Talk:Griqua coinage

Contributions and citations
Please contribute factual pieces, and not opinion pieces.

The purpose of the article is to collect and contribute factual and general information about the coins. A debate about a particular viewpoint should not dominate the article and all points of view should be considered. The debate can take place here in the talk pages.

Disruptive editing
Hello Derick Rabe

I am not sure of how Wikipedia works but I thought it was an electronic library based on information supported by references.

I have been studying the Griqua people in South Africa for over 30 years. I am the author of the Griqua's official history "Children of the Mist" which you can see more about at:

http://www.griquas.com

At your Wikipedia link on the Griqua coins at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griqua_Coinage  I have added to a meaningless short two paragraph stub giving several independent sources that confirm they were a total failure and never circulated as money among the Griqua people.

I did this to rectify the mistaken impression in that stub that they some how circulated. My motives are not meant to upset anyone but simply to clarify the truth in an area that some finding confusing.

Despite giving my sources supporting everything stated someone keeps changing the page back to the short two paragraph stub.

I would suggest that you visit the links that I give and you will quickly see how relevant they are to this subject.

Kind regards

Scott Balson

58.96.47.41 (talk) 22:33, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Citations and references to all the stated facts have now been added to the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.47.41 (talk) 16:25, 27 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello Scott Balson, contributions and edits should be conducted in an encyclopedic manner.Derick Rabe (talk) 05:57, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The meaningless short paragraph you refer to was meant to stimulate contributions to the article.Derick Rabe (talk) 16:57, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The links on your own website you refer to are dead links.Derick Rabe (talk) 16:57, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Derick, can you tell me which links? They all work for me. There are links from some of these pages linked here to my huge tokencoins.com website which is currently being updated, so will be down for a few weeks to come. The tokencoins.com website includes several hundred antiquarian books and references on the Griqua and these tokens. It was compiled over 30 years.


 * I understand now why the links to the website isn't working. Just to impress again that the purpose of the article is not solely to prove or disprove that the coinage was a failure. A section with this information can form part of a balanced article as required by the maintenance template.Derick Rabe (talk) 12:39, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

I have added an intro and closure to the Griquatown token coin debacle - all supported by references. Not much more to say.

Adding sub sections
The Griqua coinage section is cluttered and confusing. It might be better to create sub-sections for the different aspects ie the background to the coinage, the failure of the coinage, etc. This will create more structure to develop and expand the article.Derick Rabe (talk) 11:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

The section on the corroboration on why the tokens never circulated is not necessary. Rather give a short description with a link to the source page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derick Rabe (talk • contribs) 16:48, 29 June 2017 (UTC)