Talk:James B. Sumner

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Citations of Nobel bio-sketch[edit]

Thanks to DMacks for today finding quotations in Sumner's Nobel bio-sketch which serve as sources for 3 facts which were questioned today. However it would be better to insert these as in-line sources in the article, so that future readers can find them easily without looking through old edit summaries. Dirac66 (talk) 02:38, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't sure how to do that sanely. Best I can see, every factual statement in the Biography and Research sections is potentially questionable (just like every statement anywhere:) and all (with the exception of the {{cn}} I left) are supported by that same bio-sketch. I did not think it was useful to put the same footnote tag on every sentence in each of two whole sections. What would be a more obvious way of saying "here is a good (not even selfpub'ed!) reference page that gives his bio", if a link labeled "biography" in External links isn't obvious enough? Should that link move to References? Should we really footnote it on each of the cn-tagged sentences I traced? DMacks (talk) 06:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, if the bio-sketch is a general reference for much of the article, I'll just move it from External Links to References. Dirac66 (talk) 15:31, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]