Talk:Ohlone

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	Ohlone has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
April 28, 2007 Good article nominee Listed

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[edit] Please Read

The authors of this article deem it appropriate to track our decisions in a more formal manner. We've gathered and inserted Ohlone book reviews and additional information to this date (5 October 2006 (UTC)). Other authors/editors are encouraged to continue making notes and archiving them as needed. However, for clarity and efficiency to further editors, authors and readers please preserve the following archives:

• Talk:Ohlone/Ohlone Book Reviews and Research Aid
• Talk:Ohlone/village stub - To cover all villages early, we combined efforts on a generic stub.

Lastly, please use the blank headers below, as needed.

[edit] Currently Open Side bar conversations :

• Talk:Ohlone/New Intro - The page lists our combined efforts on a new introduction.
• Talk:Ohlone/Unresolved issues - some open issues we have delayed on
• Talk:Ohlone/salt - draft on salt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessemonroy650 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

(archived prior to April)

[edit] Karkin

Karkin page is the most stubby of the subgroups. If anyone feels like expanding. Goldenrowley 23:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination

Ok I did a final tidy this week, then nominated it as a good article. Goldenrowley 20:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

This article looks like a GA to me, the references are quite well done, no image problems that I see, it's by and large well written and orderly, and there's only one thing that seems a bit off, "This Spanish encroachment into the region disrupted and undermined the Ohlone social structures and way of life.", unless i'm reading the article wrong, it doesn't seem to demonstrate whhy the Ohlone social structures were undermined, while I surmise the large amounts of death caused by the missions couldn't of helped their culture, the article doesn't seem to demonstrate the cultural decline here much. Also, think about expanding the lead if possible, I don't see any major problems with its scope, but with the number of different sections, it might be possible to expand it a bit better (without going overboard), and it may come up in a PR or FAC, either of which I recommend this article have next. Homestarmy 19:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Homestarmy. I speak for several hard workers in thanking you for your review and helpful comments and good article approval! Your comments are very helpful Goldenrowley 20:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decimation

Does the use of this word in the opening paragraph refer to reduction by one tenth (as it properly should), or reduction to one tenth, as it often mistakenly does? Since the answer is seldom immediately obvious without tedious and irrelevant explanations, I suggest that this word be avoided.

Paul Magnussen (talk) 19:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

The word is used in accordance with the meaning decimate 4(b) in the Oxford English Dictionary: "To destroy or remove a large proportion of; to subject to severe loss, slaughter, or mortality." Though, I agree heartily that this word is ambiguous and often misunderstood. Do you have a suggestion for a better word? SaltyBoatr (talk) 20:36, 28 April 2008 (UTC)