User talk:Cuedit

Guide to referencing
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Uwe Wittwer
The first thing is to cut out editorialising, observations and interpretations. So:
 * Uwe Wittwer is an autodidact. His particular painting skill first came to public attention with his large-scale watercolour paintings, which were exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1991. Since then, large-scale watercolours are perceived as one of the main pillars in his work.

should read:
 * Uwe Wittwer exhibited large-scale watercolour paintings at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1991.

See WP:PEACOCK and WP:WEASEL. If a reliable secondary source is available to make those statements, then they can be used as a quote and attributed. If it is not done like that, then it appears to be wikipedia's editorial voice that is making them, and that is not acceptable.

The next thing is to validate information with reliable sources: see WP:V and WP:RS. All material should be drawn from those sources. If they do not exist to provide validation for the article, then the article will not pass WP:N and will be deleted.

The reason is has not been deleted is that such sources appear to exist as listed at the bottom of the article, e.g. Sarah Kent. They need to be integrated in the text as inline citations. See ref guide above.

See User:Tyrenius for some examples - look at more recent ones nearer the top of the list.

Also, if you get your interview published somewhere that meets wiki standards, then it can be used.

By the way, we don't use double arrows as in «. Two single apostrophes produce italics, i.e. Name makes Name, or one double apostrophe for speech, i.e. "Name".

After the lead section, which is a summary of the article, the main text should start with birth place and education, then be chronological.

 Ty  13:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

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