User talk:Ervler

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing. David Spalding ( ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 15:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Memory
Hi -- I appreciate your efforts, but we really oughtn't to have references in the list that are not used to substantiate statements in the article. There is a constant tendency for Wikipedia articles to degenerate into mere lists of stuff, and adding unused refs can only further that tendency. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 19:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Looie496,

My apologies - I'm new to the world of Wiki editing and still trying to get a hang of the both the (not immediately accessible) interface and the community's social norms. I'm not even sure if I am typing this in the right place or whether you will see it. Loading a few videos at the moment which will hopefully explain the Wiki back-end interface to me...

The references I added were related to orphan references in the article's body. Specifically, in the "Levels of processing" section, several references are made without full paper references, including: "Craik and Lockhart (1972)", "Mandler (1967)", "Eysenck and Eysenck (1980)", "Tyler et al. (1979)" and "Palmere et al. (1983)".

I tracked down the full references relating to these orphan references and added them to the "References" section of the page.

I probably should have taken the time to learn how to add a proper reference using Wiki's mark-up language, but since I see that the article, for the most part, doesn't include a Wiki-formatted list of references anyway, I thought I would just add these new references to the rest of bullet-pointed references. In my defence, I did alphabetise the ones I added, as well as those in the existing list :)

Thanks for the message though. It's made me aware for the first time of the world that exists behind the Wiki pages that one often takes for granted. I will endeavour to do things a bit more formally in future as I realise I am stepping on people's toes!

Cheers :) ervler (talk) 20:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)