User talk:Richhefner

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Cheers, ChzzBot IV (talk) 19:01, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

I noticed your submission in Articles for creation, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David Francis (author). Thanks! It will be reviewed by a volunteer soon.

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Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> The Book of Chzz, Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea.<ref> Smith, John. "[http://foonews.com/Article42 Interview with Chzz]", Foo News, 1 April 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-22. </ref>

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Best, ChzzBot IV (talk) 19:01, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Zach Vega (talk to me) 01:45, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

David Francis (author), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Loriski (talk) 00:54, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your article...

Hi Richhefner!

First of all, thank you very much for your article: it looks like it fills an important gap in Wikipedia's coverage :) You'll notice I made quite a few changes to your article in the process of reviewing it, and I thought I would explain these changes here as they may be helpful if you plan to help out in editing any other articles on wikipedia (which I hope you will!)

I removed quite a lot of the information you had included about Francis's life. This is because, generally speaking, any claims that are made in a Wikipedia article need to be able to be verified by a reference that supports that claim in a reliable source. So, for example, if you give information about Francis's thesis at university, you need to provide a reference to an article in a newspaper, magazine, academic journal or something similar that has reported this information. If it hasn't been reported in a reliable source, it cannot be included on wikipedia. This policy is particularly strict when it comes to articles about living people, and you can find out more about this by looking at Wikipedia's Policy on Biographies of Living Persons.

I removed a number of references that were actually just links to external websites. For example, when you gave information about the school that Francis attended, you linked to the webpage of the school. This link did not corroborate the claim that Francis attended that school, and therefore was not a reference. If you want to direct your reader to general information about something you mention in your article - e.g. Francis's school - you would create a "wikilink" to the Wikipedia article about whatever it is you have mentioned. You can find out more about how to to this here, but basically all you do is put a pair of square brackets - i.e. [[ ]] - around the relevant words. So if you put a pair of square brackets around David Francis (author) that would create a link to your article, like so: David Francis (author).

Lastly, I made some formatting changes - to titles of books and so on - and you can find out more about this by reading Wikipedia's Manual of Style

Feel free to drop me a note at my talk page if you have any questions, or otherwise the Teahouse is a great place to go to get advice from expert editors!

With all best,

Loriski (talk) 01:22, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the Teahouse

Hello! Richhefner, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Loriski (talk) 01:24, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]