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Reference links broken[edit]

Much of this article relies on reference numbers 2 and 3, but those links currently do not open a page about Joe Root. The sentence about him being incarcerated for violence was unclear and unverifiable, so I removed it. Many other sentences reply on those same references, so it would be good to either repair references back to the original source, or remove/change those reference numbers in the article itself.

Maxmish (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Revised[edit]

I removed much of the hyperbole and extraneous material from the article. Joe Root was not a "naturalist" in the usual sense of the word, he was a guy who lived off the land. Nor did he work as an "entertainer", although he may have been entertaining (and maintaining good relations with the locals might have bought him a degree of tolerance, I suppose.) I have recategorized him as a "hermit", which seems like a better description. Someone from the Erie area might be able to expand on the modern image of Joe Root in the area. Brianyoumans (talk) 15:28, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 5 June 2022[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) >>> Extorc.talk 19:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Root (Pennsylvania hermit) → Joe Root (hermit) – The article was rightly moved away from being disambiguated only by state in 2020, but I think the new title chosen was overly precise - we would only need to include the place if there were more than one notable hermit with the same name. Jellyman (talk) 11:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. There's only one Joe Root, and there's no need to have "Pennsylvania" in the dab. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 13:55, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support as long as someone else does the work. Honestly, it doesn't seem like it matters very much. Brianyoumans (talk) 16:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 05:03, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:QUALIFIER. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:12, 7 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Only hermit by that name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:48, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.