User talk:Historydet

This user is a student editor in University_of_Maryland_College_of_Information_Studies/_Introduction_to_Archives_and_Digital_Curation__(Fall_2018) .

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Hello, Historydet, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:45, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced empty citations on Jean Blackwell Hutson with "citation needed", however, it looks like you were working on the page! Sorry.[edit]

Hi, Historydet. I was doing some random citation maintenance using a list of articles with CS1 errors (errors in the syntax of citation templates) and I ended up replacing your empty citations on Jean Blackwell Hutson with citation needed templates. Since it seemed so strange to me for there to be such a deliberate pattern of reusing empty citations, I looked at the history and saw that you were in the process of research for this page. Sorry if this has inconvenienced you. To undo my edits, all you have to do is view the page history and revert them. If you need any help with that feel free to ask me or visit the teahouse. Sincerely, Shashi Sushila Murray, (message me) 09:28, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you.[edit]

		The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path
		Thank you for working on an important article that would otherwise have been neglected, Jean Blackwell Hutson, and for improving the quality of its sources so dramatically. Please keep editing. Sincerely, Shashi Sushila Murray, (message me) 05:27, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments (sorry this is late)[edit]

Hey, I'm just getting around to looking at the work you've done and I can tell that you've really tightened up the quality of the page. At this point (I'm not sure if you've already turned it in or not) but my only suggestion might be to actually cull some of the citations. If one or two sources can sufficiently verify a sentence/claim it would be easier to read then five superscript citation numbers between sentences. Of course, if only all the citations taken together can support the statement then they should remain, but considering there are 10 citations and some statements have multiple cites and are re-used, it should be fine to leave it off. Even if a resource does not get cited in the article it can still be included as a "Further Reading" section below the citation section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baaschido (talk • contribs) 23:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]