Talk:Douglas Messerli

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Lack of 3rd party sourcing

How on earth did this get rated as B class? There is only one reference (UPenn) that is broad and independent, the FCA ref is a self-penned artist statement. I'm not going so far as to challenge the subject for notability, but this is a serious failing for a recent bio article to be so poorly sourced. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a message on Ahnoneemoos' talkpage, and if he doesn't respond by decreasing the rating of it I'll do it myself in a while. gwickwire^talk_edits 00:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And he replied with basically "go change it yourself, bro" (he did say bro), so I changed it to Start class, after which point it can be re-evaluated by anyone else. gwickwire^talk_edits 01:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DON'T BREAK THE BRO CODE, BRO. —Ahnoneemoos (talk) 01:26, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]