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Proposed deletion of Bervin E. Purnell

The article Bervin E. Purnell has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A search for references failed to find significant coverage in reliable sources to comply with notability requirements. This included web searches for news coverage, books, and journals, which can be seen from the following links:
Bervin E. Purnell – news, books, scholar
Consequently, this article is about a subject that appears to lack sufficient notability.

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Sourcing

Hello there,

You are absolutely correct to want to include non-online sources in the Bervin E. Purnell article. The citation templates are the probably the easiest way to create citations in a commonly used format. Template:Cite web and Template:Cite news are templates you'll see a lot. There are a lot of parameters, but most of them are optional and it's otherwise pretty straightforward. The full list of templates is at WP:Citation templates.

Another thing to note is that, although the templates are useful, they're not required. If you prefer a different citation format, or you would just rather not deal with the templates, just write your own citation for the work and place them between the ref tags, like so: <ref name=citationnote>C. Prince, "A note on using citations". Some Newspaper 2009.</ref>

The name=whatever parameter is useful if you want to reuse a citation on another fact without retyping the whole thing out. Just use <ref name=whatever/> to repeat the reference.

Chances are if the article is popular enough, someone will come along and reformat the references or put them in a template. The important thing is to provide the citations and let the wiki take care of the rest. A longer tutorial on citations is at wp:cite.

Keep up the editing, and thanks for your contributions! Cmprince (talk) 21:17, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for your editing. I noticed you added links to dates here, which is now not normally done. Please ask me any questions you might have about this. We'd be pleased to see you again. Tony (talk) 10:49, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

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