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May I suggest adding citations to the end of the paragraphs, instead of after every sentence when the entire para is from a single source. This "Operation Dew I consisted of five separate trials from March 26, 1952 until April 21, 1952 that were designed to test the feasibility of maintaining a large aerosol cloud released offshore until it drifted over land, achieving a large area coverage.[2] The tests released zinc cadmium sulfide along a 100-150 nautical mile line approximately 5-10 miles off the coast of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.[2] Two of the trials dispersed clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over large areas of all three U.S. states. The tests affected over 60,000 square miles of populated coastal region in the U.S. southeast.[2] The Dew I releases were from a Navy minesweeper, the USS Tercel.[2]" is pretty redundant. Xasodfuih (talk) 11:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You may, but they usually pitch a fit at DYK when someone does that, so I have just gotten into the habit of citing facts when they appear, and whenever I use a source. Plus it makes things a bit simpler when the article gets expanded later (especially if it's not by me). But feel free to do what you will, it's no big deal to me. --IvoShandor (talk) 11:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You are citing a wide page range (44-77) many times. If you want to be precise and give a citation after every sentence, at least give useful ones with narrow page ranges. Xasodfuih (talk) 12:05, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can fix it if you want, google books allows searches within the text, right on the page, those pages are light on text and not hard to scan. If I have time, I will get to it. The information is pretty easily verifiable so I am not really that worried about it. --IvoShandor (talk) 12:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]