User talk:Shoreranger

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1 Lenape
2 Fordham question?
3 Deletion of 3 images uploaded to Fordham University
4 Evacuation Day
5 License tagging for Image:Collage-copy.jpg
6 Fordham
7 Alexander Hamilton
8 Floyd Bennett Field

[edit] Lenape

I'm reasonably sure of this edit I made, at History of New York City (prehistory-1664), but given your previous edit, I'd appreciate if you check it and tell me if I misunderstood. - Jmabel | Talk 17:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

This seems very good, though I had not noticed before there is no explanation of "Munsee" and, as used here, should be noted as the "Munsee dialect", as opposed to the Unami dialect also spoken by the Lenape. Nice work.--Shoreranger 00:04, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fordham question?

Hi, no offense meant, but do you work for Fordham? It seems that most of your edits are Fordham-related. Thanks, --AW 11:22, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

None taken. I do not work for Fordham. Just seems to be a lot to do on that article before I want to move on to too much else. Limited time and energy and all that.... Shoreranger 20:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah OK, thanks --AW 15:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Please stop tagging Fordham University on articles. For alumni, the appropriate category is "Fordham University alumni" and many of the pages you have edited already listed this so your edits on those pages were redundant and unnecessary. Gdo01 23:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that you do good work on the Fordham page. I always watch the page (among others) and it's good to see that someone is maintaining it well. Scskowron 02:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of 3 images uploaded to Fordham University

I must say that I do not agree with your decision to delete all three of the images that I uploaded to the Fordham University page. I took quite a few good pictures at the University on Tuesday. FYI, I'm the person who uploaded the existing images of the main entrance and the interior of the Rose Hill gym that appear on the page. I was a student at Fordham when they had the best basketball team in the school's history during the 1970-1971 academic year. I like to return to the campus every once in a while to reminisce on days done by. The new parking garage is almost finished, and the space occupied by the current outdoor parking lots will be used for new building construction after the garage has been completed. I was notified by security that Fordham University no longer permits photography on the campus. The world has certainly changed since 9/11.

Just out of curiosity, are you a Wikipidia sysop or Fordham moderator? This is the first time that I've had an image deleted on the enclyclopedia, and I upload a LOT of pictures.

Anthony22

[edit] Evacuation Day

Hi Shoreranger,
I am fairly new to Wikipedia, but am fairly knowledgeable about New York's history wherever it has something to do with this particular branch of the Riker family. I have made some changes to the Evacuation Day (New York) topic which I hope clarifies any problem you might have with John Van Arsdale's rank or age. The real myth regarding the raising of the flag over the battery (I have never come across the "Bowling Green" reference before but will asume that you have access to material which I do not - I believed at the time the pole was at the battery and that in 1883 that was the structure at that place), seems to be that it was raised by a boy. I strongly recommend that you read Clifton Hood's essay (which is easy to get online) and James Riker's work if you can find it (out of print, expensive to purchase and not online). Clifton Hood's social history essay is a great analysis of class relations in New York throughout the 19th century as well as being an excellent account of the events surrounding the Evacuation itself.
I'm not sure whether my changes are properly Wikified but I am sure that that will get sorted out in time
Regards
John Tierney 00:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Collage-copy.jpg

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[edit] Fordham

I agree with your position on the "Irish American" question, though I am not crazy about the category too much. Note the link I cited, and the fact that Fordham has an Irish-American center. I don't like ethnic pigeonholing, but it strikes me as a tad disingenuous to argue that Fordham is not Irish in character.--Mantanmoreland 15:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Re your comment: Yes, Harvard was the quintessentially WASP school, and Fordham was the institution of choice when Irish and dogs were not permitted on its campus as you know.--Mantanmoreland 17:46, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Hamilton

You don't recall seeing the subsidy of the United States Gazette?

Like most of your demands for citation, the answer's in the first source I looked at. (It is possible that a majority of your requests have been in the footnote at the end of the sentence; but that's another issue.)

I am genuinely puzzled. What do you read on the subject? The Hamilton literature is deplorable, even for American historiography; but even Chernow's pile of toad-eating would have supported all of these things before he attempted to justify them. (If you want to read something, try Mitchell; he deeply admired Hamilton, but he was both fair-minded and literate; it may help that he was a professor of economics.) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I see; you read neo-Federalist journalism. Aside from that, you have indicated nothing.

Hamilton's actions were not unique; but they were unparallelled in his own time. Hamilton supported Fenno with the full advertising account of the Treasury and his own funds. Two years later, Jefferson invited Philip Freneau to Philadelphia, and gave him a job as a translator for the State Department; while it was reasonable to expect that he would start another paper, Jefferson paid for it neither officially or personally. When Hamilton attempted to make a scandal about this, his dealings with Fenno came out, and the entire attack was derailed; so this is not simply the present, but the contemporary, judgment. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Floyd Bennett Field

		The Epic Barnstar
		For helping highlight the role in aviation history of Floyd Bennett Field to New York City, the United States, and the world. Petercorless 23:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)