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Patience Bacon Miller
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Your contributed article, Patience Bacon Miller


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Patience Bacon Miller. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Patience Miller. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Patience Miller – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Proposed deletion of Patience Miller


The article Patience Miller has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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May 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Patience Bacon Miller. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. ''Don't remove the disputed tag. It is disputed, because I, and other people, are disputing it, see Talk: Patience Bacon Miller. There is currently no evidence that they are the first female physician & surgeon, or that they were a founder of Northampton, Massachusetts- until reliable sources are added for these claims, they are still disputed.'' Joseph2302 (talk) 19:33, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to reply to messages. I will read up tonight. Several changes have been made by other people.

Regarding the disputes. If you reference the History of Northfield, on page 68, it also states Miller was a "first settler" of Northampton. There is a monument in Northampton to Patience and William Miller and states on it, "Pioneers of Northampton" erected in their memory by the Historical Society. I have a photo of the inscription. Is that not substantial? Meanwhile will look for additional sources.

Regarding "first woman surgeon and doctor" this is the earliest documented source of a woman doctor in American history. As mentioned in "history of women in medicine". Until there is a historical account of another before Miller, how can it be disputed? Currently she is the first documented/recorded in "I50 years of the Northfield Settlement."

Nomination of Patience Bacon Miller for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. North America1000 13:00, 29 May 2015 (UTC)