User talk:Datectdatact

|authorlink field of the cite templates
I think you may not know this, but the citation templates provide a mechanism for wiki-linking author names. You do not need to yank authors out of the citation templates in order to wiki-link them. Here is one of the cites that you modified, using authorlink2 (for the 2nd author).

(Edit this page to see the source)

Look up wp:cit to see the citation templates, they are quite useful. You can click on an individual template to see ALL of its fields. You can also play with them in the sandbox.

You can leave a response here if you wish. I have watchlisted this page. Also I have put the authorlink in the cites you edited on the gt200 and ade651 pages. (And sorry for forgetting to sign!) M.boli (talk) 23:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks M.Boli - new user I didn't know how to do that properly - sorry to put you out I'll learn Datectdatact (talk) 12:37, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the ecology of Wikipedia! We are all little fishes swimming around cleaning up a vast coral reef. Put me out? Hardly.


 * There is a tremendous amount of support for encyclopedia maintenance, both software (tools and templates) and community help. For what it is worth, I have been trying various citation editors, most recently ProveIt. They all use the templates. But if I look up wp:citation_tools and wp:editing_tools I am overwhelmed. I ain't no expert.


 * It is way cool that any-old-somebody can plunk a few sentences and a URL down into an article. Then somebody who is watching that article comes by and figures out how to maintain the neutral point of view, polishes up the language, fleshes out the reference or maybe finds a better one, adds a wiki-link. At some point I figured it out: this is how much of Wikipedia gets written. It also means when somebody comes along and fixes up one of my edits, it means my contribution was worth fixing up. M.boli (talk) 14:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC)