Talk:Lennie Mace/Archive 1

Help wanted

New article "Lennie Mace" author requesting assistance/suggestions/criticisms of this work-in-progress (grammatically incomplete)...

• having trouble organising the reference/source list.
• also, any help finding/confirming other sources please!
• all entries within parenthesis are (facts in need of verification).
• can i post pics i took of the artists work on exhibition?(i.e. obviously "on public display")

There are facts in this article i can personally confirm (and which i can't imagine any party having complaints about) but may be impossible to find sources for... how much leeway is acceptable for unsourced statements?? (can statements be taken live and be left to the discretion of future editors?)...thanks folks Penwatchdog (talk) 20:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Excellent

Excellent, excellent work. I'm sure it's frustrating at times, but this is excellent work and I must congratulate you. I'll do some fixing so you can see how to do it. 64.40.54.24 (talk) 04:26, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Here is the change that made it work. The reference stuff here can be difficult. 64.40.54.24 (talk) 04:39, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Here is some more info that may help. The referencing method we are using in these articles is call list-defined references. More info can be found at Help:Footnotes#List-defined references and Help:List-defined references, but both of those are are not very helpful. I'll try to explain it better. It starts by defining a list (a list of references)

{{Reflist |refs= 
..... (big long list of references goes here)
}}

The list starts with {{ and ends with }} with the reference stuff in the middle. The most common problem is to forget the ending }}.

Each reference in the list starts with <ref and ends with </ref>. The second most common problem is to forget the </ref>. So in general it looks like this.

{{Reflist |refs= 

<ref name="Some Name of a Reference">
..... (cite templates used here like {{cite web)
</ref>

}}

This probably still looks confusing, but you're doing a great job.

There is still one reference problem in the article. There is a <ref name="xx" /> in the body of the article, but there isn't a corresponding <ref name="xx"> section in the references section. I'm not sure if that was for a future reference or not, so I left it in for now. 64.40.54.24 (talk) 05:04, 20 May 2012 (UTC)