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December 25

18:32:41, 25 December 2014 review of submission by Al Rosenfield

• Al Rosenfield (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:List of Natural Gas and Oil Production Accidents in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I uploaded a picture and want to know if the upload was successful. Al Rosenfield (talk) 18:32, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

The upload was successful, but please note the comment on your Talk page which explains why your upload was deleted. It was found to be redundant to an image that was already uploaded on WikimediaCommons, so we didn't need two copies of File:American Airlines Flight 587 vertical stabilizer.png.

Also note I've left some formatting comments at the top of your draft. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:47, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

19:09:44, 25 December 2014 review of submission by Geolog10

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  • Draft:Florence Connolly Shipek (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Geolog10 (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm having trouble formatting references. 1) How do I get reference titles into italics? On the edit page, I put the title into "", but it just shows up with the "" and not in italics. Or am I supposed to be inserting symbols from the bottom of this page? 2) What is the purpose of the vertical lines (|)? Are they just to insert spaces in the references or do they do something else? Geolog10 (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2014 (UTC)  Done

Hello Geolog10, the guide WP:Citations would be a great place to check for all kinds of questions on formatting cites. But to speak to your immediate questions:

• The code for italics is not ", but rather ''. That is, on an American keyboard, two apostrophes, the symbol two buttons over from the "L" key on your keyboard, hit it twice. Or, as noted, you can click the symbols at the bottom of the page if you're not sure you're typing it right.
• The piping is used to separate fields, so one of its uses is in the Citation templates, it separates the "author" field from the "url" field and so on. Piping is also used for when you want the name of a wikilink to appear differently from the actual link. So if you're referring to a French artist, you could for example say "He then returned to his [[France|home country]]" which would display at "He then returned to his home country".

Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)