Freek L. Bakker

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Karel Adriaan Steenbrink

Hello — I came across your article on Karel Adriaan Steenbrink in the uncategorised articles list, and wanted to flag up a couple of issues with its sourcing.

The article is currently supported by a single source (offline, and apparently written by you), but one source isn't sufficient to establish notability. There are additional issues when dealing with biographies of living people (see WP:BLP) which require particularly strong referencing. For both these reasons, the article is currently vulnerable to being at least moved to the draft space, and possibly even deleted. A quick search suggests to me that the person is real-life notable, so I imagine you could probably find sources fairly easily, and I would encourage you to add them to the article ASAP. For now, I have not marked the article as reviewed yet, until it meets basic WP:V verifiability and WP:N notability criteria.

On a separate but related point, each material statement in an article should be referenced by citing (ideally via footnotes, but other acceptable methods do exist, see WP:CITE) the source that specifically supports it. So if and when you do add more sources, it becomes even more important to cite them throughout the text, so that readers can tell where each piece of information comes from, and can verify each statement if required.

Hope this helps, but if you have any questions or comments, ping me back. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:09, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Dear editors,

I improved the article, made links, added another source, a photograph, et.c, etc. So I do not see why it cannot be accepted.

Freek L. BakkerFreek L. Bakker (talk) 08:52, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Karel Adriaan Steenbrink moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Karel Adriaan Steenbrink, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 04:24, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

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