Donald Albury

I represent the Dunedin History Museum and the city historian. The reference link(s) to the first land grant and the incorporation of the city is from an old incorrect city of Dunedin page. The dates 1852 and 1925 are incorrect for the first land grant and the founding of the city.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.115.241 (talk • contribs) 15:10 4 August 2021 (UTC)

In fact that editor has repeatedly refused to advise me of what the problem is. I'm surprised to hear that editor is an experienced editor as I had not seen need to check. Right off attempting to inject FRINGE political bias and going on to repeatedly demand I debate positions I don't hold is strange for an experienced editor. I have said several times that we can remove and change any parts of my added text and asked how he wants to do that: He still refuses to reply instead insisting on these debates. Invasive Spices (talk) 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Donald. I noticed your participation in Wikipedia:WikiProject Miami and was hoping that you would be interested in taking a look at an edit request I recently posted at Talk:Kenneth C. Griffin#Additions to Political views. I would be grateful if you were able to implement those edits. Thanks, Cduffymul (talk) 23:22, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Could you please weigh in on whether or not this is an appropriate action given the stated intent of the nomination? Note that the nom is the author of the article, intends to create 20k articles of that type, has consistently expressed opposition and hostility to attempts at restricting mass-creation of such articles, and given their extensive involvement in the topic and what has already been stated about these AfD outcomes in the thread, should know exactly how their AfD is going to turn out (so it's disingenuous to frame it as a "test case" that's supposed to influence the current discussion as if they're agnostic and as if they genuinely believe the article should be deleted). JoelleJay (talk) 19:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have noticed and enjoyed your contributions on Florida historical topics (such as fishing ranchos) so just wanted to flag this 1860 Florida map image I recently uploaded from NARA. No idea if it's of any value but just wanted to put it on your radar.

File:Map_of_Florida_Representing_the_Several_Land_Districts,_from_the_Surveyor_General's_Report_1860_NAID_26465548.jpg

Cheers and keep up the good work! jengod (talk) 04:00, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

There are a number of good sources for old maps of Florida. I have used several from Florida Memory Maps for articles in Wikipedia. Other sources include UF Map & Imagery Library Collections and Exploring Florida Maps from USF. Donald Albury 11:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'm fairly new to wikipedia and you critiqued my sourcing I was planning on editing/correcting them but before I do so I wanted to ask your advise on better citation, most relevantly on the Micronation page; I was hoping you could mentor me on this since my official Wikipedia mentor appears to be absent or inactive. For a few citation errors I can see I made for myself such as the wrong placement for the reference to the fictional country of Ruritania(I placed the reference next to the wrong Ruritania tag), but others are less clear such as Aynvaul being *listed* as attending MicroCon in 2017 where I cited a list of attending members. I see the issue with springer were it mentions them and their location as being a minute mention, but this one I feel would warrant just a mention if it is an attendance list? (correct me if I am wrong). As for the others you mentioned (full citation needed) that they need a more specific citation, these other ones are interviews by Vice and PBS(?) I imagine timestamped links instead of links to the interviews? Furthermore how would I be more specific for references that would satisfy the full citation for website references? -Thank you for your time! ScholarGray13 (talk) 16:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@ScholarGray13: I am copying this over to Talk:Micronation, where other editors who contribute to the article can see it and comment, if they wish. Let us carry on the conversation there. - Donald Albury 19:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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