Talk:William P. Yarborough

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Copyvio

This is just c/p'ed from the source listed at the bottom of the page... Don't think that's too legal. Jjjsixsix 06:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The ripping and pasting of complete texts from other pages has been a problem on Wikipedia. I reverted the entire thing to the last article written by Wiki users instead of the one stolen from another website. -Husnock 16:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's no CV. The copyed page is of US-Military and therewith in the Public Domain. I copyed again and listed the link, write a good article out of it (my english is to bad and my time to less for doing that on my own) ;). Regards, John N. 15:27, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John N. is correct, it is not copyright.Travb 18:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pelham

I wonder if Yarborough was related to Confederate artilleryman John Pelham or if his father named him after Pelham at all. --Habap 18:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

York County???

I presume you mean Yorkshire! Is there any evidence that he was related to the aristocratic family mentioned in the text, other than sharing an unusual surname? My mother was a Yarborough from Yorkshire, and as a child I remember her telling me the same story, but I can find no evidence that she was related to the aristocrats. Timpontardawe (talk) 00:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

House of Yarborough claim

The antiquity stuff is a myth, they are not in the Domesday Book. See [1]. I've removed the claim, sadly these fake claims are all to common. dougweller (talk) 17:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is a pretty neat textbook that you found, quite amazing stuff actually. The original source that *I* used though was Arlington National Cemetery. I did not knowingly insert anything I thought to be false or fake. I agree it should be removed though until we get this sorted out. The article on his ancestor Eustacius de Yerburgh is under full scale deletion debate right now. -OberRanks (talk) 17:57, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any doubt that you thought it was all genuine. That's an ongoing problem, and as was noted on the AfD page, there was a lot of this going on in the 19th century, and a lot of people believe in things that are Victorian fakes. Didn't you see the quote I put on the AfD page? dougweller (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]