Talk:David Farrow Maxwell

References

This article refers to Forth and America as sources. I have tried without success to find more information about either, mostly because they are very common words. I am going to add {{not verified}} to the article because of these sources are obscure. If anyone has any info about these two sources, like whether they were magazines or newspapers or books, that would help. Jayvdb 07:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(1) America is a well-known periodical, still published today by America Press (New York). However, I can't recall what I meant by "Forth," so I'll remove those references. (2) The article needs no more links. (See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Internal links.) Too many links cause the reader to miss links to articles they would actually reference and makes the article look comical. Some of them have obscured the Italic font face, as well. By the way, (3) I don't appreciate you adding so many of those unprofessional-looking tags, especially when you don't intend on actually doing any work yourself. I have removed them. Finally, (4) it needs no more sections, because it is a short article over someone's life. Given the short treatment, it could have a billion of them. Further, the reader would never get lost in such a short entry. Paragraphs work fine for subsections here.--HQCentral 03:16, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, I do intend to work on this page as required, and I started by spending hours trying to find America and Forth. When I failed, I added the appropriate unprofessional-looking tags because that is a plea for help. The work you have done here is great; my only intention was improve it and attract more readers to it.

Re (1), thanks for the tip. Is this the magazine? http://www.americamagazine.org/

Re (2), linkless indicates that no other pages in Wikipedia link to this page. i.e. it is an orphan page, and therefore would benefit from another pages being improved to link to it. This tag causes this article on turn up on this radar: User:W.marsh/orphan_articles, and will probably bring a few helpers along.

Could you please restore this tag; or, if you really dont like the tag being present on this page, I encourage you to fix the problem the tag points out.

Please re-read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Internal links; none of the links I added to this article are out of order according to the policy. I will be re-introducing some of the more important links, specifically because it is the pages that I added links for that will be the prime candidates to have references back to this article.

Re (3), please read WP:FAITH. People often leave tags because they notice a problem with the article but dont have time to persue it right away. Or, one person in a wiki project will find and tag articles that need a certain type of improvement, and a different person will follow the tags and fill in the required blanks. Before you updated it, this article definately qualified for linkless and not verified

Re (4), The inclusion of the sections is a personal preference. I like to see articles broken up early when they approach the size of this article, but ... horse for courses... I'll leave that alone you are the main editor of this article and you dont consider it necessary at present. Jayvdb 10:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is he still alive?

Going by his stated birth year of 1900, Maxwell is currently 107 years young. Is that correct? If so, the article should make mention of the fact that he's a centenarian. - IstvanWolf 17:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He died in 1985. Reference has been provided and it is also confirmed in the SSDI. Cheers, CP 17:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More sources

I was able to find coverage here (Philly Inquirer obit), here (detailed Counrier-Journal article), here (NYT obit), and here (detailed NYT article) on Maxwell. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:55, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]