Wikipedia - Harder Then You Think

Well, I followed the instructions regarding Wickipedia. I did some reading about what it is about. I also looked for articles that I would be interested in and found that one of the item sI know a little bit about was not listed in Wikipedia. So I deicded to fulfill my assingment by writing an article to enlighten the world about my small piece of information. Let me tell you it is not as easy as it is made out to be. I have created an account and written the article with footnotes and everything, but, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to attach the references at the end of the article. I have put footnotes in the body of the article, but they attach to nothing. For all of my attempts to understand what to do and how to fix the problem it is not easy to understand the lingo that is offered in Wikipedia. So I suspect that my article on Altaglass will be removed as I can't figure out how to fix the problem. So my over all experience is that the people who write articles on Wikipedia aren't necessarily the people who have the most or best knowledge about the topic they are contibuting, but have the knowledge about how to work the Wikipedia environment. So over all Wikipedia is fine for getting and idea on a topic, but more authoritative sources are needed to give a reliable picture.