Advice before editing this pre-1700 Kennedy profile? Please assist with reference tags.

Question

I have information to contribute to the profile of Priscilla Christian Kennedy. This is what I can add:

These are the sources I am using:

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding? Thank you!

Answer 1

Sara, I see a few problems with the linked profile.  There is no Sources heading, nor is the <references /> tag beneath it.

The biggest problem, though, is that there are no sources for the profile, although there are numbers sprinkled about in the biography that you might be intending to lead to source citations.

I'll make you a deal - if you put the source citations in the profile beneath what is now there, I will come behind you and format them nicely, while explaining everything I do so that you'll be able to do it in the future.

Comments

There used to be a lot of sources.  Some conflicting.  I expect that over time, people simplified it out of existence.  This was and is a complicated profile that has been completely  disfigured.  I'm descended from 2 of her sons.

here's one version of her history that looks nothing like what is there now.

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=priscilla+christian&n=kennedy

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Right, geneanet has some stuff on it but none of it sourced which is problematic.  The WT profile is a mess (speaking from an html/edit perspective).  Somebody has put in numbers in tag-brackets like they were trying to manually create superscripts that get created automatically when using properly formatted ref-tag inline citations.  I will do some basic editing to straighten it out but that's all I will do for now.