Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2015 April 16

= April 16 =

Visual Editor Adding New References
Hello WikiFriends, I feel silly. I've read the wiki edits page about 4 times now (I can't watch the video because my Java is being insane) and I've managed to figure out how to add in the footnotes but they aren't linking to the references. I am editing a page on a band for a class assignment so there are existing references and footnotes throughout the article, but when I try to add in my new reference the footnote reads 1 and the reference I added should be 8. If someone could walk me through a step by step of how to properly reference my websites and properly add in the footnotes that match those references I would greatly appreciate this so I do not fail my english project. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheKovacsCat (talk • contribs)
 * Hey KovacsCat. First, I would simply not use VisualEditor. It'll be nice when it actually works correctly but it's full of bugs. Since having looked at your contributions I don't see what page you have edited where this is occurring, I suspect you are previewing and have not posted yet. Anyway, here's how to reference, at it's most basic.


 * 1) At the point in the text where you want a footnote to appear, place opening and closing ref tags, and describing in between them the source:  
 * 2) Make sure the article has a references section at the end (== references ==), which has placed in it the template reflist (you can also use until you start the RfC.   Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 20:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)