User talk:Patrick750

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Kachemak, Alaska
When I saw a source had finally been found for this assertion I was relieved, but when I clicked over and read the cite that turned rapidly to disappointment. The section on their website that appears to verify the source of the name actually seems to have been copied almost word-for-word from Wikipedia, specifically the lead to Kachemak Bay, and the article on Kachemak City itself. So basically the end result was that the article was verifying itself, which is not going to work. It's unfortunate that whoever created that website didn't bother to attribute their source as Wikipedia and so caused this confusing situation. I've always been told (by actual Yupik-speaking people in the area) that "Kachemak" actually means "Smokey Bay" so I've been interested to know where they claim that it meant something entirely different was coming from. I've never met anyone in the actual area who has ever heard this other supposed meaning, but of course that's my own original research and no better than a mirror/fork of Wikipedia as a source so I suppose it will go on being a mystery for the moment. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:30, 29 June 2011 (UTC)