User talk:Realfakemarlene

I need help with my article. I think it would fit nicely in the California section of Assisted living. I have it in my sub pages but I am very new at this. I am having trouble with the linkage and making it sound neutral as I am biased as a resident. I feel strongly that it belongs in Wikipedia under Assisted living as I had trouble researching assisted living when I needed it and   have some but not a lot of the companies listed. This also would be a good article for San Clemente because the owners are notable prominent people in San Clemente big philanthropists in the area.````

James Kavanaugh
You asked: Thank you for the rewrite on James Kavanaugh. I have a lot of material I would like to add but I am just learning Wikipedia. I see that have rewritten it to keep it from being deleted. I can come up with some of the references needed but don't think my understanding of wikipedia will be up to speed. I am not even sure I am using your talk space correctly. If you would not mind starting a discussion about the article on my talk space I think I have mastered that and can provide references from my Father his brother to get the article out of the deletion category. I know there are many fans who are looking for information on James and it would be nice to have it all in one place. If you see my talk space there is a video 1 of six I would like to see referenced. realfakemarlene 20:14, 29 January 2010 (UTC) Realfakemarlene. You can see I tried adding it but my knowledge of Wikipedia is weak. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Realfakemarlene (talk • contribs)

I am answering you:
 * no one is now proposing to delete it, nor do I think that they will. I moved it to the right title, which is just his name. What is needed is published references, not private ones--we need references for: 1/ the Dear Abby letter--not that she sent it, the reference to where he said the quote  about it; 2/ which NYT review exactly called it "a personal cry of anguish..." name of reviewer, date and p. of publication,  3/ just which San Diego newspaper article the quote there is from. that something was published about it. 4/just which date's Tonight show, with if possible a reference to a program listing of some sort. If you can add this, do--otherwise I'll hunt it down myself. I'll deal with the videos.

The best guide for writing in Wikipedia is the free online version of How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates (also available in print) -- chapter 6 is particularly relevant. , and also the free online version of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton (also available in print).  DGG ( talk ) 21:39, 29 January 2010 (UTC)