Talk:Nicholas Biddle

message: Should point out that Biddle took actions to prove that his bank was important to the US economy -- actions which in the eyes of the bank's opponents amply and fully proved all their accusations of sinister influences and arrogant autocracy. AnonMoos (talk) 22:11, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not all historians agree with that point of view, and Wikipedia upholds the neutral point of view in historical articles. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, we strive to maintain a neutral point of view in all articles. – ukexpat (talk) 21:24, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevertheless, the accusations were important in the politics of the time -- Biddle pretty much unilaterally caused a financial crisis as for the purpose of demonstrating how important the Bank was, and in doing so he played right into Jackson's hands, politically... AnonMoos (talk) 16:13, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ultimate self-sabotage

message: The section on his early life starts out in the middle of a sentence. Can someone figure out where the rest of the section went, and fix it? --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:00, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It was this edit by User:71.203.94.108. Now reverted and IP warned. – ukexpat (talk) 01:25, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing information 

message: I have never heard of anyone dividing history up into pre- and post-Biddle eras. Google didn't turn up anything besides this article, so I'd like to see some citations or remove it if it is vandalism. 99.90.65.195 (talk) 05:01, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - I wondered if that could be a joke when I read it? 66.31.35.212 (talk) 06:03, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that it was initially added back in 2009 as the third edit of , whose first and second edits were both vandalism. Several IPs have since reinserted the section in some form or other e.g., which refers to "Pre-pre-pre-Biddle". --92.2.82.159 (talk) 21:04, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could we get some citations on the "Legacy" section? 

message: Some of the text in this page is identical to the script of The Money Masters (a movie on the history of money and banking). For example, "Biddle was arrested and charged with fraud; he was later acquitted. He died soon after while still involved in civil suits." Jra (talk) 21:33, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at this transcript of the movie on archive.org, the corresponding quote to the above is "Biddle was later arrested and charged with fraud. He was tried and acquitted, but died shortly thereafter while still tied up in civil suits." -- 92.4.191.178 (talk) 06:34, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copying from The Money Masters 

message: In § The Bank of the United States (emphasis added): 
:This rather sudden contraction of the country's monetary base after three currency and rampant speculation based on debt led to the financial "Panic of 1819".
This noun phrase no head; this sentence no sense.
--Thnidu (talk) 01:52, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "three currency" what? 

message: Someone erroneously described President James Madison as the fifth President, when he was in fact the fourth.  [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.153.233.9 (talk) 03:11, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction of President Madison's ordinal 

message: Hello everyone, 
I would like to propose some improvements to this entry. There are several new books that have come out in the last few years that cover Biddle extensively. These include books by Jane Knodell, Stephen Campbell, Mike Trapani, and Cordelia Frances Biddle. Books by Jessica Lepler and Andrew Browning also touch on issues in which Biddle was a key player. Content from these books should be added to the main entry, Notes, and Further Reading sections. Walter B. Smith's study from the 1950s, while dated, also has some valuable information on Biddle that should be included. I would also like to address and hopefully ameliorate the admonition at the top of the page calling for more inline citations. There are some factual issues and differences of historical interpretation that I would also like to address. Going into detail on all of these matters would make this entry long, so for the time being, I am merely proposing improvements. 
I have a decent amount of publishing experience with Nicholas Biddle and have looked at dozens of his letters. I would, therefore, like to take a central role in making these improvements but importantly, I would like to avoid the rancorous and acrimonious disputes that sometimes erupt with these types of changes. So how can I do that? 
Steviebill83 (talk) 11:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, , It's great you want to work on this article! Display name 99 is currently blocked from editing. Nobody is 'in charge' of any given article and it doesn't seem that anyone is super active in editing the article right now. You should be clear to start working on the article, though be careful that you remember Wikipedia policies such as that every claim must be cited to a published, reliable sources (preferably secondary). If you have specific questions on the nitty gritty of editing, do feel free to ask (I'd recommend at the teahouse, but I will be watching this page). Cheers, Eddie891  Talk Work  23:03, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested revisions starting May 2021