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Kyle Keeler (May 24, 2024). "Wikipedia's Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world's largest encyclopedia". Settler Colonial Studies. Retrieved May 26, 2024. George Washington's page quotes historian Collin G. Calloway regarding Washington's threats of settler colonial 'extirpation' of Native peoples if they did not concede their lands.

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I just have a quick question: why can't we link George Washington (Stuart, Williamstown) in the infobox? Is it because it's a stub? ReelCosmix (talk) 12:36, 4 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

See MOS:CREDITS. The infobox is supposedly too condensed to have room for credits in image captions. Anywhere else in the article, but not there. Anyway, the reader can get to that information by clicking on the image, so we're not hiding it, we're just making it one or two clicks farther away. Bruce leverett (talk) 13:24, 4 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Oh alright, thanks because it was a lil confusing ReelCosmix (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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