User talk:Cascade1997

Hello, and welcome to my talk page. --Cade (talk) 04:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Citing references - an experimental "simple guide"
Hi Cade, I saw you'd asked about how to cite things in articles. This is a slightly lengthy "simple" explanation.

Keeping track of where information comes from
First of all, keep track of where you get your information. It's very difficult, once you've written an article or section, to go back and remember where all the information came from. But if you made a few notes along the way, it's so much easier.

Since most of your information probably comes from the web, there are two easy way to keep track of this:
 * Bookmark each relevant web-page in your web browser. This also works for preview sections that you find in Google Books.
 * Create a Wordpad file and copy and paste the page URLs (links) into it. This is better once you start getting lots of references, because you can add a note after the URL saying what exactly it's about - that's better than having a huge list of web browser bookmarks with mostly similar titles, especially if you end up using the same reference for several different parts of several different articles.

The other way is to put the basics of the reference into the article the same moment you put the information into the article, but most people don't remember to do that :-)

Putting the inline citation into the article
This is just a simple guide to getting started; there are more complicated issues like what to do when you want to use the same source twice in one article. We can cover that when it happens.

Also, there are various tools that will do this "automatically", but I find it's just as easy to type it in, once you get used to it (especially since you can start by copy and pasting it and then filling in the right information).

First, for inline citations to work, the article needs   at or near the end. Most articles will already have it.

Then, two simple examples. First, for putting in a reference to a webpage;

 

Second, for a book;

 

Basically you just replace whichever item (the parts after the = sign) with the relevant information. Also, these templates are very flexible - so if you don't know the page number in the book, or the webpage doesn't have a date on it, you just miss those parts out entirely (in other words, you get rid of  |page=220  or  |date=February 6, 2009 .)

In fact, the only thing you must have for "cite book" is the title; and the only thing you must have for "cite web" is the title and the url.

I think these citation templates also don't care what order you have the items in, so long as the   part is at the end. That makes it easier because you can just type in the various items without needing to check the order.

There are also a lot more additional pieces of information you can put in these citation templates if you want. In particular, if a webpage has an author name listed on it, then "cite web" will accept "last=SomeName|first=SomeName" as well. For the complete list of possible entries for each, see near the end of WP:CITET.

There are lots of different ways of doing this, so do expect that eventually someone will complain about using a certain style of citation when the article is already using a different one. Equally, don't worry if you're unsure which part is the "work" and which is the "title" or whatever. That can always be fixed later.

One tip is to edit the entire article (by clicking Edit in the toolbar right at the top) and not edit an individual section, when adding references. That way, you'll see what the reference looks like when you click "Show preview" (since it's at the end of the article). If you get red error messages, good things to check are that the article has a   at the end; and check that you remembered to add all of the final  }}  for each reference. Also it's easy to sometimes type  {{cite web|  while forgetting that you need   before it.

Give it a try once you have a reference to add, and we'll see how it goes. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:16, 18 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I never thanked you for this! Sorry, I know I'm 4 years late, but this really helps me a lot! Cade  ( talk ) 04:39, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Tropical cyclones
I noticed that you've been editing tropical cyclone-related articles during your Wikipedia tenure. Despite having been here for years, you haven't ever been invited to the project, so here you go! Dustin ( talk ) 20:49, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 8 August
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Regarding about your upload of the track image of Linda...
Hello Cade, Thank you for updating the track image of Linda. However, there is information that you want to regard about updating tracks...

First of all, there is already an image of the same track, and you may know it already. You don't need to upload the updated file separately; instead, you can go to the file details of the existing image you want to update and click View on Commons near the upper-right corner of the top of the page. From this page, scroll down to the bottom of the file history, and click Upload a new version of this file. From there, you can upload an updated version of the same file.

Second of all, the license of the image you uploaded is incorrect. The file you uploaded is not copyrighted; it is in the public domain because it is created by NOAA, of which is part of the U.S. government, and of which all works by the U.S. government and its subsidiaries are in the public domain. As said, government works such as these are in the public domain.

Thanks for reading this information if you can! Tinh1000000 (talk) 04:38, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

I forgot to tell you that I have already replaced the file you overlapped, this time in the current version. Tinh1000000 (talk) 04:42, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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