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I think we should strive to have great reference consolidation. Personally, I do not need a footnote down to the exact page. I can deal with a ten-to-twenty page range to find information. That would significantly reduce the number of total references we have on this page, which are very repetitive
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Link #2 (Nystrom, re: Ruffner Medal") is broken and does not link to the article in question; there are other pages online which note him winning the award, but I haven't found anything with the material that's referenced. P.S. Which birthday is correct, the one in the intro or the one in the
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Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. Does anyone object if I remove it from the main text (using a script) in a few days’ time on a trial basis? The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain,
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I assure you I'm not an engineer, although I'm flattered you think so! The purpose of references is to allow readers to look up the source of the information if they want to know more. Full citations do include exact page numbers, as you will see from
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There are lots of sources listed in the references section that are not directly cited in the article. These should be consulted and used in the article (perhaps to replace some primary source footnotes) or removed if they are not of
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The article says that Kraft Elementary School is in Hampton, VA near Kraft's hometown, Phoebus, VA. I was wondering if this should be changed, as Phoebus is now a defunct city and has been absorbed into Hampton. Any thoughts?
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Some sections of the article, such as "Autobiography", "Personal life" and "Awards and honors" have short paragraphs. I suggest that this article be copyedited and shorter paragraphs be merged.
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Sorry about the delay in replying. I've fixed the birthdate. As for the link, it is broken but can be chased up via the Wayback Machine. I'll fix that too.
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Congrats on a Good Article. It does draw heavily from Kraft's autobiography, but still demostrates a well-written and researched article. Well done!
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I will be expanding this article section by section, hoping to get it to GA status or beyond. Any comments or help are most welcome.
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I see no evidence that either of those characters had anything to do with Kraft or were based on him. The Ryan character from the
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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I've started recording this as a spoken article. Just thought I should say, to avoid duplication of effort.
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The biggest problem is the article is mostly sourced to Kraft's book, which makes it a primary source. Per
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A worthy addition to the FA line, especially today is the anniversary of the original moon landing.
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There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:
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I second this sentiment. Bravo! to all the editors who contributed to this. Well done!
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is, first of all, a broad caricature. Second, it's a broad caricature of
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