Declan Traill

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Help:Footnotes is the "how-to" guide for preparing references. In outline or basic terms, you start a footnote immediately at the end of a sentence. It will be numbered automatically. Insert <ref></no wiki> at the beginning of the footnote. Then put in the reference with the full information for a book, web site, etc. Then end the footnote with <nowiki></ref>. There are variations to do such things as repeat the identical footnote with the same number. There is a suggested format for forming a reference but it is not strictly required. I only use it when an existing article use the format. You should see that on the footnote page or linked page.

You also may find the following policy or guideline pages have useful information about editing Wikipedia, and links to other pages on even more specific editing topics: Getting started; Introduction to Wikipedia; Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset; Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources; Wikipedia:Verifiability; Wikipedia:No original research; Wikipedia:Neutral point of view; Wikipedia:Notability; Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons; Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not; and Wikipedia:Words to watch. See also Help:Introduction to talk pages, Help:Using talk pages, Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines, Wikipedia:Copyright Problems Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Uploading images. Help:Contents and Wikipedia:Questions provide guidance and links to pages where help can be requested on various subjects. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 03:51, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

You should not have to puzzle over the formatting of the footnote if you simply open the other other article's editing page and copy the proper footnote from there, assuming it is in a proper format. Footnotes or references in a science article should be correct and in proper form, though I admit there is no absolute guarantee. Donner60 (talk) 03:58, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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October 2016

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Michelson–Morley experiment, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article.

Note that (1) the source that you provided does not contain the conclusion that you draw (wp:NOR) from it, (2) it is a wp:primary source on the subject, (3) blogs do not qualify as reliable sources for Wikipedia, and (4) Apeiron is either a defunct scientific journal and publisher of books on studies in "infinite nature", or merely a journal for ancient philosophy and science, and therefore not qualified for the subject at hand. - DVdm (talk) 06:41, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Also, as this is the thrid time that you insert the same text, please note:

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.. - DVdm (talk) 06:41, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Please refrain from using talk pages such as Talk:Mass in special relativity and Talk:Fizeau experiment for general discussion of the topic or other unrelated topics. They are for discussion related to improving the article; not for use as a forum or chat room. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. See here for more information. Article talk pages are vehicles for promotin of your own original research.}} - DVdm (talk) 06:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2017

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Talk:Electron, you may be blocked from editing. - DVdm (talk) 08:45, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

March 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use talk pages for inappropriate discussions, as you did at Talk:Dayton Miller ([1]), Talk:Michelson–Morley experiment ([2]) and Talk:Michelson interferometer ([3]). DVdm (talk) 09:50, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

This is the talk page - not the main site, so this is entirely appropriate to discuss here.

Try actually reading it and understanding it before declaring it 'Fringe' etc. It makes complete sense and explains the experimental results completely. Declan Traill (talk) 20:16, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

See also [4]. - DVdm (talk) 09:53, 22 March 2022 (UTC)