User talk:Cynthiapass
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[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia, Cynthiapass! I am Redblue82 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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RedBlue82 talk 21:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
{{Help}} How do I know if the article I have written is being reviewed for publication?
- It is currently not being reviewed; please take one copy of your article (you have made three versions, one of which I have deleted as it was made the the wrong place) and place this code at the very top:
{{subst:AFC submission/submit}}
- If you save the page then, a big yellow box ought to be at the top of the page; someone will come along and review it soon, and please check the page every day to see if they left comments. —fetch·comms 02:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Help with decline
[edit]My article was declined. We cannot accept unsourced suggestions or sources that are not reliable per the verifiability policy. Please provide reputable, third-party sources with your suggestions. Third party sources are needed both to establish the verifiability of the submission as well as its notability. I amn having difficulty understanding what to do. I put links all over the article to websites and wikipedia links.
- Is this re. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cynthiapass ?
- Most websites are not reliable sources - we need things such as newspapers, books, or websites such as CNN, BBC News, that sort of thing - with a "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy", with editorial control.
- Wikipedia itself is not a 'reliable source' - you can wikilink to other articles, of course, but that does not help with showing the notability.
- For the basic requirement, see WP:VRS
- You added a couple of links to show that the person "received the (CSP)", for example, but most of the facts don't have references. How could a reader check that the person was "born June 24, 1960" or "graduated from University of Missouri" etc.
- It will also help greatly if you learn how to use inline references,
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Simple references[edit]These require two parts;
Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>
== References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Cynthiapass/reftest and try it out. Named references[edit]Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates[edit]You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs. |
- You might also like to look at some other good articles on similar subjects, to get the idea.
{{helpme}} I looked very closely at Jeffrey Gitomer and David Meerman articles. They use very simlilar links.
- Notice that Jeffrey Gitomer has 23 properly-formatted inline citations to e.g. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc.
- In addition, note that the existence of other articles isn't necessarily a good argument in favour of adding more; see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Chzz ► 21:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)