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If one uses sources, avoid narrative descriptions such as "according to the New York Times" or in a PBS Interview. Use an actual citation. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:57, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
If one uses sources, avoid narrative descriptions such as "according to the New York Times" or in a PBS Interview. Use an actual citation. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:57, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks! Go forth edit Howard as you know how to do this. I do not. [[User:Mary Ash|Mary Ash]] 23:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks! Go forth edit Howard as you know how to do this. I do not. [[User:Mary Ash|Mary Ash]] 23:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
::I dunno about this, Howard, as a hard and fast rule. I'll bet if you look through all the stuff I've written you'll find a hundred "according to the New York Times critic so-and-so" and such like, THEN followed by the actual citation.  You've gotta introduce the citation *somehow* -- so what's wrong with *that*? [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 01:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


== Harvard ==
== Harvard ==


Like many Harvard people, I was surprised and dismayed by his presence at that August Institution.  Every time his lunatic ideas appeared in the press, they were always qualified by the phrase "professor of something or other at Harvard" to lend credence to them, as if Harvard had given official approval to them. As I recall, a bunch of indignant Harvard faculty tried to get his tenure taken away but failed. Well, Harvard has always had its eccentrics.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 00:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Like many Harvard people, I was surprised and dismayed by his presence at that August Institution.  Every time his lunatic ideas appeared in the press, they were always qualified by the phrase "professor of something or other at Harvard" to lend credence to them, as if Harvard had given official approval to them. As I recall, a bunch of indignant Harvard faculty tried to get his tenure taken away but failed. Well, Harvard has always had its eccentrics.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 00:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

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 Definition Psychiatrist and former psychiatry professor at Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in biography; researcher in unidentified flying objects and alien abduction [d] [e]
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Metadata should not be in main articles

I'm not sure why you are putting it there, but, Mary, the last couple of articles you've created start with metadata that belongs on the Template: Article/Metadata page, not the main article. The main article should only contain {{subpages}}. Is the metadata, perhaps, in a word processor file you are using? Howard C. Berkowitz 21:10, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm doing my best to figure out the "simple" system. Feel free to correct my mistakes as I am learning and you are the editor. I'm just the author. Thanks!Mary Ash 21:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Sources

If one uses sources, avoid narrative descriptions such as "according to the New York Times" or in a PBS Interview. Use an actual citation. Howard C. Berkowitz 22:57, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Go forth edit Howard as you know how to do this. I do not. Mary Ash 23:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
I dunno about this, Howard, as a hard and fast rule. I'll bet if you look through all the stuff I've written you'll find a hundred "according to the New York Times critic so-and-so" and such like, THEN followed by the actual citation. You've gotta introduce the citation *somehow* -- so what's wrong with *that*? Hayford Peirce 01:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Harvard

Like many Harvard people, I was surprised and dismayed by his presence at that August Institution. Every time his lunatic ideas appeared in the press, they were always qualified by the phrase "professor of something or other at Harvard" to lend credence to them, as if Harvard had given official approval to them. As I recall, a bunch of indignant Harvard faculty tried to get his tenure taken away but failed. Well, Harvard has always had its eccentrics.... Hayford Peirce 00:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)