Talk:Georgeann Wells

Reference
In my research, I found another source that I did not end up using. It is a book by Rick Steelhammer called It Happened In West Virginia: Remarkable Events That Shaped History (ISBN 9780762770540). There is a 3-page chapter about Wells called "Duchess of Dunk" (pp. 132-134), which corroborates much of what is already in the Wikipedia article and which, indeed, draws upon 2 articles that are already cited in the main Wikipedia article (namely, Albergotti's "The Dunk That Made History" and Garber's "Mother of Dunk Finally Getting Due 25 Years Later"). Despite the fact that the author includes a bibliography at the end, which includes references to the chapter's 3 sources, there are no footnotes directly linking what is written to the source, so one cannot tell with sufficient assurance which claim can be attributed to which source. (For example, the author included a quote from an interview with Wells that I wanted to use, but then did not cite the source of the interview. It may very well be from an interview published in the Sunday Gazette-Mail, but I was unable to track it down to double check.) In my opinion, the book is overall a bit more like folklore, than anything, and, indeed, the LCSH subject heading is "West Virginia -- History -- Anecdotes." So, while it is certainly a delightful read and written with an entertaining tone, I do not feel that it is crafted in a particularly scholarly way and thus I have reservations about listing it as an authoritative source. Perhaps something worth mentioning in the "See also" subheading.That librarian 88 (talk) 12:32, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Spelling
Is her name spelled Georgann or Georgeann? One of them needs correcting. Katharineamy (talk) 10:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Date of birth is needed.--109.252.100.73 (talk) 04:20, 2 May 2021 (UTC)