Talk:Edward Burger

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[edit] A note on sourcing

I just finished a complete re-write of the article. Since I referenced the home page and six other pages of Dr. Burger, I thought it might be wise to place a note here to avoid any concerns people might have about that. First of all, I'm not Edward Burger, have no actual knowledge of him, nor have I ever met him. This was a page that I saw needed some help, so I pitched in.

All information in this article came from a variety of websites, and thus is fully sourced. Most of the sources have some of the information here, and some of it there. Dr. Burger's faculty website helps pull that information together into a cohesive and comprehensible manner. That is why I chose to use his pages as primary sources. Furthermore, since the pages are part of his faculty pages at the college, it is reasonable to assume that his peers and superiors have reviewed the information occasionally in the ten years he has had the information there. If there were inaccuracies in it, it should have been corrected. This is as opposed to a personal profile posted to MySpace or something which is never a particularly trustworthy source.

If anyone disagrees, feel free to track down all the various details and re-reference the information through other sources. The information is probably out there, but since it is consistent as-is, I think that would be overkill.

Finally, editors in the future should be careful in moving or deleting the <ref> tags around in the article. I have occasionally duplicated reference information in full in a few places in the article to help avoid accidental removal of an important source, but that could make it a bit difficult to update links in the future. Also, if someone deletes the full reference, the short references could become orphaned. This is normal, but not everyone is familiar with <ref> tags, so I thought I would mention it just to be safe.

Feel free to leave me questions or comments on my talk page. Thanks! Willscrlt (Talk) 09:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)