Talk:William Clark

message: Who did William daddy Clark marry?FroggyJamer 04:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It was an addition by an IP address know to be used by a vandal and has been removed. Kablammo 02:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clark

message: Someone requested that this page be moved to William Clark (disambiguation) because this is a disambiguation page. It's not and William Clark (disambiguation) is a disambiguation page already. joturner 18:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind; it was a mistake on the requestor's part. He meant William Clarke. joturner 18:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation Page? 

message: I removed the description of Clark as "Scottish-American."  I think in the context of describing someone born in 1770 that the natural implication of "Scottish-American" would be someone born in Scotland who moved to America, not someone born in Virginia of Scottish heritage.  john k 03:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish-American? 

message: Can you find out? and he was given land , where is land today? who owens the land given??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.25.105 (talk) 20:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  family tree ? do you know who his the last clark in family tree at this time ? ? 

message: I know Captain Clark was the administrator of the Territory which encompassed the epicenter of those Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. Where can I find a record of his reports and actions about this time period? Thank you. J C Kollmann (talk) 15:28, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The earthquakes of 1811 and 1812  

message: Please add under further reading: Specht, August J. (2009). Defying Death, Not Duty: Deciphering the Mysteries of Meriwether Lewis. CreateSpace. , 9781449512101.
MeriwetherLewis (talk) 17:52, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from MeriwetherLewis, 23 June 2010 

message: There is a different photo of Wm. Clark in the 1912 book History of Spokane County by N. W. Durham, which has fallen into the public domain.
The photo is on page 4. The book is digitized here: http://books.google.com/books?id=NYEUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=history+of+spokane&hl=en&ei=6dtRTI3QNZKUnQes8bWZBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.253.255 (talk) 19:58, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another photo 

message: The article has no mention of Clark's adoption of Sacagawea and Charbonneaus' son and daughter. 67.68.39.16 (talk) 04:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adopted Children 

message: Please remove that William Clark was the second governor of the Missouri territory because he was not.
166.70.81.133 (talk) 00:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct, he was the fourth. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:22, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from , 19 October 2011 

message: Under the "Marriage and Family" section of William Clark's page, it incorrectly states that the cemetery in which he is buried, Bellefontaine Cemetery, is registered as a National Historic Landmark. This is not correct as Bellefontaine Cemetery currently holds no such status, so that sentence can be safely deleted. Sources: National Park Service; my job as a historian for the State of Missouri.
168.166.80.168 (talk) 15:04, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction, the Wainwright Tomb is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which is significant, but that is not as high an honor as if it had been designated a National Historic Landmark. There are fewer of those.Parkwells (talk) 17:59, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2014 

message: In that quotes are not used it's unclear if the Foley source cited states verbatim "the plight of destitute native people increasingly threatened with extinction" or whether this is a paraphrase by the Wiki contributor.  If it's a quote, I'd be inclined to leave it alone and cite an alternative balancing source but if it's a paraphrase, it seems more accurate to state that these peoples were threatened with "assimilation" and "relocation" - not extinction, which strongly implies outright genocide.  Yes, genocide occurred on the frontier but this is too broad a statement in this context, particularly where Clark was responsible for large territories where outright genocide was not a clearly established policy rather than an aberration and where Clark himself would have been strongly opposed to any policy of outright genocide.  His record may be "morally ambiguous" with respect to assimilation and relocation but it's misleading to implicate him in a policy of "extinction." A discussion of the difference between coercive assimilation and genocide has its merits but they lie outside the scope of Clark as a topic.  It's best to stick with what actually happened (relocation) in this context and leave the long-term interpretation for another discussion.Calawpro (talk) 17:16, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Indigenous Nations..." section and "extinction" 

message: boy  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.211.218 (talk) 18:47, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  boy 

message: I've noticed a disambiguation section; this might be avoided by including in the title of the article Clark's full name: William Rogers Clark.  This is important for another reason: The Rogers-Clark family came to the American colonies in the mid-1600s, ever since making important contributions to the founding and discovery of the present-day United States.
May also wish to consult "The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark," by Jo Ann Trogdon, University of Missouri Press, 2015 ... as apparently there was much more to William Rogers Clark than his expedition with Meriwether Lewis, notably the so-called Spanish Conspiracy, his association with James Wilkinson, the discredited general.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HBNTexas (talk • contribs) 10:13, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identification 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Add citation after: "Clark was consulted on affairs on a regular basis. In Louisiana and Missouri, Clark served the United States government for the longest term in history as diplomat to the Native American peoples." 
Citation added = Ferguson, Gillum. “Clark.” In Illinois in the War of 1812. University of Illinois Press, 2012. (page 148-152) Professorjacobs (talk) 17:51, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: You are now an autoconfirmed user and you should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. --Trialpears (talk) 21:13, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 July 2019 

message: Why the mention that he was a slaveholder? That is unnecessarily editorial. It is not the kind of info normally stated in someone's introduction, unless the intent is to cast a shadow on their character.  If the info is somehow considered relevant to anything, it could be worked into  the article in context, somehow.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venqax (talk • contribs) 19:34, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. Please provide some sourcing to show this is a worthwhile work that is well received and reliable. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:55, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

text: Not done for now: This is already covered in under Legacy and honors. I believe the infobox is just showing his rank during active service. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: = Introduction Section 

message: Add the following reference to Further Readings:
: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. Please provide some sourcing to show this is a worthwhile work that is well received and reliable. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:55, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 November 2021 

message: Ourigan, Oregon by William Clark, et al. Sunny Lou Publishing, 2021, . From the journals of William Clark, during the Corps. of Discovery's trip down the Columbia River. Mericlark (talk) 16:50, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Further Readings

message: Needs historical revision. Glorifies native American genocide. 151.52.29.237 (talk) 06:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs historical revision 

message: I would like to add that Clark released his beloved Slave, York, whom he had grown up with has a young boy. He feared the well-being of York if he set him free. Many times freed slaves would be re- caught by slaves brokers and resold, or due to their lack of knowledge, experience and education, would find themselves in the wrong crowd and would end up in trouble. Later, at the urging of Sacajawea’s young boy, whom he took in and educated, he gave York his freedom, a wagon, horses and enough money to purchase land and a small house. President Jefferson did not believe in slavery and was even married to a woman whose mother had been slave. Many of the founding fathers did not but the system brought by the English had yet to be deconstructed. This was a new country with an enormous task ahead of them. 2601:3CB:100:3EE0:ECE8:D2B2:592F:3F87 (talk) 20:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Deconstruction of Slavery 

message: Clark was posthumously promoted to the rank of Captain, but this page only shows his rank as Lieutenant. See...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/william-clark-officially-made-captain.htm#:~:text=Public%20Law%20106%2D507%20of,Militia%20of%20Upper%20Louisiana%20Territory. 24.160.172.206 (talk) 07:40, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: This is already covered in under Legacy and honors. I believe the infobox is just showing his rank during active service. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2022 

message: There is an elementary school in Council Bluffs, Iowa. There is also a middle school in Omaha, Nebraska and another middle school which is temporarily closed in Bellevue, Nebraska. All the mentioned cities are along the documented route that the expedition took. As well Council Bluffs, Iowa was named after an event that took place during the expedition. Akasarben1978 (talk) 03:52, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional locations named for Lewis & Clark.