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PDCook (talk) 14:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Citing sources

First, I wanted to say that the Vladimir Littauer article you created is very well written. I wish all new articles were that good. Also, thank you for providing sources. I just wanted to point out that there are very useful citation templates found here. There are specific templates for books, articles, website, etc. Just copy and paste the template between the <ref> and </ref> tags in the article and then fill in the information (you don't have to fill in all of the info, but the more complete the better). You don't have to do them this way, but it is the preferred way to cite in Wikipedia articles. I went ahead and did this for the NY Times obituary you cited as an example. Happy editing! PDCook (talk) 16:32, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I noticed that a couple of the references in this article are personal communications. These are not considered reliable sources, because they are not verifiable. I would recommend either removing material sourced to personal communications or finding a reliable source that supports the information. If you have any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Regards, PDCook (talk) 18:36, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I removed from the article any information sourced to such personal communications. I don't think it negatively affected the article. I also broke things up into more sections. Please feel free to add to/change the article, but be sure any additions are sourced to reliable sources. Regards, PDCook (talk) 15:31, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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PDCook (talk) 17:53, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

No, thank you!

I just wanted to say again that I thought the article is well written. I should mention that the article has already been rated a B or C class by the Equine Wikiproject. B or C is actually pretty good; most new articles are rated stub or start class, so with a little more properly cited detail, this article could be rated even higher. I encourage you to keep writing articles, if you so desire! Regards, PDCook (talk) 18:49, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

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