User talk:Mbaafirehouse
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Hello, Mbaafirehouse, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Patriot8790 (talk) 06:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Help request[edit]
{{helpme}} Hi - I can't tell if the page I just completed will be reviewed and that I will receive feedback. If so, when? and how will I know? I also want to add some photos, but frankly I'm a little tired because I've been working on the article for about 6 hours. BTW the title is Fred Ford (Blues-Jazz Musician) and it's my first contribution. Thanx
Mbaafirehouse (talk) 06:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- You put the above message on User talk:Patriot8790, but you also used a {{helpme}}...if you wanted to contact that specific person, there was no need for the {{helpme}}...but if you did want help, then it's best to use {{helpme}} here, on your own user talk page.
- Also, you put the message at the top of their talk page; please always add new things to the end of talk pages.
- Re. Fred Ford, Blues-Jazz Musician - you created that as a live article. It looks OK, and hopefully other people will edit and improve it; some of the formatting isn't quite right, but that's fine - see WP:IMPERFECT.
- To request some feedback, see WP:FEED.
- The main thing would be to improve the references. I'll add some help on that below.
How references work[edit]
Simple references[edit]
These require two parts;
- a)
Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>
- b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";
== References ==
{{reflist}}
(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)
To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Mbaafirehouse/reftest and try it out.
Named references[edit]
Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>
Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.
Citation templates[edit]
You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;
Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = John
| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
| publication-date = 2001
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| page = 125
| isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>
Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.
For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.