Talk:Farmington Mine Disaster

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[edit] Old discussion from Talk:Farmington Mining Disaster

Many phrases from this article, as well as the overall structure, seem to be directly copied from http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/farm.html "About 5:30 a.m. on November 20, an explosion of nightmarish proportions ripped through the Farmington mine." etc etc. The page claims that it was designed in 1999, and it's not clear what the copyright status is. Harveyj 00:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

With the Farmington Mining Disaster being mentioned in the news and brought to light by the current disaster, we should be working on crafting a new article and not wasting this article's space with a copyvio template. --Caponer 18:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll see if I can work on a more neutral version. Joe McCullough | (talk) 19:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_Mining_Disaster/Temp Joe McCullough | (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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I propoesd a merge between this article and Consol No. 9 Mine Accident. It looks like both were created to fix the copyvio issue with the main Farmington accident article, so I think they should be hooked up. Joe McCullough | (talk) 21:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Exactly. Right now there are three articles: This one, Farmington Mining Disaster which has copyright violation issues and Consol No. 9 Mine Accident. I think it's clear there should be only one. Which title makes the most sense: Farmington or Consult No. 9? Also, if we go with Consul should we rename it from "accident" to "disaster" ? See the long discussion regarding the naming of the Sago article. Crunch 15:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, Hopefully I got the three pages all merged and marked for deleted appropriately. Crunch 18:34, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Techinally, it was the "Farmington No. 9 Mining Disaster," from what I understand. And this article has descriptions, particularly the last graf, that I've seen in my local newspaper --Ben

[edit] Renaming?

See Category talk:Mining disasters for a discussion on whether to rename this and similar articles to remove the capitalisation. Ziggurat 21:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)