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Original research at the Camp Douglas article & addition of text contradicted by the source
Please read WP:NOR. I removed a paragraph what seems based on your own understanding of the situation - our articles need to directly reflect our sources, not draw deductions from them.

You also added text to a reference changing "Due mainly to the efforts of the prison physician," "Due mainly to being an officer's prison with much better facilities and the efforts of the prison physician," - your text is not in the source and is contradicted by the source which comments on " the lack of healthy meals, the lack of heat, and the developing unsanitary conditions of the camp." Doug Weller talk 11:58, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

May 2018
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Camp Douglas (Chicago). Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. '' You're adding text to a reference which is there only to back the text it references. It isn't actually part of the body of the article. You're adding text in a way that makes it appear that it is on those pages in those sources. Please stop. Find sources that back what you say and add new text to the actual article, not the reference text,'' Doug Weller  talk 12:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Ulysses S. Grant. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ''

You deleted sourced text and added unsourced, but elsewhere you removed text saying it was unsourced - so it appears that you already know you shouldn't add unsourced text.'' Doug Weller  talk 16:40, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Andersonville National Historic Site
I am not sure where I am supposed to give fair warning that I am going to change this but these words on the wikipedia page at the Andersonville National Historic Site saying the prisoner exchanges for that POW camp were "caused by the Confederacy's refusal to include blacks in the exchanges..." is simply not historically accurate and the source cited never says that. I can explain, if needed, how this sentence may fit on a page discussing the stoppage of prisoner exchange that took place in May or July 1863 but when the exchanges for Andersonville was in progress Grant halted that in Aug. 1864 and was very clear why he halted those. He never mentioned anything about African American soldiers.

Again, the source cited (with no page number given) does not say anything like Pres. Grant's halting the exchange process was "caused by the Confederacy's refusal to include blacks in the exchanges...". This is simply not historically accurate and cannot be backed up by a source.

If the correspondence regarding exchanges of May and July 1863, in which the fact that African Americans were not recognized as U. S. soldiers by the President of the Confederate States is discussed then the other several reasons also need to be discussed at the same time. This is going to need to be spelled out correctly, with viable sources.

Rjr1960 (talk) 05:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * You need to put this at Talk:Andersonville National Historic Site. As I have said in replying to you on my talk page, article talk pages are the place to discuss changes you want to make in an article that might be disputed. Doug Weller  talk 13:28, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

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