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- Hi, March1310, I also saw your Teahouse question and went ahead and did some copyedit on u|Reidgreg}} if you reply here so that I'll get an alert. Happy editing! - Reidgreg (talk) 18:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)]
- Your work on a four day old account impressed me, so I wasn't sure how familiar you were with Wikipedia (if you'd done a lot of editing before creating an account). Let me stress that you've done the important part: you've referenced your sources and demonstrated notability (in my opinion). This is just a matter of tidying up, and is non-urgent. Apologies if I get a little long-winded. Help:Referencing for beginners with citation templates is probably too basic for you but Wikipedia:Citation templates might be too much.
- Citation templates create output specifically meant to appear in the References section of an article. It's a good way of collecting reference information, gives standard output, and allows for a lot of advanced tricks with metadata. Although not a requirement, I feel it's a good habit to use the cite family of templates. If you look at a mature article like J. M. Coetzee#References, you can see how a lot of information is presented in a way that's easy to absorb. And guess what? One of the websites you reference, http://catalogue.nla.gov.au, provides Wikipedia citation data (for books) that you can copy & paste into the article!
- One of the last references is
<ref name=grants>2015 http://creative.vic.gov.au/news/2015/$1.3m-investment-in-victorias-independent-arts-sector</ref>
. Try replacing that with<ref name=grants>{{cite web |url=http://creative.vic.gov.au/news/2015/$1.3m-investment-in-victorias-independent-arts-sector |title=$1.3M Investment in Victoria's Independent Arts Sector |publisher=creative.vic.gov.au |date=1 June 2016 |accessdate=5 October 2016}}</ref>
and see the results. (Or better yet, just add one after the other (temporarily) so you can compare them on the Ref list.) - It looks like someone tried to experiment at this by placing {{essay}} inside a set of ref tags. However, this is not a citation template and resulted in a banner being placed in the references.
- The article presently uses {{cite book}} in the section, "Mountains Brown Press: titles", outside of the ref tags. There are a couple minor issues with this. (1) Normally the citation goes inside/between the <ref></ref> tags so that it will appear as a footnote where {{reflist}} has been placed. (2) The section isn't actually referring to any information from the books, so referencing doesn't seem necessary. (3) The citation template's output results in a slight clash of style with that of the prose. I would suggest moving the cite templates between the ref tags (adding the website URL as a parameter preceded by |url= ), and before the ref tag list the publication in the style book title (publication year) to match the prose, with no closing punctuation (as it is a bullet list).
- Sorry for going on. It might not be a bad idea to look at this diff of the changes I made to the article yesterday, mostly little Manual of Style tweaks. - Reidgreg (talk) 17:20, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Reidgreg Thankyou so much for all your help (and editing), much appreciated. I am new to this, but I am reasonably familiar with computers. I'll be sure to use all your suggestions. Hopefully I'll have all the citations fixed by the end of the weekend. And again, thankyou so much. March1310 (talk) 21:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Reidgreg I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. I'm having trouble with copyright of images. How do I upload under 'fair use'?March1310 (talk) 06:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
- I see this has been addressed at WP:NFCCP give you a checklist. Part of that is like showing notability, that the image itself is notable and further illustrates the information in the prose of the article. My expectation is that you'd be best to concentrate efforts on justifying one image which would best serve the article. - Reidgreg (talk) 12:55, 6 October 2016 (UTC)]
Reidgreg Thank You!March1310 (talk) 22:00, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for writing this article! I’ve just read it and I’m a bit concerned that it has no citations. That worries me since without proof that this person is
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Blythwood.Thanks for the quick response. I've only just started adding citations. Many of Davies novels were short listed for literary awards, and all were reviewed by major news papers, and literary reviews. Unfortunately (for me), most were published before news papers embraced online reviews. But I am slowly getting them together. I'v added a couple of online citations for now. March1310 (talk) 07:34, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
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If you create an article in article space, such as Cassandra Atherton, but use an article or a draft as a template, please remove anything that is clearly inapplicable, such as my comment that disambiguation would be required. That was applicable to Phil Day, but it is not applicable to Atherton, and I have removed it. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:36, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
Robert McClenon Thanks. My mistake. March1310 (talk) 03:10, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
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ImageTaggingBot. Thanks you very much. Really helpful. Thanks again.March1310 (talk) 03:03, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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talk Thankyou! Fixed.March1310 (talk) 02:49, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm CAPTAIN RAJU. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Wong Ah Sat— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 20:41, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
CAPTAIN RAJU No worries. Thanks. March1310 (talk) 20:48, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Draft:Phil Day (artist) has a new comment
SwisterTwister I've removed the citations citing Day's book information. I was wondering if you could specify which aspects of the article require third-party news/reviews. March1310 (talk) 09:23, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
SwisterTwister Have added some third-part news/reviews.March1310 (talk) 05:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Phil Day (artist) has been accepted
SwisterTwister Thankyou! I have since introduced links to the page from other articles.March1310 (talk) 01:28, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, March1310! Great to see a new user and glad to see you are not easily discouraged (contributing to Wikipedia has quite a steep leaning curve). Don't be afraid to ask for help. And, as someone with a bit of an interest in Chinese Australian history, great to see your article on Wong Ah Sat. Kerry (talk) 22:15, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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