I didn't really have a problem with the edits, except one, but I don't feel very strongly about that one.  However, I do object with not having this stuff on the talk page.  Since I wrote the article, researched it, rewrote it, researched it again, and keep adding as I find out more (the man is elusive; he's probably the most important figure of the 18th c. to be a complete ghost in reference works), I keep it on my watchlist.  Any breath, and I'd see it.  Originally, it seems that it needed to go to a "higher standard" because of sections.  Sheesh, man, but that's an insulting message for an article under heavy research and revision like that!  Anyway, "Please break it into subsections" would have gotten the sections done, had it been on the talk page.  Instead, though....  It's a sub-optimal method, at best.  No one should tag without extremely clear wording, and they shouldn't do that until the talk page has failed.