User:42~enwiki/Help write organisation articles

Keep in mind

 * Creating overly abundant links and references to primary sources is unacceptable. Article topics must be third-party verifiable.
 * All information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style.
 * Do not use Wikipedia for promoting causes or events, or issuing public service announcements, whether commercial or otherwise.
 * All articles must be about subjects that are considered notable according to Wikipedia's standard of inclusion. For example, articles about very small "garage" or local companies are typically unacceptable.
 * Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability.
 * If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it.
 * Organizations that editors personally believe are "important" are only accepted as notable if they can be shown to have attracted notice.
 * Capitalize trademarks, as with proper names.
 * Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official".
 * Do not use the ™ and ® symbols, or similar, in either article text or citations, unless unavoidably necessary for context (for instance, to distinguish between generic and brand names for drugs).
 * Avoid using special characters that are not pronounced, are included purely for decoration, or simply substitute for English words (e.g., Do not use “♥” used for "love").

Examples of primary sources that you must avoid

 * self-published materials;
 * any material written by the organization, its members, or sources closely associated with it;
 * advertising and marketing materials by, about, or on behalf of the organization;
 * corporate websites or other websites written, published, or controlled by the organization;
 * any material written or published by the organization, directly or indirectly;
 * other works in which the company, corporation, organization, or group talks about itself—whether published by the company, corporation, organization, or group itself, or re-printed by other people.
 * sources that simply report meeting times, shopping hours or event schedules,
 * the publications of telephone numbers, addresses, and directions in business directories,
 * the season schedule or final score from sporting events,
 * routine communiqués announcing such matters as the hiring or departure of personnel,
 * brief announcements of mergers or sales of part of the business,
 * simple statements that a product line is being changed,
 * routine notices of facility openings or closings (e.g., closure for a holiday or the end of the regular season),
 * quotations from an organization's personnel as story sources, or
 * passing mention, such as identifying a quoted person as working for an organization.

Simple references
These require two parts;
 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old. He likes tea.
 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837, in Footown. 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, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

Feel free to ask me or other editors when in doubt. You can also find help at. Alternatively, you can put a template on your talk page and ask your question there. Happy editing!