User talk:Jessica Ann715/sandbox

This is a great start, Jessica! Now, the dicey thing about your references is that Wikipedia isn't going to like 'em coming from her own website. So move her website to a new section called "External Links" (and don't forget YouTube, too, for that)!. See if you can find any more info elsewhere: use ProQuest (Dimond Library databases) to see if there are other newspaper articles/reviews about her; and you can probably pull a little info from my article about her and Mihku in MELUS (find it through the MLA bibliography). You can also get some mileage out of describing her books. Don't forget to use the memoir itself as a source for her biography!--simple page references to events in her life will get you what you need.Ssenier (talk) 13:57, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not quite sure what kind of help you need; could you please be more specific? I have to disagree with one part of Ssenier's advice, though: Azure's memoir would be considered a primary source, and while such sources may be used for uncontroversial facts such as her birthdate, they should not be the sole basis of significant amounts of content. For that, Wikipedia requires reliable published sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper articles about her or reviews of her works in reputable literary magazines. Peer-reviewed scholarly papers also make good sources, of course.
 * The current sources, however, a directory website, two books by Azure and an interview where once again Azure herself is the source of the information about her, in my opinion don't suffice to establish her notability by Wikipedia's standards. To be considered notable, she must have been the subject of significant coverage in multiple good sources. Huon (talk) 21:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)