Talk:Balance (2013 book)

Reference format
In this edit, converted bare URLs to citation templates, which was a significant improvement. I don't know, but I suspect that one of the tools that takes a URL and generates a citation was used. Such tools can be very helpful, but they have their limits. I want to remind MadelaineHS and other editors that the results of such tools should always be checked and corrected as needed. In particular, in this article, the work parameter was not filled in. I have now done so. work or one of its alternate names (newspaper or magazine) should pretty much always be supplied when the source is an article in a larger publication, as opposed to a separate book or pamphlet. In one case a category "Budget Process" was mistaken for the name of the author. This is an error that a human editor seems unlikely to have made, but in any case the first and last parameters and their alternate forms should only be used for actual human authors and co-authors. Please remember these issues when adding refs to this or any article in future. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 14:13, 4 July 2020 (UTC)