User:NatGertler/mz

The most important thing to know going in -- the guide on for-pay editing: WP:PAID

You're going to need to request edits, which you will make on the Talk page for the article (across the top of each article's page, you'll see a series of links, one of which is Talk -- that takes you to the page for editing articles. Edit requests

General coverage of what qualifies as reliable sources: WP:RS

Our style manial is at WP:MOS

The page you're editing is what we call a BLP -- a Biography of a Living Person. That has some additional restrictions, with regard to use of self-published sources. For example, if I do a blog post about Charles Schulz, that can be used in an article on Schulz because I'm an award-winning writer on the topic, so I meet the expertise requirements. However, if I were an expert on Loni Anderson, the same would not apply because Loni is alive. The only self-published reference usable for living people is if the subject themself is the publisher. More at WP:BLPSPS

The templates you are most likely to use are Template:cite news and Template:cite web, click on either of those for example technical details. References look something like this: "tags" are the things in angle braces -- this has "ref" tags to indicate it's a reference, and will appears as a footnote. The template is in paired curly brackets. You do not need to include all the arguments (in fact, rare is the reference for which all the arguments a template supports can be used), do what you can. References only need to have a name if you'll be using them more than once. Once the reference is defined one place, you can add it elsewhere with just

Do not put links to outside websites within the body text of an article -- they belong in the references or in an Extarnal Links section at the bottom of the article. Do put links to other Wikipedia pages in the text when referring to people, companies, art styles or other things that have their own wikipedia page.
 * Simplest form: just put double square links around the term in the text. Nat Gertler will appear like this: Nat Gertler (the first letter is case-insensitive, so nat Gertler would point to the same page.
 * You can make different words appear than the name of the linked page like this: that damn fool will appear like this: that damn fool
 * extension trick useful for plurals: Nat Gertlerarooni appears like Nat Gertlerarooni (doesn't work for possessives, though, just bunches of letters up to the next space.

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editing notes that I made while looking at the article:
 * https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-hampshire-gazette-the-teenage-muta/142479040/ -- article includes description of his TMNT art.
 * Problems with using Mars Will Send No More source, as it seems to be a self-published source, which goes against WP:BLPSPS
 * Claim that "The work has been viewed as a classic series" cannot be sourced to the publisher
 * "Zulli created three issues ... Zulli wrote, drew, and painted the covers for the 3 issues" can be compressed, just move the second phrase in place of the first.