User talk:Platypusmonotreme

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HMAS Sydney
Hi. I've reverted your edit at HMAS Sydney (D48) because the full source information has been moved down to the "References" section of the article (under the heading "News articles", while the citation in the article has been shortened to indicate the author (albeit a tricky term with AAP-written articles) and title, in line with the rest of the article. Leave a message here or at user talk:Saberwyn (my talk page) if you have any further queries. -- saberwyn 02:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi there! My concern was including the reference from the webpage as found on www.australiangeographic.com.au that I had previously put up. The piece is not just a wire story and we have added our own info, as well as edited it. You since removed this reference replacing it with the AAP ref. I do not see why both, at least, could not be included.


 * If you could get back to me, it'd be great.


 * I think we have a mutual misunderstanding.
 * For all intents and purposes, the "AAP ref" is the "Australian Geographic ref". Instead of including the full bibliographic data at the point of citation, most of the data (including URL) is moved to the References section, while the minimum needed to identify (usually author and title) it is left at the point of citation. Readers would see "Australian Associated Press, HMAS Sydney makes heritage list" in the citation, go to the reference list, and be met with
 * which indicates Australian Geographic as the publisher of the information, and how to get to the published article... effectively what you added, reformatted into a Wikipedia citation template.
 * My misunderstaning is that I thought Aus Geo had merely lifted the wire story and published it under its own name (which in my experience is far too common in Australian news media), which is why I attributed the authorship to AAP alone. Based on what you've told me, this is incorrect, and I have updated both the citation and the full reference accordingly.
 * Hope that clears everything up. If you ever have any queries about anything at all Wikipedia-related, feel free to ask. As an aside, adding ~ to the end of a post adds a 'signature' indicating the user making the post, and the time it was posted. -- saberwyn 04:06, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hope that clears everything up. If you ever have any queries about anything at all Wikipedia-related, feel free to ask. As an aside, adding ~ to the end of a post adds a 'signature' indicating the user making the post, and the time it was posted. -- saberwyn 04:06, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Cheers! Platypusmonotreme (talk) 04:10, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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