User talk:Mbaafirehouse

Welcome!

Hello, Mbaafirehouse, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! --Patriot8790 (talk) 06:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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Help request
Hi - I can't tell if the page I just completed will be reviewed and that I will receive feedback. If so, when? and how will I know? I also want to add some photos, but frankly I'm a little tired because I've been working on the article for about 6 hours. BTW the title is Fred Ford (Blues-Jazz Musician) and it's my first contribution. Thanx

Mbaafirehouse (talk) 06:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * You put the above message on User talk:Patriot8790, but you also used a ...if you wanted to contact that specific person, there was no need for the ...but if you did want help, then it's best to use here, on your own user talk page.


 * Also, you put the message at the top of their talk page; please always add new things to the end of talk pages.


 * Re. Fred Ford, Blues-Jazz Musician - you created that as a live article. It looks OK, and hopefully other people will edit and improve it; some of the formatting isn't quite right, but that's fine - see WP:IMPERFECT.


 * To request some feedback, see WP:FEED.


 * The main thing would be to improve the references. I'll add some help on that below.


 * Best,  Chzz  ► 08:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837.

Chzz lives in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.