Talk:Pithole, Pennsylvania

World's first oil well claim
This article claims the town is near the site of the world's first commercial oil well, using a state of Pennsylvania site, not a scholarly source, to support the claim. Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan and Petroleum_industry both have earlier, cited examples of oil wells. Dialectric (talk) 11:58, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I will point out that the first article you indicate has a somewhat dirth of citations. However, I have heard of claims of the first oil well being elsewhere before (like in Kentucky or Ontario) . It appears to similiar to controversy of whether or not the Wright brothers were actually "first in flight". Mind you, the strikes in Azerbaijan don't appear to have set off a boom as quickly or as large as Drake Well did (and most likely would not have influenced the oil industry as greatly). What do you propose? ​​​​​​ ​​ Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 15:25, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I think claims of firsts often problematic, do little to enhance reader knowledge, and are more about bragging rights. The second link has this scholarly source: ^ Frank, Alison Fleig (2005). Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (Harvard Historical Studies). Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01887-7. which discusses earlier commercial oil production. Commercial production is commercial production. It is either profitable or not, so it isn't as abiguous as what defines 'flight'. I would be fine with 'the first commercial oil well in the United States'. Dialectric (talk) 15:36, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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