User talk:Randannap

Welcome!
Hello, Randannap, 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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Referencing
When citing the same source multiple times in an article, please do not use "Ibid". This type of citation is fine for a printed work, where the author can be sure that the citations will remain the order he or she placed them, but in the fluid world of a Wikipedia article, sections may be rearranged, and the "Ibid" may no longer refer to the same source as was originally intended.

Instead, use the  format. The first time you use such a reference, you provide a full citation, as so:
 * Here is a fact to be cited.

The next time you need to refer to the same source, simply use the syntax as:
 * Here is another fact from the same source.

Note that there is no closing in the second usage. This syntax will produce the necessary links from your article text to your citations, and will remain valid no matter how much rearranging of the article occurs after you have edited it. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)