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Besides being about notable subjects, all articles on Wikipedia need to be verifiable from reliable sources. This is especially true of biographies of living persons. In general, it is the responsbility of the editor contributing or restoring the material to source it. There are several ways to find sources for an article, and several ways to use those sources within an article. These are explained below. When quoting a source directly, care must be taken to cite the source: see Wikipedia:Copyright violations for more on this.