User talk:Christopherstanford

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Speedy deletion nomination of Wheelchair exercise

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July 2010

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Wheelchair Trainer. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 01:53, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article move and references for new content

I have moved Wheelchair Trainer to Wheelchair trainer to conform with Wikipedia:Mos#Article titles (lower case except for first word).

I have added two references from WT to Wheelchair so that article can be read independently, but I could not find a suitable reference for the final sentence of that new paragraph. Perhaps you will be able to add a suitable reference?

Yes I know that there are hardly any other references in Wheelchair, but I like to make sure that at least new content that I "notice" has inline references.

I have added a note to the talk page of WT asking for the references to be completed. This would among other things help the user to decide whether to open particular links. Well done for having so many references in that article though! -- Mirokado (talk) 01:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Updating citations

Hi Christopher, you have requested some assistance with wheelchair trainer. I am happy to help, but as much as possible I will suggest what is needed and how to do it, rather than just doing things myself.

The first thing to do, I think, is to move the citation definitions to the {{Reflist}} section so the article text is easier to edit. You can see what is needed if you look at the the article I mentioned as an example:

add the |refs= parameter to the Reflist definition
update each citation definition to add a suitable name to the <ref> tag and copy each citation definition from the article text to the Reflist

{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="whatever">(the current reference text for now)
</ref>
...
}}

now go back to the citation definitions in the text, add / to the <ref name="..."> tag and remove the text and closing </ref> tag, thus
...on a [[bicycle trainer]].<ref name="treadmill">http://members.tripod.com/wheelchair_treadmill/</ref> The rear wheelchair...
becomes
...on a [[bicycle trainer]].<ref name="treadmill"/> The rear wheelchair...
check the article preview that all the references appear correctly and there are no red errors (it is easy to forget the odd / for example.)

You will now have an article where all the citation definitions are in one place, which will make it much easier to update them all consistently, and much easier to read the rest of the article source when making further edits. Mirokado (talk) 06:43, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some general editing points

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Yours, Mirokado (talk) 06:49, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]