User talk:Monacopub

Questions about James' references
Hi Monacopub: Thanks for your recent addition of references to the Jesse James page and his son's page. Both of those pages use an in-text citation style, as do most Wikipedia articles. Your addition of the references to the “reference section” is clumsy and the manually inserted reference numbers is confusing. It seems to me that the B. Wayne Quist reference should be used to support something within the Northfield, Minnesota raid section. But since the publication is not available via internet, most editors (myself included) would not be able to do that.

Also, I could not to my satisfaction, determine whether the Ralph A. Monaco book was fiction or non-fiction. I looked in several big libraries to see how they had it classified, but they did not list the book (perhaps it is too recent). If it is a non-fiction historical publication, it should be used as an in-text reference. If it is fictional historical novel, then it should be limited to an “in popular culture” section. One would think that fiction versus non-fiction would be an easy thing to determine, but sometimes it is not without actually having the book.

You can make the changes or if you prefer, I can do so if you confirm the questioned information. Regards, Pinethicket (talk) 12:58, 25 June 2012 (UTC)