User talk:Jvanseters

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Your edits to the article presumably about you

I've moved that to the talk page of the article. It looks extremely useful but it had a number of problems. From a style viewpoint, it was not only I'm afraid an unformatted mess, it gave us two articles on one page. Two other basic problems. One is your conflict of interest, see WP:COI. That doesn't mean you can't edit the page but it does mean you have to be restrained as to what changes you make. The second one is that it was unsourced. See WP:RS, WP:VERIFY and also WP:BLP. We try to be especially careful that articles about living people are sourced. Having said all that I hope we can use it to greatly improve the article. The first thing to do is probably try to fix the formatting on the talk page. --Dougweller (talk) 18:22, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can I help?

I had some input into the article back in 2008 (I recall that I expanded it beyond its then-status as a short stub), and I've also used some of Prof Van Seters' books in improving other articles. If I have proper sources, I can use them to create a good article covering the points raised. Can you (I mean Professor Van Seters) suggest what sources I should look at? PiCo (talk) 11:20, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]