User talk:2601:441:4C00:2C0:E5B5:E67B:7F80:A822

December 2022
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to William Freeman Vilas, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:18, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


 * There was something in the article that made no sense at all. The unrevised article stated that Vilas donated $30,000,000 to the University of Wisconsin. It stated, "He was a major donor to the University of Wisconsin, leaving $30,000,000 to the school at his death in 1908—equivalent to nearly a billion dollars adjusted for inflation to 2022." The footnote to this is: "$30,000,000 in 1908 is worth $965,775,000.00 today". CPI Inflation Calculator. Retrieved September 22, 2022. If this is true, how did William Vilas have roughly $1 billion in cash with only his only stated jobs as being a soldier, a lawyer, and a US Senator. If he was a billionaire back in his day, he'd be mentioned alongside others such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. 2601:441:4C00:2C0:E5B5:E67B:7F80:A822 (talk) 08:25, 18 December 2022 (UTC)