User talk:Cynthiapass

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Cynthiapass! I am Redblue82 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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RedBlue82 ^talk 21:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

{{Help}} How do I know if the article I have written is being reviewed for publication?

It is currently not being reviewed; please take one copy of your article (you have made three versions, one of which I have deleted as it was made the the wrong place) and place this code at the very top:

{{subst:AFC submission/submit}}

If you save the page then, a big yellow box ought to be at the top of the page; someone will come along and review it soon, and please check the page every day to see if they left comments. —fetch·comms 02:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Help with decline

{{helpme}}

My article was declined. We cannot accept unsourced suggestions or sources that are not reliable per the verifiability policy. Please provide reputable, third-party sources with your suggestions. Third party sources are needed both to establish the verifiability of the submission as well as its notability. I amn having difficulty understanding what to do. I put links all over the article to websites and wikipedia links.

Is this re. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Cynthiapass ?

Most websites are not reliable sources - we need things such as newspapers, books, or websites such as CNN, BBC News, that sort of thing - with a "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy", with editorial control.

Wikipedia itself is not a 'reliable source' - you can wikilink to other articles, of course, but that does not help with showing the notability.

For the basic requirement, see WP:VRS

You added a couple of links to show that the person "received the (CSP)", for example, but most of the facts don't have references. How could a reader check that the person was "born June 24, 1960" or "graduated from University of Missouri" etc.

It will also help greatly if you learn how to use inline references,

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) 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> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == 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:Cynthiapass/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> 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. Citation templates 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.

You might also like to look at some other good articles on similar subjects, to get the idea.

Best,  Chzz  ►  21:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

{{helpme}} I looked very closely at Jeffrey Gitomer and David Meerman articles. They use very simlilar links.

Notice that Jeffrey Gitomer has 23 properly-formatted inline citations to e.g. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc.

In addition, note that the existence of other articles isn't necessarily a good argument in favour of adding more; see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.  Chzz  ►  21:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)