User talk:Georginalewis

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Hello, Georginalewis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Amelia Lewis, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Amelia Lewis

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Amelia Lewis requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Referencing for Amelia Lewis page

This page is in much better shape now, but the referencing needs fixing. Please see referencing for beginners 05:38, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

You can use the Reflinks tool to fill in the referencing templates for you, but they need to be put 'in-line' near the text they are references for between <ref>Insert reference text/template here.</ref> html 'tags'.220 of ^Borg 06:06, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. --220 of ^Borg 06:22, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

More on referencing

Hello, Georginalewis
You are doing better than the majority of new editors, though I have always thought it was a bit ambitious to start a new article right from the start!

Anyway, <ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/8284729/Lydia-Ko-wins-New-Zealand-Open |title = "Lydia Ko wins New Zealand Women's Open" |publisher = Stuff.co.nz. |date = 10 February 2013}}</ref>, is how you need to do your refs. Notice the "ref" tags at start and end of the reference, pay special attention to the /ref as that says where the ref ends and is easily forgotten if doing a ref by hand.

Refs usually need to be put right after the text that you are referring to.

There are other ways of doing references, but they get a bit complicated for a newbie. --220 of ^Borg 07:45, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Amelia_lewis reference section

thank you for your post. I am new to references and would like for them to end up like the following format

"Rendering for footnote full references"... the tool that you recommended search #REDIRECTtools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks

will it create this look? thank you Georginalewis (talk) 07:36, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have copied your query from my talk page, but I am not sure what you mean. :-/. Forgive me if I am a bit slow replying as I am using a tablet type device to edit Wikipedia (WP). O:-) --220 of ^Borg 08:10, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can 'get away' with having you refs in one place like you are doing, maybe, but readers need to be able to easily go back to the sources to check facts if they want to. Strongly suggest you use ref tags and put the bare URL between them, move them to the part of the page they are a reference for, like at the end of a sentence, then use wp:reflinks to fill them in (mostly) automatically.

There are many avenues for help on WP. Teahouse is one such venue. 220 of ^Borg 08:39, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References I get it now

I am a programmer so I get how to free hand the html. With the links you provided I have started references the content. It will take me a day or two as I need to get all the information referenced correctly. I thought that I could build the reference chart first and then footnote but not so. And if I understand the link you provided then I can insert the reference and http and the tool will gather the rest of the info and put it in the bottom at my reference area. Correct?

thanks again Georginalewis (talk) 08:52, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you back

(edit conflict)

No worries, you seem to have got the hang of it now, don't forget "accessdate=October 31, 2013" if possible.

I see you have been using non-US style dates day-month-year (DMY) format, but you can use any style you want, I think, so long as you are consistent. US related pages though usually use month-day-year (MDY) format.

If you have your editing preferences set right you should have a 'button' called "Cite" in your editing toolbar on the far right. That can do half your work for you.(So it shouldn't take 'a day or two', hopefully.)
It is possible to make a list of references and if you use <ref name=”xxx"> on each one then you can cite the source by putting only <ref name="xxx"/>where xxx=name of the ref, wherever you need a cite. Like naming a variable in a programme!

Re the 'tool' it should fill in from bare URLs wherever they are, though it makes mistakes and needs human input to correct it.

To have all ref code located at the bottom, "reference chart", you need:

== References ==

{{refbegin| {{Ref 1}} {{Ref 2}} Etc Endref}} (or similar) each ref must have a unique ref name.

This may be a bit garbled due to editing problems, but hope it points you in the right direction. 220 of ^Borg 11:33, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]