Talk:Marcellus Jerome Clarke

Sources

With all that has been written on the Civil War, there should be plenty of valid sources. An Internet site with an article with no author or footnotes, as at The Missouri Partisan Ranger on Clarke, does not seem like a valid source.--Parkwells (talk) 15:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License?

Most of this article was copied verbatim from Bryan S. Bush's website (http://www.bryansbush.com/hub.php?page=articles&layer=a0606), where he says the article "Louisville During the Civil War" is licensed for use as above. It seems that he should be credited with this material, especially for wholesale use of his work. It leads to a very one-sided account of some of the war issues, as his article was also used for Louisville during the Civil War on Wikipedia.--Parkwells (talk) 15:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

See Talk:Louisville in the American Civil War#Source of original article. Bush's material was used with permission and via the CC license for getting the article started. As per Wikipedia practice, any potential bias can be shaved off by other editors over time. Any article can be improved by anyone. The reality with some particularly complex articles is that they wouldn't have been started at all unless we had a rich, freely available source such as Bush's. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 15:51, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I did see that, after writing the above. Material that really relies on Bush's article should be cited separately, I think, or use his sources, so people know where it's coming from. He relies on the Vest article, and there is no way to know where Vest got his quotes.--Parkwells (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

That's one of the common issues in the Wikipedia, the trackability of references. If something seems out of whack due to a shaky reference, what's commonly done is finding a better reference to shore it up, or rewrite it. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 16:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Undue weight on Clarke's last speeches and execution

There is a lot of text given to supposedly direct quotes from Clarke and description of his last hours. This seems undue weight for an encyclopedia, rather than a journalism article. It seems to position him as a Confederate martyr, and doesn't use third-party sources to deal much with what the guerrillas actually did in Kentucky, both in total killings and in effect on Union Army or KY.--Parkwells (talk) 16:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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