User talk:MartyM80

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I'm Nøkkenbuer, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. While monitoring the Recent Changes, I noticed your studious contributions at Arthur Orpen Herbert, which is definitely in need of improvement. Thanks for providing some! Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type  here on your talk page, and someone will try to help. Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes   at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to this (your talk) page, and a timestamp.

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 Sincerely, Nøkkenbuer, 06:02, 18 August 2018 (UTC)  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:N%C3%B8kkenbuer&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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A much easier way to cite Trove digitised newspapers
I see you were adding citations to digitised historic newspaper articles in Trove. I just thought I should explain there is a much easier way to do this. When you are looking at the newspaper article in Trove, look over to the left-hand tool bar and you will see an "i"-in-a-circle icon. Click that and scroll down to the bottom where you will see a Wikipedia citation. Copy everything including the at the end (don't worry if you haven't a clue what it means). Then, in the Visual Editor, click where you want the citation, and then use Cite > Manual > Basic. Paste that citation from Trove into the text box and it should magically rewrite itself into something very readable. Click Insert. You can get Wikipedia citations for other things in Trove like books (look in the individual editions), journals, maps, etc, the only difference is you look for the button "Cite this". Using these citations provided by Trove is both quicker and less human-error-prone. I just made a start on an article about Francis Curnow, the 3rd Qld Railway Commissioner if you are interested in adding to it. If there are other topics you want to write about, I can give you a hand to get started. Kerry (talk) 07:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)