User talk:Ira1942

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Reference Errors on 28 November
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Proposed deletion of Ira blacker


The article Ira blacker has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. McGeddon (talk) 19:41, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Improvements needed at Draft:Ira Blacker
Hello, you're almost but not quite getting how to do references. Right now you have your references formatted as footnotes (which is good) but instead of being placed by the information in the article that they prove the little blue numbers are just stacked at the bottom of the article. Take a glance at WP:Referencing for beginners and it shows how to fix this.

Also, I see you have a lot of GoogleBooks references (which is good). There's a really helpful online tool to turn a URL link ("http://...") into a fully-formatted Wikpedia footnote. Take any of those links, paste it into http://reftag.appspot.com and at the bottom it'll give you properly formatted footnote coding to paste into your article. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Reftag only works on gBooks, so that's fine for now. If you want to automatically fix the other links with an easy click, paste the name of your article (including the "Draft:" prefix but noting before that) into this tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fengtools/reflinks/
 * What you need to do next is:
 * Remove any footnotes to other Wikipedia articles. You can WP:wikilink to other WP articles (the blue clickable links) but you cannot cite them, footnote them, etc. That would be circular logic, citing Wikipedia on itself.
 * The next part is that you're formatting footnotes right, but you're not placing them right. Again, please take a glance at WP:Referencing for beginners. If I say "John Smith invented an apple-picker in 1973. ", it should have a little blue number right after that claim, and that blue number matches up with the citation at the bottom automatically for you. The problem is that you stacked all your little blue numbers at the very end of the article, not actually next to the facts they support, so we have no idea what supports what.

Example of References section, automatically sorts the little blue numbers above

 * Fix those for now and we'll be in a much better position to move forward. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:45, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ira Blacker (January 24)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by CraigyDavi was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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—CraigyDavi (T∙C∙@) 23:30, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

The helpchat
Hello Ira1942. My name is Howicus. I assume that you were the person who came into earlier today asking about Draft:Ira Blacker. Unfortunately, when you copy/pasted your references into the channel, the automated anti-spam program saw that as posting too many messages too quickly, and it kicked you out of the channel. The ban has been lifted though, and you should be able to re-join the channel now if you like.

Now, in regards to your question, one thing you should do is turn your references into inline citations, so that it's easy to tell what information in the article is from which sources. The actual format of the sources looks fine...you just need to move them into the body of the article. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 00:21, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ira Blacker (February 16)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Onel5969 (talk) 03:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ira Blacker


Hello, Ira1942. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Ira Blacker".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)