User talk:Speakeasyandsoft

Welcome
Hello, Speakeasyandsoft, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 02:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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I think that Referencing for beginners may be of help. - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 02:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Bunny Yeager. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 02:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Speakeasyandsoft could you please stop editing for a while and read the links I have given you, especially about referenceing? The 'manual' method you are using is NOT how we do it here. It would be a shame for all your edits to be reverted, but it could happen if they are not referenced properly, as Wikiopedia takes wp:BLP (Biographies of Living People) quite seriously. Regards - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 02:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Please sign
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 04:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Referencing example
Please see my edit for a very simple example of what I am getting at. Though it also needs, the story title, date published, date accessed, and author/s if these are available. (I have restored it, please dont delete proper references!)
 * It would also be nice if you could acknowldge my posts here,(you can reply! I promise not to 'bite' you) I am trying to help!. - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 02:52, 4 June 2011 (UTC)


 * So sorry, I am not used to this, I am reading what you told me, just need to find out now about listing the reference name and letters a,b,c,d, and so on. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Speakeasyandsoftz (talk • contribs) 02:55, 4 June 2011


 * Thanks for replying. It's okay, everyone is a 'noob' at some time. The 'problem' is every edit you save is immediately seen by anyone reading the page. Please use the  "Show preview" button and if your edit has not worked, please don't save it! You are basically learning to edit in the main article space, which is NOT a good idea as I said above. You should be using the sandbox or you can create a sub-page in your userspace to practice article editing in. You could copy the entire article to the sub page and edit it as you like. Then when you think it is ready, ask for a more experienced editor to check it out, and if it is ready it could then be moved to the main article space. Note that articles are expected to follow the Manual of style (wp:MOS).


 * I have spaced your reply in by using a ":" before it, this is standard practice on talk pages, it helps readibility. I have used :: If you reply to me use :::, ie. add one :.


 * Please at least say "alter ref" or "ref fix" or something similar as a summary when you make your edits, failure to give any summary is poorly regarded. You should have a tick box or similar in your wp:user preferences to automatically mark 'minor' edits as "Minor". BTW 'Standard' referencing on Wikipedia(WP) uses numbers, not letters for the references. Regards, 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 04:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Silly me! I forgot about the Cite 'button' on the editing toolbar just above the editing window! (I am more used to doing it all manually.) Click on 'Cite', select the appropriate template (on the left) and fill in the boxes with the appropriate data! "Named references" helps with inserting multiple cites for a named reference that you have already created. It even has an error check function! - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 04:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * CITE Button

Copyright problems
With regret I have removed your additions to Bunny Yeager. Please see Close paraphrasing and Copyrights. Information from the sources must be reworded to avoid copyright problems. You have copied many complete sentences from the source websites. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:54, 4 June 2011 (UTC)