User talk:Henry Detjen

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! Kerry (talk) 09:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Citations for the historic newspapers

I notice you are using the historic newspapers as references. Are you reading them via Trove? If so, there is a very easy way to create citations for the newspaper article you are interested in. When you are looking at a newpaper article, for example, the one you used as a citation for Kidston's immigration scheme which is here, you will notice that over on the left-hand side of the Trove screen, there is a toolbar. The first item on that toolbar is the letter "i" in a circle. If you click on that, you should get display beside it called "Details", look at the bottom of that display (you may have to use the scroll bar), and you see a section headed "Wikipedia citation". Below the heading, you will see

{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53138407 |title=MR. KIDSTON'S IMMIGRATION POLICY. |newspaper=[[Morning Bulletin]] |issue=13494 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=27 January 1908 |accessdate=31 December 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

While this may look like complete gibberish to you, you don't need to understand it. Just copy it (including the {{ at the start and the }} at the end) and then paste it into the Wikipedia between the <ref> </ref> tags so it looks like:

<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53138407 |title=MR. KIDSTON'S IMMIGRATION POLICY. |newspaper=[[Morning Bulletin]] |issue=13494 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=27 January 1908 |accessdate=31 December 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

When you publish your changes, what is displayed will look like this in the References:^[1]

^ "MR. KIDSTON'S IMMIGRATION POLICY". Morning Bulletin. No. 13494. Queensland, Australia. 27 January 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 31 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

which makes a very good citation as it contains a link that can be clicked by the reader to see the original newspaper article. Give it a go, and if you have any problem, please don't hesitate to ask me. I am happy to help. Kerry (talk) 01:11, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "MR. KIDSTON'S IMMIGRATION POLICY". Morning Bulletin. No. 13494. Queensland, Australia. 27 January 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 31 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

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