User talk:Geotheone101
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Firstly, you need to cite scholarly sources. Secondly... please learn syntax... if you're worried about an article's neutrality add {{NPOV}} to the top of the page and write why on the talk page. Please read the welcome FAQs from above. Thank you. gren グレン 00:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Geotheone101, please stop removing a sourced population figure to replace it with your own unsourced one. If you feel the current figure to be an underestimate, find a credible source that says so, and we can present the figure as a range, as was done on Islam and Muslim.Timothy Usher 19:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Hello Geotheone101! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 682 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
- Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:43, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
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