Talk:Francis Daniel Pastorius

message: I believe the illustration showing the house of Daniel Francis Pastorius actually shows the home of his grandson of the same name.  My understanding is that the home of Pastorius Sr. was located adjacent to where the one shown here is now located.   TwelveGreat (talk) 12:59, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: House of Daniel Francis Pastorius

message: In the edit summary for this edit, you commented, added my book "Franz Daniel Pastorius and Transatlantic Culture" again (http://www.pastorius.info) which had been removed for some reason unknown to me. The book had been removed by  in this edit. 
Wikipedia appreciates you sharing your expertise, but there are several things to keep in mind. Citing your own research creates a conflict of interest. It is allowed only under certain conditions. If reverted, do not reinstate the citation. Instead, propose the addition on the article's talk page, allow others to review it, and bow to the community consensus. Wikipedia's policy on verifiability generally bars self-published sources such as your book. There is an exception for previously published established experts on the topic, and you could make a case that the exception should apply because your PhD thesis was on Pastorius. Even if editors agree with that argument, however, they may limit where the book can be cited if they are concerned that it hasn't undergone the fact checking that peer review or publishers provide.
If the statements where you are citing your book are not original research, an alternative would be to instead cite the source(s) that your book cites for those facts, if they are reliable published sources. That could help avoid any appearance of impropriety. I hope this clarifies why your book may have been removed, and what to do if it is removed again. --Worldbruce (talk) 04:28, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citing yourself 

message: The current text includes the statement
:In 1683, a group of Mennonites, Pietists, and Quakers in Frankfurt, including Abraham op den Graeff a cousin of William Penn, approached Pastorius about acting as their agent to purchase
It seems unlikely that Abraham op den Graef of Krefeld Germany, was a member of the Frankfort Company who hired Pastorius as their agent. If there is evidence that this is so, then it needs to be presented.
It is often said by genealogists that op Den Graef was a cousin of William Penn.  This usually comes up by claiming a connection between his mother Margaret Jasper and the Op den Graef family of Krefeld Germany. There are also genealogists who think both lines descend from from John William Duke of Julich Cleves Berg, and that the Op Den Graef's of Krefeld descend from him via a bastard son. I personally have not seen any satisfying evidence for either view. 
In anycase, if this is left in as written, then there needs to be documentary support to show that this connection is true.  
If Abraham Op Den Graef was in fact close kin to William Penn we would expected that point to have been picked upped by contemporary writers if not they themselves.  We know that Pastorius and the Op Den Greafs worked together closely, and we know that Pastorius and William Penn had a collegial working relationship, as described in their letters.  We do not, however, see any particular mention of the Op Den Graefs in their correspondence, beyond the fact that they were citizens of Germantown.  While this is not conclusive evidence, we would have expected that if the two were indeed cousins, this point would have been made by either Pastorius or Penn.
TwelveGreat (talk) 14:58, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Op Den Graef's, Pastorius, and William Penn

message: This should cite source instead of being a link.  Source can be found at https://www.werelate.org/wiki/The_Original_Thirteen_Settlers_of_Germantown%2C_PA Capitalistone (talk) 06:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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