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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can remove unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started. If you need any assistance, let me know. -- Ty 04:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, and authorised web sites. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is original research (e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research), or another wikipedia article.
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section (unless it already exists). This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):
Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.
Open the edit box for this page, copy the following text (inserting your own text where indicated), paste it at the bottom of the page and save the page:
(End of text to copy and paste.) It should appear like this:
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For an online newspaper source, it might look like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Note the single square brackets around the URL and the article title. The format is:
Make sure there is a space between the URL and the Title. This code results in the URL being hidden and the title showing as a link. Use double apostrophes for the article title (it is quoted text), and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics). Double square brackets round the name of the paper create an internal link (a wikilink) to the relevant wikipedia article. Apostrophes must go outside the brackets. The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead. Dates are wikilinked so that they work with user preference settings to display the date in the format the user wishes.
You can use sources which are not online, but which you have found in a library or elsewhere—in which case leave out the information which is not relevant. The newspaper example above would be formatted like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Here is an example for a book:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Make sure you put two single quote marks round the title (to generate italics), rather than one double quote mark.
These formats are all acceptable for dates:
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the <ref> code:
The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:
You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them. You can see multiple use of the same refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are 3 sources and they are each referenced 3 times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.
The above method is simple and combines references and notes into one section. A refinement is to put the full details of the references in their own section headed "References", while the notes which apply to them appear in a separate section headed "Notes". The notes can be inserted in the main article text in an abbreviated form as seen in Harriet Arbuthnot or in a full form as in Brown Dog affair.
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Hello Wiki Thank you for being patient with my learn curve. I will refer to all the help information you sent me before I proceed further with this bio. I am adding this preface, as instructed to the talk page. I do understand now many of the comments you made about neutral writing and will try my best to follow them. Thank you again.
{{WPBiography |filmbio-work-group=yes |living=yes |class=GA |priority=Top |listas=Grant, Carson |needs-infobox=yes |needs-photo=yes}}
--FilmPens (talk) 00:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Wiki: I thought you wanted to have more references added. These items are all well known, at least in USA. Sony's boar you have seen every news years, psi chi is highly known in academia, east villiage art movement was the 70's high art movement ((Keith Heering)), etc, La Salle Christian Brothers, not only made wine but are an established brotherhood since 17th century,the Pett. museum has been since 1900 in RI, build originally as the town jail, and the legio of merit is a USA army medal of honor??
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Thank you. StaticGull Talk 16:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_chi
wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_chi
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wiki reference- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salle_Brothers
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wiki reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pettaquamscutt_Historical_Society_Museum
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Hello Wiki: here is the link inside wiki which writes about the legion of merit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Merit. Do you mean that when I included the word 'award' it didn't link properly to your article? I thought when I got the scene asking me to type it, it was part of the indentification process. Please explain further. Thank you.
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Hello Wiki: I have made the corrections, removed the references or corrected the exact phrasing to connect. Sorry for the confusion. I have realized the mistake I made in the internal link process. Search the word/phrase, then link. Again, thank you for your patience.
Hello Wiki: Thanks for letting me know about citation format and for adding the footnote section.
--FilmPens (talk) 04:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
References section. Put an asterisk * at the beginning of each reference. Do not put a space between refs. This will produce a bulleted list. See WP:FA for model articles. Ty 23:33, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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I have also blanked the category page. This will not, in itself, cause the category to be deleted. It serves to document (in the page history) that the category was empty at the time of blanking and also to alert other watchers that the category is in jeopardy. You are welcome to revert the blanking if you wish. However, doing so will not prevent deletion if the category remains empty.
If you created the category in error, or it is no longer needed, you can speed up the deletion process by tagging it with {{db-author}}.
--Stepheng3 (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Dear Stephen: Thank you for your consideration. I thought the category would be interesting to readers, but understand your reasoning. Have a good day. Denise K.--FilmPens (talk) 19:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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