User talk:JadeMB

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JadeMB (talk) 13:06, 11 July 2010 (UTC) I am baffled by Wikepedia's markup language. I have constructed a page I'd like to put up on the inventor of LASIK surgery, Dr. Golam Peyman, that is copiously referenced (mostly peer-reviewed articles in top-quality ophthalmology journals, as you would expect). I currently have it laid out in PowerPoint, because that's pretty easy to manipulate, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to put it up in Wikipedia in a way that conforms to your protocols. If anyone could help me, I'd be very grateful. (Is there anyone who will put this up for a fee?) Thanks for any help you can give me.[reply]

Wikipedia is pretty much learn-as-you-go, honestly. You pick up the syntax by looking at how other pages that do what you want are organized. The guideline for how to arrange biography pages is at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies), and an example medical biography article that has been reviewed by the community for quality would be Frances Oldham Kelsey.

It is also possible that the reason you are having trouble creating the page is because your account is very new. There are some anti-spam measures in place in the software that make it difficult to upload new pages until your account has been around for a couple days.

If you have a more specific question, please ask me at User talk:erachima. I'll also be watching this page. --erachima talk 18:38, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]