User talk:Emily-belle-james

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Hello, Emily-belle-james, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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! Herostratus (talk) 17:55, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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re Feline Auto-Decapitation Syndrome
What's this? Is this a hoax? I don't find any Google hits, and there's no refs, and some of the assertions look a little funny. Do you have any references? If so, you should add them as soon as possible, thanks. Message me if you have any questions. Herostratus (talk) 17:53, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty new to all this, how do I add references? Most of the details were found when I was studying at Cambridge, the rest I had to read up about. I was surprised there wasn't any more online about it. Advice would be much appreciated!
 * OK, the usual way to cite references is in-line, right in the body of the text. Typically you would use Template:Cite journal (or Template:Cite book, enclosed with at the end, like this:
 * Feline Auto-Decapitation Syndrome is an extremely rare degenerative disease found solely within the feline species.
 * And you fill in the fields as needed, for example like this (I'm just making up the values for demonstation):
 * Feline Auto-Decapitation Syndrome is an extremely rare degenerative disease found solely within the feline species.


 * Then you add a References section consisting just of a tag; I have already done this for the article in question, so you don't need to worry about that. This will cause the in-line references you made to automatically appear there. That's basically it, see Citing sources if you want more detail.


 * If this seems a bit daunting, just message me with the info and I'll put it in for you, or message me if you have any questions at all. (PS, if you end your talk page posts (not article posts) with four tildes, like this: ~, it will automatically sign your name with the date/time stamp.) Cheers and look forward to working with you, Herostratus (talk) 05:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC)