User talk:CharlesChicago

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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) 22:05, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Manual of style
Thanks for your contribution to the Whitewater Lake (Wisconsin). You should be aware that Wikipedia has a manual of style to maintain consistency in style and formatting. For example, "ibid" is not used in Wikipedia because editors may add citations in between the "ibid" and its referent, thus losing the information in the footnote. Similarly, serial footnotes are not combined into a single footnote. It's also nice to link to online sources when they're available. I've made the appropriate changes to the Whitewater Lake article so you can see how citations work in Wikipedia. Further information on citation formatting following Wikipedia's manual of style can be found here and here. Thanks for your additions. 32.218.34.216 (talk) 22:42, 28 January 2016 (UTC)