User talk:Maureenfiedler

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Hello, Maureenfiedler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Binksternet (talk) 23:10, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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I have restored much of the biography text that you changed earlier today. I added more material along with citations. The problems I had with the changes you made are multiple.
 * You did not comply with Wikipedia's house style for layout.
 * You copied and pasted some text straight from the Interfaith Voices website, the National Catholic Reporter and from Huffington Post. Such text is to be summarized and cited on Wikipedia, not copied verbatim.
 * The tone of the text was too promotional for an encyclopedia, such as "growing base of listeners" and "emerging leadership of women".

I do not wish to hide from the reader any information about your career that you think is relevant. What we should do going forward is find a published source of that information and use a summary of it while citing it. For instance, I will cite Mary Segers' "A Nun for Gender Equality in Church and Society" when discussing your involvement in Central America during the '80s.

Please feel free to communicate with me right here on your talk page. Binksternet (talk) 23:10, 17 June 2012 (UTC)