User talk:Johnvsantore

Help me!
Hello! I have two questions:

1) I have worked up a draft entry in my Sandbox. How do I publicly publish that entry? 2) I would like to add an infobox to the upper right-hand corner of my page with a picture and some basic information. Can you explain how I code that?

Thank you for your help!

- John

Johnvsantore (talk) 16:16, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , the simple answer to your question #1 is: You don't. At least, I really, really, really strongly advise you to not submit that draft for consideration in its current state. I suggest you read this help page on your first article and this policy on reliable sources and then work on providing some independent, reliable sources for it.  If you submit an article that is sourced entirely to a congressional candidate's own website it will be immediately rejected.
 * I have added the template for an infobox to your page for you and added the first template parameter. You can find the rest of the template parameters and how to use them at this link.
 * Lastly, I need to make sure you are aware of the Wikipedia Conflict of Interest guidelines that are in place here. If you are connected to Mr. Feehan, his campaign, the DFL Party, or otherwise to Mr. Feehan then you need to disclose it and follow those guidelines.  Many new editors do not realize that compliance with the conflict of interest policy is a condition they agreed to follow when creating their account. I just want to make sure you are aware of them.
 * When you think you have fixed the issues above, I can help you find the Article for Creation process. I hope this helps. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:51, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Eggishorn This is great, thank you very much for this information! It is very helpful. Glad to see such stringent guidelines are in place! (I've never posted on Wiki before, though I use it all the time.) Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnvsantore (talk • contribs) 12:33, January 19, 2018 (UTC)
 * , welcome to Wikipedia, I hope you'll stick around. I've added a template to your sandbox article which will assist you when you are ready to submit the updated draft to the Article for Creation process I mentioned earlier.  When you address the issues I mentioned above (please not now), then you can follow the directions in the gray box and it will be evaluated by an experienced user. I have a couple of other tips that might help you.  When you type @, it doesn't work like Twitter and let the other editor know you are talking to them.  To do that, you need to type "  " (without the quotes) and it will produce the @ text and ping the other user.  Also, when you make a post on a talk page, you can sign it by typing four tilde characters in a row, like this: ~ .  I hope this helps. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:24, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Johnvsantore/sandbox


Hello, Johnvsantore. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia 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) 19:23, 28 July 2018 (UTC)