User talk:Ralf Boettger

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Hello, Ralf Boettger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Erin McDougald
When writing the article about Erin McDougald, you listed a number of sources, but you did not provide the full information needed for other editors to check those sources to verify the contents of your article. Citations such as with no indication of a story name, date, page, author name, or anything else, are not helpful. When citing a newspaper, we need to know the title of the story, the date on which it appeared, the publication in which it appeared, preferably its author and the page number on which it appeared. Without this information, the reference does not help the article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:34, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Chicago Tribune

Hello, Ralf Boettger. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.Deb (talk) 15:03, 13 March 2015 (UTC)