Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard Brooks (March 17)
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provide significant coverage: discuss the person in detail, not brief mentions or interviews lacking independent analysis;
are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight;
are independent: not connected to the person, such as interviews, press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content.
Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.
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Large sections of draft (eg: Early life, political career) are devoid of references. Existing citations are mainly routine political reporting, not significant coverage (indepth; more than passing mentions) in reliable, independent, secondary sources.
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Hello, Dnasaka63!
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard Brooks (March 18)
Draft declinedThank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.
FeedbackThe reviewer, Paul W, left the following feedback:
This draft lacks inline citations. Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires that all content be supported by reliable sources. We require inline citations (footnotes) to show which source supports which specific statement.
You must place an inline citation directly after:
quotations;
any material whose verifiability is likely to be challenged or is contentious;
any material about living people.
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Two sections (Early life, political career) are still devoid of references - as a minimum, a biography of a living person should have references for every paragraph and all direct quotations. Tone is also overly-promotional in places (eg: "a prestigious civic title that recognises his significant contributions").
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Edit Draft:Richard Brooks to address the points above, making sure to publish any changes.
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