User talk:Petersturgewiki

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Edmund Sturge
Welcome, again. I have made a small tweak to the reference you added: the  tags should go outside the reference. WP:Referencing for beginners provides a guide.

The normal requirement for a reference is that it must have been published (see WP:Verifiability) so that a MS reference would not normally be acceptable. However, you say that this MS history is in the Library of the Society of Friends. Is it accessible there? The point of "published" is that, at least in principle, a reader of Wikipedia should be able to check the references given; so if an enquirer could be given access to the MS, it might be acceptable as a reference.

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Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)