User talk:Der Historiker

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Hello, Der Historiker, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as M. C. Ricklefs, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Ricklefs article
Must have WP:RS for all claims - specially in articles about WP:BLP - living persons.

Your edits to the article completely removed functional wiki article conventional WP:MOS format - please read thoroughly before trying again, thank you JarrahTree 14:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Look at the original format of the article, or other academics biographies for clues as to where you need to pay attention to wikipedia linking and formatting - like Ricklefs' friend Carey - Peter_Carey_(historian) or something like the article about Benedict_Anderson - JarrahTree 15:15, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

You cannot make claims unless you have specific references - standard rule for WP:BLP - another editor can come along and take a lot of the content of your edits over WP:TONE and WP:OR JarrahTree 14:48, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

One last item for this set of requests (which as an editor you might take with WP:AGF and some congnisance at some point) have a look at the publication and citation format at the Carey article to see that the format in the article you are concentrating upon is not standard per MOS. JarrahTree 14:53, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

It is all very well to send thanks, the publications list is not standard format and is atrocious JarrahTree 00:04, 21 August 2016 (UTC)