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Reason for a seperate sources page

The reason the sources is on a seperate page is because if we get serious about sourcing but use the current jarring system, the article would look like Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check/R. C. Sherriff Footnotes. The current system also doesn't allow you to show which sources are for the month-day and which are for the year for linked dates. -- Jeandré, 2007-01-10t19:24z

Not necessarily. I've added one footnote the the entire paragraph on his war service which is sufficient to cover it.--hydeblake (talk) 07:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia's verifiability policy: you can't just give an entire book as reference - you need to give the page numbers. -- Jeandré, 2008-06-30t18:37z

But at least there are now some sources shown on the page, rather than on an entirely separate, unconected page! Reading it now, the whole article looks as if it only has six sources in the first paragraph - there are no other references at all referred to in the main article. Perhaps you should concentrate on moving the separate page of sources so it is integrated into this page - with ONE sensible reference per fact, rather than having several sources for each individual fact as you show on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check/R. C. Sherriff Footnotes. You may not like the current system, but that is the system we have to use and it is up to us to make it work smoothly and properly, rather than spend time trying to get round the system reinventing the wheel with separate, unconnected pages. --hydeblake (talk) 08:31, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Screenplay for The Dambusters

In the article it says that the film is based on the books by Paul Brickhill and Guy Gibson. Yet in the article on R. C. Sherriff it says that the film is based on the play The Long Sunset. I would imagine that on of these is wrong, altough I could not say which one Franny-K 19:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No it doesn't. Nick Cooper 13:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To prevent others from assuming that the table's records are for single stories, should we bold the years, so that they, like the column headers, are understood to be headers? -- Jeandré, 2007-09-02t21:17z

What did he study at New College Oxford?

This article says he studied at New College Oxford, but does not say what he studied there. Vorbee (talk) 21:36, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]