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Luella Creighton
None of the things that you raised are important things for an encyclopedia to highlight about her. For instance, her husband and daughter are named in the article primarily because they're also notable people who have their own separate encyclopedia articles to link to — but we don't care about the names of any other relatives (father, mother, other kids, etc.) who don't have articles, and aren't named in any reliable source coverage about her in media. We don't care about her views on poetry unless they've been published somewhere. We don't really care about what her signature looked like. And on and so forth. It's adding stuff that might be interesting on a Luella Creighton fan site if one existed, but none of that is information that's important or relevant or useful for an encyclopedia article to concern itself with.

Normally, the external links section of an article should only contain the closest thing available to an "official website" for the topic — it's not meant for the creation of a comprehensive directory of every document you can find on the web that happens to have any connection to her at all. Individual pieces of private correspondence aren't suitable external links just because they happen to be available in an archive somewhere — if her private correspondence had been published in book form as some writers' letters sometimes are, then mentioning the title and ISBN number of that book would be appropriate, but it's not relevant to an encyclopedia article if it's just unpublished private correspondence. Bearcat (talk) 00:49, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * That's so nice - thank you :) This page has been on my radar for a while so I'm glad to hear someone else has their eye on improving it!

Ways to improve Naomi Jackson Groves
Hi, I'm Mduvekot. Dnllnd, thanks for creating Naomi Jackson Groves!

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Event listing
Hello, thanks for creating this page! I hope this event goes well. Just a recommendation - when you create an event like this, it's best to add it to the calendar template and A&F template. This allows people to find and track it, and also will likely increase the likelihood of remote support from experienced contributors who can correct mistakes on pages created and give feedback to new contributors. Hope this is helpful to you, let me know if any thoughts or questions. Blythwood (talk) 21:11, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion! Should I be adding the event to the template pages manually or is there a template tag I should be adding to the event page..? --Dnllnd (talk) 23:00, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Bit primitive, I'm afraid - you edit those pages I've linked you to manually. Blythwood (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Confusion about the TRC
I thought we might settle this issue here, since a couple pages are effected by a misreading of this passage. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada did not confirm findings of "Physical Genocide" or "Biological Genicide" nor have they claimed that they have. I understand how you would misread the passage--there's been a formatting error in the reference PDF. Here is the passage.

"The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can best be described as 'cultural genocide.'

Physical genocide is the mass killing of the members of a targeted group, and biological genocide is the destruction of the group’s reproductive capacity. Cultural genocide is the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group. States that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social institutions of the targeted group. Land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and their movement is restricted. Languages are banned. Spiritual leaders are persecuted, spiritual practices are forbidden, and objects of spiritual value are confiscated and destroyed. And, most significantly to the issue at hand, families are disrupted to prevent the transmission of cultural values and identity from one generation to the next.

In its dealing with Aboriginal people, Canada did all these things"

It seems that this page is missing a carriage return. There is supposed to be a line break after "...continue as a group." The later phrase "Canada did all these things" refers back to the list of things that would be considered examples of "cultural genocide." The preceding paragraph "Physical genocide ... as a group" is intended to give the reader a feel for the difference between cultural genocide and other forms of genocide. These types, defined by Lemkin as physical and biological genocide, were the forms adopted by international law and what is the consensus view on what genocide is. This paragraph effectively says, we aren't saying this is genocide according to the concensus view of what that entails. The report itself contains no evidence that would confirm "physical genocide" or "reproductive genocide." No discussions about the report talk about "physical genocide" or "reproductive genocide." Here is a site that somehow has managed to publish a version of the report with the right paragraphing: http://www.lynngehl.com/black-face-blogging/the-trc-on-physical-biological-and-cultural-genocide. Here is a Washington Post article, splitting the concepts up as I've indicated here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/05/did-canada-commit-a-cultural-genocide/. And there are dozens of articles that interpret the report in precisely the same way.

Is this sufficient evidence to settle the matter? JamesStanley (talk) 15:40, 24 March 2017 (UTC)