Talk:Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

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In Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis, he says on page 244 that the Mecklenburg Resolutions were eventually exposed as a forgery. LockeShocke 01:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article says "Every year on May 20, “Meck Dec Day,” a grand celebration occurs in North Carolina. ". I've lived in NC all my life, and I've never even heard of any such celebration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.43.203.242 (talk) 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Davidson[edit]

The last line of the article states that Davidson is in Mecklenburg and Iredell Counties. I found no evidence on the official city map that the city limits extend into Iredell County. (http://www.ci.davidson.nc.us/DocumentView.asp?DID=686)If there are no maps showing this I will remove the reference. Suodrak (talk) 09:58, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A better place for that discussion would be at the Davidson, North Carolina article, which begins "Davidson is a town in Iredell and Mecklenburg counties...." —Kevin Myers 14:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cites?[edit]

There are no cites to say that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is doubted or that it is actually the Mecklenburg Resolves. The article makes it seem as though it is basically universally agreed that the Declaration did not actually exist. However, I think the opposite is true:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QVcSAAAAMAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=mecklenburg+declaration+of+independence&ots=pyt-5BpEgK&sig=_sEgh3WvNnzl8hmORcAXV59-LJY#v=onepage&q=mecklenburg%20declaration%20of%20independence&f=false

http://www.hartslog.org/declar/1775.htm

http://www.meckdec.org/

The text is available at: http://www.cmstory.org/history/hornets/declare.htm --216.55.36.46 (talk) 06:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Read the entire article and you'll find the citations. We generally don't use the type of websites you list (self-published) as sources for encyclopedia articles; see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. I'm not aware of any "reliable source" (by Wikipedia's definition) published in the last 50 years that argued that the Mecklenburg Declaration was authentic. —Kevin Myers 13:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]