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Hello, Brandon Figaro, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

How do I use Wikicoding to cite text? It is not working in my sandbox article draft.

Looking at User:Brandon Figaro/Film criticism, you have successfully created a footnote. Is there something else you wanted to be able to do?
I should point out that the draft appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article so it is unsuitable to submit for review. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 00:53, 11 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
How do I cite an Honors' Thesis in my sandbox article draft on Film criticism? Specifically, how would I cite this Honors' Thesis that I have linked after my questions? https://soar.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12648/6777/honors/32/fulltext%20(1).pdf?sequence=1
Try to use {{Cite thesis}}. Be warned, though, that there have been discussions in the past about whether a thesis can be cited as a reliable source. WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 26#Masters Theses
As commonly occurs, the outcome seems to be "it depends" and it also depends on what facts you are using the content of the thesis to support. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 05:18, 11 October 2022 (UTC)Reply