User talk:1stAug
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Thank you for expanding the William Aplin article. I have gone through and added some wikilinks and done a bit of copy-editing according to Wikipedia's Manual of Style. As a new contributor, obviously you are not familiar with the Manual of Style, but as a couple of quick tips, don't use contractions like "Qld" (abbrevations are OK though) and don't use too much Upper Case Unnecessarily. But the main thing I would ask you do is to add some citations. Without citations, your work can be deleted (which would be a great pity). If you don't know how to make citations, just tell me what you are trying to cite and I can show you how. To get my attention, either write on my talk page (which automatically notifies that user) or write here including the following magic {{ping|Kerry Raymond}} which notifies me from any talk page. Kerry (talk) 08:19, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
User rights[edit]
I took a look at the "downgrade" you mentioned. Short story: Nothing to worry about. Long story: As an event participant, you were initially given more rights than a normal new user. Those special new user rights were revoked after the event, but your account is no longer a new user account so it doesn't need the special rights any more. Kerry (talk) 16:39, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Writing biographies[edit]
I am not sure what aspect of writing biographies you need help with. Do you mean *how* to create a new Wikipedia article? If so, the simplest way is a redlink e.g. John Joseph Bloggs. If you click on a redlink, you will be invited to start an article by that name. Feel free to click on this one, just don't publish it as it is not a real person. To write an article, you need a first sentence to explain what the topic is about, e.g. "John Joseph Bloggs (1822-1895) was an Australian civil engineer." The second sentence is why they are notable (worthy of an article in Wikipedia), e.g. "He designed many of Queensland's railway bridges." You must have at least 2 good citations to sources that have a lot to say about J.J. Bloggs and confirm the information in those two sentences. That's the minimum content you need to start an article (i.e. that must be written before you click on Publish Page for the first time). After you have started the article, you then just add further content in the normal way. Kerry (talk) 16:39, 28 July 2020 (UTC)