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...for removing [1] this false claim. I had fixed the article on Afonso, Prince of Portugal and had removed that but this one had escaped me. Not only did Ferdinand and Isabella arrange this marriage, but Isabella then married King Manuel I of Portugal and when Isabella died, he married her sister María of Aragón.--Maragm (talk) 08:49, 3 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Since you state that you are a "former university lecturer" I'm astonished to see you attempt to upload a verbatim copy of a copyrighted obituary as you did. You refer to yourself as "she" and the obituary was written by one John Guy, so you did not write the obituary. If you rewrite this article please be aware that, while obituaries may be used a references, they are not useful for showing the notability of the subject. Meters (talk) 02:24, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Updated 14 April 2022: Hello, I cleaned up the article per your remarks and pinged you but haven't heard back. I added several more references and fixed all the ibids. I have also now removed the long list of articles and instead put in a link to an internet site where they are available as a .pdf. I hope this now completes the changes requested and look forward to the entry going live. Pbwelch (talk) 06:48, 11 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

 
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miksic article

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Is not an encyclopediac article - but a hagiography - you need to get a handle on things that the average AFC reviewer is not interested in. The style and overloaded info is effusive but not encyclopediac.

There is not a proper lead sentence or paragraph, and in general a lot of the language in the text is close to weasel words - for examples of people who are either of the same generation and how encyclopediac articles look - try Benedict Anderson, Clifford Geertz, Robert Darnton, M.C. Ricklefs - they are (or were) in their own ways as academically prolific or notable - but the handle that is important, is the structure of the article and the way the info is laid out. JarrahTree 01:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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