User talk:Robboholic

Hello, Robboholic! 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! Fainites barleyscribs 11:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia 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

Hi. Thanks for the additions to Attachment theory. Regarding the vagaries of the reflist system, if you put the citation in the article between the "ref" and "/ref" markers then the reflist automatically creates the appropriate citation at the bottom of the page. You don't have to actually add the citation themselves at the bottom. If you look at it now you will see I have removed the duplicate list but your citation appears nicely at number 45 automatically from where you put it into the article. Don't hesitate to ask for help on any of this arcane stuff. We all struggle with it.

By the way - I was thinking of giving Mary Main a bit of acknowledgement for working on extending attachment theory to adults. What do you think? Fainites ^barleyscribs 11:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

What you do is - all messages should go at the bottom of a talkpage, not the top. Then when you've written your message you type four of these ~ things. This will automatically put in your name, the date and the time. I'll have a look at you ref thing and see what's up. Fainites ^barleyscribs 21:38, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Re the refs - you seem to have got there in the end with the actual ref. It looks right. I'll sort out the two. The templates are much the easiest way of doing refs. What has to be remembered is that there are two types of citation template which shouldn't be mixed. One set uses "citejournal, citebook, citeencyclopedia" etc. The other type uses "citation" for everything. (Don't aks me why there are two types!) The other thing is - if you have already cited something once and given it a name eg <ref name=fred>, next time you cite it, all you have to put is <ref name=fred/> and it marks it automatically. If you use one source alot, like a particular book, you have to give all the page numbers so what I do is put the page numbers under the notes and put the book in a reference section. (There is a different system for doing this I think called Harvnb but I haven't got round to that yet). Thirdly, refs go immediately after punctuation, with no gap. You can put one after a comma but theis gets a little messy so its best to keep them to the end of sentences if possible. Finally, articles should remain in the English in which they started or if there is a particular connection. The Attachment theory article is in British English, but, for example, the Reactive attachment disorder is in US English. A lot of the time it doesn't make much difference but the spelling of "behaviour" is classic. Also, the US tend to put a comma after "and". Its nice to see someone else on the attachment articles. Fainites ^barleyscribs 21:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

There you are. The first time you used it you called it <ref name="Pearce,2009"> so to use it again you write <ref name="Pearce,2009"/>. Fainites ^barleyscribs 22:01, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed your IP put back your paper into Attachment theory. I'm sorry to have removed it but Wiki is supposed to be cited from notable, preferably secondary sources. There is nothing wrong with your article as such but I don't think a paper in an undergraduate journal is a good enough reference for a major psychology subject, particulalry when I can cite the likes of Van Ijzendoorn on the same point. Nothing personal. May I invite you to read the policies on sourcing; Verifiability, Reliable sources, Citing sources,No original research and What Wikipedia is not. Please come and discuss this on the talkpage or my talkpage if you would like.Fainites ^barleyscribs 15:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

DLP

There are two different articles, one for the historical, one for the modern. Please cease adding your change to the historial article. If you continue without saying anything, it could be considered vandalism. Timeshift (talk) 01:06, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I have ceased trying to add to historical page thank you for feedback. My changes to the main DLP page dont seem to be sticking either. I am trying to add a link that directs users directly to the candidate page for the 2013 election.

That's an ad, really, and not appropriate for the article. The link to the DLP's website is already in the external links section and in the infobox; there is no need for anything more specific. Either way, we don't include external links in the main text. Frickeg (talk) 02:21, 27 July 2013 (UTC)