Talk:Benjamin Burstall

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(Replying to comment in talk page history) Understood. Don't get me wrong, it's a well-written article, but it's odd that for a long deceased person as notable as you make it seem in this article isn't written in any published book. Half is not a good standard for what's reliable and what's not (preferably all sources should be reliable). I think another opinion would be helpful. Perhaps it could be peer reviewed by someone at WikiProject Biography (Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review). Regards, --Nannochloropsis (talk) 22:21, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Re your "half is not a good standard". I meant that half of the references are linked microfilmed British Library print sources and verifiable online by e.g. someone in the US. The other half are mostly references to government archives, which are even more reliable, but not so easy to check if you are in another country. Government records, e.g. birth/marriage/death certificates, are usually taken as IGF on Wikipedia articles. So I dispute that UK government records are "not a good standard." Storye book (talk) 09:27, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you that the UK Newspaper Archive and UK government records are a good standard. I think it would help though to have sources from a wider variety of mediums. My comment is simply a suggestion for improvement. It's a good article. :) --Nannochloropsis (talk) 18:24, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes a good variety of mediums for citations would be ideal if they existed - but they don't. The great benefit of Wikipedia is that researchers can use the citations as an initial basis for writing that book that you are looking for. Meanwhile I have taken hundreds, probably thousands, of photos for this set of seven articles about the Mawer group, and uploaded them all to Commons (all categories linked in the articles). I am currently editing another set of over 400 photos of one of Robert Mawer's early projects. Meanwhile, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is right next door to Leeds Town Hall and the old Leeds Education building, both of which are covered in fine sculptures by this group - and the staff tell me that they have never heard of the sculptors and they have no record of them, even though the stoneyard was right next to the Town Hall - yet the records were there all the time in the British Library. So one would hope that this wake-up call might initiate the book that you are looking for. Watch this space. Storye book (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Very interesting. I look forward to seeing what happens. --Nannochloropsis (talk) 03:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)