Talk:David W. Alexander

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6 June 2009[edit]

Emargie - I am curious. Why did you delete the following paragraph as non-notable to the article? Even marginally as a reference, it has importance of time and local. In addition it adds a historic link to others that were there.

Early California settler John Bidwell includes him in his recollection of people he knew in early Los Angeles: "Los Angeles I first saw in March, 1845. It then had probably two hundred and fifty people, of whom I recall Don Abel Stearns, John Temple, Captain Alexander Bell, William Wolfskill, Lemuel Carpenter, David W. Alexander; also of Mexicans, Pio Pico (governor), Don Juan Bandini, and others".(ref: John Bidwell: "First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900," Library of Congress Historical Collections, "American Memory": John Bidwell (Pioneer of '41): Life in California Before the Gold Discovery, from the collection "California As I Saw It.")

You may also want to consider a Bio Box and a Bio portal on the article page. In addition, a small picture of the subject or local area would help. Adding a LA link would be nice also. See sample at: Lemuel Carpenter. Jrcrin001 (talk) 04:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What would it add to what we know about Alexander? There a tens of other references that 'mention' Alexander, should we add these as well? There were lots of people in Los Angeles (1830 - 1860), should we list all of them? Can we determine from the quote, what the connection is (if any) between the people it lists? To me, this doesn't contain any useful facts and doesn't belong in an encyclopedic article.Emargie (talk) 15:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It focuses that in March 1845 some notable and less notable people were in Los Angeles. The quote links to other articles of comtempories. No skin off my nose, if you do not use the quote. Wikipedia is different from other encyclopedias because it links related articles and subjects together. Ratings go up not only based on the facts and the facts only, but on other elements that could be called "the Wikipedia format." I thought it might help, but this is your choice. Jrcrin001 (talk) 06:26, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What links here?[edit]

I went through the article and added links to it from appropriate pages. GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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