User:Gerry Ashton/General references

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This is a short sampling of Wikipedia:Good articles to see how many use general references. I define a general reference as a resource which appeares in the "References" section but to which no in-line citations are contained in the body of the article.

I went to a web site which generates random letter sequences, and obtained the following sequence (ignoring a case where 'b' appeared twice in a row):

b d j q a e y d c

I then went to three categories I feel comfortable with, Computing, Engineering, and Physics and astronomy, and selected the first article beginning with the random letters (striking each letter off the list once it was used). The results are below.

Computing

Brute force attack Yes, only general references

Delimiter No

Engineering

Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance No

Thomas Edison Yes (section is titled "Biographies")

Physics and astronomy

Deep Impact (space mission) Yes

Cassini-Huygens No

[edit] Conclusion

Three of six randomly chosen good articles from selected categories used general references.