User talk:RGeurtz

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I see your edit added three references in the Notes section. That's very helpful but the entries in a Notes section of a Wikipedia article are meant to be for providing a reference or comment for part of the main text. Background references like yours belong in the References section, which is meant to be used for references without a specific citation anywhere in the main text. I've moved them there.

Footnotes, as they are called, may be put into a Notes section not by directly editing it, but by putting your reference or comment inside a pair of tags like this &lt;ref&gt;Reference details here&lt;/ref&gt; in the part of the main text where you want the citation to appear. This automatically generates a numbered footnote with a clickable link in the Notes section, and a correspondingly numbered citation inside square brackets in the main text, e.g. appearing in a clickable link like this. A more sophisticated way of putting in references is to use a citation template.

Confusingly, many articles don't have a Notes section although they have a section which looks identical to a Notes section and which is headed References. If you see a section whose only content is &lt;references/&gt;, that is a footnote section which is automatically generated and should not be edited directly. In some articles the section for background references is called Further reading. I hope this helps. - Neparis 13:13, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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