User talk:Accosta2
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[edit]Could someone help me out with the danah boyd quotes section and references? I tried using the directions from the cheatsheet to reuse footnotes/references, but it was confusing. I tried different ways and it did not work out, including looking at actual uses of this. As you can see, the quote comes from a source already listed (#15 or so). Could someone send me the actual working code i.e. the code with the given info I need? Essentially, do this one bit of work for me and I will try to look at it as an example and move from there because I would like to continue to add more. Thanks, Ashley
- On Danah Boyd if you are trying to use the already existing reference #15 (currently "MacArthur Foundation Project Summary") you can refer to the name of that reference where it is already cited. Someone called this reference "age" - so if you are going to use the same reference to cite another fact you can refer to it by including exactly this text:
<ref name=age/>
- immediately after the period at the end of the sentence where you state the fact. Does this help? 7 02:00, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
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It's getting there....
[edit]{{helpme}} Actually I want to reuse reference #17. Where will it indicate the name exactly, if I am just looking at a footnote which has never been reused before?
- Well, as luck would have it - that one didn't have a name - so I have named it for you <ref name=SocialNetwork/> should work. 7 09:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
{{help me}} Okay, thank you! What should I do in the future if this happens again?Accosta2 (talk) 09:46, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- In the future, just think of an appropriate name for the reference and instead of using <ref> at the beginning of the reference, use <ref name=???> (replacing the ??? with a short and suitable name of course). This allows your reference to be reused. From then on, use <ref name=???/> for that reference.. —Dark 10:09, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but if you were specifically wondering how I found the right reference to give a name to the steps are as follows:
- You mentioned ref #17 - so in the ref section I found that reference and clicked the small carat (^) to the left of the number 17
- Clicking that carat takes you back up to the body of the text where that reference is used (and I remember the words at the end of that sentence).
- Then I edit the section which has those words at the end of the sentence to find the ref tag.
- Since this ref tag didn't yet have a name I gave it a name by adding name=xxxx
- Then, you can use the code mentioned above to refer to that named reference anywhere else in the document.
- You may want to look at Citing sources for the full details.
- Regards. 7 11:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but if you were specifically wondering how I found the right reference to give a name to the steps are as follows: