Sashaduds
Welcome! edit
Hello, Sashaduds, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Susan Theresa Burke, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.
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The article Susan Theresa Burke has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:11, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Watch your formatting on Susan Theresa Burke edit
Greetings, while your enthusiasm is appreciated, your edits on Susan Theresa Burke took some cleaning up. You can't just make up wiki code and hope it works! ;)
For example:
- "(( Cateogory: Female comedians))" doesn't actually do anything, firstly because you used ( instead of [, and you misspelled "Category". What you wanted was [[Category:Female comedians]]
- "((Cateogory: American screenwriters, American actors, Female screenwriters))" also doesn't do anything, for the above reasons, and also because each category needs to be in its own brackets, like so: [[Category:American comedians]] [[Category:Writers from Wyoming]].
- You have the basic idea of reference formatting down, which is great, but you applied it in a way that doesn't make sense; the <ref> tags are for adding footnotes within the article, not for adding just a list at the end of "general sources". For that you can just type a list underneath {{reflist}} (which is the code that automatically sorts all your footnotes for you), but overall it's better to just place footnotes within the article itself, immediately following whatever fact they prove.
Just a few pointers; I know Wiki takes some getting used to, but if you're not sure how to code something, just take a look at another good article, hit "Edit" and just look at how they typed in their code. The other big thing, make sure you hit "Preview" before saving, so you can see any mistakes before they get shown to the world.
Hope this helps, feel free to shoot me a line with any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)