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OK, this article, about drinking on Christmas Eve and the results thereof, comes out in Christmas Eve and is so full of mangled sentences, bad English, and crazy facts that one suspects it may be a seasonal prank, arising perhaps from a modern drunk-fest, no? Should we lay off the editing and let the joke ride? -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:39, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
The table in the "personnel involved in the riot" section, in the column "Sentence", frequently says "Dismissed". It is not immediately obvious whether that means the defendant was dismissed, or the charges.
A reader who investigates sufficiently can figure out that it can't mean the charges were dismissed, because some of the entries say something like dismissed, but sentence remitted, which doesn't make sense if it was the charges. But the fact that the reader has to do that means that the table is not clear enough. Moreover, even once you figure out that the defendant was dismissed, it's still not clear exactly what that means (expelled from the school, discharged from the Armed Forces, both?), and constructions like dismissed on four charges remain obscure (surely, you can't be expelled for four charges but allowed to remain on the other ones???).
So I hope that someone who has the references, and understands exactly what all this means, will be willing to clarify. -- Trovatore ( talk) 22:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
This article is so badly written as to be close to incomprehensible. It is, at minimum, confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.87.202 ( talk) 21:04, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
This doesn't read like an encyclopedia article. It reads like a paraphrase of some primary sources.-- 75.83.69.196 ( talk) 00:19, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
I can't even read this article. It's got so much wrong with it. 24.38.96.66 ( talk) 17:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
This article could be interesting, perhaps even historical, but currently it's garbage and should be removed or edited by at least a sixth grader — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.38.197.76 ( talk) 23:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Smithsonian.com published an excellent article about this incident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.179.143.22 ( talk) 20:28, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
There is no reference to the phrase "eggnog riot" in the source upon which this article depends. While it's still likely the best name, since it's not capitalized in found sources it should not be capitalized in this encyclopedia.
Hopefully sinebot will sign this for me, as the tilde has vanished from my phone. ~ T P W 13:15, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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OK, this article, about drinking on Christmas Eve and the results thereof, comes out in Christmas Eve and is so full of mangled sentences, bad English, and crazy facts that one suspects it may be a seasonal prank, arising perhaps from a modern drunk-fest, no? Should we lay off the editing and let the joke ride? -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:39, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
The table in the "personnel involved in the riot" section, in the column "Sentence", frequently says "Dismissed". It is not immediately obvious whether that means the defendant was dismissed, or the charges.
A reader who investigates sufficiently can figure out that it can't mean the charges were dismissed, because some of the entries say something like dismissed, but sentence remitted, which doesn't make sense if it was the charges. But the fact that the reader has to do that means that the table is not clear enough. Moreover, even once you figure out that the defendant was dismissed, it's still not clear exactly what that means (expelled from the school, discharged from the Armed Forces, both?), and constructions like dismissed on four charges remain obscure (surely, you can't be expelled for four charges but allowed to remain on the other ones???).
So I hope that someone who has the references, and understands exactly what all this means, will be willing to clarify. -- Trovatore ( talk) 22:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
This article is so badly written as to be close to incomprehensible. It is, at minimum, confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.87.202 ( talk) 21:04, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
This doesn't read like an encyclopedia article. It reads like a paraphrase of some primary sources.-- 75.83.69.196 ( talk) 00:19, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
I can't even read this article. It's got so much wrong with it. 24.38.96.66 ( talk) 17:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
This article could be interesting, perhaps even historical, but currently it's garbage and should be removed or edited by at least a sixth grader — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.38.197.76 ( talk) 23:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Smithsonian.com published an excellent article about this incident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.179.143.22 ( talk) 20:28, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
There is no reference to the phrase "eggnog riot" in the source upon which this article depends. While it's still likely the best name, since it's not capitalized in found sources it should not be capitalized in this encyclopedia.
Hopefully sinebot will sign this for me, as the tilde has vanished from my phone. ~ T P W 13:15, 24 December 2022 (UTC)