Talk:Andrew Sledd

message: The available sources unfortunately leave a handful of holes in Dr. Sledd's story:
1.  What specific policies or accomplishments did he have during his 5 years at Southern University?
2.  What theology courses did he teach at Candler?
We would be grateful to anyone who could help us fill these information gaps regarding Dr. Sledd's life.  Source documents from Randolph-Macon, Florida, Birmingham-Southern, Emory and Candler would be helpful.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew Sledd: additional information needed 

message: I'm just going through the article again, with a fairly fresh pair of eyes as it's been a while since I've read it through.  It's a fine piece of work.
*"... the first Professor of Greek and New Testament Literature at the newly established Candler School of Theology, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's new seminary in Atlanta."  This sentence cropped up before, and I think, looking back at the earlier discussion, that I understood it at that point.  It stopped me again this time through, though, so I think a rewrite is necessary.  The problem is that I'd forgotten about the comma in the middle of the church's name.  Without that I took the comma clauses to be explanatory, so I parsed this as "the newly established Candler School of Theology" (which is the same as) "the Methodist Episcopal Church" (which is the same as) "South's new seminary in Atlanta".  That's just a darn confusing name.  Could we hide the comma inside the link, like so: Methodist Episcopal Church?  Or if "Methodist Episcopal Church" actually means a different organization (as I suspect from our earlier discussions) then is there some circumlocution you can find to avoid the confusion?
*"The small state university, in whose creation and early organization Sledd was instrumental" -- this seems a little clumsy to me.  How about something like "The small state university, which Sledd had been instrumental in creating and administering in its early years"?
*This might be US vs. UK usage, but I would have thought "earned doctorate degrees" should be "earned doctoral degrees".
That's everything I can spot.  Congratulations on a very thorough job.  A couple of other comments: if you are interested in the style of separating notes from footnotes, I'd be happy to implement it for you -- an example can be seen at Hygeberht.  Just let me know if you want me to take a pass at splitting them out in that way.  I'm also curious about the naming of the article on Sledd Hall (Gainesville, Florida); shouldn't it just be at Sledd Hall?  Typically a parenthesis is used for disambiguation, but this is the only Sledd Hall so I think it's not needed.
I will watch the article, and I watch FAC anyway, so I will almost certainly notice when you nominate, but feel free to ping me.  I will support, though I will also probably mention the long list of See Also links as something to consider trimming.  I don't think anyone could possibly oppose over that, but you might see more opinions on the point. Good luck with it! Mike Christie (talk – library) 20:20, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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