Talk:Donner Party timeline

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Is there some specific reason why quoted passages are in italics? Generally quotation marks alone are used for quotations.

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I'm appalled at this chronology. The author has little understanding of the Donner story and is relying on a tiny body of sources for his/her information. Ric Burns documentary is NOT an authoritative source.

What's great about Wikipedia is that editors with more knowledge of a topic can come along and improve articles, correct errors, add details, &c. Thanks for your work.

President Lethe 16:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, sort of. But what's lousy about Wikipedia is that misinformation, which may or may not get corrected, appears in an ostensibly authoritative website that ranks high in search engine hit lists. I'm tempted to delete this timeline entirely. Readers would be far better served by going elsewhere if they want detailed information about the Donner Party; there are two excellent websites with good chronologies. --DPL

I encourage continued correction of Wikipedia articles rather than their deletion. I'm glad you're making edits rather than simply deleting. Every correction increases the probability that the information gleaned most recently by a reader is correct information, whereas simple deletion of false information without corrections helps to ensure that the last information taken in was incorrect (until the reader consults another source—and, as we know, the world is full of good and poor sources, but Wikipedia is one place where groups can collaborate to change a poorer source into a better one).

President Lethe 00:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Luis and Salvador

I'm confused. The timeline says that they disappear into the woods on Dec 30 after Foster proposes eating them, but the death summary says that they were killed by Foster on about Jan 7. Jordan Brown (talk) 04:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)