Talk:Samuel Powel Griffitts

Needs more sources and better inline citations
There is quite a bit about SPG online in the archived "Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia". They gives his name consistently as "Samuel P. Griffitts" but it is clearly the same person who was born in 1759 and married Mary Fishbourne. This is a useful supplement to the source currently relied on, because it focuses on his career in the medical community rather than his relationship with the APS.

There is also a substantial entry about "Griffitts" in American Medical Biographies, accessible via Wikisource. And another on "Griffitts" in a 1904 Dictionary of Notable Americans. There are also at least two books that contain memorial material about him. And our article John Kearsley Mitchell mentions that he studied under "Dr. Samuel Powel Griffitts." In short, this person is clearly notable but the biography needs to meet Wikipedia standards and to figure out how his last name should be spelled. HouseOfChange (talk) 12:57, 25 July 2021 (UTC)


 * adding sources is never a reason to draftify, if it is notable then improve quality in article space. Seephope (talk) 16:09, 6 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I am not the person who draftified it, I am a person working (slowly) to fix it. The original had several problems beside its single source: no clear claim of notability and multiple errors of fact, including that the person's name is "Griffitts" not "Griffiths", which was mistakenly entered into the APS records in 1785, but which they have since corrected. An 1889 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society gives his name as "Samuel Powel Griffitts" in its index of members (page 193) but incorrectly as "Samuel Powel Griffiths" (page 135) in its list of members elected on January 22, 1785. In 1917, the APS addressed the issue of the two names, concluding that "Griffitts" was intended while "Griffiths" never existed. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:16, 6 August 2021 (UTC)