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Text and/or other creative content from this version of American frontier was copied or moved into Bibliography of the American frontier with this edit on 05:16, 2 December 2023 UTC. 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.

Split proposed for bibliography

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to split the Further reading section content to Bibliography of the American frontier Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 05:48, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since this section is growing by such leaps and bounds, perhaps we should consider moving the material to Bibliography of the American frontier or something similar. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 19:26, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea Rjensen (talk) 19:59, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This is getting pretty ponderous. Intothat darkness 17:55, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Double columns? 2600:1700:606A:E000:3D95:C7C8:9D8A:A6D4 (talk) 02:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That would likely save some vertical space but it wouldn't reduce the growing number of entries. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 02:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Double columns--no --it makes it hard to read a bibliography Rjensen (talk) 17:18, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A split for a bibliography sounds like the way to go, then. I anticipate more entries. 134.124.26.46 (talk) 03:05, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It seems we have a consensus. I would copy over to a new article but it would be best for the edits to this section to settle down first. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 18:05, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good time. 2600:1700:606A:E000:0:0:0:41 (talk) 03:04, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done I have completed the split. The new article may need some additional categories and more prose, and perhaps a pic. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 05:43, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Western fiction?

There is a link to "Western film." Shouldn't there also be a link to "Western fiction"? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_fiction 134.124.25.250 (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

legends of the Old West

In perusing various articles related to persons and events of the Old West over a few hours, I have observed and tagged examples of lengthy passages that are wholly unsupported by any sources. I don't know where this stuff comes from. I hope we are not perpetuating an unencyclopedic, romanticized and mythologized version of Old West folklore, and I encourage editors to closer scrutinize the content. Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch might be a good launching point to follow wikilinks and examine the myriad persons and events, many of which appear dubious. soibangla (talk) 06:47, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]