Talk:Mark Twain in Nevada

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Mark Twain in Nevada was copied or moved into Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Opening heading

I had run across some information about the miscegenation hoax and added that to the main Mark Twain page, but there was concern that with the preexisting page being more of a brief overview that much detail might unbalance that article. There was also a need for me to provide more references. This article is placed here with a branch off the main article to provide context for an important part of Twain's life who is an important figure in American literature. Breaking articles off into different parts that are important to the development of the person being discussed is standard practice for example the article on Abraham Lincoln.

It may not be necessary to have as many historians cited concerning the Miscegenation hoax, but as the information was strongly resisted previously for not having enough references I put in quite a number to indicate that the matter and events are not under dispute but historians. The historians sentiments could be combined or trimmed, or if this is not enough historians to be convincing many more can be added.

For the use of Clemens versus Twain, I have used the name Clemens until the part of the article that describes his publishing under that name, then for the rest of the article I have used Twain. Please note that some of the historians cited call him Clemens even after he has used the name Twain and as it is not proper to alter quotations I did not mess with their choice of names when quoting them. ==Wowaconia (talk) 23:04, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Third House

The sources I looked at concerning Twain and the satirical Third House group seemed in contradiction at some points; some making it sound like they met a bunch of times others that it was only once. Perhaps they met a bunch of times with a single event being the pinnacle of their activity which wrapped up their shenanigans. It would be good if more clarity on the matter could be found and presented here.==Wowaconia (talk) 15:13, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

Is there a good reason why Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise is separate from this article? There seems not to exist any recorded discussion about the segregation of the articles before it occurred; rather it seems the former was created primarily to highlight the 2015 rediscovery of many of Twain's Territorial Enterprise writings, which I don't think is a good enough reason to keep the two articles separate. Obviously this article is really long, so I guess that might be an argument against merging, but Twain's work at the Territorial Enterprise and the time he spent in Nevada as a whole largely coincided and do not appear to be sufficiently disparate topics to warrant separate articles. Indeed most of the information in Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise is already covered here; much of it is verbatim identical.

For the sake of encyclopedic cohesion, I propose a merger. Other thoughts? –PJsg1011 (talk) 04:06, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose primarily on the grounds of size. At 81k it is already quite large (given that "> 60 kB Probably should be divided"), and so keeping the pages separate makes the Wiki more readable. The pages are appropriately linked in WP:SUMMARY style, so are probably best kept as they are. Klbrain (talk) 10:25, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]