24 May 2012 UTC Sure Here s a basic outline Find a couple reliable secondary sources y know things like newspaper articles magazine articles references in books that discuss the poet and that also verify some of the facts in the article It s best particularly because our WP BASIC policy to have at least two such sources And it should largely be sources written again by an independent sourcenot the person s web site their gallery their reprinted press releases etc which is why we tend to focus on reliable newspapers magazines and books For key claims in the article verified by a source you add a reference by putting some text in ref tags e g Footnote goes here Insert that text right after the fact in question The footnotes will be automatically added in a section at the bottom of the article So you might add Fine Fred New poets 2012 Boston Globe p C19 13 April 2012 to an article if there was an article by Fred Fine in the Boston Globe well you get the idea Include a URL if it s an on line source if you can There are some templates that can help you format a reference Thomas Kapielski is a short article that has some examples of how they re used if you want to have them appear in a standard style BUT Style and formatting are less important here than the actual underlying information Someone will always be happy to come along and touch that up but lacking references biographies of living people are often put up for potential deletion It s also necessary to have a tag or the equivalent at the bottom of the article to indicate where the footnotes should go but I ll add that for you Please let me know if I can elaborate on any of this Cheers 15 12