User talk:Osterhob

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Platypus apicalis
Please check your references. There are a number of errors highlighted in red. Your ref name="Farm" has a bad URL. Please check it? http://www.nzffa.org.nz/farm-forestry-model/the-essentials/forestry-health-pests-and-diseases/Pests/Platypus#Life_histories_and_habits There should be no need to enclose the references in parentheses or brackets. See help:footnotes

I see that you and both got an account about the same time and are focusing on this article. Just curious why you both are interested in this. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:50, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

I fixed the bad url and will check the references. Sorry for the vulgar reference names. I was getting frustrated and that was unprofessional. The reason nick eyles and me did this at the same time was for a school project. We each had to write an essay on the same species and then combine them to make one wikipedia page. I fixed the missing title as well.


 * No problem with the ref names. I do a lot of WP:RCP and must have seen it all. Others seem to be rather squeamish, so I thought it best to change the ref names. Hope I got everything correct. I also took out the parentheses (did I use the correct form? Never can get that word right...). BTW: refs always go after the punctuation. i.e. stuff. not stuff . Thanks for the article and the info. What class are you doing the project for? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 11:49, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Ecology 202 Biological diversity

Apologies
Hello Osterhob, sorry for the rough welcome, Jim1138 is right, the vulgar reference names and some of the edits made me jump to the wrong conclusions so please accept my sincere apologies. Thank you very much for your contributions, I hope that you continue adding to this great project. If you need any help in the future please don't hesitaste to get in touch with me. Cheers. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 07:08, 3 May 2016 (UTC)