Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/Carnegie Mellon University/Conspiracies, Spies and Assassins of the French Revolution (Fall Mini 2015)

This is some of the material from the blackboard on Monday night. auntieruth (talk) 19:04, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Using Citations
Using bare links is problematic.
 *  Examples of web citation 



Note the space between the web address and the text.


 * Google Books
 * These are as legitimate as those you find in a library, however, you'll need to go to the page that has the description of the book to get the publishing information: ALL google books have publishing info: Author name, Title of Book (in italics), link to section you've used etc.  We must cite the material properly, and just typing in google books as the author is an inadequate citation.  So it should like like this:


 * Citing something from JSTOR works the same way.

Using the template shows that this database is available by subscription. It also applies to Fold3 and Ancestry.com subscriptions.

Using links
Also, you'll want to link your mentions of people. Put the  around their names. Be sure that you actually link to the right person, however. Make sure your use of the name actually links to the article: for example, if the article refers to Sir Philip Francis, so you'd want to link it like this Sir Philip Francis and it will look like this Sir Philip Francis in the article text.