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Welcome[edit]

Hello, Savvy psychologist! Welcome to Wikipedia! I saw you on the Serial killer article, and that you added unsourced material. Because of this, and your being new, I believe you will benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Flyer22 (talk) 01:06, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Using ref attributes[edit]

Hey again, Savvy psychologist. In this edit, regarding the biography.com source, you used a ref attribute without using the whole source. A ref attribute without the whole source is useless. Here, I'll explain: Attributes are for multiple citations of the same reference or footnote. This is done so that you don't have to use the same reference repeatedly in whole. Whether you are using citation templates or not, you can use ref attributes by using <ref name=name>details of the citation</ref>. Thereafter, the same footnote may be used multiple times by adding <ref name=name/>. If the name contains an embedded blank space, you must either add straight quotation marks (<ref name="name more"/>) or replace the unacceptable blank space with an acceptable symbol such as an underscore or a hyphen (e.g., <ref name=name_more/> or <ref name=name-more/>), thus eliminating the need for quotation marks. The name is case-sensitive, but quoted names match names without quotes; USGS is matched by "USGS" but not by usgs.

That's why I removed your ref attribute -- it was without all the source information. Thank you for sourcing the other bit, though. You properly sourced it, and it's an okay reference. Flyer22 (talk) 18:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]