User talk:GreatLakesdemocracy

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Great Lakes region (North America)

Please format your references into a list at the bottom instead of making them a run-on sentence at the bottom of a section. You can use the <ref></ref> tags to add footnotes, and {{reflist}} to make a list of the footnotes. Look around at a few articles to get an idea. Awickert (talk) 22:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will do, and thanks for the suggestion.GreatLakesdemocracy (talk) 23:06, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Awickert (talk) 23:31, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working my way through the tutorial and formatting Help menu. Are you available for questions and help?

Yes. Basic idea with the references: do the "ref" tagging right where you want the info to be cited. Then make a "references" section at the bottom with the "reflist" tag. A good little well-referenced article that I worked on is Sioux Quartzite; you can model it after that, if you like.

Another nice tool allows you to just put up the ISBN or DOI ({{cite journal|doi=}} or {{cite book|isbn=}}, and then you can automatically format the references. If you prefer to do this, I'll use the auto-formatting tool once you're done.

Awickert (talk) 23:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Would you look at the first four references I included at the bottom of the article, in a new "Reference" section, and see if I formatted them correctly? thx

The general rule, unless you get really picky, is that as long as you're consistent, it's ok. So it looks great. I'm moving the references section a little bit up. Awickert (talk) 00:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just added a couple of sentences on mass marketing, and will now try to footnote them to Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon, which I included in the reference section. Wish me luck.

thx

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Malcolm-King: Harlem College Extension (May 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:59, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Malcolm-King: Harlem College Extension

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