User:Chzz/sausage2

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Re. Hi

Hi there :-) And again, welcome to Wikipedia.

I found the article that you are referring to: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown.

Before I come to your actual questions, there are some more important issues to address;

Given your user-name, I assume that you are the subject of the article? In which case, before anything else, please read WP:AUTO. When you have such a conflict of interest, it is quite difficult to write an autobiographic article, and we advise people not to do so; it is so very difficult to be neutral, and to only use facts supported by appropriate reliable sources.

At the moment, we cannot make the article live, mostly because it does not show references for most of the information. All of the facts in the article should come from independent, reliable sources - that is, things like magazine and newspapers, but not press-releases. We try to avoid primary sources wherever possible.

These references should be formatted "in line". I will add some help on that, below.

In answer to your question, the article should probably be called "Ali Brown", if that is the name you most commonly use. For example, we have Bill Clinton, not "William Jefferson Clinton". We can then have redirects, which means that e.g. William Jefferson Clinton works too.

We also have an article called Ali Brown, as it happens - but notice the italics at the top;

For other people with the same name, see Alistair Brown.

...and thus, we have articles on Alistair Brown (footballer born 1951) and Alistair Brown (footballer born 1985). Your article, if accepted, would become something like "Ali Brown (businessman)" or whatever is appropriate.

I have put the submission 'on-hold', for now, while we try to sort things out.

If you need more help with any of it, please ask - but the most important thing is, to have neutral, well-referenced facts from independent, reliable sources.

Best, ~~~~

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Chzz/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook">
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/>

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 <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.