Talk:Uranium mining and the Navajo people

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Merge proposal

A new article has been created at Abandoned Uranium Mines, with significant overlap to this one. It's also under-referenced and contains a fair few POV assertions, WP:Original research and WP:Synthesis, so I'd like to propose merging it here. Scopecreep (talk) 08:37, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree with your assessment, and I think that this article would benefit from the merger if Abandoned Uranium Mines could be properly edited. Karmos (talk) 23:40, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

support: agreed that should be merged into this article, as together they form a comprehensive subject it looks like.Morgan Riley (talk) 16:14, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

The merge proposal has failed. The resulting entry is so biased towards the federal government, it reads as a disinformation piece covering up enormously illegal federal human testing experiment on Navajo miners, undertaken by a department known of today as the DHHS. In comparison to the 2013/14 original 'Uranium Poisoning of Navajo People' (or a title close to this) the result is infuriating. What happened? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.171.174.9 (talk) 00:45, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Making Changes

The History section will be revised and will also have some new sources added on to it. Additionally, the Enduring Impact section will have some information added to it. In addition to the History section was allow readers to see a timeline of some important events that are mentioned. The Enduring Impact section will have some key information that is valuable for the readers to understand.

There is going to be more details added for the Abandoned Mine Land Program & Clean up efforts. Most of this information is located within the EPA website since they seem to be the only ones trying to fix the issues. This is going to cover grants, projects, government assistance, and research studies that have been conducted on the Navajo Nation. I’m also going to go more in depth into the 46 priority mines and the Removal Site Evaluation reports that were conducted on them.

The Gold King Mine spill will be a new section. This will add context to Navajos who live off the reservation, that were still impacted by this mine spill. This section will focus on a brief history about the mine, agriculture impact, and any progress that has been made with the spill.

The continued research and effects will be revised and will contain new sources. The new revisions will focus on health effects along with cellular damage due to exposure of uranium. 

Demilaw (talk) 10:23, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Removing Clean-Up Efforts

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I think that the Clean-up Efforts section at the end of this article is redundant; the information contained here exists, in greater detail, in the above Abandoned Mine Land Program section. I am considering removing the Clean-Up Efforts section, after double-checking to make sure it contains no new information.

Kirasbeans (talk) 19:54, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

@Kirasbeans, the Clean-up efforts section is essential to this article and should not be removed. It is properly cited per WP guidelines. If anything it can be improved, expanded and updated. Netherzone (talk) 23:35, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Citation Credibility Question

Would the nonfiction book "Yellow Dirt" by Judy Pasternak be considered a reliable source for this? I'm a newbie, and I wanted to check before I go on an editing spree. Crow-Ramblings (talk) 14:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

@Crow-Ramblings, yes, Pasternak's book, Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed, 2010, (Simon & Schuster "Free Press" series) is definitely a reliable source. I have the book in my personal library, so if you need me to check anything feel free to ping me. BTW, I have a decent collection of books on this general topic. Netherzone (talk) 14:59, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I currently have it checked out from my local library. How would I go about citing from a physical copy of the book? Just not have an actual link in the citation, or find an online copy? Crow-Ramblings (talk) 12:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Crow-Ramblings, there are a couple ways I can think of, but first, Do you know how to make a standard citation that looks like the one shown on this page: Wikipedia:Citing sources?

If not, go to this page: Help:Referencing for beginners. Read it carefully, and I recommend watching the little embedded video. Then try adding something from the book (in your own words, not copied from the source because that would be a copyright violation) along with a reference. When you have done that make a note on this talk page (which is on my watchlist) and I will have a look to see if it's formatted correctly. (If you want to use the source multiple times in the article, there are two different common ways to do that - I can help.) Netherzone (talk) 13:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)