Three separate pages for this individual[]
"(1811-?)" used to be our standard distinguishing method. So the article here was right. But somehow this user managed to create two other pages for the same Mary Margaret within the 2-week period preceding the creation of the correct one. Page histories part-extracted here (chronologically from the bottom, with times UTC+12) for interest and maybe learning:
- 2007-08-29T12:48:22 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) m
- 2007-08-29T12:47:23 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) (Added birth-death dates)
- 2007-08-29T01:56:25 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) (New page for Mary Margaret Brown)
- 2007-08-19T02:10:02 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) m
- 2007-08-19T02:09:38 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) (New page for Mary)
- 2007-08-18T07:45:28 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block)
- 2007-08-17T16:18:29 Beersheba1 (Talk | contribs | block) (New page: Mary Margaret J.P.L Brown b. 1811 married Johnny Green, the miller at Hills Mill on Hills Creek near Brown Mountain in the Collins River Valley, Warren County, TN.)
I will incorporate any unique features of the old pages into the new one, but I'll leave the old ones "as is" for now. Robin Patterson 12:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Small amendment after removing the question-marks. The page and the histories illustrate the value of using correct "standard" formats the first time, so that much less time is wasted by you and/or other users in sorting out duplications. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:27, June 19, 2010 (UTC)