Talk:49er

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• A person who went to California approximately 1849 to seek a fortune in the

Gold Rush

I took that meaning off because the purpose of a dab is not to define a term, but to point someone to an article on wikipedia that would otherwise be confused with other articles with the same name. Your correction to my edit has one internal link (1849) that doesn't have anything to do with 49er and one external link (Gold Rush) which doesn't belong on a dab page at all. Also, this entry is not well formatted, with a new line before the external link. Tedernst | talk 15:00, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

To me a "dab" is "Dead and Buried" or "Dictionary of American Biography" but I guess you mean disambiguation. I think you are fouling things up and I am dismayed. Your sports team (which I never heard of) obviously took their name from the Gold Rush and you are destroying an historical connection to favor what I assume is your hobby - spectator sports. You are probably too young to have heard the song "Clementine": [1]

You can see there "forty-niner" long before any of your sports teams; they all take their name from the Gold Rush. There was a recent mission to the Moon "Clementine" and I bet half the people involved didn't kow the song. It is nice to present a historical tracing of names so I hope you will be so kind as to put some reference back to the 1849 gold rush. If you want to nit-pick about "dab"s perhaps you could link to Gold Rush - I may have seen it but thought the link I put in was more colorful, and the Gold Rush page does not have 49 or 1849 in the title. I am too old to learn all the tricks of formatting for Wikipedia but I try to help. There is some way to code the reference so that "1849 Gold Rush" shows but Gold Rush is linked - it involved a "|" symbol but I always have to experiment. I am in physics and I just probe random links late at night to tidy up things here and there, usually misspellings or unclear antecedents. But I did notice that Wynton Marsalis was missing, though Branford was in, and I added a page for Wynton. Usually when I do my best to add a page and someone sees it needs tidying, the other chap fixes it better instead of tearing it out.

As to the newline - I tried for 15 minutes using the same line, but the underline omitted the first two letters inside the link until I added the newline. I think it's maybe a Wiki-Glitchi Carrionluggage 18:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

This is not personal. I'm not a sports fan and that's irrelevant here. I have no need to favor one type of article over another. The guidelines for disambiguation are here: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). First priority are articles that would otherwise share a name. Second priority are articles that contain information that would share a name should it have enough for it's own article. The name "49ers" for these people that went to the Gold Rush is not mentioned in the gold rush article. Perhaps you could add it? Tedernst | talk 20:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

The correct page to link to is probably California Gold Rush, which explains the name thing. Kusma (討論) 20:30, 16 December 2005 (UTC)