Talk:Goshute

Keep the Utah History Encyclopedia citation showing the Goshute mother and child
I think we should keep this page’s current citation to the "Goshute Indians" article in the Utah History Encyclopedia (1994). This citation links to an older copy of that article on the (possibly impermanent) historytogo.utah.gov website, rather than the Encyclopedia’s true current home at uen.org (the Utah Education Network). The text of both articles is identical, but the older version includes a photo of a Goshute mother and fairly young child. I don’t know why this compelling photo didn’t make it into the newer version, but I also believe it makes the older version stronger: it gives the article an element of humanity that is sometimes lacking in Wikipedia citations dealing with ethnological or anthropological topics.

Please note that many of the Wikipedia citations to Utah History Encyclopedia articles which had URLs on the historytogo.utah.gov website have turned into dead links. Just in case that should happen to this “Goshute Indians” article, I expanded the citation to add an archived copy of the older article (including the photo) from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. That way, if the original turns into a dead link, the main citation link will still connect to the archived copy with the photo.

I think we should drop the older article that includes the photo if it turns out that the mother and child are not actually Goshutes or something similar. If an ethnologist, an anthropologist, someone from the Utah Historical Society or some other similarly authoritative Wikipedian tells us to drop the photo, we should defer to their judgment. Just remember that the usual Wikipedia rules about community consensus apply here: many more people are interested in this article than just me, and most of them (presumably) know more about this topic than I do.

Anyway, I’m leaving the older archived article (and the photo) in the citation for now.

Wasatch Fellow (talk) 23:23, 2 May 2024 (UTC) Wasatch Fellow