Talk:Danel
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[edit] Two suggestions
- Content: The article says he appears in a 14th century BCE text, but nothing about what is known or supposed of his origins. Is he considered invented at that time? Invented much earlier? Based on a real person and gradually mythified? Or is it just established that nothing is known about that? I think it should be explicited, even if as a single sentence.
- Form: As you may know, since you are the first main contributor of this article, Wikipedia rule is that you have the right to choose/dictate the citation style used in the article (now I feel like I'm Mirandazing you ;-) That's why I'll just explain a suggested change in the format of your References section: since you use refs such as "Walton 1994" or "Day 1980", it would be easier on the reader to switch to an author-date format, such as:
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- Walton, John H. (1994). Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context: A Survey of Parallels, "Personal Archives and Epics": Canaanite .2 (Zondervan), p. 49.
It makes it easier to find a given ref, especially when a same author starts having multiple works cited. As you may be aware, there are also the handy {{Cite book}} and {{Cite web}} templates that implement APA or Harvard. (And if you feel adventurous, you can have a look at the Harvard/MLA hybrid I used on Emir Rodríguez Monegal ;-))
But of course, the citation format is your prerogative on this article. — Komusou talk @ 17:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
