User talk:Selag

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Hello, Selag, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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! --Canyouhearmenow 12:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Simon Gales (artist)


A tag has been placed on Simon Gales (artist) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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March 2011
Please refrain from writing autobiographical articles, as you did at Simon Gales (artist). Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged; if you create such an article, it may be deleted. All edits to articles must conform to our policies on no original research, neutral point of view, and avoid conflicts of interest. Please remember that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a personal webspace provider. If your achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. Dawnseeker2000  16:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Inline citations
Hi Selag! You ran with my example and did great work in providing much better attribution for the reference list by using citation templates. However, I think you have a confusion (which is understandable; Wikipedia is huge and complex). What you did is make the form of the references much better, but the task of inline citations is a different issue entirely. An inline citation is a footnoted form of citation appearing directly next to the text it supports, so that instead of a list of general citations, a reader can see what pieces of information in an article are supported by what citation. Take a look at Masako Katsura as an example. See how the text has footnotes and each one links to the reference at the bottom of the article (and they link back to where they cite)? This is done with these tags: This goes "inline", meaning next to the text you are citing, and formats as a footnote in read mode. At the bottom of the article one places Reflist, in the references section, which shows the output of the citations. let me give you a link which may help: Referencing for beginners. There's also a visual guide for this I am placing below—just click "show". Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable" In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so:. In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code or, most commonly, the template, Reflist which can be modified to display the references in 2 or 3 columns using or. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article. Multiple citation use.
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 * colspan=2 | All information in Wikipedia articles should be verified by citations to reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is using the "cite.php" form of inline citations, using the elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references section after the text of the article.
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 * Inline citation code; what you type in 'edit mode'
 * What it produces when you save
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 * width="300"|Two separate citations.