Talk:Robert Carter I

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 06:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Ancestry tree
I reverted the unreferenced addition of a family tree by 31.49.60.105.

It is very easy to construct an ancestry tree from unreliable sources published on the internet. However it only takes one mistake for large parts of the tree to be incorrect. For example if a grandmother is recorded as the first wife rather the second wife (the correct mother), then a quarter of the tree will be inaccurate, even if all the other entries for every single person are correct. For this reason trees need accurate sourcing from reliable sources.

31.49.60.105 what were your sources for creating this tree? -- PBS (talk) 20:28, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

"Moniker" is hardly the right register for a historical or biographical article pretending to seriousness. Walter Turner 91.54.97.213 (talk) 13:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:American slave owners
No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 21:00, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

more work needed
Clearly, this article is skeletal, about a major Virginia figure. It doesn't even list the county(ies) for which he was a burgess, only that he was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and alleges that he was very briefly a Colonial Governor, which I doubt. I am not in a Virginia room right now and so cannot correct even that. At the risk of sounding peevish, the last time I tried to add burgess locale information (for Patrick Henry), my attempts were reverted as unimportant given the figure's importance. I do note that at least this article connects to a more in-depth biographical article in the Encyclopedia Virginia (which confirms he wasn't a colonial governor, just a member of the governor's council as well as treasurer). Because of my other responsibilities, I cannot fix this article, only note that King Carter apparently is a major figure in an upcoming book by Carol Priest. That book discusses Britain's Debt Recovery Act of 1732, which apparently King Carter used to increase his landholdings. Wikipedia does not list that act in its List of acts of the British parliament between 1720 and 1739, which I believe another necessary correction I cannot make, although I just listened to a discussion of more than a dozen tenured U.S. history professors who all know about that act, and having read a preview of the book, agree that it's important.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:43, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I have been improving this article slowly and despite reactivation of my cyberbullies, who purport to be a nationwide network. No message repeat web callers using the "account services" moniker might well be PRA Group from Norfolk, since some of those numbers when googled turn up 800notes.com entries mentioning Portfolio Recovery Associates and someone here redirects the entries to that article. Perhaps this King Carter would appreciate their clout, or apparent reliance on moral licensing to use an AI bot to track me. Of course I have no idea who "restricted" caller really is or wants (since I will not pick up these scammer calls), nor the 847 area code (Chicago) cellphone robocaller choosing the "spam risk" moniker (other than deduce from the third call in two weeks that the caller deliberately violates the federal do not call list and has paid someone to clear google results other than a 2007 Hammond Indiana real estate listing and two data broker ads). Both callers and my 267 repeat violator seem powered by Verizon wireless, the network that sent weather emergency messages to cellphones at 8:21 and 8:47p.m. on March 31 that even rang on muted and no-sim devices and disrupted a Kennedy Center performance (according to acquaintances the next morning). The only (robo) voicemail I received all month was from area code 304 (West Virginia)--this happened as my Monday edits started and the more-local number the voicemail mentioned for responses has six years of postings on 800notes.com. Perhaps the cyberbullies hint I could leave my cellphone at home, but Wednesday my untouched backup cellphone lost service after my in-library edits. On April 1 and again today, a scammer email about my AppleID being blocked got through email filters shortly after posting the day's first edit. For what it's worth, the best family history I have found about this man and his descendants is not available for checkout and at a library about an hour away, so I find cell phone useful for navigating through construction/accidents, etc. I have not been able to locate a decent biography of this man; two libraries have reference copies of one written in the late 1950s. Frankly, the genealogical gaps surprised me, since I thought him possibly the most researched of all the Virginia figures. This article still does not list all the Virginia governors nor both U.S. Presidents who descend from his daughters. Some of his slaveholding or trading practices are mentioned in Lorena Walsh's 1997 study of the Virginia slave community at Carter's Grove and Henry Wiencek's 2003 book on George Washington's slaveholdings (decades after this man's death). Both were published by UVA press, and I put the UVA library cite in this article.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:12, 3 April 2022 (UTC) Another scammer Apple ID locked message just got through, though icann indicates that domain was established by California-based onlinenic.com yesterday, whereas the previous domains were registered on April 1 and today. But the name reminds me to go home and tend my garden.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:34, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Robert Carter I
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Robert Carter I's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "DVB": From Robert Beverley Jr.:  From Charles Carter (of Ludlow):  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 22:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)