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Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2018

Change Emma Nutt's birth year from 1860 to 1848. Supported by her inclusion in Perry, Washington, Maine's 1860 and 1870 Census. 2601:602:9C01:1DEF:5488:86:BE8C:B3E9 (talk) 03:12, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. - FlightTime (open channel) 03:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@FlightTime: As the IP user states, the 1860 birth year definitely does seem to be wrong based on census records; unfortunately the same records weren't consistent on her birth year. In the 1880 census, Emma Nutt was living in the household of her father, George and Matilda Nutt, and is listed as being born in 1848. In the 1900 census, Emma was living with her parents and her sister's family (the Everts), and was listed as being born in 1851. In the 1910 census, she was living with her sister and elderly mother, and is back to being listed as born in 1848. So, the census records are inconclusive (although none of them agree with a year of 1860), and they are primary sources anyway. As far as secondary sources, I did find this one from People's World, which gives a birth year of 1851, but I am not sure if it qualifies as a reliable source or not, what do you think? PohranicniStraze (talk) 03:35, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@PohranicniStraze: I have no idea, if you feel good about it, action the request. I denied it because because the IP did not provide a source, not because I thought they were wrong. - FlightTime (open channel) 03:42, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Emma Nutt death date

According to a front-page obituary "First Woman Phone Operator Here Dies" (Boston Globe, 05 June 1926), Emma Nutt died on 04 June 1926 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was to be buried 06 June 1926 in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, Mass. HummingbirdMoth (talk) 19:31, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

[sic] on despatch

Despatch appears on wiktionary as a variant of dispatch, and appears in The Pilgrim's Progress. The [sic] makes it sound like some naïve parochialism. 172.92.85.248 (talk) 00:08, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Emma Nutt DOB

I added a {{Disputed inline}} template as the linked source (a 1900 US Census scan) indicates that Emma Nutt was born in 1851. However, the Wikipedia article currently lists "July 1860" as her DOB. Which is correct? In fact, are we even sure the Emma Nutt from the 1900 Census is the same Emma Nutt as this article? --Jnglmpera (talk) 04:44, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Clarify picture source in caption

This picture https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Emma_and_shiela_nutt_1878-264x201.jpg/250px-Emma_and_shiela_nutt_1878-264x201.jpg is often reposted with no disclaimer that it is not an original 1878 photo. How about changing the caption from "This scene from "Bold Experiment – the Telephone Story"," to "This reenactment from 1958's "Bold Experiment – the Telephone Story"," [source for date - caption under picture at https://www.telcomhistory.org/archivesOnlinePhotos.html] Teal4two (talk) 17:41, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Agreed. Came here to the talk page to discuss this problem. First of all, what the heck is the "Bold Experiment – the Telephone Story" (1958)? It appears to be a historical reenactment of some kind? A tableau vivant? This is very odd to me. Viriditas (talk) 21:56, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Infobox image

Following on from the previous section, how much reason do we have to believe that File:Emma Nutt circa 1878-1900.jpg is also an original 19th century photo of Nutt?

The Commons description of where this image came from is vague (Photographer, source and date unknown) and this particular file was apparently taken from ZoomInfo, a possibly WP:USERGEN website that appears to have been a data broker at the time, and which I can't even link to from here as it's a blacklisted external link at Wikipedia.

Have any books or other reliable sources ever printed this image identifying it as Nutt? Or is it one of those photos that gets attached to a historical name on a website, and sticks? There are many copies online, but I haven't yet found any that offer a convincing origin for it. --Belbury (talk) 15:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC)