WikiProject Comedy | (Rated Start-class, Mid-importance) | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Translated part from de.wikipedia
"Your dad" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Your dad. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Hog Farm (talk) 04:35, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Anti-Jackson headline
I'm not able to verify that headline. The earliest reference I can find is from the book Andrew Jackson (1966, by Robert V. Remini who seems respectable; a preview of a newer edition of this book is what is currently cited in the article), and then several other books from 1968 that say similar things (but aren't fully consistent with each other). I couldn't find any contemporary sources searching either "General Jackson's Mother" or "was a common prostitute". Perhaps the relevant newspaper just isn't digitized on archive.org, but none of the books I found cite a specific date either, so I can't verify it that way... I also couldn't find a newspaper with the exact name "Cincinnati Gazette", though it looks like there is a The Daily Cincinnati Gazette in 1828 (which archives seem to be calling Cincinnati Daily Gazette, which LOC says was a later name). (Pings: @DesertPipeline and DesertPipeline) --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you User:Pokechu22. Should it be removed from the article then? DesertPipeline (talk) 06:31, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. I think there's a chance it was an actual headline, and the source does seem reputable. Someone who knows more about history might be able to find it in a database/library I don't know about/don't have access to. So I don't think it's worth removing just yet. --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- What made me tag it was the three exclamation marks – that seems very strange to me. Then again, even nowadays there are examples of strange and unprofessional newspaper headlines, so perhaps it is real. Thank you again for your help anyway! DesertPipeline (talk) 06:51, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. I think there's a chance it was an actual headline, and the source does seem reputable. Someone who knows more about history might be able to find it in a database/library I don't know about/don't have access to. So I don't think it's worth removing just yet. --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2021 (UTC)