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Captain Marvel edits

Concerning your criticism/reversion of my edits to Captain Marvel (DC Comics):

1. For the vast majority, the comics issues are themselves the sources (this is especially true for the rewrite of the description of the feature's appearances in the last 13 issues of Adventure Comics; there is, off the top of my head, at least one reprint from DC's early 70s Shazam! comic, a Mary Marvel solo, and maybe another with C.M. Jr.; the non-appearances of the feature in #s 500 & 503 and the reasons therefor are similarly not open to dispute).
2. I did not "remove Newton" but merely relocated his first appearance to the revamp of which his arrival was part.
3. As for the serials, just check out the articles for Adventures of Captain Marvel and the earlier Mysterious Doctor Satan and you'll find citations for the fact that the storyline of the Superman serial pitch was reworked as Satan, not Marvel.
4. That you also reverted the strictly "mechanical errors" (minor grammatical changes, duplicated full names/Wikilinks, and especially the typographical misspelling of "Batson" as "Baton," none of which have any effect on meaning) shows that you did not look closely at the diff. pages of my edits, which you linked in on my talk page, prior to hitting the "undo" button, never a good idea.

Again, for the comics discussion, the issues, carefully identified, are themselves Wiki-acceptable sources, even if I did not make formal reference citations of them, and just give me time and I'll duplicate the cites from the serials' articles to the others. Also note that the article has a "Citations needed" template at the top, so singling out my not really unsupported edit of the DC Comics run in favor of a less accurate version that is no better cited is very strange. I have added your talk page to my watchlist so you can respond right here and I'll know about it. --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:53, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

My most humble apologies, as item #4 was completely unjustified. Very sorry, sir. --Tbrittreid (talk) 23:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

After posting the above, I went to your profile page to see if perhaps you were an administrator, and instead found "Novice editor." I should have checked before I ever posted here and allowed for that. Again, my apologies. --Tbrittreid (talk) 23:15, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I had no intention of adding in the cite for the flying effects, and did so only because you raised the issue. Interestingly, that paragraph already ended with a ref cite to the same work, seeming to cover the entire paragraph. I wonder which it really says, since it's William Witney's personal memoirs, not a film historian's carefully researched report. --Tbrittreid (talk) 20:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)