Leslie7278

Hello, Leslie7278! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Orange Mike | Talk 22:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images • create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

--Orange Mike | Talk 22:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Author articles

An article about an author must conform to our standards about conflict of interest, neutrality and verifiability. Thus, an "article" that consisted simply of material from book reviews and a smidgen of biographical data from the book jacket copy would probably not pass muster. We need information from reliable sources about the author him/herself, not about her/his works. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi Leslie, I noticed your questions on the new editors' question desk. Sometimes it's a little bewildering getting the hang of things here. For example, you may know now that in Wiki-markup if you ever indent from the left of any discussion or article, the print ends up looking really weird!

Like this!

I just thought I'd drop in, and if you have any questions that aren't too technical, I edit biographies of musicians, amongst other things. Feel free to leave me a note on a talk page or use the Wiki-email here if you wish. I hope you find a friendly environment here! Thanks for helping with the Wikipedia! :) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 00:22, 21 October 2009 (UTC)