Extra help with article writing   Hi  I thought Id drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles o  First of all it may be best for you to do a bit of reading staring with the Wikipedia manual of style which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to follow  Its not as hard to follow as it might look quite a bit of the information there probably wont be vital for you at first  Second I recommend you make a user sandbox  which is just an area you can use to practise in and to make notes in and to get things ready in  If you click this red link  that will let you create that page it gives you an edit window to start work in  Anything anywhere on the help and information pages which gives you an example try it out in your sandbox until youre familiar with it  For your article the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it  Google searches particularly in Books and Scholar will be your best friend for this  Once youve found the information the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words very important this and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from  Build in the references as you go along Im going to copy in down below this a whole heap of help on doing references which was produced by one of my own handpicked mentors  when I came back to Wikipedia after a long break  Heres another place that youll find incredibly useful  citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox between  tags you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template and youll end up with nicely formatted citations o  It all helps  Remember to add a references section to your sandbox make a new line and put References on it and type reflist on the next line so that you can see how your citations look as you do them  Remember to save your page often You dont want to lose your work  Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you How references work   Simple references   These require two parts  a  Chzz is  years old The book of Chzz Aardvark Books    He likes tea  httpwwwnicecupofteaandasitdowncom Tea website    b A section called References with the special code reflist   References  reflist   an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections  To see the result of that please look at  Edit it and check the code perhaps make a test page of your own such as  and try it out   Named references    Chzz was born in   The book of Chzz Aardvark Books      Chzz lives in Footown    Note that the second usage has a  and no closing ref tag This needs a reference section as above please see  to see the result   Citation templates   You can put anything you like between  and  but using citation templates makes for a neat consistent look   Chzz has  Olympic medals  Citation   last  Smith   first  John   title  Olympic medal winners of the th century   publicationdate     publisher  Cambridge University Press   page     isbn       Please see  to see the result  For more help and tips on that subject see