Talk:Yellowstone Trail

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We (John W. Ridge and Alice Ann Ridge) have undertaken the original research about the Yellowstone Trail, authored the web site (www.yellowstonetrail.org) with our own material, authored the definitive book about the Yellowstone Trail (Introducing the Yellowstone Trail, ISBN 0-9702832-0-2), and adapted our own writings for this article.

We (John W. Ridge and Alice Ann Ridge) permit the re-use of submitted material under the GFDL. I hereby note that I have done so on this Talk page.

John W. Ridge John Ridge, President Yellowstone Trail Association

Royal broil 04:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Paring down of text from yellowstonetrail.org
When I realized that most of the text was identical to text from yellowstonetrail.org, I assumed it was a copyright violation, and pared it down. It is only now that I saw the above notice, and I would not have been so thorough if I had seen that before. Obviously, I won't object if text from yellowstonetrail.org is reinserted into the article.

Still, I think it made sense to pare down the text, because:
 * 1) It contained personal opinions and speculation beyond the scope of this article, such as "railroads were losing their allure because of their monopolistic freight rate-setting and the inconvenience of their schedules and routes" and "In 1918, Wisconsin became the first state, or anyplace in the world, to number its highways" (Notwithstanding that Napoleon already introduced such a system over 100 years earlier!) I did move the note about Wisconsin (without the incorrect world first remark) into the article Numbered highways in the United States.
 * 2) I felt at the time that it was more detailed than what one would expect in an encyclopedia. Comments such as "not the effort of a few wealthy business leaders" or the detailed description on the selection of railroads add a nice, personal touch to a page like http://www.yellowstonetrail.org/yt_history.htm, but are maybe not quite appropriate for an encyclopedia article. That, however, boiled down only to a matter of taste; it is something I would not have touched if I had seen the notice in time, and I will not object if someone reinserts it. &mdash; Sebastian 05:28, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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I put a SVG sign image in Commons for use on this and other pages.



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