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Again, welcome! C F A 💬 02:34, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2024

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Magnus von Braun, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please refrain from adding your own commentary to these articles. "Hyperbolically adding", for instance, is clearly your comment--it cannot be based on the actual document that contains the addition. Drmies (talk) 22:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I understand. I guess I thought it self-evidently so, but I get your point. Thanks, I am a new editor who joined to overhaul this previously weak article, so I appreciate any pointers from veterans! RobertBlurton (talk) 00:57, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PS, the photo used below with Magnus halfway cropped out is a bad choice. I have a better one in the public domain taken that same day, probably by the same Army photographer. At some point I’d like to take a crack at switching them out. Is that allowed? RobertBlurton (talk) 01:02, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it--you don't need permission to do that. But what I'd like for you to do, also in light of the comment below, by Ashley Pomeroy, is for you to go through that article again and a. provide the right footnotes in the right places and b. edit out the kind of commentary that I signaled. Writing for Wikipedia is writing in a specific genre--the goal is not to make lively writing like we would in an essay or a publication. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a follow-up to this, one of the key skills a writer must develop is knowing when to stop. You've made the article huge, but it reads like a personal essay rather than an encyclopaedia article. "Writing in X, author Y argued that Z was present during N(source). However, writing in X, author Y argued that Z could not be definitely placed at N during the events(source)" is enough. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:52, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your comments Ashley. I am new at this. I will back off at this point and let veteran Wikipeiests reshape what I have written to meet your criteria. Thanks! RobertBlurton (talk) 13:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]