User talk:Frances Elliot

Welcome and tips
Welcome to Wikipedia! In lieu of the template welcome message, I thought I'd jump right into a specific tip: if you want to switch your book references to inline references, you can use "ref tags". To use them is simple, and I'll turn off formatting to show you what they look like when written in the editor:

To make a ref tag for your book, place it like this (I've already converted your reference into the standard book citation template):



As a result, the information between the open tags will automatically be formatted to appear in the existing Reference section like this:. Making things more convenient, after the first use, you can just use:


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That will create an inline citation to the same citation. Of course, if you want to use specific page citations, that involves a little more work --but that's probably unnecessary at this point (if the article were to eventually be proposed for the higher levels of qualify, Good Article or Feature Article, then it need to before promotion).

Backing away from the specific example, if you want to learn more about how we format articles and general tips, you're welcome to review the Manual of Style, as well as the standard "Welcome" template suggestions of the tutorial, how to edit a page, and how to write a great article.

Good luck and happy editing. --Bobak (talk) 04:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)