ongoing work
Thanks to all of you for the continuing solid work.
I have begun to go through the reference file, where I think some of the references can be trimmed to make them more focused to the context at hand. This will take me a while as I'm away from the computer on and off until October 14, but the process has begun.
In general, if information is being taken from a source (Robert Illustré or Universalis, etc), the important thing is to acknowledge that source (or those sources) whether quoting directly with quote tags, or paraphrasing. A combination of sources may be desirable when tailoring the reference to the context. As you develop experience with the corpus, this will be easier to do, but in any case, I will continue to monitor the reference file.