Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Citation templates example

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 From 1994 to 2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives," according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine. During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, a website featuring user generated webrings that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, meant the site "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet". For a time the company sold erotic photographs and Wales described the site as having had "a market similar to say Maxim magazine. So it‘s kind of a guy-oriented search engine". Although Wales is no longer connected with the company his involvement with Bomis has been criticised with questions frequently asked about the nature of its content. Bomis also provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project. 

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 From 1994 to 2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives," according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine. During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, a website featuring user generated webrings that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, meant the site "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet". For a time the company sold erotic photographs and Wales described the site as having had "a market similar to say Maxim magazine. So it's kind of a guy-oriented search engine". Although Wales is no longer connected with the company his involvement with Bomis has been criticised with questions frequently asked about the nature of its content. Bomis also provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project. 

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 From 1994 to 2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives," according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine. During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, a website featuring user generated webrings that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, meant the site "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet". For a time the company sold erotic photographs and Wales described the site as having had "a market similar to say Maxim magazine. So it's kind of a guy-oriented search engine". Although Wales is no longer connected with the company his involvement with Bomis has been criticised with questions frequently asked about the nature of its content. Bomis also provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project. 

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From 1994 to 2000, Wales served as research director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago. By "speculating on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations" he had soon earned enough to "support himself and his wife for the rest of their lives," according to Daniel Pink of Wired Magazine. During this time one of the projects Wales undertook was the creation of the web portal Bomis, a website featuring user generated webrings that, according to The Atlantic Monthly, meant the site "found itself positioned as the Playboy of the Internet". For a time the company sold erotic photographs and Wales described the site as having had "a market similar to say Maxim magazine. So it's kind of a guy-oriented search engine". Although Wales is no longer connected with the company his involvement with Bomis has been criticised with questions frequently asked about the nature of its content. Bomis also provided the initial funding for the Nupedia project.

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