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Seth Kinman has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
December 30, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
November 13, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 2, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that California hunter Seth Kinman (pictured), who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?

Current status: Good article

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:01, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will begin reviewing this article and make straightforward changes as I go (explanations in edit summaries). Please revert any changes I make where I inadvertently change the meaning. I will post queries below. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:01, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have rearranged some of the paragraphs for flow. I'd be good to merge or expand some more, but this is challenging to do and not a deal-breaker for GA status.

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Prose is a little choppy due to subject matter but quite engaging in a western tall-tale kinda way..interesting read. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate error[edit]

{{geodata-check}}

The following coordinate fixes are needed for Burial at Table Bluff currently maps to East Coast of U.S.

Table Bluff Cemetery outside of Loleta, California correctly maps to Lat 40.649412 N / Long -124.209428 W —Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:09, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Deor (talk) 04:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cittion needed in lede?[edit]

Regaarding "He stood over 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and was known for his hunting prowess and his brutality toward bears and Indians.[citation needed]"

We don't require references in the lede as it is supposed to summarize the text blow.
the text related to Indians is at Seth_Kinman#Relations_with_Native_Americans
the text related to bears is widespread in the article. You can first look in the paragraph starting "Kinman made his name first as a hunter ..." and there is a ref just below that to The Ethics of Grizzly Hunting.[24] I checked the link and its still working. The text of the essay completely supports "was known for his hunting prowess and his brutality toward bears." And then some. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:32, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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