User talk:Gerrickbrooke

Welcome and introduction
Hi, Gerrickbrooke. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Shearonink (talk) 20:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Here's that link I mentioned in Help: Referencing for beginners. Shearonink (talk) 20:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Amberly Lobo
You seem to have many of the referencing problems I had. It took a bit of digging around to find out how to do these things. Anyhow, my comments are as follows: Tkotc (talk) 05:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You should capitalize her last name.
 * If you have no external references, you can delete the section. At least delete the specimen reference to 'example.com'
 * For your web references you can profitably use the template given at Citation_templates. Just copy and paste, and fill in the blanks. There's some important stuff in these templates, like access date.
 * You use one of your references to stand behind three facts you list. For this you should use a 'named reference'. See, Manual_of_Style_(footnotes). This looks complicated but isn't. Essentially you type '&lt;ref name="somename">http: //someref.html&lt;/ref> the first time you list it, then simply &lt;ref name="somename" /> in all later uses of that reference to back up a fact. It does start to look messy with the web template, so just remember the simple case.
 * In your first reference, you forgot the 'html' thing at the beginning of the reference, so it didn't become a hyperlink.
 * If you are going to use the reference method that labels the reference, consider using something more descriptive than "Source 1" "Source 2" etc. Maybe the title of the website and a date?
 * When in doubt, the best way to figure out how to do a reference is to find another WP page with a web page reference and see how they did it.