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Why should the topic be deleted because source material is copied from an 1855 book of mine when on Wikipedia there is a LOT of "source material" from a NEWER 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica ?

--Maury 23:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Because the 1911 Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia. Other source material belongs in Wikisource. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Furthermore the connection to the name of the article is tennuous. If you want to write an article about a man named Ruschenberger then by all means please do so. This appears to be random text from an old book. -Will Beback 05:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sir, or ma'am, I agree that I should have given the article a better title but it is the first I had created and did not know I could or could not change (edit title) it. But the information within is both accurate and historically important.

Too, I should have chosen a better example than the 1911 Britannica encyclopedia for there are, on WikiPediia, sources used and sometimes cited that are what you have stated they are not -- MHO, and no offense is intended.

You know it is an old book because I have stated that and more than once. I state that it comes from USN Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury's 1855 _Physical Geography of the Sea_. That is a well-known and very famous book (internationally) as the first textbook on modern oceanography. I used portions of two paragraphs from it. I don't wish to place the entire thick and highly detailed scientific book on "WikiSource" -- and I did look there moments ago.

Because the title cannot be changed, as far as I am able to or know of, I tried to follow that title. I know that it appears tenuous but it was the best I could do at the time of writing while trying to follow that title I could not change. The very mention of even one of the men who a hundred years and more used a hydrometer at sea, and why, is historically important.

If you desire to delete that page then do so. However, I believe that in doing so, to newbies or oldies here, will tend to cause people to prefer to edit other's articles rather than to write articles and see them destroyed. Feel free to properly edit it if you can and have that knowledge. I am not aware if I even have the authority to change that title. I certainly do not have that knowledge if have mentioned.

With all due respect to you and your dedication here,

Maury

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Dr. Ruschenberger was important in the history of Siam. --Pawyilee (talk) 15:51, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]