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A fact from George Davenport appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 May 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,025 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
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The internal links which have recently been removed are to notable historical figures. As per WP:RED, their removal suggests these are non-notable and will mostly likely never have an article. Also the link to George Davenport (football coach) is to disambiguate from Template:TSUFBCoach from which this article was originally linked to. 72.74.197.181 (talk) 09:01, 8 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Ya, but are you planning on creating all those articles soon? If not, there is no need to link to them! Ctjf83Talk 16:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
As I understand it, again reading over WP:RED, red links are only discouraged when they are to "non-notable" people, places, etc. I've created the articles in question, although I don't understand the problem of adding links even if the articles themselves don't yet exist. In fact, the vast majority of the articles I've created through Wikipedia:Articles for creation have been through red links. 71.184.49.20 (talk) 23:38, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Well thank you for creating them, I just personally don't like a bunch of links to non-pages. Perhaps you'd also like to create an account? Ctjf83Talk 23:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
