User talk:Bethbeeman

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Irvine Ranch Water District
Thank you for your excellent additions to the Irvine Ranch Water District. I did a copy-edit on this article recently, so your updates were on my watchlist.

I see that these additions are your first edits on Wikipedia. I have two suggestions:

First, the use of first person (we) pronouns or second person (your) pronouns is discouraged. See Mos for details. I changed a few instances, but there are more to be done.

Second, links to related articles are encouraged. For example, I added a link to the California Aqueduct, but there are several more links that could be added.

Welcome to Wikipedia editing, and keep up the good work. Contact me or other editors on our talk pages if you need help.--DThomsen8 (talk) 12:26, 14 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure I understand the difference between a "link" and a "cite".  Any useful tips on this?  BBeeman (talk) 21:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Links are made by brackets around a word or term, to allow the reader to follow that word or term to an article. In the IRWD article, there was "California Aqueduct" without brackets. I put brackets around it so it reads California Aqueduct when editing, but is in the article California Aqueduct, a link for the reader to follow if more is desired about that term. There are several terms in the IRWD article that could have such links.  If you add the brackets to a term, check the preview to see if it is red, or not.  If red, there is no such article.


 * As for "cite" that is a big subject. In essence, creating references that document particular sentences or facts. Look at Inline citation for details. Enough for this reply, more will follow.  --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is the Wikipedia version of the paper book The Missing Manual. If you want to be serious about Wikipedia editing, that is a good place to start.  --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)