User talk:Bfleet5

Help me!
Please help me with...correctly writing an article regarding the formation and operation of the New Deal Supermarket chain in Jackson, MS by my grandfather Rayvon Smith. I believe the history is worth preserving as it was formed on Farish Street in the 1940s and operated throughout the civil rights era. I have links and copies of newspaper articles, other reliable references, and many old pictures that provide all the information and background necessary to write an accurate unbiased page, but I do not have the time or understanding to do so properly. I would greatly appreciate any help with this issue.

Bfleet5 (talk) 16:08, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I found a mention of New Deal Supermarkets in Jitney Jungle as a "red link", which is already an implied request for an article to be created.
 * As for creating an article from the sources you have in hand, that's a more difficult proposition. First, you would need to declare your conflict-of-interest status. Next, the photos would have to be treated as copyrighted, so unless you took them yourself, they would need to be properly released and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before they could be used on Wikipedia. Newspaper articles can often be used as sources, whether they are online or not, so long as you can provide sufficient bibliographic information (name of publication, date of publication, title, and, if possible, page number and writer).
 * Even if you don't have time or knowledge for writing up a Wikipedia article, I encourage you to find a reporter or historian who is interested in this place and era who can help you put together some sort of story. The source and writing requirements at Wikipedia may not allow you to tell as much of the story as you know, but an independent scholar or reporter can put your story in context, with some additional fact checking, and their published work would then qualify as a source for an article.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 21:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)