User:The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome/Please format the link

Please format the link

Hello, The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome ... please format the external links using the {{cite web}} template ... you can use some of the other articles as examples ... whenever possible, use the <title> from the HTML file for the Web page (assuming you're an HTML newbie):

from your Web browser's menu, View | Page source
search for the HTML <title> tag
copy the text up to the </title> end tag

Using http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm for an example, we examine the HTML source file, and can make:

{{cite web 
 |url= http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm 
 |title= The First Computer Bug! 
 |work= WaterHoles.com 
 |accessdate= 2008-09-05
 }}

That produces:

"The First Computer Bug!". WaterHoles.com. Retrieved 2008-09-05.

Note: by using ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD), the MediaWiki software can automagically create links to the year and date articles ... it also avoids 02/04/08 confusion. :-)

Note: the |work= will add the italics, and if the source publication has an article (e.g.. The New York Times for nytimes.com), then place it in [[]] so that it will be linked ... you'll have to research whether or not a Spanish language publication like El Nuevo Herald has an article.

Even though I don't read Spanish, I can take "by Jose Padilla" and make:

|first= Jose |last= Padilla

This will get displayed as Padilla, Jose in the appropriate position in the citation.

Just read the Template:Cite web and Template:Cite news documentation (for published articles/reviews without Web versions), and you'll figure out what else you can use ... BTW, I've never used it myself, but there's a {{Cite press release}} template.

See also: Wikipedia:Citation templates

Happy Editing! — 72.75.117.122 (talk · contribs) _{03:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)}