Talk:Anthony D'Andrea

Fix References
I do not know this material. I've just wikified a bunch of not-quite-footnotes in this article, but that's the best I can do. I can't verify that the footnotes stand for the propositions asserted and I can't attest to the value of the additional references listed without direct connection to any particular fact in the article.

Would someone who knows the material please hook up the rest of the references to what they're supposed to reference? Thanks. David in DC (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Story like tone
As noted by prior editors, the references and the citations are shallow. Better use of citations and references would improve the article by sounding less story like. I think a good example of an article dealing with the article's subject is Anthony Centracchio. Note how within the article about Anthony Centracchio the editors seemed to preface each statement by stating who said it and then used an inline citation do support who did the saying. In this article it sounds as if the editors made all the statements. Pknkly (talk) 20:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I looked over the Centracchio article and do not see the same things you did. First, the Centracchio is written in a highly repetitious style with almost each sentence starting off with "Centracchio" as in "Centracchio did this" and "Centracchio did that." It would have been better to used the pronoun "he" rather than repeatedly using his surname. Second, the frequent use of footnotes to refer to newspaper articles does not compare well with actual encyclopedia articles. They tend to be summaries with references at the end, which are used for further reading. To me it seems excessive. Furthermore, that much work is expected of a journal article in which the author is given credit, not an Internet encyclopedia in which anyone can contribute, including those who know far less than the primary contributor. Compare with standard encyclopedias, such as a Funk & Wagnall's, or Encyclopedia Britannica, or the Columbia Encyclopedia. In none of these will the reader find almost a citation for almost each sentence. RickW7x2 (talk) 07:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)