Talk:Peleg Chandler

Sourcing
You cannot just source to a goggle books page, you have to give a page number, or link to the specific page.Slatersteven (talk) 18:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0196
What this source does not say It does not say he was a prominent attorney, nor does it say he was a legal news reporter and editor. In fact the only part of the sentence it supports is that he was a He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms ans was a lawyer.Slatersteven (talk) 18:24, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Source removal
I haven't got a clue what purpose the half-cocked citation I removed here was intended to do. It would probably help if it was complete but it looks like the statement is sourced with another cite anyway. - Sitush (talk) 19:15, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you try searching for it? FloridaArmy (talk) 19:21, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes. Without a full citation, I couldn't find it. - Sitush (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Consistent naming
Was he "city attorney (solicitor)", "City Solicitor" or some other variant? City Attorney, perhaps? We're using all sorts of different terms for the same office and it makes life difficult for the reader. It is sloppy stuff. - Sitush (talk) 19:25, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Andrew memoir
Did he really "author" the John Andrew memoir? From the descriptions given at WorldCat and cited in this article, he is named along with Andrew himself. That suggests it was either a co-authorship or perhaps an editorial role following Andrew's death (if Andrew did indeed die first). - Sitush (talk) 20:00, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

And while we are sort of on the subject of WorldCat, we have WorldCat, so is there really any need to cite each and every one of the publications in the list as we do at present. We could just add the template to the end of the article. - Sitush (talk) 20:05, 21 May 2018 (UTC)


 * hi, here and here are pictures of the book's title page showing that Chandler is the author, and yes Andrew did die before Chandler. thanks for the worldcat template, i was unaware of it, and have substituted the cites with it. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:05, 22 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that. - Sitush (talk) 11:09, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * the worldcat stuff could probably be simplified, thus removing the use of external link in the article body. I think there is an option for citing the author id at worldcat, so one citation placed at the end of the section's introductory phrase would suffice for the entire contents of that section. That would also enable the interested reader to see any other publications by the same author which we have not actually listed. - Sitush (talk) 11:53, 22 May 2018 (UTC)