User talk:Pollinator/Archive 1
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Hi Pollinator--
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Wanted to write you and ask if you can back up with solid references the changes you made to the page about Columbia; specifically, who was responsible for it being burned. There is little question that Sherman caused it to happen. Even being generous, he allowed his drunken soldiers to riot. I cite the following:
First, Sherman’s official report on the burning placed the blame on Lt. Gen, Wade Hampton III, who Sherman said had ordered the burning of cotton in the streets. Sherman later recanted this allegation and admitted lying in his Memoirs, Volume 11 page 287. He said, “In my official report of this conflagration I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was in my opinion a braggart and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina.”
Secondly, in 1867 a chance meeting of former combatants occurred in Federal Governor Orr’s office in Columbia. Gen. Howard, commander of the US 15th Corps of Sherman’s army during the burning, was to be introduced to Gen. Hampton in the presence of many dignitaries. Gen. Hampton said, “Before I take your hand General Howard, tell me who burnt Columbia?” Gen. Howard replied, “It is useless to deny that our troops burnt Columbia, for I saw them in the act.” (See Edwin J. Scott, Random Recollections of a Long Life. page 185; The Burning of Columbia, Charleston, SC, 1888, page 11.)
Look, the war's over. There were eyewitness accounts of who did it and how it happened. Unfortunately those accounts conflict, and modern writers have a veritable buffet of reports they can choose from to support their pet positions. It's become a battle over PC (I'm not accusing you of that, just stating the obvious) these days. Now, I'm not a historian but I have read extensively on the subject. Sherman burned Columbia. If you can provide citations and references that he did not then I will freely admit I'm wrong. Yes, the war's over, but if the historical truth is bad or good in light of today's political sensibilities, it's still the truth.
Keep on wiki-ing. Have a good one. :)
Hi Dave: Thanks so much for your kind words. I have only been doing Wiki articles for about six months and a large part of that was on an article on my hometown, Rochester. I have recently done articles on The Phelps and Gorham Purchase, The Holland Land Company, The Morris Reserve and The Mill Yard Tract. I also have contributed a bit to The Holland Purchase piece. Yesterday and today I spent several hours prefecting a map of western New York showing those tracts. (It took me that long because I had to learn parts of the image-editing software that I had never used...and a lot of trial and error...mostly error.) I took the map that you added to the The Holland Purchase article and added the boundries of the various first-order land subdivisions that occurred in the 1790s. I also added a few more cities and corrected the location of Rochester, which was a bit too close to Lake Ontario(city hall is about 12 miles inland). I also added a pic of a very old map of the Holland Purchase to that article. Since you like maps perhaps you will find these maps of interest. User:Bill 1745 11:59, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hello. Wikipedia articles should not begin with dictionary-style definitions, but with complete sentences. Accordingly, I have redirected your "pollinizer" article. Michael Hardy 23:09, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi Pollinator, cool image there on compound eye! Could you please make a note where this is from and its legal status (like "I took this", "public domain" or something) here? Thanks, Magnus Manske 11:30, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Thank you. Yes I took it, and all other photos I've posted here. Pollinator 11:56, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hello Pollinator, please to meet you :)
I left you a note at Talk:Pollinator decline. Thank you. Anthère
Hello Pollinator;
Would it be possible that you participate in helping me to translate the article I partly wrote about ecology ? There is currently a paragraph I think is correct in the page (hidden). I am asking because I want this article to be "proper english". Do not feel like you should do, it is perfectly ok to me if you do not want or do not have the time. In case you could, I would be very pleased.
Have a good day in any case :-) Anthère
I'll be glad to give it a try....Pollinator 21:03, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)
great :-). Well Brian nicely took care of this paragraph (it may need some terminology fix, but I do not feel the courage this evening and will be away this week end, perhaps can you check ?). I am working on the next paragraphs :-), perhaps for next week. I am sure you could improve the whole stuff anyway. Thanks :-) ant
Hello Pollinator. If you feel like bringing any kind of help to ecology (see hidden in edit mode), you will be more than welcome.
Have a good day :-) ant
Hello again
are you still around ?
If so, could you restore your edit at gaucho (insecticide) ?
The content of the article when deleted is at User:Anthere/temp. Please, pick the content back and just put it again in the article.
Thanks ant
here is the explanation of my doing so, as I left on Dr Clay... (who moved the content of the page) user page to explain why I deleted the page
from user page
I deleted the article Gaucho (pesticide) to restore the authorship of the article, per gfdl license.
why did I do so you would ask ?
I did not care much about authors, until, about a week ago, I was told I had illegally recreated an article, without mentionning the name of the original author while I did. I was told I was infringing the license, which required to trace the authors of an article. Actually, this point is still being discussed on the legal mailing list; but fact is, I am very insistent on fairness, and if some say I am doing illegal action in not respecting other people authorship, I will insist that my authorship is respected as well :-)
One thing that is recommended in case a whole portion of an article is moved to another, is either to mention the main authors of that portion in the comment box, or more easily, to mention the name of the original article from which the text was moved.
end of comment to another user
Cheers Pollinator :-) Anthère
No, it did not mess anyone else edit. I was watching (quite worried, I am glad you came back quickly). No one did any other edit than restoring the link to the other Gaucho :-) ant
Thanks for telling me. I've reverted it now, but it would have been fine for you to have reverted it yourself. If you see a user is continuing to vandalise a page, you can list them on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress so a sysop can consider banning them. By the way, Special:Emailuser/Pollinator seems to have your wrong address in. Angela. 01:15, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Sorry, I don't have time to look at it right now, but if it meets the guidelines at , then list it the bottom of and maybe someone else will have a look and add it. There aren't too many guidelines for recent deaths, other than the article must include this fact, and be listed on Recent deaths. By the way, replying to the e-mail you sent via the "email this user" form still doesn't work. It might be best if you left messages on my talk page, rather than e-mail. I tend to check that more often anyway. Angela. 06:55, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hello Pollinator :-)
Basically the translation of ecology is over. If you bring corrections, be they of content, style, typos, whatever, you will be welcome. I will fix missing or bad links, and replace the top with bee references (much better), and that will be it. I also put the ecology article on the main page (and it seems no one objects). Cheers. Ant
I am sorry you did started the translation, as it was done by another as well :-(
Do you like that ? http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology#Usage_of_the_term
- Yes, of course. I was pleasantly surprised. Pollinator 00:31, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I think that is a great example :-)))) PomPom