[WikiEN-l] a few words on sources

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

Just a quick note on sources--some of them are in the public domain, and,  if 
possible, can be added to Wikisource with the link {{wikisourcepar|XXX}}. 
 
Some of us have begun doing this with EB1911 articles, and I have started  
looking for first person US civil war accounts in newspapers and magazine from  
that period. Oral histories, while not always reliable, add considerably to 
our  understanding of the period, and are a great way to learn history. It can 
also  be extremely beneficial to students using Wikipedia to be able to click 
to a  newspaper article from the period being studied, which can be easily 
cited.  Furthermore, the amount of detail that these articles give, along with the 
 anecdotal accounts, enrich our own articles considerably. And finally, they  
often have great public domain illustrations. 
 
Tonight I added _http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Admiral_David_D._Porter_ 
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Admiral_David_D._Porter)  with  a link from [[David 
D. Porter]]. The image that goes along with this is  forthcoming. Personally, 
I think it is a nice addition to the article, with all  kinds of information 
that we do not have. I encourage others to find similar  articles for other 
events (the sinking of the Titanic, as reported in the NY  Times, for instance, 
or various battles of World War I, election-related  editorials, book reviews 
of classic works as they were published, etc.) to  really enrich the Wikipedia 
experience.
 
Danny