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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:52, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. You can continue to work on your articles at Draft:The Power of Patient Stories. Right now, it isn't ready for mainspace. Please take a look at the attached brochure for editing articles about books for ideas about layout and sourcing. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:11, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Good morning, I finished the Draft:The Power of Patient Stories and just published the changes that I made. Is there anything else that I need to do for the draft to be checked. Thank you and have a great day. Lvazq064 (talk) 16:17, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't get back to you - I didn't realise that I never replied to your last message.

Looking at Draft:The Power of Patient Stories, I recommend that you read the brochure I linked in this section again.

You need a lead section that summarise the major parts of the article. Right now, you start by saying it's "a book by Paul F Griner, it is divided into four parts in which they contain a total of 52 chapters". What you need to start with is a one-sentence statement of what the book is about. The number of chapters, the publication date - these aren't key bits of information that need to be in the lead at all. As a summary, it also shouldn't include specific examples like "On chapter 23, a patient was said to have heart disease ..."

To get more of a sense of how a Wikipedia article about a nonfiction book should be written, I recommend that you take a look at some of the Good Articles about books in [section]. There are also a few Featured Articles worth looking at: David Suzuki: The Autobiography, Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa and On the Origin of Species.

You don't need to match the depth or quality of these articles (which are among the best Wikipedia has to offer) but I think it would be helpful to read some to get a sense of look, layout, coverage and tone. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Abelmoschus Esculentus was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Lvazq064/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 14:22, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Lvazq064! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 14:22, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question

Hello, Lvazq064! I'm Abelmoschus Esculentus. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. ―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 14:26, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

About reliable sources

Hello. Here are some information about reliable sources. For information on referencing citations in Wikipedia articles, see Help:Footnotes, Wikipedia:Inline citation, and Help:Referencing for beginners.

What are reliable sources?

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• BBC
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• Billboard

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How can I find reliable sources?

Google is your friend. Don't cite the search page, cite the address for specific results. Google Books, Google scholar, and Google News are especially useful, just make sure that the publisher is reputable.

We try to avoid a definitive list of what sources always are good because it can vary based on the situation. Still, the community is quite clear that some select sources are usually good and some sources are almost always bad.

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Regards,

―Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk • contribs) 14:26, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hi. Is this the draft you were working on? User:65.34.188.47/sandbox? If so, you should probably move it to your own sandbox - right now it's in the sandbox of an IP address, not a sure.

A few things

• Is this an existing article, or a new one? If it's an existing one, can you provide a link (I can't find one). If it's a new article, you need to start with a proper lead section. Then you should add as many of the sections listed in the Writing about Books handout that's linked higher up this page.
• You need more balance between the various sections. Right now, the synopsis is about 80% of the article. It should really more like 10-30%. Either you need to trim it down a lot, or you need to expand the other sections. Probably some combination of both.
• Please use properly-formatted inline references. Right now you're using bare URLs. See this page for information on adding citations.
• You need to write proper paragraphs. The "Theme" section is just a set of bullet points. You need to write in paragraphs (and you need references).
• Same goes for the "About the Author" section (though that should maybe be part of the "Background" section) and the "Awards" section.

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:00, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Power of Patient Stories

Hello, Lvazq064. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Power of Patient Stories".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 10:02, 1 July 2019 (UTC)