User talk:Cuppa67/Sandbox-DHS

Sandbox

Suggestions:

• insert references,
• create blue -links such as Saturday Evening Post,
• use your sandbox as a learning tool. Create threads, use the edit summary, have fun!Buster Seven Talk 14:58, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

from User:Smartse's advice to another editor

• Moved from front page

While you do have a conflict of interest, our guideline does not prohibit someone in your position from writing an article about someone they know, it just means that you need to be extra careful to follow the correct procedure. The main things to worry about are that you ensure that everything is based on what we call "reliable sources" so that information in the article is verifiable - meaning that a reader can check everything out for themselves if they wish. A quick glance at (your aunts potential article) shows that isn't the case at the moment so hopefully you/we can improve that at least. Related to that, you need to be careful not to do what we call original research, which is using your own personal knowledge about your aunt. The first step to improving the article therefore is to find high quality sources to use - try searching google news, and google scholar to try and find articles that directly discuss her, I assume that she has retired, and often something is written when scientists retire so finding that would be a good idea if it exists. As to actually how to edit, it's reasonably simple and I can give you some more tips later on, but the cheatsheet has the basics. Let me know if you need to know anything else. SmartSE (talk) 20:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Progress

The article looks very good. Maybe in a couple of weeks you can move it to 'mainspace'. You could move it right now and I'm sure it would 'pass the muster", but you might want to add a little here and there. You could ask at the WP:Help desk about your potential image for DHS. Refer them to the construction site--- User:Cuppa67/Sandbox-DHS. At the same time maybe ask about using the Gerber baby image. Buster Seven Talk 04:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)