Talk:James Mattis

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James Mattis was featured on the United States Marine Corps portal as the Selected biography.
(16 March - 27 March 2006).

[edit] Date of birth

Does anyone know his date of birth? I've had a look on the internet, but can't find anything. Palefire 08:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I have a few books that go into some depth on him but good luck finding his DOB. He is not the most public of individuals so it would be very tough to find.--Looper5920 11:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pantano deemed innocent?

I reverted this edit.

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 03:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why is this rant here? Under the guise of undoing a simple reversion you felt the need to write a small novella on your take on what happened in the Pantano case, the rules of war, use of WP, etc...? Does this crap need to be on Mattis' page. I would say no. I am going to remove it unless you can provide a reason for its existence.--Looper5920 04:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Why was this explanation there? What we sometimes see on the wikipedia is truthiness at work. The excision I reverted on January 11th was excised again two weeks later. The passage that keeps getting excised does not use inflammatory language, cites authoritative, verifiable sources — and yet no doubt well-meaning wikipedians feel they can excise it, without research, calling it an "outright lie". I think we are seeing an archetypical example of "truthiness". We are encountering editors who don't feel the need to research their edits when they read something that feels untrue.
- I am sure you didn't mean to be give the appearance of defending editors making edits based on what they feel is true, and agree with me that editors should exercise some care to verify that what they feel is true, actually is true, before they make edits, correct?
- Cheers! — Geo Swan 22:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Restoring paragraph that is not "an outright lie"

In this edit another wikipedian removed the bulk of a paragraph with the edit summary: "rm outright lie"

They didn't say:
- Whether they were disputing if Pantano emptied two magazines into two unarmed prisoners.
- Whether they were disputing if Pantano scrawled Mattis's slogan as a warning over the corpses of the prisoners he just killed.
- Whether they were disputing that the slogan became central to the investigation into Pantano's actions.

Pantano did empty two magazines into his unarmed prisoners. Pantano did scrawl Mattis's slogan over the corpses. So I restored the passage.

Cheers! — Geo Swan 04:50, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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