", 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"