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Re: Barnstar

Thanks! Cheers, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 15:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Markup help with editing,

Hello, Perspeculum!

You wrote me a nice welcome on my talk page when I first announced that I was new to editing WP articles (which is still the case.) I can usually figure out the markup or text formatting by reading long enough but there are two things that elude me.

1. When trying to leave my signature, I leave the string of tilde marks just as instructed. However, this only leaves an UNlinked version of my user signature. Later, WP (a bot, I imagine) goes through and says that the preceding was unsigned by xerobane on X date. So my entries always end up with something like...

Xerobane 17:24, 29 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xerobane (talk •

I copied and pasted that from a previous edit so it only varies slightly from the original. But the question remains... why does this happen? Am I placing the string of tildes incorrectly?

2. My second question has to do with the citation of sources. I understand I need to supply a link to any page (that wasn't created by me) that supports my facts but I get completely lost when it comes to adding the number in the box -[8] for example- and then the link in the references section of an article. For some reason, the number box never shows-up properly (likely due to a markup error on my part) so I always just end up forgetting about making a contrib and move on.

Any help you could give me would be much appreciated. Thanks, xerobane