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After it closing as no consensus, it was immediately listed in a merge discussion at Talk:Forever (website). Since some people found their way already, making the same arguments they did in the AFD, I figured it only proper that everyone involved in the past discussion be notified regardless of whether they said Keep or Delete, I contacting all those who hadn't found their way there already. Dream Focus 18:58, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Thanks for participating in the AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Political_weight. The author has started flying around accusations of racism on the talk page and has previously deleted important tags, would you mind patrolling the page as I will be away for the next couple of days. Thanks! Best, Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 07:22, 20 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Because the general notability guideline doesn't precisely define "significant coverage", I would appreciate it if you could answer the following two questions about your Delete comment in the Slate Star Codex AfD, to help me in future.

1. Could you describe what was it about the reliable sources that we cited in the article that made their coverage of Slate Star Codex not significant, in your view?

2. Can you give me an idea of what changes (e.g. more reliable sources, more in-depth coverage in a reliable source) would have changed your mind on this AfD - and what is the minimum you would require to change your mind?

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Many thanks for the improvements on Amerigo Vespucci page, in particular the Soderini controversy. I started working on completely rewriting this page many years ago, but my drafts were far too detailed for a simple encyclopedia entry, and other events got me busy and I never completed them. Nonetheless, they are replete with details about Vespucci's life and controversy, including copious notes and many direct links to primary sources, which you might find useful to improve the page. If you want to take a look at them, they are in two sandbox drafts: User:Walrasiad/Vespucci (most detailed) and User:Walrasiad/Dias(includes list of writings). They are a bit messy. Feel free to make use of what you can of them. I have more notes elsewhere that I can help out with if you have questions. Walrasiad (talk) 01:09, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback! I know what you mean, the hardest part is trying to summarize a dozen different opinions without going into the weeds. I'll take a look at your drafts. Right now i'm trying to clean-up up the lead--hard to keep it simple! Glendoremus (talk) 04:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Glendoremus - thanks for your last email/suggestions. Ok, I will do as you said regarding Cabrilho. Meanwhile I deleted my entries here, since I have no time to further pursuit them now. All the best - Rafael Hitoludeu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.220.107.29 (talk) 05:43, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The unreferenced section and nickname you deleted from the Walnut Heights was needed as clearly someone knew just enough to add something interesting but with plenty of rambling misinformation. You changed the infobox to City and tried to make it a neighborhood of Walnut Creek. While the relationship to Walnut Creek could be described with a reference in the body of the article, your changes added unreferenced, incorrect information. I have corrected these errors but I hope you are more careful to not add back the unreferenced content similar to what you were deleting. Happy editing, Fettlemap (talk) 04:44, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that there is a neighborhood that has claimed the name within the city of Walnut Creek by checking Nextdoor app. The coordinates and lead sentence do not match this neighborhood and Google maps associates it with and north of the unincorporated community of Alamo. I noticed you are involved in having communities deleted so this might be a candidate. It can't be used for the city neighborhood without more extensive changes. Cheers, Fettlemap (talk) 05:30, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's a mess. GNIS is the source of the coordinates and Google maps typically just strips the data from there or from Wikipedia. But the few independent references I can find seem to point to the other side of town as the location of the neighborhood. It would make sense, that's where Walnut Heights Elementary School is located. I think I will propose this one for deletion. Glendoremus (talk) 16:59, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am under the impression that you have a copy of Durham's book. Does he really identify this with the Petersburg that seems to be the subject of the long (and largely unsourced) history of this place? Mangoe (talk) 17:21, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I wish I could help you. I've just got the subset, Place-Names of the San Francisco Bay Area. I found a reasonably priced copy online. Glendoremus (talk) 17:49, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, there was a Kindle version covering Durham's Gold County for $3.99. Couldn't resist. Under the entry for San Andreas, he says: Camp's (1962) map shows a place called Greasertown or Petersburg located 4 miles west of San Andreas on the west side of Calaveras River. Glendoremus (talk) 18:37, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, sorry I didn't check back in sooner. Still not sure what to do with this one. Mangoe (talk) 19:19, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Or, USGS and NOAA work together to make up a bogus town and then put it on the map at the "wrong" place. An impressive display of incompetence. Mangoe (talk) 15:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Groan. The mass-produced stubs based on crappy GNIS data seems to be widespread for US places. I did test research into Missouri "unincorporated communities" and have determined that there's some GNIS "call a fourth-tier post office a populated place" stuff. I'm suspecting that most states may have the mass-produced stubs for places that weren't ever anything. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:45, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your AfD text quotes Durham as saying "4 miles north of Novato", but the article text says "4 miles north of Ignacio". Which is it? The latter would place it right next to Novato. Mangoe (talk) 14:18, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, thanks. I will update the AFD. Glendoremus (talk) 16:04, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does the volume of Durham you have cover Mariposa County? I'm taking a look at Kocher, California, which is sourced entirely to Durham. GNIS doesn't have an entry for Kocher, I can't find it on the topos, and all of the newspapers.com and Google Books hits I can find are last names, even when searching in county histories. Just wondering if anyone can figure out what Durham says this thing is. Hog Farm _Bacon 03:44, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have a copy. Kocher doesn't have a separate listing but under an entry for Bagby Durham calls Kocher a place about 8 miles above Bagby on the Yosemite Valley Railroad. No other information. My guess would be it's some sort of railroad facility. Hope this helps. Glendoremus (talk) 04:12, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again, but I'm looking at Elkhorn, Mariposa County, California. It's sourced only to Durham, and is supposedly 3 miles north of Indian Gulch. Doesn't have a GNIS entry, and doesn't appear on topos. Is this something, or not? Hog Farm _Bacon 03:55, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Happy to help. It doesn't have its own entry in Durham. Under the entry for Indian Gulch, there is a comment that a place called Elkhorn was located three miles north of Indian Gulch. Source is "Laizure's map, 1935". A quick search seems to indicate that Laizure was a map of gold mines in Mariposa, so I'm guessing it's a gold mine. Sounds pretty obscure. Glendoremus (talk) 04:37, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately wedding, birth and baptizing data from Brugg (which is my birth city and where our family has citizenship since 1595) are not available online yet. On the English page just use the link to the German version; there you'll find the true story. Else I'm talking about a family member, a cousin of my great grandfather. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had one only child Johann Jakob Pestalozzi, who married Anna Magdalena Fröhlich.With her, before his early death, Johann Jakob had two children, Marieanne and Gottlieb Pestalozzi. As widowed Pestalozzi Anna Magdalena then married Laurenz Jacob Custer with whom she had Maria Custer, Hermann's mother. In this the US main source of the Hermann Jaeger article mixed up and contains false information! We can't correct the old book. But somehow it should be possible to correct this mistake in the English version ot the wikipedia article. Hans Jaeger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1A88:19E:4500:7C2A:ED14:D910:CCE1 (talk) 16:58, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

“KELLOGG, Dr. Albert (1813-87).-Professor W. L. Jepson, s.v. "Albert Kellogg") states that Kellogg came to Texas with the elder Audubon. This would have been in 1837. My evidence, to me conclusive, seems to show that neither in 1837, in 1845-6, nor in 1849 (all the possible dates) did Kellogg accompany any of the Audubons to Texas. The statement, based by Jepson on Edward L. Greene’s published sketch of Kellogg, seems thus to be in error.” Samuel Wood Geiser. 1837. Naturalists of the Frontier. page 236. John Woodhouse Audubon, not his father, was in Texas in 1845-6 and briefly in 1849, and Kellogg is not listed among the members of the 1845-6 party. Nomen ambiguum (talk) 23:08, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. The Audubon connection seems pretty doubtful. Greene's sketch doesn't even use Audubon's full name, making it unclear whether he means father or son. I think I'll just take it out. Glendoremus (talk) 05:01, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks for adding all the books in the further reading section. I have noticed that most of them are centered in Magellan, and there's one that doesn't even mention Elcano till the last (and short) chapter. Another one claims that the intention of Magellan was the circumnavigation, but this is historically false. Actually, is "further reading" but... should it be added to the article about Elcano? Theklan (talk) 06:13, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The focus of some of these books is Magellan or the Magellan Expedition but they all have something significant to say about Elcano. Magellan and Elcano share many of the same primary sources so their stories are closely intertwined. Since this is the English wikipedia, I thought it was important to identify some reliable English sources that could be used to supplement the existing sources which are almost entirely Basque or Spanish. Also, it's been noted recently that some of the current sources are questionable in terms of reliability and presenting a neutral point of view.Glendoremus (talk) 14:47, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's interesting to show some of the sources in English. I wouldn't say that those presented are specially neutral (there's one that tries to show that Magellan's goal was to make a circumnavigation, but this is false) and there's one that doesn't even mention Elcano but in a footnote. That's my main concern there. Theklan (talk) 09:41, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the feedback, I'll be more careful in the future. This particular source was a US government publication. What is the copyright status? I thought US publications were not held under copyright unless otherwise noted. Glendoremus (talk) 19:17, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa Sorry, meant to ping you. Please see my previous reply. Thanks. Glendoremus (talk) 20:51, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since it's a US Govt publication it is public domain. In the future, please include the {{PD-notice}} template as part of your citation, where it will hopefully catch my eye. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 00:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 00:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

HI, in this edit to Augustus Addison Gould you added {{sfn |Sorensen |1997}} but did not define your source. This means that nobody can look the reference up, and adds the article to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could supply the missing source it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 17:41, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up. Should be correct now. Glendoremus (talk) 18:11, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 18:11, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]