User talk:Icykadal

Welcome, welcome! & a few tips
Now, you can see that this template suggests joining WikiProjects. I would like to further, and say that since all the edits you've made to date have concerned climate change, it would be natural for you to join us at WikiProject Climate change I have heard that we are one of the most active WikiProjects - unfortunately, there are still not enough of us when compared to the scale of the task, and another scientifically literate editor who can keep track of the discussions on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change and help us resolve discussions and coordinate article improvement would be really helpful! Speaking from experience, editing articles on this important yet often technical subject also feels less isolating when you can see the steps others are making.

Finally, just a couple of comments on that edit you made:


 * When a reference already exists in the article (like the "Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export" study you added again), it's better to look at where it is, convert it from to (I prefer using "last name of the first author + year" format for reference names, as it appears to be both immediately distinctive yet still usually compact enough not to defeat the point.) Then, you can just use > every other time that reference needs to be cited. If you already know this, but have simply overlooked the study in my edit, then I would suggest pasting study/article/etc. name into Ctrl-F panel to see if there is a match before inserting a reference - this can really save time sometimes!


 * It's better to write dates in the "dmy format" - i.e. |date=12 November 2023 . This is because when dates are written all in numbers, then it becomes impossible to tell whether it is in the month-day format or day-month format if the work was published on the 1-12th of any month. Further, if you are using |date=, you need to have day, month and year together - only having two out of three produces a reference error. If only a year is known, use |year=

Regards, InformationToKnowledge (talk) 13:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)