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I need to know how to submit an article I have written for review. GeneosaGeneosa (talk) 22:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC) Please help me with...[reply]

Geneosa (talk) 22:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

When you are ready to submit your sandbox draft, click the "submit your draft" button at the top of the page and follow the instructions. Primefac (talk) 22:24, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Your draft is now in your user sandbox, at User:Geneosa/sandbox, and now has a submit button, but please don't submit it yet. Read WP:Your first article, and WP:Referencing for beginners. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:26, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To David's comments, I'd add please keep at it. The subject of your article is undoubtedly notable. You just need to show it better by adding more sources. It would help if you made your citations "in-line", for which I will leave you instructions. For historical figures, books are usually the best source. Please note that sources do not have to be online; you just have to provide complete enough information so if someone were to be motivated to find it, they could. Thanks for your efforts. Our coverage of things related to Africa is lacking. This article will help in that. John from Idegon (talk) 23:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references can be easy

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
Then click on "Templates".
Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header ==References== is near the end of the article.
And check that {{Reflist}} is directly underneath that header.

7. Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 23:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

January 2017

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:George Sutton, from its old location at User:Geneosa/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. KGirlTrucker81^{huh? what I've been doing} 17:29, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: George Morris Sutton has been accepted

George Morris Sutton, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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SwisterTwister talk 19:26, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]