Talk:Lynn de Silva

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possible improvements
Here are some improvements suggested by Drilnoth (see here)

1. Some of the references are doubled up... references 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 appear to all be used only once and all for the same fact. That many citations aren't necessary in the lead; could you use information from those sources to reference other information in the article?

2. Some of the Harvard references (like "Quoted in (Hallett 2007)") link to other footnote references; a bibliography (like in Edgar Allen Poe) or using the template would probably be better.

3. There may be a few too many quotations; typically, longer quotations from other sources should only be used if doing so would better illustrate the point than prose would. Could some of the quotes be converted into prose? Additionally, some of the quotations aren't referenced.


 * Fixed. Ldesilva (talk) 17:39, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

4. The list of publications could probably be trimmed, so that only the most important ones are included.


 * Fixed. Ldesilva (talk) 17:39, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The multiple references are indeed distracting. When there are more than two, pick the two strongest. Binksternet (talk) 23:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks -- fixed [this fix also addressed point (1) above]. Ldesilva (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2010 (UTC)