User talk:Trebor Namsorc

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Hello, Trebor Namsorc, 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 discussion 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! RockMagnetist (talk) 23:19, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Keith Runcorn
Trebor Namsorc, thank you for contributing to the biography of Keith Runcorn. I heartily agree with you that he deserves a much more detailed biography than he had before your contributions. However, as it stands the article has multiple problems, and I have added a banner to the top or the article as a guide. Most importantly, you need to maintain a neutral point of view (one of the five pillars by which Wikipedia operates); and you need to provide inline citations for your statements. One concern that many editors will have is that those big blocks of text might have been copied from somewhere, violating copyright laws. If you could break them up into smaller paragraphs and provide at least one citation for each paragraph, it will dispel our doubts and make the article more readable. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:59, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I now realize that most of your text is either a direct quote or close paraphrasing of the article in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. I suggest you have a look at Wikipedia's policy on plagiarism. This text will need to be completely rewritten. I have decided that the easiest approach is to revert the Biography section to the way it was before. I recommend that you look at multiple sources for his biography and then write your own summary. RockMagnetist (talk) 00:37, 22 October 2011 (UTC)