User:Penultimate supper/sandbox

Source review

I reviewed 10% of the sources, selected randomly. Because so many of them ended up being from LeSueur 1990, I added an additional 5 randomly selected non-LeSueur sources to ensure I was reviewing the diversity of sources in the article. Somehow not a single one of the 18 randomly selected sources ended up being from Bushman's Rough Stone Rolling, the one source in the article I've actually purchased and read 🤷🏻‍♂️. My notes and recommendations from the source review are below.

• • 3a - Hartley 2001, p. 6 - Confirmed
    • The link provided for this reference is behind some sort of odd gatekeeping captcha alternative, and I couldn't access it, but I was able to find it here.
  • 24 - Quinn 1994, p. 94 - Confirmed
  • 25 - Baugh 2000, pp. 36–40
    • I'm having trouble finding the 2000 version of this source, it doesn't seem to be available online or via any of the public or academic libraries in my state. The 1996 dissertation version doesn't support the claims in the preceding paragraph on pages 36-40 (although part of the content on those pages is about the same aspect of the events. Additionally, this is both a dissertation and published by BYU Studies, which has a stated aim of publishing "scholarship that is aligned with the purposes of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of his Church", so I don't know if it's the best source. I'm not saying it's not a reliable source, but since reference 22 and 24 already seem to support all the claims in the paragraph, it's got some marks against it, and it seems to be hard to get ahold of even as a reference professional with broad access, it may be worth removing. Alternately, it seems the author has published more on the topic since, further into their academic career (Baugh, A. L. (2019). “We Have a Company of Danites in These Times”: The Danites, Joseph Smith, and the 1838 Missouri-Mormon Conflict. Journal of Mormon History, 45(3), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.45.3.0001, available here via Wikipedia Library) which may yield some stronger and more helpful cites.
  • 26 - Roberts 1965, Vol. 1, p. 438
    • The text on p. 438 seems to be about the “Salt Sermon” addressed in the previous paragraph, while the information about Rigdon’s “Declaration of Independence” is on 440, at least in the 1965 edition I was able to access. This should either be changed, or the citation should be expanded to clarify the use of a different edition, so page number line up. Also, publisher information should be added to the citation, especially as this is a source published by the LDS church.
  • 34 - LeSueur 1990, pp. 77–85
  • 40 - LeSueur 1990, pp. 70–71
  • 42 - LeSueur 1990, pp. 85–86
  • 49 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1968.
  • 51a - LeSueur 1990, pp. 101–110
  • 52 - Office of the Secretary of State of Missouri 1841, pp. 43–46, 53–54
  • 61 - Andrew Jensen (1889). The Historical Record, Volumes 5-8. p. 732.
  • 88 - Office of the Secretary of State of Missouri 1841, p. 73
  • 89 - Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1920, p. 13:450-451.
  • 93 - LeSueur 1990, p. 174
  • 94 - Robinson, Ebenezer, Autobiographical Remarks by Ebenezer Robinson (1832–1843). Reprinted Archived June 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine by the Book of Abraham Project at boap.org
  • 98 - LeSueur 1990, p. 182
  • 105 - Greene 1839, p. 27
  • 107 - Greene 1839, pp. 26–28, 34, 36