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How specifically - step by step - do I literally enter a citation to support a citation request in an article. There so much information on citations that I can't find an answer to this simple question. Okay, I want to provide a citation, how do I do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angeloparra ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
All information in Wikipedia articles should be
verified by
citations to
reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is using the "
cite.php" form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references
section after the text of the article. In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />. In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code </references> or, most commonly, the template, {{ Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in 2 or 3 columns using {{Reflist|2}} or {{Reflist|3}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article. | |
Two separate citations.<ref>
Citation text. </ref><ref>Citation text2. </ref>
{{Reflist}} |
Two separate citations.
[1]
[2]
|
{{ Citation}} • {{ Cite web}} • {{ Cite book}} • {{ Cite news}} • {{ Cite journal}} • Others • Examples |
This might help.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 00:22, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I was reading the filmography of Thomas F. Wilson, of Back to the Future fame, and discovered that he is credited with being in Disney's animated feature, Peter Pan with a release date of 1953. Considering Thomas F. Wilson's date of birth is in 1959, this would defintely be one hell of an appropriate accomplishment.
Someone may want to look in to this a bit further. Maybe he was in a production of Peter Pan, but it most likely was not that particular one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.101.157.149 ( talk) 01:17, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
We can't find the page that we wrote and posted (actually another member of our organization did so and I'm trying to continue and help her with the project and neither of us knows how to get back to the article). How do we get to it?### — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreyFoxBluegrass ( talk • contribs) 01:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I've read you need to know, but I have doubts as to how the one article, for example, in relation to games, I wanted to create about Chrono Trigger (example), and for that, I do an article for each character, or a list of the characters there? As powers of each. I hope you understand, now, I have to thank them. Gurabidon, the Brazilian 03:04, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. Would anyone reading this be willing and able to read and possibly act on a subject regarding this template? -- Rockfang ( talk) 03:05, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Orange Mike,
I really appreciate your help but must admit I find the rules baffling. I would really appreciate some help so that my page can be improved and feel that no one else can be as accurate about my history as me. Is it possible to talk to you to discuss this? I'm not much of a computer expert as I sure you can tell. BTW, I like your orange attire. I, too, am a hippie! Have a blessed day!
Best,
Denice — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denice1122 ( talk • contribs) 03:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Please refer Licenc CC-BY-SA 3.0 research 182.48.211.60(talk) Following are references of published/accepted/presented papers for your information and necessary action-
In addition to this "Misconception Schizophrenia" My Blog, was added in everydayhealth.com during this month.
The above mentioned Talk is well researched. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.48.211.55 ( talk) 03:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
On the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup article, the map and the venue chart are overlapping. I tried to align the map to see if it changed, but it didn't seem too. How can you fix it? -- Luke Talk 04:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to know if I can delete an article which has incorrect details mainly to promote hatred towards a person. The article that I am looking at is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._P._Sundara_Rajan_alias_Valia_Swami, and this article seems to come up among the top results for the search key: sundara rajan. Data given in this article are completely incorrect and a bit offensive. Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aparnasrivatsan ( talk • contribs) 05:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am wondering whether Wikipedia has a system for multiple editors to work collaboratively on an article in the same sandbox area, or whether they need to work separately in their individual sandboxes? Thanks in advance. dcleighton ( talk) 05:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
How do I move a media file from Commons to Wikipedia? ColderPalace1925 ( talk) 05:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it technically/practically for sysops to block User:Jimbo Wales? Will they? ColderPalace1925 ( talk) 06:32, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update this site and encourage my citizen to read it. I am the Mayor of Arcola. I became Mayor in 2009. If I can help make Arcola MS page more appealing, let me know.
Mayor Cora Burnside — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clsb2009 ( talk • contribs) 06:45, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to ask can if i put rowspan in years of films or tv shows?Like if there is two movie in the same year could i rowspan it?For example Harry Potter and Transformer came out on the same year could i rowspan both of that in actor or actress Films?Thank you.-- Mitten ( talk) 08:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
At Edward Scissorhands (dance), two San Francisco Chronicle references are appearing as bare URLs in addition to properly linking the titles. I don't know how to fix this.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 14:48, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
|title
parameter in the cite web templates contained "Edward Scissorhands''
instead of "Edward Scissorhands"
. I don't understand why that caused the problem, but fixing that solved the problem.
Adrian J. Hunter(
talk•
contribs)
15:09, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi can you tell me what printers are for sale that use the color ink cartridge ET-052 and black 105 please. Regards Mike Saunders — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.135.202 ( talk) 14:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I attempted to remove the phrase, "Pom Wonderful Presents :The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" from the top of the Altoona page. I appear to have screwed up the format of the first paragraph. Can someone please repair this for me?
Mr sandoz ( talk) 14:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Is the proper place to request an IP range block at WP:AVI or some other forum?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:59, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
The layout and font of Wikipedia are different on my computer to everyone else's. The font appears bigger, and the layout of the pages has changed. For example, there is no sidebar or bar along the top. These are located at the bottom of the page instead. Have I changed to a different, lower quality graphics setting or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gloworm 44 ( talk • contribs) 16:00, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am only recently having a problem with editing WP (last few days), in that when I edit (hopefully it won't happen here), words like "P u r f u m e", etc. (here I intentionally separated each letter with a space) turn into a hyperlink to ads. They are the same blue color as WPs blue links, with a throbbing, dashed underline. It also tends to delete words such as other instances of the above example that are on the page, hyperlinking only the one remaining. I saved one edit by accident and had to revert myself, because it made these alterations I didn't mean to make. Has anyone had this problem; know how it can be removed from my computer? I have taken the steps of removing any recent software, applications and Windows updates with no effect, and Norton Anti-virus isn't picking it up as a virus. Any feedback would be appreciated, as this hampers my editing substantially here. (by the way, this hyperlinking effect goes on anywhere I go on the web - normally I just ignore it, but it makes editing WP sometimes impossible) Thanks, Hamamelis ( talk) 16:47, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama rotundas and 6 panorama companies. The WIKIPEDIA site for General John A.Logan states that he commissioned the BATTLE OF ATLANTA panorama for his 1884 v.p.campaign. I have studied this subject for a decade and have yet to find any mention of this so-called fact (more likely an 'urban myth') Logan's v.p.campaign was in 1884. William Wehner's panorama crew came to USA from Germany, Switzerland and Austria under contract in 1885. Wehner produced two units of MISSIONARY RIDGE, for Chicago debut[MR 1885] and Cleveland [MR 1886] Wehner produced two units of ATLANTA,for Minneapolis debut(ATLANTA 1886) and Detroit debut(ATLANTA 1887) Wehner produced four units of JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION in 1886 (Chicago debut),1887 (Minneapolis debut),1888(Buffalo debut, later London),and 1889 (intended for Mexico City). Two editions of the MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE September 3,1886 p.2/September 5,1886 tells of Logan's visit to ATLANTA 1886 in Minneapolis. Logan died December 26,1886 in Washington,D.C. My ancestor was an artist/model in William Wehner's panorama studio located in downtown Milwaukee. And the F.W.Heine diary 1879-1921 is the only narrative of a panorama studio, that of William Wehner. If there is proof that Logan commissioned Wehner to produce the BATTLE OF ATLANTA panorama,please let me know18:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genemeier ( talk • contribs)
The Wikipedia article on Saint Anne cites my book with the title incorrectly written.
Wikipedia has it as follows: ^ Virginia Nixon, Mary's Mother: Saint Hanna in Late Medieval Europe (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press), 12-14.
The correct title is Virginia Nixon, Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.)
For verification put in the correct title (Saint Anne in ...) and my name and you will find numerous references on Google. Or look at the Penn State Press website.
Thanks
Virginia Nixon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.129.201 ( talk) 20:03, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right now we have Elk City (disambiguation) redirecting to Elk City, and I feel it should be the other way around. I cannot move the page because the target exists; is it good if I just swap the contents with copy/paste? And how should it go about the categories that are present at each page? - frankie ( talk) 22:48, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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How specifically - step by step - do I literally enter a citation to support a citation request in an article. There so much information on citations that I can't find an answer to this simple question. Okay, I want to provide a citation, how do I do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angeloparra ( talk • contribs) 00:17, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
All information in Wikipedia articles should be
verified by
citations to
reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is using the "
cite.php" form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references
section after the text of the article. In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />. In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code </references> or, most commonly, the template, {{ Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in 2 or 3 columns using {{Reflist|2}} or {{Reflist|3}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article. | |
Two separate citations.<ref>
Citation text. </ref><ref>Citation text2. </ref>
{{Reflist}} |
Two separate citations.
[1]
[2]
|
{{ Citation}} • {{ Cite web}} • {{ Cite book}} • {{ Cite news}} • {{ Cite journal}} • Others • Examples |
This might help.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 00:22, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I was reading the filmography of Thomas F. Wilson, of Back to the Future fame, and discovered that he is credited with being in Disney's animated feature, Peter Pan with a release date of 1953. Considering Thomas F. Wilson's date of birth is in 1959, this would defintely be one hell of an appropriate accomplishment.
Someone may want to look in to this a bit further. Maybe he was in a production of Peter Pan, but it most likely was not that particular one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.101.157.149 ( talk) 01:17, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
We can't find the page that we wrote and posted (actually another member of our organization did so and I'm trying to continue and help her with the project and neither of us knows how to get back to the article). How do we get to it?### — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreyFoxBluegrass ( talk • contribs) 01:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I've read you need to know, but I have doubts as to how the one article, for example, in relation to games, I wanted to create about Chrono Trigger (example), and for that, I do an article for each character, or a list of the characters there? As powers of each. I hope you understand, now, I have to thank them. Gurabidon, the Brazilian 03:04, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. Would anyone reading this be willing and able to read and possibly act on a subject regarding this template? -- Rockfang ( talk) 03:05, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Orange Mike,
I really appreciate your help but must admit I find the rules baffling. I would really appreciate some help so that my page can be improved and feel that no one else can be as accurate about my history as me. Is it possible to talk to you to discuss this? I'm not much of a computer expert as I sure you can tell. BTW, I like your orange attire. I, too, am a hippie! Have a blessed day!
Best,
Denice — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denice1122 ( talk • contribs) 03:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Please refer Licenc CC-BY-SA 3.0 research 182.48.211.60(talk) Following are references of published/accepted/presented papers for your information and necessary action-
In addition to this "Misconception Schizophrenia" My Blog, was added in everydayhealth.com during this month.
The above mentioned Talk is well researched. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.48.211.55 ( talk) 03:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
On the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup article, the map and the venue chart are overlapping. I tried to align the map to see if it changed, but it didn't seem too. How can you fix it? -- Luke Talk 04:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to know if I can delete an article which has incorrect details mainly to promote hatred towards a person. The article that I am looking at is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._P._Sundara_Rajan_alias_Valia_Swami, and this article seems to come up among the top results for the search key: sundara rajan. Data given in this article are completely incorrect and a bit offensive. Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aparnasrivatsan ( talk • contribs) 05:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am wondering whether Wikipedia has a system for multiple editors to work collaboratively on an article in the same sandbox area, or whether they need to work separately in their individual sandboxes? Thanks in advance. dcleighton ( talk) 05:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
How do I move a media file from Commons to Wikipedia? ColderPalace1925 ( talk) 05:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it technically/practically for sysops to block User:Jimbo Wales? Will they? ColderPalace1925 ( talk) 06:32, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update this site and encourage my citizen to read it. I am the Mayor of Arcola. I became Mayor in 2009. If I can help make Arcola MS page more appealing, let me know.
Mayor Cora Burnside — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clsb2009 ( talk • contribs) 06:45, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to ask can if i put rowspan in years of films or tv shows?Like if there is two movie in the same year could i rowspan it?For example Harry Potter and Transformer came out on the same year could i rowspan both of that in actor or actress Films?Thank you.-- Mitten ( talk) 08:58, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
At Edward Scissorhands (dance), two San Francisco Chronicle references are appearing as bare URLs in addition to properly linking the titles. I don't know how to fix this.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 14:48, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
|title
parameter in the cite web templates contained "Edward Scissorhands''
instead of "Edward Scissorhands"
. I don't understand why that caused the problem, but fixing that solved the problem.
Adrian J. Hunter(
talk•
contribs)
15:09, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi can you tell me what printers are for sale that use the color ink cartridge ET-052 and black 105 please. Regards Mike Saunders — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.135.202 ( talk) 14:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I attempted to remove the phrase, "Pom Wonderful Presents :The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" from the top of the Altoona page. I appear to have screwed up the format of the first paragraph. Can someone please repair this for me?
Mr sandoz ( talk) 14:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Is the proper place to request an IP range block at WP:AVI or some other forum?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:59, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
The layout and font of Wikipedia are different on my computer to everyone else's. The font appears bigger, and the layout of the pages has changed. For example, there is no sidebar or bar along the top. These are located at the bottom of the page instead. Have I changed to a different, lower quality graphics setting or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gloworm 44 ( talk • contribs) 16:00, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am only recently having a problem with editing WP (last few days), in that when I edit (hopefully it won't happen here), words like "P u r f u m e", etc. (here I intentionally separated each letter with a space) turn into a hyperlink to ads. They are the same blue color as WPs blue links, with a throbbing, dashed underline. It also tends to delete words such as other instances of the above example that are on the page, hyperlinking only the one remaining. I saved one edit by accident and had to revert myself, because it made these alterations I didn't mean to make. Has anyone had this problem; know how it can be removed from my computer? I have taken the steps of removing any recent software, applications and Windows updates with no effect, and Norton Anti-virus isn't picking it up as a virus. Any feedback would be appreciated, as this hampers my editing substantially here. (by the way, this hyperlinking effect goes on anywhere I go on the web - normally I just ignore it, but it makes editing WP sometimes impossible) Thanks, Hamamelis ( talk) 16:47, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama rotundas and 6 panorama companies. The WIKIPEDIA site for General John A.Logan states that he commissioned the BATTLE OF ATLANTA panorama for his 1884 v.p.campaign. I have studied this subject for a decade and have yet to find any mention of this so-called fact (more likely an 'urban myth') Logan's v.p.campaign was in 1884. William Wehner's panorama crew came to USA from Germany, Switzerland and Austria under contract in 1885. Wehner produced two units of MISSIONARY RIDGE, for Chicago debut[MR 1885] and Cleveland [MR 1886] Wehner produced two units of ATLANTA,for Minneapolis debut(ATLANTA 1886) and Detroit debut(ATLANTA 1887) Wehner produced four units of JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION in 1886 (Chicago debut),1887 (Minneapolis debut),1888(Buffalo debut, later London),and 1889 (intended for Mexico City). Two editions of the MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE September 3,1886 p.2/September 5,1886 tells of Logan's visit to ATLANTA 1886 in Minneapolis. Logan died December 26,1886 in Washington,D.C. My ancestor was an artist/model in William Wehner's panorama studio located in downtown Milwaukee. And the F.W.Heine diary 1879-1921 is the only narrative of a panorama studio, that of William Wehner. If there is proof that Logan commissioned Wehner to produce the BATTLE OF ATLANTA panorama,please let me know18:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genemeier ( talk • contribs)
The Wikipedia article on Saint Anne cites my book with the title incorrectly written.
Wikipedia has it as follows: ^ Virginia Nixon, Mary's Mother: Saint Hanna in Late Medieval Europe (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press), 12-14.
The correct title is Virginia Nixon, Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.)
For verification put in the correct title (Saint Anne in ...) and my name and you will find numerous references on Google. Or look at the Penn State Press website.
Thanks
Virginia Nixon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.129.201 ( talk) 20:03, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right now we have Elk City (disambiguation) redirecting to Elk City, and I feel it should be the other way around. I cannot move the page because the target exists; is it good if I just swap the contents with copy/paste? And how should it go about the categories that are present at each page? - frankie ( talk) 22:48, 17 July 2011 (UTC)