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User talk:The Article Improver (view source)
Revision as of 04:13, December 7, 2017
, 04:13, December 7, 2017references 101
::::Thanks for your offer to help when needed, David. And to answer your question, the links I put in the article I did in fact use for reference, when writing. I will gladly change the heading to "references", so as to be more concise. Thank you for pointing that out. --[[User:The Article Improver|The Article Improver]] ([[User talk:The Article Improver|talk]]) 22:26, 6 December 2017 (EST)
::::Thanks for your offer to help when needed, David. And to answer your question, the links I put in the article I did in fact use for reference, when writing. I will gladly change the heading to "references", so as to be more concise. Thank you for pointing that out. --[[User:The Article Improver|The Article Improver]] ([[User talk:The Article Improver|talk]]) 22:26, 6 December 2017 (EST)
:::::Any time! I just wanted to check, since references are a little more complex. Ideally, they will actually be included in the body text in such a way that the wiki software places a tag there, and listed it underneath. A basic write-up on doing this is provided [[How_to_put_links_and_footnotes_into_your_articles#Creating_footnotes|here]].<br />
:::::In short, you would do something like this: <code><nowiki>Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet, because it has been found to be smaller than an official planet.<ref>http://example.com</ref> Pluto is actually just one of many asteroids in a belt around the outside of our solar system<ref>http://www.example.org</ref></nowiki></code>
:::::The wiki software takes the content of the "<nowiki><ref></nowiki>" tags and places a tag there which links to the reference listing below. Down at the bottom, you place "<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> where you want the list to be displayed. Here is what would happen with the example above:
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Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet, because it has been found to be smaller than an official planet.<ref>http://example.com</ref> Pluto is actually just one of many asteroids in a belt around the outside of our solar system<ref>http://www.example.org</ref>
====References====
{{reflist}}
====External links====
*https://www.nasa.gov
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:::::Hopefully this clarifies a bit. This way, when a reader wants to see the source for a specific statement, they can click on the small number in the text body, and they will be brought down to where that specific reference is listed. Hopefully, this is helpful rather than confusing.