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Fair Sentencing Act

Hi. I see that you added a lot of new information to the Fair Sentencing Act article. Unfortunately, you did not add adequate references to verify the new information. Without references to "reliable sources", the new information may be considered "original research", which is prohibited on Wikipedia, and so the new information will be deleted, unless it is fully referenced, as it throws doubt on the reliability of the whole article. In addition, the new references that were added are incomplete, missing info on the author, publisher and date of publication. Please see WP:CITE for help on how to cite sources. I urge you to give this a very high priority. If you can't find references, the unreferenced material will be deleted. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. After reviewing your changes more carefully, I see that you did not use quotation marks, in some cases, to indicate where you were directly quoting a source. It is very important to attribute sources. Please see WP:PLAGIARISM. I have corrected your link to the Los Angeles Times, which was not working because of typos in the url. If you have any questions about using sources, please see the links in the welcome message above, ask me or your mentor. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:23, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You just tried to add a paragraph that is already in the article, although it was moved up two paragraphs and slightly rewritten. I would note that these commentators are not "supporters of the bill", they are actually critics of the Act, arguing that it did not go far enough. Plus, once it was passed, it was no longer a bill, it was an act. Plus, you will notice that I added the missing data to your footnotes. You need to include author information and date of publication, which is actually more important than accessdate. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]