Talk:Donald Dean Jackson

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A fact from Donald Dean Jackson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Donald Dean Jackson, known for his editing of the George Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Donald Dean Jackson.

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New article

Content and other sources welcomed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:27, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jackson, 1989, A year at Monticello, 1795, archive.org

RS?

@Kuru: -- Thanks for giving the new article a look'sie. Re: the citation/source you removed. Prabook is a component of World Biographical Encyclopedia, Inc. I had assumed this was a RS. Interested in your thoughts. Meanwhile, I'll see what else is out there. Thanks for looking out. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's an open-editing platform, with material scraped from various sources, oftentimes Wikipedia. Their administrative pages include: "Prabook cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been created, changed or altered by someone, whose opinion does not correspond with the real facts about a person. Administrators have not necessarily reviewed information published in Prabook." I don't remove it as an "external link", but I can't imagine how it would meet WP:RS. Sorry. Kuru (talk) 04:48, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problems. Thanks for the low'down on this source. Wish they listed their sources. See you around. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 17:31, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for further improvement

This isn't really important for the DYK nomination, but A) the works in the #Works section should have their publication data and {{citation}} template formatting (use |display-authors=0 to remove Jackson's name) or be removed as a laundry list to a Wikisource author page; B) his publications and journals are their own citations and don't need references (let alone duplicate and double footnoted references) for their existence; C) the WOI he worked for should be disambiguated: AM station, FM station, or both; D) the nature of his career should be better fleshed out: there should be some material on his approach to historiography and what his stewardship meant for the Washington and L'n'C projects; if he was just a bland cipher, that would be worth noting as well; E) if George Washington and the War of Independence was his second notable work, it should get its own subsection; similarly, if his L'n'C project wasn't notable enough for the #Works lede, it shouldn't have its own subsection; F) most of the material currently in the L'n'C subsection isn't about the project, its scholarship, or its reception/importance but about the work Jackson put into getting it made; all of that belongs in his #Career section as things he was doing in his career, not as works he saw published; G) some of the citation references need to be cleaned up: Journal: , 1988 isn't really a sensible ref for Lange & al. or Montana or Montana Historical Society; H) source specifies prostate cancer, which should be mentioned and possibly categorized; I) the article should also be listed at Donald Jackson (disambiguation). — LlywelynII 09:27, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

J) Any reason for two separate versions of links to the Ferraro source? — LlywelynII 09:30, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]