User talk:Drvalsummers

Re: Article
Hi Valerie, a good place to ask questions like this would be Wikipedia's teahouse. Have you published your draft anywhere on Wikipedia yet? I can't find it in your contributions. Graham 87 05:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Drvalsummers (talk) 14:27, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

I've just begun to add citations to the article I uploaded to my sandbox this week. I have lots of questions and hope someone will help me with the formatting until I get the hang of it.

For starters, when I click on the cite  button, nothing seems to happen. When I click a second time, I get the drop-down list of templates, then I'm good to go. Is this what is supposed to happen?

When I enter the details into a the template field, the citation information is entered within the text of my article on the edit screen. That's a lot of information and it makes it hard to read the article in edit. Is all the citation information supposed to appear within the text?

How do I use the citation templates to enter citation information about a chapter in a book, rather than the entire book? Drvalsummers (talk) 14:27, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello Drvalsummers and Welcome to Wikipedia. It looks like everything is working as it should. It can be difficult to read the article in the edit screen but there is a preview button below the edit box to allow you to see what your edit will look like without saving. If you wish to cite a specific chapter in a book you can add  to the Cite book code to allow you to specify the chapter. I will also add some other helpful links below for you.McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 15:40, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. I'm almost, somewhat beginning to get the hang of this!Drvalsummers (talk) 23:27, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * This is so confusing that it's hard not to give up. I do read the help pages but topics are scattered and I have trouble finding answers to my questions. I'm still working on citations. I have so many to add, that I'm doing 6-8 a day. Today, I added citations, clicked save and got an error message that nothing was  saved. Ok. I will redo them. But, in the meantime, I've noticed that if I don't enter the citations in the order of where they need to appear in the text, that Wikipedia doesn't number them correctly.  So now I have a mish-mash of citation numbers in my text.  1, 2, 3, 8, 4, 5,6, 10, 9 for example.  Am I going to have to go in and delete every citation I've added and re-enter them all in exact order they are supposed to appear?  I've probably messed up on the way I'm supposed to respond to a comment on my 'editing user talk:drvalsummers (section) page.  So, I'll give up and just hope somebody sees this message.  Perhaps I should use palm fronds. Drvalsummers (talk) 00:50, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Drvalsummers (talk) 00:53, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * As near as I can tell, you haven't done anything incorrectly. The reason some of your numbers are "out of order" is because you've used them twice (e.g. refs 11 and 12), which is exactly how they should appear. So... looks good. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 01:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ::Thanks for your help. I'm almost, somewhat beginning to get the hang of this! Drvalsummers (talk) 23:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Recent edits
Hi. I noticed your recent post on Stevietheman's talk page about the article on Joseph McCormack that you are working on. I don't recognize that name, but I did write most of the articles on Luke P. Blackburn and William Goebel, so your comments about McCormack's ties to both piqued my interest. I've been around Wikipedia for almost 10 years now, and I have an interest in Kentucky history. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, and good luck on getting your McCormack article ready for the main space. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 13:16, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I apologize. I shouldn't have assumed that Stevietheman was the one who wrote about Blackburn and Goebel. As an editor, can you access my sandbox before I submit my piece to the editors?  Feel free to take a look. I still have a lot of tweaking to do.  Yes, I would very, very much like to talk to someone about Kentucky history.     I no longer live in Kentucky, although I made a trip to Louisville once or twice a year to do research.  Joseph McCormack, among other things, is credited for establishing the public health system in Kentucky while he was executive officer of the State Board of Health from 1883-1913. He also served in the House of Representatives. His son, Arthur, also a national figure, was Public Health Commissioner from 1913-1943.  He was also executive secretary of the Kentucky Medical Association and editor of the KMA Journal at the same time.  So these two men set up and "ran" medicine and public health in Kentucky for 60+ years.  We don't think of medicine and public health as being political, but their enemies called this the "McCormack Machine."  A historian of the American Medical Association wrote that Joseph was the most influential person in the AMA during the Progressive Era, perhaps in its entire history. You can find them in the Kentucky Encyclopedia although those articles don't do them justice. Drvalsummers (talk) 16:07, 21 April 2016 (UTC)Drvalsummers (talk) 19:11, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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Arthur T McCormack
Hi there, the only reason I made the edit to your article was I came across it by chance, and seen a couple of items that had to be fixed per manual of style. That's all did, I just fixed the manual of style, and added the defaultsort for categories. I'm not an admin and have no idea how you would go about moving your article back to draft where you can work on it. I would try leaving a message for an admin on their talk page and I'm sure they will move it back for you. Try User talk:C.Fred, he's always helpful when I ever I need a little help with something. Cmr08 (talk) 01:24, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

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