User:Ruz2/Tutorials/Citing sources

Why are'nt you ready to start? Oh well,you know how to edit an article and do tons of stuff already! The answer is there's a lot more to learn in wikipedia. One of those are footnotes. Unfourtenatly you must provide a reliable source to anything you edit. Why? Because some people like to put incorrect info. Some people may have accedantly put wrong information. But that is not the point. The point is articles are much better and correct with reliable sources.

The soloution:external links
The simple solution is to add an external link by typing(again without spaces) [--URL--] or [--URL-- --Shown text--]. In fact most links is are external links. But wait... that is stinky. A link in the middile of the article(an embedded link)! The amazing encyclopedia is so unorganized? Links are floating around everywhere!? But it does not finish there... And what if a link does not work(link rot)!? Offline sources. Are they forgotten or not!? If wikipedia would have stayed with simple links it would be extremly incorrect(wikipedia does not except external links outside of ref tags!!)!

Say hi to the foot guy!
Note:do not put jokes at the headers of articles and your talk page! First lets talk about the link rot. Yes links may stop working for tons of reasons like URL change,... The obvious soloution is secondary info. Full citaition or footnotes solves the problem. Yet it solves another problem(offline). Oh yes there is one more left:organazation became worse know! Info in the middle of an article!!!!!??????

Mr.Ref kicks Mr.Norg
Footnotes - is supposed to be the final soloution! However with a problem unsolved we can't create a footnote. And again the answer is easy. You just have to create a section that includes the footnotes! Yes! Yes, yes , yes , wait... Don't you want to see the footnotes at the section the footnotes are used for???? A step to solve the soloution for the multiple sections problem is the ref tag. But what is a tag? Go to the "Extras" section at the end of this page(you should read the extras). (This is the last time I'll show the entire structure of a tag. However is a special tag which does not have any of the rules of the tag. Why is it a tag? HTML!)

Warning:Use ref tag only with references tag or!!!! The ref tag: ---Name/External link--- ---Secondary info--- < /ref > What this tag simply does is simply show the code in footnote format which is fine but is not helping us. And in what will a "format" help us in the problem? The references tag(< references / >) shows all the info in all the ref tags! '''The ref tags show as numbered links to places in the references tag. The references tag goes in a single section.''' As an example here is a ref tag to a html-css-web site Click this and you will go to number 1 of my references section! And congrats you've created a footnote!

Extras
-Tags-anything with <, > around it. To create an opening tag you just type the tag itself(<---tagname--->---text---). For most tags you also need a closing tag. (---text---). To open and close a tag use an open and close tag(<---tagname---/>---text---)!