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Name

Why is this page under the name Casimir Pulaski while his name was Kazimierz Pułaski? His name was simplified by the Americans (like many names are), but he himself never used it AFAIK. For me it's like moving the Margaret Thatcher to Iron Lady... I'm moving this page to where it belongs. Halibutt 06:44, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Fort Pulaski

I'm under the belief that Fort Pulaski was named after Kazimierz but I'm yet to find some information on that... I'm looking but if someone can find some solid info, please add it to this article (I've heard this while in Savannah - which is cited in the article). Also, we need a Fort Pulaski page. I've got royalty free images of the Fort so I can help there. JoeHenzi 03:45, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Some infos: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/HistoryArchaeology/AntebellumEra/Places-7&id=h-610

--Emax 00:33, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A movie reference

As I recollect, there was a ship with his name in a movie "A year of the dragon", but I can't confirm it just now. I'm still putting the info on the page, since the movie is a cult and the name of the ship was crucial to the plot. Unregistered user (2005)

Birth and death dates

Users like Herostratus keep on changing everything that's correct, vandals like that should not be allowed. This historian spent his lifetime on Pulaski and I would rather listen to him than to some wiki criminal like Herostratus. www.polamjournal.com/Library/APHistory/buried/buried.html

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+Users like Herostratus keep on changing everything that's correct, vandals like that should not be allowed. This historian spent his lifetime on Pulaski and I would rather listen to him than to some wiki criminal like Herostratus.
-I reverted the changes to Pulaski's birth and death dates made by user [[User:64.107.1.95]] even though they are sourced (in the edit summary), because:
+www.polamjournal.com/Library/APHistory/buried/buried.html
-#This user is a notorious vandal and puppeeter with a ''modus operandi'' of making subtle (and, so far, always incorrect) date changes to articles (among many other things -- see [[User:Dijxtra/Sock]] for details). It appears that he surfs the web for any source that contradicts commonly-accepted data -- dates in particular -- and adopts a mindless holy crusade to force Wikipedia to accept this data. Not conducive to my being comfortable about this, to being with.
-#I have some questions about the [http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/APHistory/buried/buried.html source]. Some of the language seems slightly less than scholarly (''"Never before were so many errors made against one man as in the case of Pulaski," Pinkowski said. "He was a victim of corruption, lies, forgeries, trumped up charges, revisions of history and defamation of character."''). And the Polish-American Journal is of a reputation unknown to me. Pinkowski may be correct, but for now I don't think we have enough verification to change the commonly-accepted dates. [[User:Herostratus|Herostratus]] 19:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC)