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First, please put your new posts at the bottom of any talk page. You can either scroll down, or use the "+" tab at the top to start a new section at the bottom (though it might say new discussion or the like depending on your user preferences).

With Marsh, the full name is better than the team name. Rarely would you use the team name, but you could have gone with Frank Marsh (American football). I have redirected the team name one to the other one. As to sourcing, see WP:CITE for how to do this, but basically add the source information <ref>IN HERE</ref> and then place a {{Reflist}} in a new section you will create called ==References==. This is how you can cite the NFL database as well.

With the alumni issue, you would have to know Wiki markup and template intricacies to fix it, which will take some time being on Wikipedia to learn. I was able to fix it, but even I had not run into this template before, but when you see words inside of the pointed brackets such as {{anything}} that means it is a template being transcluded onto the page, so you would look at the template instructions to see what problems there are: for instance typing "Template:Anything" into the search box would take you to that template.

As to Dextor Clinkscale, you might ask the ~~editor involved for specifics~~ (after looking at their talk page, never mind), but what I see is the addition of unsourced content, though the editor really should not have just reverted that as the entire article is unsourced. But, the information is also not quite from the neutral point of view, in that we usually will not just say a "skilled" strong safety or a "knack" for football and other opinion type info. If you have a quote from a source stating that, then quote the source and attribute it to that author. Happy editing. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the reason the editor may not have responded was you didn't sign your post (on all TALK pages add ~~~~ four tildes after your post-top left key on QWERTY keyboards below ESC), and you posted at the top. Both make it more of a hassel to figure out who is asking what (and if someone else posted a question after you but before the editor read it, they may never have seen it). Aboutmovies (talk) 22:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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