User talk:Just WikiEditor2018

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Just WikiEditor2018, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 01:49, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How to create articles here[edit]

To create an article, you need to gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find. They need to be specifically about the subject (e.g. Ryland Adams) but not affiliated with the subject. So, newspaper or magazine articles about Adams would work, but blogs or vlogs about Adams would not work and neither would Adams's website. Any site with "wiki" in their name (especially Wikipedia) is not accepted as a source (we also hate Daily Mail and InfoWars, in case those come up for some reason). These sources also need to be primarily about Adams -- if they're about someone else and just mention Adams, that's not good enough.

You will need at least three such sources. If you cannot find three, then the subject is probably not notable. If a subject is not notable, we will not allow an article to be published.

Once you've gathered these sources, you need to summarize each of them and put a citation at the end of each summary. I recommend doing this in Microsoft Notepad, or some similar program that removes formatting from text. You could do it in Word or other programs, but remember that the formatting will not translate. Take your time with this.

Then, you combine overlapping parts of each summary, adjusting and repeating the citations so that they follow whatever information they support. You cannot combine two citations to arrive at a conclusion not actually present in either source, however. After this, paraphrase the entire thing. Wikipedia does not tolerate plagiarism or copyright violations. Again, take your time with this. Wikipedia does not have a deadline.

Once you've polished everything, go to Wikipedia:Article wizard and follow the directions there. You should be able to post your work there. If you've followed the above directions correctly, the subject's notability should be established and the article will get approval in a few days. In the mean time, you can expand the article with summaries of other reliable sources that might not have made the first cut (in particular, sources about other people that mention Adams, or sources affiliated with Adams -- just make sure that they don't make up more than a third of all sources cited). Ian.thomson (talk) 01:49, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]