Editing Eurovision Wiki:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk (section)

== 13:31, 13 March 2026 review of submission by TammarieSheamus ==
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I'm new to this.  My draft was returned asking me to "needs references/ has bare refs".  I want to fix it. There are words highlighted in blue (I thought that was a just a hotline to a direct reference ie.in Wikipedia) and others in purple. Is it the purple ones I need to work on before resubmission or both blue and purple?  Another editor said not to resubmit it until everything is fixed. What does the blue highlight mean?  What does the purple highlight mean?  [[User:TammarieSheamus|TammarieSheamus]] ([[User talk:TammarieSheamus|talk]]) 13:31, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

:Purple links are ones you've clicked before. When they say you need to fix your bare references, they mean that your references need to be formatted with citation templates rather than just being bare URLs like your 6th reference. Your references also need to be structured as footnotes to the reference list (like you've done in the lead) not as external links in square brackets (like you've done in the "Governance structure" section)
:Please see [[Help:Referencing for beginners]] for a guide to properly referencing. [[User:Athanelar|Athanelar]] ([[User talk:Athanelar|talk]]) 19:22, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
:Hello, @[[User:TammarieSheamus|TammarieSheamus]]. As is often the case when inexperienced editors try to write a Wikipedia article, you have not understood what a Wikipedia article should be. A Wikipedia article should be a [[WP:Neutral point of view|neutral summary]] of what the [[WP:DUEWEIGHT|majority of people]] who are [[WP:Independent sources|wholly unconnected]] with the subject have independently chosen to publish about the subject in [[WP:Reliable sources|reliable publications]], (see [[WP:Golden rule|Golden rule]]) and not much else. [[WP:No original research|What you know]] (or anybody else knows) about the subject is not relevant except where it can be [[WP:Verifiability|verified]] from a reliable published source.
:Almost nothing written, published, or based on the words of, anybody associated with the College is relevant to this article. Nearly all of your sources cited should be wholly independent of the College, and contain significant coverage of the college specifically (not just people or projects associated with it). See [[WP:golden rule|golden rule]] for the criteria most of the sources should meet. 
:My earnest advice to new editors is to not even ''think'' about  trying to create an article until you have spent several weeks - at least - learning about how Wikipedia works by making improvements to existing articles. Once you have understood core policies such as [[WP:verifiability|verifiability]], [[WP:neutral point of view|neutral point of view]], [[WP:42|reliable, independent sources]], and [[WP:notability|notability]], and experienced how we handle disagreements with other editors (the [[WP:BRD|Bold, Revert, Discuss]] cycle), then you might be ready to read [[WP:your first article|your first article]] carefully, and try creating a draft. If you don't follow this advice but try to create an article without this preparation, you are likely to have a frustrating and disappointing experience with Wikipedia. [[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] ([[User talk:ColinFine|talk]]) 22:07, 13 March 2026 (UTC)