Histroy35235

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Better Source Needed

Hello and welcome. Please note that on the article John H. Meier, there are 2 issues with the content in the Background paragraph. Specifically, the 3 paragraphs sourced to "John Meier Interview". First, it is not written in an encyclopedic tone that we expect from all articles, but especially from Bios of living people. ...one man wanted to tell a spellbound nation..., ...but that was not what the Committee wanted to hear.... and so on. That tone is more suitable for a press release by the publisher, and indeed it is being used as such.

Secondly, per the policy I linked above, all material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source, which this is not. Please provide a reliable source for that content, or it may be removed. Thanks and welcome again, Crow^Caw 22:11, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree with your comments about this. Although, I was not the person who added that to the page, I will make an attempt to improve the background part of it. Histroy35235 (talk) 05:02, 7 April 2017 (UTC)