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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can remove unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started. If you need any assistance, let me know. -- Ty 00:44, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, and authorised web sites. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is original research (e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research), or another wikipedia article.
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section (unless it already exists). This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):
Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.
Open the edit box for this page, copy the following text (inserting your own text where indicated), paste it at the bottom of the page and save the page:
(End of text to copy and paste.) It should appear like this:
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For an online newspaper source, it might look like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Note the single square brackets around the URL and the article title. The format is:
Make sure there is a space between the URL and the Title. This code results in the URL being hidden and the title showing as a link. Use double apostrophes for the article title (it is quoted text), and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics). Double square brackets round the name of the paper create an internal link (a wikilink) to the relevant wikipedia article. Apostrophes must go outside the brackets. The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead.
You can use sources which are not online, but which you have found in a library or elsewhere—in which case leave out the information which is not relevant. The newspaper example above would be formatted like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Here is an example for a book:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Make sure you put two single quote marks round the title (to generate italics), rather than one double quote mark.
These formats are all acceptable for dates:
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the <ref> code:
The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:
You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them. The quotes around the name are optional unless there is a space in the name. You can see multiple use of the same refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are three sources and they are each referenced three times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.
The above method is simple and combines references and notes into one section. A refinement is to put the full details of the references in their own section headed "References", while the notes which apply to them appear in a separate section headed "Notes". The notes can be inserted in the main article text in an abbreviated form as seen in Harriet Arbuthnot or in a full form as in Brown Dog affair.
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March 2010[edit]
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Can you help me please ?[edit]
Dear Lapskingwiki I have seen you have made some contributions to the page of IMMAGINE&POESIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMMAGINE%26POESIA) , but now they have added 2 templates saying something about references to be improved. I am not clear what they exactly want. Can you help me please ? Thanks--Alessandroga80 (talk) 19:17, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- I am very grateful for your help and for your translation of the Manifesto into Persian: if you can tell me when the translation is ready, I'll publish it with the other translations. If you think that some of the references are not reliable, please feel free to remove them. If you think it can be useful, in the bibliography there are articles published on La Stampa (one of the most important Italian national papers) and on Il Corriere dell'Arte ( a very popular Art magazine). Then articles about IMMAGINE&POESIA have been published in Wales before and after the Congress International Poetry Festival in Swansea (Peter Thabit Jones - Stanley H. Barkan International Poetry Festival - An Anthology, The Seventh Quarry (Swansea) - Cross-Cultural Communications - New York, June 2011).
- Thanks a lot again! Best Greetings from Italy--Alessandroga80 (talk) 08:02, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Lapsking! I am VERY grateful for all the work you have done! I have read the page of Stuckism: it is very interesting for me.
- As you suggested, in September the Charter Members will start the official web site of IMMAGINE&POESIA and they'll create PDF documents of the most important newspapers articles to be published on line. The Monte Carlo article is only in Italian, but I think that with a Google translator people can have an idea of it.
- Saluti dall'Italia e mille grazie ancora !--Alessandroga80 (talk) 06:37, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
The article Stuckism you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Stuckism for things which need to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:02, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Translation[edit]
- Hi Lapskingwiki and thanks a lot for your translation. It has been published here:
http://imagespoetry.wordpress.com/the-manifesto-persian-translation-by-lapsking-hamed-dehnavi/ The acknowledgements are here: http://imagespoetry.wordpress.com/acknowledgments-for-the-translators-of-the-manifesto/ Which country are you from ? If you want they can write the country near your name. And if you agree you can collaborate to the Movement. Best greetings--Alessandroga80 (talk) 18:58, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- I am happy you joined the Movement: I have seen your web site and I like your paintings !
They have added your country near your name. You are right Immagine & Poesia is singular, but in English Images is plural: don't worry, both versions are acceopted. Bye--Alessandroga80 (talk) 18:29, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hello Lapsking, I too want to thank you for the work you have done for IMMAGINE&POESIA.
You are right: at the moment there isn't an article in Italian and I am VERY angry for that. I uploaded the article more than 1 year ago and the article lasted till the end of July when an administrator said the page was promotional: there was a debate and even if the majority was against the deletion of the page the adminstrator deleted it saying he had to interpret what the people thought (???). Now I think it is better to wait for several months before trying again...Anyway thanks for your support--Alessandroga80 (talk) 17:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Until the stars fall[edit]
Hello Lapsking. "Until the stars fall" is part of Gavin Adam Wood's album SOULS APART that you can find in his web site: http://www.gavinadamwood.com/MainPage.htm (there are also excerpts of the songs: ours is the second). But if we want a direct reference to the song it is only on youtube as far as I know.
So what can we do ? --Alessandroga80 (talk) 05:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks again for your help and suggestions. As to the web sites, they are still considering several possibilities.
They haven't started one yet as in Italy it seems they want to approve a law project to equalize blogs and web sites... So we are going to see what happens...--Alessandroga80 (talk) 19:12, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Deletion[edit]
Hi Lapskingwiki: I have added the exhibition "Rhythms...Winter to Fall" planned with Adel Gorgy, the representative of IMMAGINE&POESIA in New York and you have deleted it. Why ? We have been organizing this exhibition for months in order to show how images can be matched with poems (actually both are in the exhibition). It is important according to the aims of the Movement. I'd like to reinstate it again, I hope you will understand. Thanks --Aeron10 (talk) 18:46, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
The Web Site at last[edit]
Hello Lapsking, thanks again for your suggestion: at last IMMAGINE&POESIA has its own web site [1]. In the section Members you are a representative in Iran of I&P. The web site has just started but it will grow in the future. At the moment Adel Gorgy's exhibition for I&P is going on in NY area and I have added the website as a reference. I hope it is correct. Ciao = Bye --Alessandroga80 (talk) 18:59, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Discretionary sanctions[edit]
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- Why are you removing this item from the FAQ? You're making the FAQ worse. Please stop. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 00:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- I think you misunderstand what the purpose of the FAQ is. It is supposed to document why the article is written the way it is. I happen to disagree with how the article is written, too, but the place to change that it is on the article talk page. IOW, the FAQ documents the talk page discussion. In order to change the FAQ, you have to first change talk page consensus which you clearly haven't done. Can you please self-revert all the disputed changes and stop edit-warring? A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 00:35, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- First, can you please self-revert all the disputed changes?
- Second, to change consensus, start a discussion on the article talk page. Explain why you think it should be changed. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 00:53, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone think that a request for enforcement should be made regarding this editor? I don't see this editor making any worthwhile contributions to the article, and they're wasting a lot of editors' time. In fact, their sole purpose seems be to push fringe theories into the article. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 19:27, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- There is no problem with having a section for fringe theories in the main article due to Wikipedia:Fringe theories. --lapsking (talk) 19:47, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- As a last resort. lapsking doesn't seem to understand that numerous editors have tried this same vein of attack and it has never ended in a result that favors them. I'd like to think lapsking is smart enough to know when a flawed cause is lost, but if he continues, sadly this is the only option to end the derailment. --Tarage (talk) 20:56, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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