Talk:Sandbar Fight/Archive 1

Archive 1

WP: General Consistency

In this article: Jim Bowie killed Wright and seriously injured two others.

However the article on the Bowie Knife asserts with references, he killed three people by stabbing, decapitation and evisceration!

I am no Bowie expert, so which version is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.68.95 (talk) 12:55, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

You may have been viewing a vandalized version of the page (since reverted). According to the sources, Bowie killed 1 man and wounded several others during this brawl. Karanacs (talk) 17:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Well that might be, but here is the quoted part as it appears on the Bowie Knife page.

Bowie and Wright were attendants on opposite sides of the duel. When the principals quit the field, a fight broke out among the attendees and Bowie, though seriously injured by a rifle shot, killed the 3 men, by almost decapitating one, splitting the skull of another, and disembowelling the third. The source reference

This quote remains nearly 12 hours after I raised the point. I can't believe a WP administrator has not picked this up. I wasn't making this up!

What does it say about WP in general, when Jim Bowie is today's main article and its ancillary articles don't make sense? 2009-10-19. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.68.95 (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Minor edit war

A bot, attempting to revert my questionable? links, reverted more. I re-reverted and then removed the questionable links. I don't know link policy; the content was historical. I will try to find other sources for the same material.172.249.8.109 (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)