Talk:Charles Lane Poor

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Ed, this needs to be a less stubby stub to be encyclopedic. Since he's your grandfather (and it's your stub), could you maybe add dates? and what effect, if any, the monograph had (and if it had no effect, is there really any reason for him to be here?)? The bit about your father (uncle?) is also interesting, and he deserves a place as much as Boeing and any other founder of a major corporation. However, IMHO, you should probably remove yourself. As far as you've mentioned, you haven't really done anything to merit more than your own user page -- neither have most of the rest of us wikipedians. Just speaking for myself, but the sentence "klingt falsch" -- it sounds "not right" in the context of an encyclopedia entry. Even if it were Quincy Adams writing an entry on John Adams, it would not be appropriate to have him say "and he's *this* author's dad." JHK

I agree with removing myself. Thank you for doing that for me.

I will add more about my great-grandfather's monograph someday. I just recently found my copy of it (it's out of print). Also, I want to reread what Martin Gardner said about him in his book on pseudoscience.

As for my grandfather and namesake, Ed Poor, eventually I'll add to the Grumman article something about its founding on Long Island and contribution to the war effort in the early 1940s. Ed Poor, Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Maybe I inherited my habit of saying It's not proved yet from my great-grandfather, eh? (But I'm sure he came around to Einstein's way of thinking a few solar eclipses later, when sufficiently accurate observations of bent starlight vindicated relativity.) --Uncle Ed 16:58 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)

I'm sure there's far too much about me and my ancestors in this article. But Oliver asked, and that stimulated me to write a bit. --Uncle Ed

Oh, don't blame me. What I actually said was, "I'm dying to read more about your great-grandfather, if you happen to know anything more about him." I didn't say that I'm dying to read more about his descendants... As it happens I am interested in people's ancestries, but what I actually meant with respect to this article was that there should be more about his monograph, and his general career, and so on. Did you say you had a copy of the monograph? If so, you could summarise it for the article. :) -- Oliver P. 18:35 Feb 13, 2003 (UTC)
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