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If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada">the discussion</a> and see a list of open tasks.<span class="metadata wpb-metadata"><span class="wpb-project">Canada</span><span class="wpb-project_link">Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada</span><span class="wpb-banner_name">Template:WikiProject Canada</span><span class="wpb-assessment_cat">Canada-related articles</span></span></td><td class="mbox-empty-cell"></td></tr><tr><td class="assess import-low"><a href="/wiki/Category:Low-importance_Canada-related_articles" title="Category:Low-importance Canada-related articles">Low</a></td><td class="mbox-text" colspan="2">This article has been rated as <b>Low-importance</b> on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canada/Assessment#Importance_scale" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment">project's importance scale</a>.</td></tr><tr><td><figure 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/32px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/48px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/64px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600"/></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:France" title="Portal:France">France portal</a></span></li></ul>This article is within the scope of <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_France" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject France">WikiProject France</a></b>, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> on Wikipedia. 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Further details were available on the "Education Program:Louisiana State University/ENGL 2000: English Composition (Spring 2015)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024-20241108125000"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024-20241108125000"></span>Semi-protected edit request on 8 November 2024<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024-20241108125000"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Louisiana_Purchase&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Semi-protected edit request on 8 November 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Benckendorff-20241108125000-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237879475"><table class="plainlinks tmbox mbox-small tmbox-notice editrequest" role="presentation" data-origlevel="semi"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/45px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">This <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests" title="Wikipedia:Edit requests">edit request</a> has been answered. Set the <code style="white-space: nowrap;">|answered=</code> or <code style="white-space: nowrap;">|ans=</code> parameter to <b>no</b> to reactivate your request.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Dear Editors, </p><p>I have noticed that one a link to a reference is dead (reference 49). The link is to a page of the website of the Baring Archive. The webpage of the Baring Archive has been removed because it has been superseded by new research, published as: M.E. Hay, Transatlantic Finance in the Age of Revolutions. Hope, Baring, and the Financing of the Sale and Purchase of Louisiana (Cham: Palgrave, 2024). You are welcome to update reference 49 by replacing the link to the Baring Archive with: M.E. Hay, <i>Transatlantic Finance in the Age of Revolutions. Hope, Baring, and the Financing of the Sale and Purchase of Louisiana</i> (Cham: Palgrave, 2024), 17-45, 89-138. </p><p>Furthermore, the sentences prior to reference 56 have been found to be incorrect. Baring did withdraw from the American part of the financial operation, but Hope did comply, leading to an altered financial operation, with consequences for the division of profits, the relationship between Hope and Baring, and relocation of the success of London overtaking Amsterdam as a centre for international government finance. </p><p>It regards the following section: "However, by December 1803, the British directed Barings to halt future payments to France. Barings relayed the order to Hopes, which declined to comply, allowing the final payments to be made to France in April 1804. [56]" </p><p>It can be replaced by: "However, on 19 December 1803, the British government insisted that Baring withdraw from any transaction that remitted funds to Paris. Baring saw no option but to comply, to which Hope agreed on the conditions that 1) all costs resulting from the change to the financial operation were for Baring's account, 2) that a large share of Baring's allocation of the Louisiana stock be re-allocated to Hope and associated Amsterdam banking houses, and 3) that Baring not trade in Louisiana stock without prior consent by Hope. [56]" </p><p>--> the reference of note 56 should be changed to: M.E. Hay, <i>Transatlantic Finance in the Age of Revolutions. Hope, Baring, and the Financing of the Sale and Purchase of Louisiana</i> (Cham: Palgrave, 2024), 115-118. </p><p><br/> </p><p>Best, </p><p>Benckendorff <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Benckendorff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Benckendorff (page does not exist)">Benckendorff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Benckendorff" title="User talk:Benckendorff">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Louisiana_Purchase#c-Benckendorff-20241108125000-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Benckendorff-20241108125000-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Benckendorff-20241108125000-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_8_November_2024"></span> </p> <dl><dd><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Tcr25-20241108165300-Benckendorff-20241108125000"></span><span class="nowrap"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/27px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/36px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><b> Done</b></span>. Thanks for the heads up @<a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Benckendorff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Benckendorff (page does not exist)">Benckendorff</a>. I'm looking over the Hay (2024) source to see if there are other details that should be amended or expanded. —<a href="/wiki/User:Tcr25" title="User:Tcr25">—Carter (Tcr25)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tcr25" title="User talk:Tcr25">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Louisiana_Purchase#c-Tcr25-20241108165300-Benckendorff-20241108125000" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:53, 8 November 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Tcr25-20241108165300-Benckendorff-20241108125000"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Tcr25-20241108165300-Benckendorff-20241108125000"></span></dd> <dd><span data-mw-comment-start="" 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