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NebraskaDontAsk, good luck, and have fun. --role^player 22:09, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

bulldog stadium

your edit was reverted because the inline reference was a duplicate of the the reference below, and it was malformed and not properly formatted. also the single reference buttresses the entire article, not just the one paragraph or statement. --emerson7 18:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

War of 1812

I'm reverting your reversion of my move because the reflist BELONGS lower. The cite errors you mention have to be fixed. The Harvard ref system requires a lower reflist. I am however a skilled editor so thanks for bringing this matter to my attention. I am reverting you by I will work on those errors immediately. If it is going to take more time I will put it back. I cannot see where they are without reverting you. So, bear with me. We don't fix one error by making another less visible, we fix the errors. Thanks.Dave (talk) 15:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

It seemed like a logical move to place the Footnotes, with the reflist tag. at the bottom of the page, especially since the References section was general article references rather than references to specific items and they had notations made to them. I will defer to you on this though as you quite involved in the article and I am not familiar with the Harvard standards. I was just watching pages with missing references section when it popped up.NebraskaDontAsk (talk) 16:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

yes, the harvref system is different. Most of the notes are in it but it is all done wrong. We can either fix harvref or do it some other way. Harvref is so concise I am inclined to fix it, especially since there are over 100 notes. I'm going to do all this now but it will take a few days. Ciao.Dave (talk) 16:17, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

More on War of 1812

Hi buddy. I found out what the problem is. We have references on the references. What a mess. You have text items, then you have references on the text items to give the sources for them. What WE have are references on the references! No, no, that is not the way it works. Why do that? To explain the source of the references? The reference is the source, you don't have to explain where you got it. I suspect whoever did this is reacting to the attempt to shorten the External LInks, as the references on the references are all external links! What is the editor trying to say, he copied the reference from this site? We don't need to do that. Just list the book or article. KISS. You don't have to say where you got it. So, I'm going to change these. When I am done I will put the references in the proper location. It appears as though this problem is so bad I need to fix the references now rather than work on some other articles first. I think you will like it when I am done; however, I'm not yet checking references, only reference formats. Ciao.Dave (talk) 16:17, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

References

About you changing an established reference format. Please see List-defined references and note that you should never change an already established reference formatting to your "liking", without gaining consensus on the talk page. Thanks. Mike Allen 05:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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