User talk:RJalan

{{helpme}} Hello. I would be grateful for help in marking up this article, particularly on references. Reference 2 accounts for most of the text - have I indicated this adequately? Also, the three references are also the three external links and it would seem neater to bring them together, so can the external links be intergrated with the reference text? Alan (talk) 18:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I'll do what I can to help you. For the second reference (to the Tameside Blue Plaque) I have made it into a "named reference" - this means that anywhere else in the text that you want to use it you can just insert <ref name="tameside" /> and it will automatically link to the reference. I've also made the reference work as an external link itself. I'd suggest adding it at the end of paragraphs which rely on it as a source. If you have any more questions, then you can ask here (I've put this page on my watchlist) or on my talk page, which is linked in my signature. DuncanHill (talk) 12:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I've done a similar thing for the link to the family website - just type <ref name="rayjones" /> anywhere you want to use that reference again. I made it as a direct link to the "Ray...Jone" page, as this seemed to be the one with the most biographical material - hope this was right! DuncanHill (talk) 12:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC).

Thanks Duncan - and for adding the categories at the end - or perhaps that was done automatically. I'll need to go back to the sources to see what I took from where. Alan (talk) 13:52, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

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