User talk:Jeff eve

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Hello, Jeff eve, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as John Hussong, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of John Hussong


A tag has been placed on John Hussong, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This article does not meet Wikipedia article standards

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Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hi Jeff eve! Welcome to Wikipedia! First things first, when signing posts on Wikipedia in Discussion sections and elsewhere (that is not an article) we typically put four tildas like this:  at the end of our post. Since typing four tildes adds the time and date to your resulting signature, this is the preferred option for signing your posts in discussions, so people know when and who made those edits...

To answer your question about how to format your article, it may be useful to go to another biography of another historical figure on Wikipedia. Try looking at someone similar to John Hussong (maybe Meriwether Lewis from Lewis and Clark; just offered that as a suggestion because he was also a pioneer/explorer type). When looking at the Meriwether Lewis article you will notice that there are sections with headings such as "Death" "Memorials" etc. To make a section in a Wikipedia article type:. That will result in something like this:

Section Title
In the section you can go into further detail about specific things that should be talked about (Death, Life Activities, Family, etc). To help you determine what section titles should be please read Manual of Style/Biographies, the Wikipedia manual of style on biographies. You should also read Notability (people) to make sure that this person meets the Wikipedia notability guidelines for persons.

It is perfectly fine to cite sources the way you have in this article, but I notice that you only have one source (Seminario de Historia De Baja California) and from that source you only reference 4 pages (157-160). If you could be more specific about which exact pages you are lifting facts from, this would be greatly appreciated by the Wikipedia community. I would also recommend using sources from the internet that are more readily verifiable.

Please also consider putting an Infoxbox on this page to summarize facts about this person. Look at almost any biographical page on Wikipedia to find an infobox. The Meriwether Lewis page has a great one. Things that should go in an infoxbox are: Name, Birth Date, Death Date, Birth Place, Death Place, Education, Occupation, Signature and any other significant biographical information.

Good luck! You can continue this discussion or ask me more questions on my Talk Page! I'm more than happy to help you! Mar2194 (talk) 21:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)