Talk:Wilbur Kitchener Jordan

Wrong Oakland City College linked?

The article refers to Oakland City College, and links to a page about a so-named College in California. But there is an Oakland City University within a few miles of Jordan's hometown of Lynnville, IN, in Oakland City, IN. This small University was in Jordan's day called Oakland City College as well. I suspect that Jordan went there and that this Wiki page links to the wrong school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.64.166 (talk) 12:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Update? the entry for "SNAC" in the AC [template] 'box'

What that "SNAC" entry now points to

As of the "Latest revision as of 19:30, 19 July 2023‎" version of this article, the entry displayed as "SNAC" (in the "Authority control" [template instance] 'box') currently points to the URL "https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60w172z".

What is wrong?

Currently, clicking on that link does take you to the web page at that URL, but when you get there, you find that the web page contains an informative little 'notice' that says:

Notice: Please update your bookmarks. The Constellation you requested has been merged into a new identifier, http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pw7b0s, displayed below.

So, in one sense, nothing is wrong, because [it seems] the web site being visited is smart enough to "do what you mean" and (hence) display the desired information.

However, the wording of that informative little "notice" -- (especially the part beginning with "Please update ...") -- suggests that there is some room for improvement here; so perhaps it would be better if eventually that entry displayed as "SNAC" were to point ['directly'] to the new URL instead of pointing to the old one.

Should this be fixed? (and if so, then ... "How?")

It seems that no 'immediate' changes are needed, since it seems to work OK (do the correct thing) now. Also, there is no "deadline" shown, after which (one might be inclined to worry that be concerned that) it might stop working.

But anyway, even though I think it might be a good idea to do an "edit", such that

• the entry displayed as "SNAC" would point to the new URL instead of the old URL

the fact is that (at this time),

• I do not know how to do that.

Thanks for listening

Any advice? or other comments? Mike Schwartz (talk) 12:23, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

@Mike Schwartz I have actioned this. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

@Vanderwaalforces Thank you. [for fixing this].

Resolved

 – case closed

--Mike Schwartz (talk) 15:49, 18 August 2023 (UTC)