User talk:Jamesleegilbert
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Happy editing! PHANTOMTECH (talk) 20:12, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
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Jamesleegilbert, welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your efforts to build out articles on North Carolina football, etc. That being said, you're getting a little trigger-happy with that revert button. As for 1991 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, the source field exists so you don't have to cram citations into the other fields with content, which can make them less aesthetically pleasing and harder to read, particularly when those fields contain numerical data. Also, you are not formatting your citations properly. In the citations you added to 1889 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, for example, you've put virtually all of the info about the source in the title field of the cite news template. The title field should contain only the article title. You can see an example of proper formatting of citations if you take a look at the "Football Notes" (December 4, 1889) citation that I added to the 1889 North Carolina article. Also, when you cite an article from Newspapers.com, you should clip the article and link to clipping; see Wikipedia:Newspapers.com#Using the "Clipping" function. Let me know if you have questions about any of this. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 23:24, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not subscribed to Newspapers.com so I can't clip articles. Many references I use don't have article titles, but I'll look at the links you've provided about formatting. Older citation formats, which I mainly copied from bots that changed the urls I initially added, may remain until I'm finished systematically updating, and referencing, kick-off times and attendance figures for ALL North Carolina football games. I'm citing each entry specifically to indicate that the kick-off time or attendance figure is in that citation rather than just information about the game. When I'm done, I'll look at moving those citations to the source column. I've already contacted the University and provided them with 65 corrections to the football schedules that they posted online (mainly dates and locations). I may use the undo function quite a bit until I can get a better handle on all the changes I'm making. I've only been at this for 7 weeks and I've made nearly 1000 edits to the UNC football team pages, et al and I'm probably less than halfway done. Thanks, Jamesleegilbert (talk) 00:41, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- You can apply to get a free subscription to Newspapers.com here: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/26/. Your account is supposed to be a minimum of six months old to get a subscription and I see your first edit was less than two month ago, but I'd be happy to write a note of recommendation to see if you can get access earlier. Feel free to revert you own changes as you see fit. But please take care when reverting other editor's edits, e.g. this edit where you reverted my edit. When you revert another editor's edit, you want to have a good reason and explain it in the edit summary and/or begin a discussion about the issue on a talk page. Also, I see you added File:North Carolina Tar Heels logo.svg to lots of the North Carolina football season pages going back to the 1800s. That logo has only been in use since 2015, so it does not belong on any season article prior to 2015. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:59, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
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