User talk:William Mirglip

Your first article
Hello, I found your user page from your post at the New User's help page, and took a look at your article in development. I made a few changes; if you don't like them, feel free to revert. I added a reflist section to make your references visible. I added a description to one of the references, you can add to the others by inserting it between the URL and the right square bracket. I didn't look at the YouTube link, but take care that it contains no copyrighted material. If it does, it cannot be used at Wikipedia. Another task is to look up all the people and institutions mentioned and see if articles exist for them. If so, you should turn the word into a wikilink using double square brackets. The article should have more citations to prove notability, and these should be added before making the article "live", otherwise it could be deleted. Are there external articles about the company he founded, and on his writings? Let me know if you have any questions I might be able to answer. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 03:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll be honest with you, I don't see any evidence that Newman was notable enough to have an article here. If and when this is moved into article space, it's likely to be nominated as a bio of a non-notable person. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

You asked me for further comment. The article looks a lot better, and I think it has enough points to demonstrate the subject's notability, which is very important. Citations are sitll a problem, and I can suggest some other improvements.

The is a lot of information for just 1 paragraph. Make the first section a brief summary, using the first 2 sentences you already have. Put the rest in a new section by inserting a heading (perhaps "Biography") and make each topic or occupational endeavour a separate paragraph, which is done with double spacing. A single line break does not start a new line, though it looks like it does in the edit box.

Song, story, and poem titles should be surrounded by double quotes. Book titles (and other things like record album titles, and, I think, titles of newspapers and magazines, and probably the Anvil Revue) should be in italics. To make text show in italics, surround it with 2 single quotes on each side. Example: "Black Cross" from Perishable Poems.

A list of published works could be shown again in list form, in a separate Bibliography section. It would need to be properly formatted with publisher names, etc.

Do not use reference tags to link to other Wikipedia articles. Make the article name a wikilink using square brackets. Even if Wikipedia pages could be used for citation, those pages would not be adequate, because neither the Bob Dylan nor Lord Buckley articles mention the song or poem "Black Cross", so they do not back up what is being stated in this article. I do notice there are 2 other Dylan related articles that do mention the song, but again, WIkipedia cannot use itself as a citation. You might look at what those other articles are using for citations, and if it backs up what you need to have cited, you can use the same citations.

So your biggest problem now, is to find more citations. Ideally, every fact in an article should be backed up with a citation. In real life, they aren't always, but you do need to have some for the key points, such as the companies he worked for. Even though you are related to Newman, you may be getting some of your information from published sources that are available to everyone (they don't necessarily need to be online, as long as they were published somewhere), and these can be used for citation.

Hope this is useful. Let me know if you would like more help. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 12:40, 30 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry I haven't replied in a while, I've been away from Wikipedia for a week. The article looks good, and is ready to move to an article space.  I recommend moving the whole page using the "move" tab near the top of the screen, which will preserve edit history (, but uncheck the "move talk page" option on the next page.  Congrats on your article! --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 11:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:JosephSNewman.jpg
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Fair use rationale for File:JosephSNewman.jpg
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File copyright problem with File:JosephSNewman.jpg
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