User talk:MarshaHuie

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David Thomas (Texas politician)
I noticed you trying to clean up this article. I thought you might like a bit of helpful advice. Here are the Wikipedia articles of the presidents of the Republic of Texas: David G. Burnet, Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Anson Jones. Maybe they can help you with some pointers on how to format the David Thomas article. - Motor (talk) 08:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Yorkville
Hello. I see you have been hard at work, but I also see that you are having some difficulty with Wikipedia formatting. I imagine you are frustrated when your additions don't end up getting formatted the way you think they should.

One of your edit summaries says that you lost 2-1/2 hours of work. I don't believe that is true. Almost everything that you added is now repeated in the article -- it's there twice. Furthermore, every old version of the article is available on the page history (here).

Did you think that I had deleted your work? Actually, I did delete some of it, but mostly I formatted it so headings would look like headings, paragraphs would look like paragraphs, etc.

I'll continue this message in a few minutes, but I'm saving now so you can start reading. --Orlady (talk) 05:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia markup can be bewildering at first, so I'll try to start out here with a few simple pointers:

1. Please don't try to make long horizontal lines with dashes. If horizontal lines are appropriate, they will be created as part of the headings.

2. Leave a line of space between paragraphs.

3. Don't ever leave more than one line of space between paragraphs.

4. When starting a new paragraph or a new heading, type at the left margin -- don't leave space there.

5. Instead of trying to learn Wikipedia markup in article space (such as Yorkville, Tennessee), I suggest that you try writing and formatting your content in your own user space, then move it to the article later after you've "perfected" it. --Orlady (talk) 05:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Continuing:

6. To help you get started working in your user space, I am creating a link to Yorkville page here:


 * /Yorkville, Tennessee

If you want to use that page to develop text for the article, click on that link and you will see an edit box where you can add content and test the formatting.

7. See Help:Wiki markup for instructions on formatting an article.

8. First-level article subheadings are created with a pair of double "=" marks at both ends, like this:

==Heading==

9. A second (lower) level of headings can be created with triple "=" marks, like this:

===Lesser heading===

--Orlady (talk) 05:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

On to content:

Please note that I deleted a cemetery list and a surname list that you had added to the article because this kind of genealogical research material is a type of content that is not appropriate for the encyclopedia. This is worthwhile content -- it just doesn't belong in the encyclopedia.

This is not the only material you added that is likely to be deleted for similar reasons, but I did not read your additions very closely. See WP:NOT for more information on what doesn't belong in Wikipedia. If you want to publish cemetery lists and surname lists on the internet, I suggest submitting it to the county GenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tngibson/ (or start your own website). --Orlady (talk) 05:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * What's the intent of your recent deletions from Yorkville, Tennessee?? --Orlady (talk) 20:17, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Sundown town?
Could Yorkville (or the nearby area called Cool Springs) be described historically as having been a sundown town? --Orlady (talk) 18:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sourcing and formatting
Your article David Purviance is interesting, but it cites no sources and it appears to be based entirely on private papers in your possession. Wikipedia cannot be a publisher of original research; articles must be based on previously published material. Please realize that if you cannot supply appropriate sources for the article, it will have to be deleted.

Also, I hope that you will take the time to learn some of the basics of wikipedia formatting. There is a difference between boldface (created with paired sets of three single quotation marks and hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles (created with paired sets of two square brackets ). Please learn the difference before other volunteer contributors lose their patience for cleaning up after you. --Orlady (talk) 05:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC)