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I just found this draft (after placing a plea for someone to turn a red link blue on the Downing College entry.)

I don't know too much about the Articles for creation process. By my understanding this looks more than good as a start, and please forgive me if I tell you stuff you already know but didn't get round to doing yet. However, since you already submitted it to be reviewed by someone somewhere ...

The big gap is in respect of sources. I would think as a minimum you should try for an "in-line citation" at the end of each para. An "inline citation" after every main clause and subclause would be wonderful, but most wiki entries don't go that far .... yet. (?)

If you have time maybe you could take a look at an entry I just did about another (earlier) Cambridge-connected academic, Alexis P. Vlasto. No doubt it needs more work, but it does show how I enter inline citations. (There are other ways, but this is the one that works for me.)

Success Charles01 (talk) 15:50, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]