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Welcome and Texas

Hi Polarbase, and welcome to Wikipedia!!! It's very nice to see historians and authors contribute to the project - your knowledge is much appreciated - and I hope I haven't come across as rude. It sounds like your research will be filling some of the glaring holes in the academic literature centered around that timeframe, which is wonderful news :) We need to shine a much bigger light on Tejano contributions to our history.

Unfortunately I don't have Lindley's book right now. Did he list Pacheco as one of the Alamo combatants? If so, I made a big mistake and my apologies for that. If not, as soon as you can get this information published, we can definitely include it in the list, cited to that article. Unfortunately, the rules of Wikipedia are pretty clear that this project shouldn't be the first place that research is published (no matter how rock-solid it is, and yours certainly seems to be). I look forward to reading your conclusions later.

If you are interested, Maile and I are leading a collaboration to get the article Texas Revolution to featured article status so it can appear on the main page. I've rewritten most of the article (it still needs work on the Goliad Campaign and the legacy sections). I'd love another set of eyes on it. If you could read through that and let us know on the talk page what we need to fix, that would be great. In particular, I'm concerned about a) being neutral and providing the perspectives of the Mexicans, the Texians, and the Tejanos, b) being as concise as possible (I have a tendency to be verbose) and c) making sure that we explain enough that someone in Europe could follow along.

Thanks for your contributions! Karanacs (talk) 22:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Karanacs, Pacheco is also mentioned in the MacDonald book. Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution. I think Pg. 312. And the Texas State Library and Archives Commission website does list him under their Claims.— Maile (talk) 00:05, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

McDonald and Lindley definitely both count as reliable sources if they explicitly say he was a survivor of the Alamo. Since I don't have either of those sources at the moment, I'll let one of you put that information back in the articles (List of Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo and List of Alamo defenders, sourced to one of those books. Thanks! Karanacs (talk) 01:06, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Maile (talk) 14:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]