User talk:CDPhillips 1989

Empress Dowager Longyu
Hi! In the Empress Dowager Longyu article, I noticed that you added that: "Both Princess Der Ling and Katherine Carl, who spent time in Dowager Empress Cixi's court recalled Empress Longyu to be a gracious and pleasant figure." Could you add a citation for this statement? Thanks. Cheers, The Giant Purple Platypus (talk) 23:17, 25 June 2013 (UTC).

cite web template
Hi! I really like your article on 21st century steam. You may have noticed I took some pictures that were already on Wikipedia and illustrated it a bit. Please don't take offense, but I want to make a couple suggestions.
 * 1) As you can see from the big glaring tag on the article, we don't use "ibid" and other common academic citation abbreviations on Wikipedia.  That is because the Wiki software has features that let you automatically combine citations so if several items are cited to the same source, you only need to enter the citation once.  Also, we have nifty little templates that format the citations uniformly for you.  I will leave a little instruction sheet after this message to show you how they work.  I am going to get rid of the ibids and do your existing citations on the article over with the cite web template so you can see how much neater they look.  you seem to be still adding content, so you can use the cite web (or cite news or cite book) templates in the future
 * 2) The article has a bit of a "wall of text" feel to it.  As you have probably noticed, many, if not most, Wikipedia articles have a little box on the upper right side that kind of summarizes the facts in the article.  These are called infoboxes, and one would improve the look of your article a whole lot.  Only problem is, I cannot really figure what one of many many infobox templates would be appropriate.  I have left a message at the trains project for their input.  It may help if you could break the article down into more sections or subsections.  If you can think of a logical way to do that, I will be more than happy to help you with the technicalities.  Thanks for the great info.  I got to ride behind the 611, the 765 (or was it the 759?) and the big 2-8-8-2 whose number I now forget, all on the old Nickel Plate between Chicago and Ft. Wayne.  Great times! Gtwfan52 (talk) 05:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --Gtwfan52 (talk) 05:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)


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