User talk:Guro Dave Gould

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Dave. Unfortunately, a deletion debate can be a difficult introduction to how we do things. Hopefully, you'll get thorugh it OK. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Sourcing
As you may have seen from the comments in the deletion debate sourcing is required for wikipedia articles, for the most part the more the better. If you could provide the ISBNs for some of Edgar Sulite's books the would help to persuade people to keep the articles, while his own books cannot be used for some aspects as they are primary sources. The reason for this is that press releases and vanity press can provide a biased view and while this may not be the case here, differentiating between vanity press and legitimately published books is difficult. This is why independent secondary sources are best; i.e. those with no direct connection to Sulite, or the teaching of his style, good examples of this would be newspaper or magazine articles (issue numbers/Dates and page numbers would help) showing why he is important, or a general book on Eskrima that mentions him or his contributions in detail. Hope this helps clarify things. --Nate1481(t/c) 15:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)