User talk:LexMusta

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No problem, glad to be of help, and always happy to have more Baha'i editors on Wikipedia. Send me an e-mail through the "E-mail this user" link on the left side of my user page, and we can talk more offline. -- Jeff3000 04:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I think I've met your mother (based on your last name) at the National Convention. -- Jeff3000 04:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Louis George Gregory additions

Can you help formulate a reference for your additions? I'm guessing many of them would come from "Musta, Leonard (2014). Personal Research Notes on Louis George Gregory from 1996-2014. Crofton, MD: Unpublished." It would be great if there was something more formal and supported to satisfy wikipedia's WP:Reliable review. --Smkolins (talk) 01:32, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Smkolins. So for instance the family tree. In To Move the World Hand of the Cause of God, Mr. Louis George Gregory specified the family he contacted. Then I went into ancestry.com and got the rest of the family tree. How would you like me to cite that. The first mention use To Move the World. Then the rest to cite ancestry.com on each line? And the other family members from death certificates. Mentione each one, on by one?

User:LexMusta It is possible to multi-enter references. If you will check footnote 26 right now you'll see that it has several entries. That might suffice. It would be far better and easier if such a review were published in a journal but it may suffice. Or a kind of note - check `Abdu'l-Bahá's_journeys_to_the_West#First_trip_to_Europe for"nb 1" where again things can be compiled. Links to each entry would be useful. Perhaps see if you can find other instances where ancestry.com is being used as a reference. The limitation is that wikipedia is more for accepted sources - and certainly not primarily for original work. Good quality original work goes through published journals and the like. Academic Thesis and that kind of thing. There are other venues for information of all kinds but if we dip on credible sources on this case then other cases open up. Thus supporting the standards is the best in all cases together and in fairness and justice to all. --Smkolins (talk) 02:39, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm - checked myself - User:A_Quest_For_Knowledge/Reliable_sources_noticeboard_FAQ - not so good using Ancestry.com. A few yes but mostly no. --Smkolins (talk) 02:45, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps someone from Ancestry.com's editorial staff could vet the material gathered and write up an article? --Smkolins (talk) 02:49, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

K - well until this gets figured out more I'm going to go ahead and pull the family tree part. Without more cites the first part - nice as it is - may have to go too. --Smkolins (talk) 23:50, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A thing I'm looking to do is review Baha'i News and Star of the West for articles he wrote…. That could be in the article. Alas compiling controbutions to World Order is beyond me.--Smkolins (talk) 02:48, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]