This is a decent job of putting some information together.
You need to be careful because there are parts that you have copy pasted without providing a source:
Original:
If you want to be a merit source:
1. Be a somewhat established member.
2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.
3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.
Yours:
How do I become a merit source?
1. Be a somewhat established member.
2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread.
3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.
The part I struggle with here is that you obviously just removed the second sentence in #2. What gave you away though was that you left the word "We" in #3.
This thread will likely not earn you any merit now. In the future, if you quote properly and provide sources you may fare better.
You are also missing the information that a jr. member requires 1 merit.
Edit: I'm actually more bothered by the fact that you included a link for merit stats but not the reference to the original information.