Talk:Juan José Warner

Notability
I added the notability template, because the article started with mentioning that Warner went somewhere, purchased land and started a ranch. I never heard of Warner, and that fact alone does not give my any reason to believe that Warner is notable. However, after I read that the ranch was not just any ranch, I removed the notification. I tried to reword the start of the article, to introduce this Juan Jose Warner in a more appropriate way. Not knowing the guy makes it hard, but I hope I introduced him correctly. If not, please improve my intro. Keep up the good wikiing! --EdgeNavidad (talk) 15:46, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger
After reading an 1895 article in The Land of Sunshine about Jonathan J. Warner, it appears that he and Juan Jose Warner are one in the same person. Here is the relevant excerpt from the magazine (which is now in the public domain), taken from p. 128:

"Col. Warner was born in Lyme, Conn., November 20, 1807. He was named Jonathan after several of his ancestors, and Jonathan Trumbull after Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut; but when, in after years, he was rechristened in Catholic California (then a province of Mexico), inasmuch as Trumbull had no equivalent in Spanish, and was not easily pronounced by Spanish-speaking people, he was named Juan José; and he has ever been known since as John J., or J. J. Warner."

I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but it does appear to me that Jonathan J. Warner and Juan Jose Warner are the same person.

Michael Barera (talk) 22:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. You might do a WP:BLAR to consolidate them. – S. Rich (talk) 17:49, 16 November 2014 (UTC)