Talk:Mohawk Mining Company

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Mohawk Mining Company article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Mining Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mining, a collaborative project to organize and improve articles related to mining and mineral industries. If you would like to participate, you can edit the attached article, or visit the project page, where you can see a list of open tasks, join in the discussion, or join the project.MiningWikipedia:WikiProject MiningTemplate:WikiProject MiningMining articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Michigan Start‑class Low‑importance

	Michigan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Michigan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Michigan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MichiganWikipedia:WikiProject MichiganTemplate:WikiProject MichiganMichigan articles
Start	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Companies Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Companies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CompaniesWikipedia:WikiProject CompaniesTemplate:WikiProject Companiescompany articles

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Companies To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies
Assess : Category:Unassessed company articles
Copyedit : Category:Company articles needing attention
Infobox : Category:Company articles needing infoboxes
Maintain : Portal:Companies
Stubs : Help expand stub articles located at Category:Company stubs
Other :
- Tag company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template
- Tag company talk pages with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner
- Answer requests for comments

It is requested that an image or photograph of Mohawk Mining Company be included in this article to improve its quality. Please replace this template with a more specific media request template where possible.

Wikipedians in the following regions may be able to help:

Keweenaw County, Michigan
Houghton County, Michigan

The Free Image Search Tool or Openverse Creative Commons Search may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

Problems/work needed

The article needs more sources and reference links need to be added to the article with page numbers. The lead section is too short and the short sections need combining as it is rather choppy reading. Quite a bit of the material verges on trivia. Example: church was sold in 1907 ... And do we really need a yearly Dividend Record?

A section on the relationship of the mine to the greater historic copper mining region of Michigan is needed as well as something about the geology of the region and mine. For instance the isolated sentence: All shafts were dug at an angle of 36 degrees from the vertical. deserves expansion -- I'm assuming the 36° was due to the dip of the veins and/or the enclosing bedrock/lava. Vsmith (talk) 15:03, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A title search on Amazon.com indicate the reference is self-published, indicating a WP:RS problem. Vsmith (talk) 15:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have done a lot of work to verify the info I originally got from a self-published source. I am now going to try to improve the choppy reading and short sections.John Mortimore Message Me 00:18, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]