Talk:David Jay Brown

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Please consult WP:V which all Wikipedia articles must meet. WP:EL is a helpful guide to what kind of external links are acceptable. WP:CITE explains the choice of citing methods you can use to verify the information in your article. Good luck! GBYork 17:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC) This user was found to be a sock of Mattisse

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Where has he published these interviews besides his own website? Surely there must be links to articles per WP:V, WP:EL and WP:CITE. GBYork 19:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC) This user was found to be a sock of Mattisse

Read the article. It gives titles, volumes, publishers. You need to go find yourself. -999 (Talk) 22:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No, it is your job as editor to follow WP:CITE. You have listed references at the bottom, which is not the same thing. Please have a look at 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, which is a well-cited article. Check out the text after the introduction section, or look at the infobox. The little numbers by various facts, which link to lines in the references section, are citations. Specifically, they are done in the footnote style, but you can use one of the other citation methods on WP:CITE if you like; it's up to you. Note that nowhere on WP:CITE will you find the "list a bunch of links at the bottom of the page" method, because that is not citation. If you need help, please let me know. GBYork 23:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC) This user was found to be a sock of Mattisse

I find your attitude rather funny. I am not one of the creators of this article, I am simply helping out by trying to improve it, as you should be doing. You are also an editor of Wikipedia - you can research and create citations as well as any of us. But I see that all you are doing is going around and tagging articles and acting like a petty tyrant. That is not productive. I also note that you are not an admin, and indeed that your first edit was on August 11, 2006. You are a newbie (unless you are somebody's sock puppet), and should not be going around making demands of editors who have been around longer than you.

You are not aware apparently of WP history. You will find many, many articles which simply have a list of references. This is because policies change and it used to be acceptible to do so. In fact, at the beginning, many articles didn't even list their references - there was a big drive for people to add appropiate references to articles - even if those references were not used to create the articles.

You really need to relax and try to help out rather than going around in a demanding huff like you are in charge here. You are not. -999 (Talk) 15:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)