User talk:Smashton Pumpkin

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Hello, Smashton Pumpkin. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm Jax 0677, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type  here on your talk page, and someone will try to help. Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes   at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to this (your talk) page, and a timestamp. The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun! To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mypage/sandbox&action=edit&preload=Template:User_Sandbox/preload create your own private sandbox] for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put  on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

 Sincerely, Jax 0677 (talk) 14:16, 12 August 2013 (UTC)  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jax_0677&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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Using the same webpage as a source more than once
Regarding your question at the Help Desk — please look at the article on the Deming Armory, which cites the same thing several times. Click the edit button and look at the way that citation #1 is done. The first time it appears (in the infobox), we have the complete code:. After that, it appears in a shortened form: it's always just. To do this on another page, supply a full citation, but instead of using &lt;ref&gt;, use &lt;ref name=insertreferencenamehere&gt;insertyourreferencehere&lt;/ref&gt;, and in other uses, just do &lt;ref name=insertreferencenamehere /&gt;. Please note that the reference name can be whatever you want, since it's simply a way of telling the software what reference you're talking about. If you use a reference name of two or more words, you must put it in quotation marks, since the software will get confused if you don't, but the quotation marks can be omitted for a one-word reference name. If you have any problems or additional questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page, or feel free to return to the Help Desk. Nyttend (talk) 21:07, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The ref name thing doesn't care what's inside, so you can use it with any kind of citation. and then would work fine.  See what I've done with ref name=ohs or ref name=center at Rombach Place.  That "cite book" thing is a citation template.  If you become familiar with them, they can simplify the process of adding citations, but they're optional; I myself don't care for them, so I never use them.  Nyttend (talk) 11:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

I completely get it now and know how to do it no problem I messed around with my Sandbox and finally cracked it, thank you. However may I ask, on the Rombach Place page your first a b using the same source "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. is not actually in the edit source information for example on the first shortcut a it says nris NRIS version, how does that have anything to do with it, I am lost?--Smashton Pumpkin (talk) 12:34, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Check the source code for the first citation: you can see that it's just inside the &lt;ref tags.  Here's I'm transcluding a template called Template:NRISref onto the page.  We have thousands of articles on places that are included on the National Register of Historic Places (the US government's list of historic sites), and since there's a US government database (called the "NRIS") with some basic information on all of them, someone created a template with the full citation; this way we don't have to write out a complete citation every time we use it.  It's possible for templates to have subpages that display different ways, and the |version=2010a means that it should display what's on the subpage named "2010a".  However, although I've been active on Wikipedia since 2006, I don't understand any of this subpage coding — I only saw that other people were using , and their pages had the right citation, so I simply followed their example.  Code copying is welcome here, and it's often the only way that I've been able to get things done; it took me months of code copying before I was familiar with the ref name stuff.  Nyttend (talk) 18:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC)