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Dead Link and Weird Source

Between 1904 and 1919, tribal members with any amount of African ancestry were disenrolled from the Chitimacha tribe of Louisiana, and their descendants have since then been denied tribal membership.

The source for this info is a dead website, with no Web Archive page - when it is opened in Archive, it has one snapshot that goes to the same white screen the current version hangs on before redirecting to a "buy this page" format. Additionally, this information is absent from the Chitimacha page, but it is mentioned on Tribal disenrollment. However, that page links to a different version of the same website, which still does that redirect. In my cursory searches, I can't find anything that sources this information. This is nowhere near my area of expertise, and I would feel weird for changing the main page out of the blue like this. Could this sentence either be sourced again or removed? Anafyral (talk) 11:04, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The original site can be accessed using the Wayback Machine. Here is a link that can be added for future convenience: https://web.archive.org/web/20201023033323/http://lalosttribe.com/. The most recent working archive is from October 23, 2020, and includes subpages that are directed to when clicking on the "Read Our Story" and "Meet the Tribe" headers, though images on the Meet the Tribe subpage do not appear to work.

The Twitter (now known as "X") account on the website is also archived, with one post including a link to a YouTube video. While the link no longer works, the video itself is still available, and can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcZjA-RZaiI&t=38s. It is the only video on their channel. JPGrimm103 (talk) 18:41, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source for Law Implementation Timeline

The one-drop rule was not formally codified as law until the 20th century, from 1910 in Tennessee to 1930 as one of Virginia's "racial integrity laws", with similar laws in several other states in between.

There is no source for the timeline of when these laws are implemented, nor any clarity regarding "similar laws" and "other states". For clarification, a timeline of when these laws are codified, with the names of the laws and states in question should be added. This can add context for those who want to learn more about specific laws, and provide some insight on legal decisions being made in these states during this timeframe. JPGrimm103 (talk) 18:32, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please ignore this suggestion, timeline is provided later in the article under Legislation and practice:

Tennessee adopted such a "one-drop" statute in 1910, and Louisiana soon followed. Then Texas and Arkansas in 1911, Mississippi in 1917, North Carolina in 1923, Alabama and Georgia in 1927, and Virginia in 1930. During this same period, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Utah retained their old "blood fraction" statutes de jure, but amended these fractions (one-sixteenth, one-thirty-second) to be equivalent to one-drop de facto.

JPGrimm103 (talk) 20:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]