Poppy Tomato

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I've added a few things to the page. It's an interesting subject, though not many people with current Wikipedia articles appear to be buried there. Here are a few examples of good cemetery pages which might help a new editor picture what parts of the new page might deserve further development: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York), Grove Church Cemetery, Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen). Please don't feel intimidated. You're off to a good start. It takes a long time to build most pages to good or featured status. And never think you're alone in this. While you're welcome to do whatever work you want to do unassisted, lots of editors would be happy to help or to show you how to do unfamiliar things. I would be only too glad to help. Feel free to call on me. BusterD (talk) 01:43, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi BusterD, Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for your help with the Old Burying Ground page. I know this cemetery seems not so significant, and the list of internments is short, but I think that's only because nobody's yet put work into this. There are revolutionary war figures, including John Goddard, the Wagon Master General of the Continental Army (who as yet has a wikipedia page for his house, but none for himself!), there are families related to early Boston history, there are slaves and abolitionists. It's a small cemetery, but I think there's a lot of history there. Poppy Tomato (talk) 17:47, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

I very much agree and I'm glad you feel welcome to contribute further. It's the oldest cemetery in one of the oldest areas of the English colonies. As you correctly point out, several figures interred there probably deserve articles, but don't have them yet. I was unaware of Goddard until you raised his name. When the time comes that you'd like to build a Goddard page, let me know and I'd be glad to help you. As you can see by the links I posted above, cemetery pages can get quite detailed, depending on sources. The Brookline town site has lots of useful stuff, but we'll need to find some additional reliable secondary sources upon which to anchor Walnut Street before we can expand it overmuch. Fortunately, there's no deadline on Wikipedia, and often someone adopts a new page and helps make significant improvements. BTW, sometimes when a new page is created, a note to that effect may appear on Wikipedia's front page. Would you like that opportunity to showcase your entry and get more eyes on it? Do you live close enough to take pictures for page use? BusterD (talk) 19:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

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