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Happy editing! Schazjmd  (talk)  14:31, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Keith Francis (Track and Field Athlete), from its old location at User:PMCALIFNH/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 02:25, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Keith Francis (athlete) has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! Sulfurboy (talk) 05:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Number of whaleships in American fleet
During the peak year of the American whaling trade, 1846, there were only 736 vessels (Scammon, 1874, p. 243). The entire world's whaling fleet numbered roughly 1,000 at that time. 2,700 must refer to something else. ST1849 (talk) 21:32, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

OMG I am so sorry - I will investigate this an correct today! Thank you so much for catching this!--PMCALIFNH (talk) 22:05, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

I have corrected this - your number is correct. As the industry spanned over 150 years and the lifetime of each ship was limited (not counting lost without a trace, known wrecks and of course the toll of the South during the Civil war) I believe that number may well be the total number of ships ever in the fishery over its entire history - but "I ain't counting them"! thamks again for this important catch!!! --PMCALIFNH (talk) 22:05, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

The mystic seaport museum uses the number 2,700 to estimate the total number of whalers ever built. I have updated the reference to the corrected verbiage and distinction between the two numbers, and inserted the proper citation, which was not correct in the prior version. Thanks again for your important feedback!. --PMCALIFNH (talk) 22:38, 2 June 2021 (UTC)