Talk:Verlautenheide

re: list of references and orphan tags

The page has four other pages that link to it:

Haaren_(Aachen)

Eilendorf_station

2012–13 Alemannia Aachen season

Battle of Aachen

It will soon also be linked to from the main Aachen page (I'm waiting until I finish translating all of the district pages. Then I will add them all together under a new section on Aachen).

By what criteria has this page (which is only two days old) been marked as an orphan already? I would politely request that this tag be removed. (Or, if there are no objections, I will do it myself.)

As for references, the page is a direct translation of the German article. I haven't gone through the references to match up specific parts yet, but even after I do, the reference will still be in German. I'm fine with this tag staying for now. Ljpernic (talk) 17:09, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi :) When I'm patrolling new pages, I use a tool that's called Page Curation, which tells me if an article has any issues, like no ref sources or lack of categories. In Verlautenheide's case it said the article is an orphan – and it still says that, actually, while the four links mentioned by you on the article's talk page are also listed here: Special:WhatLinksHere/Verlautenheide. I guess it's some kind of a bug. I'll remove it in a second.

As far as references go, non-English refs are fine – a "language=German" parameter in the inline citations might be helpful. I added that tag because right now there is only one in-text ref source (in the "Societies" section), so the article could use some more, for example in the "History" section. The two books that are listed can be used as inline citations too, just add <ref></ref> and put them in the text next to information that was taken from the books. You can also use the same source in the text several times by adding a name parameter, so the ref would look for example like this on the first occurance: <ref name="Christian Quix">...</ref>, and then you can use it like this: <ref name="Christian Quix"/>. Anyway, when you match up those references, feel free to remove that tag as well.

If you know all that, I appologise ;) I'm not sure how much experience on Wikipedia do you have. Happy editing! — Mayast (talk) 17:32, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for the help! I admit I am weak in the referencing department, so I appreciate the walk-through. I've been working on bringing Aachen's English Wikipedia presence to a higher level, so this is very helpful. Thanks! Ljpernic (talk) 17:55, 9 September 2013 (UTC)