Editing Template:Welcome AfC

Hello, and '''[[Wikipedia:Introduction|welcome]] to Wikipedia'''! Thank you for submitting {{#if:{{{article|}}}|[[WP:Articles for creation/{{{article}}}]]|an article}} to [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]. {{#switch:{{{1}}}|P=It will be reviewed soon. Please continue to edit the page in the meantime, and do not hesitate to [[Wikipedia:IRC help disclaimer|ask one of our reviewers for help]].|D=Unfortunately, your submission has been declined and {{#if:{{{article|}}}|[[WP:Articles for creation/{{{article}}}|{{{article}}}]]|the article}} was not created. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer, and you can resubmit the request if the issues have been addressed. To resubmit, place <code>{{tlf|subst:AFC submission/submit}}</code> at the very top of the submission.|H=Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look at {{#if:{{{article|}}}|[[WP:Articles for creation/{{{article}}}|{{{article}}}]]|the article}} and respond on the submission page if possible. If there is no response within twenty-four hours, the request may be declined; if this happens, feel free to improve it and resubmit when you believe the concerns have been addressed.|#default=It will be reviewed soon, but you are free to continue editing the page in the meantime.}} Do not hesitate to [[Wikipedia:IRC help disclaimer|ask one of our reviewers for help]].{{#ifeq:{{{2}}}|a|<br />Although you are welcome to continue editing without an account, I strongly recommend that you [[Special:UserLogin/signup|create a user account]] here. This is easy, free, and allows us to better help you, as we can then contact you on your user talk page - along with [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|many other benefits]].|}}

<span style="background-color:#FFFC39;">The most important thing your submission needs to be accepted is the '''inclusion of references'''.</span>
The most common reason that article submissions are declined is a lack of suitable references, or sources. '''[[WP:PRIMARY|Independent]] [[WP:reliable sources|reliable sources]]''' are required to establish a subject's '''[[WP:notability|notability]]'''. '''If your submission does not include reliable sources, such as books, magazines, or news articles, it ''will'' be declined!''' Please note that websites like Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter, are ''not'' reliable sources.<br />
'''[[WP:CITE|Citing sources]]'''
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">Click "show" to learn how to properly cite sources using footnotes.</div>
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A "source", also called a "reference", should generally be "cited" using [[WP:footnotes|footnotes]]. Wikipedia uses a special feature to automatically generate footnotes with the help of two "tags", <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki></ref></nowiki></code>. Anything placed between the two tags will generate a footnote, which appears in the text as <span style="color:#002BB8;"><sup>[1]</sup></span>. This method of using "inline citations" is useful because it allows the reader to easily see which source supports which statement. To cite a source using this method, you need two parts:
*The two tags:
<pre><nowiki><ref> </ref></nowiki></pre>
*A "References" section at the end of the article with the code <code>{{tlf|reflist}}</code>, which is able to generate a list of footnotes based on what is placed between the two tags:
<pre>
==References==
{{reflist}}
</pre>
An example:
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Wikipedia was created by Jimbo Wales.<ref>Jones, Michael (2008). The History of Wikipedia. Publishing Company, Inc.</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}
</pre>
which results in:
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Wikipedia was created by Jimbo Wales.<ref>Jones, Michael (2008). The History of Wikipedia. Publishing Company, Inc.</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}} 
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'''[[WP:Cheetsheet|Editing tips]]''' You should '''bold''' the first mention of your article's subject by using the code <nowiki>'''Name of article'''</nowiki>: '''John Smith'''. You should also include links to other Wikipedia articles within the text, using <nowiki>[[article name]]</nowiki>: [[inventor]]. Example first sentence: '''John Smith''' (born 1974) is an [[inventor]] from [[Edinburgh]].

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