Talk:Bar topnotchers in the Philippines
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Significant issues with the references section
editWhile reviewing this page, I noticed that there are some leftover issues from the original version of the page (a former subsection of Philippine Bar Examinations), so I'm posting them here as a talk page message so they can be improved at a future date.
This page does in fact have citations, but many of them are incomplete. It appears that a large number of sources attempt to cite web pages, but contain only the name of the page and the name of the institution that published the page, not any links or other details that would be expected. I would consider all the references to "Faculty and alumni list" pages to be incomplete citations. Same goes for "List of Bar Topnotchers from 1913 to 2006, Office of the Bar Confidant, Supreme Court of the Philippines." That is an inadequate reference.
In some cases, there are links, but they weren't cited properly. For example, reference 13 does in fact link to a web page ([1]), but rather than including the usual details (name of page, name of publisher/outlet, name of author, date of publication, date retrieved, etc), it just says "First Bar Exam in PH".
Other citations are even more lacking in information. Source 11 is just "Florenz Regalado". No website, no book, no date, no outlet, just the name of a person.
Another glaring issue is the following:
Prominent lawyers who made the bar top ten include:[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]
followed by many paragraphs of text with no inline citations. That's no good. Can't just dump all the sources at the beginning so you don't have to reference them later. This leaves the reader to try to guess which of the nine sources can be used to verify any particular name in the list of lawyers, and makes it nearly impossible to spot unsourced entries not mentioned in the list of references.
If anyone familiar with this article's topic could tackle this issue, that would be an enormous improvement to the overall quality of this page and would be appreciated greatly.
Thank you,