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Hello Pittlers! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I think its very important for you to browse through some of the links below so as to become familiar with how Wikipedia works. If you need any help you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and another Wikipedian will show up shortly. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you're already loving Wikipedia and plan on becoming a Wikipedian you might consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor, just paste {{Adoptme}} into your userpage and you will gladly be adopted! You might also consider joining a WikiProject so as to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Just H 09:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, Pittlers. Thanks for your contributions to Cedar Waxwing. Just a couple of things to mention. Generally it's a bad idea to insert whitespace to "fix" layout. There's an enormous variety of screen sizes, browsers, and browser window ratios to which each page has to adapt. If you "fix" whitespace on one configuration, it may "break" it on others (these fixes made my version look sloppier). The best thing to do is to let each user agent decide on layout based on the source with minimal manually inserted linebreaks. Occasionally there are some semantic markup tags that are useful (like <br clear="all" />, see Rolle's_theorem for a working example of this). I have undone the whitespace changes to the article you made. The new references you added also have non-informative reference names like ":0" and ":1". I don't use the Visual Editor so I'm not sure how adding references works with it, but if there's a way to use more descriptive names, please consider it. Jason Quinn (talk) 06:43, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Ok about white space. About the reference names, I am not sure what you are referring to. Are those names appearing in the source editor? In visual editor, you just click a button and punch in your reference info and it creates the citation automatically; it doesn't offer a reference namer. I don't know why they have those emoticon looking things as names. Kind of weird! Erica (talk) 04:17, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]