I'm not sure the expansion of both articles is justified if they should be separate topics, but if consensus says that's all right, I won't object.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- I see you added to the man's biography too. I got the expansion started, but I admit much more needed to be said. By the way, given the amount of information, I'm convinced Warren Clay Coleman may be more notable than Warren Coleman. If so, the singer should not be the primary topic. Unless his article can also be expanded. See this discussion— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:07, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
References
- ^ The act forming Hawkins County is located in the 1786 Acts of North Carolina, Chapter 34 and reports the law passed on January 6, 1787. The act forming Sumner County is located in the 1786 Acts of North Carolina, Chapter 32 and reports law also passed on January 6, 1787. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p16062coll9/id/264487
- ^ According to the 1786-7 North Carolina Senate Journal, the Senate passed the bill dividing Sullivan Co. (creating Hawkins Co.) on its third and final reading on December 30, 1787 (p. 183). I could not find the Senate date of passage on the third and final reading for the bill dividing Davidson Co. (creating Sumner Co.), possibly because the last pages of the journal are missing: https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.php/document/csr18-0001
- ^ According to the 1786-7 North Carolina House of Commons Journal, the House passed the bill dividing Sullivan Co. (creating Hawkins Co.) on its third and final reading on December 28, 1786 (p. 392). The House passed the bill dividing Davidson Co. (creating Sumner Co.) on its third and final reading on January 3, 1787 (p. 440): https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.php/document/csr18-0002
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[edit]I saw that you moved a footnote of IBDB to an external source based on WP:MOS. IBDB is not user-generated but is specifically curated by the Broadway League. Those responsible for content are mention in the "about" tab of the site. - kosboot (talk) 13:05, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information!Parkwells (talk) 13:54, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
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