Talk:John C. Calhoun

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I've kept this article relatively small, with much POVing and the like added, as I've just recently read the WP article and its talk page. Since starting the article-as-it-is, I haven't gone to the WP page save to make certain that they used a period in the middle initial and the photo; the rest of the details about Calhoun is from recent memory. I'll probably add more if others don't, at all or before I do.

Like a number of RW'ians, I was interested in getting the Andrew Jackson article going. I remember hearing the name Calhoun, but he was a vague figure. What source did I go to for info? What'd you expect. Hope I'm not helping to turn RW into a fork WP (like Wikinfo was—sort of).

By the way, in the talk page in WP article, some guy named "Jensen" was mentioned in reference to Conservapedia. He and another editor were in a spat, the latter even suspecting the former was engaging in sockpuppetry. Civic CatTalk to Civic Cat 18:40, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Didn't like the snark, Weaseloid? (Not as bad as your last edit.)Civic CatTalk to Civic Cat 22:56, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

[edit] my December 2013 edits—revert immediately!!

  1. My original edit of the caption, for it's faults, is more accurate than the current one, as good as it is. If Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina, he'd be South Carolina's best known—not Calhoun. As we aren't sure which Carolina that Jackson was born in, and my reference was removed, I removed the Carolina reference from the caption, which renders 209.239.114.86's good edit moot, hence no caption at all save the name.
  2. I replaced the later "[[The South|antebellum US]]" to my earlier "antebellum US" as the South and antebellum US aren't the same thing—+60% of the Southern states existence as US states have been in the post-antebellum time.
  3. I changed the ""[[Bullshit|necessary evil]]," back to "necessary evil" as his defence was even more bullshit than that of his contemporaries.
  4. I liked my "Typical of many American <s>slave-owning aristocrats and noted bigots</s> historical figures," better than "Typical of many American historical figures," but hey, you guys don't like strikeouts, who am I to argue otherwise, and that's that, so I didn't touch it. The "The Navy probably regrets that." is cute though—assuming it's true.
  5. Why do I get the feeling that I'll spend more time on this article than reading the Wikipedia article?

Civic CatTalk to Civic Cat 18:33, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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