LWIN2013

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Your draft article...

... is now at User:Gilbertyoung/sandbox. Let me know if you need any help with it. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:58, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, that said, it looks like you could use a few pointers anyway. First of all, you don't need to create tables for your infobox and table of contents - use {{infobox}} (click the link there for full instructions) and __TOC__ insead. You need to format your section headers like this: ==Header Level 1==, ===Header Level 2=== and so on. Most of all, you need references (again, instructions in the link there), otherwise the article will get deleted once it goes "live".

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I'd be happy to check the article for you before moving it to mainspace; drop a note on my talkpage when it's done and I'll have a look. Happy editing! Yunshui 雲‍水 14:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

{{Infobox artist}} would be more appropriate for this article.--ukexpat (talk) 14:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Yunshui! Thank you. We have delayed creating this page for years because it seems so difficult. But Gilbert was just listed in Who's Who in America and is mentioned on two wikipages already and we felt a need to get it done. I do have a pile of articles and mags to cite what is written. Just haven't gotten to that yet. I need to upload images and I guess I'm writing to be confirmed. Any and all help you can give will be greatly appreciated! Biggest question now is this: am I creating the article in the right space? I don't want to type all this stuff then have to re-do it somewhere else. Please let me know. THANK YOU.Gilbertyoung (talk) 15:50, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, your sandbox is the best place to create this. Although other users can view it if they find it, you're unlikely to get any other editors changing anything, and I'll put a template on it for you to prevent it showing up in Google searches and the like (it also has a button on it to automatically move the page into Articles for creation for review). As long as you don't add anything that's either massively unencyclopedic, spam or a copyright violation, you can do what you like with it, for as long as you want. Yunshui 雲‍水 18:21, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Your username

Incidentally, do please note Roger's note under your request at the helpdesk - with your current username you are either violating the policy on using real names if you are not Gilbert Young himself, or the guidelines on (not) creating an autobiography if you are. I'm also a little concerned over your use of the pronoun "we", above - user accounts cannot be used by more than one person. Changing your username isn't a problem; you can make a rename request here. I'd strongly suggest you consider it - and if more than one person is contributing to the article, you'll need separate accounts. All the best, Yunshui 雲‍水 21:48, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Yunshui, the article will be about Gilbert Young and is not written by Gilbert Young. The Gilbertyoung user name has been a confusion since I began this article! Obviously, I've put the artists' name in a wrong field when I set this thing up. The we is myself, who is the author of this article, and an assistant gathered and collated the documents I will use for citations. I am the only one writing the article, the only one who knows the password, the only one editing the work. I need to create this under the name Dantzler. How do I do this without losing my current sandbox? Gilbertyoung (talk) 00:30, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Changing username, and use the 'Simple' link in the 'Venues' section; as volunteers will still have to ensure the new name is not too close to another that it might cause confusion, the approval might still take several days, and may ultimately be rejected, but I have confirmed the name is not in use at the moment. Good luck. Dru of Id (talk) 01:15, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Clarification: This account talk page, corresponding user page, sandbox, and contributions will all be moved when approved. Dru of Id (talk) 01:17, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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