User talk:Lisagosselin

Reference formats
I don't know if you're a genuine new user or someone using a different account and/or a robot to help you make edits.

However, will you please check the results of your editing? This "fix" messed up the article in two ways:

Firstly, there were two separate mechanisms in use because there were *intentionally* separate footnote and reference lists (one is for extra notes, the other is for citations).

Secondly, the end-result wasn't done properly; the (now-empty) footnotes section remained in place, and the references list wasn't formatted properly.

Fourohfour 12:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Additional: Although the original reference here had been done incorrectly, at least it was there, and could have been fixed. You erased it completely and replaced it with "citation needed", losing the reference altogether.


 * You apparently know how to use the mechanism, so can you please fix things instead of removing them. If you don't know how to do this, may I respectfully suggest you ask someone more experienced to help you out.


 * Apologies if I sound critical over what was likely well-intentioned work. However, Wikipedia needs *more* references, not less. Losing the ones we already have is certainly a bad thing. It might take longer to fix them, or figure out what the original author *meant* to do, but replacing legitimate references with "citation needed" is destructive. Please don't do it. Fourohfour 13:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Good intention
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I assumed the wikimarkup was properly formatted, I will pay closer attention to detail in the future

lgosselin 14:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

refs notes etc
Hi, I see you made some edits to Somerset but your edits seem to have made notes relating to economy & industry into references which they are not & they now display within the reference list rather than below the table they refer to. I presume you are still learning some of the tricks & syntax (& there is a lot of it). I sometimes use User:Cyde/Ref converter to update the referencing format but it is always worth checking whether the result you achieve makes sense.&mdash; Rod talk 17:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)