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Book mention

Francis March is mentioned in Simon Winchester's book The Meaning of Everything, 2003 (ISBN 0-19-280576-2) which is a history of the Oxford English Dictionary.

At the time of writing there's also limited information on him on the internet. Try this Google search. Chris Jefferies 09:36, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

forgotten

I removed the following:

He is a largely forgotten figure, his thesaurus is no longer available, and he is not mentioned by Britannica or by the American National Biography.

He is listed in the current online Brittanica, and the fact that a person is "forgotten" doesn't seem very encyclopedic. -- Norvy (talk) 23:58, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC) (forgot to sign comment originally)

Son, Francis Andrew March

His son, also called Francis Andrew March, (1863-1926) wrote books on WW I and jointly edited A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language with his father. More research is needed. Dthomsen8 (talk) 02:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC)Dthomsen8[reply]

Son, Francis Andrew March

This article states prominently "Not to be confused with his son Francis Andrew March, the historian." However, the page later states: "He was the father of historian Francis Andrew March" with a link to http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Francis_Andrew_March which helpfully links back to this page as a redirect. Could this be fixed, please? Echinops (talk) 08:54, 15 June 2014 (UTC)Echinops[reply]

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Group collaboration

@Elizabeth Emerson: @MiniWonton: @Ketchup Bottles: @Dior Kennedy: @Ambitious dinosaur: @MisoSoop: @MaeLangston:, just out of my own curiosity, are you all editing this page as part of a group project? SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:51, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Semmendinger:, Yes! We're students at Lafayette working on a project for our writing seminar. We're going to eventually submit this page to be reviewed for good article designation. Elizabeth Emerson (talk) 20:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC) Elizabeth Emerson[reply]

Awesome! I figured that was likely the case. I graduated from Laf in 2016 so it's cool to see other students taking an interest in the school's history! Any reason for choosing March? Page is looking great by the way, should pass GA easily once it gets to that time. Don't mind me, I'll do some clean up work from time to time. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 23:44, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, once it's designated GA, you should apply for a DYK on this page as well. Could be something along the lines of: "...that Francis March was the first university professor of English in the world?" I think that'd be a cool eye-catcher. Just an idea :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 23:47, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Our professor assigned each group a "Lafayette-specific" topic so that most of the editing and work could be done by us. We also have a lot of access to source material through the library archives! Elizabeth Emerson (talk) 15:11, 29 October 2018 (UTC) Elizabeth Emerson[reply]

When you are citing from the archives, please make sure the links are valid. For example, the citation called "lafayette_newspaper_1911_09_26_OBJ.pdf" doesn't even link to anything. There's no way to validate what it says since we don't have access to a the URL it is purporting to draw from. Please try to find a URL to attach to that link if you can, as long as you can find the URL I can fix up the wiki markup so it works properly in the page. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 18:07, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

It's up to whoever reviews this article for GA, but I think the lead was best with only the first 2 paragraphs. Summarizing every little detail in the lead is a bit overkill when the article isn't too long. It makes the page unnecessarily large, you'll lose readers interest halfway through. Just some thoughts. See MOS:INTRO, MOS:LEADLENGTH. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:26, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, you guys are fast. As soon as I posted that it was already shortened. I might re-edit it a bit more, but the length right now is much more manageable for an article of this size :) Nice job! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:28, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]