Talk:Eldred Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

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History

I inserted a rather large block of text, with some cleanup, from:

History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania edited by John F. Meginness; ©1892

I can't be sure if my cleanup is of errors introduced by the author or by the website. Also, I suppose that the text will be edited further, so it's not best to describe it as a direct quote. In any case (after over 100 years), it must be in the public domain. Can anyone find a way to work in the attribution? John Reid 07:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Starting to clean History up

I added the source as a notice and as an external link. I then went through and wikified the township names properly and added the word township to each (Gamble for example linked to Gambling before, not Gamble Township. It needs more work still.

It seems to be this 1892 History is a potentially useful source for expanding the Lycoming County township, borough and city articles, but decisions need to be made on what level of detail to keep. For example here, I doubt we need the list of Postmasters of Warrensville to 1892, although a reference to the list of postmasters in the external source could be made and the modern lack of a Warrensville post office could be mentioned.

Also need to modernize what seems to be a geological / geographical discussion (Chemung, Pocono) of the township. Also need to look at the schools and churches listed. If we keep them we should update to list the current schools and churches in or serving the township. I am not sure we should keep them if they no longer exist and are not of much interest.

Also not sure about some of the red links to people who helped found the township - I would probably keep their names but a red link to me implies the intent to add an article about them at some point and I not sure that is justified. I would cut the current residents unless they are noteworthy 114 years later.

Ruhrfisch 19:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay by me. John Reid 01:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]