User talk:Rachael O'Halloran

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Hello, Rachael O&#39;Halloran, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:33, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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Help me!
Please help me with...I'm trying to edit Bel Kaufman's page to bring it up to date since her death the other day. I write for HubPages and am almost finished her bio there. I do not know all the ins and outs of how to put in links and show where my sources are. I will look at the links you gave me to see if they answer my questions, but if they don't then I'm a little leery of editing for fear of doing it wrong. Thank you for any insight you can give me. Rache

Rachael O'Halloran 01:00, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You can read this page. To summarize, you put reflist at the end of the page under the section header "references" and put the sources between and < / ref > without the spaces. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a message on my talk page. @  01:09, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Help me!
I haven't been on this site since I signed up to help in May 2014 and the little bit I learned has clean escaped my brain. I've read the help section, reviewed the link directions and I still think I did it wrong. I am trying to edit a page -Nicky Scarfo Jr. at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Scarfo_Jr. - to show the death of his brother Mark which occurred April 2014 per George Anastasia's news article at jerseymanmagazine.com. After putting in the info, I then tried to enter a link to show where I got my information and the edit looks just awful to me. Can someone please help me understand the correct way to do this edit?

The original sentence was: During the trial, Mark Scarfo attempted suicide on November 1, 1988. Mark, then only 17 years old, had been taunted for years by classmates about his father's criminal activities. Increasingly despondent over his father's possible imprisonment, Mark Scarfo hanged himself in the office of his father's concrete supply company in Atlantic City. He was discovered by his mother, and paramedics were able to resuscitate him. During the trial, Mark Scarfo attempted suicide on November 1, 1988. Mark, then only 17 years old, had been taunted for years by classmates about his father's criminal activities. Increasingly despondent over his father's possible imprisonment, Mark Scarfo hanged himself in the office of his father's concrete supply company in Atlantic City. He was discovered by his mother, and paramedics were able to resuscitate him. He suffered cardiac arrest and his brain was deprived of oxygen. He entered a coma, from which he had yet to emerge as of 2008.[13]

I changed it to read: During the trial, Mark Scarfo attempted suicide on November 1, 1988. Mark, then only 17 years old, had been taunted for years by classmates about his father's criminal activities. Increasingly despondent over his father's possible imprisonment, Mark Scarfo hanged himself in the office of his father's concrete supply company in Atlantic City. He was discovered by his mother, and paramedics were able to resuscitate him. He suffered cardiac arrest and his brain was deprived of oxygen. He entered a coma where he remained until his death in April 2014.

The link under Jersey Man, Philly Man should just highlight those words and instead it comes out like this: http://jerseymanmagazine.com/mob-scene-taccetta.php

Rachael O'Halloran 02:28, 17 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I fixed the link. You need to add a bracket like this [ to the beginning of the citation. Then right behind it, put the URL. Then add the author, title, magazine, and date. Then put in a reverse-bracket like this ] . That will close the link, so that the URL doesn't show and only the text does (but the text is now showing as a link).  I also re-added the citations that were there to begin with.  This is because all the foregoing sentences about Mark Scarfo needed citations; the existing cites provided that. Rather than delete them and just add the new citation, it would have been better to keep them and add the new citation.  That way, someone reading the article later would be able to find all the information in all the articles, rather than just the few facts cited in the Jersey Man article (and be left wondering where the other facts came from). - Tim1965 (talk) 02:51, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Help me!
Thank you Tim1965. I appreciate the help and the fix. I need to study more so I can be an asset to this site. :)


 * Hello. If you don't mind, I've just marked the help requests as answered. If you need any further help, feel free to use again. Or, stop by the Teahouse. I will let Tim1965 know that you've responded.   Anon 126   (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 03:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)