Talk:Clayton Patterson
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New NYC-departure section added, and attention called to citation/attribution issues[edit]
After adding a desired section on the reported departure of Patterson from NYC, it became clear that this article's referencing has never been performed (a process which, per WP, is expected of the original contributors of Biography of Living Persons information). This is amazingly egregious in this article—most sections appear without any citations at all, and two large block quotes appear without proper attribution (source with page number, via an inline citation).
Because many of the facts that are stated without citation are near to what appear in today's NYT Alan Feuer article on the imminent Patterson departure for Austria, I did not substantially remove any article material (despite the old—2011, 2012—tags calling attention to the problem). I did, however, place new tags in completely unreferenced sections and at end of some factual sentences, and noted further issues in tags above the lede. These tags should remain in place until there is substantial progress, in moving this article from a personal biography to being a true Wikipedia article. If no independent, reliable citation is available to support particular facts (e.g., a collaborating individual's retirement), then the statement should not appear in Wikipedia. LeProf 50.179.245.225 (talk) 21:25, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
External links modified[edit]
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