== Improvements needed at Draft:Ira Blacker == 

 Hello, you're almost but not quite getting how to do references. Right now you have your references formatted as footnotes (which is good) but instead of being placed by the information in the article that they prove the little blue numbers are just stacked at the bottom of the article. Take a glance at WP:Referencing for beginners and it shows how to fix this. 

 Also, I see you have a lot of GoogleBooks references (which is good). There's a really helpful online tool to turn a URL link ("http://...") into a fully-formatted Wikpedia footnote. Take any of those links, paste it into http://reftag.appspot.com and at the bottom it'll give you properly formatted footnote coding to paste into your article. Hope this helps!