User talk:Oor Rab

I am impressed with the effort and skill that has been devoted to this Rosecroft site over the past year... it is fantastic. It was not the authors' fault that they repeated the mores of early 20th century society to completely submerge the efforts and ideas of women into those of their husbands. There was a token gesture indicating Alfred D Robinson married an heiress but otherwise his wife Marion was totally ignored. I hope my efforts have added some balance without detracting from the not insubstantial achievements of ADR. The Minutes of the San Diego Floral Association that appear in the December 1918 issue of California Garden clearly indicate Marion Robinson as one of the founders of the Society. It is clear that without her money behind lath garden experimenting at Rosecroft, behind the Society and behind the Magazine, even the best efforts of ADR and Kate Sessions would have unlikely to have seen the successes that they did. It has been a difficult path to follow from the copper mines of nineteenth century Chile to the lath palace of 21st century Balboa Park. James Duncan 1798-1874 has been known to generations of children on the Isle of Bute as "The Copperman" because of his full sized shining bronze sculpture reclining in the local cemetery. I wonder what the Copperman would think of what his fortune has wrought in far off sunny San Diego? Oor Rab (talk) 08:42, 14 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello, Oor Rab, and welcome to Wikipedia! I love the additional information you have added to the Rosecroft article. But there is a problem: none of it is cited to an authority or a source. Can you tell me where you got the information, or any kind of source to support it? An online source would be best, but even an offline source would be OK - provided it is an actual source and not just your own personal knowledge. This is an encyclopedia and its contents have to be based on something. If you don't know how to add sources to an article, reply here with the information, and I will add it to the article. And if there is anything you want to know about Wikipedia or how it works, check out Welcome or just ask me. --MelanieN (talk) 14:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW I would like to make your comments visible to all interested parties, at the article's talk page; would you mind if I copied them over to that page? --MelanieN (talk) 14:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)