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sources on George Edward Woodberry ?

Hi Superslum. I saw your start on George Edward Woodberry. It looks good, however would it be possible for you to cite sources so that it can more easily be verified. A good system to use is footnotes although there are others if you prefer them. Thanks Mozzerati 10:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

My main source of information is New International Encyclopedia. It was printed in about ten different editions from 1902 to the late 1920s by Dodd, Mead and Company of New York City.

The encyclopedia was printed in two main versions: (Α): the 1902 main version (which is in the public domain), and (Β): the 1913-1916 main version (which is probably in the public domain, too).

I always modify the information by omitting one or more bits of information just to keep on the safe side of the copyright laws. I never copy 100% of the information, though sometimes it is necessary to copy entire sentences. I attempt to make use of the "fair use" provision of the copyright law.

Approximately 99% of my contributions have been gleaned from the 1926 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

Superslum 11:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you please identify your contributions which are from the NIE? I have designed a template for your use, based on a template we already use for articles taken from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. It is Template:NIE and you can add it to an article simply by adding the text {{NIE}}. Thank you. Gamaliel 02:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Good work on the biographical articles

Hi Superslum. I noticed that you've been putting up a lot of articles for people from the late 1800s and early 1900s. I think you are working on one of Wikipedia's weaker areas, as not many editors have the desire to work on such articles, so your contributions are particularly valuable. Keep up the great work on expanding Wikipedia's scope and coverage! btm _talk 08:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

1,000 edits

I passed by my one-thousandth edit on February 11th, 2006. I have introduced several hundred new articles beginning with Firmin Didot on 9 July, 2005. Superslum 05:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

My most satisfying creations were National Bureau of Education and Commissioner of Education because they were being overlooked or ignored.

NPOV disputes

Plenty of controversial issues exist in the category named NPOV disputes.

• NPOV disputes Superslum 08:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

The biggest lie that I have seen in the Wikipedia is at KKK. A statement claims that the Ku Klux Klan broke into the homes of freed slaves "to steal firearms." Freed slaves possessed neither homes nor firearms, therefore it was impossible for the Ku Klux Klansmen to commit break-ins "to steal firearms." Superslum 14:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Not true. My great grandmother Rebecca was the grand daughter of Eliza Davis, a freedman who owned land in Pittsylvania County, VA. Great grandma had a shot-gun and my grandfather remembers her shooting it out of the window of their little house on that same land at the KKK while they circled the house with horses (this was in the 1920s.)

Great grandma learned to shoot from her grand father, who trapped fur to supplement their earnings from tobacco. My grand father learned from her and she taught me. We still have the gun.

Here is a photo of this amazing woman: http://www1.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=futurebird&pid=24&view=0&rand=87351

Clearly some freedman had guns and land. futurebird 00:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Karl Ludwig Frommel

I have announced your new stub at Portal:Germany/New article announcements#New stubs. If you write more articles about German painters, please add them there. Thank you and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 20:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

American Civil War people

Some of the leading Civil War editors have decided that this category ideally should not contain generals, which have their own categories. I have removed the category for John Hunt Morgan. Scott Mingus 22:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit number 1,993

I had strived to surpass 2,000 edits by this time (June 15th), but I fell short by less than ten edits. I just ran out of time. Superslum 00:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

KKK 1913?

What does the KKK have to do with 1913? That chronological improbability doesn't do anything to persuade me of your deep grasp of history... Churchh 02:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The Ku Klux Klan has kept a presence in the United States since 1865. The colored women of 1913 were not educated people who were politically active. They were lucky to have a sixth-grade elementary school education . It constitutes fraud whenever anyone claims that those uneducated colored women were almost "unanimous" in agreement. Most of them were housekeepers, washerwomen, cooks, cleaners, cotton-pickers, and so on. They were not a mass of suave, erudite, politically-active females. People lynched negroes in 1913. Superslum 04:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The KKK wasn't particularly organized in any meaningful form in 1913. Churchh 12:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Around 1960 (more or less) the Klansmen would boast that "My grandaddy was a Klansman, my daddy was a Klansman, I'm a Klansman, my son is a Klansman: Klan forever!" The Ku Klux Klan has molded the United States, as far as colored people are concerned. All of the politicians and authorities have paid heed to the KKK since 1865. They will be present in the United States as long as colored people are around. Superslum 13:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I really don't know whether black women actively worked for voting rights, but I do know that you don't have the slightest concern for historical accuracy -- which doesn't cause me to be too impressed with you chiding other people for their historical inaccuracies. Churchh 22:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The main reason that I acted was to see if the tag would work for me. I had never used that tag, and I was only experimenting with it. The statement that I saw was such a flagrant lie that it invited a tag. I do not waste much time attempting to correct the flagrant lies which plague the Wikipedia. In Europe, in Germany, young people exist who dispute the events associated with World War II. According to a news report that I heard on my television set, the German government passed a law that makes it a crime to dispute the history of Germany at the time of World War II. In five or ten years, perhaps, Wikipedia will have evolved to the point where flagrant lies will be forcefully expunged from it. There are so many lies in it at this time that Wikipedia is at risk of developing a poor reputation for veracity, like "Bill" Clinton has developed amongst the U. S. Presidents. I may not ever again employ the tag because I know that liars will resurrect their lies. I experienced that occurrence at Gag rule where some people insisted on replacing facts with bullshit. Superslum 11:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

2,000+ edits

Onward, ever onward! I have now surged past 2,000 edits. I have introduced hundreds of new pages, too. Spring fever has slowed me a bit, lately, however. Superslum 12:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Supreme Court lists

I saw your edits to the various talk pages of the Supreme Court case lists, e.g. Talk:List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 68. I realize that there are issues with some of the case names linking to the wrong page, but the only reason I left them alone for right now is that I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed. Take The Siren, I don't know if it will link to The Siren (case) or The Siren (1869), or The Siren, 1869, or many other possibilites. For the moment, I think the links should be left alone, at least until there's a consensus on WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases on what to do next. Thanks. --MZMcBride 17:28, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Too much for one page... Huh???

re. your message: Talk:French_Wars_of_Religion#Too_much_for_one_page, 6 July, 2006

Seventy-eight years of turbulent history (1520-1598) cannot be crammed into one enormous page. You'll need to employ several long notices on such a page. Superslum 11:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Huh? This is a short article. I've removed the {{long}} you installed. The mergeto candidate is also fairly short. What gives? It's got very few edits since your post. Best regards, a confused // FrankB 02:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Houdini works

I can't find any reference to "Spooks and Sprititualism" that you added to Houdini's page as works, even at LoC--was this maybe published under a different name? Maybe "A Magician Among the Spirits"??--Fitzaubrey 22:38, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Karl Reinecke

Hi there. On 30 March 2006 you created Karl Reinecke, even though there was already a page Carl Reinecke on the same subject. This is just a friendly reminder to check for variant spellings before creating a new page. Thanks. Grover cleveland 20:59, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I just spent the best part of the morning

producing an article about Hezekiah Augur only to discover at the last possible moment that you'd already done one. It seemed to me (i.e.. opinion) that you had pretty much used a pre-existing uncopyrighted article from elsewhere, so I concluded that perhaps you did not have a great feeling of ownership about the piece, so I am pretty much replacing your article with mine. If this seems presumptuous, or unfair, or almost anything other than a good idea, PLEASE let me know, we can revert back to your piece and go forward from there. Life is supposed to be fun. Carptrash 19:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

George Parker Winship

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Merger proposed: Cyprian Ricard → Free Negro

It has been proposed to merge the content of Cyprian Ricard into Free Negro. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 10:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Creak!

Superslum rose from his casket to resume the creation of new articles. Superslum had been dead since August, 2006. Superslum 16:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Joseph Eldridge Hamblin

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Louisa Lane Drew

Please note that adding a link to the Wikipedia article on the New International Encyclopedia is not the proper way to add a source if it has nothing to do with the issue you are editing. The article on New International Encyclopedia has nothing to do with Louisa Lane Drew. Please read WP:RS and WP:CITE for information on reliable sources and making citations. Note also that you added a category (People from London) with nothing in the article to back it up. Frankly, I'm rather surprised that you would make such mistakes after editing here for more than two years. Ward3001 (talk) 02:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

"New International Encyclopedia says that she was born in London": But you don't cite that by linking to the Wikipedia article on New International Encyclopedia. Cite New International Encyclopedia directly, including the page number and all publication information about the encyclopedia. If I write a quote by George W. Bush that I read in The New York Times, I don't cite it by linking to the Wikipedia article on The New York Times because that article will have nothing about the quote. I cite the New York Times issue in which I read the quote. Again, see WP:CITE on how to cite sources. This is basic Wikipedia procedure, not to mention elementary logic. Regarding the category, you did not make a sourced statement in the article stating that she was born in London, and you can't add the category until there is something in the article to back it up. Ward3001 (talk) 03:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

There are at least 50,000 biographies in New International Encyclopedia. Nearly all of those biographies mention the place of birth of each person, and various facts related to each person. Since I have no desire to become involved in a "dispute" or a "controversy" with any other contributors to Wikipedia, I am hitting the gas pedal and zooming away from this article. Time is a-wasting. Superslum (talk) 08:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. It's your choice. Follow the rules or don't edit. Ward3001 (talk) 16:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

All are welcome

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Daniel Wise (author)

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Articles for deletion nomination of David Gilbert Yates

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You're invited to join WikiProject Women artists!

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Nomination of Arthur Irving Andrews for deletion

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Error in the NIE template

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The template:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

should reflect the fact that the editors of this first edition were: Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, and Frank Moore Colby (see Template:New_International_Encyclopedia).

Instead, it presents the the third editor as "F. Moore" (presenting the middle name, omitting the surname).

Please, indicate here how this might be fixed (or, if easily done, execute the correction yourselves)? Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 16:18, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Paul Leland Haworth

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