Talk:John Brown

message: Has anyone heard the saying, "I'll be John Brown!"  Both my husband and I, who grew up about 100 miles apart in Arkansas/Louisiana, use this saying.  Does anyone know the origin?  155.58.116.247 (talk) 16:45, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Brown 

message: The term used here is not objective
John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), famous abolitionist who led an infamous raid on Harper's Ferry 
There were at the time, and are today, enough people who think that this raid was not infamous (a very negative term) but rather glorious, and wonderful, and admirable, and what have you. Of course any of these terms would not be very objcetive either. I suggest cahnging it to 
John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), famous abolitionist who led a controversial raid on Harper's Ferry
There can be no question that the raid was controversial, that is an objective fact whether you are in favor of it or against it.
Comments, anybody?
Adam Keller 22:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infamous raid? 

message: The page redirects incorrectly. Somebody please fix/correct this.
SJCarlson22 (talk) 08:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The link and/or description for John Elward Brown, Sr. is incorrect 

message: I've just deleted claim on the intro of this page that "John Brown's Body" "orignally referred to "another person". If you go to the Body page it will be seen that (a) the reference is to one theory and (b) it is a misleading reference even to that theory. I suppose there should be some referenc eto the song though.Jeremy (talk) 01:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: John Brown's Body

message: The proper procedure  if you believe John Brown (abolitionist) is the primary topic is to use WP:Requested moves, so that John Brown can be moved to John Brown (disambiguation). It is not proper to cut & paste John Brown to John Brown (disambiguation), which is why I reverted it before. Tassedethe (talk) 12:54, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After clicking on John Browns, I can report that the abolitionist seems to be the only one with a significant write up. It makes no sense to have him hidden deep in the article. Kauffner (talk) 16:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, WP:MOSDAB guidelines say that the most important items should be at the top of the list. Unfortunately the way it is laid out at the moment contradicts some other guidelines. I am going to put a note at the MOS talk page to request some help with this as I have never had to separate out several entries due to importance, most pages are ordered like this one (by occupation) or by birth date. Tassedethe (talk) 07:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

text: I have added a help request at the talk page here. I hope I have clearly laid out your concerns. Tassedethe (talk) 07:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic, John Brown abolitionist? 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect John. W. Brown. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Hog Farm (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "John. W. Brown" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

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