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Attention was first drawn to this chapter because of its mention of similar cats in Cornwall and Crimea, details other sources so far had not discussed. But there is actually a quite large number of facts (i.e., in Wikipedia terms, nontrivial statements of fact from an independent, non-fringe, apparently reliable, professionally published work) to be dug like gems from this source.
==Example of mining this source for all it's worth==
It is tempting to simply skim this source and edit the article for a point or two and move on, but it's quite easy to miss something (indeed, the fact that Manx cats were thought of by Barton as scarce and possibly even declining was missed until preparation of this essay). It is best to '''make a list of facts''' (e.g. in a text editor), in wiki markup and in sentence or easily usable sentence fragment form, and already carefully rewriting to avoid plagiarism. Start with the first sentence and work your way down. It might look something like this, including notes based on sources already cited in the article:
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A quick scan shows that what we can glean from and source to this article – what we can determinedly {{em|mine}} from it – is, in combination with other facts that have to be connected to and weighed against the details in this source, actually {{em|more material than the entire full text of the source}}! And that's before we've written it out in reader-friendly, explanatory prose.
After all of this is worked into the article, it's good to re-read the source; often a salient point will have been missed the first time around.
==Conclusion==
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