User talk:Sydhistory

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St Johns Anglican Cemetery
Nice work reworking this article. Your rename request makes sense, so I've formally requested that it get done (because I can't do it myself for technical reasons). Feel free to make any other changes you want - I've got no problem with you taking an axe to the Anglican Church in Parramatta section if you'd like. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

external links and citations
Just to explain. Wikipedia's policy does not usually allow external links in the body of articles, except as citations. However, I see you appear to have difficulty creating citations, which might be why you are adding external links (e.g. lots of them in the list of First Fleeters). The easy way to create citations is to go to your Preferences (top right of screen), then Editing and then scroll down and tick "Enable the editing toolbar. This is sometimes called the '2010 wikitext editor'". And next Save (lower left of screen). When editing, you should now have a tool bar that has "Cite" on it. If you click on Cite (making the little arrow to its left point downwards), then you should see on the 2nd line of the toolbar a dropdown menu called Templates. This gives access to the 4 most common citations types (web, news, book, journal). Select the one you want ("cite web" seems to be the one you most need) and fill in the fields you want (URL, title, access date being the usual minimum for a web citation). Note if you click on the little calendar symbol to the right of the access date field, then it will add today's date (as that is almost always the access date for a web citation). Then click Insert. Hey, presto, a beautiful structured citation. I hope this helps. If you need help, please ask. Kerry (talk) 22:27, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Visual Editor
If you really want to make your life easier, when you are on the Preferences > Editing page, change the Editing mode (a dropdown) to "Show me both editor tabs" and then Save. You will now have two tabs at the top of the article screen: "Edit" which gives you the Visual Editor (more like Microsoft Word) and "Edit source" which gives you the markup editor (which you are currently using). If you don't like having to understand what strange symbols mean, the Visual Editor is probably ideal for you. Again, if you need help, just ask. Kerry (talk) 22:31, 4 August 2019 (UTC)