Talk:James Steen (planter)

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DEATH OF JAMES STEEN

On 20 June 2012, editor 99.36.192.7 made what amounts to a fraudulent edit of the wording of a passage, included in this article about James Steen, from Lyman Draper's book "Kings Mountain and it's Heros". The original passage included the phrase "In the summer of 1781, while endeavoring to arrest a Tory, in Rowan County, North Carolina, he was stabbed by an associate, surviving only a week." The editor, 99.36.192.7, altered the passage by deleting the above phrase, and replacing it with the phrase "According to his grave, he died in the Battle at Kings Mountain. He was married to Eleanor Bogan about 1762 in South Carolina", making it appear as if this passage was Draper's writing.

The point of this comment is not just to correct the error, but to also bring attention to the dishonesty involved; there should be no place in Wikipedia for this type of deceptive editing, intending to add unjustified validity to one or another side of a disputed fact.Kenwg (talk) 20:00, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]