User talk:Cp820/sandbox

Excellent. I'm glad you are remedying the absence of this important woman from Wikipedia. SarahEMC2 (talk) 13:09, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing information[edit]

Hi Cp820. I see you've got some newspaper sources (and a link to an archive of them). This is great, but if newspapers.com removes that item from their archive or is shut down, the only clue that a reader or editor will have to help them find that source is the name of the paper. You can keep the url in there but if you edit the reference (either manually or by clicking on it when in the visual editor) you can add information to help readers and editors. Namely, you want (if possible): date, page, author (sometimes), work and title. If I know I'm looking for the first page of The Kansas City Times on June 5, 1974 I'm well on my way. If I know the title, it's even better. The same thing goes for the rest of the sources. I've done this for one source, partially (I can't read the subtitle and I don't have access to the archive). Let me know if you need help doing this with the other sources. It may seem like a small or fiddly change, but websites change all the time and we want to be able to point people to the references even if the link dies. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:27, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]