Talk:Lamchin

/archive 001 comments made before 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Starting Over

Myself and several others are re-writing Ohlone. This is article, while interesting, is inaccurate. I have volunteered to re-write it. meatclerk 06:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I just read and like the new Lamchin page so far Goldenrowley 02:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)... however I don't think its fair to the last author to overwrite the entire article marked for cleanup only ?? In the archives they acknowledge it is mythic material. Granted, it needs to be flagged and labeled myth and then flagged to identify the source(s) but there is a myth category and project. Goldenrowley 20:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. I checked again and I could not save anything from the myth( FYI myth of being the idea of the Lamchins being the original inspiration for the Wizard of Oz, Emerald City, of being Aztecs, not OHlones), this actually conflicted with the sources they gave, it was not supportable. The rewrite is better. Goldenrowley 04:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Uh, um...

I happen to know the first Lamchin author very well. As fantastic as it might seem, she is a victim of entertainment fraud. Her family is into gay TV and runs a number of psychosocial programs, including entrepreneur. The latter is geared towards the indigent, particularly young juvenile delinquent men. A lucky few become nominally famous after having been given a small acting role, such as stuntman. The administrators are against higher education as some sort of national budget-saving idea. In trying to prove a degree is unnecessary for success, they actually decided to thwart this author, one of the few in her extended family who attended college, from the time she graduated (with a B+ average, suitable for professional school). She noticed some time ago they had affiliates working for the internet spying on her and disrupting her communications. She wondered what would happen if she actually wrote for Wikipedia. The Lamchin article was her first, inspired by a former boyfriend of Ohlone heritage who remembered a few old stories. Thus, she was rather nonchalant, as well as inexperienced with formatting and citing sources. True to form, her article was immediately flagged for every flaw in the book, including spelling, though she ran it through spell-check twice. (Seems the offending words are "Lamchin" and Ohlone.") Someone in the family must've complained, she couldn't help thinking. But meanwhile, something was happening in the little bedroom town of San Carlos. Numerous local businesses, apparently excited about the history buried right under their feet, linked her article on their webpages. She kept this point of pride to herself for a few years, then finally told someone. Soon afterwards, it was rewritten. Eventually, it was revealed that the network, as enthralled as the San Carlans, was interested in making a TV documentary about the tribe, though none of the screen writers ever lived in the town. The author wasn't surprised, as this would not be the first time they plagiarized her; a brief online story of hers showed up in England as a play. She noticed the script also incorporated material from a novel she never finished. They had to squeeze that into there, despite its being another genre and inappropriate. They are clearly obsessed with her writing a Lamchin novel, based on the degree of harassment she experiences upon so much as touching anything remotely Native American. She has received numerous mail-order used books in the past two years with penciled threats and strange page markers. A recent book with Lamchin information was actually severely cropped, with the desired chapters missing. It's beyond belief, but that's Hollywood, cut throat. They can't stand the poor lady's making the least mark upon the world, and putting them to shame as a bunch of unmotivated high school drop-outs who expect everything on a silver platter. They even went so far as to start a rumor that she was one of a group of unpublished authors allegedly plagiarized for the Harry Potter action adventure film theories, just to cause trouble for her.

Well, I see Goldenrowling that you went to U.C. Davis. Happens that my friend went there, too, as an English major. We were discussing the rewrite and she said she does not understand the issue of Ohlone spelling. It's not only an unwritten language, but English spellings were not standardized until around the 18th century, either. Thus, words were spelled whichever way the writer sounded them out.

Kovacked (talk) 00:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

This doesn't look like it's Wikipedia's problem. The creator of the article (who I suspect has a dynamic IP address) hasn't edited since 2007. Howicus (talk) 00:19, 19 July 2013 (UTC)