Talk:First Baptist Church (Ottawa)

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named in-line references

Hi SimonP, thanks for adding references and material to the article! I wonder if you could further use named in-line citations so as to identify which source supports which points in the article. To form those, you could use something like the following:

<ref name=corbin>''Ottawa: a guide to heritage structures'' City of Ottawa, Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee; managing editor, Lucy Corbin. 2001</ref>
and
<ref name=kalman>Harold D. Kalman, ''Exploring Ottawa: an architectural guide to the nation's capital'' University of Toronto Press, 1983</ref>

and invoke the same named footnotes later by:

<ref name=corbin/>
<ref name=kalman/>

and in the References section add

{{reflist}}

to make the references show up there.

These show up as footnotes like these,^[1]^[2] and these.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Ottawa: a guide to heritage structures City of Ottawa, Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee; managing editor, Lucy Corbin. 2001
^ ^a ^b Harold D. Kalman, Exploring Ottawa: an architectural guide to the nation's capital University of Toronto Press, 1983

There are other ways to form footnotes but these would be fine IMO. I would insert them into the article myself but i don't know which source support which sentences or paragraphs. In a good Wikipedia article, usually each paragraph should have at least one reference at the end, and additional references should be used to support other points within the paragraph if material is not all to be credited to one source. Thanks anyhow! --doncram (talk) 15:03, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the pointers, though you may want to check up on users before going to the trouble to write up some advice for beginners. After eight years and ninety thousand edits, I'm fairly confident I know how to format references. This page does need some footnotes. I would add them, but I no longer have either of those sources handy. Next time I have access to them I will get the page numbers. - SimonP (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, hey, my bad! Glad to know of a wikipedian in Ottawa, and such a prominent one. :) I have some Ottawa connections and attended church a few times at the First Baptist, years ago, by the way. I didn't want to see this article bite the dust, glad you have taken / will take further interest here. --doncram (talk) 17:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[corbin-1] Ottawa: a guide to heritage structures City of Ottawa, Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee; managing editor, Lucy Corbin. 2001

[kalman-2] Harold D. Kalman, Exploring Ottawa: an architectural guide to the nation's capital University of Toronto Press, 1983

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