User talk:Maker5555

Russell Thornton
Just a couple of notes for you about your recent edits to Russell Thornton: Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 17:16, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Reference tags go after the punctuation of the text, not before it.
 * 2) Wikipedia's references have to be to media coverage (newspaper articles, etc.) whenever possible. The self-published website of an award itself can be used for supplementary referencing if it supports a claim that can't be referenced to an actual piece of media coverage, but it cannot be used to replace a piece of media coverage if one does exist. So I've had to restore the original references that were present before your edits, although I've kept the references that you added for content that wasn't supported by the existing references. The issue is that under Wikipedia's reliable sourcing rules, his notability and eligibility for an article are dependent on there being media coverage about him — a person actually doesn't get to have a Wikipedia article at all until the content in it can be referenced primarily to newspaper or magazine articles or books, so the article would actually have to be deleted if it was based solely on the type of referencing you replaced all the media coverage with.