User talk:Sciencetalk09

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, good luck, and have fun. This is a message for A More Perfect Onion requesting your help with my article, "National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis." First, I have changed my username from "Nimbios" to "sciencetalk09" per your suggestion. Next, I would like to ask if you could proofread a draft of my article and help me get it ready for publication. The page is entitled, "National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis," and as far as I can tell, has not yet been deleted. Thus far, it points to three problems, as follows: (1) "appears to have been copied and pasted from a source..." It has been copied and pasted from my Word document. (2) Article "does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources." (3) Article "may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout." Although I have spent many hours reading and re-reading "how-to" pages on Wikipedia, I still don't know how to address these problems. At this point, I really need a person to jump in. Your help will be greatly appreciated. (Sciencetalk09 (talk) 19:08, 17 August 2009 (UTC))
 * The best way to point you in the right direction is with the standard links in a welcome message (which I added above).  As for the other concerns:
 * Preparing the article on your own in a word processor is a good way to draft an article. The copy-paste issue is if an article seems to have been copy-pasted from a potentially non-free source.  It would seem that I was wrong in this case.
 * Make sure the content of your article has proper reliable sources, independent of the organization.
 * Look over some other articles and get a feel for how internal links work in those articles.
 * Be bold! As long as your efforts show an intent to support the mission of making a free-content encyclopedia, someone will come along (eventually) and help with the article.
 * Good luck with the article, and happy editing. A More Perfect Onion (talk) 19:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)