User talk:Purplebananasandelephants/Casper Reel

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Washington may not be the man that Casper Reel saved. What is true Is that he did save a high ranking soldier. Unsigned post by Purplebananasandelephants 20:13, 6 March 2009.

Hard to find books?
Sadly the popularity of Casper reel has droped by a great amount. Most books that do have many details and in all more information about Casper Reel. are either found in Historical Societies, other libraries, or are out of publication.Most books of today only tell a small portion of his life. If you can find some books that tell about his live, please add it to the references. Some websites have information about hime or books that tell a little bit about him. Unsigned post by 67.165.72.140 23:51, 10 March 2009


 * What we need right now are the details of the books and other documents that are listed as sources already. That means full title, name of author, publisher, year of publication, isbn number (if it has one).  You should only list as sources books and documents that you have actually read and used in the article.  Documents you think exist but have not actually seen the content of yourself are not sources for the article and you should remove them from the list (or put them in a "further reading" section if it is possible for readers to get them from a library).  After that you need to put inline citations in the article stating the page number of the reference.  The article is certainly not suitable for DYK with the current poor referencing, and someone may even nominate it for deletion.  By the way, new posts go at the bottom of the talk page so I have moved this one.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  00:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Highland Country Club
I have restored the "reliability" tag to this source. Reliable source usually means that it undergoes some sort of editorial checking process. Books and newspapers fall in to this category. Peer reviewed journals are even better. This site is essentially a promotional site. Marketing material is not checked with any kind of academic rigour, cannot usually be considered reliable and should be used only with great caution.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  12:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

History of Caspar Reel
Finally found a record of the book under an alternate spelling (Caspar). This edition was self-published in 1940. Does your 1957 edition have a publisher or is that self-published also?  Sp in ni ng  Spark  13:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe Purple's addition is also self-published, as are most of the sources in this article. The other big source (the Pitt library one) is just a collection of Reel's own writing.  As far as I can tell, the only source I have access to that meets RS is (maybe) this from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 13:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * No, that's not so, Thomas Cushing, The History of Allegheny County ISBN 1404754458 is a published source, but it is not available online as far as I can tell. However, I cannot sort out the source citation until Purple confirms which edition he is reading, there are many of them with different publishers and pagination going back all the way to 1889. Purple, please talk to us, we need a conversation.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  13:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Caspar Reel book
Yes, the book published in 1940, is from the same person. The 1957 addition is just a edited copy of it with Caspar to Casper on the front. It also has more information, but is also self published. Also the The History of Allegheny County ISBN 1404754458 is a source i used, but there is also another. I am still getting inforamtion on it.almost forgot, the Caspar reel book is found in a published book around the same time, it also comes with a review of the book, and again, still getting info.Sorry later addition was Not from same person. I will have to change year on sources. I still do not know if it was self published now. I found 2 books online when talking to Cargnagy library. I will put them down after i find the information needed. NOT SELF puplished. comes with isbn number. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Purplebananasandelephants (talk • contribs) 19:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Casper Reel middle of an expansion
You should see new sources of information comming from published books. Now they do tell more about Casper Reel, But that is not just all. After I get an picture of the grave, I will try to learn how to make an infobox, This may take days, because from were i live, thats far off!! Please do not expect too much out of me, as this is my first and probaly my only artical. At the end of it all, I hope it can be classified with a C-class or B-class at the End.You are also welcome to help, as i see a few other have put time and effort to make it better and i say, thankyou. Purplebananasandelephants (talk) 23:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I can help you with an infobox later, but you don't need to worry about that now; infoboxes are just fluff, the writing and the references are the real substance. It's much more important that you focus on those (cleaning up all the references, making sure every single fact in the article is covered by a footnote, improving the writing). We can worry about the infobox later. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 23:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)