Talk:Statue of Edward Colston/GA2

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 17:19, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Colston's years alive are in the lead uncited, but do not appear anywhere else in the article, so they're kinda uncited
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This is all for the prose. I'm gonna have some referencing comments, but I've got to take a break now. More to come. Hog Farm Bacon 18:17, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References (ref numbers from this revision
  • Ref 6: Remove "BBC – History", and then add the two authors and the publication date. Use BBC as the publisher, and drop the website field
  • Latimer needs the publisher, publishing location, and the OCLC
  • Bristol Radical History Group does not appear to be an RS
    • We can swap out the stuff they're verifying. They seem to be using a few very old newspapers etc as their source (eg the Bristol Mercury). There are archives of it here for example, so I can swap those out for the direct source, but I don't have access to British Newspaper Archive to verify. Will try to ask if someone has access, or see if I can find another way to access. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah, try WP:RSX if you need help.
        • So I've gotten access to the papers and swapped out the source. Basically, reading through, I gather the following: £407 was raised from appeals at the time the statue was put up. The Treasuer paid the £800 which it cost. Public appeals were made to collect the rest of the funds. At the end of 1985, £650 was collected. What came of the remaining £150 I don't know, it's not in these copies. Perhaps the debt was waived, or as the Bristol Radical History Group claims it was anonymously donated, but I can't find anything to verify it. Suggestions on what to do? I guess we'll just have to leave out the £150 part, and only explain up to the £650 we can source?
  • Wilkins needs the OCLC
  • "A petition to remove the statue had garnered more than 11,000 signatures" - Close paraphrasing, the source says "A petition to remove it had garnered more than 11,000 signatures". That's way to close of paraphrasing
  • What makes Inspiring City a RS?
    • checkY Nothing, I guess. It isn't verifying anything the other source isn't anyway, I suppose, so have removed. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 20:26, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ref 77 - Drop the via parameter, and use BBC as the publisher
    • Via dropped. Just to clarify, do you mean change to |publisher=? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 20:26, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes.
        • Also looks like the other cites to "BBC News" currently are also using |work=. Should they all be changed to |publisher=BBC? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 20:54, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
          • I'd say so.
            • ​ One of my changes on this were reverted, see edit summary of Special:Diff/984912890. I'm not particularly familiar with cite templates, so not sure what the standard is. Comments? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
              • It's fine as it is, I guess. Not a big deal.

I did some more spot checks, which came up clean. Placing on hold. Hog Farm Bacon 21:25, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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