Talk:Muscongus Bay

Capt. James Smith?

Is there any reason the explorer commonly (and to me exclusively) known as "John Smith" is called "James Smith" here? I noticed this usage is from the first draft of the article, and it was deliberate because its cross reference to "John Smith" is intentionally designated "James" here. And in the references, the author of Smith's book is has the given name "James" even though when you click on the reference, the book, which purports to be an electronic version of the original publication, is attributed to "John Smith" in te book and by the editors. And when you click on the Wikipedia article linked by "James Smith" you find him called "John Smith" throughout, and nowhere a mention of "James Smith. I only go into this detail because it is so surprising to me that anyone would call the well known John Smith, James Smith, apparently intentionally. AnthroMimus (talk) 03:07, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't see any reason for this and have corrected it. OTOH this is walking the edge of primary source interpretation; we really need a historian talking about Smith's text to be able to claim that he means the modern location when he gives it these "misspelled" versions. Mangoe (talk) 12:35, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (February 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Muscongus Bay. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222500/http://guide.mita.org/muscongus-bay to http://guide.mita.org/muscongus-bay

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)