User talk:MickPhillips

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, MickPhillips, 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:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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! John of Reading (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

PS. I saw that you created Template:Infobox Joseph Phillips yesterday. I've asked for it to be deleted as a test page, as your draft article doesn't use it. I hope you don't mind! -- John of Reading (talk) 14:08, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok thanks John. I am very much a beginner with Wikipedia and am just getting used to how things work so I appreciate any help and advice I can get. I think I may have created Template:Infobox Joseph Phillips in error as I was trying to create an infobox on my new article page then I didn't know how to remove it so thanks for doing that, regards, Mick MickPhillips (talk) 12:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi John, Thank you for your advice. I have used the tutorials and the Article Wizard to help me. I have written my first article and have researched similar articles in order to get consistency in the style without plagiarising detail. I have written with a neutral point of view and avoided any personal interpretations using purely factual information. I have added a lot of links for reference and verification purposes. I have not breached any copyrights. I think the article is almost ready to be submitted but would appreciate some feedback before I hit the ‘submit’ button. I would like to know a bit more about ‘disambiguation’ as I would like my page to be found when people are searching for Joseph Phillips or Joey Phillips rather than Joseph Phillips (English Actor). Also I can’t seem to change the heading of the infobox, I want it to just say Joseph Phillips rather than MickPhillips/Joseph Phillips (English Actor). Regards MickPhillips (talk) 16:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

The easy bits first: I've fixed the name at the top of the "info box" and removed the mess that was being displayed above and below the picture. I've also reformatted the reference to the film award; it now appears in the "References" section. For more on that see Help:Footnotes.

Now it gets harder. One of Wikipedia's principles is that information must be verifiable. Readers must be able to check for themselves that the information is true. It's clear that you have access to unpublished information, and I would guess from your user name that you are writing about a relative. You need to pretend that you know nothing about Joseph Philips except what you find in reliable sources such as those newspaper articles, and write the article based only on that.

You may be left with only two or three sentences, but it will have a much better chance of being accepted in that form because each sentence can be backed up by a reference to one or other of those newspaper articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. However, the reviewer felt that a few things need to be fixed before it is accepted. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:submit}} to the top of the article.)

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Joseph Phillips (actor).
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Pol430 talk to me 19:05, 16 January 2012 (UTC)