Talk:Peon/Archives/2015

Peonage as German Propaganda
You should note that peonage was not eliminated in the southern states until the late 1930s when FDR and his cabinet were fearful that Germany (Hitler) would make an issue of it in retaliation for US criticism of Hitler's anti-antisemitic and Aryan supremacy propaganda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.253.165.30 (talk) 14:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No, *you* should edit the article yourself after you fully investigate it. When you modify the article make sure that you cite sources that meet Wikipedia's standards. —optikos (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I address this to the preceding contribution, and others who read it, and not to its contributor, who -- unless they have since figured out what i'm pointing out here -- probably doesn't want my counsel.  The IP-address colleague appears to have probably read the immediately preceding talk contrib, addressed to them, within about the following month. It's not easy to know in what way the IP took it to heart: i.e., whether
 * by rededicating themself to being as effective a contributor as feasible (by becoming a registered editor), or
 * by chucking the whole nonsense (e.g., saying "i don't have to put up with this shit abusiveness... " (no matter whether they continued with "... unless i'm  being paid", or "... even when i'm being paid").
 * Since that IP address has not contributed since (despite being the source of a hundred-and-some edits over IIRC the preceding few years and having done so a few weeks previously), those are the two most likely interpretations of the available evidence.  I recommend that contributors making suggestions on talk pages not be, uh, slapped down (as above) for failing to contribute ideally to the project, but rather
 * thanked for (in this case) pointing out a direction that they (the IP talk contributor), or other colleagues, (which of those is no business of anyone, except the contributor being addressed and any subsequent one) may find fruitful for further research, or
 * ignored (if only on the principle that if you can't say anything civil, you can always shut up and get on with what is your own business).
 * --Jerzy•t 07:27, 15 November 2015 (UTC)