SingerGal

Help me!

Please help me with understanding how to do the inline citations. I have read many pages of instruction from wikipedia and have tried to do some citations in my article in my sandbox. I am not sure whether I am doing them correctly or not. I have more citations to add but want to know whether the article is generally looking ok so far.

SingerGal (talk) 07:29, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

It is rather confusing, and there is rather a lot of documentation. Have you tried Help:Referencing for beginners?

The basic principle is that the reference goes in the text at the appropriate point between <ref> ... </ref> tags, and {{reflist}} goes at the end after a "References" header. Then the system produces the actual reference list at the end after "Reflist", with links back to brief numbers like [1] in the text. You don't need to type the references again after {{reflist}}.

I have sorted out the first two references in your draft, as an example. This diff shows you what I did: removed the URL for the second, where you had typed it before the <ref> </ref> code as well as within it, and removed the references where you had typed them again after "reflist".

I hope that helps: put the "helpme" back if you have more questions.

Here are some other pages that you might find helpful:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Writing better articles
• Simplified Manual of Style

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

I have copyedited the rest of the draft, adding links to other Wikipedia articles and a section heading. You may want to check out the cheat sheet. Regarding the draft's content you should make sure that it's actually supported by the given citations - right now the source for the "Life and career" section's first paragraph doesn't mention Sophie Newcomb College, for example. Huon (talk) 10:34, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Help me!

Is the NY Times Magazine citation what they mean by an external link?

Is it ok for me to put the quote from the NY Times Magazine into the article? "Doggett...used color-coding at Tampa's airport to reduce by two-thirds the number of highway signs that engineers had called for."[6] The 2/3 reduction in signs is such a striking statistic and has a citation footnote, so the writer is getting credit, but I don't know whether it is violating a copyright to quote like this. (is it even ok to quote it on this user page in order to ask the question? I respect people's rights to have copyrights and don't want to misuse someone else's writing.) should I try to reword the idea or is it better to quote? or just leave it out?

I am related to Jane Doggett, but am trying to be scrupulous about sources, etc. She is a notable person whose accomplishments belong in an encyclopedia and have been written about by established respected writers and organizations. SingerGal (talk) 07:10, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The New York Times Magazine is a reliable source, but you should not quote sources but summarize in your own words what they have to say about Doggett. That will avoid copyright issues. For what it's worth, I agree with the assessment of Doggett's notability. Huon (talk) 22:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Fiddle Faddle 19:16, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Help me!

Please help me with... adding the middle name "Davis" to the current title of the article "Jane Doggett". There are other Jane Doggetts who live in Nashville, TN and including the middle name will remove any confusion.

I want to make some links to the article from other articles on wikipedia, but don't want to start doing it and then have to do it all over again after the title of the article is updated to include the middle name. Any help will be very appreciated. Or if you can just fix it for me, that will be very helpful. Then I will proceed with trying to make some links. Thank you.

SingerGal (talk) 07:14, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

I went ahead and did it for you. FYI, a better 'rationale' than what you used is 'all the sources call her Jane David Doggett'.

For your future information, any confirmed user can change an article title...you just move the page. When a non-admin moves a page, it leaves behind a 'redirect' that aims readers who go to the old title to the new one, so any links from other articles will still work. Eventually, someone comes around and 'fixes' the redirects to point at the new title, but you don't 'have' to fix them yourself. Revent^talk 07:44, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Revent! I appreciate your help. I hope I am writing back in the proper manner. I went to your talk page and couldn't see how to write on it and it seemed like you wanted people to write back on their own pages. I'm trying to learn the system!  ;-) SingerGal (talk) 02:43, 30 June 2014 (UTC)