User talk:Kipof

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User:Kipof/Draft 1

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and also provide a "fair use" rationale. See which I've done. Tyrenius 22:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can removed unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started.

Simple referencing
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section. This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:


 * ==Notes and references==

The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):



Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.

Test it out
Copy the following text, open the edit box for this page, paste it at the bottom (inserting your own text) and save the page:


 * ==Reference test==


 * This is the text which you are going to reference.


 * ==Notes and references==



(End of text to copy and paste.)

Information to include
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For a book it might look like this:



An online newspaper source would be:



Note the square brackets around the URL. The format is [URL Title] with a space between the URL and the Title. If you do this the URL is hidden and the Title shows as the link. Use double apostrophes for the article title, and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics).

The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead. Wikilinks (double square brackets which create an internal link to a wikipedia article) function inside the ref tags. Dates are wikilinked so that they work with user preference settings.

Citation templates
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference

Using the same reference twice or more
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the

The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:



You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! A short cut will only pick up from higher up the page, so make sure the first ref is the full one. Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them.

Example
You can see refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are 3 sources and they are each referenced 3 times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.

Next step
When you become familiar with the process, the next step is to have one section, "Footnotes", with links embedded in the text, and another, "References", which lists all of your references alphabetically with full details, e.g. for a book:


 * Lincoln, Abraham; Grant, U. S.; & Davis, Jefferson (1861). Resolving Family Differences Peacefully (3rd ed.). Gettysburg: Printing Press. ISBN 0-12-345678-9.

If you're ready to go into it further, these pages have detailed information:
 * Citing sources
 * Citing sources/example style
 * Citation templates
 * Footnotes

I hope this helps. If you need any assistance, let me know.

Tyrenius 01:13, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision
I think you're on safe ground, as there is an impressive and substantial list of references. I have cleaned up the article a bit. Most headings should be level 2, i.e. 2 equals signs either side ==. I think the article would be best in chronological order, as the painting was done in 2000 and the main text starts with 2006 and works backwards at the moment. Tyrenius 05:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

You may be able to help
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles. Tyrenius 03:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for checking. I see you haven't edited for a while. Let me know if you need any assistance. Tyrenius 12:11, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, here's a few:

Inline citations - you can delete the fields you don't need and compress the template fields onto one or two lines, rather than a dozen.

In preferences, set it so you get a reminder to leave an edit summary - important for other users.

Next to the save page button, there is a preview button. You can use this to see what your edit looks like before you save it.

It might be an idea to prepare articles in a user subpage, or even off-wiki, so you don't have to hit the edit button quite so quickly. Here's a sub page User:Kipof/Draft 1. Click to open the page. You can create more if you want.

But generally, things are shaping up. If I get time to look in more detail, I will.

Tyrenius 12:18, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Small point, but headings are not normally in upper case - just capital letter to start with, and of course, it's 4 tildes ~ for signature, but I think you've worked that out.:) Tyrenius 12:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * And in discussions on talk pages, you can use increasing numbers of colons to indent for clarity.Tyrenius 12:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
I couldn't see any discussion about the redirect, so I've reverted it and created a shortcut: WP:CITEQR. You might want to add to any discussion on the project's talk page. Tyrenius 20:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If you're having problems with using the templates in the text, you might use a different method by listing the references and footnotes in separate sections, which simplifies the code needed in the article text. See Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 and Harriet Arbuthnot for examples. Tyrenius 05:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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A "new" article for Malik Obama
is sure to be nominated for deletion; so I've actually done so myself here even though I believe it now passes muster due to Maliks multiple press mentions (which had not yet been catalogued when contributors had so very recently weighed in on its "Obongo" iteration. Please be patient with this proposal while those interested weight in again. (I'm notifying those who commented.) — Justmeherenow  06:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Udaiyan
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