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Simple question: Why is a link to a 1930 US Census with Stalcup included in a footnote the article? What do you think it adds to the article? Do you think that someone reading the article will question whether Markward ever actually existed? RedSpruce (talk) 20:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

  • The little number in brackets after a sentence is a "footnote". The full sentence the reference is supporting reads "She was born as Mary R. Stalcup to Maria and Benjamin Stalcup." The name of the article is "Mary Stalcup Markward". She could have been born "Mary Stalcup Markward" but wasn't, she was born under a different name, and that name is: "Mary R. Stalcup". This is her birth name. The name of her parents are Maria X and Benjamin Stalcup, which also from the census. The census is a primary record, and has been used in articles to find birth years, and parents names. It was also used to correct mistakes in two articles in Encyclopedia Brittanica, which were changed in the online editions based on the census and what was added here to Misplaced Pages. You may also notice that the Social Security Death Index is used as a source to find incorrect birth dates and birth years in some articles in which the birth date is in dispute. Information doesn't just exist in Misplaced Pages, it comes from someplace, and that place is always to be shown, so people can judge the validity of the source. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
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