User talk:Abrahamcoapman

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC) Just a quick note to say thanks for the new article. It'll need references, but I'm happy to see the original content. Very, very nice. Gotta cut, but do have fun. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as the edit you made to Walter Butler (Loyalist). This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. Deconstructhis (talk) 15:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to Walter Butler (Loyalist). Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Deconstructhis (talk) 15:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Abrahamcoapman (talk) 19:57, 16 March 2009 (UTC)Sir/Maam:[reply]

Thank You ! For the heads up about needing to sign corrections to pages. All of the information I have added to the article on Walter Butler, the Loyalist, can easily be verified by using “www.footnote.com” for the Revolutionary Pension Applications or by consulting the "Bloodied Mohawk", which Picton Press and I published in 2000, which footnotes the primary source document of every fact printed within the book. I think it important to note that the "Pensioners" name possibly three different Patriots as the killer of Walter Butler. I have posted on my website “www.fort-plank.com” a page with all of the known references to Walter Butler's death which can be readily found in PRIMARY SOURCE materials. I hate using secondary and tertiary sources for obvious reasons and am very pleased that “wikipedia.org” has dramatically increased its documentation requirements for its articles! Thank You!

[[Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to Walter Butler (Loyalist). Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Deconstructhis (talk) 15:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)]]

I must in all fairness ask what the problem is with “original research? Are you implying that original and authentic research is not appropriate for “Wikipedia”. There is way, way to much trash out there on the “internet” which cannot be, in any way, verified. My additions to the Butler page were not suppositions, rather eyewitness statements as to what really happened to Butler.

Unfortunately, the webmaster of http://www.nyhistory.net/~drums/wbutler.htm is a personal and friendly acquaintance of mine, but he, and many other historians have bought into the early undocumented histories of the Mohawk Valley, most of which I have spent the last twenty-five plus years trying to authenticate as at least seventeen of my own ancestors fought in the Mohawk Valley during the Revolution, and regurgitated their unbelievable and unverifiable “facts” as their own research.

Please, do not misunderstand: I am not upset, get confused!!! I would really like to see all of the content of the Internet be so reliable that anyone could simply look it up on the web and then contact the repository of the original document, pay the appropriate fee for copying it, and then have their own private library of primary source documents.

Hope this finds all well!

P.S. The “copyrighted material” that I incorrectly posted in Wikipedia was an article entirely of my own production and which was copied from my master copies of the 100+ pages of primary source data on my “www.fort-plank.com” site. This can be easily verified by my publisher, Picton Press, and a plethora of fellow researchers, some of whom agree with me and some who do not.

Reference formatting

Hi! Thank you for your contributions to Battle of Klock's Field, I've been looking for sources to fill it out. It would help if you familiarize yourself with how to properly format references -- Help:Referencing will help. You should use <ref>, not <reference> or <references> in the text, and close the reference with </ref>. (Oh, and please do not use "ibid" in your references, since this leads to confusion when later editors add references in between yours.) Thanks! Magic♪piano 01:11, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Accusation of Plagiarism on my wiki-page on Fort Plank, Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York

My name is Ken D. Johnson [Moniker: Abrahamcoapman]. I am the author of "The Bloodied Mohawk". I posted the page on Fort Plank. I am extremely offended by your accusation of copyright infringement!!! There is ABSOLUTELY no duplication of any statements found either on web-site www.fort-plank.com or the "The Bloodied Mohawk". I was accused of copyright infringement on MY OWN writings once before and rewrote the Fort plank article FROM SCRATCH to avoid any duplication of either my book or my web-site!!! EACH AND EVERY statement of fact is REFERENCED!!! I wrote the Fort Plank page for wikipedia letter by letter and patiently responded in a professional manner to EACH and EVERY attack on my character, veracity, and scholarship by [redacted] that was allowed by the Wikipedia Organization. The Fort plank page was THROUGHLY REFERENCED using material obtained from either "The Bloodied Mohawk” and/or www.footnote.com and none of either work was copied verbatim. "The Bloodied Mohawk" has been referenced in the works of many other scholars (Mister Watt included) and has been approved by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution as a PRIMARY SOURCE of proof of ancestral participation in the American Revolution. I have asked multiple times that the Fort plain Museum Staff seize their personal attacks taken against me and Gavin K. Watt, a Canadian Researcher who also writes of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley of New York. For PROOF of said “attacks”, you may review the book reviews posted against Mister Watt and I by Mister Bollen and Mister Mack on Amazon.com. I have endured multiple vandalisms of the Fort Plank page on Wikipedia leveled by [redacted] by name and by anonymously by use of only a IP Address. I am TIRED of the vandalism of my page by the Fort Plain Museum and now your accusation of plagiarism. I honestly do not know how I could plagiarize MYSELF!!! Please contact me as soon as possible with word on this matter. I throughly appreciate wikipedia’s strive for accuracy and veracity in its content and have STUCK tightly to the rules of professionalism. Please end the vandalism of my work(s) by these individuals. Thank You!!! Ken D. Johnson "fortplankhistorian@yahoo.com" 97 Reid Street Fort Plain, New York 13339. January 12, 2011 at 1340 hours Eastern Standard Time. Ken D. Johnson (talk) 19:02, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

January 2011

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for attempting to harass other users. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:11, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]