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Contents 1 Andrew Jackson's Mother 2 Improve Ref tag 3 External links in the article 4 The summary box

[edit] Andrew Jackson's Mother

A fact recently removed claimed that Andrew Jackson's mother was buried near campus. I believe this is referring to a grave marker in the middle of campus (near the old library). It states that someone is buried near the marker. I forget the name on the grave marker. What I do remember is that the marker was found off Ashley Phosphate (very far from campus) during construction of an office building that the College planned to use as a North Area campus. It was taken to the college to be inspected and then was placed on campus because it looked nice. Since the marker was not standing when it was found and is now standing many miles from where it was found, whomever it is that it is referring to is not buried anywhere near campus. --Kainaw ^(talk) 17:40, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improve Ref tag

It would be helpful if folks, esp whoever placed the tag, would identify statements (etc) that arguably need sources. Currently, I see the article has many external links as sources. It's written in conventional encyclopedic mode, which tends to eschew footnotes. HG | Talk 18:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The current "community" attitude towards references on Wikipedia is that all factual statements should be following be a reference. For example, the assertion of the founding date and being the oldest college in South Carolina should be following by a <ref> tag and a website that backs the claim. Without references, an article is considered unreferenced. -- kainaw™ 19:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, it is not unreferenced, i think the way to put it is that it is not adequately referenced by inline citations (footnotes) according to the referencing standards that have evolved in wikipedia. I added some material about the National Historic Landmark designation, with inline citations backing up each statement i made just now. Some very basic facts, like College of Charleston is a college in Charleston, do not need to be documented by a footnote, but it is better to footnote more specific claims and facts like which architect designed which building built on which date. doncram (talk) 20:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External links in the article

There are multiple external links to the webpages of various departments of the college. I think just one external link to the university would be more appropriate. If there are specific facts about a given department given in the article, then a link to the department webpage could be included within a footnote. If no one minds, I am inclined to delete most of the separate department links from the External links section. doncram (talk) 20:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The summary box

The summary box on the right side of the page is messed up, I couldn't figure out how to fix it. The field for the "established" date isn't working and the date isnt displayed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptparadi (talk • contribs) 12:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)