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Swarm 19:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Sociabull, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)
First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the
Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Sociabull/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.
For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).
Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful -
Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you. Pesky (talk …stalk!) 05:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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:Sociabull/reftest and try it out.
Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives 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.
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.
Hi there Sociabull! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.
You might want to consider using
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Hello Sociabull. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Julia Suzuki, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
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-- Our organisation used to be affiliated with Julia Suzuki, however we're using her article as a basis for initial edits before making further changes to the site as it's a topic that we're familiar with. We're unsure of where the line is drawn - does it count as a conflict of interests if we edit the pages of, for example, musicians like Dr Syntax, part of the extended Foreign Beggars family? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sociabull (talk • contribs) 02:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In case you hadn't seen it, I wanted to let you know that you also have a talk page at Wikimedia Commons. I can see that you're trying to provide a good photo for the Julia Suzuki article, but coming up against copyright issues. Another user over at Commons has left you a note offering to help. Cheers. – Wdchk (talk) 05:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
-- Thanks, is it okay for us to go ahead and do that or would you advise against it as we've had a connection with her? I'm still learning the ins and outs of editing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sociabull (talk • contribs) 06:04, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your feedback and thank you for your contributions! It's good to know you are still happy.
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