User talk:Dadofmary/sandbox

Welcome!
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Regarding your article question
First, thanks for helping to want to improve Wikipedia.

I understand that you would like to create a biographical article on a particular teacher, and add it to Wikipedia. That's great that you want to help improve our encyclopedia, and if I can be of help navigating our messy policies and processes, let me know.

There are a few things will really want to know before you try and write such an article.

The first one is pretty simple, write in your own words. You wouldn't believe how often folks copy and paste from other sources, which raises copyright issues.

The second is harder to explain, but is important here. Wikipedia does have a "bar" for inclusion on Wikipedia. We refer to it as a "notability" criterion, but a different way to think about it is this -- to have an article on any subject on Wikipedia, we want to see multiple, different, reliable sources, which are unrelated to the subject of the article, and which have an editorial processes, talk about the subject in some depth.

For a teacher, this would be a moderately high bar. I'd look for:
 * notable awards that they had won (not just been nominated for), awards which have their own Wikipedia article.
 * newspaper articles which go beyond simple interviews with the teacher. (Magazines or book coverage can work as well.)

The formal policy, for biographies, is at WP:BASIC. My attempt to translate that ...to remove a bit of our internal jargon from the explanation, is at User:Joe Decker/IsThisNotable. And if you still feel a bit confused by what that standard is, ask questions, and know you're not alone, that surprisingly simple standard causes quite a bit of confusion for new editors in particular.

Finally, if you're looking for other help, I'd really advise asking questions at the WP:Teahouse. They are a great group of editors dedicated to answering questions and helping new users at Wikipedia.

Anyway, welcome! Best of luck! --joe deckertalk 18:40, 30 May 2017 (UTC)