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* The best place to start is with a basic biographical profile. While the Heartland Institute hasn't published bio notes for the speakers at this years conference, they did for last [http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/PDFs/ConferenceProgram.pdf year's] (pdf). It is usually best to directly cite their bio note in quotes as long as it is not too wordy. This way, readers can see exactly what the person wrote about themselves.
:Often people have other more comprehensive versions of their bio notes on other websites so it is usually worth having a look around. If there are several bio notes that are different, it is worth creating a subsection within the "External links" section at the foot of the page listing them. (For example, often later versions of bio notes will exclude earlier useful information on who they first worked for or earlier campaigns they were involved in).
* From looking at a number of bio notes it is usually possible to build an affiliations section listing which positions they have held and the approximate dates of each of them. If you think there is enough information to do this, create a <nowiki>==Affiliations==</nowiki> section before the "Resources and articles" section.
* Some skeptics will be primarily associated with one group or website and will have a collection of articles linked to off one page. If this is the case, it is worth creating a sub-section "Articles BY XXX" under the "External Links" section and either linking to the main page or adding links to the most relevant articles on global warming, tobacco or other topics you think most notable.
:For these links the formatting is different than for citations associated with narrative text. Instead of this <nowiki><ref>Author (if one), [url "Title"], publication or website, date or date accessed.</ref></nowiki> it would be <nowiki>*Author (if one), [url "Title"], publication or website, date or date accessed.</nowiki> The <nowiki>*</nowiki> is used to create a bullet point listing.
* If they have had articles published in both scientific publications and general media, it may be best to create subsections for each reference.
:If you can summarise the key themes that they usually write about or sources they cite, it would be great to add this up near the top of the page (between the lead overview par and their detailed bio note) in a section titles "Views on Global Warming" or whatever is most appropriate. * There are a number of websites and blog sites that have useful material to fleshing out a profile. Some of these are: ** Tim Lambert's Deltoid blog: http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/** DeSmog Blog: http://www.desmogblog.com/** Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/exxon-secrets (Note: many of the quotes in the profiles need more direct referencing to meet our standards).** RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/** Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - some of the profiles on skeptics in Wikipedia are good while others have useful nuggets or references interspersed with unreferenced material - but make sure that any material cited meets our referencing standards.
===Adding material on think tanks===