Talk:Jack and Ed Biddle

A fact from Jack and Ed Biddle appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 June 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that warden's wife Kate Soffel, who fled with condemned brothers Jack and Ed Biddle after supplying guns and saws for their 1902 escape from the Allegheny County Jail, later took up dressmaking?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jack and Ed Biddle.

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Relationship to Mrs. Soffel article

I considered the possibility that this article and Mrs. Soffel should just be one article, but on the whole I think not -- there appears to be nontrivial academic work on them because of their folk-hero status. But I'm adding a redirect to here from Kate Soffel. EEng (talk) 00:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

This book (already a source in the article) has a bibliography listing numerous contemporary news reports, including NYT articles (beyond those already cited) available online. There's plenty of material here for someone to write a very interesting, quality article. EEng (talk) 12:30, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the process of writing an expanded article for this, and you can feel free to look at it if you want to make suggestions before I post. However, I am a bit new to Wikipedia and am not sure how to allow you to look in my sandbox.CasimirCrazyHorse (talk) 19:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)CasimirCrazyHorse 26 February 2014[reply]

Great to see someone taking this up! The text you transferred from your sandbox didn't have a lead, so I reinserted the lead that was there before. Next step is to clean up the references a bit, which I'm starting to do now.

It takes a bit of getting used to when people start twisting your work all out of shape, so remember to not take it personally -- it's a complement that others think enough of your work to want to build on it.

OK now -- deep breath... EEng (talk) 23:00, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]