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editJesús Colón body cremated?
editOur article on Jesús Colón says that his body was cremated, and ashes spread over a river in Puerto Rico. I can't find a very reliable source establishing that (I don't think our article's current source is great...). Can anyone? Eddie891 Talk Work 01:09, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Marine 69-71: --Lambiam 18:23, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Sources:
- Tony the Marine (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Marine 69-71. (FYI, Your first two links are dead.) I was hoping to find a source that predates the 2004 addition of this content to our article (the links you offered are from 2006 and 2021, respectively) or is marginally higher reliability. The People's World source seems to be directly lifted from Wikipedia, while I can't find anything about cremation in the sources linked by the BlackPast article, and it uses the same image we use, suggesting the author at least looked at our wikipedia article (though it is by a reputable author, I have seen a number of authors with PhDs make mistakes, particularly in scholarship on Colón). Can you or anyone find anything else? Eddie891 Talk :Work 15:23, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
- I've fixed the second source link. --Lambiam 07:32, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Marine 69-71. (FYI, Your first two links are dead.) I was hoping to find a source that predates the 2004 addition of this content to our article (the links you offered are from 2006 and 2021, respectively) or is marginally higher reliability. The People's World source seems to be directly lifted from Wikipedia, while I can't find anything about cremation in the sources linked by the BlackPast article, and it uses the same image we use, suggesting the author at least looked at our wikipedia article (though it is by a reputable author, I have seen a number of authors with PhDs make mistakes, particularly in scholarship on Colón). Can you or anyone find anything else? Eddie891 Talk :Work 15:23, 2 May 2023 (UTC)