User talk:BlackBaron
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Mirabelle, Cherry Plum
[edit]Hi BlackBaron - I'll admit some surprise when you edited Mirabelle to being different from Cherry Plum, but on checking up, found that's correct (well spotted!), except the latin name for it is Prunus x domestica (itself a hybrid P. cerasifera x P. spinosa). But I suspect a chunk of the text at Cherry Plum about its cultivation in France also ought to be moved across to Mirabelle - can you check that out? Also agree the Plum page needs a good going over, it's a mess (but so is the nomenclature of plums generally, unfortunately that's what happens when the first taxa described are cultivated plants not wild ones!). - Thanks, MPF 01:58, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Kilpatrick
[edit]Sorry about moving your page. I had created Judson Kilpatrick as a stub in February and had no way of knowing you'd create one in March with his full, but unused, name. After I checked in my updates, I found your page. Since mine had more info, I transferred missing info out of yours and made yours a redirect. Hope that's OK with you. Hal Jespersen 23:55, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I'd prefer it back at Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. I had an over-arching design I intended for the article, something more thorough and comprehensive than currently at Judson Kilpatrick. The "Hugh" wasn't unused, it actually is more prevalent in the source material...of note, I am his great-great-great grandson. —BlackBaron 00:03, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- OK, despite my prior creation of the article, I will yield to your ancestral ties. I would appreciate it if you would insert the bulk of the Civil War history I wrote up into your article. (I'd do it myself, but you said you have a design in mind.) Hal Jespersen 00:09, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't mind if you do it, as long as you don't mind me improving upon it eventually. —BlackBaron 05:20, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I incorporated the items from the Judson Kilpatrick article, and will work on complementing them with more information in the coming days. Sorry for the mishap. —BlackBaron 05:33, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't mind if you do it, as long as you don't mind me improving upon it eventually. —BlackBaron 05:20, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for incorporating my text. A few minor points:
- I think you're overdoing the section headers. This is an encyclopedia entry, which when printed (and the Wiki folks do have the intent to do that) will be about a page.
- The Wiki style (Wikipedia:Cite_your_sources#Books) for book references is lastname/firstname, which is why I included the Eichers the way I did, but got lazy about correcting yours.
- In my opinion, having Trivia sections (or Triviata in your case) is an inappropriate style for a reference work. The quote you include is not trivia and you should find a way to include it in the main text of the article. Ditto for the Meade quote (which I didn't include in mine because I found a more detailed photo of him than you're using). There's no reason you can't include "color commentary" about the guy right inside the historical date/place/battle data. I think that provides a more interesting article for the reader than to segregate the tidbits into their own section at the end.
Good luck with the article. Hal Jespersen 16:56, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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