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Help me!
Happy New Year,

I am sorry but I am again asking for further help: OK I am almost ready to submit the article: I have my article ready to go in a word processor. It is a biography The article in the print lay out consists of 13 pages that include also the references and the list of publications. I have the same article in web lay out. The size of the letters I used are 12. I shall copy and paste the text through the search box. 1st question: What size of letters are required? Should the letters be bold or regular?

2nd question: If I copy and paste just the text and would like to add the references and publications by using templates, what steps should I use? I read everything related to templates and I still don't understand (after submitting this article for publication I think I will have a lobotomy - ha! ha! ha!). I don't understand how to use. I would appreciate if you can explain this step by step-or should I copy and paste through the search box also the references and list of publications?

I apologize for all the disturbance; I hope that I am not a nuisance, and I appreciate all your help. Waiting for the answer that will come in 2015 (here we are still in 2014 - Dec 31, 8:30 PM.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Erica Blatt Harkins (talk) 04:52, 1 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not quite sure I understand the question. You have written the note here; writing a draft would use the same edit window. In particular, all the word processor's formatting will be lost in the copy-pasting. Instead, your word processor may be able to export the text with wiki markup (I know LibreOffice has such an option, and I assume so have newer versions of Word, but I don't guarantee that). That would result in a plain text file containing the text with the wikicode corresponding to what formatting the text in the word processor had - you can then copy-paste that text-with-markup-code into the edit window instead of the formatted text. In particular, you need not bother at all with font size; simply doing nothing about that will result in Wikipedia's standard font size, and manually changing that for an entire article would not be helpful. Boldface should be used very sparingly; see the Manual of Style on that.
 * For the references I'd refer you to WP:Referencing for beginners; the video at that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes for references. Huon (talk) 05:15, 1 January 2015 (UTC)