User talk:DoktorScience
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Happy editing! Logan Talk Contributions 03:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Re: Deflagration[edit]
Hi DoktorScience, welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry in advance for the length of this message... the Manual of Style is long and sometimes complicated so this will hopefully save you from trying to navigate the MoS' six billion pages.
You didn't do anything wrong--the reason your edits were flagged as a Help:CS1 errors was because you included url-status=live. For some reason I haven't yet figured out, adding an archived url/date removes the flag. url-status=live signals that the link still works and, as such, the information can still be changed/the part of the site you took your information from could be deleted, meaning that a future editor can't validate whether that information was on the page in the first place. Archived pages are helpful to show what information was on the page when you were looking at it. It's a good idea to make sure the url is archived on at least one of the main archive sites even if you don't add the archive url at that time. You can't include archive-url= in a reference without url= but you can have url= without url-status=. url-status is most useful if the link no longer works or the website has been corrupted (url-status=usurped), as it will default to opening the archive or will remove the hyperlink, respectively. If you want to get the script needed to see CS1 errors, you can find it here: Help:CS1_errors#Error_and_maintenance_messages. You can't see them otherwise. I like it because it helps me narrow down which citation is messed up when I hit "preview" on a page.
The other thing I changed was just removing " |location=1.1 " which is actually an error -- location refers to what city or country the publishing company is in rather than where the section is in the book.
Let me know if you have any additional questions about this or anything else. Enjoy your evening/day! Puppies937 (talk) Puppies937 (talk) 01:58, 2 June 2023 (UTC)