User talk:Vanvance

Jacob Gass
Thanks for picking this topic. The Reverend Gass' story is an important one in the history of American archaeology. Note that he's mentioned (although without an appropriate link) in the entry on the Davenport Tablets. You may want to edit and improve that entry some, too. (You'll get credit for both if you let me know what you did.) Be sure to add appropriate links from that one to your new entry and vice versa. As for sources, it's always good to go back to the primary ones. There are a few listed in Williams' Fantastic Archaeology, but you should ask a KU librarian to help you find some of the original documents (the ones that were written around the time of Gass' discoveries). Hoopes (talk) 02:26, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of \Jacob Gass


A tag has been placed on \Jacob Gass requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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I think the problem may have been your use of the coding \Jacob Gass instead of /Jacob Gass. The latter creates a subpage with the correct name, so that's the one you should use. However, some comment from the administrator should be helpful. I hope your content is still here someplace! Hoopes (talk) 17:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * That was why, it was created in article space. See below. Dougweller (talk) 18:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Deleted page
Just start again in your userspace, don't put it into article space until it's finished. All you lost was a file link. Dougweller (talk) 17:53, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Oops, John and I both posted to the talk page of the draft I created:

I think I figured out the problem. You used the notation \Jacob Gass instead of /Jacob Gass. I think that caused some confusion and resulted in the deleted entry. Hoopes (talk) 4:57 pm, Today (UTC+0)

Now at User:Vanvance/Jacob Gass. Dougweller (talk) 5:58 pm, Today (UTC+0) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 18:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)