Talk:Plattsburg, Missouri

Still a stub

There is only ONE sentence about the town in the article aside from basic information. Still a stub. Kukini 16:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Someone should add a "history" section. There was a civil war battle fought in Plattsburg. David Rice Atchison, a resident of Plattsburg, was president of the United States for a day. The James and Younger families (and gang) lived all over the area -- in fact, Jesse James escaped from the jail in Plattsburg -- the James' and Youngers broke him out and I believe there was even a bit of a shoot-out right out on Main Street. Also is there any historical significance of the railroad that used to run through Plattsburg? Isn't Ellis Elementary named for a famous past resident? Was Plattsburg always called Plattsburg? How did it form? What about the Riley-Carmack house? Why is the historical society's museum located in that building? Who's house was it and is there a significance to it becoming the local history museum?I'm not sure of the significance of the list of high-schoolers on the discussion page (cripple of the year??) --Curien1000 22:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, update: Found the significance of Plattsburg's name (also found information on the namesake of Ellis Elementary) -- I will add them when I have time, I also intend to begin adding to the "history" section and such when I have more time.--Curien1000 22:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your posts (type four ~'s at the end of your post) You meant supposedly and I'm not sure how you figure that there is no sure proof. Besides the fact that court testimony, arrest records, jail records, etc. are all publicly available we also know from the journals of his contemporaries, the biography his son wrote, and the research of hundreds of scholars in and out of Missouri for a century and a half now. Relatively speaking, this if fairly recent history, we're not reaching back into hazy obscure pre-biblical history here. I'm not sure what the significance of being a "working magician" is -- there are literally tens of thousands of them and I'm not sure what listing every obscure party entertainer on wikipedia would accomplish. As for "valid victorian" I have no idea what it is that you think that means. Should we really recognize every valedictorian of every little public high school graduating class in America just because they have a job and are "helpful?" there would be hundreds of thousands of them for EVERY year that there have been public schools (going back a couple centuries). It's a nice personal distinction to have, but it doesn't call for an encyclpedia article to be written about you. I'm sorry, but even if Mr. Grooms is valedictorian of his graduating class in college (even the best college) that in and of itself doesn't call for an encyclopedia article about him. Furthermore, the list of PHS students deleted from this talk page wasn't a list of important people from Plattsburg (or even from PHS, it was just shameless self-promotion (explicitly against wikipedia rules)) - it was just a list of some kid's favorite people (with ridiculous hearts next to some names). Here's an interesting quote from the deleted post: "keaton is cripple of the year! josh is the awesomest martz is weird." In what way is that an objective contribution to an encyclopedic work?--Curien1000 07:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

i am sorry for not recognizing the fact that the kids had put "cripple of the year" and etc. on the psot. I thought the comment was referring to the original list of just several names, no other text included. as for the student included earlie, i think i did go to far with the explaination of Mr. grooms and apologize for that also. I really don't think that a few kids from my school just "vandalized" a page is that important. It's a crappy town with barely over 2000 people. No one hardly checks this out, it doesn't matter. It's not like they were editing pages on George Washington or Atlantic Records saying YOU SUCK!!! or anything. Hey now, plattsburg is a very important town. If you go to the wikipedia polls, you will see that this page is the most visited page on wikipedia. Furthermore, plattsburg has been home to many famous characters of history. Several of these include being the real birthplace of aberham lincoln, where george washington really chopped down the cherry tree, and also a little known fact is that the plattsburg was built in the area where hollywood was originally planned to be built. And platsburg features the only active magician in the whole county: Ben Grooms. He is a fantastic magician that will blow your mind. He preforms shows for large groups and even has prefdormed in front of the president of the United States. So as you can see, plattsburg along with Ben Grooms are both very important and most certainly do not "suck" "So up your nose with a rubber hose" (at this point the writer of this article is laughing and making obscene gestures at you.) I would like to mention that i live in plattsburg and i would like to clear a few things up. Keaton broke his ankle i football earning the coveted title of "Cripple of the Year" in which i was one of his nominators. Ben is an awesome magician and Plattsburg is a bad ass little town that kicks Lathrops ass any day of the week(and holidays). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Proud 2 B A Redneck (talk • contribs) 03:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)