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User talk:Fundy Isles Historian - J


Your rapid creation of articles

Hi! You have created a large number of unsourced stubs about islands in New Brunswick. Unsourced articles aren't ideal, as it means the readers won't have a way to verify the information, and notability can't easily be assessed either. As it looks like you are using semi-automated tools to do so, you should ask for permission at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), and make sure to only create sourced articles about geographical features whose notability can be established. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 22:11, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or, hear me out, you could see I'm in the middle of adding sources to articles about islands in the Bay of Fundy, look at my username, or my talkpage, and give me the benefit of a couple hours to continue working on the individual islands. Islands are, by themselves, notable and worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia - they do not fail notability tests, therefore there is no reason for you to have removed them. No "semi-automated tools" were used. Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 22:54, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Your talk page was pretty much empty, and the fact that you created multiple articles per minute led me believe that you used tools, my apologies if that wasn't the case. For the future, to not look like the previous articles had been left behind (which is sadly often the case with mass article creation), you can add {{in use}} to show that you are planning to go back to them soon. Even if islands were automatically notable, you still need to provide sources to verify that they even exist at all. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 07:21, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Pending changes

Hi Fundy Isles Historian. I don't know if any of the pages you currently watch are under pending pages protection, but if you haven't already encountered it you probably will in the future. So I have set your account as a "pending changes reviewer", allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. Any such edits to pages on your watchlist will be highlighted, there is also a list of articles awaiting review located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

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ϢereSpielChequers 20:27, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, next time you start a new article, you might consider nominating it at Wikipedia:Did_you_know to bring it to a larger audience. ϢereSpielChequers 20:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I actually noticed your username a week ago or so and smiled at it...Dad jokes still amuse :) I'll take a look at the backlog and see if I can help in a little bit - right now I'm just trying to focus on getting the Fundy Isles all to have an article, and the inhabited and formerly inhabited islands with decent articles. One question, User:Fundy Isles Historian - J/Template currently lists about 50% of islands just in Charlotte County - NB has 15 counties, about half of them coastal so {{New_Brunswick_Islands}} is going to be heavily biased towards Fundy/Charlotte (where I'm adding the articles), or I can separate out Charlotte County's islands to a separate template but it looks odd if the NB template lists 8 islands in each other county and 40 in Charlotte...thoughts? Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 22:03, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, yes, when people thank me for fixing a typo I know they are keeping an eye on their watchlist and worth checking to see if they are ready for pending changes..... I'm pretty sure I've seen templates with more entries. Most of the current entries are already blue links with just a few red with about 30 for Charlotte, where you are thinking of adding another ten. I'd suggest adding entries as and when you have created the articles. But maybe put a note on Template_talk:New_Brunswick_Islands saying what you are doing, which counties you aim to add all notable islands for and which you are leaving for others. Then either watchlist that page or subscribe to the section. ϢereSpielChequers 12:10, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A beer on me

A ginger ale on me!
Great work on all these articles about New Brunswick islands. Keep it up! :-)

P.S. - I notice you use bare links in references sometimes, not a big deal really, but you might like Citer if you haven't come across it yet. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 16:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, yeah right now I tend to use bare urls if it's "not likely contentious" and try to remember to spell it out a bit more if it seems like a contentious fact, etc. Been trying to keep things really tightly focused on just the immediate islands in Southwestern NB - [[1]] is a list I made, but it's so many articles it'd drown out if I inserted them all into Template:New Brunswick Islands so I'm not sure what to do. Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 16:16, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm... Well the easiest solution would be to just use both navboxes on the applicable articles. There's no limit really to the amount of navboxes you can use, see for example Politics of Nova Scotia. If you wanted to go further with it, you could potentially make a separate article at Coastal islands of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, linking that article in the main Islands of New Brunswick template along with a shorter list of the "most important" islands in Charlotte County. That's what I came up with off the top of my head, if I think of anything else I'll let you know. MediaKyle (talk) 16:23, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
i.e... List of islands in the Detroit River MediaKyle (talk) 16:27, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moses Gerrish and smuggling

Hi there,

I noticed that you have inserted the statement that Gerrish was implicated with Nathan Frink in a smuggling operation. In my research prior to writing the Gerrish article I have never come across this claim. It can't find it in the Beacon article you cite. The other supporting reference, to a 2014 book by Paul Craven, doesn't give a page number. I would be interested in following up. Can you be more specific about the page number please? HazelAB (talk) 13:31, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For sure, I found it fascinating given his role definitely (I assume you are an NBer then, if not perhaps a GMer given personal interest in Gerrish!); I have the "Petty Justice" book on-hold right now so limited to previews and pdf excerpts at the moment but will definitely keep you updated and can provide a photo of the page (uploaded to imgbb since I can't put it on Commons). It has a lot about Nathan Frink so I'm hoping for more elucidation there since Vroom is the only source I've found referencing him as an MLA at the time and his "Glimpses of the Past" tend to be bulletproof fantastic sources so I'm hesitant to say he's wrong even though I can't find it specifically elsewhere yet. Meantime on the Gerrish smuggling charge, I believe it's Chapter 5 of Petty Justice, (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442621770-009/pdf?licenseType=restricted but restricted), "Gerrish had been implicated along with James McMaster (Indian Island), Nathan Frink (Campobello), and others in a smuggling ring". Now "implicated" suggests it may've just been one of Owen's temper tantrums to the Court and Crown or similar - as Deer_Island_(New_Brunswick)#History_of_Smuggling shows in the 1886 portion, "The Canadian government seized twenty-two boats and fined the owners $2500 (equal to $85,000 in 2025) for "smuggling" their own boats.", the term has various meanings that were doubtless applied liberally to be leveraged just as "trafficking" is today. Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Never mind, I've found it. A footnote on page 187. Looks like an interesting book.HazelAB (talk) 14:20, 20 April 2025 (U
Also, bottom of 137 at https://scispace.com/pdf/where-subjects-were-citizens-the-emergence-of-a-republican-toy4xwbzlf.pdf has a new teenaged Moses fact you might want to add to Gerrish's article assuming his father's name checks out. Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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