Talk:Anna Maria Weems

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Hi Britishfinance, I was wondering if you could explain the page tag. You tagged this as potentially non-notable, however the article shows coverage for Weems in several places: Routledge, BlackPast.org, W. W. Norton & Company, ABC-CLIO, Cambridge University Press, and Civil War History - the latter of which is a peer-reviewed journal published by Kent State University Press. I'm leery about the Kentake Page source, honestly. In any case, the majority of sources are put out by reputable places and she's covered in-depth in these sources.

In the further reading section I also linked to where Weems's story was written about in books put out by Grolier, Knopf, and McClelland & Stewart, all of which are well-known publishers. In these books she's heavily focused and with the exception of the last book that covers the entire family, she's pretty much the sole focus of the works. The family book does focus very heavily on her, however.

My outlook on this is that while the article could be fleshed out more and have additional sources added (it looks like there is more out there), there's definitely enough here for the page to pass GNG given the amount and depth of coverage for her, especially over a fairly long time period. That's why I'm confused as to why this was tagged as being potentially non-notable. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:47, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Shalor (Wiki Ed). It is not an area that I am very familiar with, and therefore while I could see there was notability, I could not assess the quality of the sources. However, fully happy to be reverted by those who know better (yourself included). I think the article is very good as is and doesn't need more text per se for notability. Sometimes, for editors not familiar with a topic/area, it is useful to put in the lede something like, "notable historian X of the era chronicled her life and said that she was ABC".[ref] Sentences like that in the lede to clarify to a novice in the topic, that this subject is considered notable by others. It is even more powerful if those historians have their own WP articles (but not essential). Hope that makes sense. Kind regards. Britishfinance (talk) 16:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

This story is often mangled and more research needs to be done about her escape as well as the family. One correction that should be made is that her conductor from Washington and then to Philadelphia was Dr. Ellwood Harvey, not Benjamin Stills. Harvey was Still's doctor and probably arranged the pickup. The $300 reward that Harvey received was used to buy a anatomical mannequin for the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. It was also Ellwood that took her up to Charles Ray's house after she had celebrated Thanksgiving with the Still family. He took her on the ferry across to Camden and then by train up to Brooklyn. 76.15.212.76 (talk) 16:27, 24 July 2020 (UTC)