Talk:History of Lowell, Massachusetts
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[edit] In line citations
This is an interesting article! But, the list of references is fairly useless at the end. Some work is definitely needed to create in-line citations throughout this article (or it's legitimacy is certainly questionable). -Midnightdreary 04:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, and completely fair. I've never done an inline citation pointing to a printed source. I would love to cite the article better with an example to follow and if someone would like to [citation needed] certain parts of this article. I really don't want to go overboard on my inlines, especially when it's really common stuff.
- Thanks,
- CSZero 05:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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- I don't know if you can overdo citations! It's better to have too many than too little, I think. My first suggestion is to find places where a superlative is used (i.e. "largest textile center" in the intro) and source that so that there can't be much debate. Other questionable or opinion-like things should also be sourced, like where it says it's a model for other towns and anything glaringly factoid, like dates. If you need an idea how to format, just find an article that has a few sources and edit it to see how it was done. Leave a message on my talk page if I can help at all; I lived in Lowell for five years. =) -Midnightdreary 16:59, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Great Article
I just wanted to say that this is a great article with a ton of information on this historical town and it is a good standard for other historic towns.Yamaka122 17:08, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
