User talk:M.Baerns

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I have "moved" your article (changed its title) from "Manfred Baerns' curriculum vitae" to Manfred Baerns which is our normal style for biographical articles. Please note that the article needs to cite references from reliable independent sources - the German Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source (nor is the English one) because anyone can edit them. You may like to look at the Manual of style (biographies) and the guideline on Autobiography. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Manfred Baerns
Yes, I think the references are adequate. I am not Authority, just the editor who saw your article when it appeared, but I have removed the "notability" and "COI" tags I added and I do not think the article will be challenged. I have also rearranged the references and made a few small changes to bring it more into the English WP style..

I have changed the ISBN number you gave for Basic Principles in Applied Catalysis because when I put that number, 3-540-44135-2, into the automatic system which generates a book citation from an ISBN it produced a different book: Chemistry of nanomolecular systems by Takayoshi Nakamura. I found in Google Books a different ISBN, 978-3-540-40261-9, so I have put that in the article.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:43, 19 November 2008 (UTC)