Talk:1843

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I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page.

If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --BozMo 21:07, 6 May 2004 (UTC)(talk)

June 6

 * added * June 6 - In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod, is the first non-white person - Date added (see Prescod page for ref) .... he wasn't black... he was classified as non-white. Others use the phrase the first of african descent ... but I'll let others decide.

You already had the fact, but no date. Victuallers (talk) 18:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Seriously big wagon train error from 5/16
A factoid of this article made the front page on Wikipedia today. Too bad there is a glaring error. These kinds of errors are what gives Wikipedia a bad name. :( The factoid states
 * "1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest set out on the Oregon Trail (reenactment pictured) with a thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri."

I'm not here to debate the "major" part, but where it says "a thousand pioneers" has just GOT to be wrong. The Oregon Trail (OT) article claims a significantly lower number as
 * "... with more than 100 pioneers."

I don't know how to change things on the front page, but I really hope we don't see this as trivia now at other sites because they read it here. I may x-post (yes, that's bad but hopefully someone can fix it today or now) this to the OT page. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 15:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC)