User talk:Dr. Ron

Welcome
Aloha Dr. Ron. Welcome to Wikipedia. I'm Mark Miller and I hope your experience on Wikipedia is enjoyable and satisfying. If you have any questions please feel free to ping me with; Mark Miller or leave a message on my talkpage here.

As part of editor retention outreach, it is common for new editors to be welcomed to the encyclopedia. Sometimes a template is left that looks very formal and can be off putting so I felt a hand written hello would be nicer. Good to see you here. Please let me know if there is anything I can assist you with.--Mark Miller (talk) 00:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Information on citing sources on Wikipedia
Here are the relevant links to the guidelines and help pages for adding citations (strictly the technical aspects);
 * Citing sources
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Parenthetical referencing

Of course there are many different technical ways to add citations but always check the existing format and match that method as formatting changes should be discussed first if other editors are working on the article. If the article is obscure and no one has touched it a long time feel free to make a "bold edit" and change formatting if you feel inclined but if it is reversed then try to discuss that reversion with the involved editor etc..

There may be a few other links I can add. Also when leaving a note on a talk page for another editor, be sure and sign your posting with tildes --~ or by clicking on the pencil icon in the editing box and it will add your signature for you.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)


 * (Indented as example) When responding to a post on a talkpage we ad : to the first response and then :: for the second and so on, before the text of the reply, directly below the message you are responding to. We keep each response below the other and the coding indents each response for ease of reading. You only need to do that when responding to someone else but not when adding another post of your own below a former post you left before.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:20, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Other helpful links
The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars":
 * Five pillars

The basic guidelines of Wikipedia can be a bit hard to find but just use common sense if you are unsure. The first thing you should probably look over is the policy of;
 * Verifiability

Wikipedia bright-line rules (very few), Policies (a bit of them), and Guidelines (a bit more of these) and the manual of style (even more) can be difficult to wade through but the most important after the above may be; and when writing about living people;
 * Policies and guidelines (a good overview)
 * Identifying reliable sources (a guideline and must read)
 * Biographies of living persons (a policy and must read)

Just remember, the basic principle of Wikipedia is to be bold!. If you are reverted rely on the advise of many editors from this Wikipedia essay;


 * Reverting.

Wikipedia has a basic brightline rule; no editor or contributor may revert any content, in whole or in part, more than three consecutive times within a 24 hr period. There are exceptions. For this and other reasons Wikipedia has adopted the "Bold, revert and discuss" cycle. It is not incumbent upon you or any other editor to use this method but it can be helpful soving some content disputes.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

You may also be interested in a number of Wikipedia Projects to collaborate with others such as; WikiProject Hawaii. Feel free to add your name to the member list!--Mark Miller (talk) 01:48, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Quick overview that might be helpful immediately
The article William Pūnohu White uses Parenthetical referencing for book and journal sources. To add a book source;


 * First add the reference to the Bibliography section in alphabetical order using this template:

 * 

Fill in the relevant portions such as date=, author=, etc. If using a journal use this template:

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 * Next, add the content to the article. Remember to use original wording with no close paraphrasing from the source and not to add any sources you have authored yourself. These you can suggest on the article talk page and another editor can add it if necessary. After you have added the new contribution of a book or journal you add the citation to the reference as a short citation next to the period of the claim or content (with no space) using the following:

 

Replace "Author's last name" and "Year" with...well you get that and add the page to replace the zero. if you are citing several pages change "page" to "pages" and add the first page number and last separated by a dash with no spaces.

Sometimes information is only available in an online source from websites that are considered reliable for content sourcing such as official pages of subjects, business and people. For a web citation use:

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As of 29 July 2016, and  have the following differences: can be used for offline (paper) sources whereas generates a missing URL error when no URL is provided accepts |issue= and |volume= parameters while does not. But given the same set of valid parameters, their output to the references section is exactly the same.

This should give you enough information to add content and sources immediately to the article.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:06, 9 January 2017 (UTC)