User talk:SeanJamesJoyce

Inline citations

That isn't how to add inline citations!

I will edit the article to correct the citations for future reference.

Mayalld (talk) 12:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

I have added some references from independent sources for the Manchester Library & Information Service page, all of which confirm information on there. Is this enough to remove some or all of the warning boxes above? Also, I'm having problems correctly placing in-text citations. Thank you

I've had to delete a whole raft of them, because they were just a bunch of references that had no link to the text that they were supposed to reference. It isn't enough just to add a list of works that talk about the libraries, you must reference them specifically, linked to the text that they back up.

To add an inline reference;

open the reference with the opening tag <ref name = "somename">
insert an approriate citation template (see WP:CIT for documentation)
close the reference with </ref>
to reuse the same reference for multiple pieces of text add <ref name = "somename"/> at each repetition

Once these references are in, the article will probably be sufficiently referenced that I would remove those tags. However, the COI tagging remains appropriate, and cannot be disposed of until somebody unconnected makes substantial edits to the article.

Mayalld (talk) 16:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]