User talk:Akmandel

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February 2014
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Eric Dysart, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. DAJF (talk) 23:35, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Confusion
I tried to address the maintenance concerns and noted so in the edit summary when I made different revisions, so I do not understand what mistake I made! Akmandel (talk) 00:28, 24 February 2014 (UTC)akmandel
 * Try reading this. Essentially, you need to provide third party reliably published sources that talk about the subject in a significant manner. IMDB is not a "reliably published source" for anything other than the existence of the name in the credits. And mere existence is not sufficient for a stand alone article. What you need to be looking for are reviews in national papers or other major publications, commentary in books etc. news.google.com or books.google.com are generally good places to start looking for content that generally will meet the  reliable source requirement.  --  TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  01:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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