Edmund West

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Russian battleship Potemkin

You have started a timeline section to the article on the Russian battleship Potemkin. However, the this section to some extent contradicts the origins section. The timeline section is also complete uncited. Please can you add proper citations to reliable sources. (Communist propaganda films do not count as reliable sources.) If the timeline section cannot be provided with citations to reliable sources, it will be deleted.--Toddy1 (talk) 17:47, 26 December 2010 (UTC)--Toddy1 (talk) 17:43, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Edmund - you need to give page numbers for particular facts being cited.--Toddy1 (talk) 20:50, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

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Reference in Idi Amin

Hello. In the article Idi Amin you added a reference: "Stefan Lindemann, The ethnic politics of coup avoidance". I cannot find what section of the article that referece refers to. Ezeu (talk) 09:33, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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