Talk:Cesar Picton

A fact from Cesar Picton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?

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Death date?

In the beginning it says he died in 1836 where as the "Tradesman to gentleman" section says he died in 1831. Which is correct ? Jay 09:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1836 - corrected. Johnbod 09:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style

Hi, I boldly made a number of changes to this article all of which have been reverted on the grounds of change of citation style. I'm not clear which change is seen as controversial, the more consistent use of templates or changing "notes" and "references"? Happy to discuss and at least make the less contentious changes in the meantime --KenBailey (talk) 05:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Both of those. Drive-by changes to match somebody's personal preferences are clearly forbidden by WP:CITEVAR, & can make it harder for those who actually write the article to do so in future. Johnbod (talk) 14:04, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken and my apologies for overdoing it. --KenBailey (talk) 16:00, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I don't know what to do about dead-links used as unique sources. I'm inclined to leave them in case someone is keen enough to search Wayback etc, or find the page at a new address. Johnbod (talk) 17:54, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I had already done precisely that using the cite web template, and, to digress, I looked for, but couldn't find, archive copies of the two dead links in External links so they should come out altogether per WP:LR.
I still hold that citation templates would improve this article. I'd like to know what other editors think. --KenBailey (talk) 07:53, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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