User talk:Mrdobolino
March 2019[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 21:17, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Shearonink (talk) 22:27, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar referencing[edit]
The Virginia Lawyer weekly ref is behind a paywall which requires Template:Subscription required to be added to the reference plus editors can't just add a bare URL as a ref. Following you'll find a referencing aid, hope it helps. Shearonink (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Adding references can be easy[edit]
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.
Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
- While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
- Then click on "Templates".
- Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
- Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
- Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
- Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
- Before clicking on Publish changes, check that a References header ==References== is near the end of the article.
- And check that {{Reflist}} is directly underneath that header.
- 7. Click on Publish changes. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.
You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Shearonink (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
- To use this message, place
{{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}}on User:talk pages when needed.
Hi, Mrdobolino,
I found you have added this piece about “a 1971 French comedy directed by Claude Faraldo and starring Marie Dubois” to the BoF disambiguation page in February (Special:Diff/885220537), and then User:Cyfal replaced a link with a more appropriate one (Special:Diff/885685771). However, the article did not appear yet.
Are you going to create it? If you aren't, the link should be probably removed from the page. According to DAB guidelines at Wikipedia:Disambiguation, disambiguating pages serve as a help in navigation to Wikipedia articles describing appropriate meaning, not for listing all possible meanings of a key term.
If you think the article should exist, but you can not create it yourself, you may request its creation at Wikipedia:Requested articles. When the article is created, it should be linked to BoF.