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Assessment comment

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

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  1. Requires infobox
  2. Requires photographs
  3. Line map would be helpful
  4. Requires addition of inline references using one of the {{Cite}} templates
  5. Requires copy edit for WP:MOS
Keith D (talk) 18:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 15:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 05:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Newspapers as sources

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May I make the observation that using nineteenth-century newspapers as factual sources has certain dangers? They are excellent at adding contemporary colour (although they are sometimes too keen on repeating lengthy speeches verbatim). But they can be careless about dates, and factual detail in general. They tended to accept announcements ("The railway will be opened next Monday...") as historical facts. Worse, they tended to reprint material from other newspapers uncritically, so that if weekly newspaper A prints "The railway opened last Monday" and weekly newspaper B picks that up and reprints it a week later, they very, very often didn't bother to alter the reference, so it still comes out as "last Monday". Other detail often went over the head of a journalist -- we see that today where often enough a newspaper has got the wrong end of the stick.

Just saying. Afterbrunel (talk) 15:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]