User talk:CathleenBriley

July 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Mayhew Cabin, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. ‖ Ebyabe ^talk - State of the Union ‖ 16:41, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Greetings. I understand your concern but ALL knowledge that we have was once "original research." My contribution to the page is research I have personally done that expands on John Brown's story of the slaves taken from Missouri and delivered to freedom in Canada as written by Richard Hinton and other biographers. Hinton's writings are widely accepted and honored. His story was the basis for my research. My research has been accepted by the National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/community/news_details.htm?NEWSID=765450 Please reconsider and repost my contribution. Cathleen Briley

My contributions of the Mayhew Cabin page have been repeatedly deleted. My addition of “The Twelve business” as you so condescendingly referred to it was merely a detailed expansion of the information THAT WAS ALREADY THERE. If you had bothered to actually read my contribution, instead of just being power-hungry deletion Nazi’s, you would have understood that. Therefore, I think the information should be left as I put it. The information under “History” that was already on the site WAS ADDED BY ME over a year ago. I found it necessary to add it because the information on the page was incorrect. Being a board member for the museum for many years, I felt it was my duty to correct the record. At that time, I ran into none of these complications, nor was I asked to source it. However, since you have asked for sourcing for my current attempt to add to the site, I DID PUT IN A SOURCE and was then told it was deleted for lack of sourcing. How incredibly frustrating! I was told that this is not a blog so I deleted any verbiage that sounded personal. Still, it was taken back down. I was also told that “this is not a genealogy site” because I added ONE NAME. However, I do a great deal of research using Wikipedia and EVERY page that details any historical person lists their birth date, their place or origin, their death date, their place of death, their parents, their siblings, their children, etc. I’m sorry fellas, but Wikipedia DOES include family information routinely. Because my contribution to the site has routinely been taken back down, you two “deleters” are stamping out the history of the museum site that the users of Wikipedia deserve to see and know. What you are doing is a travesty. I am going to re-contribute, and I expect my contribution to be left in place. If not, I will not rest until I find a way to report you and your behavior. CathleenBriley (talk) 14:29, 15 July 2015 (UTC)