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Thanks for the help! the page I was working on already looks great, I am however now having some trouble inputting my references in...and I was considering using footnotes as that seems to be the most popular format for citing sources throughout the text, also how to I make the page so it is not an orphan page? -TMullooly (talk) 17:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hi TMullooly - footnotes can be added using
<ref>your note</ref>then at the bottom of the page add a new heading called References (==References==) and below it add<references/>- that is where your references will appear. - In order that your page will not be an orphan it needs to be linked to from another page. So just find another article that would naturally link to your articles and make a link from it (i.e.
this is how you link to [[your article]] from another articles). --sony-youthpléigh 17:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)- Thanks, I'll start working on that soon, also I linked the article from another one where it naturally links and in the process I discovered that the second word of the title is not capitalized, is this a problem? I changed the link so that it is lower case and does link to the article I am working on but how would I change the second word of the title so that it is capitalized? Thanks-TMullooly (talk) 17:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- When you have problems like that you can "pipe" links e.g.
[[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]produces Ireland. This way the link can be different from the words used by the link. --sony-youthpléigh 14:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
- When you have problems like that you can "pipe" links e.g.