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Talk:Nathaniel Rochester

message: The rope factory that Col. Rochester founded still exists today as Rochester Cable & Wire (Culpeper, VA), now owned by Tyco Electronics.   Psalm 119:105 (talk) 10:39, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Great!  Do you have a reliable source for that information?   Powers T 13:28, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rope factory

message: The "Col. William Fitzhugh" in the article is linked to the Wiki-article on "William Fitzhugh", a landed gentleman who owned Chatham Manor near Fredericksburg VA.
It's NOT the same man.  William Fitzhugh of Chatham was NOT a Colonel and, as near as we can determine, didn't own property in Maryland.  (He owned a lot of land but not there.)  His death in 1809 also seems to contra-indicate that he was engaged in these Md. land deals.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scottnfred (talk • contribs) 00:42, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fitzhugh" in Land Speculation 

message: Rochester's ownership of slaves during this period of his life is well-documented. Additional evidence does indicate that Rochester also participated in the purchase, sale and leasing of slaves.  
"During his time in North Carolina and Maryland, Rochester was an active participant in the slave trade with a sophisticated financial role that complemented his ventures... Having evidently amassed considerable wealth by the end of the American Revolution, Rochester began investing in slaves shortly thereafter... In March 1779, he and Hart, along with several others, pooled their collective resources of 14,384 pounds, 8 shillings and 4 pence to buy 'Negroes &tc.' Historian Stanley Engerman estimates that, accounting for inflation, the price of a slave was equivalent to $30,000 today. Rochester also considered the rental value of slaves he purchased for himself and occasionally supplemented his own income by hiring his own slaves out to others. For example, when Rochester purchased 30-year-old Nedd from Thomas Critcher in 1783, the slave was already on contract to work for another man, Thomas Satterwhite...Rochester continued to make financial investments in purchasing and selling wholesale groups of slaves in the years that followed. Rochester's attitude toward the effects such transactions might have on the lives of the African Americans seems to have been somewhat ambiguous. He merrily described a 1790 slave buying and selling expedition as an "Adventure to the Eastern Shore,"" but in a memorandum likely written by Rochester in the same year, he took care to provide detailed personal information about 12 slaves being offered for sale in Frederick, Maryland."
"We Called Her Anna": Nathaniel Rochester and Slavery in the Genesee Country, Pages 6-8, http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v71_2009/v71i1.pdf  
Mdiggory (talk) 03:12, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Col. Nathaniel Rochester: Southern Entrepreneur, Slave Owner, and Slave Trader
Talk:Margaret Corbin

message: There's one very confusing bit here.
"She was discharged from the Continental Army in 1783. Margret was a loyalist then soon after a patriot." What? She was a "loyalist" (meaning loyal subject and supporter of King George III) after being discharged from the Continental Army and after the war ended? That sentence is nonsensical. Should the second sentence be earlier in the article somewhere? Is it even correct?
I'm no historian, but can someone check this?
CarlFink (talk) 06:18, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Margaret Corbin: Loyalist? 

message: Why does this make so much Sense to me it kinda wired  Timothy Owen Wilson jr  (talk) 09:55, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  &124
Talk:Robert Ward Johnson

message: *Robert Johnson → Robert Johnson (musician) —(Discuss) Since there are so many Robert Johnsons no one person should be located at the Robert Johnson Page.  This would make way to move Robert Johnson (disambiguation) to Robert Johnson.  TonyTheTiger 21:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Move Debate 

message: Need his parents' names, even if his uncles were more politically prominent than his father.18:13, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Need facts about his family

message: The family were slaveholders.
:Disembodied statement, not relating to anything before or after. Obviously tacked-on by a diversity editor to represent some kind of racist penalty-point. The category 'American slave owners' should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 13:02, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability
Talk:Tench Tilghman

message: someone's made a real mess of this article, I've made a start at returning it to something resembling a wikipedia article, but it needs a lot of work.
BBFlatt 11:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I created this article and I just edited it and it is fine. Unless you want me to beef up the articles, I will do that. But otherwise it is fine. This was a project I did for National History Day. I will try to get pictures if I can...  King Skeller (talk) 15:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello peoples! 
Talk:Matt W. Ransom

message: Regarding the move of this page, M. W. Ranson (44%), Matt W. Ransom (32%), and Matt Ransom (18%) are the only iterations of Ransom's name that constitute over 5% of references to him on newspapers.com. Per WP:INITS, a written-out name is preferable to simply initials if the written-out version is used by RS. Star Garnet (talk) 16:10, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common name
Talk:Sidney Souers

message: http://books.google.com/books?id=5UM5Z2yarWkC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Sidney+Souers&source=bl&ots=fp4Nr9qDNA&sig=miLqp_C9wRr1usbnFGJjSh4EUSA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r1TgU7KEPYTRiwLrjoDACQ&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=Sidney%20Souers&f=false
-- John Broughton   (♫♫) 03:53, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information source
Talk:William Sterling Parsons

message: Screw it. You can't reach some people. Uncle Bubba (talk) 21:47, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've switched it back to the spelling used by his biographer in his book (). This follows the form that Parsons used. As far as I can tell, Parsons always spelled it "Deak". (See Christman, pp. 32, 260-251) Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:43, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname
Talk:Skypiea's Priests

message: This page could really use some pictures of the priests... Sigmasonic X 04:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then why is there a picture of Hotori and Kotori?Their conection to Satori isnt enough,because theese apeared in one episode alone (as far as I can remember)-compared to them,Yama,whose picture was taken off,was seen 3 times.First,whent the 3 remaining priests gathered at Enels "gods house",then when atacking one of the Shandians with his axe dials and then in his (final) fight,with Robin.So,seeing that Hotori and Kotori are but liuetenants of the Enforces and that Yama is their commander,this would also support it for his picture staying and theirs being taken off (although they could remain,I guess). New Babylon 08:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures
Talk:Raymond S. McLain

message: Moving the following entries from the article to this talk page. -- JHunterJ 13:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested corrections 

message: I suggest deletion of the end of paragraph 4 under requested corrections -"Lastly, if I were you I'd forget any input from grandsons and granddaughters from his first marriage--General McLain wrote their parents out of his will."  This can only precipitate conflicts harmful to Wikipedia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RSM3 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest removal of a comment that could precipitate violation of Wikipedia policies 
Talk:Chaldeans

message: But some don't wish to be called so.شيطان 04:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And just because some in the deaspora wish not to be called so does not give them the power to create a whole new ethnicity out of nowhere. Chaldean 01:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chaldeans are Assyrians
Talk:Return J. Meigs Sr.

message: For the record, There is a biography of Meigs at http://www.meigs.org/rjm90.htm that is inconsistent with other sources. Notably, it gives his birthdate as 1740 (not 1734) and it gives the birthdate of his son Return Jonathan Meigs as 1765 (not 1764, as given in his Congressional biography). --Orlady (talk) 17:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Steve Mason (poet)

message: Steve Mason was born in 1940, I am his youngest daughter. He was born in 1940 in Brooklyn NY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.54.30 (talk) 4:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the information. I've adjusted the article based on this obituary to state that Steve Mason was 65 when he died. EALacey 11:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Born in 1940
Talk:Montgomery Meigs (born 1945)

message: I changed the text, which stated that GEN Meigs was on a "reconnaissance mission" to state that he is visiting a coalition base camp.  It's clear from the background that this is what he's doing. Good article, by the way. CsikosLo (talk) 22:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blurb under photo 
Template talk:WikiProject Kentucky

message: I readded the noinclude in the hopes of keeping this template from adding every article to :Category:WikiProject banners; which it is currently doing.  It didn't work.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 00:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for fixing that.  I guess I should have examined that last edit.  Whoops. :) Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 01:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, no, no!  The rub is that I made the revertion, and it didn't fix the problem.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 01:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I think I just fixed the issue.  Let me know otherwise. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 01:53, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  whoa!  fix!  fix! 

message: This template needs to be cleaned up, as it's placing a considerable amount of whitespace beneath itself. --kingboyk 23:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  White space 

message: Maybe this should be converted to using WPBannerMeta like WPLouisville's was? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WPBannerMeta
Talk:Vanadium tetrachloride

message: Isn't it also a steric problem that VCl5 does not exist, that five chlorine atoms just don't fit around a vanadium atom (or at least the bonds had to be elongated and thus destabilized)? Or is this explanation insufficient, because it would find other arrangements (e.g. VCl4+ Cl- )? --130.83.100.213 (talk) 11:28, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the covalent radius of the vanadium atom is bigger than that of the phosphorous atom, and since phosphorous pentachloride is well-known, I wouldn't say that this is a steric problem. Besides the "oxidant theory" in the article, the instability of VCl5 may also be caused by (lack of) orbital hybridisation, since the compound VOCl3 exists and doesn't immediately decompose to release chlorine. --79.243.239.89 (talk) 12:22, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vanadium pentachloride
Talk:Rudolf Anderson

message: Has anyone tried confirming a phone call to him from Kenneth O'Donnell such as is portrayed in Thirteen Days? It would be much less to the point than the other O'Donnell events portrayed (the starlings scenario by William Ecker and his wingman is presumably pretty close to the truth, and a great piece of crucial history that we are IMO neglecting), but the portrayal of O'Donnell saying to Anderson "I've been making these calls to [all the mission leaders]" does make sense of it, tho the chance that it had a historical impact is in his case far-fetched. --Jerzy•t 05:15, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kenneth O'Donnell 

message: The pigeon story, besides being a copy vio in its current form, is far too detailed for the accompanying  bio article. (Further, even if it was intended to humanize him, its effect probably violates SYNTH on grounds that its disproportionate length (relative the size of the article as a whole and relative the anecdote's role in his significance) has the effect of mocking him: If the C.O. of a carrier had had his Tailhook behavior mentioned in the course that scandal, it might rate mention, but almost certainly not detailed accounting.--Jerzy•t 05:15, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pigeon 

message: Towards the beginning of the article, it states that he was shot down by Raul Castro. Did Raul Castro even have anything to do with this incident? Even if he did, maybe the wording should be changed. It seems to imply that Raul Castro actually got on an AA gun and personally shot the guy down.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.61.204.26 (talk) 07:44, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The suggestion is not supported by the sources given and they don't meet the criteria of WP:RELIABLE, so I've reverted it. 101.98.248.252 (talk) 11:13, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The references given don't aren't reliable sources as defined by WP:RELIABLE. Please don't add statements to the article unless they can be backed up with reliable sources. 101.98.248.252 (talk) 08:55, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The assertion has been changed from "shot down over Cuba by Raul Castro" to "shot down over Cuba by the Cuban military at the direction of Raul Castro". I don't think either of those statements are supported by reliable sources, indeed the sources provided contradict that statement saying it was the Soviets who shot down the aircraft. I'm not going to (edit) war over this - I will leave it for others to review and decide. 101.98.248.252 (talk) 21:11, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raul Castro
Talk:Marlborough Churchill

message: I am would like to see information about his later career in the Army.  I have indication that he reverted to his permanent grade and eventually retired.  
In 1929, officers reverted to their WWI ranks so he probably became a BG again.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.88.67.173 (talk) 03:18, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sidney Mashbir

message: A significant amount of previously donated physical information and records relating to Sidney Mashbir is stored at the Charles E. Young Research Library in Los Angeles, CA
Anyone wishing to make a substantial contribution to this Wikipedia article may be able to seek these resources.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aeonx (talk • contribs) 11:39, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidney Forrester Mashbir Papers, 1942-1960 

message: As per the request on my talk page I have reviewed this article. In doing so, I have made a few edits to comply with the Manual of Style. Largely the article looks quite good and I have rated this article as a Start class article. Nevertheless, I feel that with a little more work it might be able to be assessed as B class. I have the following suggestions:
*expand the lead to summarise the entire article;
*provide some details about the subject's later life and when and where they died in the main prose section;
*I'm not really knowledgable on the subject so can't really comment on the content. As such I suggest requesting a formal peer review as this might attract the help of a few other editors with more specific knowledge. This can be done by going to WP:MHPR and following the steps listed there. Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 07:17, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions for improvement

message: According to the article, "following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mashbir was re-enrolled in January 1940". Considering that the attack on Pearl happened at the end of 1941, this would be rather impressive. I assume that Mashbir was not actually a time-traveller, so perhaps a bit of clean-up is warranted? 82.209.158.3 (talk) 12:52, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline?
Talk:Willard H. Brownson

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 20:03, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem
Talk:William C. Lambert

message: I cited as much info as I could from the couple of sources I had available. So I got maybe fifty percent of the article cited. Can some good kind soul (or heck, maybe even a miserable wretch) finish it?
Georgejdorner (talk) 04:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need more cites 

message: The name of the article should be changed to either William Lambert (with a link to a disambiguation page, if necessary) or William C. Lambert.  Col. Lambert rarely, if ever, used his full name in public.  His books were published under William C. Lambert.  Newspaper articles usually referred to him as either William, William C., or Bill.  He was also an occasional public speaker and he was usually introduced as either William, William C., or Bill.
EricWR (talk) 16:47, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article
Talk:Michael H. Miller

message: I remember this guy when her was the C.O. of the Coronado... he was kind of an asshole. Eric Cable  |  Talk  02:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Honestly, I think I was thinking of someone else when I wrote that. Miller was a good guy. He could have busted me, but didn't. Eric Cable  |  Talk  12:49, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: That doesn't seem possible to me. That would make him 44 years on active duty which is against the law. 1980 maybe? Eric Cable  |  Talk  12:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years of Service 1970 to present?
Talk:Robert Hoke

message: Hoke County NC was named after Hoke. He was also said to be a favorite of General Robt E. Lee. Engr105th 06:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoke County, NC 

message: I did some work on this page, but it still needs more info on his life prior to Kentucky Military Institute. Kresock (talk) 00:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight expansion 
Talk:Terry D. Scott

message: Is the BS after his name really necessary? How many people have BS degrees and its never noted. Hal06 21:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  it's not bashing. but i'm inclined to agree. several of the other mcpon's have had master's degrees, m.a.'s and m.b.a.'s. the 'b.s.' does seem pretentious.Toyokuni3 (talk) 13:36, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BS? 

message: I wonder what he is doing after he retired...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.3.17.37 (talk) 13:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-Navy 

message: there's a lot of information in the other articles on mcpon's that isn't here. where and when did he get the b.s.? what did he do before becoming a cmc?Toyokuni3 (talk) 13:36, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional info
Talk:Michael Bumgarner

message: Discussion of June 9/10 2006 incident at the Gitmo Detention Center is spread out between at three articles: this one, Camp No (Guantanamo), and Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations. It seems like covering this article in a centralized way rather than fragmented across 3 articles would be better. As Bumgarner is really only notable do to his role in the incident, WP:BLP1E suggests that such a merge would be appropriate. I've also proposed that Camp No (Guantanamo) be merge to Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations. Yilloslime TC 23:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the  tag to a  so there would a single discussion at Talk:Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations.  Geo Swan (talk) 21:51, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose merge to [[Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations]]
Talk:Semarang

message: I think that there should be some clarification about the high schools stated in the schools section.
SMA Negeri is a general name for a school. Cirebon has a SMA Negeri 1, Jogjakarta has a SMA Negeri 1 etc.. The full names actually include the name of the city or province, I'm not sure which one. Crisco 1492 08:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I have noticed that Semarang#City Planning of Semarang during Dutch Colonial reiterates much of the same information that we have in the history section. I would try and merge it, but I am worried that the above mentioned section is a copyright violation. Any ideas? Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge information? 

message: lumpia Daniel Salvatore Abyasa (talk) 13:16, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Makanan khas semarang
Talk:Shawn Gibson

message: I chose to dispute the neutrality of this article because there are two specific incidents that I believe portray GIbson in a negative light. The portion discussing the stars and stripes article that mentions only the last line which is a motto and the end of the article which seems to say that Gibson exaggerated claims of fighting. 
I myself am a soldier in the Army, and I myself disagree with the events in the Palestine Hotel. Regardless, if this article is to include information that is irrelevant, such as a unit motto, then it should be balanced with positive aspects. Better still, irrelevant information should be discarded entirely, such as both the motto quote and the personal, dubbed statement of the narrator from a documentary.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Far2813 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with removing the motto if it is indeed a unit motto. If "we" just refers to him and friends, then it deserves to stay. You have a citation for it being a unit motto? Sherurcij (speaker for the dead)  18:29, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality
Talk:Robert Dennison (United States Navy officer)

message: "He would capture several merchant vessels and even Soviet submarines during this time."
Even attempting to capture a Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis would have likely triggered WW III.  I'm pretty sure that the Soviet crews would have resisted being boarded, much less allowing themselves to be captured.  I've never seen any historical information consistent with this claim.  You're gonna have to provide some solid references to corroborate this sentence!
Thanks,
Carl Gusler 23:44, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gonna have to prove this statement!

message: Upgraded page by adding military infobox and populating it. Wikified page. Minor adds, cats, etc. Could not find more information on the admiral, so it remains a basic stub.Wikited (talk) 18:01, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note that the use of No data available was quite frivolous, I have replaced it with template:sectionstub. Gsmgm (talk) 18:38, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Upgraded page
Talk:Robert Hanson (United States Army Air Forces)

message: Did this guy have a middle name? Because it needs something to disambiguate it from Robert M. Hanson, another WW2 aviator. 
—wwoods 23:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. (But the other guy should be Robert Hanson (Marines), unless it is shown he is generally known with the initial. Hunting down for titles (even when dab'n is needed) middle initials that aren't generally used violates WP:MOS, and results in annoying titles.)--Jerzy•t 19:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: I don't think there were US bombers in combat in Europe before WWII, so i removed
: during the Second World War ...
I removed 
: ... and then return to the United States
because it is extraneous to that sentence -- and in fact to his bio at all, unless his experience in the fund drive is going to be included.--Jerzy•t 19:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exact nature of their "first"