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Former good articleAndrew Carnegie was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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DateProcessResult
February 25, 2006Good article nomineeListed
November 15, 2007Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Early Life

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Changed a sentenced that said slavery was referred to as "the peculiar institution" as a euphemism from its apologists. It was actually a neutral term, and "peculiar" was used in the sense that it was only common in one particular region of the United States, namely the South.

--Michael Hollinger-- I could find no external corroboration for a 5 yr. old Andrew Carnegie killing Piedmont Morgan. Could someone cite a reference for that?

Stained Glass Illustration in this article

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Wiki Commons lists the attached stained illustration as being in honor of Andrew Mellon. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stained_glass_windows_of_the_Washington_National_Cathedral#/media/File:Stain_Glass_Andrew_Mellon.JPG.> I doesn't look much like it belongs with either of them, from what I can see. I can't locate any other source, but thought you should know.

Not American

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Andrew was born and raised in Scotland to Scottish parents and only move to America when he was 13-14, he’s not Scottish-American just Scottish. 77.197.126.86 (talk) 05:56, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@77.197.126.86 nope Matteow101 (talk) 14:44, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is not how this works at all.
The US culture is, that everybody who moves there (at least legally), _is_ American. That is actually a major pride of them, and an important thing too, given their history of having grown literally from people moving over because their countries of origin treated them badly.
Don’t be mistaken by the nonsense of current US culture as seen on TV.
So he is definitely both Scottish and American.
2A02:3035:66B:9627:774C:BBA3:61AF:BC79 (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Age at Death

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Should be updated to age 84. Pdxhoyt (talk) 03:42, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please don’t call tax thieves “philanthropists”

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Their so-called “philanthropy” is merely large tax theft schemes (A “non-profit” foundation is an easy way to get money to your descendants without paying the usual taxes, and to hide wealth for the same reason.) plus professional PR teams to make them look good (Something e.g. Bill Gates is also notorious for nowadays). It takes a very superficial view, to not see that, as it is not exactly a secret. — 2A02:3035:66B:9627:774C:BBA3:61AF:BC79 (talk) 06:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]