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editI am sorry for seeming so aggressive. I am a Corps Member in Columbus, Ohio. I'd like to meet you at Cyzygy if you are available. We aren't a big site, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find me. City Year so far has been a trying but ultimately positive experience. This year has taught me so much about myself and about the world, and have grown up leaps and bounds. Helping with this page is the least I can do to give back. If you could pass this thanks to the higher ups, I would be very grateful.
City Year is definitely entitled to put stuff on Wikipedia, but please keep this in mind: WP:SOAP. To be quite honest with you, writing is not one of my strengths. There are ways to rephrase what I have said that are better. From what I have wrote, however, i have attempted to create multi sourced statements. When editing this page, unless the outside source as been completely removed, it is a good idea to leave the outside sources in the page. I already have some good outside sources already mentioned in the article: City_Year#References. To save you time, you can use some of these existing outside sources in addition to the main CY site stuff for sources. For example, the first source on this page is something from the Fast Company website. it is titled <ref name "sc2007"> (Ctl F to find that). In order to cite statements with a source that is already inputed into a page, one only needs to add a "/" to the reference tag: "<ref name "sc2007"/>." For example:
Hello everyone.[1] City Year is cool.[2]
How are you doing today?[2]
I am doing great Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).
- ^ "43 Entrepreneurs Who are Changing the World: City Year", The Fast Company, 2007
- ^ a b Soumerai, Stephen B.; Gillman, Matthew W. (2007-07-21), "City Year's unhealthy corporate ties", Boston Globe
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
Here is some more help with citing sources: Wikipedia:Citing_sources.
I hope that helps out some. Than you for your hard work and see you in June.Oldag07 (talk) 23:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)