User talk:Ehildinger

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Hello, Ehildinger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Coquillettidia perturbans. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 18:34, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
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Helpme request
Hello! This is my first time creating a Wikipedia article, and I am having some issues.

I have cited the 6 references I used the multiple times they were used throughout my article, and now I have 30 references instead of 6. Is there a way I rectify this problem?

I am needing to italicize the title of the whole page I am working on (Coquillettidia perturbans), how can I do this?

I appreciate any advice/help! Thank you! Ehildinger (talk) 01:34, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Response

 * Hello Ehildinger! I'm Darkwind, an experienced editor, and I'd be happy to help you out. Also, thanks for contributing.  First up, normal convention for a talk page, like this one, is to put new material at the bottom, and each new topic gets a new  . So, I've moved your question accordingly, and added a section header for it. You don't usually need to add a   when you reply to someone like I did this time -- I just did it so it's easy to see where your question stops and my answers start.


 * Second, if you're referring to your work on Coquillettidia perturbans, I don't see a problem with the referencing - that's how it's supposed to look with detailed citations. If any of those citations are redundant, you could remove them, but it's not really necessary.  You'll see in the reference section that each one now has a series of small links at the beginning, like 6.^a b c d e, which are links to where each citation was used.


 * It looks like you figured out . Also, I've just used an automated tool to do a little cleanup to conform with our Manual of Style (for example, there shouldn't be colons at the end of section headings).


 * Further advice on this article:
 * The article has no context whatsoever. You can read the Manual of Style page on the Lead Section for details, but basically, it should start with a concise summary of what the article is about and why it's important.  For example, one way to start your lead section might be "Coquillettidia perturbans is a species of mosquito found in every continent except Antarctica. It is noted for /whatever makes it special/."
 * Wiki links. Needs more more links to other articles! Any time there is a word or phrase that the reader would want more information about, and that there's an article about, you can put double brackets around it,  as so. That will link that phrase to the appropriate article, like West Nile virus, so that the reader can explore and learn more on their own. Read Linking for further details.
 * Very very minor detail, but if you could, it's nice to put your references in numerical order, so you don't have a sentence that ends [2][5][4] like your current first paragraph.


 * Finally, please don't hesitate to add another tag if you have further questions, or you can ask me personally on my talk page if you'd rather. I'm also going to leave you another welcome message at the top of the page, which has more informational links for you to read through if you want. Keep up the good work! &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 05:15, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!!
I'm not sure if I am doing this correctly, but thank you for your help and patience! Ehildinger (talk) 14:53, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Not quite. If you want to put something on your own page to tell someone that you're talking about them, you can use, like this:   The  or "tb" template is put on the other person's talk page directly -- it's from before the notification/ping system was implemented, and it's basically a quick way to leave the other person a message saying "hey this conversation you were part of &rarr; over here &rarr; has been updated". &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 23:34, 2 November 2013 (UTC)