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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Bcooke99, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Swampscott dory. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Swampscott dory

Thank you for your comments on the Swampscott dory. I don't think anyone around here knows much about them. You would be very welcome if you would like to have a go at expanding and improving the article. The various dory articles are rather scrappy and slight, and I have been considering merging them into one article. Have you any thoughts on that? --Geronimo20 (talk) 04:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] Dories

Yes, that's starting to shape up. Perhaps the end of the first paragraph is getting a little peacock. You could just say "well adapted" instead of "extremely well adapted". And do you really mean their "ultimate stability... is second to none"?

Sometimes you can get some useful pointers by looking at google counts. For example:

  • Banks dory: 7,670
  • Beach dory: 472
  • River dory: 4,730
  • McKenzie River dory: 40
  • Swampscott dory: 3,530
  • Gloucester dory: 482
  • Cape Ann dory: 44

These suggest the McKenzie River dory and the Cape Ann dory don't even rate a mention, let alone whole articles. I think we should wipe them. This site claims that the Cape Ann Dory is the same as the Gloucester dory, but cites no sources. The site also claims the Swampscott dory is a descendant of the Banks dory. You have to be cautious looking at uncited web entries on dories. The information might even have come from Wikipedia, and we know Wikipedia is unreliable on dories. This site also has a some interesting snippets – eg,"The name dory may have come from a redfish, John Dory Fish, found in Nova Scotia" – but no sources.

I have formatted the references into a more standard style. You should also give the ISBN numbers of the books. Cheers. --Geronimo20 (talk) 20:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I think the local insight you have into some of the confusion about dory names is useful, and perhaps you could work that into the article itself. --Geronimo20 (talk) 01:49, 15 June 2008 (UTC)