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A fact from Barnum Museum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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A box was put on top of this article that it was lacking in references and sources. This is not true. There is a references section that lists the three websites from which the material for this article was drawn. Please see those websites for the content if you wish to verify this. Thank you. --Darmon 02:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Darmon, I appreciate that you have put general references in the Barnum Museum section that you have titled References however this alone will not make it a good article as it does not provide the reader with information as to which parts of the article refer directly to the web-links that you have put up as a general guide. I appreciate that you are new to Wiki (as you say in your first edit summary (New article - hope I'm doing this right) but could you please look at WP:FOOT and WP:REF and then make some adjustments to the article before you remove the tag which does not say that there are no references but actually says that the article does not adequately cite its references and sources. Please note I am not trying to be difficult or grumpy - I am just interested in helping you understand what the consensus of established editors conventionally use throughout wikipedia.--VS ^talk 07:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]