Walker club in wikipedia

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Scroll down to the bottom. We are in WIKEPEDIA now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Colt

Quote:
Further reading
Percussion Pistols and Revolvers. History, Performance and Practical Use by Johnny Bates and Mike Cumpston Lincoln, NE 68512, iUniverse, 2005 isbn-13-978-0-35796-3
The Colt Whitneyville Walker Pistol by Lt. Col.Robert D. Whittington Hooks, Texas, Brownlee Books, 1984
Those Interested please visit the THR WALKER CLUB. Where hundreds of Walker owner share history, knowledge, and just information on Walkers. http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=341028

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Colt"

Hats off to all you guys here for the finest online WALKER CLUB.

 

[Kruzr]

Looks like it was "edited" out.

 

[SC_Slowhand]

I guess we had our 15 minutes of fame.

 

[mec]

Interesting thing. I wrote a very detailed article on the walker for that outfit. A birdwatcher from Birmingham England attacked it because I had quoted and attributed my own book - the one mentioned above. He was backed by the other wikipedia gun expert/non -shooting/video game fanboys who said that I could not use my own book as a source unless I released all rights to the book to wikipedia. The little fellow had erased a picture of a pistol-killed wild hog which may have offended his vegan sensibilities. He stalked me around the site deleting various items and settling on the Walker article as a grand expression of his distaste. He has a long history with the wikipedia site and, like a lot of other contributors, enjoys picking fights with other editors. He was banned for a while but apparently is persistent enough to win almost all of his battles.

There are a number of other black powder related articles on that site but only because the wikipedians have not gotten around to demolishing them yet.

 

[mykeal]

Mike,

Email enroute.

Mike

 

[mec]

ref that e-mail. You could find all the material you need in the number 2 book complete with period citations. Probably better though, to just pretend that wikipedia doesn't exist.
A couple of years ago I was putting together something for guns magazine about bowie knives and came across a quote in an article by a researcher in arkansas. He had made up the quote about the bowie being ".. sharp enough to shave, broad enough to paddle a boat.etc." He told me that he had made the thing up as a trap for plagerists and sure enough, a wikipedian used it without attribution. He tried to get the outfit to eliminate it but I don't know how successful he was.
They were very upset when I refered to the article trasher as a "demimondane tinkerbell" but never did get around to tossing me off. I quit on my own.

For real, their gun braintrust is made up of video game fanboys. If it's not on Dungeons and Dragqueens, it's not real. I posted a picture of a 50 desert eagle catching the ejected case at a point close to the camera -made it look very large. The consensus among the fanboys was that it was a complete fraud.

 

[ontarget]

Who needs Wiki when we have THR? All we could possibly need to know is shared right here, without being edited by people who have never held a gun. Too bad we can't get them to go to the range, bet they'd love it.

 

[4v50 Gary]

SC Slowhand said:

I guess we had our 15 minutes of fame.

Well, that's more than enough. Congratulations to all who help make the Walker Club what it is today. That said, I approach Wikipedia with extreme caution. Many academians downright hate it because of its lack of quality control.

 

[mec]

Too bad we can't get them to go to the range, bet they'd love ...

There are some people, not many but some, who have no business anywhere near a gun.

 

[mykeal]

All I can say is Amen.

I have to admit I was unaware of Wilkipedia's issues, as I don't use it. Kind of like I don't have an opinion of American Idol or Dancing With The Stars - I don't watch them, so I don't know if they're any good or not.

 

[Bluehawk]

Wikipedia says Walker carried two of the 1847 models...odd...I only know of one, according to Colt archives.

 

[mec]

His came a bit ahead of the general issue. the guy who wrote the book- Lt. Col.Robert D. Whittington is still cited at the bottom of that article though the context was lost when the birdwatcher demolished the article,, said that walker's and Haye's pistols arrived in Vera Cruz ahead of the ones for general issue. I believe RIP Ford had too also. The officers werent supposed to get any of them but some of them pulled rank. The original plan was to issue two of them along with one flask and one bullet mould to each mounted rifle troop. They changed this to one only. The result was that five hundred were issued and the other five hundred languished in the arsenal at Baton rouge waiting for more flasks and moulds. They stayed there until after the war was over and many went to texas where they were used against the native american population.