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A fact from L. Martin Griffin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that L. Martin Griffin, Jr., an environmentalist in California's Marin County, preserved the coastline by buying Audubon Canyon (pictured) which was threatened by development?

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Article improvements[edit]

I will try to do this work, but additional participation would be helpful:

Complete searches using "Martin Griffin" and "Marty Griffin" instead of full name
Add additional refs from sources other than Marin Independent Journal--search sfgate directly
Add info regarding elective office held
Find PD photo if possible
Improve infobox (drop "Genres"?)
Consider move to common name ("Martin"? or "Marty Griffin"?)

--Hjal (talk) 18:45, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestions. The alternative to an article name change would be a redirect or two, which might be easier. Another source would the Pacific Sun newspaper as well as the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, seeing as Griffin lived in Sonoma County for many years and was active there. Jus da fax 04:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hjal, I have added a 'not to be confused with' to an article on a 'Marty Griffin' who had a very short and unsuccessful major league baseball career. That article is a brief stub, and I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to just rename it with an additional (baseball player) so as to take over the commonly used 'Marty Griffin' for this article. The matter is complicated by a journalist with that name as well, however. Jus da fax 09:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

”Marty Griffin” listing -

Done My thanks to those helping make this change possible. Jusdafax (talk) 00:36, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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