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Speedy deletion of New Holland Machine Company

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Cyrus West Field

On March 1st you added several paragraphs of material to this article, however it was badly formatted and pretty much just stuck semi-randomly into the existing text. Please take some care to make sure that when you add material to an article it is properly placed, and properly formatted. I have corrected what you added, as did several other editors, but the article has been malformed and less than usable for our readers for several months now.

If you have questions, please ask someone -- mose editors here, including myself, are more than happy to lend a hand or give advice. Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald _{t / c} 20:22, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Poland

You added a lot of badly formatted and insufficiently referenced text to a leading article on the subject.[1] Repairing your edits and tracking down online references which you (intentionally?) omitted is too much of a challenge for any single editor, therefore I have no choice but to revert your edits. At present your copy fails both WP:SOURCE and WP:MOSBETTER. The article is too important to be left malformed for any period of time. Please use sandbox in the future and ask other Wikipedians for comments on your drafts (including me) in order to meet the required standards. Thanks, and please don't take it personally. -- Poeticbent talk 07:10, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ibid...

Thanks for your additions to History of Indonesia. As a heads up, using "ibid" for references is problematic for wikipedia as it's more than likely someone is going to insert additional text and references in between some of the ibid's. The wikipedia way to list more than one occurrence of the same reference can be seen in the same article - look at ref numbers 18 and 19 - note how in the notes section below, these appear a few times. Why not copy that formatting for the ibid references? If you need any further help, please let me know. cheers --Merbabu (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flamarande

Hy there. I noticed your edits at the articles Parthian Empire and Classical Greece. Your changes to the contents of said articles seem to be fine but you also changed the dating system (from BC/AD towards BCE/CE). I have reverted these changes (besides some minor improvements); under WP:ERA such a change is a tricky business. First it needs good reasons. Then it has to be announced at the talkpage and agreed upon by the clear majority of editors. Unilateral changes can be reverted and the original dating system has he "home advantage". IMHO the majority of History articles use BC/AD. Flamarande (talk) 17:26, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You've been here for awhile, so please take a few moments to review WP:STUB and WP:MOS before contributing any new content. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:35, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Adolph Bermbach

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Proposed deletion of Johann Joseph Jansen

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After less than a month, development of this article has been abandoned. The only gesture towards notability is a biographical note in Volume 10 of the "Collected Works".

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Proposed deletion of Karl Joseph Jansen

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Speedy deletion nomination of Karl Hecker

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Nomination of August Herman Ewerbeck for deletion

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Nomination of August Gebert for deletion

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Nomination of August Hain for deletion

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Your recent articles

Hi, WellsSouth. My attention was drawn to the articles you have recently been creating on German socialists because someone added the Articles for Deletion discussions for two of them to the List of Germany-related deletion discussions, which I have watchlisted. So I looked at those two and a few more in the list of articles you have created, and improved one a little bit (and moved it to a more accurate version of the person's name and put in the interwiki link to the article on him at German Wikipedia). I'm afraid all of these articles appear to have a problem with notability. Here's the applicable standard for articles about people. As a rule of thumb, I believe articles about someone who is not immediately eye-poppingly obviously notable (e.g., won the Nobel Prize, was a head of state, has a big scientific theory or political school of thought named after her or him such that the name is a household word or is taught in schools) need to have 2 good references so that people will not challenge them. A listing in an index or list of names is not enough - at least a short paragraph, preferably a newspaper article and ideally a book about the person (not written by the person or a relative or spouse). Or if 2 good ones don't seem to be out there, a whole bunch of little mentions, at least one of which should say the person is/was important. Also, the first sentence must clearly say why the person is memorable/important. That either comes before the "was born in (year) in (place)" or includes it. Have a look at a few articles and you'll see the 2 patterns. And all Wikipedia articles are supposed to have the name of the article in boldface in the first sentence. So - if you can find at least one more reference before you create an article, and if you state in the first sentence what the person did that is important, then the articles are much less likely to be proposed for rapid deletion or taken to Articles for Deletion. I'm really sorry that no one welcomed you and gave you links to the main policies and where to look them up, but you've been here for a good while now, so I decided that would be rude at this point and that a specific note would be better. We need enthusiastic people who want to write articles and add information and references to existing articles; I hope you won't let all the templates sprouting here put you off, but I think you need to strengthen your articles to stop this from happening. And I hope I've given you good pointers as to how. If not, drop me a note at my talkpage and I'll see if I can help. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:54, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Theodor Hagen

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Speedy deletion nomination of Friedrich Wilhelm Hunerbein

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sebastian Seiler

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Speedy deletion nomination of August Herman Ewerbeck

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Proposed deletion of Karl Hausner

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Freidrich Anneke

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Hi there! I noticed that you're making lots of edits to the Karl Marx article. That's great! I would just note that it's REALLY helpful if you add a brief edit summary when you submit changes. Thanks again! ./zro (⠠⠵) 06:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to Karl Marx

Thank you for your edits, but there are some issues with them that I raised here. I hope we can work together to improve the article! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please see talk page on an editorial consensus to revert to an earlier version. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:12, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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de la Renaudie) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction.<ref>R> J. Knecht, ''The French Wars of Religion: 1559-1598'', p. 25.</ref> Their plans were discovered
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I would like to see the quote from R.J.Knecht's, The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598, page 17, concerning Marguerite of Angouleme(ie.Marguerite of Navarre), stating she was a Calvinist.[2]

These sources state otherwise:

Anticlericalism: in late medieval and early modern Europe, ed. Peter A. Dykema, Heiko Augustinus Oberman, page 248.
Francis I, by R. J. Knecht, page 142.
A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes, ed. Georges Duby, Natalie Zemon Davis, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, page 147. --Kansas Bear (talk) 17:07, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to see the quote for R. J. Knecht, French Wars of Religion: 1559-1598, p. 65, concerning this sentence, "A test of King Henry III's leadership occurred at the meeting of the Estates-General at Blois in December 1570".[3] --Kansas Bear (talk) 17:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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