User talk:ChiHistoryeditor

An Earnest Plea: In the case of the Our Lady of the Angels School Fire, there was, ultimately, no one ever charged in that fire. In the USA, of course, unless and until you are convicted of a crime, you are presumed innocent. If the boy *had* been charged, he was, under Illinois law at the time, too young to prosecute for the crime. He is dead now, of course, he has been dead for 10 years. But at least one or more of his family members (a daughter, I have read) is still alive. I am a contributor to the forum of survivors on the Our Lady of the Angels website, and it is the strongly held view of all regular contributors to that group, as well as the Webmaster, that there is NO purpose served in revealing his name publicly now, and could quite possibly be repercussions to surviving family of his. I am asking you - please - to let stand the edit which removes his name from the article. Melos Antropon (talk) 20:02, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Regarding this edit. Wasn't the issue that the confession was improperly obtained (questioning the boy outside of the presence of his parents and without their consent) and therefore inadmissible? Without the confession there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the crime and hence the case was dismissed. As written, it implies that the confession was insufficient evidence in its right and I don't think the court ever addressed that point. gargoyle888 (talk) 17:39, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what your point is. The issue with publishing the alleged arsonist's name in the OLA fire article is that no secondary source is cited to support it. The confession itself is documented but the boy's name is not included.ChiHistoryeditor 17:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. First, the boy's name should not be included in the article because there is no source. But I don't care about that. The point is that there is a material difference between the case against the boy being dismissed because the confession was inadmissible and the case being dismissed because the confession was insufficient to overcome the burden of proof. I believe, based on an aging recollection, that it was the former. Your edit implies that it was the latter. I may be wrong and unfortunately I don't have the resources to investigate it. You appear to be knowledgeable and have the resources. If I'm wrong, ignore what I said. gargoyle888 (talk) 12:02, 17 July 2015 (UTC) Edit: I see that someone has just removed your edit, which I was not actually advocating. gargoyle888 (talk) 12:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * My intent is simply to provide information that someone did confess to starting the fire and to provide a link to that information. My intent is not to weigh in on the admissibility of the confession in court. ChiHistoryeditor (talk) 17:45, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Copyediting assistance
I did some copyediting on the pearls section of Diana, Princess of Wales's jewels, and I realized that "princess" is capitalized in all instances in the article, which contradicts the MOS. Is there a search/replace function that makes it easier/faster to correct the entire article to reflect proper useage? Thanks! ChiHistoryeditor (talk) 17:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No comment as to MOS (not my area of expertise) but the search function in the source editor is under advanced -> right corner under the little pencil there's a search icon. You can use that. Praxidicae (talk) 17:57, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , on the MOS issue, I consider the guidance to be a bit ambiguous. But, following the lead of the Diana, Princess of Wales article, just about all of those capitalized instances of "princess" should likely be replaced with "Diana". But don't do a blanket search-and-replace operation, since it would probably take more effort to go back and find and fix the instances where the blind changes were incorrect.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 18:51, 18 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Never fear: I wouldn't do a "replace all"; I was looking for a function that would search for Princess and then I would manually edit if need be. Thanks so much for the feedback. ChiHistoryeditor (talk) 20:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)