On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@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.htm...
"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