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[edit] Jefferson Davis

Nominate-I nominate this article because I feel that it is well-written enough to become a featured article.----216.7.248.254 19:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Support and I support the nomination of the article!--216.7.254.254 14:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment', 216.7.254.254 and Timorrison are the same editor. -Will Beback 19:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose - completely unreferenced. Soup Blazer 14:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Object - needs inline citations and references. (As Soup Blazer - edit conflict.) —Whouk (talk) 14:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Object. Lacks references as required by FA criteria 2c. --Allen3 ^talk 14:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • IT HAS REFERENCES!. Why can't anyone see them?--216.7.254.254 14:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• These Aren't references?
  • Works by Jefferson Davis at Project Gutenberg
    • Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858, available at Project Gutenberg.
  • The Papers of Jefferson Davis at Rice University
  • Biography of Jefferson Davis
  • Biography and Pictures
  • Extensive Biography from public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Jefferson Davis' final resting place

--216.7.254.254 14:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• • Those are "External links". The sources that were used to write and verify the information in the article need to be collected in a section called "References". See the featured article criteria. It may help to used {{cite web}}. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:References#Further_reading.2Fexternal_links explains the differences between references and similar but different sections like external links.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:59, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Object - refer to WP:PR - This is a good start, but, as pointed out above, it needs a "References" section. I am a little surprised that no paper references are given for such a significant historical figure (there must be published biographies, for example). The lead section is a rather short two paragraphs and could be expanded, and there are quite a few paragraphs of only one or two sentences that need to be expanded or consolidated. Is there nothing that can be said about his legacy? -- ALoan (Talk) 15:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • You may get additional helpful feedback from WP:PR. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

• Object: has no references. External links are not references. If they were, the section should be titled "References"; but changing the title won't help, because these are not references. For example, the article says "Until late in the war, he resisted efforts to appoint a general-in-chief". Where can I click to see the external source which verifies this? I searched the listed biographies and found nothing about this. For information on what's required in terms of references, please see:

  • Wikipedia:What is a featured article?, criterion 2(c)
  • Wikipedia:Verifiability
  • Wikipedia:Citing sources
  • Theodore Roosevelt for an example.

  — Johan the Ghost _seance 15:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Object this article needs work, 216.7.254.254 please see WP:CITE, thanks 172.165.98.163 03:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)