User talk:Sproate

Adding references
Thank you for your constructive edits and additional references in the article on Marisol Escobar. You may find the article Help:Referencing for beginners useful in learning how to build complete and well-formatted references in Wikipedia. The methods shown in Using refToolbar are particularly handy for enabling efficient cut-and-paste construction of a proper Wikipedia reference. The refToolbar method is very useful, because it uses a simple form to cue an editor to include the most important parameters (for example, author, date, publisher), while it takes care of the formatting details automatically. You can skip the later section in the tutorial, on manually building references, until/unless you need to "look under the covers" to make custom modifications.

I would also like to point out a technique used in Wikipedia to show the page numbers in footnoted references, without triggering an absurdly large number of nearly-identical full citations. The abbreviated format is described at Template:Refpage, which was designed specifically to handle this problem. This and other useful techniques for efficiently formatting references are explained at Help:Referencing for beginners. I have consolidated a number of redundant refs in the article; you can look at the Wikisource to see how I did this. The process needs to be completed by the use of Template:Refpage, as described in the tutorial. Cheers! Reify-tech (talk) 02:14, 22 March 2017 (UTC)