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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIV (October 2009)
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The Milhist election has started!
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The Bugle: Issue LXVI, August 2011
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The Bugle: Issue LXVII, September 2011
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Robert Sanford source
[edit]What document is referred to in this statement from the article? "Sanford was born in England before 1642 and was mentioned as with his brother, William, in a document of that date, the older brother being between 5 and 10 (it isn't clear which brother was the elder)."
- Good question, I'll try and find it. Smmurphy(Talk) 16:24, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| Smmurphy, I award you The Christianity Barnstar for all your hard work in WikiProject Christianity related articles, especially your recent creation of the John Adams, Sr (Nebraska). Keep up the good work! Your efforts are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 01:30, 14 October 2015 (UTC) |
A brownie for you!
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Great article about the woman's hospital! Keep up the great work. :) Calaka (talk) 13:40, 16 October 2015 (UTC) |
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[edit]Could you please message me a list of the articles you've been creating about Omaha's African American leaders? I would like to feature what you've been doing on my North Omaha History Blog and share them with the North Omaha History Blog Facebook page. Also, I just want to keep up with you! I'm excited to see someone's kept working on this since I've mostly stopped! • Freechild | talk to me 20:05, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- For Omahans, in order, its been: legislator John Adams, Jr (Nebraska), legislator John Adams, Sr (Nebraska), legislator Johnny Owen (Nebraska), legislator John Andrew Singleton, legislator Aaron Manasses McMillan, Harrison J. Pinkett, Walter J. Singleton, and Millard F. Singleton. All worked as activists and all had incredible lives in and outside of the legislature (I'm sure you'll look at the articles, but a miniseries or multi-part documentary about these 8 people would not be believable).
- After doing Pinkett, I did an associate of his who doesn't really have a connection to Omaha, Lafayette M. Hershaw (an Niagara Movement/NAACP founder). Millard F. Singleton was the father of John Andrew and the brother of Walter J. Owen was the only Democrat. The NAACP and WEB DuBois seemed especially influential in all of their lives. I thought about pulling all of the stories together into one of the articles about North Omaha History (African-American Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska, African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska, or History of North Omaha, Nebraska), but I like writing biographical articles better, so I don't plan on doing it. I should try to at least find ways to link to the articles I'm writing in one or more of those existing articles, and I did try for the first couple articles, but then I realized that I don't have a big picture view of it, so I decided to wait to add more.
- My conception is that I am talking about roughly two different generations, with Pinkett and Walter and Millard Singleton being the older generation and Adams, Jr, Owen, Singleton, and McMillan being the younger. Adams, Sr is sort of in both generations (being the age of the older figures but becoming a state legislator after the younger ones). The older generation tried to consolidate the political work of Ricketts but failed (Pinkett blamed Dennison, but I couldn't find anyone else who said so, so I didn't really weave that thread into the profiles). So instead they had to build a new foundation in north Omaha, a foundation that has continued through Adams, Sr's successor, Edward Danner, and to Chambers today. I'm not sure how accurate that is, though.
- My most recent new article was about Nebraska's first female state senator, Mabel Gillespie. Gillespie, who was white, was elected out of Ord, but she lived in Omaha during WWI. I don't like to hate people, and writing about Gillespie made not hating people much easier because she wrote for the Omaha Bee in 1919, the year the Omaha Bee played a horrible role in the lynching of Willy Brown. That is, this amazing woman who did all of these amazing things may have played an important role on the wrong side of the one of the worst things to happen in Nebraska in the last 100 years. To be clear, I haven't looked for/at the Bee in the days leading up to the lynching, and I don't know if her byline or writing style is apparent in any of the offending articles. Also, she left the Bee in 1919, so she may have been off of the paper by then, I don't know. But I do find it appealing to humanize the staff at the Bee, even if I can't excuse some of the work they were doing.
- I plan to continue writing a few more articles about pre-war Omaha figures. I have a list, but I might not get to them, I'm probably not going to write much in November but hopefully will start back up after. I don't plan on doing an article about Danner, as I really don't know much about the civil rights era and prefer to learn and write more about the earlier time. But Danner desperately needs an article (hint, hint).
- Sorry for the long response, I just felt if you were thinking of these as a collection, I should give a bit of context.Smmurphy(Talk) 10:53, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
- This is tremendous, thank you, thank you! You know I started African-American Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska, African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska, and History of North Omaha, Nebraska, right? I surely didn't have much context for doing those, but I still did. If you don't mind, I'll begin entering your analysis and articles into those articles. I am massively curious what your main source for these figures is though - where did you find the list, or did you cultivate it? And I would love to see the rest of your list - enticing! I'll also start on Danner soon. I don't know if you're local to North Omaha, but the community needs this info, and I'm finding that folks are hungry for it. I'll do anything I can to help move the people forward, and sharing history seems to be something I can do relatively easily. Thanks for helping me do it! • Freechild | talk to me 18:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm very aware that you did most of those articles. I think you remember, but we ran into each other a few times on wp a few years ago, I'm just coming back to the hobby now for some reason. My sources are almost completely old newspaper articles, mostly OWH, that I get from archives through a genealogybank.com account. If you have an Omaha Public Library card, Omaha newspaper archives are available through their site. I'll look up figures in google books and such, but the newspaper is usually more than enough. I try to cite a non OWH source at least once because I think that strengthens the notability argument. But I enjoy reading the old newspaper and magazine articles and find more than enough material that way. My list of future projects is just other people I read about in the articles I'd like to know more about. I'm afraid of showing you the list (which is in my userspace, here) because your blog posts are very good and I don't want to be scooped, so to speak (don't let that stop you, of course). I haven't read your post yet, but I know you just wrote about Dan Desdunes, who is on my list for sure. Smmurphy(Talk) 04:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- I promise promise I won't scoop anything from your beautiful list - would it be okay if I filled in some blanks on WP, like putting in stubs for the newspapers, etc? What you've found here is astounding. What I will do for the blog is summarize what you've written here and point everyone to come and read your work. You really outdo yourself here, over and over. • Freechild | talk to me 17:43, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
- I'm very aware that you did most of those articles. I think you remember, but we ran into each other a few times on wp a few years ago, I'm just coming back to the hobby now for some reason. My sources are almost completely old newspaper articles, mostly OWH, that I get from archives through a genealogybank.com account. If you have an Omaha Public Library card, Omaha newspaper archives are available through their site. I'll look up figures in google books and such, but the newspaper is usually more than enough. I try to cite a non OWH source at least once because I think that strengthens the notability argument. But I enjoy reading the old newspaper and magazine articles and find more than enough material that way. My list of future projects is just other people I read about in the articles I'd like to know more about. I'm afraid of showing you the list (which is in my userspace, here) because your blog posts are very good and I don't want to be scooped, so to speak (don't let that stop you, of course). I haven't read your post yet, but I know you just wrote about Dan Desdunes, who is on my list for sure. Smmurphy(Talk) 04:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- This is tremendous, thank you, thank you! You know I started African-American Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska, African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska, and History of North Omaha, Nebraska, right? I surely didn't have much context for doing those, but I still did. If you don't mind, I'll begin entering your analysis and articles into those articles. I am massively curious what your main source for these figures is though - where did you find the list, or did you cultivate it? And I would love to see the rest of your list - enticing! I'll also start on Danner soon. I don't know if you're local to North Omaha, but the community needs this info, and I'm finding that folks are hungry for it. I'll do anything I can to help move the people forward, and sharing history seems to be something I can do relatively easily. Thanks for helping me do it! • Freechild | talk to me 18:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, I think I'm done with my project. There is a lot of copy-editing to do and smoothing for readability, but I've created all the articles I plan on doing for now. If you want a list, you can see the additions to your list of African Americans in Omaha here.Smmurphy(Talk) 06:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you - spectacular. You have taught me a lot here, and I will do my best share this info accurately. Two quick questions: I can't find anything on Vic Walker's death! You must've run into the same dead end? And second, have you already searched all the available images for those missing them? I assume as much, but want to make sure. Oh, and when I use these I'll cite you as User:Smmurphy, unless you tell me otherwise? Thanks again. • Freechild | talk to me 22:52, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- I didn't see anything about Walker's death in Nebraska or Colorado newspapers (on top of genealogy bank, I now have wikipedia library based access to newspapers.com), nor on any genealogy sites, but I didn't look very hard. He may well have moved away from Colorado in the 1920s, as it seemed his attempt to get into the newspaper business there was failing. I don't think I ever figured out who his children were, but perhaps he moved to wherever they were living. So, I wouldn't call it a dead end so much as I had so much material that I didn't try very hard to figure how the story ended. I might try again sometime. As for images, I tried to keep track of any pre-1923 images in those newspaper sources and add those. There are a few exceptions, for instance I used images from Rodolphe Desdune's Creole history book as well - the version in French is PD but not the translation and I have a pdf of the French version. I never contacted any Omaha museums, newspapers, or schools to ask about other images; I know they exist but it just isn't part of my process right now. For another example, The phototype of Ophelia Clenlans on her page is from 1901 in the OWH, but a copy of the photo on which it was based is in the Enterprise in 1896. The scans online of that paper aren't as clear as the phototype, so I used the phototype (both are on the wikimedia page [1]). I'm sure a good copy of the photo exists somewhere, maybe eventually it will be uploaded, who knows. as for my name, smmurphy is prefered, thank you. It isn't much of a secret and I'm sure someone could guess who I am, but as long as I don't have my full name in my wikipedia profile, I think my work here should be cited under my username if I am cited at all (and I'm flattered to be so). Keep in touch.Smmurphy(Talk) 09:45, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- I was a month behind on your site and just caught up. Great job! I see some of my work in the African-American Newspapers post as well as the Vic Walker stuff. For the Vic Walker page, you skipped over his legal work and particularly his involvement in defense of sex workers - which is fine. I sometimes consider doing a bit more on wp about crime in Omaha in the 1800s, including sex work, but I'm not sure. I know there has been some scholarship on sex work in the old west recently, so I think it would pass WP:N, but it is a bit of an odd thing to do and is a bit further down my list - which has been on hold for a few months anyway. Smmurphy(Talk) 11:20, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you - spectacular. You have taught me a lot here, and I will do my best share this info accurately. Two quick questions: I can't find anything on Vic Walker's death! You must've run into the same dead end? And second, have you already searched all the available images for those missing them? I assume as much, but want to make sure. Oh, and when I use these I'll cite you as User:Smmurphy, unless you tell me otherwise? Thanks again. • Freechild | talk to me 22:52, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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- Thanks. Feel free to edit the pages, I appreciate your interest and help.Smmurphy(Talk) 14:44, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
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