User talk:Laurie melville

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Laurie melville! I am Pianotech and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Pianotech (talk) 21:53, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
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John McKean
Hello Laurie, I have moved your draft article to User:Laurie melville/John McKean where you can continue to develop it.

The answer to your specific question is that when it is ready to move to article space, you would move it to John McKean (author) (which is a red-link at present, because that article does not exist). At that point, you would also add a template to it, pointing to the Disambiguation page John McKean, and add a link to it from that disambiguation page.

However, your page needs a lot of work before you can do that. The most important point is that you have no few or no citations to reliable sources. All information in Wikipedia is supposed to be specifically cited to such sources (see WP:CITE) - general links at the end of an article are not enough. While this rule is unfortunately not always followed, it is particularly important for biographies of living people. A related point is that Wikipedia has a criterion for including articles called notability: this is not directly whether or not a subject is important, but whether it has been discussed in multiple independent reliable sources - and the article must directly demonstrate how its subject is notable in that sense.

As you will see, I have just applied a fair amount of Wikipedia formatting to the page - please look at how I have done this to see how to do it yourself.

Good luck. --ColinFine (talk) 18:13, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

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ColinFine (talk) 18:41, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

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ColinFine (talk) 23:28, 27 October 2011 (UTC)