User talk:Davetoe

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Again, welcome! Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC) Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Referencing
Hi, and welcome. I noticed you made some changes on the Muskegon High School article. It is important to reference statistical information (even though the info you replaced was not referenced. Better verefiability makes for a better encyclopedia!). Obviously, you must have gotten the info from someplace. i will leave you instructions on how to add references immediately following this message, but if you are not clear on how to do it, if you leave me a message on my talk page with the info on where it came from, I will be happy to add it for you. You will find a link to my talk page in my signature. if you choose to have me do it, you can always go to the page and open it in edit mode to see how the reference looks after I do it. That is how i learned how to do most everything I know how to do here. thanks for making contributions to Wikipedia, and know that I will always be happy to help you understand the clear as mud way things are done here in Wikiland! Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:09, 26 October 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) 06:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


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