[WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> That's 32 media/web references (some of them with multiple citations), and
> 3 book references (each cited once).

I would suggest finding out who added those book references and seeing
if they still have the books, and then building on the article from
there. It would help if it was easy to find who added a particular
reference. Incidentally, NobelPrize.org would be one of the more
biographical sources. The Nobel Foundation gets each recipient to
write a biography, and they are published in a regular series of
books.

Here is an example:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/russell-bio.html

"This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and
later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The
information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the
Laureate."

The Nobel Foundation lectures are also fascinating, though less useful
for Wikipedia articles.

Also, some of those media references may be obituaries, which are a
different sort of source to news articles. As always, you need to look
in detail at the sources to really see what is going on.

Carcharoth