User talk:Shauntb

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Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe
First, don't panic, everything you wrote is still there in the edit history.

Thank you for the effort you have put into the article Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe. While your contributions are appreciated, at this point I strongly recommend you step back and familiarize yourself with the basics of article layout and citing sources. Unfortunately it seems that several problems will need to be addressed:


 * Unsourced and possibly point-of-view statements, such as "more interested in 'turning bipeds into men' who were imbued with Christian values", "very comfortable with never having made a single convert", "second most influential and famous missionary", "mistaken for, and pursued, as Jack the Ripper";
 * A large amount of text inserted into an existing reference to thepeerage.com – I'm not sure if that was intentional, but it leaves that reference looking very unusual;
 * Possible copyright violation in the amount of text copied from the peerage.com;
 * Sources mentioned but not properly cited: Tyndale-Biscoe of Kashmir, autobiography;
 * Formatting removed from the first sentence;
 * Text after the "See also" section.

There may be other things as well but the scale of your edits makes it hard to follow the diffs. I have thought very carefully about the best way to fix the article; unfortunately I have concluded the only course of action is to undo your edits, and ask you to re-edit the article. I'm sure you have valuable content to add, and I sincerely hope you will not be discouraged from adding it. However, it must be done with due attention to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Perhaps if you proceed more slowly, other editors will have a chance to help you fine-tune your edits. Thank you. – Wdchk (talk) 04:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)