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Someone added this content below the categories. As it is unsourced and unwikified, I thought it'd be best to move it here some someone with an interest in this can sort through it. older ≠ wiser 21:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
It looks like we have different sources saying different things about where this person is buried.
While it'd be nice to have this info to fill out his infobox vital stats, it's not very important to our readership generally, and if it's disputed I think it's best to just leave off mentioning it at all unless and until we get this sorted out.
User:Sensionson provided this source: "Weird Indiana Burial Mystery" a pointer directly to page 51) which indicates that the person has two graves, one in Collinsville which is empty and one at Crown Hill Cemetary in Indianapolis which isn't. There's a great deal of material here and I haven't gone thru it. But as far as I can tell it's a personal manuscript... it is in the Internet Archive, which gives the authors as John Walker and Cynthia Long and a publication date of October 8 1977, but doesn't say who published it, and there's no cover or title page indicating any publication. Here is an indication that its a letter that was sent to Lincoln Memorial University but wasn't published. How an unpublished letter (if that's what it is) got put into the Internet Archive I don't know.
It's in the Archive so its available to the general public, but it doesn't have an ISBN or DOI or the name of a journal or a publishing house or any other thing to refer readers to, I don't know if we can use it. Even if we can, we can't be sufficiently confident that it's true. Even if it was, we appear to have a physical gravestone for the person that says he's buried in Collisville, so I think the most we could do would be to go "His burial place is disputed, either Collinsville or Indianapolis[ref]". But it doesn'tr look like this source is reliable enough for us to even say that. Short of somebody doing the work to read the source and figure this all out, I'm going to say let's not say where he's buried, since it's of very marginal importance to most readers. Herostratus ( talk) 00:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
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Someone added this content below the categories. As it is unsourced and unwikified, I thought it'd be best to move it here some someone with an interest in this can sort through it. older ≠ wiser 21:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
It looks like we have different sources saying different things about where this person is buried.
While it'd be nice to have this info to fill out his infobox vital stats, it's not very important to our readership generally, and if it's disputed I think it's best to just leave off mentioning it at all unless and until we get this sorted out.
User:Sensionson provided this source: "Weird Indiana Burial Mystery" a pointer directly to page 51) which indicates that the person has two graves, one in Collinsville which is empty and one at Crown Hill Cemetary in Indianapolis which isn't. There's a great deal of material here and I haven't gone thru it. But as far as I can tell it's a personal manuscript... it is in the Internet Archive, which gives the authors as John Walker and Cynthia Long and a publication date of October 8 1977, but doesn't say who published it, and there's no cover or title page indicating any publication. Here is an indication that its a letter that was sent to Lincoln Memorial University but wasn't published. How an unpublished letter (if that's what it is) got put into the Internet Archive I don't know.
It's in the Archive so its available to the general public, but it doesn't have an ISBN or DOI or the name of a journal or a publishing house or any other thing to refer readers to, I don't know if we can use it. Even if we can, we can't be sufficiently confident that it's true. Even if it was, we appear to have a physical gravestone for the person that says he's buried in Collisville, so I think the most we could do would be to go "His burial place is disputed, either Collinsville or Indianapolis[ref]". But it doesn'tr look like this source is reliable enough for us to even say that. Short of somebody doing the work to read the source and figure this all out, I'm going to say let's not say where he's buried, since it's of very marginal importance to most readers. Herostratus ( talk) 00:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)