User talk:Erick Hayden

Thanks / Adding references
Thank you for your constructive edits and additional references. You may find the article Help:Referencing for beginners useful in learning how to build complete and well-formatted references in Wikipedia. The methods shown in Using refToolbar are particularly handy for enabling efficient cut-and-paste construction of a proper Wikipedia reference. The refToolbar method is very useful, because it uses a simple form to cue an editor to include the most important parameters (for example, author, date, publisher), while it takes care of the formatting details automatically. For websites, books, and academic journals, many fields can be filled in automatically, and only need to reviewed for accuracy and completeness. You can skip the later section in the tutorial, on manually building references, until/unless you need to "look under the covers" to make custom modifications.

I would also like to point out a technique used in Wikipedia to show the specific page numbers in footnoted references, without triggering an absurdly large number of nearly-identical full citations. The abbreviated format is described at Template:Refpage, which was designed specifically to handle this problem. This and other useful techniques for efficiently formatting references are explained at Help:Referencing for beginners.

I have done some copyedit cleanups of your recent additions to the article on Rosemary; you can see what changes I've made to conform with the WP:MOS style recommendations. I leave it to you to cleanup some of your remaining references, as you try using refToolbar.

It takes a while to become fluent in Wikipedia editing. Your efforts are appreciated, and I hope you can contribute effectively to this project. Cheers! Reify-tech (talk) 19:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)