Talk:Battle of Athens (1946)

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Contents 1 Opinion piece allowed? 2 Importance of article for various Wikiprojects 3 Missing section 4 Plagiarism

[edit] Opinion piece allowed?

The first link is an obvious biased article. Would it be wrong to remove it or not? Mr. Raptor 14:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd say keep it, since 1) it clearly illustrates the notable aspect of this article, that is, the Battle of Athens is often cited to bolster arguments against gun control, and 2) it includes details about the battle (albeit from the winners' perspective) absent from this article. However, I have added a mention that the article is biased pro-gun; not everybody is as NPOV as Wikipedia (*snort, chuckle*). Perhaps short descriptions of the other external links would be a good idea. In fact, adding more details of the battle would be a good idea, expanding this article beyond a stub. --205.201.141.146 16:24, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Importance of article for various Wikiprojects

Several of you are adamant that this article has "High" importance for several Wikiprojects (Law, West Virginia, and Military History), as well as "Medium" importance for Tennessee. I cannot fathom why this is included in the West Virginia wikiproject at all, and it is difficult to formulate any argument for why a brief local incident involving military veterans during peacetime in small-town Tennessee could possibly be of "high" importance in the global projects for Law (where, for example, Common law is rated "high") and Military History. I suppose you could argue successfully for higher than "low" importance in a Second Amendment wikiproject, but the 2nd Amendment is not the primary focus of Wikipedia:WikiProject Law and actions. --Orlady (talk) 00:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing section

The article is missing the, um, battle. Could somebody tell us about it? Speciate (talk) 13:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I fear that the people who are passionate about this subject assume that the rest of us know all about it, so the article is filled with interesting trivia but fails to tell the main story. As near as I have been able to make out, citizens (mostly ex-GIs) succeeded in ensuring a fair election by taking the law into their own hands against the corrupt crowd that controlled the county. My main source of edification was http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml -- a reference cited in the article that provides a long account of the event (and in which it is hard to identify the main event in the midst of the colorful details). --Orlady (talk) 14:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the above comment. But, even more that what happen in the battle, who won? I knew nothing of this event, read the entry and was left hanging. After looking it up at another site, I added a sentence to the article stating that Knox Henry won the election. There needs to be a description of the battle AND the aftermath. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.32.38 (talk) 21:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

As Speciate said, there is nothing here about the "battle" itself. I request that those knowledgeable about the subject, such as the members of the various WikiProjects above, please put information about the actual Battle of Athens into the article. Otebig (talk) 14:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, this article did lack the "battle" part (before). I have just recently added the "battle part" and some important events leading to it from the first article in the External Links section. It's far from perfect obviously, but better than nothing. 16 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.75.191.225 (talk)

[edit] Plagiarism

What's going on on this page? This article's text is copied verbatim from the first external link! http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm. 87.114.16.64 (talk) 19:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)