Kswanwick2

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The ROY BOURGEOIS article

Hi, Kswanwick2, and welcome to Wikipedia. When you get a chance, click on the "User page" tab in the upper-left corner of this page and type-in a little something about yourself. This will not only tell others about you, but will make it so that your username doesn't appear in red (indicating that there's no page behind the link) throughout Wikipedia.

I see your edits in [the Roy Bourgeois article. I like that you created a "Support" section, separately. Your NCR part, atop my earlier Women's Ordination Conference part, made it so that a separate section was warranted. Good move.

However, you cannot manually add a reference like you did. Instead, if you make a proper "inline citation," in the article, itself, the reference will automatically appear in the "references" section. Next time, whenever you're at the precise point in the article where you need to make a citation, make sure the typing cursor is in the precise location where you want the citation/reference number to appear (in your case, it was citation/reference number 23, but that will change as more citations/references are added in the future); then look up in the upper-left area of the editing box and notice the "Templates" dropdown selector box (also called a "combo box"). If you're quoting from a proper news source, like the NCR, as you did, then you'd select "news" as the template; and a form will pop-up against a darkened screen (similar to what's called the "lightbox" effect with photos on web pages). Just fill-out the form and click on the "insert" button at the bottom, and the following things will happen:

First, the citation/reference information will appear, Wiki-ized, right where the cursor was in the editing area; but then, after you save it,

then, second, only the citation/reference number will appear in the finished article; and, then,

third, the full citation/reference information will properly appear down in the "references" section of the finished article.

You also included some BR (line-feed) tags in the main body area... probably because you saw them in the quotation block. Because of a known bug in the Wikipedia system, BR line-feed tags are only necessary in quotation blocks, but not in the main articles.

Finally, since you cited/referenced (and even quoted in the article) the NCR editorial, it is overkill to also add said article as an external link.

Anyway, I cleaned it all up for you. Go check it out so you can see how to do it in the future. Also, if you'd like to experiment, use your "sandbox"; and don't forget to read this article:

How to edit a Wikipedia page

Keep-up the good work!!! Gregg L. DesElms (Username: Deselms) 22:25, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

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