Talk:Gail Cobb

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Assessment comments

• If possible, article could expand on Cobb's early career
• Some of the prose is unclear/repetitive, examples:
  • "They stopped them and asked them for identification"
  • "Cobb died at the scene...the suspect was arrested at the scene"
• Article as a whole could use more references
• Article depends heavily on www.mcjackie.com, which appears to be a self-published source.

Good article on a courageous and historically significant subject, but still needs work. Altamel (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for assessing the article! I'll try to fix it up some more, but unfortunately, sources are quite hard to come by on this subject. Thanks again. Illegitimate Barrister 05:28, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Wow, you've done a lot of work on this article today! I'll stop by periodically and see if it should be re-assessed. The thing that concerns me the most is how much it relies on that self-published website. If you can corroborate the info sourced to that website from other sources, that would be a vast improvement. Altamel (talk) 15:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

I've stumbled across two published books that pertain to this subject. They appear to corroborate what the self-published source says, more or less. I'll see if I can't do some more work on this article later today or tomorrow. Regards, Illegitimate Barrister 16:41, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

A lot of work's been done now. If you can reassess, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks and cheers, Illegitimate Barrister 09:12, 10 February 2015 (UTC)