User:RodgerCarter

Article submission, Rodger Carter

The article was written entirely by myself without any cut and pastes from any other document. The references I provided are there to demonstrate the veracity of the submission. URLs were provided in most cases so that the reader can easily check the sources from which the statements in the article originated. The only reference without a URL was for a book and a complete citation was made for that book so that it can easily be checked at most any library.

As to use of web sites, most everything is now searchable on the web. This does not mean that information was generated by a particular web site, but that it has merely become part of the vast amount of material that has been scanned or otherwise made available to researchers by being placed on the web. For example, citation 18 refers to a Dunker advertisement in the March 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine with the page number given as usual in a citation. The URL allows the reader to go immediately to the site where that monthly issue was scanned and to verify the information for himself. This is the case with almost all of the material cited in my article. The only items not cited in this way are photographs which I have gathered on my own web site, dchis.com, most of which are scans from vintage Dunker flyers, or two scans from a book used with permission. If URLs cannot be used to direct readers to the material being discussed so that it can be verified, then it would seem that wikipedia itself is not to be considered a reliable source since it is a URL based enterprise.

If the reviewer would be more specific about which prose is considered to be improper, I believe I can demonstrate otherwise. Likewise the URL references. If the reviewer would prefer to discuss this by email I can be reached at carterrodger@hotmail.com.


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