User talk:Lcupal

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:24, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

References

Hi, I hope you're well. I'm another editor here, and a new page patroller, and I came across your article Outgroup Favoritism. I noticed that you cited your sources with superscript^{1, 2}. This is unnecessary, as Wikipedia has what amounts to magic referencing things, called ref tags. They look like this: <ref>Your citation goes here</ref>. If you know HTML, you'll recognize the syntax. These tags generate a superscript footnote that links to the reference at the bottom of the page; for example: . You can learn more about these tags – and the proper citation template to use – at WP:REFB. Happy editing, Edward-Woodrow (talk) 23:28, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you so much for provigind me with these resources. I will work on cleaning up my citation style. Lcupal (talk) 17:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

References

Edward-Woodrow (talk) 23:28, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Outgroup Favoritism moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Outgroup Favoritism. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because his page is in need of reorganization to comply with layout guidelines and the references need to be inserted as citations and not only as footnotes. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. FULBERT (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your comment. I just have one question: in terms of layout guidelines, are you referring to the citation style or to the structure of the article more broadly? Lcupal (talk) 17:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Help with citations

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone could help me troubleshoot this error: "{{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)" for the citations on this article Outgroup Favoritism? Thank you!

Lcupal (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Lcupal. CS1 errors are tricky, so thanks for asking for help (as opposed to walking away or ignoring it. There a reason we have an enormous backlog of these things). Date errors are typically caused by entering the date of publication in such a way that the citation module can't parse it. There are several valid formats (see MOS:DATEFORMAT); I myself always use "24 Jan 2023" because its more immediately readable than a string of numbers, but many are valid.

(TL;DR: the date isn't formatted the way our programs want it to be.)

So, looking at the article with the error, the date is 2005-10. That is not a valid format.

For some reason, when you generate a citation from a URL, and the source is a journal article, the tool writes the date format this way, even though its not valid. Yes, its ridiculous our own tools don't know how to format things the way we want it. Anyways, when this comes up, it's best to look in the source and check the date, then write it in the correct format. Always check the date as listed in the source, because sometimes the automatic tool gets that wrong, too. I'll fix this one for you, and hopefully you can fix them yourself in the future.

Generally, it's advisable to check over your citations for errors caused by the automatic generation tool. It's extremely useful, but isn't always perfect.

(sorry for the wall of text. It takes a while to fully explain). Cheers, Edward-Woodrow (talk) 20:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Edward-Woodrow,

Thank you so much for fixing my citations for me! As a newer used to Wikipedia, it would've taken me a while to figure out, so I really appreciate your help! Thank you! Lcupal (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for asking for help. (The user formerly known as Edward-Woodrow) Cremastra (talk) 21:00, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Outgroup favoritism

Hello! Your submission of Outgroup favoritism at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:10, 19 January 2024 (UTC)