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Your submission at Articles for creation: Shams Khan (February 9)

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Thank you for your submission to Misplaced Pages. FireflyBot (talk) 16:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Shams Khan

Hello, Sazzrel. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Shams Khan".

In accordance with our policy that Misplaced Pages is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Misplaced Pages, and happy editing. Liz 17:14, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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Citations

This way of mixing citations is not good. Ideally, the citations should go with whatever content is sourced from them. Some people argue that every sentence should have its own citation, though I would think that is excessive.

Citations in the middle of sentences should also be avoided. If you think the use of a particular phrase warrants a citation, then add a quotation from the source as well, so that we know what you are trying to hint at.

Thanks. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:38, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Also, avoid a separate "archive.org" link in the citations. The url should go with the title of the work. You can add a "via archive.org" tag at the end if you think it is necessary to inform the reader. Eventually, I hope you will learn to use the template:citation. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:40, 21 December 2024 (UTC)