Talk:George Weller

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[edit] Censored again ?

George Weller's report on Nagasaki is no longer available at http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/specials/0506/0617weller.html and I am unable to find another copy elsewhere on the web. I get no reply from Mainichi for the moment.

I added a corrected link to an article that contains excerpts from the censored stories. A book coming out this year will contain the original stories. skywriter 14:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confiscated

Any source of the claim that the article were confiscated? CNN claims he(Weller) submitted it to censorship himself. Maybe that's an expression for the same thing... --abach 15:13, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

      Considered fixed --abach 14:27, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question to User:Bcorr from User:Skywriter

Noting your introduction

I have been a Wikipedian since June 2003, an administrator since December 2003, and a bureaucrat since August 2004. I am also a member of the Mediation Committee and am a former chair of that committee.

I am wondering how the following appears as your contribution to the article on George Waller.

Revision as of 13:21, 12 February 2006 Bcorr (Talk | contribs)

(?Life & career - copyedit, misspellings, as per Boston Globe ref)

added the following: The couple had one child (and Weller also had a second child with another woman[1])

The couple had two childs, a boy, Anthony, and a girl, Ann Tagge,

Thanks. skywriter 03:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I made this edit to George Weller (not "Waller") based on this Boston Globe article on errors in Wikipedia. If you have a citation that proves this wrong please tell me what it is, as you clearly have a lot of information on Weller -- but this is not an attempt to claim that he did something wrong by "having a child out of wedlock.". I will note that your use of "two childs" for "two children" is exactly what the Boston Globe cited as an error in the article:

Wikipedia says: In 1946 he met Charlotte Ebner [sic], when the two were in a group of correspondents held for three weeks in Manchuria by the advancing communist Chinese army. They married two years later. . . . The couple had two childs [sic], a boy, Anthony, and a girl, Ann Tagge, and were married for 42 years."

In fact: Weller's two children had different mothers. His wife was Charlotte Ebener.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 14:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

(The words "two childs" are not mine. They are taken from the article history.) Would you clarify by quoting what there is in that Boston Globe article that refers anywhere to Weller? I read the article and don't see a mention. Thanks. skywriter 14:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I see the link is corrected in your comment but the link was wrong in the Wiki article on Weller because it linked to the main article on Jimmy Wales and not the sidebar to which you now link. Too bad the Globe writer doesn't source what he calls this Weller "fact." I'll correct the article link to the Globe but the evidence is thin, if the unsourced Globe statement is all there is. skywriter 15:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)