Talk:Fort Ross, California

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Contents 1 Initial Assessment under wiki proj california 2 New local information 3 Redirect and disambiguation 4 Question

[edit] Initial Assessment under wiki proj california

Can reach B class without a lot of work. needs more setting detail (eg ecology and land use) and needs more references. Anlace 23:35, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New local information

I have placed this into its own section, the title of which I have my doubts about so I invite anyone with a better idea to change it. In the future, can we please add this kind of information in an orderly fashion rather than any old place in the article you feel like typing?

I fixed the link for the FRP so it no longer points to a dab page and so that it's a more normal style (full name first, then common acronym), but frankly I think this will be a redlink forever -- or if not, its non-redlink status will probably be strictly temporary. I don't think such a group meets Wikipedia standards for notability. (It might stick around anyway if it's sufficiently interesting, so go for it. Just don't get your hopes up too high.)

I also removed the "See also" link since there is no article there and may never be; most of the relevant information is right here. TCC (talk) (contribs) 06:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I see that the FRP article has already been up and deleted. I cut the paragraph here entirely since it didn't seem to be of sufficient general interest. TCC (talk) (contribs) 01:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect and disambiguation

I have rearranged these articles so that the redirect points to Fort Ross, California and added {{redirect}} to that article to point back to the dab page. As it was, there were two dozen articles linking to Fort Ross that would have needed disambiguation to Fort Ross, California, and none at all to Somerset Island and Fort Ross. It seemed fairly clear that Fort Ross unqualfied generally meant the California site. (It is indeed a historical site of international importance.) This seemed the best solution. TCC (talk) (contribs) 22:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Thanks, David Kernow 08:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Adding my thanks as well - Introvert ~? 09:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I was just there. Why is it called Fort Ross? Ross isn't a Russian name. Ross = Rus = Russian? XPav 00:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

That's the best guess. I include it if I could remember where I read it. TCC (talk) (contribs) 01:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, here we go. http://www.parks.sonoma.net/rosshist.html - The name "Ross" is generally considered to be a shortened version of "Rossiya," the Russia of Tsarist days. XPav 19:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

That's what the source says, but I have no idea why they say it that way. There's nothing particularly Tsarist about "Rossiya"; it's just a transliteration of the Russian word for "Russia", "Россия". TCC (talk) (contribs) 19:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)