User talk:Wannaberacer

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Hello, Wannaberacer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Yunshui 雲‍水 07:39, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Article on your userpage

Hi Wannaberacer. Thank you for your work creating an article on Barry Lake (currently in your sandbox). Once it's finished, I'd be happy to help you move it to mainspace. However, there are couple of issues that need addressing before it's completely ready.

1. Wikipedia content needs to be written in a neutral tone. That means we can't entertain phrases like, "widely considered as one of the most talented and most knowledgeable writers in Australia,", "If world championships were handed out for storytelling, Barry would have been the Michael Schumacher of that genre," or "He was an artisan, a stickler for detail and totally devoted to whatever project he was working on."
2. Rather than using Wikipedia as a reference, if you want to link to another Wikipedia article like London-Sydney Marathon, you can do it by enclosing the title in double square brackets, like this: [[London-Sydney Marathon]].
3. Don't include external links in the article's text. You can create an external links section at the end of the article if needs be, but make sure anything you list there meets the guidelines for such links.
4. Speaking of references, you need more of them, and they need to be about Mr Lake - the Motor Magazine link just goes to their homepage (which doesn't mention Lake at all) and the Bathhurst link tells us about the race, but not about the article's subject. You need multiple, reliable sources that cover Barry Lake in detail - see this guideline or this simplified version.

I'd be happy to help you bring the article up to scratch; drop me a note on my talkpage if you need a hand or have any questions. It's a steep learning curve, but there are lots of folk here who can help. All the best, Yunshui 雲‍水 07:51, 25 July 2012 (UTC)