Goud96

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Feedback for the course assignment “Add to an article” (due 2/21/18)

I reviewed the citation you added to the Wikipedia article History of slavery in New Jersey.

The citation reads: Blauvelt, Abraham (1808). "Abraham Blauvelt Accountbook". MC 720.

This assignment is evaluated on 3 criteria:

Part 1 - completion of training module "Sources & Citations"

done

Part 2 - Wikipedia tech skills (On the technical side of things, was the citation added correctly?)

good, citation entered correctly

Part 3 - citation content (Is this reference appropriate for the Wikipedia article? Is this a reliable secondary source highlighting historical scholarship on the subject? Is all the citation information complete such as a page number for a book or URL for a website?)

This is a primary source from the archive, and we do not cite archival/primary sources on Wikipedia, we should only cite secondary sources. For this reason, this citation should be removed from the article. Review the handout Editing Wikipedia articles about History, section "Sourcing."

-- JBhistorian (talk) 00:10, 7 March 2018 (UTC)