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Proposed deletion of List of military families of the United States


The article List of military families of the United States has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "While perhaps a list where multiple family members are all notable for being in the military may be feasible, a list of non notable military people will just be endless, as many families will have had more than one person who served in the US armed services."

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dyer–Brody


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ANI discussion
I have started WP:ANI You are free to comment there, my proposal is in the title, no idea if others will agree or opt for less or more severe options. Fram (talk) 16:12, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

A cookie for you.


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I can’t quite explain it, but how you’ve handled yourself on the ANI Thread, has been absolutely beautiful! Something just… hits so right with how it’s gone! It’s probably because of how calm, to the point, positive, and, well… well it’s gone? I dunno, but what I do know is, I very much liked what I saw, so you get a small ‘Well Done’ token from me. MM (Give me info.)  (Victories)  19:53, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I can't tell you how much I needed a cookie. LOL. Anyway, thanks, very heartening, will give me the strength to pull myself together. <3 jengod (talk) 19:59, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I hope this is a good venue to mention that the text racist treason guy Jefferson Davis is currently still live at your article Samuel Wilkeson Jr. Folly Mox (talk) 00:23, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sigh. yes thank you deleted now. another cry for help, I suppose. Sorry again everyone. jengod (talk) 01:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I thought it was funny. I've definitely failed to catch silly grammar errors and such even after multiple copyedits. Sometimes I've read over the prose so many times my brain doesn't even register it anymore. Stay well 🙏🏽 Folly Mox (talk) 01:30, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

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Montmollin
Nice work on the article of this character. FYI, I amended the external link to try to avoid its appearing in the results of a pedant's trawl, as it often does (incorrectly, in my opinion). It still might. Seasider53 (talk) 00:18, 15 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the edits - much appreciated! jengod (talk) 00:20, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57
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DYK for Dolly Johnson
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Proposed deletion of List of Hollywood novels


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Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum
One thing that jumped out at me that is not really a DYK thing: The "Yes, that Custer." While I like it in most non-WP contexts, it's at odds with the plain Wikipedia just-the-facts-ma'am prose that we normally see here. I'd be sorry to see it go, but perhaps you can find some other way of saying, "yeah, that's the same guy who went on to lead a stupid punitive expedition into a trap and got everybody killed."  Acroterion   (talk)   12:28, 1 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Done @Acroterion jengod (talk) 15:18, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

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CS1 error on Andrew Johnson
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Nomination of Writing in the early Americas for deletion
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A barnstar for you!
BTW do you have access to Newspapers.com? It could greatly help you for biographical articles of lesser known figures. Jon698 (talk) 01:40, 13 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Awww thanks @Jon698 and yes I have Newspapers.com through Wikipedia Library and basically live there LOL. Thanks so much for the barnstar -- comments feed the writer LOL. Thx again and nice working w you. jengod (talk) 02:02, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Kingstree jail fire
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Bibliography of slavery in the United States
Hi, Jengod: Based on your suggestion a couple months ago, I've compiled a bibliography on slavery in the U.S. that I'm all but ready to post. It's currently organized along the same lines as the Bibliography of the United States Constitution, that is, by century. Once the article is up and running, however, I intend to break it down into sections on its various topics, though that presents a number of challenges considering the fact that many works address multiple issues and then the research required for assessing where each would be best placed.

I'm writing first, to let you know that I've followed up on your suggestion, but more importantly because there's a significant overlap in terms of the works I've included on the slave trade and the bibliography you've been working on. I would have addressed this with you before had I been aware of your endeavors, but I only came across your bibliography a few minutes ago...by sheer luck. However, I've tracked down about a thousand books and papers, so I have zero qualms about either paring things back or waiting a few days longer.

Thus, I'd appreciate hearing from you whenever you get a chance. Allreet (talk) 03:05, 31 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Amazing ! Don't worry about my stuff -- I mostly just needed to keep track of it for myself for the sake of List of American slave traders and related items. I think the most logical think would be to merge the two articles. And if it gets out of hand we can always create forks later. (I'm so happy we'll have this!!) Let me know how I can help. jengod (talk) 03:17, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * P.S. On a pragmatic level I think maybe you should publish yours and ping me when it's live and I can just slot in anything that's not included and then turn the slave trade bibliography into a redirect. (?) jengod (talk) 03:18, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Your reply is most congenial. The idea of categorization lends itself to "redirects" on a couple fronts. The Bibliography of the American Civil War is a prime example of this approach. It includes links to about a half dozen individual bibliographies on sub-topics, plus links to articles on other related subjects, usually referencing their bibliographies.
 * Once I make some headway on the categorization (not easy since it means assessing each work's focus), we should probably do something similar with slavery to keep its "main" bibliography from becoming unwieldy. BTW, I did a quick search of what I've compiled and at least 50 of the titles mention "slave trade". I'll notify you and a couple other editors once I post. The more input the better. Allreet (talk) 05:14, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Trajan/Roman lettering
Thanks for the thank! Just to say if this interests you that much more is planned, including a DYK nom-I have tons of photos that I hope to add. Blythwood (talk) 05:35, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * bravo you. Articles like this make me proud to be a Wikipedian. jengod (talk) 15:49, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Allied casualties on D-Day
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CS1 error on List of Confederate duels
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Internet Archive status?
I've been categorizing the U.S. Slavery Bibliography the past few days, and it's the "slog" I thought it'd be. That's okay—all in a day's work plus the research has been deepening my knowledge. As part of this, I've been doing "quick reads" of books on the Internet Archive to determine their specific nature, but as of the past hour or so, all of my searches are receiving the "book unavailable" message. I'm afraid they've shut down their lending library as a result of the recent court ruling. If that's the case and the shutdown is permanent, all archive.org links on Wikipedia are going to have to be removed or replaced. That kind of thing also "goes with the territory" for us, though it'd be a huge blow for our research and of course for human knowledge in general. I haven't been able to find any updates on the web addressing this, but if I do, I'll let you know. Allreet (talk) 18:23, 10 September 2023 (UTC)


 * It's working Ok for me. I wonder if it throttles access after a certain number of searches? I worry about it going away too!! So valuable. jengod (talk) 23:06, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, something of a mystery. I've been using it all day to search without borrowing and tested it periodically to see if borrowing was back. Happily, I was finally able to borrow a book a few minutes ago after 7 hours or so of "borrow not available" messages. Perhaps your "throttle" theory is correct, but you'd think they'd mention such a restriction, as JSTOR does that with its 100 download limit for free accounts.
 * As for an actual Archive shutdown, unless they find some legal remedy, it may be inevitable. Giving the matter some thought today, I realized it's possible they'll still be able to offer limited previews. If so, we won't be able to borrow, but we may be able to do searches, as I did today and as Google Books allows with their limited previews. The Archive's searches, however, are far better, plus you can get to full pages with some work-arounds, unlike Google with its annoying snippet views. We'll see. And thanks for the reply. Allreet (talk) 01:18, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum
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Books & Bytes – Issue 58
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DYK for Kingstree jail fire
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 * I have assessed the article as B class for the Wikiproject military history. I am not a new page reviewer so I am not sure what else needs to be done with respect to a new page review. I have left a message concerning that type of review not being done at the comment on the article talk page and a ping here (if it worked). So I assume that  Tails   Wx  will further review as necessary. Interesting article. Not surprising that some of the details in the reports about the incident differed. Donner60 (talk) 08:51, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Donner60! I think tails already ticked the NPP box so it should be set for a while! And yes I wasn't planning to make it an article but when I'm reading about something and the sources conflict more than a little I start getting curious/suspicious. Anyway thanks for assessing and have a wonderful day. jengod (talk) 09:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, @Donner60. I've taken a few hours to further review and found little to no concerns. I'm not too experienced with military history but I find the references (with the exception of the non-online, book sources) cover the information in this article. And after you assess the article you don't need to do anything else related to NPP besides re-review when necessary. I had already reviewed the article but my guess is that it was bad wording on my part. Tails   Wx  12:20, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Killing of Jesse Kirby and John Kirby


The article Killing of Jesse Kirby and John Kirby has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP:SUSTAINED. They liberated themselves, and were apprehended again, as reported at the time in the newspapers. If this hasn't received significant attention afterwards, it shouldn't be treated any differently than how we treat the many crimes or human interest stories which get some attention in the newspapers nowadays, but which we don't consider suitable for an article here. I couldn't find anything in Google Books, and the article offers no other indication that this is a case which has been discussed afterwards and is more than just a short burst of (mostly identical) news reports."

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 * Hi I couldn't find it any any secondary sources either and I looked! Could you please nominate this at AFD? I'm fine with seeing it deleted if it doesn't meet requirements (I was hoping that the Governor's reward was something!) but I'd really like it to be put before multiple people. I thought it was notable because it qualified as a slave rebellion and because it was a murder of slave traders, both of which were rare enough to seem remarkable. I'm going to see if I can find a source on the relative rarity of slave rebellion, I swore I just read something but of course I didn't mark it. Anyway, I just would love some more eyes and brains on it. jengod (talk) 14:36, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Killing of Jesse Kirby and John Kirby for deletion
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CS1 error on John Lyons (Louisiana)
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Swedish translation
Hi, I saw your comment at ANI and your machine translation at Olga Celeste was fine. I changed "the Amerikabåten" to "the Amerikabåt" as en means the, but that wasn't important. Google translate seems to be quite good at Swedish to English, possibly because the translations it learned from are good. You asked about policy: WP:MACHINE in Help:Translation says Avoid machine translations in the context of translating from foreign language Wikipedias to en Wikipedia. WP:NONENG in WP:Verifiability, which I had to look up, says When using a machine translation of source material, editors should be reasonably certain that the translation is accurate and the source is appropriate. Editors should not rely upon machine translations of non-English sources in contentious articles or biographies of living people. If needed, ask an editor who can translate it for you, linked to WP:Translators available. (You could also ask at WP:Reference desk/Language.) So the policy is more nuanced than machine translations shouldn't be trusted (or used). TSventon (talk) 19:34, 25 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the superb and nuanced explanation (and the link to the translators page!). My other article that used Google Translate was about a dead guy (Max Wenner, who himself spoke 8 languages!) so hopefully it was OK there for a brief while, but I was thrilled when someone came along with Flemish credentials and pitched in. (Goog was having a hard time with the nuances of WWII-era aviation in the Belgian Congo.) Wikipedia makes me emotional sometimes just bc there's so many people doing good work in so many totally distinct ways. This is another example. Best, and thanks again. jengod (talk) 19:47, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you!
... for linking articles to family reunification ads after emancipation; helping with alligator bait; and creating articles like fugitive slave advertisements in the United States, cemetery prairie, Confederate novel, and more - thank you! You are now the (sole) recipient of the Urve flower of thanks, well-wishes, &c, with highest distinction, thirty oak leaf clusters. Best of luck on future projects. Urve (talk) 07:47, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you so much !
Thank you for correcting (rewriting) the lead sentence of my draft (Isbell's zigzag theorem). Thanks to you, the draft passed AfC. SilverMatsu (talk) 04:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Oak gall wasps!
Another person doing oak gall wasp stubs! Yay! (I've got the Russo book as well.) :) EponineBunnyKickQueen (talk) 18:40, 26 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Whoooo! So nice to meet you @EponineBunnyKickQueen. West Coast (oak gall stubs) represent! <3 jengod (talk) 19:24, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Reversible Enzyme Kinetics Draft
Dear jengod, in response to your suggestion to make the draft article on Draft:Reversible Michaelis-Menten kinetics more accessible to readers, I have added a couple of introductory paragraphs that might set a better stage for the article. I agree the article is somewhat technical but the topic is a fairly advanced subject but should be understandable to an undergraduate science/math student in their sophomore or junior level and even to advanced freshman or senior high school students. If you are any more comments I would be happy to receive them. Rhodydog (talk) 21:55, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1850s disestablishments in Tennessee


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Baltimore
I drove around the area of Pratt at MLK. MLK pretty much obliterated Fremont in that part of town, and there should a a row of houses there behind Scott St, where Otterbein and Barre used to extend to the north to Fremont, that aren't there anymore. The row houses in that area are not new, but have been fixed up. I would guess they're of 1880s vintage for the most part. There's not much that's relevant to what you're doing. Some tents have reappeared along MLK, but they're on a far smaller scale than two years ago,when they were all over the place and out in the median too. I didn't see anything very favorable for an illustration in the area. Two blocks to the north the entire neighborhood has been flattened, and UMB Medical is expanding west into the vacant blocks from east of MLK. In Baltimore the default is to build something medical wherever possible.  Acroterion   (talk)   23:30, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @Acroterion you deserve this 🏅 Above and Beyond Medal I invented 30 seconds ago. Seriously tho, what you found sounds par for the course -- a while back I Google-mapped a marker for a slave jail in Louisville and it's at a corner w 3 unlovely office buildings and a gas station. Central cities were just taken out, for better or worse. THANK YOU SO MUCH for commenting on my request and going to take a look. Above and beyond. jengod (talk) 23:44, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Considering I had to be two blocks away for a work appointment, it wasn't exactly a special trip, but glad to help. I had to go across town afterwards, and the route took me through some of the saddest parts of town - collapsed roofs, empty windows, braced walls, or rowhouses in twos or threes where there used to be a whole block.  Acroterion   (talk)   00:35, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Cold Fork
It's a shame that you didn't get the next rectangle west. Although the dotted line of the Humboldt Trail, beginning at Jones, is on that one; it's the next one that actually has the label "Humboldt Trail". Both maps are in the Smith source. Uncle G (talk) 00:04, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * File:Cold Fork and Pettyjohn - Tehama County - 1884.jpg


 * I'll get that one for you shortly! Hold pls. jengod (talk) 00:05, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Uncle G I just uploaded a wider crop at the same file name so you can see the trail label now. It might be cached so reload if you can't see it yet. jengod (talk) 00:16, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That works nicely. Uncle G (talk) 00:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Quote added at Red Bank, California
In this edit you added the following quote to this article:
 * "Being strictly a rural county, there are not many towns of much size...Paskenta, Henleyville, Manton, Lyonsville, Kirkwood, Proberta and Red Bank are smaller centers in different parts of the county."

Perhaps there is something I'm missing here, but as far as I can see the start of this quote and the end of it are multiple pages apart in the original source, and aren't even in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. I do not seem the connection between them. FOARP (talk) 21:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @FOARP thanks for checking on that! It's a brief marketing pamphlet so I wasn't too fussed about bridging the two quotes on different pages with an ellipsis. The first seemed to give context to the second, and convey that this is a rural area of an already rural county; and I do love a direct quote to give things historicity. I see you've already resolved your concern by deleting it. Thanks so much for letting me know! jengod (talk) 21:34, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Ways to improve Mountain ranges of Los Angeles County, California
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Thanks for your work
Wow, I just noticed the great work you're doing on articles about the US slave trade. Thank you! Feel free to ask me (on en:w or Commons) if you have questions about New Orleans history or geography - If I don't know off hand, I'll likely have a good idea where to look. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 00:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Dots
I nowadays know too much about how the process works to believe that every dot on the map will have an encyclopaedia article. Some of the dots are just outright errors. Reading all of Rennick's map annotations in the Reliability of GNIS data/Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection is a revelation. Rather, I hope that everyone coming to a place with actual history and geography and geology and whatnot won't be met with "Place is an unincorporated community in thingy county of wossname.So says the GNIS.", and that Wikipedia eventually stops polluting the WWW with geographic falsehoods. Uncle G (talk) 02:27, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for recent work
Hi Jengod, thanks for your recent improvements to Red Bank, California, Cold Fork, California, and the other articles I recently AfD'd. I have a question about the image files you added: You got those from the Meriam Library Online Special Collection photo archive, right? How can you tell if those are public domain? I want to use a couple of those for another article I'm working on, and have contacted them for permission, but nowhere on the site does it say anything about copyright status of the images (only that public-domain images can be shared, yada yada). Or are they assumed public domain because they're so old? WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 15:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @WeirdNAnnoyed You simply cannot tell and of course it's a huge legal problem for archives as well as stuff like Wikipedia. For things that have no authors, appear to be quite old, are non-controversial, and are small potatoes, I basically presume they have fallen into the public domain by abandonment (copyright not declared, copyright not renewed), and tag as such. I might have to apologize later but also maybe no one cares or has ever cared and it's cool.
 * It's a judgment call. You have to be bold. But also judicious. In the case of Red Bank, California, I did NOT use the 1960s-color-photo-with-known-authorship when the historical record was served by the probably-1920s–1940s-b&w photo w no known authorship. That said, when things have been posted to places like [Regional Library Digital Archive] I personally presume that they *should* be used -- on a carefully considered case-by-case basis -- for things like Wikipedia articles about Left Armpit, Missouri; even if a lawyer's strict reading of copyright might discourage this.
 * Most of these archives have a permissions section at the bottom of each item to page that says either "go for it it's free" or has long boilerplate about "this stuff could secretly be in copyright we just don't know you could theoretically get sued and so could we but it seems a damn shame to let these rot in a box for another 45 years until copyright law changes or they definitively enter public domain so here you go YOLO"
 * last but not least, I would say that a good hardline out date is 1963. Everything after that is default-copyrighted for sure, it's that 1928–1963 window that's the gray area where we can play around *a bit*. OK, hope that helps. I'll sit here and wait for my notifications to light up red and the IP cops to bang on my door. Anyway good luck and have fun. I trust your judgment! Cheers jengod (talk) 15:31, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @WeirdNAnnoyed P.S. I'm sure you know this but if all else fails you can just *describe the photograph and cite it. I think that's legal LOL jengod (talk) 17:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I suggest starting at Licensing. There's a lot of advice on this. Uncle G (talk) 04:13, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hot Springs in California
Hello Jengod, I have admired your work on California topics for some time now and recently noticed there were a few articles you worked on for settlements/communities/parks in California that have a section on historical hot springs, warm springs or springs in general. Hot springs are an interest of mine, and I've created several articles focusing on them as geological/hydrological phenomena.

Would I be stepping on your toes if I created separate articles on the springs themselves then added a link to the new article in the settlement articles? The ones that have enough historical notability where this would be feasible are: Encino Hot Springs (as a separate article from Los Encinos State Historic Park); San Jacinto Hot Springs/Gilman Hot Springs (as a separate article from Gold Base; White Point Hot Springs (as a separate article from White Point, California; San Juan Hot Springs (in the Cleveland National Forest); Byron Hot Springs (as a separate article from Byron, California. Let me know what you think when you find a moment, or if you've already got plans to do so I'd like to collaborate if that is of interest to you. Netherzone (talk) 15:57, 11 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Netherzone oh a hydrology friend how exciting! LOL. (1) my toes will be perfectly fine, no matter what you do. (2) I erred on the site of integrating Encino and White Point, just to keep on the right side of the notability law but of course they could be standalone if you want to separate them! My only other note is that Gilman Hot Springs, California was nominated for deletion and the result was "merge to Gold Base" but I was just thinking myself that we might want to take it out again since it's developed quite a bit. I have no stake whatsoever in San Juan Hot Springs or Byron Hot Springs since I didn't know they existed until 3 minutes ago. Anyway, go do whatever you see fit, and trust that you have my support. Cheers, jengod (talk) 16:05, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks for your support and interest. Netherzone (talk) 19:11, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * San Juan Hot Springs - super-duper! thanks for your excellent contribution! Netherzone (talk) 22:05, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Gilman Hot Springs
Using some of the content at Gold Base, I banged this out this morning before having to leave for work. If you have any time in the next few days or weeks to look over it, that would be appreciated. I think it can be expanded further.

Will do! I have a horrific housekeeping backlog to get through but when I get a chance to sit down I will dig in. :) jengod (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

GNIS mess
Some springs aren't "communities" at all and there's no need for separate articles, note. Uncle G (talk) 09:11, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Hog Farm/springs


 * Thanks @Uncle G esp for the list! jengod (talk) 15:20, 15 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello!   While working on Soboba Hot Springs (coming soon!) I came upon a list that may be handy so taking a page from User:Hog Farm, I wikified it as resource checklist. If it helps something or someone at some point, great. User:Jengod/1911 CA bottled mineral water list jengod (talk) 06:05, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, @Jengod and @Uncle G for these lists. I'll go through them to see what may or may not be of interest if enough sources can be found to develop any of them further. Netherzone (talk) 14:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Lowrey
Uncle G (talk) 09:13, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Rio Bravo
It certainly looks like the ranch that was north of Kern, California in the early 20th century might be the same as the place next to Nickel's golf course, that Nickel Jr reported in a 1998 interview (q.v.) that xe bought off Haggard. But what's the Rio Bravo, California to the west of Bakersfield, then? There is a Southern Pacific railroad there, and it seems to have an oil connection. Is this Solomon Jewett too? It's on a different line but Jewett wasn't involved in just one line. What are the lines? Do we have them? You newspaperers can probably connect the dots and clean up this GNIS mess where I cannot, as these brothers and their business partners made the history books and no doubt made the papers if the 1st AFD discussion is anything to go by. Uncle G (talk) 08:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Billings
If anyone here is interested in the connection between a family sheepskin business and some Massachusetts big-wigs, a bloke who had a lumberyard, and some tennis courts, is awaiting the attention of people who have better reading access than I. Uncle G (talk) 20:05, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Uncle G I'm still in deep Thanksgiving mode but you can get Newspapers.com access through Wikipedia Library at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ - you have to request some of the databases but I'm 90 percent sure Newspapers.com is one of the defaults. jengod (talk) 20:22, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * This is the bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, not a newspaper, though. Uncle G (talk) 08:58, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:American slave-trading companies


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 * Oh yes @Liz that can go as soon as you get to it. I was gonna tag it myself but got sidetracked -- THANK YOU for all you doing keeping this place tidy. jengod (talk) 01:12, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Dairyville
Don't tell Cielquiparle, but the subject lurking behind Dairyville, California &mdash; which is a town, not a bloody "unincorporated community" &mdash; is Joseph S. Cone, Douglas Cone, the 100000 acre Cone Ranch that was made from Rancho Primer Cañon o Rio de Los Berrendos and more, and a local Tehama history article from the 1960s on "The Chinese Rock Walls of Tehama County" about what Cone and lots of Chinese labourers did on the Cone Ranch. This can also be connected to Los Molinos, California, and via Job Dye and articles in the Red Bluff Daily News to Dye Creek. There is even that Wikipedia needs of why the farmers around Dairyville grow prunes. We need to boldly rip all of the bloody GNIS out of Dairyville, California and write an article about a town. &#9786; So this is one for your list. I still have two forks of Troublesome Creek (North Fork Kentucky River tributary) to do, then see whether I can get a handle on North Fork Kentucky River, and tell Drmies more interesting things about Eastern Kentucky at User talk:Drmies to give xem more interesting things to read than an endless litany of sock-puppet reports. &#9786; All because of and  and. Uncle G (talk) 01:59, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I just go with what I know... Drmies (talk) 02:12, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Nathan Bedford Forrest
That article has been on my watchlist for a long time, because it's been perennially whitewashed by drive-by editors who tout his repudiation of the KKK as somehow negating everything else about him. As you note, he's a hero of the Lost Cause and a mythology has been built around him. If any Confederate leader was worthy of rehabilitation, it probably would be Longstreet, but there's not the same cult associated with him, probably because he might be considered a sellout.  Acroterion   (talk)   03:43, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Also, this time of year I have a little more free time, and it's a good time to get pictures of places, with the leaves off the street trees and a golden hour kind of light, so if you have any requests for pictures of anything in the Baltimore/Washington/Annapolis part of the world, I can see what I can manage.  Acroterion   (talk)   03:50, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Acroterion I wish I had a great photo assignment for you! Some of the slave traders probably have grave markers that would be photographable but everything else is mostly dust, as far as I tell from my kitchen floor in California where I write this stuff. I'll ping you if anything worthy comes up. All my best, jengod (talk) 03:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Interesting contributions!
I would just like to say thank you for adding onto the wikipedia, I found some of your contributions that I came across to be interesting! Arawoke (talk) 23:27, 7 December 2023 (UTC)


 * What a lovely encouraging note @Arawoke--as they say, "comments feed the writer!" Anyway thank you so much. Look forward to seeing you around here. jengod (talk) 23:48, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I contribute mostly towards Rubber boom articles, and that has primarily been the biographies of rubber barons. You may be interested on the subject of rubber barons,(One can say robber baron as well.) as they were heavily involved in the South American slave trade. The current rubber baron that I have been researching is Carlos Fitzcarrald, and that could be close to becoming a "good article". It is interesting to note most of South America had "abolished" slavery at the time, however the collection of wild boom often relied on enslaved or exploited indigenous populations. If you would like an opinion on your contributions going forward feel free to leave a message with a link, and I would appreciate any feedback on the rubber boom articles. Arawoke (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

This article is not done.
I found a ranch from a Mexican land grant for you. Uncle G (talk) 10:16, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your help!
Just wanted to drop by and say thank you for your help with the 1789–1790 influenza epidemic article (and for your thanking me for creating it)! It's my first creation and was a considerable work in progress for a long time (mainly because I lost the initiative for a while until just recently). Some of the finer points like adding categories I'm not as familiar with, since I've only contributed to preexisting articles so far, so I appreciate it. I hope we can work together some more again in the future :) Nabbovirus (talk) 02:18, 11 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Oh my pleasure @Nabbovirus! it's definitely crazy intimidating getting started around here but I'm so glad you did!! Please ping me if you need help w anything else. All my best, jengod (talk) 02:50, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Alfred Jackson
Hey @Jengod, I saw your article on Alfred Jackson and after doing some reading it looks like this could be a really neat article! I'm glad you started it and I was excited to learn about him.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 04:47, 15 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry it was so stubby. Ive meaning to write about him for months (after being inspired by Hannah Jackson and creating a series on people who were enslaved by Andrew Johnson) but never got to it and today was tidying up List of United States presidents who owned slaves and I was like aaah I'll just publish the fragment I was using as a caption on history of slavery in Tennessee. Thank you for expanding @Dr vulpes! jengod (talk) 04:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

1846 Grenada, Mississippi tornado
Thank you for starting 1846 Grenada, Mississippi tornado! As it is currently only a single sentence, do you believe the reader would be better served if this information were merged into a larger article? Maybe Grenada, Mississippi or an article about 19th century natural disasters (if such a target page exists)? Just a suggestion, of course! It's a very young article and there's no rush, especially if you have more research materials that you could use to expand it to justify the standalone article <b style="font-family:Trebuchet MS"><b style="background-color:#07d;color:#FFF"> Vanilla </b><b style="background-color:#749;color:#FFF"> Wizard </b></b> 💙 01:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The three sources I have are fairly redundant. It seemed notable enough that I wanted to get the main ref on the site since it's not in a machine-readable format and I was already reading the whole thing while digging around in there for gossip on John N. Forrest and Mat Luxton. In any case, I will see what I can do about expanding it. I have absolutely zero background in extreme weather stuff but I can sometimes do U.S. local history OK! jengod (talk) 01:35, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of 2023 British Library cyberattack for deletion
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Lord Lovat's Lament moved to draftspace
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