User talk:Squirrel14th

Using footnotes and citations rather than just external links
In the Neonicotinoid article, I noticed that you used an external link in place of a regular footnote / citation. According to WP:ELPOINTS, With rare exceptions, external links should not be used in the body of an article. and This [external link] guideline does not apply to inline citations or general references, which should appear in the "References" or "Notes" section. I changed your external link into a footnote citation. This is what the Wikitext markup code looks like:

Here is what the citation in the reference section looks like:



The best way to achieve this is to use footnotes and citations. You can find relevant pages for inserting footnotes with citations into Wikitext at:
 * Help:Footnotes
 * WP:Citation templates

There is also a tool for generating a footnote as a named reference or a full citation with a shortened footnote at
 * https://citer.toolforge.org/

You can also add references using Visual Editor. You can find instructions for that in the Editing references section in the Visual Editor user guide on Mediawiki.

I know that this may be a lot of information in response to an external link, but I do think it is important to be able to do good references. My very first edit on Wikipedia put citations in the wrong format, and a helpful editor put me straight. I would like to think that I am passing the favor forward. Peaceray (talk) 19:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC)