Talk:California gold rush

Semi-protected edit request on 19 April 2023

Is there a source for “The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Whole indigenous societies were attacked and pushed off their lands…”? for those that are interested in reading more. 73.161.33.95 (talk) 13:23, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please don't use the WP:ER to ask questions. M.Bitton (talk) 14:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Legal rights

Natives Americans,African Americans, and Chinese miners were mistreated, getting laws made against them , and even killed off by tax collectors. Ameer1001 (talk) 18:18, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 November 2023

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

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

Requested move 3 January 2024

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)

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• California Gold Rush → California gold rush
• Pike's Peak Gold Rush → Pike's Peak gold rush
• Vermilion Lake Gold Rush → Vermilion Lake gold rush
• Mount Baker Gold Rush → Mount Baker gold rush
• Carolina Gold Rush → Carolina gold rush
• Black Hills Gold Rush → Black Hills gold rush

– 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)

• 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)
• Support no evidence of consistent capitalization (t · c) buidhe 08:14, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
• 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)

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.