RMcPhillip

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Protonk (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Gettysburg Address as Icon?

A very interesting Masters paper, "Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963," by Jared Elliott Peatman (google for "peatman_southern_impressions.pdf) covers the ground that interests you. According to Peatman and his sources, and generalizing, IN THE NORTH the Gettysburg Address reached its peak around WWII as "the greatest speech in the English language," but Southerners were still ignoring the Speech in 1963 and bristling about the idea of racial equality.

Interestingly, the Peatman paper covers selection of textbooks in the South and complaints by CW Veterans that textbooks were "too Northern" and "overemphasized slavery." BTW, Peatman wrote the paper for 'Bud' Robertson (and others) at Va Tech.

Recently/curiously, I happened to encounter a fairly modern Nat'l Park Service web page that referred to the Address only as "the greastest speech of the Lincoln Presidency." Many of us consider the 2nd Inaugural as his greatest speech, and entire books have been devoted to this notion.

How the fame of the Gettysburg Address rose to surpass the "House Divided" and "2ndIA" is still a question. Perhaps, the sensitivity of the GA context and its appropriateness for the context reigns supreme.

The speech may be too polarizing for one section. To a modern-day Neo-Confederate Ultra-libertarian, such as author Thomas DiLorenzo, the Gettysburg Address consists of the dung droppings of the anti-Christ. I'd call the section "Trajectory of Greatness" and would enjoy contributing to it. Peatman's bibliography would IMOHO provide a starting framework.

In my 52nd year, I have finally come to understand how the Civil War had anything to do with Democracy "perishing from the earth."--Donaldecoho (talk) 16:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Tables

You've probably seen this, but take a look at Help:Table. It's fairly comprehensive. I don't know if there exists a complete specification. Protonk (talk) 16:55, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Reference templates

Take a look at {{cite web}} for websites, and {{cite journal}} for journal articles. Each of these should have drop down menus in wiki-ed, if not in the standard interface. Their formatting is standardized for the most part, but there are minor differences so if you don't use the drop down menu take a look at the documentation (you can click on that template link to get there). For instance:

• Horspool, R. Nigel (1980). "Practical Fast Searching in Strings". Software Practice and Experience. 10: 501–506. doi:10.1145/359842.359859.

Hit the edit button to see the template source. Protonk (talk) 21:25, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Table code

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I've been asked by user:Protonk to have a quick look over the tables that you're working on in your userspace. I've done a little tidying of the code and the presentation of the section in question, and I've put it in a new page entitled User:RMcPhillip/tables. I hope you don't mind the intrusion! If you have any questions you can either leave a note here or on my talk page and I'll be happy to help out. Happy editing! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 21:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Quotient filter

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DYK for Quotient filter

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi, I'm User:CodeTalker and am replying to the email you sent me. I'm a person, not a bot. I sometimes patrol new changes, which you can see for yourself by clicking the "Recent changes" link in the column of links on the left of every page. The edit you are asking about was done on 15 Aug at 10:23, and I noticed it in the new changes list, which shows edits as soon as they happen. I made enough of an investigation to determine that the removed information had references to valid sources and I could see no valid reason to remove it, so I reverted it at 10:29, six minutes later. As always, if the IP user who removed the information disputes my revert, they could open a discussion on the article talk page (see WP:BRD), but they have not chosen to do that. I hope this answers your question; let me know if you have any further questions. CodeTalker (talk) 17:40, 19 August 2021 (UTC)