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Sources and suggestions welcomed. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 21:46, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
The lead should summarize the points in the article. This lead includes information not in the article (e.g. the part about academic standards) and does not clearly summarize his career. The part about him directing the Clements Library, as well as his stint in Indiana, should be more prominent. I added an infobox. Yoninah ( talk) 22:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Sources There isn't much to demonstrate the impact of his work or notoriety. Anecdotal evidence of his discovery of the number of casualties in the Revolution should not be included here. Suggest deletion of article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.61.71.210 ( talk) 14:15, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I stumbled onto this article after seeing WP:MCQ#Fair use and started reading through the article. One of the things I noticed is the embedded external links to Google Books in Howard Henry Peckham#Works. This section seems to a a bibliography (an embedded list) and external links are typically not allowed to be embedded like this per WP:EL#Links in lists. I think it's probably better to tweak the formatting of the list, possibly by using {{ cite book}}, along the lines of the examples given Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies#Book links instead of simply Book. FWIW, using the "cite book" template will make it easier to add more information about the work itself and keep the formatting consistent for each entry. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
{{cite book|last=Dearborn|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Dearborn|editor1-last=Brown|editor1-first=Lloyd A.|editor2-last=Peckham|editor2-first=Howard H.|title=Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783|year=2007|publisher=Heritage Books|orig-year=1st pub. [[Caxton Club]]:1939|others=Biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith|isbn=978-0-7884-0124-4}}
|url=
) and the "via" parameter (|via=
) as follows{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUBt7zJodLEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s|last=Dearborn|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Dearborn|editor1-last=Brown|editor1-first=Lloyd A.|editor2-last=Peckham|editor2-first=Howard H.|title=Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783|year=2007|publisher=Heritage Books|orig-year=1st pub. [[Caxton Club]]:1939|others=Biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith|isbn=978-0-7884-0124-4|via=[[Google Books]]}}
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Sources and suggestions welcomed. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 21:46, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
The lead should summarize the points in the article. This lead includes information not in the article (e.g. the part about academic standards) and does not clearly summarize his career. The part about him directing the Clements Library, as well as his stint in Indiana, should be more prominent. I added an infobox. Yoninah ( talk) 22:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Sources There isn't much to demonstrate the impact of his work or notoriety. Anecdotal evidence of his discovery of the number of casualties in the Revolution should not be included here. Suggest deletion of article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.61.71.210 ( talk) 14:15, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I stumbled onto this article after seeing WP:MCQ#Fair use and started reading through the article. One of the things I noticed is the embedded external links to Google Books in Howard Henry Peckham#Works. This section seems to a a bibliography (an embedded list) and external links are typically not allowed to be embedded like this per WP:EL#Links in lists. I think it's probably better to tweak the formatting of the list, possibly by using {{ cite book}}, along the lines of the examples given Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies#Book links instead of simply Book. FWIW, using the "cite book" template will make it easier to add more information about the work itself and keep the formatting consistent for each entry. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
{{cite book|last=Dearborn|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Dearborn|editor1-last=Brown|editor1-first=Lloyd A.|editor2-last=Peckham|editor2-first=Howard H.|title=Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783|year=2007|publisher=Heritage Books|orig-year=1st pub. [[Caxton Club]]:1939|others=Biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith|isbn=978-0-7884-0124-4}}
|url=
) and the "via" parameter (|via=
) as follows{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUBt7zJodLEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s|last=Dearborn|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Dearborn|editor1-last=Brown|editor1-first=Lloyd A.|editor2-last=Peckham|editor2-first=Howard H.|title=Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783|year=2007|publisher=Heritage Books|orig-year=1st pub. [[Caxton Club]]:1939|others=Biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith|isbn=978-0-7884-0124-4|via=[[Google Books]]}}
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