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help on inline citations

The threat to merge or delete this page because of non-notability was quite ridiculous, and a clear example of systemic bias. The page needs work to be improved, but should not be threatened with possible deletion.

Two main things:

See Wikipedia:Citing sources#Adding_the_citation for help on the idea of adding inline citations. If a whole paragraph is from one single source, then maybe just one link at the end is enough, and after that use repeat references.
- Example of repeat reference. The Earth is flat.<ref name="aseriousdocument">{{details of author, title, url, etc. etc.}}</ref> Columbus disagreed.<ref name="aseriousdocument" /> As people add more detailed sources, this may need to go to individual sentences or every few sentences. Use your common sense.
You need to give more details of the references themselves, not just URLs. See Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations for templates that you can copy/paste for different types of sources.
Instability in Ethiopia might cause websites to be instable (and it's not the only place where this happens), or newspapers might hide their articles from the public and make them subscription-only. For this reason, consider using www.webcitation.org/archive to make archival copies. You should include both the original URL and the archival URL.
- Example template for copy/pasting/correcting (if the source is e.g. an online newspaper): <ref name="...">{{cite news | first= | last= | pages= | language =| title= | date= | publisher= | url= |accessdate=2999-12-31 |archiveurl= |archivedate= |deadurl=no}}</ref>

There are many, many pages that can serve as examples. Click on edit, e.g. one example with many references is Battalion 3-16 (Honduras), copy/paste the content to a texteditor, and then cancel your edit. Boud (talk) 21:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]