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AfD nomination of Michelle Ferguson-Cohen

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re: Misplaced Pages:Editor assistance/Requests

I saw your request at WP:EAR for help with Michelle Ferguson-Cohen. Since then I have commented at the AFD page, but forgot to reply to you on this page. Misplaced Pages has a LOT of policies, guidelines, and procedures. It's impossible for a newcomer to know all of them - and easy to get caught up in problems. The welcome message above has links to some of the important stuff. For now, I'll just highlight my favorite phrase:

From Misplaced Pages:Verifiability: "The threshold for inclusion in Misplaced Pages is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that readers should be able to check that material added to Misplaced Pages has already been published by a reliable source. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed."

The cure for most problems is references to reliable sources so that other editors can verify an article's statements. In the case of Michelle Ferguson-Cohen there are good references; they are just buried among the not-so-good references. You have three separate sections for Sources, References, and Notes and they all have a lot of stuff in them. It would be better if you had just one section and if all of the references were inline citations. And then, it would be good to pare them down to just the most informative references.

I think the article will survive the AFD. The process is based on WP policies - not on personalities. The better you know the policies - and you should carefully read notability - the better you can convince other editors that the article is good. Sbowers3 (talk) 01:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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