Talk:George Washington Carver/Archive 1

message: In the "Early years" section, what exactly does the reference to "weakened constitition" help us with?  Is that one in the medical textbooks, still?  Maybe on the page next to Phrenology, which is probably how the condition "weakened constitution" was diagnosed.  This reference is plain stupid, and unless anyone can come up with actual references to actual medical conditions, it should be taken out.  Which I'm doing right now.  A permanently weakened constitution. 
PLEASE REMOVE THE NEW YORK YANKEES VANDALISM  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.195.66.47 (talk) 18:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Carver was gay and had an assistant named Austin Curtis, Jr., who was a former teacher. He helped him with many of his projects, and the two briefly dated as well.
Is this serious? It was added by a logged-in contributor, but similar previous additions were anonymous and were reverted as vandalism. -Montréalais 08:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: Not sure why but most of this article is not appearing. The article appears to finish at the end of the "Rise to f                           
ame" section. However viewing the article though "edit this page" reveals that there is a lot more that is mow missing including further images and text. As this is a protected page I can not edit it to restore the missing sections. Can this be put right please 16:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Carver was gay and had an assistant named Austin Curtis, Jr., who was a former teacher. He helped him with many of his projects, and the two briefly dated as well.
Is this serious? It was added by a logged-in contributor, but similar previous additions were anonymous and were reverted as vandalism. -Montréalais 08:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: This is simply laughably false, and suggests Carver was somehow a pioneer in crop rotation.
This article is typical of the leftest slant to wikipedia.  GW Carver can honestly be described as 95% showman and publicist/5% amateur scientist.
:If you can find some sources which disprove Carver's research into crop rotation then please present them. A simple Google search on Carver and crop rotation brings up plenty of sources that say otherwise. Also, please sign your talk page comments (by adding four tildes (~) at the end) and, if you going to be editing much, a username is a big help. -Willmcw 03:45, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
::In all fairness to the anon, he did not develop crop rotation, but he taught the technique in the Southern United States, this article did make some overzealous statements about Carvers acheievments, which I have been adjusting with research--nixie 03:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Carver did absolutely nothing to introduce crop rotation:
Carver sought to extend the station's influence with the bulletins, leaflets, and circulars appearing under his name from 1898 to his death. "But few technical terms will be used," he promised in his first bulletin, and all but one of the forty he issued offered elementary information on farming and related rural concerns to the uneducated farmer.[29] The bulletins and other farming publications contained little of substance that had not already been printed in bulletins of the Agriculture Department or other experiment stations, and Carver's themes were not new even at Tuskegee. Much of what he would preach was summarized in a leaflet published by the institute before his arrival: "Do not plant too much cotton, but more corn, peas, sugar-cane, sweet-potatoes etc., raise hogs, cows, chickens, etc." 
-- Sixpackshakur
If you take the time to read the article you'll see that the overstament of Carvers achievments has been removed--nixie 23:00, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carver did nothing to introduce crop rotation 

message: You ppl dont know what u are talking about .
1st of all Carver was not gay.
2nd he was a genius and none (maybe 1 or 2) of his inventions or discoveries were accidents.
3rd Carver was a highly spiritual person (probably the reason why he didnt marry) . 
4th Carver has done as many good deeds as any of you could do in 100 of your puny lives.
5th Even though he was ill treated by the whites he did not hate them showing that he was a 
highly humanitarian person and believed that God did not put him on the Earth to hate.
6th It would be a greater gift than any of you can imagine to be him. - unsigned comments by User:Wikiuser9000
Please, people, don't post silly nonsense like this.  This is in no way scholarly information, just ranting by someone.  This isn't a serious contribution, just drivel.
:Thanks for working on the biography of this great person. However I notice that you're also deleting info for no apparent reason. Please try to keep as much of the existing information as you can, and then give an explanation when you do delete something. Also, please don't put each sentence on its own line, just make them into paragraphs. Thanks. -Willmcw 19:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And there's no need to insult your co-editors (unless, in fact, God put you on Earth to hate us). --Dystopos 04:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carver was one of the most influential men alive. 

message: I think this page gets my vote for one of Wiki's most vandalized pages. Though I do have a question, is all of this vandalism from multiple users or one specific user? I'd think given the fact that most of the edits are in the form of 'he is gay' etc that it is from one user. Juuust curious. --ImmortalGoddezz 17:18, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have noticed the same and agree. Vandalism is unacceptable. People have pointed out that he may have been gay, but the only way that it is admissible in this article is if it is verifiable. Since Carver is dead, as is anyone (male or female) whom he would have had an intimate relationship, and by all accounts, he never "came out", I don't see how his sexual preference could ever be verified. At most, it could be included in a "Controversy" section at the bottom of the article, but only if someone could cite a verifiable source. This particular user has a history of vandalism, but the IP used belongs to a public school. Since I don't think it would be wise to block such an IP, perhaps it would be prudent to request page protection. Since this user vandalizes regularly on many different articles, I think that the only way to be successful in a protection request is to show a vandalism pattern on this article by numerous other users. See Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy --Master Scott Hall 18:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: I just put in Information about Carver's work on Soy products while he was with Henry Ford.Angrynight 05:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor edit 

message: does it bother anyone that the meat of this article begins with "over the next few years" ?
:If it bothers you go ahead and fix it. Cheers, -Will Beback 21:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  grammar stuff 

message: I expanded the section on Carver Inventions using authoritative sources, which were footnoted, to correct widespread misconceptions. I also added two 2006 online articles to the External Links section. 
Does anyone object to removing the term "Improvements" from the Inventions section? I have never seen that term applied to Carver products before. It seems inappropriate because Carver and his biographers never cast his purported inventions in that way. Without formulas for virtually all of Carver's inventions, one could not be sure they were improvements anyway.
Plantguy 00:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Addition to Carver Inventions/Improvements section 

message: I have heard that he did.  I think I read it in a "left-wing" book on African American history, maybe Before the Mayflower.  That might be interesting to include in the article.Steve Dufour 19:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Did he visit the USSR?

message: Isn't it obvious that he was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States?67.188.172.165 04:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He was called George Carver originally. He only added Washington to distinguish himself from another student named George Carver. Plantguy 18:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Named after the first President

message: I am removing Carver from the 'Development specialists' category. This category covers individuals who play a role in international development. Carver did a lot of great things, but he only worked in the USA. APB-CMX 15:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorization 

message: Substituted at 20:23, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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