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Citations

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This page only has external links and needs citations in the text. Lalalajane (talk) 18:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Concur regarding the need for more citations of content. It also appears that some of the discussion of the memoir is taken directly (or closely paraphrased) from the Ron Jacobs review of Wilkerson's book. If it's a direct quotation, mark it so. If it's closely paraphrased, cite it clearly. --Historytrain (talk) 00:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Parenthetical citations used within this article should become endnotes.--Historytrain (talk) 00:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

<Comment: Good start! If you could expand on the early years, other involvements, and Days of Rage sections the biography would be much stronger.Tjcjaj (talk) 03:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The text "Cathy Wilkerson was out on $40,000 bail on assault charges in Chicago where she struck a police officer with a club during the "Days of Rage" has no citation and seems to be questionable. There is no mention of any direct interaction with a police officer during the Days of Rage in her recent book, and she spent most of those "Days of Rage" in the local jail and wasn't bailed out until 2 1/2 weeks later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.16.86 (talk) 06:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added a {{cn}} "citation needed" tag right after that text for you. That's the best place to ask for a citation if something seems questionable. I remember reading the phrase "four foot club" somewhere, I'll look around tomorrow. --CliffC (talk) 05:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Your bio has a lot of good and helpful information. It seems like there is a lot of uncited material on this page. I was able to cite 5 different direct quotes but you may want to go back and go over the bio, especially the "Flying Close to the Sun" section to cite some of your sentences. Jjs8 04:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)jjs8[reply]

Personal Insights

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There appears to be a lot of personal impressions and insights on this person within this article, which takes away from NPOV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rationalista (talk • contribs) 15:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked up some of the definitions for places related to where Cathy Wilkerson went to school and some of the history of Greenwich Village. The history gave me a background to information that I would need To go a bit further in my paper —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blund4 (talk • contribs) 02:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Explosion section

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I would suggest moving some of the information in the Explosion section pertaining to being on the FBI's 10 most wanted list and avoiding arrest for 10 years to the Arrest section. The way it is now, breaks the flow of the information about the townhouse. This will also add some additional information to your Arrest section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.14.16 (talk) 05:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I changed some of the wording on the explosion section towards the bottom because I felt like it was less offensive then what was originally written. I also added some citations in that section. Jjs8 04:16, 2 December 2007 (UTC)jjs8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjs8 (talk • contribs) 06:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

under arrest section

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do you know what she was charged with and how much time she served? Crmforclass (talk) 02:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago

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While her involvment in the "Days of Rage" is important, perhaps you might want to research a bit more on her involvment within the SDS during her time in Chicago. She had been there for sometime and could be possible that she had written something for SDS or even was a speaker of the Chicago SDS chapter. If time permits you may want to research that a little bit.Tjcjaj (talk) 05:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other Involvements

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Comment:A little more background information on her trip to Cuba would be helpful. Additionally, Wilkerson made a trip to Cambodia in 1967 with a delegation of SDS members. Information about this trip can be found at <link>http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm</link> Pgs. 72-73 and 228-229. (Willowmina (talk) 21:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Footnoting flaws

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Amusingly, somebody did strange, incorrect things with three periodical articles. Instead of citing them in footnotes as sources for statements, they were listed under "Further Reading". Worst of all, each citation consisted of the first paragraph or two followed by three dots. That constitutes copying of copyrighted material, doesn't it? I have deleted those quotations, but left the entries. Somebody needs to look up those articles (or use others) and use them as substantiation for specific statements made in the Wikipedia entry, so that they will be included in the "References". The entry already contains a "References" section. Hurmata (talk) 05:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

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It might be beneficial if the infobox associated with this entry provided a bit more information, such as a brief characterization of her notability.--Historytrain (talk) 16:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the reasons for her notability are already covered in the WP:LEAD lead section, but the articles's {{Infobox Person}} template certainly has lots of less important parameters that might be of interest. --CliffC (talk) 21:01, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Items Requiring Citation

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<Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson (born in 1945), known as Cathy Wilkerson, is an American radical who was a member of the 1960s radical group called Weatherman/ Weather Underground (WUO).> Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<Wilkerson, already free on bail for her involvement in the Chicago "Days of Rage" riots, avoided capture for 10 years by hiding under an assumed name.> Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<She turned herself in to police in 1980, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of dynamite and was sentenced to up to three years in prison.> Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<After graduating from high school, Wilkerson was accepted into Swarthmore College.> Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<other, Audrey Olena, graduated from Smith College and later took job as a teacher in Manhattan. > Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<Wilkerson and three other SDS members went to Cambodia where they met representatives of Vietnamese National Liberation Front.> Source(s)? --Historytrain (talk) 07:35, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<The blast killed three people, but Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin were helped from the rubble and they immediately went underground. The townhouse was being used by the Weather Underground to make bombs, in particular a nail bomb that was to be used against soldiers and their dates at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey that night. That evening, a man's body was found in the basement of the townhouse, and a short time later, a woman's torso was discovered on the first floor. Police also found several handbags with personal identifications that had been stolen from college students over the previous few months. Over the next few days, police discovered at least 60 sticks of dynamite, a live military antitank shell, blasting caps and several large metal pipes packed solid with explosives and nails as shrapnel.> Source(s)?--Historytrain (talk) 07:51, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a homework assignment? If you are posting these questions in an attempt to encourage the student to whom you've assigned this article to dot all the i's and cross all the t's, then I suggest that they would be better posted out of public view on the student's Wikipedia user page. If instead you are challenging the veracity of the statements themselves (most seem to be facts either well known or easily verified by citations already in the article, or by some googling), then you would need to edit the article to add a {{cn}} template immediately after each challenged statement. --CliffC (talk) 19:50, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

General Editing

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This article could benefit from closer revision for proper grammer and puctuation. Otherise, very informative! Neongolden (talk 23:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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