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Featured articleCalifornia gold rush is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Semi-protected edit request on 4 November 2023

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Italicize hatnote for "California Gold Rush (film)" per WP:ITHAT. 49.150.4.134 (talk) 02:15, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thank you. Liu1126 (talk) 17:20, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 January 2024

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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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 16:08, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]


– Per MOS:CAPS, we should only render titles as proper names if they are consistently capitalized in a significant majority of reliable sources. That is not at all the case for these gold rush articles. See ngram results: [1][2][3][4] - in some cases gold rush has an outright lead, while in others the Gold Rush variant leads but it is close enough that the "significant majority" mark is not met.  — Amakuru (talk) 14:51, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support Gold rush is a descriptive term. Just because it happened at a particular place and this place is used attributively in the noun phrase|name does not ipso facto mean that the whole noun phrase should be capitalised and treated as a proper name. This is a common misperception. It is still a descriptive name (a gold rush that occurred at place X) and therefore intrinsically a common name|noun phrase. This aside, the ngram evidence clearly shows that we should not cap these terms (per WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS) as they are clearly not being capped consistently in sources and do not meet the threshold (not even close) whereby these terms would be capped on Wiki. Cinderella157 (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support no evidence of consistent capitalization (t · c) buidhe 08:14, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support obvious application on WP:LOWERCASE, WP:NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS in light of source stats linked by nom, which I have reviewed. Dicklyon (talk) 04:20, 5 January 2024 (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.

Location

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Consider updating the location - the infobox suggests that this took place in a very small area around 100 yards square which is not backed up by the maps and other data within the article 90.240.165.192 (talk) 08:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate precision reduced per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers WCCasey (talk) 15:14, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]