User talk:Captain kirkintosh

Welcome!

Hello, Captain kirkintosh! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! --JimmyButler (talk) 01:22, 7 September 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Re: Thankyou

Howdie Captain! Thanks for your message. The citations work like this... <ref>your citation text or link goes here</ref>. You just paste this directly into the end of your sentence, right after the period (or comma) without a space. Other than that, as long as there's a {{reflist}} template in the page-foot, everything should display just fine. Hope this helps. Welcome to Wikipedia Captain! :) Happy editing.  -- WikHead (talk) 02:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• One other thing I should mention, is that the slash / represents the closing of the tag, and should always appear in the tag at the tail end of your reference. You'll have unsatisfactory results if you put slashes at the beginning.  -- WikHead (talk) 02:24, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Group mate

This is a huge project we have here and I would like to have no messing about. This it a team effort here so lets be a team and get cracking! I look foward to making articles with you all and trying to get one of them to FA.--Krustev LeMont (talk) 22:03, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Here you go! Your first piece of wikilove. Hopefully your stockpile will grow and soon you shall be overwhelmed with kittens, barnstars, and cookies! :)

Savetheoceans (talk) 01:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

What I have learned while on Wikipedia

• How to add information and how to organize information on Wikipedia
• References are not placed in the lead.diff
• The correct scientific name for the Royal Tern is Thalasseus maximus diff
• Only the first word is capitalized unless the word is a propper noun.deff
• It is improper sentence structure to use but multiple times in a sentence. diff
• You must spell out numbers than are small. diff
• Scientific names are italicised. diff
• It is important to include english and metric measurements. diff
• I learned that the choice of words in a sentence, is crutial to how the sentence will be interpreted. diff
• How to place pictures and range maps in an article.
• How to place references in wiki articles (via: Mr. Butler)

Range Map

Hey(: your range map is complete! it is in wikicommons under new royal tern map i believe. make sure its the new one because I forgot the whole east coast and Caribbean the first time.... woops! Well I hope everybody in our group has killer projects. Stanfordbound 14 (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)