Talk:Athens, Alabama
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[edit] Story
2-23-06
My grandmother tells a story about the college:
During the Civil War it was a "polishing school" for young ladies. Methodist I think. The Union soldiers came through burning, after Atlanta I think. They were going to burn the college and all the women were upstairs looking out the windows. The president of the college had a letter. She said it was from Lincoln and it was orders not to burn the school. It was always thought that it was a trick and not really from him.
Also, blue spring park in Athens was not there when I was a child, I was told that during the Civil War it was covered over to prevent being poisened when the Union came through. When I was little they took the cover off and now it is a duck pond with a playground.
I don't know how to go about verifying this but feel free to use it however.
B.B.
[edit] Citation Edit Reverted
Zpb52 (Talk) rerverted my edit: "Revert to revision 98334847 dated 2007-01-04 03:40:31 by MicahDCochran using popups". My purpose for that edit was to ask for a few statements where I think citations need adding. I used the notation {{fact}} which looks like this [citation needed] when rendered. I read through the document and only marked the ones that are easy to verify or if they are in errorenous should be removed. I don't have any reason to disagree with the factualness of the statements I marked up. However, I would like to be able to verify the facts (especially, if I am very interested in the topic). Zpb52, I would appreciate a reason for reverting this edit. Please point out the problems with my edit or my reasoning. Thank you and have a good day. — MicahDCochran 04:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hahaha. --Zpb52 06:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I don't understand your response. Please clarify. — MicahDCochran 12:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- No.--Zpb52 17:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Your short responses do not help me to understand why my edit was reverted. Since you won't explain your action, would you revert the page to the last edit that I made (the one containing the{{fact}} tags)? By that I mean, revert the page back to the state as if you had not reverted it. -- MicahDCochran 23:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Why don't you do it?--Zpb52 23:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Your short responses do not help me to understand why my edit was reverted. Since you won't explain your action, would you revert the page to the last edit that I made (the one containing the{{fact}} tags)? By that I mean, revert the page back to the state as if you had not reverted it. -- MicahDCochran 23:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- No.--Zpb52 17:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I don't understand your response. Please clarify. — MicahDCochran 12:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Concerns about the Notability of Residents
I am concerned that some of the residents in the "Notable residents/natives" section wouldn't pass the Wikipedia guidelines for Notable people (see Wikipedia:Notability (people)). Last week, I added tags to ask for citation and verification of information. I am just curious about how to handle this issue. Thanks.-- MicahDCochran 16:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
