Talk:Unita Blackwell

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[edit] Sourcing

I look forward to seeing this article expanded! Blackwell seems very interesting! A few notes on sources:

• The "Early life and marriage" and "Civil rights activism" sections of this article are sourced to an autobiography - that is a primary source. This information needs to be verified using a secondary source. Autobiographies are unreliable sources of information - people often choose to represent themselves in specific ways that are not always truthful. Autobiographies also do not go through the rigorous system of fact-checking and peer review that we demand of reliable sources. Autobiographies are useful for anecdotes, but any information taken from an autobiography should be noted as such in the article. For an example of a biographical article forced to deal with these difficult issues, see Mary Martha Sherwood. The body of the article announces the use of autobiographical material and the bibliography alerts the reader to deficiencies in the secondary sources. Awadewit (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

• This source is an advertisement from the publisher. I think a book review would be better. Perhaps something like this? - I changed that reference.

I hope my copy editing efforts were helpful. Awadewit (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all your help on this article. :D --Chetblong (talk) 00:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC)