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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (Article credibly indicates importance or significance referred to in sources and highlighted in article ("one of the best mathematicians of the age", links to the slave trade and benefactor of University of Glasgow) --SankofaBird (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.
No issues.
2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).