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Unreferenced BLPs

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Graham Love - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Speedy deletion nomination of Antonio de Paz

Hello Frecks,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Antonio de Paz for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Longbyte1 (talk) 16:08, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hope Bagenal

I just wanted you to know that I restored the maintenance templates to the above linked article. At this point, we still have some outstanding issues with the article, including noncompliance with the Manual of Style for biographies, tone, title case in sections headings, inappropriate use of hyphens. Please do not remove the maintenance templates before addressing the issues identified. If you have questions or need help, please feel free to drop me a line. (I don't mind stepping in to clean it up a bit if you need help.) Best regards, Cindy(talk) 23:33, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you explain what the "hyphens" issue is? I'll address the other issues shortly.

August 2013

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World War II]], Bagenal worked at the [[Building Research Establishment|Building Research Station]]] as a scientific officer. In the post-war years his work afforded him further opportunities to

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Ways to improve Seyssel family

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Felice Osio

Hi my friend. I hope you are fine. I have removed a lot of unreferenced information. The new page review is one of the last approval stages, so when I see a page like this with a large amount of unreferenced information, and no {{In use}} tag to show that the page is undergoing a major build, I tend to err on the side of caution and remove the unreferenced information. The easiest solution is for you to add the tag to indicate the page is still under construction (if it is). This prevents me and other editors from editing the page until the process is complete and the tag is removed. Please assume good faith of me, as I do of you. By all means add the information again when you can add the references. Best wishes, BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 10:32, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This page is a direct translation of the equivalent French page and is entirely sourced from the references. Please restore the article. Frecks (talk) 12:32, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Felice Osio

Hi, I came across your question on the help desk (sometimes it can appear like an un-help desk...) and thought I'd contact you personally. Do not be down-hearted that your contributions were reverted, everything can be fixed.

Many congratulations on your excellent translation from the French article, I enjoy doing the same thing from time to time. I've been editing on Wikipedia since 2008, and I like to think I know my way around.

The standards of referencing on different language Wikipedias vary hugely. In my opinion, English WP has the most demanding standards of all, and it can take really quite a long time (like years) to work out exactly how make an article acceptable. A straight translation from the French, like yours, is often sadly unacceptable here on English WP, as you have found out. French and German WPs are fairly lax, often with little emphasis on backing up individual statements with specific references.

I'm slightly at a loss for something to do on WP at the moment, and because I think your translation deserves keeping, I'd like to work with you to bring the article up to en:wp standards. This may take some time (perhaps several weeks), but I would hope that you can learn enough to carry on doing more translations with increased confidence. I like to think I am approachable, you can ask me anything and I won't laugh at you, anyway I've made almost every mistake on WP it's possible to make.

I'm happy to offer you my help if u'd like it. MinorProphet (talk) 16:46, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for contacting me. I'm working on another translation at the moment and it is quite time consuming, but I was intending to get back to our friend Felice Osio (or perhaps, not-so-lucky Osio). Actually, I found the help desk response quite enlightening as I have often wondered why some French and Italian articles have not been plastered with warning messages. I actually toned down the Osio article at first, but once I found the original source and could see that it was a word-for-word transcription from a French 19th-centuary encyclopaedia I decided to let it stand let it stand. If you would like to sort it out, please go ahead. Otherwise I will eventually get back to it. Frecks (talk) 19:51, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The idea is that most sentences, or even each paragraph at a pinch, need a specific inline reference, even if the text is a copy of a non-copyright source such as Encyclopedia Britannica. I'm surprised that you think that a cursory bibliography is sufficient à la française. I'm certainly not going to do your homework: I can show you how to make {{sfn}} references which automagically link up with {{cite book}}, but if you aren't interested then neither am I. I hope your next translation is peppered with inline refs. With best wishes, MinorProphet (talk) 10:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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