User talk:Harper3505

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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia and hope you can stay and contribute. Two articles you created captured my attention since I have some connection to them (albeit distant). It might be a good idea to read some of the WIkipedia style guides. Manual of Style (biographies) for example gives the style of biographies. For example, we avoid the use of "Dr." and just use last names after the first full name. Other general styles are to avoid judgements such as if people are notable or eminent. Just say what they did and let the reader decide. See Manual of Style (words to watch) for more on this. Also avoid inline links to sites that are just to the names mentioned. Avoid the "External links" section if you do not have any. Links in citations must support the statement they go after, not just describe a term used in the body. For those use Wikilinks with square brackets to articles on those subjects. Citations should have more than a raw url in them due to the Link rot problem. Take a look at what I did to H. Pierre Noyes and H. Dean Brown for example, and the Cite web template documentation for example.

Finally, personal interviews are not good to use, because they are hard to verify. See Identifying reliable sources for more. One idea would be to have a transcript or article based on your interview published somewhere else, and then refer to that. However, citing yourself is also not much better, so getting a third party (e.g. professonal journalist or author) to publish it would be best. Or ask the person about published sources you can cite. Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 21:53, 22 June 2011 (UTC)