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The most important thing your submission needs to be accepted is the inclusion of references.
The most common reason that article submissions are declined is a lack of suitable references, or sources. Independent reliable sources are required to establish a subject's notability. If your submission does not include reliable sources, such as books, magazines, or news articles, it will be declined! Please note that websites like Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter, are not reliable sources.
Citing sources
A "source", also called a "reference", should generally be "cited" using footnotes. Wikipedia uses a special feature to automatically generate footnotes with the help of two "tags", <ref> and </ref>. Anything placed between the two tags will generate a footnote, which appears in the text as [1]. This method of using "inline citations" is useful because it allows the reader to easily see which source supports which statement. To cite a source using this method, you need two parts:
- The two tags:
<ref> </ref>
- A "References" section at the end of the article with the code
{{reflist}}, which is able to generate a list of footnotes based on what is placed between the two tags:
==References==
{{reflist}}
An example:
Wikipedia was created by Jimbo Wales.<ref>Jones, Michael (2008). The History of Wikipedia. Publishing Company, Inc.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
which results in:
Editing tips You should bold the first mention of your article's subject by using the code '''Name of article''': John Smith. You should also include links to other Wikipedia articles within the text, using [[article name]]: inventor. Example first sentence: John Smith (born 1974) is an inventor from Edinburgh.
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