Talk:United States Courthouse (Natchez)

Added pre-restoration photo of hall
I added a photo taken by me of old memorial hall before restoration work. It helps to show the number and placement of the old name plates that are part of the 1924 World War I memoral and the poor state the hall, and the memoral was in. Shane505 (talk) 20:52, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

COI and World War I (Jim Crow) Monument on Federal Courthouse facade in Mississippi
This is for a "Talk" page, not the main article

I am new to Wki and understand that under the rules dealing with Conflict of interest,COI, that I need to make some kind of Declaration dealing with the page on the (new 2007) Federal Courthouse in Natchez, Mississippi. I have a vested interest in the history of the World War I (1914-1918) monument that is on the facade of the former nineteenth-century Greek Revival auditorium. The monument is mentioned in my Masters in History Thesis "Lost cause to lost generation : World War I, and the African-American troops from Adams County, Mississippi" 2008. The monument has been the topic of local newspaper articles. The stories in the Natchez Democrat charge that the list of names placed on the facade in 1924 is a list of white names, only. The url for the articles are below:

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2010/03/14/local-tribute-to-wwi-heroes-excludes-many/ http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2010/04/07/black-veterans-names-may-be-added-to-courthouse-plaques/ http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2010/11/04/names-to-be-added-to-war-plaques/

The new owner of the monument, the General Services Administration or GSA. Has ruled that the charge is true and is in the process of adding the names to a new monument and retiring the old one.

I am asking for help from the editors of this Wki page in how this local newspaper story should be reflected on this page. Given that I have a declared COI. I ask BD2412 or other master editor to consider adding a section.

Please advise

Shane505 (talk) 14:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The fact that you have researched something for other purposes does not make it a conflict of interest for you to write about it here. If you were selling a product and wrote about that product, or were promoting yourself through an article about yourself, that would be a conflict of interest. Obviously, your Masters Thesis itself could not be used as a source for the article unless it were published by a reputable publishing house, but there is no problem with you using the same sources as you cite in your thesis to improve the article. Cheers! bd2412  T 15:16, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

I have made a section that deals with the 1924 World War I monument. I want to add a photo I took of what is now the Courthouse, before it was rehabilitated, to show how the monument plaques looked, as well as how the old hall looked (a great job was done by the way). How do I do this? Shane505 (talk) 21:24, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If you have a photo on your computer, just click "Upload file" under "toolbox" on the sidebar. Cheers! bd2412  T 18:29, 7 June 2011 (UTC)