User talk:Sue Journ

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Hello, Sue Journ, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Help me!

Hi,

I'd like to publish the article saved on my old talkpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Journe/Mohamad_Jebara. Would it be possible to have it looked over before publishing the article? I would really appreciate the advice and guidance.

Thanks,

Sue

Sue Journ (talk) 14:32, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

The way to send a draft for review is to put {{subst:submit}} at the top. That will put it in the queue at WP:Articles for creation for review by an experienced user, who will either accept it or give you feedback. If you want messages about it to come to this account, you should put {{subst:submit|Sue Journ}}. Copy those templates as they appear on this page - don't include the "nowiki" and "tt" tags you will see on the edit page.

First comment: that isn't how we do references. The <ref> .... </ref> material should go in the article text at the appropriate point. Then at the end of the article put a heading == References == and beneath it {{reflist}}. The system automatically puts numbered links like [1] in the text and lists the actual references at the end, with appropriate cross-links. This is explained at WP:Referencing for beginners.

That may not be as much work as might appear, because my second comment is: you have far too many references. Read WP:Citation overkill. References enough to verify what the article says are good, but too many references only complicate things, and raise suspicions of WP:Bombardment. You do not need to link to every column he has written or to every press report about his cycle rides. In assessing WP:Notability, references about him by other people are much more valuable than references to things he has written, particularly those that are about him in some depth, as opposed to just reporting something he has done or said.

Read WP:Your first article for advice, and also WP:Writing better articles to learn the proper way to lay an article out. There is also advice on writing biographical articles at WP:WikiProject Biography. That may seem like a lot of studying, but a reviewer is more likely to accept an article which does not require a lot of rearrangement and reformatting, and it will save you time on future articles. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2016 (UTC)