User talk:Mmhemenway

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OMG. This is overwelming. I need to know how to edit my Virginia Wine Lover magazine in such a way that it won't be tagged for deletion. My company has another publication that we publish hampton roads magazinethat we have never had a problem with--it's been on wiki for a few years. HELP!!!

Can I categorize it as Media and it pass?

I am trying to post this article. I am wondering if it will pass the test. Please help me.Mmhemenway (talk) 18:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Hampton Roads Magazine is the lifestyle and city magazine dedicated to celebrating life in the southeastern Virginia region for which it is named—Hampton Roads—and is recognized by readers as an interesting, informative and entertaining media. The magazine was founded in November 2000 by Randy Thompson and covers the entire Hampton Roads region including the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Hampton Roads Magazine is published ten times a year by VistaGraphics, Inc., a privately owned and operated publishing firm headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and has an audited circulation of 45,000. It is the only full color, glossy, subscription based lifestyle publication in the Hampton Roads region. Like other city and regional magazines, Hampton Roads Magazine covers dining, arts & entertainment, special events, local people and places. The award winning publication has been recognized by the Virginia Press Association for outstanding design & presentation, specialty, health, science and educational writing and its outstanding columns. Hampton Roads magazine is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association and the Virginia Press Association. Mmhemenway (talk) 18:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)MH


 * Hi there. I will move this to a subpage, User:Mmhemenway/Hampton Roads Magazine, and I will work on it there. I will post more here soon - within the hour. Please hold on. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  19:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. I have now edited that proposed article a bit, hopefully to give you ideas. Please take a look at User:Mmhemenway/Hampton Roads Magazine. You can work on the proposed article there. Don't worry about it being overwhelming, there is plenty of help available.


 * The most important things to note, for now, are as follows;


 * I have concerns over a conflict of interest. Are you involved in the organisation? If not, please disregard this paragraph; if so, you should not create the article yourself, and should not edit the article directly in mainspace. Instead, you should work on it in your user area, and, when you are ready, add it to the requests for article creation. This is explained in two other documents that you should read carefully; WP:BESTCOI and WP:BFAQ.


 * Notability - your article does not assert the notability of the subject. To assert notability, you need to give references to secondary reliable sources - ie articles about the newspaper - unconnected to the org itself. Please read about verifiability. In the subpage, I have added an 'example reference'. I will add notes below, explaining how to make references.


 * Neutral point of view - Some of the wording was not appropriate - see the parts I cut out. We call these peacock terms. If the article is non-encyclopaedic, it will be quickly deleted. Stick to facts from reliable sources.


 * Please have a look at the 'demo' article that I have made. Edit it, and see if you can understand how things work. Look at other newspaper articles, edit them, see how they do things.


 * Before the article goes live, the most critical thing will be to add some good references to independent reliable sources. For example, some 'official' site that gives the circulation figures, some newspaper article (not in this newspaper) about the acquisition of the paper, the launch of a new format, or anything like that. Any of those will help in establishing notability.


 * You will also notice that I have added an infobox at the top of the article; that's the bit that makes the box at the top right. Please complete as many details as you can in there. Note that a logo cannot be uploaded until it does go live (because of copyright/fair-use issues) - hence I've used a placeholder image.


 * Good luck with it., if you need help, talk to us live, with this.

 Chzz  ►  20:57, 12 August 2009 (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, 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.

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