On 28/06/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
I came accross 7 actual citations in a 300 word paragraph today (text used under GFDL from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins) :
Overall, Johns Hopkins was an abolitionist [10]http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/aprjun95/may2295/22johns.html, who was a child participant when his parents emancipated the able-bodied slaves of the family in 1807 [11]< http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/archives/jacob.htm...
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who worked with other abolitionists such as Myrtilla Minerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtilla_Miner [12]< http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/print?articleId=125877&fullArticl...
and
Henry Ward Beecher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher [13]http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-9125877before the Civil War and who supported Abraham Lincolnhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln [14]< http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/AMALL:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28d192...
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the Union during the war. After the war, he was a Reconstruction actor who provided instructions in the above mentioned documents that his philanthropy should be used in ways that were often opposed to the racial practices that were beginning to emerge during the American Reconstructionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructionperiod [15]< http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/chrono...
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and later even in the posthumously constructed and founded institutions that would carry his name.[16]< http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/chrono...
A vandal buster had reverted it as vandalism. The poor guy who had sourced it was livid.
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was it from an ip address? i've noticed RC patrollers have a tendency to be over-zealous on 'anonymous' edits.