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February 2016

Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Jihad Makdissi without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I have restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 07:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

You deleted material with no explanation, most or all of it critical of him. You changed "defected" to "left", you added at least one rule that didn't work, , you need to learn to cite by reading WP:CITE, etc. Doug Weller talk 07:26, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

No, your edit summary did not even mention that you deleted virtually all the negative material. Newspapers such as The Guardian are adequate sources. The title of his master's thesis is trivia and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. I have no idea what the url said as it didn't work and it wasn't properly cited as an inline citation - we can't have raw urls, we need all the detail about the source - I gather from your comment on my talk page you haven't read WP:CITE yet. None of your urls worked. His present job can be added if you can learn how to do it properly. If you look at the top of the field in which you add edits, there's a menu. On the right at the top it says 'cite'. Clicking that makes a new dropdown window at the left saying "Templates" and those can be used to make inline citations. I've fixed the one that I found there, take a look at it. Use the talk page Talk:Jihad Makdissi for further discussion please. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 10:08, 10 February 2016 (UTC)