User talk:Safrouteh

Ways to improve Liwaa Yazji
Hi, I'm Mduvekot. Safrouteh, thanks for creating Liwaa Yazji!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. There are far too many external links in this article, but they look like they might be useful sources. Please convert those that support the content to footnotes, and remove all the other ones, except those that meet the criteria listed at WP:EL

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Mduvekot (talk) 21:57, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, I received your email. I'm responding here on your talk page because that is where other Wikipedians will have conversations with you. You asked how you can convert the external links to footnotes for the article on Liwaa Yazji. I want to point you to a link, WP:CITE that explains how to create citations. Please read that. Then I will create an example of a footnote, using the source in your long list that I think is actually any good, http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/film-haunted-erzaehlt-geschichte-vom-syrien-krieg-14543491.html, because the Frankfurter Allgemeine is widely considered a highly reliable and independent source. That's going to take me some time, because I need to read that article, find all the corresponding statements in the article you wrote and then insert a reference in the right spot, so that readers of the article can verify for themselves that what you say in the article can be attributed to an independent, reliable source, in this case, Bert Rebhandl from the Frankfurter Allgemeine. That should show you how to do this yourself. This process, unfortunately, is working backwards, which makes it slow and cumbersome. I would recommend to start with locating sources and then write the article. Then once the article is written, summarize all the main points in the lead. Mduvekot (talk) 22:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I have received a follow-up email from you requesting help. You mentioned that "I have notes on it and I don`t know how to solve them." I don't know what to do with that request. I'm not going to have a discussion over email, unless you have something to say to me that needs to be kept private. Please learn how to use talk pages and ask questions here or at the talk page of the article you are working on. To reply to this message, simply write directly below here and start your first sentence with one more colon than the last reply. Sign your message with four tildes (~), like this ~ . I will see your reply, there is no need to email me. Mduvekot (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2017 (UTC)