Nishanoire

Talk pages

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Also, I noticed that you added a question to the talk page of Flamingo. Just a suggestion, you can also ask any information-requesting questions at the Reference desk under the appropriate category. A reply will usually come much quicker. A quick search via a search engine (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) can also find you the answer to simple questions. For example, regarding your question about how far flamingos can fly, you can find the answer here. Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I replied to your message on my talk page, which should hopefully help you out with citing sources. If you need more help, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or another user. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:26, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 03:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Citations

Here's a note about flamingo: why don't you take a look at WP:CIT? This gives the details of how to cite things. Can you try and cite using templates and styles already used at flamingo, at all? This would be helpful, as I'll convert all cits there to the standard anyhow. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 23:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

• Hello! I think I did. It seems, if you just put the website in between the 'ref' tags, it will site, right? Or do you mean that the date isn't stated correctly? Nishanoire (talk) 07:49, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Response: I'll respond to your question, but first here goes:

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