factual errors in nelson and pearson the egregious factual errors in pearson's book on oxford's wardship and finances are explicated in detail in christopher paul's article in the oxfordian cited in the references for this article nelson openly admits he merely followed pearson concerning oxford's wardship and finances thus compounding pearson's errors there are also a myriad of factual errors on topics other than oxford's wardship and finances in nelson's book and although nelson does not always openly credit his source even a cursory examination of his book establishes that he largely follows ward's earlier biography of oxford in consequence the only accurate source of factual information on oxford's wardship and finances and a number of other topics is primary source documents and an earlier wikipedia editor approved my citation of them at the time i edited the article some months ago these primary source documents themselves along with transcripts of hundreds of other documents mentioning oxford are readily available in modern spelling transcripts at so no user of wikipedia need go to an archive to determine what the primary source documents actually say the complete removal in recent weeks of my hours of work in accurately sourcing statements in the edward de vere article constituted vandalism as vandalism is defined by wikipedia nina green