Talk:Tabby concrete

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www.ehow.com/how_18547_make-tabby-walls.html is classified as a spamlink. --Alvestrand (talk) 08:39, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Merge

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The result was to merge Jim Derby (talk) 09:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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A merger of Tabby concrete and Tabby (cement) was proposed in 2013 by someone else but there was no discussion. I am certain these two articles discuss the same topic so I merged them keeping the title Tabby concrete because it is the most accurate and was more commonly used based on the number of hits using Google search. Jim Derby (talk) 09:08, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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Use of tabby in Santa Elena

I removed the following from the article:

The earliest known use of tabby was near Beaufort, South Carolina, formerly known as Santa Elena which was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587.<ref>Manucy, Albert C., "Tapia, or Tabby" ''The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' Vol. 11, no. 4 (1952): 32 quoted in [http://media.clemson.edu/caah/pdp/hp/2009-Jessica-Golebiowski-TP.pdf Jessica Golebiowski "Rammed Earth Architecture's Journey to the High Hills of The Santee and its Role as an Early Concrete". Thesis. Clemson University & The College of Charleston. 2009. 32. Print].</ref>

The above material does not correctly represent the source, which on page 32 describes what sounds like wattle-and-daub being used for walls, rather than tabby. In any case, the Mauncy source is from (but paraphrased, not quoted, in) a Master's thesis. Wikipedia:Reliable sources states that Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence. Any claim that tabby concrete was used in Santa Elena needs a better source. Please also note that older sources that mis-identify British colonial tabby structures as being from the Spanish mission period (18th century or earlier) should be generally avoided (see the paragraph I added to the Regions of use section). - Donald Albury 12:56, 16 July 2022 (UTC)