Talk:Dean Faulkner Wells

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It's an interesting article and you've got a great start. There are some items to take it from a draft to a "wikified" article - meaning formatting of the layout, information, links, etc.:

• I've inserted standard sections, in the standard order. Generally, the article starts out with a summary of the article, with the subject's name in bold (e.g., typed like this: '''Dean Faulkner Wells'''), their date of birth/death in parenthesis, a statement about their nationality and occupation/reason for notability... and then a few sentences or more that summarized the article.
  • Was just a comment, nothing needed to be done, unless you had a concern or question.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• Regarding: "after the death of her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, youngest brother of William Faulkner and a pilot who was killed in a plane crash in 1935"... If Dean died in 1935, and not the brother, should it be tweaked a bit (e.g., comma after brother's name + "who was a"... or put the part about being the brother after having been killed in 1935)?
  • Looks good now.--00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• I see just a few links / sources. Do you have other sources? (You may wish to look at my earlier post at User talk:CaroleHenson#Very New Here)
  • Actually, once I formatted the "External links" as sources, you've got a good number to start with.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:11, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• Is there a page on http://yoknapatawphapress.com/ that says that the Wells founded Yoknapatawpha Press?
  • Yep, formatted the citation for you, which you inserted in the correct place.  Done--CaroleHenson (talk)
• You can link to other articles by putting brackets around the words. For instance, William Faulkner is formatted by typing: [[William Faulkner]]. I formatted a couple for you (countries and common words don't need to be linked to their articles).
  • Was just a comment, nothing needed to be done, unless you had a concern or question.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• In some cases, the article title is not the way you'd like to display the title, like Parade Magazine , so you can "pipe" in the article name and label like this: [[Parade (magazine)|Parade Magazine]]... with the article name first, followed by the way you'd like it to appear, with a | symbol as the delineation between the two.
  • Was just a comment, nothing needed to be done, unless you had a concern or question.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• Names of magazines, newspapers, books, and journals should be in italics. Typing ''Parade Magazine'' (two single quotes) will result in Parade Magazine.
  • Was just a comment, nothing needed to be done, unless you had a concern or question.--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
• Regarding references:
  • I've added a template for a citation with the most common values: <ref name= >{{cite web | url= | title= | author= | publisher= | date= | accessdate=March 16, 2015 }}</ref> for one of your sources. year= can be used if there's a stated year, like the biography for Lawrence Wells at the University of Mississippi.
    • I went ahead and formatted several citations - and to keep from crowding the article content in edit mode, I put them under "reflist | refs = ". Now, to use one of the sources, all you need to do is use the ref name (without quotes) in a {{r| }} template. For instance, the name of Auction Central News is "ACN", so you just need to place {{r|ACN}} every place that it applies.
  • If you give it a name (within quotation marks), it can be used multiple times. For subsequent uses, you just need to type the name in {{r| }}, like I did for {{r|UM Wells}} in this edit
  • The citations go after the content being cited, including after any relevant punctuation.
• I hope you don't mind, I changed "Bibliography" to "Published works" - since Bibliography generally means a list of sources for short citation references.
  • I also formatted a couple of the books with italics, embedded the links, and sorted the first three on the year that they were published.
  • Generally, you're not supposed to use external links within the body of an article, but this is one case where it's ok. My only question is whether links to book sellers is ok. I'm going to post a question on the Teahouse about that. (See this question)
  • Purists may come along and tag the section as having incomplete information since there aren't isbn numbers, which can be found at the booksellers - or at WorldCat.org. It's not an issue for me, just letting you know.

There's more we can tackle in a bit: {{Infobox person}}, external links, {{Persondata}}, categories, and default sort)... but we can circle back to that later. This is a very good start for the moment.--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:25, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Gleaning info - one source at a time

I would recommend now choosing one of the sources, I would recommend either {{r|Waller obit}} or {{r|ACN}}, because they are both substantive obituaries - and begin to add the citation tags - and paraphrase and add content from one of these sources.

It's easiest to just use one source at a time, and get all the info that applies from that source and then move on to another source. How does that sound?--CaroleHenson (talk) 00:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)