User talk:GnudiRicotta

Quit Edit Warring
The birth place, the spelling of Saunders, and the school Miles attended are all directly out of Walther's "The Fire-Eaters". It is a more reliable source than the website that you apparently are relying on. It is also not acceptable to provide a direct link from the article text to an external website as you did -- see "Links" at Manual of Style.

I opened a discussion at the article page, but rather than participating you simply changed the article again. That is not acceptable. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 13:45, 21 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh dear. I'm not up on all the protocols.
 * The education in Walther is wrong. See http://bioguide.congress.gov
 * The geneology in Walther is wrong. The Colleton County family is named Sanders. Miles Sanders is a friend of mine. Thank you.


 * Or the single paragraph on the website is wrong. Despite the website's official sounding name, Walther's work is the more reliable source -- it is an academic peer reviewed work and Walther is a well respected historian.  The Willington Academy did actually exist -- there is a link to a wikipedia article from the academy name and it can be independently verified with a Google Search. Do you have any evidence that there even was a Wellington School in 1830s Charleston?


 * Wikepedia is based on reliable secondary sources. The testimony of your friends are not a reliable source by wikipedia's standards. A second reliable source, The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (see ), also spells the name as "Saunders".


 * Please also note that it is common to indent your responses to other peoples comments in order to create an easily followed threaded appearance.Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 15:30, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Whatever. You can check the entry in Rembert, David H., Jr. "William Porcher Miles." Walter Edgar, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006) for schooling. You can check whatever geneological websites suit your standards for the family name. Many things are typical in historic research, including the fact that academic peer-reviewers are notably weak in locally-specific minutia, such as private schools and family names. I'm sorry I touched your personal entry.