Talk:Sandbar Fight/Archive 1
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WP: General Consistency
In this article: Jim Bowie killed Wright and seriously injured two others.
However the article on the Bowie Knife asserts with references, he killed three people by stabbing, decapitation and evisceration!
I am no Bowie expert, so which version is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.68.95 (talk) 12:55, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
- You may have been viewing a vandalized version of the page (since reverted). According to the sources, Bowie killed 1 man and wounded several others during this brawl. Karanacs (talk) 17:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
- Well that might be, but here is the quoted part as it appears on the Bowie Knife page.
- Bowie and Wright were attendants on opposite sides of the duel. When the principals quit the field, a fight broke out among the attendees and Bowie, though seriously injured by a rifle shot, killed the 3 men, by almost decapitating one, splitting the skull of another, and disembowelling the third. The source reference
- This quote remains nearly 12 hours after I raised the point. I can't believe a WP administrator has not picked this up. I wasn't making this up!
- What does it say about WP in general, when Jim Bowie is today's main article and its ancillary articles don't make sense? 2009-10-19. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.68.95 (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Minor edit war
A bot, attempting to revert my questionable? links, reverted more. I re-reverted and then removed the questionable links. I don't know link policy; the content was historical. I will try to find other sources for the same material.172.249.8.109 (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)