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editHello, Singsongerd, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Claire Démar, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.
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The article Claire Démar has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Nearly unreadable machine translation of fr:Claire Démar.
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- I rewrote it. Please do not insert machine translations into WP, (unless you have the ability to immediately correct them and render them into idiomatic English), SeeWP:Translation for the alternative ways to deal with articles from other language Wikipedias DGG ( talk ) 22:17, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
The article Lynn Povich has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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editThe references you added were not adequate: they basically consisted only of her own website, which is not a reliable enough source to show her notability. I did what was necessary, find her books in Worldcat and add the references to them, along with the library holdings. To fully show notability according to WP:AUTHOR, it will also be necessary to find reviews of those books. Additionally, the article claims "awards". These must be referenced to 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases or the subject's own web site, or material derived from press releases. Please see WP:Reliable Sources for a further explanation. And please learn our style of referencing, We need more people writing on notable women, but it has to be done correctly. DGG ( talk ) 22:42, 13 April 2014 (UTC)