Talk:Jess Stacy

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Early Life Article says, "Professor Clyde Brandt, a professor at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Southeast Missouri State University),[1]" with ref.

'Jazz on the River' by W H Kenney [Univ of Chicago Press 2005 ISBN:0226437337] says "Stacy .... began taking formal piano lessons from J.Clyde Brandt, professor of piano and violin at what was then called Cape Girardeau University"

Which is better/more accurate do we all think? 81.137.120.145 (talk) 06:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Southeast Missouri State University was never known as Cape Girardeau University. The author of that book was wrong. That is why we did not directly quote him on this page; and because that is a paraphrase, and not a direct quote, the citation is entirely accurate. The history of the name of SEMO is 1873-1881: Southeast Missouri State Normal School, 1881-1919: 3rd District Missouri State Normal School, 1919-1946:  Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, 1945-1973:  Southest Missouri State College, and 1973- Present:  Southeast Missouri State University. SemoArchives (talk) 15:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Recent alterations:-

I feel this article was a whole lot better before the majority of [but not all] of Semoarchives alterations of 29 May 2008

Before I remove most of them, who agrees with this notion - and who doesn't?

Thank you 86.197.117.10 (talk) 14:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

It does seem a lot less informative - and why have those excellent quotes/refs gone? I'd say delete all Semoarchives 29 May alterations and let's start again from where we were.

We would like to hear an example of how our edits have made this article is less informative. We have tried to make sure that all of our edits are supported by primary and secondary source materials. What we did was keep the basic information but edit down block quotes so that the article flowed better. All the references are the same and information is the same, the changes we made were only to get rid of text that interupted the flow of the article. Someone wants to know the exact quote, they can look up the reference, that is what it is there for. Our purpose in editing this page was to use the resources that we have available at Southeast Missouri State University Special Collections and Archives to improve Wikipedia and expose more people to primary resource materials. If we are not doing this successfully, we would appreciate knowing how so that we can improve.SemoArchives (talk) 15:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)