User talk:Anna Kirkland

Welcome!
Hello, Anna Kirkland, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! RFD (talk) 23:45, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

WP:VERIFY
Hi Anna, thanks for your contributions! About the ref to your book that you added in this dif - please know that we cite sources so that content can be verified. No one can verify content using a book that is unpublished - please don't re-add this until the book is actually out. Also for books, we need page numbers. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:58, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Quick note on formatting citations
Hi Anna

Thanks again for your careful editing, and for providing relatively complete citations. Quick note, that there is a very easy and fast way to do citations, which often also provides a link that allows readers to more easily find the source being cited.

You will notice that when you are in an edit window, that up at the top there is a toolbar. On the right, it says "Cite" and there is a little triangle next to it. If you click the triangle, another menu appears below. On the left side of the new menu bar, you will see "Templates". If you select (for example) "Cite journal", you can fill in the "doi" or the "PMID" field, and then if you click the little magnifying glass next to the field, the whole thing will auto-fill. Then you click the "insert" button at the bottom, and it will insert a ref like this (I changed the ref tags so it shows):
 * (ref)(/ref)

That takes about 10 seconds. As you can see there are templates for books, news, and websites, as well as journal articles, and each template has at least one field that you can use to autofill the rest. The autofill isn't perfect and I usually have to manually fix some things before I click "insert" but it generally works great and saves a bunch of time. Jytdog (talk) 19:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, very helpful! This was my first attempt at this. Anna Kirkland (talk) 19:48, 12 October 2016 (UTC)