Talk:Reconstruction

Explanation of edits made to this article

As soon as this posting is done, I will upload a version containing the following edits (none of which involved any revisions whatsoever of the main article content):

• The method of producing in-text references (of which there were 54) was revised to CZ-ify so that the references actually include citations instead of being a list of very brief notes pointing to an extensive Bibliographic section in the main article. In other words, the 2-step system of referencing was converted to the more usual 1-step system. By so doing and utilizing the <ref name=XXX> </ref> method of handling multiple uses of the same reference source, the 54 reference citations were reduced to 30 citations.

• The extensive Bibliographic section in the main article was then no longer necessary and was deleted. Also, all of them were already included in the even more extensive Bibliography subpage.

• The main article section entitled "Primary Sources" was moved to the "Primary Sources" section of the very extensive Bibliography sub-pages which already included all but one of them.

• Revised the Table in the "Black officers" section of the main article so as to use the wikitable class which simplified the markup coding.

I also plan to revise the Metadata template status of 1 to status 2. This article was a CZ import and needs a lot of review and cleanup ... and still contains place holders for Wikipedia graphics which were never uploaded as yet. Also, the Related Articles subpage needs much more expansion.

I am not a historian expert by any stretch of imagination, and that is why I made no changes in the articles content. However, I do have excellent knowledge of how to format articles, wikitables and in-text references .... and that is why my edits are limited to those areas. Milton Beychok 04:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)