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Student think tank has been proposed for deletion. An editor felt the subject might not be notable enough for an article. Please review Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability for the relevant concerns. An example of notability guidelines can be found at Wikipedia:Notability (websites). If you can improve the article to address these concerns, please do so.
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Nice article. Two suggestions:
- You've used the same source multiple times in independent footnotes. See WP:REFNAME for how to combine these.
- I've done an edit to show (a) proper capitalization of section headings, and (more importantly) (b) how to do a full cite (see {{ Cite news}} and {{ Cite web}}). If you have time, it would be great if you could improve the article (and give it more credibility) by changing these two things. (Note that by combining duplicate citations, as mentioned in the first item above, there is less work involved in adding full information to the footnotes.)
Also, I don't understand at all why the accessdate for all the footnotes is "2010-09-10" (September 10, 2010). You created the article two days ago, and it cites very recent news articles, such as http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/13/perry-on-his-predecessor-i-love-george-bush/ . It seems to me that the accessdate really should be "2011-08-30" for everything, or, if you really wrote the article a year ago (offline?), that the accessdate for sources dated after September 2010 should be more recent.
Again, thanks for taking the time to write the article, and I look forward to its improvements. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:52, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Kstinch ( talk) 23:26, 11 September 2011 (UTC) -- John -- You're correct -- I had the year wrong in the footnote citation, it was 2011. Will fix.
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The article Bill Shaheen has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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