Hi Yyuliya, I noticed some of the edits you did over at dental floss. The picture you added is great and I'm glad to see you working on this page as it is in need of major improvement. While looking through your edits, I noticed the way references were added to the article was not correct and it would be nice if you could correct the formatting. If you need help, please feel free to ask and I (or another experienced editor) will certainly help you. The following are some guidelines to help you going forward:
- For all references, be sure to include
<ref>before the inserted citation template, and then close the reference with</ref>. - Check out the citation templates; there are several for different types of sources. I almost always use either Template:Cite web or Template:Cite news. If you go to the template pages, you'll see citation templates that you can copy and paste into the page that you're editing, and then fill in the information (url, title, author, etc). If you're citing a journal, book, encyclopedia, etc. then there are different templates for those, too. I've added a box below with the links (Citation Style 1 - noticeboard).
- Here is the cite web template:
{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |year= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=8 May 2024}}
- Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0 I've recently discovered a really convenient way to cite references: on the edit page, if you look to the far right of the edit tool bar, next to the advanced, special characters, and help options, there is a "cite" option. Click it: it will expand a menu bar below and on the left there will be a drop-down menu entitled "templates." Click it and it'll open up a little page that you can fill the info into. When you're finished, click "insert," and the reference will be inserted whereever you left your cursor on the edit page. The only thing is that this cite option isn't always shown next to the help, and I'm not sure why... I've noticed if I reload the edit page it usually shows up. It's a helpful too, though; saves time.
- Merging references: you can do this by "naming" a reference. Instead of having the typical reference of
<ref>...</ref>you have<ref name=X>...</ref>, where X is the name is the name that you chose for the reference. Once you have a reference named somewhere (anywhere) in an article, if you want to use the same reference again in that article, all you have to do is type:<ref name=X></ref>, or<ref name=X />. If you want to see an example of this, find a page that has at least one merged reference (multiple citations to the same reference), and open the edit page. Control F to search for "ref name".
TylerDurden8823 (talk) 06:17, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Okay, thank you so much for your feedback and tips :) As you can tell I am new to this, I will definitely let you know if I am stuck with anything else. Thanks again ! Yyuliya (talk) 10:09, 17 April 2015 (UTC)