User talk:PetraSchelm/Archives/2008/April

formatting quotes & sources on talk pages
Hi again - another hopefully helpful hint...

When you include quotes in discussions, either from sources, or to present sections from the articles for discussions, it can be helpful to set them apart using wikimarkup for readability.

You can use:


 * bullet points, or

"the blockquote pair of tags", ...

"so it looks like this text inside these blockquote tags"

or often it can help to use


 * extra indentation and italics

Whichever method you prefer, it's good to do something graphic because otherwise it can be hard for other editors to tell which parts of your new paragraphs are quotes and which are original writing.

It's also good to use markup to separate


 * "the new text for the article that you are proposing..."

...from the discussion about that content on the talk page.

Just some ideas. For more info, check out Help:Wikitext examples

--Jack-A-Roe (talk) 21:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! You are such a good mentor to have. I will try to figure all that out and make it into my standard practice.-PetraSchelm (talk) 21:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Glad to help. With the error that just happened where all the type got smaller, that was because the markup tags come in pairs.  You need to close it like with reference tags.  See above where I placed the blockquote example.  If you don't close the tag (the one with the / at the start ... then it says open for the rest of the page.  --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 22:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Aha, the little / on the second blockquote--I saw that as soon as you fixed it. :-) Thank you.-PetraSchelm (talk) 22:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * By the way, I'll be offline for a while, so I won't be able to reply right away if there's another glitch. You can always get help on stuff like that at Village pump (technical) - someone usually answers quickly.  --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 22:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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