User talk:Mariswp

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Hello, Mariswp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Herostratus (talk) 13:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
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re Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence
Hello, Mariswp, and welcome. And thanks for contributing to this article!

What happened is this: the fourth reference -- the one right after "Founding editor of OGEL was Professor Thomas W. Wälde (1949–2008) -- had an opening tag.

So why didn't it give an actually useful error message like "ERROR, opening "? Well, it's a computer, and computers aren't always that smart. It saw the opening, and since the ref was never ended, it figured that everything after that -- the whole rest of of the article -- must be part of that ref! Including the tag! So it didn't find the and decided to report that error.

Computers! But the good news is, it doesn't get much harder than that. Getting the references syntax right is probably the hardest programming-type stuff you have to do to edit articles (unless you want to put in tables, and there's help for that).

Happy Wiki'ing, and feel free to message me if you have any questions. And here's your first service award, below. You can use it to get started on your user page if you like. Cheers, Herostratus (talk) 13:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)