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Is there one footnote in this article? This guy was a SECRETARY of The TRRASURY. Where are the footnotes? 127W111 (talk) 19:38, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Alexander J. Dallas
Alexander J. Dallas (1759–1817) was an American statesman who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison between 1814 and 1816. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Dallas was raised in Great Britain but emigrated to Philadelphia in 1783. There he was admitted to the bar and edited several publications. From 1791 to 1800, he served as the first reporter of decisions for the Supreme Court of the United States. He also served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1791–1801), and acted as United States Secretary of War and Secretary of State (both in 1815).Engraving: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restoration: Andrew Shiva

Why don't his works from Wikisource appear in this article?

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A box appears near the bottom of the article that says Wikisource has an encyclopedia article about Mr. Dallas. But though Wikisource has dozens of works created or edited by him, there are no links to his author page in Wikisource. The existing wikisource box seemed to appear "automatically" (via Wikidata???); how can we make that happen for the author link too? Gnuish (talk)