User talk:Pa-man-74

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History of George Edward "Skip" Prosser's Coaching Career
Hi - I was patrolling recent changes on Wikipedia and noticed this new article that you helped to create. Is there any particular reason for it to be under this title? This content should be in the Skip Prosser article, rather than in a brand new one. BigDT 03:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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Yep, still learning my way around. I came across this one and am trying to master making citations appear correctly, but do not quite have it right, yet. I have been working off of the Help:Footnotes page but can't seem to get the coding quite right.

As for location, I agree, it could be moved. I have not attempted such a complex move yet!

Pa-man-74 03:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Footnotes are incredibly complicated and part of the problem is that there are so many ways to do it. The best way, IMO, is that you surround the citation with &lt;ref&gt; and &lt;/ref&gt;.  Then, at the bottom of the article, you put &lt;references /&gt;.  So you could do something like this:

This is the text that I want to cite. &lt;ref&gt;This is the source of the text&lt;.ref&gt;

Also, if you check out template:Cite web, that template makes it easy to cite web-based articles. So, as an example, if I do this:

In 1977, Virginia Tech once again sought admission to the ACC and was once again rejected.&lt;ref name=TSL84&gt;&#123;{cite web }&#125;&lt;/ref&gt;
 * url = http://www.techsideline.com/tslmail/archives/tslmail0084.htm
 * title = VT's History with the ACC
 * accessdate = 2006-07-02
 * last = Stewart
 * first = Will
 * date = 2003-06-20

... then it will appear like this ...

In 1977, Virginia Tech once again sought admission to the ACC and was once again rejected.

... and the citation will appear at the end of the article in the &lt;references /&gt; section.

I hope that's helpful ... I know it's kinda convoluted.

As for the article itself, can I suggest moving anything useful into the Skip Prosser article itself? Almost certainly, History of George Edward "Skip" Prosser's Coaching Career is going to be deleted at some point ... but if you want to move anything usable into the main article, then History of George Edward "Skip" Prosser's Coaching Career can be replaced with #REDIRECT Skip Prosser to turn it into a redirect. That way, there won't be two pages covering the same subject matter. BigDT 04:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I have come back to modify or merge the two, but I see none of the history to work with - where did it go? can it be recovered? Pa-man-74 22:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)